I have had the unpleasant experience of submitting comments to The Space Review and the moderators being very selective about what they allow to be posted. At least they seem to have given up on trying to ban me completely. Unfortunately, they have been allowing me to post a single or one or two comments and then no more while allowing my entourage of cyberstalkers, who have followed me for years, to excoriate me. And I get no opportunity to do similar execution. I become a punching bag. Which is of course why I have been banned so many times. I am not a punching bag. I hit back. And then they ban me. They can ban me or ban the literally dozens of fanboys inundating me with vicious insults and serial harassment in the form of mocking gifs, cartoons, and blatant lies about the comments I have posted. The same fanboys who email editors their complaints by the dozen when I do hit back. Others wishing to simply enjoy themselves babbling their thoughts on any given article who would not be inclined to be trolls often join in. And that is, by the way, the group dynamic of Fascism. People want a better life and when an authoritarian group says they will provide that but will actively make sure you get a worse life if you do not support them, you go along to get along. You might even indulge your own biases to some degree. All the way up to the point where they invent a reason to take you to the death camp.
The Space Review posted my comment after a week and have not allowed my entourage to reply to it. Thank you Space Review. Here it is:
For fifteen years I have witnessed the Cult of Musk flood these forums with NewSpace talking points and understand the ideology as well as anyone. The base, the floor of this movement, is the idea that only wealth has any meaning. The truth, which is the lifeblood of a functioning democracy, has no meaning, while lying is embraced by both Trump and Musk as simply a good political and business practice. In the case of Trump it is anything exposing him as “fake news” and with Musk it is a million people to Mars in ten years making him the sci-fi savior of our species. Only they can save us. The big lies of rigged elections and Mars as a second home for humankind are perfect for any who need justification for their state-hate/white grievance and absolute greed. The ultimate goal being to replace government with rule by the rich. Oligarchy.
The most admired of all Americans next to Medal of Honor winners are Astronauts. Trump belittled the Medal of Honor by stating the civilian Medal of Freedom was “better” when presenting it to the widow of a donor; The Adelsons donated $20 million to Trump’s first presidential campaign and $5 million for the inauguration. That same year, the couple gave more than $100 million to conservative groups and conservative candidates during the election cycle. In 2020, the couple contributed $75 million to the Preserve America PAC, a Trumpist super PAC. The Adelson’s total contributions to their party totaled more than $218 million between 2019 and 2020. Musk mirrored this with his Polaris Dawn mission which was an obvious message to the public that NASA Astronauts were no longer needed or should be held up as our best and that billionaut tourists paying his company to go into space were the new heroes. Company over country, celebrity over patriotism, Oligarchy as the only authority, and lies conditioning the citizenry to just not care anymore…the star Russian disinformation tactic called “The Firehose of Falsehood.”
It is thus transparent when SpaceX ignores government regulation.
Your title mentions being censored but the body of the article does not. I have a brother in first amendment law if you want to take action on whomever censored you
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Thanks so much Carlos, I will think about it.
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