• Hyperreality@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    I did the sums, and the US would have been able to fund a large moonbase for the next century, mine asteroids AND seriously begin colonising Mars.

    But instead of becoming an interplanetary power, the US chose to blow up brown farmers.

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      11 months ago

      And accomplished nothing for the people there, within 2 months it was as bad as it ever was before the US came.