Over 40 million Americans are living below the poverty line (12 million of those are children), that’s 12% of the population of the country. To compare and contrast India’s got 150 million people living below the poverty line with a population of 1.4 billion, that’s 10% of their population. Yet we spend $33 billion on our space program. For those playing at home India’s moon landing cost around $75 million.
To pull the poverty card on India for starting a space program that is lifting up their people’s national self worth is just about the most imperialist thing you could do.
I swear I see some shit like that in every comment section for posts mentioning India. I don’t know why people can’t be negative about everything and celebrate the accomplishments without mentioning the flaws of the country. I assume the previous guys are trolling or just dislike India.
Ooh spicy take - miss me with the “we” shit, I’m not American thank god.
I’ve been to India, have you? It’s fucked that you value “national self worth” over actual material realities. National self worth doesn’t mean shit when you’ve got homeless people shoving their impoverished baby in your face while standing outside one of the most lavish hotels you’ve ever seen trying to get a rupee so they can eat with a government riddled with actual fascists at the helm.
America can waste $1T a year on military funding because of its imperialist past and driving it’s imperialist present to secure it’s imperialist future at the expense of the global south yet I’m the asshole for suggesting that there’s possibly more important things to address in India than a fucking space program which aims to, in your words, build NaTiOnAl SeLf WoRtH. Fat load of good that does the homeless and the hungry. Fuck outta here with your STEM-lord white knighting bullshit and get a grip on the biggest problems affected us regardless of lines on a map.
The answer certainly won’t be found on the dark side of the moon.
Over 40 million Americans are living below the poverty line (12 million of those are children), that’s 12% of the population of the country. To compare and contrast India’s got 150 million people living below the poverty line with a population of 1.4 billion, that’s 10% of their population. Yet we spend $33 billion on our space program. For those playing at home India’s moon landing cost around $75 million.
To pull the poverty card on India for starting a space program that is lifting up their people’s national self worth is just about the most imperialist thing you could do.
I swear I see some shit like that in every comment section for posts mentioning India. I don’t know why people can’t be negative about everything and celebrate the accomplishments without mentioning the flaws of the country. I assume the previous guys are trolling or just dislike India.
Ooh spicy take - miss me with the “we” shit, I’m not American thank god.
I’ve been to India, have you? It’s fucked that you value “national self worth” over actual material realities. National self worth doesn’t mean shit when you’ve got homeless people shoving their impoverished baby in your face while standing outside one of the most lavish hotels you’ve ever seen trying to get a rupee so they can eat with a government riddled with actual fascists at the helm.
America can waste $1T a year on military funding because of its imperialist past and driving it’s imperialist present to secure it’s imperialist future at the expense of the global south yet I’m the asshole for suggesting that there’s possibly more important things to address in India than a fucking space program which aims to, in your words, build NaTiOnAl SeLf WoRtH. Fat load of good that does the homeless and the hungry. Fuck outta here with your STEM-lord white knighting bullshit and get a grip on the biggest problems affected us regardless of lines on a map.
The answer certainly won’t be found on the dark side of the moon.