• _stranger_@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    Ok but no one buys NASA. The work they’ve done has been of benefit to the world. Hell, the ESA exists because Europe decided no single European country could build a home grown NASA alone.

    I promise you everyone at NASA would rather live in a world where the ESA exists. Let’s not project the tribalism de jure being thrown around by the shit slingers onto organizations that are just as much victims of Fascism and enshittification as we are

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            37 minutes ago

            There really is, and you named them. But you forgot about all their legions of anonymous followers who would disparage NASA at their behest to sow baseless discontent.

            I would love to have an ESA jacket to go with my NASA one. I would never discourage a child from expressing interest in either organization, and I certainly would never engender tribalism in them by saying “ESA GOOD NASA BAD” or any inversion or variation thereof.

            There’s already so much of that, why add more?