Context: Grimes tweeted: "Will space colonization end nazi ism? Seems like a lot of lebensraum to go around", and then tried to go "it's just a joke bro, it's just dark humor"

  • Chapo_is_Red [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    It's a dumb way of putting it, but the social effects of infinite "free real estate" is a good question. Setting aside that space colonization is more expensive than the benefits of it.

    The US kinda was an example of Grimes's thought experiment irl, and the US became a massive slavocracy before running out of free real estate and becoming a global empire.

    So the answer to her question is no. Lots of free real estate does not necessarily prevent evils like Naziism.

    • NPa [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      yeah it's like, what happens when you give a bunch of nazis all the resources and land they could ever want? you get several trillion nazis colonizing the entire galaxy.

    • BowlingForDeez [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      The US kinda was an example of Grimes’s thought experiment irl,

      It wasn't free real estate, Indigenous people fought colonization at every step and still to this day.

      • Chapo_is_Red [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        :100-com:

        Why I used scare quotes, but I should've been explicit.