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A Strange Stain in the Sky: How Silicon Valley Is Preparing A Coup Against Democracy (allr.cat)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The first, and also the most futuristic techno-utopian one, is the colonisation of Mars. Elon Musk founded Space X in 2002 (Peter Thiel was the first outside investor) with the idea of re-founding humanity. It’s all there: the call to save humanity by turning it into a multi-planetary species, the desire to start from scratch without the legal constraints of Earth, and the will to break with the established order. As you can read, half-hidden, on the terms and conditions page of the Starlink service owned by Space X:

The parties recognize Mars as a free planet and that no Earth-based government has authority or sovereignty over Martian activities.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Executive order establishing the next deportations going to a new Martian "enrichment center" in 3... 2... 1...

Given their inclinations, I suspect alt-speak for slavery to be the next contestant on "What's hot" on Xitter

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I really hope they take as many people as they can. Really.

And I hope they all take the most efficient path to Mars, rather than the fastest. And I hope they send them all in a very short time period, and Musk never bothers to read anything about the hazard of traveling in space outside of our magnetosphere.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Yeah what you said - fire him out of a cannon.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Musk is literally a fucking Bond villain (specifically, the guy from Moonraker).

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I hope they leave soon.

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Sweet. Build the ship, cram all the nazi aristocrats in, and bon voyage. Let us know how "re-founding of humanity" goes.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (2 children)

They aren't gonna leave until it's untenable here.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I bet they would drop something on us on the way out too. An asteroid or similar.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

That'd track

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[–] [email protected] 91 points 1 week ago (4 children)

with the idea of re-founding humanity

the desire to start from scratch without the legal constraints of Earth

What they are doing is playing the old book of the nazis

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (3 children)

But the Nazis didn't actually have anywhere they thought they could go.

If these Nazis actually think they can get to Mars and start over, I'm all for it. They can take as many supplies as they want too, no questions asked. I wish Musk and the Nazis with him the best.

I don't know what they expect when they get there, let alone how they expect to survive getting there, but that's not my problem.