• @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        24 months ago

        It’s more that it evokes two completely conflicting ideas. The optimistic idealism of my youth or the bitter cynicism of Verhovens Starship Troopers.

        Pretty sure Trump just gave himself credit for it.

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      14 months ago

      Yeah we would scoff at someone calling a soldier “guardian” even if they’re fighting for us, so let’s scoff at calling space soldiers “guardian” too.

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        14 months ago

        Yeah, the attempts to distance themselves from the military aspect of it is not really engendering a lot of trust… “He’s going up to do *s c i e n c e,*low gravity research or something, various experiments, don’t worry about it.“