Jeff Bezos wants to take you into SPAAAAAACE!

i don't think cult leaders who sexually exploit their followers are necessarily spiritually enlightened either.

i was talking about the sublime specifically, or an aesthetic/spiritual intuition of infinity. it requires a kind of humility and an ability to step beyond your immediate attachments and strivings.

anyway, I told my 6 yo that Bezos was going into space and he said, "I guess the people on earth will be free for a few days then."

lol for real?

I guess when your dad's the president you get political at an early age

yes, he hates Jeff Bezos. Not sure where he picked that up.

it's only human to hate these motherfuckers

Please god https://t.co/wPcLbKtS4W pic.twitter.com/zT74NrKEcR

— Mr Demos of Pnyx (@gem_ste) July 20, 2021

Bezos announces in post-launch presser that he’s starting a new initiative called the “courage and civility award,” a $100 million award so the recipient can give that money to a charity of their choice. Van Jones is the first recipient. pic.twitter.com/ZboaXTNYuX

— Joey Roulette (@joroulette) July 20, 2021

Bezos really needs to be chucked out of a helicopter

i just learned that his little "space" flight this morning lasted 11 minutes

I know rockets are phallic by design but come on

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I figured there was already a thread for this which is why I didn't create a "Jeff Bezos launched himself into space on a dick" thread

the billionare version of a jacked up gmc sierra

elsewhere it says the recipient can give to charity or keep it. so he just gave a rich person money that they could just keep. what a guy.

if you told me at 18 i would live to see a second space race, except infinitely stupider than the first, i would have turned 40 in a day.

this is so silly it's honestly difficult for me to believe.

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Presumably Bezo's rocket was designed with that particular shape so that it could neatly dock in the center of the ship from Battle Beyond the Stars.

https://www.monstersinmotion.com/cart/images/18SFP25_Nellship_02.jpg

oh my god! WHAT?

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gotta love a man with a singular vision:

Jeff Bezos, hours after flying to space: "We need to take all heavy industry, all polluting industry, and move it into space. And keep Earth as this beautiful gem of a planet that it is." https://t.co/MibdgfkTFd

— Axios (@axios) July 20, 2021

Is there a way to make all toilets flush directly into the troposphere

what an unbelievable asshole

“Oh my god, I’m in space! We should put all of our trash here!”

Good of Jeff to reinforce that he is That Neighbor

lol

I know "Bezos is a supervillain" jokes have been around a while, but like: https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/20/jeff-bezos-space-travel-philosophy-500300

But Bezos, a billionaire who made his fortune building Amazon into a global online marketplace but has dreamed of space travel since he was a child, has said that he believes almost religiously that sustaining the human race will require building space colonies — beginning on the moon — where millions can live and work and develop new resources to meet growing demands on Earth.

He has described these as “very large structures, miles on end, and they hold a million people or more each.”

this reminds me of something but I can't quite put my finger on it...

as bezos himself said earlier today, he wouldn't have gotten to go there, to space, if it weren't for all of the amazon employees and customers.

he has us to thank

i would rather die than live on the moon with jeff bezos

what if offered you life & death on the moon in a massive structure you cannot leave and receives no sunlight, but JB will stay on earth?

only if there is a way to make him spend the rest of his days moving boxes around in a sweltering warehouse as we laugh at him from the moon

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a Wall-E sequel I could support

Excuse my (mostly) incurable optimism, but could two successful private space launches in 9 days be something all Americans rally around together?

— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) July 20, 2021

another CNN person who loves jeff bezos. which is why i hate CNN and hate that my parents watch it several hours a day.

looooooooooool

it's time to rally behind our space barons

fuck me for spreading that term, sorry.

i was annoyed that the post kept referring to them as "Space Barons" in their recent headlines. then i looked into the term and realized the only person using the term "Space Barons" was the journalist, who had also recently written a book with the title "Space Barons" in it. and now i'm here spreading his dumb term. space baron.

we can call them "space knobs" instead

also lol @ Jim Sciutto invoking the American exceptionalism of... Richard Branson

https://i.pinimg.com/474x/41/8f/31/418f310896dc7dca4896e287d4d2bda8.jpg

i keep hearing people make the same joke -- "can jeff bezos *stay* in space!" -- and then chortling to themselves. this is more annoying to me than anything else, the impotent hatred of bezos that everyone has. and with everything like this, this hatred is really a self-hatred because i also despise amazon in a pointless way, cringing whenever one of those trucks drive by with the half-smiles, those fucking smirks.

thank u Amazon employees for pissing in bottles so Jeff can go play spaceman!!

Tapping the sign that sez: He didn’t technically even go to “space”.

Right.

thank u Amazon employees for pissing in bottles so Jeff can go play spaceman!!

Pretty incredible clip. “Thanks, schmucks.”

Jeff Bezos decided it would be a great idea to thank every Amazon employee and customer for 'paying' for his space flight.

It's hard to believe that someone can possibly be this out of touch. pic.twitter.com/hnmVjfDkH5

— Right Wing Cope (@RightWingCope) July 20, 2021

cowboy hat

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the way he laughs

it's so incredibly infantilizing to see all these powerful people / media institutions celebrate this. truly a new low. it makes me furious. i just can't imagine the average american dude, who isn't a fucking lizard, witnessing this and not desperately needing to wipe the floor with this asshole's face????? it makes 'let them eat cake' look like a thank you card.

i have been holding this inside because no one wants to hear how much i hate this person but i hate jen psaki so much

Psaki on Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin: "The United States is the first country to have private companies taking private individuals to space. This is a moment of American exceptionalism. That's how we see it."

— David Smith (@SmithInAmerica) July 20, 2021

We must properly celebrate our multi-billionaires and their hobbies.