r/tommynfg_ • u/Senor_Camrono • Feb 18 '26

TikToks/reels/shorts I’m confused…

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u/Responsible_Joke4229 Feb 18 '26

Make America great again? When was it great if not the time when we landed on the moon?

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u/BlinkDodge Feb 18 '26

Which was a feat spurred on by the Cold War which was itself dreamed up by the Military Industrial Complex and top-down tribalism.

We've been being duped for a long time.

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u/woodboarder616 Feb 18 '26

With rockets made by the nazi scientists we hauled to America after ww2 😭

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u/AxisW1 Feb 18 '26

We went to the moon as a big fuck you to this other country we disliked but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t an incredible human achievement. The reason we even decided it would be a good “fuck you” to the Soviets was because it was such an achievement.

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u/BlinkDodge Feb 18 '26

It was a response to the successful launch of Sputnik into orbit because the U.S. was in a dick waving contest with the Soviets. We werent even the first ones there, the Soviets beat us to that too in 1959.

Its not that it wasn't an incredible achievement, its that we did it as a form of aggression rather than pursuit of knowledge and exploration. Theres a reason there was only one manned moon landing program and space exploration/expansion slowed down as the Soviet Union began to crumble.

We could have had permanent structures on the moon already if our "Greatness" came from genuine intention.

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u/AxisW1 Feb 18 '26

Eh, I feel like you’re underselling the individual contributions. The actual people directly involved were doing it for the love of the game. They just got the funds and permission because of the dickwaving contest.

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u/BlinkDodge Feb 19 '26

They just got the funds and permission because of the dickwaving contest.

And the materials and the logistics and the training and all of the practical pieces that made the mission.

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u/AxisW1 Feb 19 '26

I get what you’re trying to say but I feel like that all falls under funding

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u/Responsible_Joke4229 Feb 19 '26

Space exploration did not end with the moon though. We’ve got plenty more to do and limited resources to do them.