As a German, the popular sentiment of “I don’t like the prominent white supremacist but he sure can build amazing rockets” makes me quite uneasy.
>When u so braun u von Braun
As an American, I have been wary for a long time and am frustrated that NASA caved to Space X and can't just use govt funding. (Who cares about space anymore, am I right?)
Like a true american trying to beat russians to the moon with V2 rockets.
Für die jungen Leute unter uns: Wernher v Braun konnte auch gut Raketen bauen, war aber Nazi.
In fairness, there's a long line of American ultra-wealthy racists with a manufacturing and technology focus. Henry Ford comes to mind immediately, but there were lots of others.
When the German population gave in to mass hysteria and supported the NAZI's, the white psychologists excused their behavior by performing the infamous shock therapy tests to show that "rational" humans can succumb to pressure. Unlike the nonwhites resisting to western supremacy who were savages.
This is how it has always been. Western history is little more than this.
"'Once the rockets go up, who cares where they come down? That's not my department' says Wernher von Braun."
YouTube video by The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel
The great satirist (and truth-teller) Tom Lehrer: youtu.be/QEJ9HrZq7Ro?...
no kidding