• RemembertheApollo@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    All the countries with space programs have people in some form of dire strait. Starving, homeless, lack of medical care… Are you saying achievements like this aren’t allowed to take place at all until every problem is taken care of? I can assure you that at no point in civilization has there been times where someone wasn’t in a bad spot while society moved forward. Yeah, India has some big problems, and huge wealth disparity is a problem that many places face alongside India, but you can’t shut down progress because all the other problems can’t be solved.

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      1 year ago

      By that logic we should clap everytime North Korea launches a rocket.

      And there’s not really any “progress” here.

      Modi has publicly said he’s doing all this space stuff not for technological/scientific advancement.

      It’s a PR campaign to make foreigners think India is a world power. And to pay for it, he’s letting the “lower caste” people go thru hell

      Honestly, I thought people wouldn’t be dumb enough to fall for it. But I guess Modi was right, here you are defending him

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        1 year ago

        Modi can be relegated to the annals of history for all I care, your assertion that this program was a waste is blatantly incorrect. 40% of Indian children are malnourished compared to 17% in the US. Indians don’t have to sell blood to survive, and primary care is available to all citizens. Rx prices are controlled, and abortion has been legal for decades, and recently has been made free as well. The govt doesn’t have just one mandate, and this is an achievement of the space organization not politicians. No one is implying modi was actually sitting and working to land the space craft.

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          1 year ago

          Ok brand new account with no other comments pretending pre-covid numbers are the same as 2023.

          Easy block tho, I won’t be missing anything

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            I really hope you poopoo every achievement from every other major space program, because all of them have skeletons in their closets. America doesn’t just starve its children (it does that), but it literally shoots them. Russia is, well, Russia. China sucks. They all suck. Some suck more than others but they’re all shit.

            That’s NEVER going to change. So let people have small victories now and then. Progress is progress.

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        1 year ago

        North Korean rockets are war machines, they don’t even go to space.