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this post was submitted on 30 May 2025
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It’s the ultimate rich person fantasy: travel to another planet, colonize it, and make your own goddamn rule. That’s what this is all about: some culture war bullshit.
Mask wants to live on Mars so he can say “what I said isn’t considered racist on Mars!“ And pretend to have some validity. Because then he’s an idiot like that. So are a lot of extremely rich people who are also very racist, but don’t want other people to know that.
That is why the dream of Mars is so appealing to a lot of people: for the same reason that Christianity is: because it gives a “get out of jail free card” to people who are absolute pieces of shit, but if they’re rich enough and or say the correct arrangement of magical words, they will never have to face the consequences for it.
These people actually believe this bullshit.
I believe that is a factor, who wouldn't want to rule their own little kingdom? And nobody wants that more than a jerk that thinks they are better than everyone
But really I think it's gold rush style greed. Whoever gets a settlement on Mars will want to make it a truck stop to help anyone trying to explore deeper reaches of space and make ridiculous money for a long, long time
If you can assemble and launch rockets on mars instead of Earth you can do waaay more because you're only fighting 1/3 of gravity for each launch so you get more fuel/cargo/range