I'm a firm believer in the free press. I do think that a government isn't required to fund a media outlet that thinks the country is evil, mind you, but they've got the right to say just that if they want.
What I do have a problem with is when the media is so deep in the leftist Kool-Aid that they clearly lack an IQ above room temperature, and at least some of those at the BBC are well below that pathetic line.
See, with the launch of Artemis II, the United States is returning to the moon. Yes, this is just a fly-by, but it's the first step in NASA returning to the stars and us not having to rely on sketchy Russian rockets to get up there.
This is good. It's an amazing thing, and while I think the private sector could do it for less money, it's still a better use of taxpayer money than transgender dance companies in Uganda or whatever else USAID was funding.
Unfortunately, it seems a broadcaster with BBC Radio is concerned that our return to the moon might lead to revisiting the evils of "colonial expansion" from the past.
Now, let's understand that the topic of colonialism isn't as cut and dried as some would like to make it out to be. Yes, there were bad things done by Western nations during colonialism. European nations walked into places that had their own populations and just asserted dominance over the indigenous people, killing any who disagreed, and otherwise just kind of being asses.
But the flip side is that most of these places weren't much beyond the Stone Age and were still convinced that at least some people with issues were demons, or would murder wives simply because their husbands died, as was their tradition.
Bringing these people into a more modern age was hardly the worst thing in the world, but no power was truly altruistic about everything that had to do with their colonial holdings.
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The thing is, though, literally none of that matters here. There's no way we're going to colonize the moon and push the indigenous moon men out of their ancestral homes. Hell, people on X are making the case that Americans are the moon's indigenous people, and making that argument pretty soundly under the left's rules. Still, this idea that the excesses of Europe's colonial past will come back because we're talking about settling barren landscapes incapable of supporting any life, much less intelligent life, is the dumbest thing I've seen yet.
And that's saying something.
I get that some people aren't thrilled with the Artemis program, and that's fine. Yes, private space travel will likely be cheaper and safer. Yes, the money spent on the program is money not spent on feeding the poor or building bridges. I understand all of that. I don't agree, but I understand it.
But disliking the spending is a far cry from worrying about "colonialism" when you're dealing with desolate lunar scapes and a lifeless Martian surface.
Find me a world with intelligent life, and we can talk. Until then, please try to at least pretend to have an IQ greater than your shoe size.
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