Phạm Tuân born 14 February 1947) is a retired Vietnam Air Force aviator and cosmonaut. He became the first Vietnamese citizen and the first person from an Asian country in space when he flew aboard the Soyuz 37 mission as an Interkosmos Research Cosmonaut. He was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union.

He also downed the only B-52 the be downed in aerial combat. He was a really cool pilot.

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  • Huldra [they/them, it/its]
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    3 years ago

    I read most of it, literally before he expands on any anti-technology shit he starts ranting about woke leftism and how he cant call black people "negro" anymore or asians "orientals" and how that is bullshit because he never meant anything bigoted with it and its just inventing problems.

    He can barely contain how absolutely seething his hatred for anything leftist is, meanwhile the worst he calls the right wing that I can recall is "Boy it sure is goofy that y'all promote tradition but also promote technology that is displacing tradition, ga-hyuk!". He has absolutely no empathy for any minority, thinks that leftists only pretend to sympathize with them because leftists are obsessed with being underdogs or something like that, and his solution to all bigotry is basically "If you're struggling to not starve every day then you wont have much time to hate a feller for being black". His answer to disabled folk who will die without medicine? "Die stoically lmao".

    His historical analysis also literally never brushes close to the differences between feudalism, capitalism or socialism as systems, its all just "technology percentage go up and thats bad", the one time he uses the word capitalism in the manifesto is to call it a leftist buzzword. He's a genocidal ecofascist and I think even the ironic "haha funny bomb man" shit is pretty creepy and offputting, let alone leftists who unironically spout praise for him(havent seen much of that here though).

    • mao_zedonk [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Oh wow, cool thanks. A lot of those perspectives I hadn't heard before, ty