[A television shows people starving with the title “NEWS: FAMINE DEVASTATES A GLOBAL SOUTH COUNTRY” and the subtitle “Brought to you by AgriCorp™”]
[orange] That’s communism That’s why we hate communism so much
[green] But the trade sanctions come from capita…
[A television shows a rocket launch with the title “NEWS: ROCKET LAUNCHED, HUMANS ARE IN SPACE” and the subtitle “Brought to you by tax credits for billionaires”]
[orange] That’s capitalism That’s why we love capitalism so much
[green] But modern rocketry was pioneered by the soviet…
[A television shows police in a city and a graffiti with the title “14 MILLION CRIMINAL OFFENSES REPORTED IN THE US IN 2024” and the subtitle “This fearmongering is brought to you by Liberty Mutual Justice™”]
[orange] That’s anarchism That’s why we hate anarchism so much
[green] But the USA is quite literally a capitalis…
[A television shows kids starving in a school cafeteria with the title “SAD FACTS: 1 IN 5 KIDS IN THE USA FACE FOOD INSECURITY (2025)” and the subtitle “SnackCorp™ was here”]
[orange] That’s not capitalism It’s crony oligarchic neoliberalism
[green] But that’s quite literally…
[A television shows a reporter reporting on the end of the world with the title “BREAKING NEWS: MASS COLLAPSE OF SOCIETY AS CLIMATE CHANGE CAUSED BY BILLIONAIRES LEADS TO GLOBAL CATASTROPHIC FAILURE” and the subtitle “PetroCorp™ approves”]
[orange] I knew it! I knew communism would be the end of us all!
[green has no words, is just blasé]
I’d say that modern rocketry was invented by the Nazis.
I disagree.
Modern rocketry was invented by Tsiolkovsky (theory) + Goddard (liquid fuel) + Obert (engineering), only one of which was a nazi.
During WW2, nazis used slave labor to develop and industrialize rocketry, but they didn’t achieve anything. At most, they accelerated its development. Their rockets had training wheels, metaphorically speaking.
Post WW2, the nazi rocket program became the backbone of the US space program, and the USSR heavily based its own rockets on nazi rockets, but it’s the work of Zander (pre-WW2) and Korolev (pre-WW2 and post-WW2) that got rockets and then humans into space. Unlike the USA’s space program, Korolev refused to integrate nazi scientists in his operations, only brought some to help reconstruct V2s then sent them away. His team quickly surpassed german designs, the R-7 that got Sputnik to space was an entirely soviet design that had nothing in common with the V2.
The Nazis still built the first functioning rocket weapon and the first manmade object in space.
Chinese warfare had included rockets for centuries.
Americans and soviets had militarized rockets before WW2 (for ex. Katyusha on Wikipedia).
Define being in space.
The V2 barely grazed the edge of space, it didn’t have the power to actually escape the Earth’s gravitational péll.
Sputnik is the first object to actually be in space.
You should be wary that nazi glazing has effects. Thanks to their lasting propaganda, people really believe they were a high tech empire that surpassed the rest of the world in every domain, triumph of the will style. Still to this day it helps fascism’s image as the “clean high tech” way that surpasses the rest in the mind of too many people. Don’t contribute to that for a simple gotcha. Even if you’re right, it’s not worth it.