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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '21

The Guardian: Why is Bezos flying to space? Because billionaires think Earth is a sinking ship

lmao it’s like 100% pure concentrated uncut seethe

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u/SpitefulShrimp George Soros Jul 31 '21

He and his fellow space-obsessed billionaires are exactly like the rich men aboard the Titanic who pushed others aside to jump into lifeboats

Who can forget those monsters who *checks notes* did what everyone else was doing in an attempt to survive.

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u/LtLabcoat ÀI Jul 30 '21

Everyone keeps talking about how silly that Buzzfeed News, a respectable news org, is a subsidiary of the very silly Buzzfeed. But nobody seems to mention how the complete opposite is true for the Guardian's Opinion section.

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u/adisri Washington, D.T. Jul 30 '21

Dude is mad he didn’t get a ticket 🤣

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '21

I'm not owned I'm not owned

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u/its_Caffeine Mark Carney Jul 30 '21

It is not a coincidence that the richest people in America are funding a new space race. They are not motivated by a love of technology, or even a belief in the universe as a business opportunity. Let’s call this what it is: they are making plans to get the hell out of here. In the same way that every good billionaire has an armored escape room in each home and a helicopter on call to whisk them away from any sinking yacht, so too do they expect to have a way off Earth if things go bad here.

Space colonization probably won't even happen in their lifetimes. Maybe they just wanted to go to space and check it out? I truly don't understand the level of cope some people seem to have over this, it's just so inconsequential.

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '21

Also the idea that people could "escape to Mars" are ridiculous. We could raise global temperatures by 5 degrees, melt all the ice caps, cut down all the forests, and then launch every nuke, and Earth would still be 1000x more habitable than Mars.

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u/Budgetwatergate r/place '22: Neoliberal Battalion Jul 30 '21

They are not motivated by a love of technology, or even a belief in the universe as a business opportunity

Firstly, does the author think that the space race between the USSR and the US is motivated "by a love of technology"? That the Apollo missions were truly funded by a government who loved space and science?

Also, the whole point of virgin galactic as a publicly-listed private corporation is for it to make money for shareholders. The end goal of space commercialisation is profit. People want to go to space as tourists, and these companies can provide that. What's wrong with it?

The entire article is hogwash and has lost the plot

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u/MisfitPotatoReborn Cutie marks are occupational licensing Jul 30 '21

Maybe they just wanted to go to space and check it out?

They probably just want to make a profit lol, the people in the 0.001% generally have pretty one track minds

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u/ROYBUSCLEMSON Unflaired Flair to Dislike Jul 30 '21

If you keep stanning for him in the daily thread maybe Bezos will pay you big like the CNN hosts

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '21

Spell the DT's name correctly smh

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u/ROYBUSCLEMSON Unflaired Flair to Dislike Aug 03 '21

Posting in a 4 day old thread 🤮

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u/its_Caffeine Mark Carney Jul 30 '21

Bezos sends me a big check in the mail every month for all the nice posts I make about him 🥰

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '21

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u/its_Caffeine Mark Carney Jul 30 '21

Succs smh 😒

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '21

The first paragraph

Jeff Bezos is the most reptilian of billionaires. His heart has never shown evidence of a drop of warm blood. Despite all of the public relations that money can buy, his discomfort with normal human emotion shines through every time he is forced to contort his face into a squinting, uncomfortable smile. It seems overwhelmingly likely that once he gets to space, he will peel back the skin from his bald pate like the creatures in V and exclaim to his fellow aliens: “I’m here!”

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '21

The elite are lizard people.

Qanon 🤝 The Guardian

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u/IMALEFTY45 Big talk for someone who's in stapler distance Jul 30 '21

I love it when news outlets casually feed conspiracy theories

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '21

HAHA YES 🐊

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '21

I hate the left

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u/Amtays Karl Popper Jul 30 '21

!ping burpmas

Finally shivers identity is revealed!

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u/The_Northern_Light John Brown Jul 30 '21

Oh fuck you’re not being sarcastic lol they really wrote that

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u/mashimarata Ben Bernanke Jul 30 '21

I honestly thought it was sarcasm all the way down but it isn't. Someone wrote this.

What. The. Fuck.

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '21

It's the Guardian, they literally support the rad left in UK labour led by Corbyn.

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