Comment on NASA and Boeing say Starliner astronauts ‘are not stranded,’ but will be on the ISS for a few more weeks

atocci@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• weew@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Lol. People want Boeing to fail, because they’re corrupt, lying, poorly engineered pieces of shit riding on bribed politicians. They’ve already deliberately caused the deaths of hundreds of people due to willful and deliberate negligence to save a buck.

  Nobody’s wanting the astronauts to die. And they won’t, they’re safe on the space station, and there are multiple options to get them home safe even if they have to abandon the POS Starliner.

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  • atocci@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’m not talking about people who just want Boeing to fail, I’m talking about the ones who think the best path to changing things is if they publicly kill two astronauts. eg. See the “morally gray” comment below

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• sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Seriously, some of the comments and their phrasing actively gave me flashbacks to my days on stan twitter.

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  • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I wish Stan Twitter had never started his company, at all.

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• technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The best case scenario is that boeing is put out of business.

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• MrSpArkle@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’s a weird moral grey zone. Everyone has forgotten the hundreds of people Boeing murdered as a result of their desire to skirt modern safety regulations. I just flew my family across the country yesterday on one of these end-stage-capitalism products for lack of any other option.

  Were I to be ash this morning, I would be forgotten too.

  But if astronauts were killed, maybe the outrage would finally be enough for all the greased palms to be sheepishly shoved in pockets just long enough to get justice, ground all those affronts to safety, and jail enough executives to maybe make Boeing stop being a global safety risk and a national security concern.

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  • atocci@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Call me crazy but hoping for two innocent astronauts to die on the off-chance things improve isn’t something I would consider morally gray.

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  • 0x0@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    But if astronauts were killed, maybe the outrage would finally be enough

    Nope. The news would die off in less than a week, short attention spans and all that.

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