• HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml
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    There was no space race. That was coined retroactively by the US as propaganda. It’s not like they coordinated a formal competition with the USSR with rules and judges and shit.

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      That’s why NASA has been stagnant since the early 90’s, it was created to compete with the soviet union and not as a scientific pursuit, which is why the US privatized space exploration, which left them technologically more stagnant

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    2 years ago

    since when did the ussr say the moon landing was fake? they’re just blatantly making things up

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    What a way to take a quote out of context, the CCCP said they didn’t consider themselves to be in the Space Race because they didn’t even consider America a competitor with how behind the US space program was. The Soviets were photographing Saturn and sending men into orbit before the US could even get a monkey off the ground without blowing it up.

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    Just one-up them with one of these:

    “But did you know the reason they had to fake it is that Neil Armstrong was secretly lactose-intolerant so he couldn’t deal with the cheese?”

    “What, you think the moon is real? It’s just a lamp bro”

    “Everyone knows this so-called ‘video footage’ is not a thing, it’s just small people running around behind your TV box”

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    I’ve never seen this argument for the moon landing being fake. Ever. I’ve seen people say Jewish people faked it but never bring up the USSR. Just making up a guy to “own” for memes.