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"

  • 11092001 [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Space colonization being the liberal/fascist way to 'resolve' social conflict isn't new. I think the 70s Scifi novel by O'Neil prescribe to this idea. Also the original 079 Gundam anime was a diatribe against this particular aspect of the novel in form of a Saturday morning cartoon by Tomino, i.e. the poor and undesirables are sent to space to extract resources, space independence movements co-opted by right-wing elements in a world absent of Marxism, the metaphor(space magic bullshit) for working class consistence gets used as a weapon by the liberal hegemon in Earth and right-wing independence movements etc etc.