NASA has taken down two graphic novels featuring a female astronaut from its website. This decision seems to follow the Trump administration’s stance against
    • thermal_shock@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 days ago

      All of them. Afraid of giving anyone an equal playing field, straight afraid of women. Hold everyone down, insecure little men.

    • Zer0_F0x@lemmy.world
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      4 days ago

      I’m not shocked at all. They literally said exactly what they were going to do and now they are doing it.

      Learn to expect the most stupid and evil outcome of any situation from now on and preemptively fight to secure what you deem important in whatever way you can.

  • Vanth@reddthat.comEnglish
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    5 days ago

    What’s next? Rename the Artemis program because we can’t be flying to the moon under some lady name? Probably change it to Ares, god of war and courage. That’s a very manly man name, just as the good lords Jesus and Trump intended.

  • ssillyssadass@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    NASA is going down the drain under the new regime. If you’re interested in space exploration, shift your gaze over to the ESA or CNSA.

      • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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        3 days ago

        The Artemis program never had any legs. The entire thing was being done in the most stupid way possible simply so that NASA could use SLS, a rocket that was completely incapable of actually fulfilling it stated mission. It was like the Apollo missions but without the lander.

      • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        4 days ago

        Same thing that was always going to happen to it: It’s not gonna fly. It’s been canceled or clean sheet restarted at least once by every administration since inception, and frankly that rope has been pretty thoroughly pissed up.

  • Bloomcole@lemm.ee
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    5 days ago

    NASA is always, and in the first place a military organisation in service of the US regime.

  • Ronno@feddit.nlEnglish
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    5 days ago

    I’m curious: the USA wants to dominate the final frontier, how will they ensure a civilization can thrive without woman in those new settlements?

    Anyways, the idea is horrific and stupid, let’s hope the US implodes.

    • db2@lemmy.world
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      5 days ago

      The far right morons and the cowards enabling them are fucking things up for its own sake. They’re not thinking ahead. They’re not actually even thinking, they’re just reacting to imaginary shit.

      They aren’t the USA, they’re the parasites the USA is infected with.

      • Bloomcole@lemm.ee
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        5 days ago

        They are half of the USA at least, the other half are mostly dems, I have zero sympathy for them.

          • Bloomcole@lemm.ee
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            5 days ago

            You deliberately choose to ignore the word ‘mostly’ to deny the tiny true left in your banana republic’s otherwise awful political spectrum.
            But you couldn’t make that nasty remark otherwise could you?
            Am I better than the people complicit in genocide and plenty more despicable things? Absolutely.
            It’s not that hard.
            If only you people would have some minimum humanitarian standards you wouldn’t need to vent your frustration for deservedly losing.

    • Probius@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      5 days ago

      I’d love to live in a society where no particular gender held most positions of power or had more legislative influence.

        • Queen HawlSera@lemm.eeEnglish
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          4 days ago

          I feel like we’d exchange the Elon Musks of the world for the JK Rowlings of the world, the Ronald Reagans for the Margaret Thatchers, and the Donald Trumps for the Ayn Rands.

          Fairer sex my ass

          The only reason you don’t think women can be evil is because you’re too used to the idea of women as damsels to be rescued, too childish to be a threat to anyone. This is because the patriarchy hates the idea that a woman can be competent moreso than a man, even in acts of evil.

          • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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            5 days ago

            Yupes, good old “benevolent” sexism.

            Prejudice, just like the Far-Right, just with different “superior” and “inferior” groups.

            Historically the best criteria for selecting people to positions of power is how little they want power, not gender or race.

            (Personally I think that’s because people who do not want power see it as a burden, and they do so because for them power is a great responsability towards many others - what sane individuals would ever want to be in a position were they can ruin the lives of countless people by making a mistake - and that’s exactly the kind of people you want to entrust with it, not the ones for whom power is a form of ego-stroking or even a tools for personal upside maximization)

            • Queen HawlSera@lemm.eeEnglish
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              4 days ago

              Yupes, good old “benevolent” sexism.

              God I’m reminded of anytime I watch something from the 90’s and then an asian character shows up…

              It’s not that I’m racist and go into “WOKE MOBS TOOK MY WHITES AWAY!!!11111” mode

              It’s that for the longest time in America, media was blatantly racist against basically everyone and in the 90’s, the cold war was over, the best electronics came from Japan, so the media was trying (and failing) to learn how to be not so asiaphobic. This didn’t mean “Don’t do stereotypes!”, this means “Do positive stereotypes”

              So every show either had the one asian cast member or that one episode where the asian character showed up, and you could just HEAR the writers saying “Oh no, so he’s very proud of his heritage and is very smart, so it’s a positive thing. That makes up for his dialogue sounding like fortune cookies that have been put through google translate fifty times!”

              And then you went into the 2000’s and this also became how they wrote black characters… Irwin from Billy and Mandy, Tucker from Danny Phantom, The Dino Thunder Blue Ranger, Richie from Static Sh… wait… Richie was the token white guy (In an amazing show I might add, god I should re-watch Static Shock)… Well my point still stands, they’re all the same fucking character “Oh no he’s really dorky and super smart, so it’s the exact opposite of the stereotype is the joke!”

              Doing the exact opposite of the stereotype still calls attention to the stereotype, god damn it!

              Miles Morales has shades of this too, but he’s nowhere near as insufferable as these characters and is far more believable as a “Black Nerd” than any of them.

              Sorry, I remembered “Benevolent Racism” when you mentioned benevolent sexism, and that awakened that.

              It’s really weird when the 90’s show you’re watching is based on an Asian Property and it does this nonsense, because I look at characters like “Kong Fu” from Donkey Kong Country, or the one episode of Adventures of Sonic The Hedgehog where Scratch and Grounder become “Ninja Robots” by draining the asianess from this Samurai Crane (I know samurai aren’t ninjas, but tell the show that), and I’m like… “Wow, I wonder how Shigeru Miyamoto and Yuji Naka felt if they ever saw this shit… Except fuck Yuji Naka, he’s a bit of a dick… The AoStH Episode is still fucked up though.”

    • spacecadet@lemm.ee
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      5 days ago

      Statistically, women leaders start more wars than men, so a matriarchal society signs us up for more war. The group statistically likely to start less wars is former soldiers, probably because they know the horrors.

      Maybe leadership is more “content of character” than a gender issue

      • CrayonRosary@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 day ago

        I look to a day when people will not be judged by the bits between their legs, but by the content of their character.

        That’s the famous quote.