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  • It’s pretty wild just how much dependence the Soviet space program had on Korolev personally that once he died the whole thing just fell apart. Having one guy driving the technical side and securing the political side is possible if you have a sufficiently talented person (like Korolev) but it’s inherently unstable.

    That said the Soviets did do a lot of really cool space stuff, including getting probes to land and photograph the surface of Venus (which is an extremely hostile environment).


  • They aren’t his ideas lmao, he’s not exactly Marx or something. He parrots basic socialist rhetoric. I can engage with that just fine without ever having to waste my time on Hasan.

    Just to be clear, your sole problem with Hasan is his net worth? lol.

    His concern for the poor.

    Unproven. “You can’t have genuine concern for the poor without being poor” is definitely one of the opinions of all time. You haven’t even tried to justify it.

    They aren’t his ideas lmao, he’s not exactly Marx or something. He parrots basic socialist rhetoric. I can engage with that just fine without ever having to waste my time on Hasan.

    Cool, not relevant.


  • Besides that, there’s no healthy reason for you to be this invested in defending a streamer. Politics should not be a cult of personality if you actually want to achieve anything.

    Says someone writing pages about it along with many lies.

    He is dishonest by pretending to align with socialist ideals while hoarding money, to the extent of buying oversized property in what is probably the 3rd or 4th most infamously-expensive place in the country.

    Dishonesty requires being dishonest about something. What is he being dishonest about?

    He could’ve donated that money to help the people he claims he wants to see helped.

    Cool so suppose he did that and was sufficiently poor for your liking would you have something to actually say about his views?

    You seem way more invested in hating than engaging with his ideas.












  • It’s worth understanding the causation here. Was Joe Biden a staunch Zionist because of AIPAC funding? Or did AIPAC fund Biden knowing he was a staunch Zionist in order to ensure he would win?

    To me, especially post Oct-7th, Biden seemed like a true believer. He seemed to believe in the Zionist project in the form of unconditional support of the Israeli government (no matter who was in power there) as part of his personal sense of morality. As in, don’t steal , don’t lie, support isreal. It’s why he wasn’t able to even try to reign in Israel no matter how much Bibi humiliated him or openly colluded with Trump or whatever.

    Having a geopolitical stance as a part of your basic personal morality (as opposed to a reasoned stance based on available information) is of course incredibly stupid and dangerous. But that’s my read on Biden.

    Meanwhile a guy like Cory Booker seems to have just knowingly sold out to AIPAC and is now committed to that position. AIPAC is designed to create an easy path for American politicians in terms of a certain degree if good PR in the press and campaign funding. Many politicians simply took that deal. Biden never struck me as one of these, especially not at the end.