Summary
Elon Musk accused former president Joe Biden of stranding NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams on the ISS “for political reasons,” prompting Danish astronaut Andreas “Andy” Mogensen to label the claim “a lie.”
“What a lie. And from someone who complains about lack of honesty from the mainstream media,” wrote the 48-year-old European Space Agency astronaut.
Musk called Mogensen “fully retarded” and claimed SpaceX could’ve rescued the astronauts months ago, without evidence.
NASA refuted Musk’s abandonment claim, calling it baseless.
I get that you’re disheartened but pick yourself up.
Do you know that the vast majority of people lived in absolute poverty, working every working hour for not enough money to eat?
That’s really wage slaving, when you’re too poor to have a home or even to rent a bed and you sleep stood up against a rope to stop you falling on the floor.
Or you can’t make it and you go into a workhouse, separated from your kids and made to work for no money and given gruel to eat.
The way people got out of that hell was to organise, to fight, to keep fighting. That’s how workers won ALL the rights which are normal in the west - minimum wage, no child labour, maternity pay… Every single decent law was fought for.
So don’t tell me we or you have it hard right now, just because things are harder than you’re used to and we’re all scared.
We’ve had it easier all our lives and most of us didn’t want to go out of our comfort zone to fight to make life better. Our chickens are coming home to roost now.
Let’s try to lift each other up instead of demoralising each other.