• yesman@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    This is dumb semantics. You can say they didn’t pilot the spacecraft, but neither did Shepard or Gagarin. You can say they were civilians, passengers, and meant for publicity. So Christa McAuliffe isn’t an astronaut now I guess.

    The problem with cock-pollo 11 is not that vacuous celebrities and billionaire girlfriends get a title they don’t “deserve”. It’s that billionaire cunts can burn down the world and call it feminist at the same time they support a regime that actively takes rights from women.

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      10 hours ago

      Yeah, my only takeaway from this is that we really should bring back dueling so Musk and Bezos could settle their dispute in a way that might actually make the world a slightly better place