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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There are a lot of points in history I'd bring up to show the grit of Americans before those specific ones. The Civil War was fought to keep the wealth-generating plantations under the federal tax jurisdiction, the moon landing was a cool thing that happened 50 years ago and produced no real tangible benefits at a point of time where those resources could've been put to much better use, the A-bomb was a war crime and our aircraft carriers are used to support illegal wars to kill brown people protect the interests of oil companies.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

You are saying that these things are bad things. I'm not saying they aren't. I'm saying Americans achieve things. Americans are fucking tough. Also, I will argue that you couldn't pop a pimple of truth on this statement: "he moon landing was a cool thing that happened 50 years ago and produced no real tangible benefits".

Oh, by golly, are you wrong. Oh, by golly, are you wrong.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 week ago

These lists are completely disingenuous. Just because something was the first use case doesn't mean it was the only use case for a thing.

For example. Freeze dried food. It's completely impossible to say we would not have freeze dried food without the space program.