Neoliberalism seems to have infected every corner of this world and beyond. Perhaps the highest achievements of humanity are being whored out to private enterprise. If you watch NASA's updates you now have to sit through this obama-care "private partnership" bullshit. Now every redditor analyzes every Elon Musk tweet as if it's Crime & Punishment. When someone points out the abuses of his companies they'll declare he isn't perfect and give him a pass so that they can continue their hero worship. Space used to hold so many possibilities for the future of humanity, and even the west had lofty aspirations and integrity regarding it. But now…
General thread for discussion of the final frontier and what it could hold and how much porky is ruining it.
I personally pledge myself to destroying the Porky colony ships if they try to leave the dying Earth without us, I'd rather we all be wiped out than just the workers. We all with me?
Gavin Diaz
that shine on her hair doesn't make sense if you consider the light sources
Austin Brooks
No company will ever manage to establish a permanent space transport system, especially not a start up. What will happen is that the government will pour virtually unlimited funds in some faux company held by some lobbying group to do it
I am honestly divided on this: would I prefer for humanity to go extinct or that only the worst we have to offer will survive?
Jaxon Ward
I honestly wish something can be done against them. Are there even missiles capable of travelling upwards that much?
Not that guy, but I vote extinction, without a second thought. If we create planet-wide apocalypse despite being materially capable of getting started on a communist utopia, we don't deserve to exist. The very people who destroyed their home planet and condemned billions to suffering get to have a safety boat and future mankind will descend from their psychopathy-prone genes? Fuck no. It's both a matter of fairness and duty: we can't let the culprits literally get away, and most importantly, we can't in good conscience allow capital to leave the dried husk of its mother and first host only so it cn spread its contagion throughout the stars. Capitalism is inherently anti-human, so if it would end humankind, I see no greater cause than making sure it is entombed in this dead planet with us, its cursed victims turned headsmen.
Wyatt Morales
laws of consent don't exist in space
Christian Long
Our planet is absolutely fucked and if we don't make sustainable, habitable, large space habitats fast
We'll live through what a majority of Biologists are now calling the ongoing Sixth Extinction. Note the last mass extinction of this scale was the Fifth Extinction, it wiped out the fucking Dinosaurs.
At the same time, I know only the affluent will be allowed if it were ever the case. Our priorities are straight fucked and the porkies will watch the world burn for an influx of cash. If they leave, let's say 2070; we will be left in a boiling Earth struggling to live in elder age.
As dumb as this fucking movie was, if space habitats are a way to escape, it would probably look something like Elysium.
Bentley Perry
GG humanity. Didn't get to socialism fast enough.
Isaac Cox
We have to genocide about 1 billion people to sustain our population without causing extinction. Fortunately, killing 1 bil is easy if a revolution + economic collapse + mass starvation happens. It'll all go back to normal once we've been decimated
Tyler Smith
This is fucking bullshit. We could theoretically easily feed 100 billion people with proper production/distribution. Killing off a billion people isn't going to change the capitalist structure that forces large portions of people into poverty.
