We know you mean Republicans. It's not like you're shy about this sort of thing. Trump=Nazi, anyone who wants a sane immigration policy=Nazi. The deplorables.
The excitement around NASA's New Horizons spacecraft arriving at its latest target, an oddly shaped object called (486958) 2014 MU69, has dredged up a fact that often goes unstatedâ"the object's nickname, "Ultima Thule," carries links to Nazism.
Though most people haven't heard of the term's unsavory use by the Nazis, the New Horizons team was aware of it and went with the name anyway, science reporter Meghan Bartels reported for Newsweek in March 2018. The New Horizons team continues to defend the term today.
But just looking at the Wikipedia page for "Thule" reveals that according to far-right German mythology, this place was the original origin of the "Aryan race." According to Bartels' reporting, the term acquired this connotation in the 19th century and was used by the Nazi party. NASA and the New Horizons team considered the alternate meaning and included it in the vote anyway, since this wasn't the "primary association," Mark Showalter, an astronomer on the New Horizons team, told Bartels. The name didn't get the most votes from the public, but NASA decided that it was the best fit for the object.
He did not address why the team decided on the name despite already knowing about the negative connotations. Plenty of symbols, like eagles and lighting bolts, have gained secondary, nefarious meanings due to Nazi associations - but "Ultima Thule" was selected despite the secondary meaning still used today by neo-Nazis and members of the alt-right, and at a time where Nazism is on the rise in the United States.
More from Newsweek: NASA NAMED ITS NEXT NEW HORIZONS TARGET ULTIMA THULE, A MYTHICAL LAND WITH A NAZI CONNECTION
On Tuesday, NASA announced their temporary nickname for the New Horizon missionâ(TM)s current target: Ultima Thule. The spacecraft is due to fly past on January 1, 2019, and the team was getting tired of using its official designation, 2014 MU69. Thereâ(TM)s just one issue: the name has some unsavory connotations. It was adopted by the forerunners to the Nazi party, and the term remains in use by modern so-called alt-right groups.
"The Nazis were fascinated by space and rocketships and things like that," Kurlander said. (During the 1940s and beyond, NASA thrived by hiring noted German rocket engineer Wernher Von Braun and other scientists who had worked for the Nazi regime.)
Sorry, the vicious racism and Sinophobia that accompanies any Slashdot article about China will not allow that. Funny, the worst offenders are the ones in other threads proudly signaling their socially just tolerance status. Weird...
"We" didn't do that, it was the CIA. It didn't ask the elected government for permission, it just did it. Much like it, still today, doesn't bother to ask the elected government or God forbid the people.
But thanks for heeding my request and changing the topic away from Iran's censorship into the same boilerplate hate for America. That means a lot.
No, the elected government has no control over them. They are career federal employees. They can't be fired. Truman complained he couldn't do anything about them, and every president since. JFK wanted to disband the CIA and wound up dead for his trouble.
Uh, we pay the Euros $150 billion a year in unfair trade agreements, defend them for free with NATO, and provide free protection for their exports with the US Navy. Without these their cushy welfare states would collapse.
Forged in blood? That sounds volksich to me. Europeans hate being shackled to racists like Americans. They wish to be free and chart their own course in the world.
Negative. Vassals pay their liege lord for protection. What America has is precisely the opposite: allies that only ally with us because the US government pays them massive bribes in the form of aid, free military protection, unfair trade agreements, etc. I don't know what the word for that is but it certainly isn't vassal.
The US intelligence community is not elected. They have gone rogue and are not under the control of the democratically elected government. "This is like a spy novel.".
These are the same people who lied us into Iraq. In what possible way are they trustworthy?
You seriously intentionally misunderstood the meaning of "flag"? As in, the flag. As in an actual flag, not a print on the side of an unmanned spacecraft. Jeez, really scraping here. Just stop with the metric flame, it's such a tired old meme by now. So predictable.
7. Huawei phones lack the backdoors that allow the US intelligence community to spy on its own people.
That's it, really. They don't trust us, not at all. You really have to wonder why? Why do they feel the need to spy on us and know what we're thinking? Our elected government made this illegal, and the intelligence community promptly broke the law and lied about it.
They don't feel any obligation to us at all. It's OK if they break the laws we passed with our elected government and lie to our faces - they don't feel safe if we can keep secrets from them. Fuck democracy, they have wars to start. If we all started buying Huawei they would feel very unsafe indeed.
Why does it not surprise me to find out you're a far leftist who dehumanizes anyone who disagrees with zis thoughts? That's how you people murdered so many in the 20th century.
The ceremony is world-famous, and being a part of it makes a lot of people happy. Ignorant people wouldn't even be aware of it. So you hate the tourists and you hate your own people too? Sounds like you're just a hate-filled misanthrope who nobody should listen to.
What's wrong with being a tourist? Is it some kind of crime? Why do New Yorkers take so much pleasure in looking down on people who have come to see their city? You'd think it would be a great compliment.
So it's not really that they can't take cash. They can. They just can't make change. So if you give them exact change, you're probably OK. Just leave it and walk out, what they gonna call the cops or something?
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We know you mean Republicans. It's not like you're shy about this sort of thing. Trump=Nazi, anyone who wants a sane immigration policy=Nazi. The deplorables.
And the swastika is a Buddhist religious symbol. Yeah, it doesn't work like that.
The mainstream media, everyone.
New Horizons Scientists Double Down on 'Ultima Thule' Nickname Despite Nazi Associations
The excitement around NASA's New Horizons spacecraft arriving at its latest target, an oddly shaped object called (486958) 2014 MU69, has dredged up a fact that often goes unstatedâ"the object's nickname, "Ultima Thule," carries links to Nazism.
Though most people haven't heard of the term's unsavory use by the Nazis, the New Horizons team was aware of it and went with the name anyway, science reporter Meghan Bartels reported for Newsweek in March 2018. The New Horizons team continues to defend the term today.
But just looking at the Wikipedia page for "Thule" reveals that according to far-right German mythology, this place was the original origin of the "Aryan race." According to Bartels' reporting, the term acquired this connotation in the 19th century and was used by the Nazi party. NASA and the New Horizons team considered the alternate meaning and included it in the vote anyway, since this wasn't the "primary association," Mark Showalter, an astronomer on the New Horizons team, told Bartels. The name didn't get the most votes from the public, but NASA decided that it was the best fit for the object.
He did not address why the team decided on the name despite already knowing about the negative connotations. Plenty of symbols, like eagles and lighting bolts, have gained secondary, nefarious meanings due to Nazi associations - but "Ultima Thule" was selected despite the secondary meaning still used today by neo-Nazis and members of the alt-right, and at a time where Nazism is on the rise in the United States.
More from Newsweek: NASA NAMED ITS NEXT NEW HORIZONS TARGET ULTIMA THULE, A MYTHICAL LAND WITH A NAZI CONNECTION
On Tuesday, NASA announced their temporary nickname for the New Horizon missionâ(TM)s current target: Ultima Thule. The spacecraft is due to fly past on January 1, 2019, and the team was getting tired of using its official designation, 2014 MU69. Thereâ(TM)s just one issue: the name has some unsavory connotations. It was adopted by the forerunners to the Nazi party, and the term remains in use by modern so-called alt-right groups.
"The Nazis were fascinated by space and rocketships and things like that," Kurlander said. (During the 1940s and beyond, NASA thrived by hiring noted German rocket engineer Wernher Von Braun and other scientists who had worked for the Nazi regime.)
Sorry, the vicious racism and Sinophobia that accompanies any Slashdot article about China will not allow that. Funny, the worst offenders are the ones in other threads proudly signaling their socially just tolerance status. Weird...
That Justice Democrats wing sure looks like the far left to me. What's their stance on microaggressions?
Who's saying this? Citation please? I can't imagine anyone but Libertarians. Tesla is a business hero to many conservatives.
Here's Clapper of the intelligence community lying to Congress under oath. Nothing ever happened to him. His punishment was getting hired by the mainstream media.
"We" didn't do that, it was the CIA. It didn't ask the elected government for permission, it just did it. Much like it, still today, doesn't bother to ask the elected government or God forbid the people.
But thanks for heeding my request and changing the topic away from Iran's censorship into the same boilerplate hate for America. That means a lot.
I know this is about Iran, but I'd like to change the subject to how awful AmeriKKKa is and how much censoring we do. Deal? Nobody talk about Iran.
No, the elected government has no control over them. They are career federal employees. They can't be fired. Truman complained he couldn't do anything about them, and every president since. JFK wanted to disband the CIA and wound up dead for his trouble.
Uh, we pay the Euros $150 billion a year in unfair trade agreements, defend them for free with NATO, and provide free protection for their exports with the US Navy. Without these their cushy welfare states would collapse.
Forged in blood? That sounds volksich to me. Europeans hate being shackled to racists like Americans. They wish to be free and chart their own course in the world.
I look forward to well-reasoned arguments that are totally not Sinophobic and dog whistle racism, just like all the other threads that mention China.
They have no respect for freedom of speech
Neither does Europe.
Negative. Vassals pay their liege lord for protection. What America has is precisely the opposite: allies that only ally with us because the US government pays them massive bribes in the form of aid, free military protection, unfair trade agreements, etc. I don't know what the word for that is but it certainly isn't vassal.
The US intelligence community is not elected. They have gone rogue and are not under the control of the democratically elected government. "This is like a spy novel.".
These are the same people who lied us into Iraq. In what possible way are they trustworthy?
You seriously intentionally misunderstood the meaning of "flag"? As in, the flag. As in an actual flag, not a print on the side of an unmanned spacecraft. Jeez, really scraping here. Just stop with the metric flame, it's such a tired old meme by now. So predictable.
7. Huawei phones lack the backdoors that allow the US intelligence community to spy on its own people.
That's it, really. They don't trust us, not at all. You really have to wonder why? Why do they feel the need to spy on us and know what we're thinking? Our elected government made this illegal, and the intelligence community promptly broke the law and lied about it.
On March 12, 2013, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told Congress that intel officials were not collecting mass data on tens of millions of Americans. NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden soon revealed material that proved Clapper's testimony false: The government had been gathering and storing data from ordinary Americans' phone records, email and Internet use.
They don't feel any obligation to us at all. It's OK if they break the laws we passed with our elected government and lie to our faces - they don't feel safe if we can keep secrets from them. Fuck democracy, they have wars to start. If we all started buying Huawei they would feel very unsafe indeed.
The bootprints on the moon are measured in US sizes.
Why does it not surprise me to find out you're a far leftist who dehumanizes anyone who disagrees with zis thoughts? That's how you people murdered so many in the 20th century.
The tired old metric flame again? Seriously? *YAWN*
There are two types of countries in the world: those who use the metric system, and those whose flag is on the moon.
The ceremony is world-famous, and being a part of it makes a lot of people happy. Ignorant people wouldn't even be aware of it. So you hate the tourists and you hate your own people too? Sounds like you're just a hate-filled misanthrope who nobody should listen to.
What's wrong with being a tourist? Is it some kind of crime? Why do New Yorkers take so much pleasure in looking down on people who have come to see their city? You'd think it would be a great compliment.
All we need is a border wall, the same as so many other countries. It's not that hard to do. Compared to what we spend on wars, it's a pittance.
So it's not really that they can't take cash. They can. They just can't make change. So if you give them exact change, you're probably OK. Just leave it and walk out, what they gonna call the cops or something?
Well that explains a lot about how so many people voted for Hillary.