Celebrating 5 women giggling as they ride around in a rich man’s vehicle while the rest of the world burns is the perfect 2025 moment. I’m reeling from the fact that their “motto” was “taking up space!”
The layers of irony are so thick they are collapsing upon themselves…
The layers of irony are so thick they are collapsing upon themselves…
The era of irony has ended; we have entered the era of farce.
The first ‘female-only crew’ in space is technically Valentina Tereshkova (she went alone). Not these women.
Evil Russian Communist so she doesn’t count
Also she actually had to do some work. Where’s the fun in that?
Communists aren’t evil. That stinks of red scare propaganda. Though apparently she did vote for the Ukrainian invasion, which sucks. And no, that doesn’t devalue the achievements of the Soviet Space program. It does count.
inspired to do what?
inspired to do what?
insert duck chasing meme
Buy things, and receive cosmetic surgical treatments from Jeff Bezos
Oops, all ads
“Inspire Women”
Yea… so you mean like… checks notes
Electing the criminal con-artist that failed casinos multiple times, simply because he is male, over the qualified* women that ran against him? On TWO SEPARATE OCCASIONS, BY TWO DIFFERENT CANDIDATES? One of the times the woman is even a prosecutor, and the con-artist have been convicted of 34 felonies, but apparenly being a morally-bankrupt criminal doesn’t matter since he’s male. So this is the “Inspiring Women”? 🤨
(*yes I know they are shitty in their own ways, but like at least they wouldn’t fuck up the economy and cause people to be unemployed and fuck up the climate)
The convicted rapist
Trump is over 35 and a citizen. He’s qualified. I know you want a female president just to have one.
Kamala was installed without a primary, which I know isn’t necessary per the DNC rules, but apparently that mattered. And after admitting Biden isn’t fit to run while Biden himself was determined to run, wasn’t a good look.
DNC fucked your party over. It was a shit show for everyone. We’re ready for the RIGHT female president. Not just a president just because they are female.
May I add, that Tulsi lasted longer in the 2020 primary than Kamala. What if it was Tulsi vs Trump? That would have been interesting to watch. (2020)
Perhaps the DNC will be better prepared in 2028 with a viable candidate.
DNC fucked your party over. It was a shit show for everyone. We’re ready for the RIGHT female president. Not just a president just because they are female.
I gotta ask the “America is too misogynistic to elect a woman” crowd how Tammy Baldwin, Gretchen Witmer, Kristen Sinema, and Jodi Ernst were winning all those Trump states.
Hell, imagine if Witmer had run in the 2024 Dem Primary. She was a solid contender and she clearly has a reputation and platform that Midwesterners vibe with. She’s not a fringe radical BernieBro, so Wall Street can stomach her. But she’s also not a lightning rod like Hillary.
If you don’t like Witmer, consider that Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobacher both significantly outperformed Harris during the 2020 primary.
All of them were fundamentally stronger candidates. But none of them were “in line” thanks to the whims of the 2020 Biden VP selection committee.
Crazy that Biden ran virtually unchallenged, then dumped the whole campaign in Harris’s lap after a bad debate performance.
Indeed it’s like they can’t even acknowledge it’s already proven that voters don’t give a shit if the candidate is a woman or not. We have research and studies on that…
If there is complain, that ain’t the one
I’m sure anyone but Harris, Clinton and Biden would’ve sufficed. I would have voted for Ernst, always thought military experience should be a prerequisite for presidency to thin out the billionaires.
I’m sure anyone but Harris, Clinton and Biden would’ve sufficed
Glances nervously at Tulsi Gabbard and Marianna Williamson
Well, maybe…
always thought military experience should be a prerequisite for presidency to thin out the billionaires
The rich guy vanity campaigns are certainly annoying. But I see an immediate moral hazard in letting the military have a monopoly on presidential candidates.
And lots of military guys - Micheal Flynn, David Paetreus, Pete Hegseth - are demonstrably fucking awful. Idk if you improve the field this way.
It’s funny you think there will be a 2028 election.
The spectacle of election isn’t going away any time soon.
I found that this candidate’s campaign made a mistake. See? They jaywalked to reach their stage for a rally.
Now, raise your hand if you actually find that mistake to be important. That is an important and personal decision. By any normal standards, every candidate in every election has made mistakes. Just that the mistakes of the opponent were rape, insurrection, and repeated business failures.
Campaigns are short in some other countries; people aren’t often helped by getting signals about someone 8 months before elections.
In short, I accept basic adult criticism of Kamala, but not nearly enough to forgive people who voted against her. Yes, AIPAC has staggering influence in US politics, and sadly we couldn’t fix that with an election.
The right candidate for the DMC probably ain’t the candidate for you and me
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look who bank roll these cunts
who?
me
it was me
sorry
Ah, the cuntroller
I’ll see myse-
“Roll her? I barely know 'er!”
There, I’ll see myself out now
other cunts
is this supposed to show people everything is alright, there is no sexism and misogyny? wow billionaires are really so out of touch with reality
What would Katy Perry going to space even inspire girls to do? Get popular writing queer-bait songs and release mediocre pop albums? Become a dark horse? Look at that girls, if you can write mid-tier songs and wear skimpy outfits you too someday can become a passenger on a billionaire’s cock rocket!
I encourage anyone who doesn’t already know who Max Martin is, to google him. He is a sweedish producer and songwriter. He has written a staggering amount of pop hits from 2000 on and a massive chunk of Katy Perry’s most well known songs. This girl boss owes her success to a man.
It’s just more about letting your entire career be dictated by men even down to the “queerbait” as a very generic pop diva that’s truly uninspiring to women (and everyone in general if I’m honest). She’s a plant and it’s beyond obvious.
Which is why it makes it all so cringe.
can become a passenger on a billionaire’s cock rocket
for 10 full minutes, no less
she went with jeff bozo’s fiance. they basically polluted the fuck out the planet for no gain other than the egos of few ultra wealthy twats.
very inspiring to anyone who has $500,000 to ride a dick-shaped rocket to the outter atmoshphere instead of going to disney landDisney has increased their prices so much, that only rich people can afford it anymore. The really rich pay for private tours and special access. So what do they have to do to show that they are even better than the “average” rich person?
Go to space.
I hope this becomes the new staus symbol of the wealthy, and they start shooting up larger and larger tourist rockets, until one explodes and wipes out 100 Sociopathic Oligarchs at once.
Are you guy caring after pollution now after encouraging people to burn electric cars for months
Really now
no and any sane person should agree with you. anyone who damages a random person car just because its brand is psychopathic and evil pos. I never even scratch someone’s else door in tiny parking lots because I wouldn’t like it to happen to me. You remember when conservatives boycotted the shit out of budlight and started shooting it and wasting it? Yeah that’s stupid too. I get what the boycotts accomplish but wasting something you already have is a negative. now imagine if they went out and destroyed/shoot someone’s else beers who just bought it in his shopping cart? scummy hurtful shit no sane person disagrees
I don’t even pay attention to that vapid idiot anymore, and I’ve got full-blown Katy Perry fatigue from all this bullshit being blasted in everyone’s face. What a bunch of pretentious, gross assholes who failed to read the room at a time when it seriously needs to be read.
If it pulled a Challenger, baby would have been a firework.
It’s telling that even Russel Brand divorced her. He’s insufferable. Guarantee she is too.
If you read up on it it’s pretty clear he was entirely shit to her and she wasn’t quite full on persona-fied.
Sociopathic Oligarch propaganda. Which is why I made sure to pay no attention to it at all. That’s why I didnt even know it went up until I got home and saw it on the news.
I only just found out about it from this thread.
I don’t even know what we are talking about
A classic case of the shenanigans, see.
I bet those women working in Amazon fulfilment centers will be inspired by this as they work with a full bladder for fear of losing their jobs if they take too many bathroom breaks.
Katy Perry was in space longer than those women are allowed to leave for piss breaks. Inspiring! /s
I understand a trip into orbit is hard to pass up, but how could you not know what riding on Bezos’ rocket would look like to the rest of us. It’s just so gross.
It wasn’t even a trip into orbit. Their rather short voyage was a sub-orbital hop. A low orbit of Earth requires a speed on the order of 8 km per second - Blue Origin can make about Mach 3, from what I read, which is circa 1 km per second. You go up, you go down. That’s it. They don’t even go particularly high (~100 km), and the apogee doesn’t keep you “above the atmosphere” (LOL) for long. Given the risks, I’m not sure it’s worth it, personally.
If we really want to inspire people by pointing out women’s accomplishments in spaceflight and space exploration, maybe we should be talking about people like Eileen Collins (astronaut on key shuttle/station missions), Lindy Elkin-Stanton (science lead for Psyche, the first to a metallic asteroid), Maria Zuber (lead the GRAIL mission to the Moon, co-discovered the rifts in the Ocean of Storms), or Mimi Aung (lead engineer for the Ingenuity 'copter on Mars 2020). And I’ve only mentioned a few Americans with recent work here; the rest of the world has plenty of enterprising female space scientists and aerospace engineers.
I share the general distaste in this thread and on Lemmy generally for this sort of celebrity stunt, and I’m glad to see the criticism. I do sometimes think, however, that for a certain kind of person, Bezos and Musk are becoming associated or even synonymous with spaceflight/exploration generally, which is a dangerous association to make. People have many, diverse and very legitimate reasons for going to space - there’s a lot more going on than joyrides and ego trips.
The funny thing is news sites are barely, if not at all, talking about the only two female scientists on board. If you don’t know their names, you will not even be able to find it in most articles because all they care about are Katy Perry and Laurent Sanchez. lol truly a historic victory for the common female
I do sometimes think, however, that for a certain kind of person, Bezos and Musk are becoming associated or even synonymous with spaceflight/exploration generally, which is a dangerous association to make. People have many, diverse and very legitimate reasons for going to space - there’s a lot more going on than joyrides and ego trips.
I do want to elaborate on that, if you don’t mind.
I’m all for spaceflight and mars settlement because it has many advantages. One of the most relevant ones is that it can stimulate the economy. Think about what the 1960s Moon mission did to the US: It inspired people and created jobs. Now think mars settlement could do something similar, but bigger. That in itself is a big win for the US, though there are more reasons to go, such as technological breakthrough and getting rid of the billionaires from Earth. There are more reasons to go, ofc, such as distracting Trump from wreaking havoc on the environment and minorities (remember: trump bashes against minorities because he needs to keep his voters voting for him by demonstrating power. If he can do something less destructive to demonstrate power, such as helping make settlements on mars, that hopefully is enough to satisfy his voters and makes it easier to shift his focus away from minorities).
I’m waiting for one of these propaganda stunts to end like that submersible that imploded and turned all those rich bitches into goo.
And I’ll laugh.
Yeah if anyone had a rocket fragment dropped on their head and I wouldn’t mind it , it probably would be you
“Look girls, IM REALLY RICH! Bezos might have destroyed thousands of women’s lives, but he sent ME to space! Idolize me for being so rich I get everything for free! Bow down peasants!”
I wish it would have exploded and so people could dance in the rain of her blood.
Katy + Lauren = Space Karen
Of course, they want Women In Space to be billboards, pretty things to look at and nothing more. Women are for procreation and decoration in their world.
