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"

    • SerLava [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      🎵 I've never met a nice white South African

      and that's not bloody surprising man

      they're just a bunch of ignorant loud mouths

      with no sense of humor 🎵

      :libertarian-approaching:

  • TreadOnMe [none/use name]
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    Remember when she dated Chelsea Manning for abit after breaking up with Elon Musk? Grimes is probably the most incoherent human ever, it will be no surprise if she eventually goes for unironic Space Nazism.

      • TreadOnMe [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        I mean, I thought they talked about it on a podcast, but I could be mistaken as I never actually listened to it. Very well could be an elaborate bit, but I remember journalists reporting on it.

  • Chapo_is_Red [he/him]
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    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]
      hexagon
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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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        :100-com:

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

  • Commander_Data [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    Alice Glass has always been super cool. The abuse she endured while in Crystal Castles was horrific. Glad she's out there still making music and dunking on the fascist baby factory.

    • NPa [he/him]
      hexagon
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      2 years ago

      On second thought; Alice stay away from Hexbear please

    • SoyViking [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      The USSR space programme paid much more attention to Venus than to Mars and AFAIK there are compelling arguments why terraforming and settling Venus would be less difficult than doing so with Mars.

    • Commander_Data [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      Imagine the person whose two kids with the richest fascist on earth were picked from 100s of embryos using advanced genetic testing to pick specific qualities making "jokes" about lebensraum

  • D61 [any]
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    2 years ago

    "Will space colonization end nazi ism?

    I mean, if we get all of them on the same "ship" it couldn't hurt, right?

  • ennemi [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    "will giving nazis what they want end nazism" is a spectacular take

    • 420stalin69
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      2 years ago

      Destroyed by its own contradictions? Of course.

  • gardenSkink [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    Grimes Kill vs Maim music video is a look at the demonic cannibalist wendigos doing settler genocide in Canada. Truly disgusting creatures https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2EJMd7ZN7w