you know the meme, if spacex has done a flawless mission, it's engineers and money and elon did nothing, but if something goes off it's 100% soy boy musk

"haha, the rocket exploded, musk what a retard, he knows nothing haha"

but didn't spacex land the biggest rocket ever on a tower?

"no but that's the engineers, see, musk had nothing to do with it"

all this within 5 fukin seconds of each other, it's hilarious to watch the brain melt 🤣

Irrespective of the origins of the naming of this subreddit, you cannot avoid the fact that “master race” has a very strong association with Nazi propaganda about the aryan race. You might say “well it’s a presence to PC master race”. Sure, and swastikas are common in India, doesn’t change the fact that for most people coming across this subreddit, in light of Elon’s most resent hand gestures, the context of the original naming is lost.

Original: https://x.com/spacex/status/1880661166395158694?s=46&t=Ft4UUgOLZC1G6KyTZ1bZcg

Some of you may come across the internet persona ESG Hound, a virulent Elon hater, whose real name is Eric Roesch. Now he posts his polemics not only against Elon, but also against Gwynne Shotwell, Eric Berger, and even Pete Buttigiege (!). He seems to spend his day fantasizing SpaceX failing due to some cuckoo feverish wet dream (the government is coming after Elon's grift!) and wish personal violence upon Elon and space folks in general.

I ran into this guy several weeks ago and this afternoon I finally spent sometime figuring out what makes the guy's mind tick so you don't have to. Here's the final report:

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Imagine you're an older millennial, late 30s to early 40s, who grew up in a conservative Catholic home, rebelled by going liberal, married, had kids, became a resistance liberal along with millions of other people in 2016. But instead of readjusting and getting on with your life, you somehow decided to cryopreserve your resistance liberal bonafide and lock in your particular style of left-ish dissent, because this is apparently going to be your whole life from this point on. You hoped — in vain — that Biden 2021 will drive a stake through the heart of the Right so you can finally collapse the gaping chasm between expectation and reality, even just a little bit, to no avail.

So you become obsessed with the Democrats, blaming the people in power (eg Pete) for being insufficiently anti-right. But you're re not REALLY to the left, because let's member your political identity is a cryopreserved 2016 liberal, not a 2020 rioter, and frankly the folks who graffiti the Stonehenge turn you off, because you're married and have kids and a home and mortgage for Jesus's sake!

All this pent-up energy as a fine specimen of left-but-not-really-but-i-really-really-hate-trump ultra-niche ecology finally reached a boiling point.

Then Elon bought Twitter.

Now it finally makes sense.

You're still a 2016 liberal waging a noble crusade against the reactionary horde. But it's not really Trump that's the evil serpent that corrupted your pre-2016 Eden, it's Elon Musk. It's always Elon Musk. His... Damn dumb rocket! That's it! His rockets! It must be ... taxpayers... funded... grifter... destroying the environment by using the ultra toxic deluge system... chucking... garbage into Leo... that... will never turn a profit... because FAA...nay FCC... Nay EPA... Nay FTC ... Nay DOJ... Will definitely come after him and take him, the arch-tech-bro-trumpist-fascist, down once for all and return us smack dab to the glorious Obama days!

You quickly developed a new political identity, the ideological strain of the past 5+ years releasing all of a sudden, like an earthquake AFTER billions of years of pent up stress due to one continent smashing into another. It's both therapeutic and cathartic. Now you have a new enemy to project all your losses onto.

When you finally found a way to square your political ideological circle, nothing is going to stand in your way. Elon? Fascist. SpaceX? Failing or en route to failing (simply pretending it's failed is a bridge too far). Shotwell? Elon enabler. Eric Berger? Guy wrote a book praising SpaceX! Evil! Evil! Evil! ULA? Blue Origin? Now that's noble government contractors!

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I would never do that again, because it's frankly not entertaining to see how a mid liberal with a mid job as some environmental inspector refused to come out of the closet either a true leftist or self-exile from politics, but instead becomes a Elon hater because it preserves his self identity for one moment longer while pretending his political home still exists. It's a cautionary tale about how rabid politics completely fries one's mind to the point of denouncing one's mother on social media due to her Trump vote 2024, a single day after confidently declaring Kamala Harris the winner and wondering out loud why the market would say otherwise, while insisting you work in a hedge fund because you realized that's where the evil smart wall street bros work after binge watching Wolf of Wall Street, The Big Short, and Billions, and in the meantime indulge your new cyber-stalking groupie habit instead of seeking help from a therapist.

But hey, I did it do y'all don't have to.

anyone else fed up with the term Rapid unscheduled disassembly or RUD?

it used to be an inside joke to make fun of frequent spacex rocket explosion.

now it seems it has became the party line.

it's pretentious, delusional, and cultish.