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Fries is just as confident about the eye-watering price Musk wants for a trip to Mars. “I’m slapping down my hundred grand as soon as that fortune a Nigerian prince left me arrives. The future is so bright, I need sunglasses.”

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[–] floo@retrolemmy.com 17 points 1 month ago (12 children)

It’s the ultimate rich person fantasy: travel to another planet, colonize it, and make your own goddamn rule. That’s what this is all about: some culture war bullshit.

Mask wants to live on Mars so he can say “what I said isn’t considered racist on Mars!“ And pretend to have some validity. Because then he’s an idiot like that. So are a lot of extremely rich people who are also very racist, but don’t want other people to know that.

That is why the dream of Mars is so appealing to a lot of people: for the same reason that Christianity is: because it gives a “get out of jail free card” to people who are absolute pieces of shit, but if they’re rich enough and or say the correct arrangement of magical words, they will never have to face the consequences for it.

These people actually believe this bullshit.

[–] Comment105@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

That's exactly it, all these astronaut wannabes just want to go to Mars to say the N word.

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