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  • I think you are missing the point. The point isn’t where the money is spent the most. The point is money has to come from somewhere. And yes, ideally it would be redirected from billionaires, mega-corps and military budget, but that’s currently not happening. The money spent on space exploration is at least somewhere in the same vein as the ones spent on the environment, other researches etc. They are for the sake of making progress. Let’s look at a hypothetical situation where space exploration is getting more traction again (more than now).

    1. Attention will be diverted from environmental impact on earth.
    2. Budget redirected to space exploration also has to come from somewhere, and it’s also unlikely to be from military budget.

    And that’s the problem.


  • Another incorrect assumption.

    And yet no reasoning given. A rather pointless response. It suggests you don’t have reasons to support your hate.

    So to make a summary, for you people I am insecure, pro slavery, against women be able to vote, anti civil rights and pro totalitarianism. Anything else?

    How about you stop victimising yourself and reason something meaningful for a chance? Apparently, it’s okay for you to say the side you disagree with is getting brainwashed (remember, you used the word first), and mutilating themselves (also, your word, which is wrong btw), but it’s not okay for other sides to say the same to you? Quite a hypocrite we have here.

    When did i express hate?

    Literally the points you are expressing. You are supporting making choices illegal to people. Choices that are extremely meaningful to some. You are encouraging their persecution.

    The only one here receiving hate It’s me and i am being hated by the people who profess to spread love.

    Again, stop victimising yourself LMAO.


  • I am a woman and your opinion sucks. Just how many percentage of people who transitioned do you think compete in sport at professional level? That’s a completely invalid reason to make it illegal for people to transition. You can disagree with having transitioned women compete in women sport, but it’s a completely different matter from the anti human rights and freedom of choice view point to stop people who want to from transitioning. It’s ridiculous this even need to be spelled out to you.

    Moreover, this sounds like it stems from your insecurity more than anything, and I don’t believe that is at all a valid reason for gate keeping people. And should I mention how you lump the whole LGBTQ in the issue you have with just transpeople? You’re just hating (or conditioned to hate) and it’s petty.

    Let’s go a step further, there are non binary people out there. Are you going to hate on them just because they are born that way? It’s fucking stupid.


  • The money though. If they are not going to pry the money out of billionaires, it has to come from somewhere (less well off people). Those are arguably better spent to improve situations on the earth than on something that’s likely to disproportionately benefit the wealthy as their plaything, extra income, escape or whatever. Especially because it should be clear to everyone except the absolute dumbest and delusional people how critical action is right now.









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    And you might say ‘That’s different, slavery is bad and advocating for its abolishment is good, but advocating for Donald Trump is bad’, but that is the point.

    This is where you misunderstood. The problem here isn’t slavery is bad and advocating against it is good and how that compares with the_donald. It’s that in the US, many countries in the EU, Australia, and New Zealand*, getting arrested or harmed by the government simply for speaking isn’t something to worry about. So, the people who use “free speech” to hide behind are, almost by default, bad actors. Even if you count mainstream (the citizens), no one is trying to harm the person speaking. In this case here it is also the opposite. What these racist fkers say (and do) can certainly hurt and harm other people, and they are doing everything they can so they don’t have to be responsible for their own speech. Hence, the “free speech”. It’s a similar tactic to opposers blending into a group of protestors and trying to sabotage by staging violence.

    Now, if it’s another country where free speech is not where it should be. I’ll use my own country and it’s outdated and stupid lese majeste law as an example. Free speech here isn’t completely polluted by those bad actors yet because it still holds a very real value to combat tyranny. So, what I’m saying is this “free speech” problem in the US is a first world country problem, which should not be confuse with what free speech is about in more oppressive regimes.

    People already heard what they had to say long ago, and it’s not welcomed. At this stage it’s about not letting them run all over everyone else. It’s not as if they have anything different to say from before. The answer is still the same, their racism is bad, their anti-science believes are bad, their disinformation is bad, their actions toward the LGBTQ+ communities are unacceptable etc. What else is there to listen to?

    *Purposely left out Canada here.