…gets noticed by the “progressives.” The amount of idiocy and ignorance in the comments is gobsmacking.
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…gets noticed by the “progressives.” The amount of idiocy and ignorance in the comments is gobsmacking.
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Don’t forget the cognitive dissonance. “Ha ha, crazy space cadets think that the rest of the universe is important” vs. “How dare they question the benefits of the wise government’s decisions to spend decades on billion-dollar-a-flight LEO-only spaceships which only kill people 2% of the time.”
Despite the anti-“progressive” attitude on this blog, your space policy articles lately often seem to focus on the “big government is bad, except in space” posturing from Republicans. It’s probably useful to be reminded that reversed stupidity is not intelligence.
I didn’t read all of the comments, but I found this one to be particularly clueless:
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/08/to_infini-tea_and_beyond_tea_party_in_space_aims_t.php#comment-281571730
Serendipity, I’m posting again and it happens to touch on this subject. Click my name (I wasn’t planning on publishing this early. I haven’t completed editing the template yet.)
There is an incredible amount of DERP over there in the comments.
A lot of the comments are arguing in favor of the TPIS positions but they don’t realize it .
Call it Tea Party derangement syndrome, Ferris at least defending the logic behind it. Since synch with what he saying at his Kos blog.
I… just… I mean… those comments have left me speechless.
Its ok, it has really opened the eyes to a lot of liberals who are interested in space flight. We have the right message and we will stay on it.
It is funny to watch them go crazy insane tho.
Respectfully,
Andrew Gasser
TEA Party in Space
We have the right message and we will stay on it.
You still haven’t explained your support for SLS. It goes completely against Tea Party principles.
Andrew, can you provide a link to a/your position statement on the SLS?
The argument against multi-billion dollar outlays for government rockets that never get put into service could benefit from an argument against multi-billion dollar outlays for a space station built principally to justify the vehicle expenditure in the first place.
Absolutely right Cannady. The problem is the people that should be responsible (taxpayers) are kept as far away from the decision process as possible. This is why it should be a state activity rather than a federal activity. Too dangerous and too expensive has been exposed as a lie since now things that the federal government does is not only within the ability of the states it’s within the ability of single companies.
It’s time to take everything but national defense away from the federal government. Let the people paying for it make the decisions. How could the people allow over the decades a situation where the states send money to the central government which then turns around to use it as a political lever?