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He only cared about sending rockets up. Where they came down was other people's problem.
by aduty 1y ago
He only cared about sending rockets up. Where they came down was other people's problem.
- spankibalt 1y ago> He only cared about sending rockets up. Which extended also how exactly those rockets were produced... and by whom. EDIT: Yeah, I get it, the Zwangsarbeiter from the camps building the rockets are not very conductive to the carefully whitewashed "hero technocrat" image certain "hackers" just love to invest in. :T
- mulmen 1y agoHe was also totally ok with slave labor. He was a voluntary Nazi party insider and SS member. He deliberately chose to participate in Hitler’s totalitarian regime to advance his own goals. This kind of behavior should be remembered and condemned. He was a brilliant designer, engineer, and project leader but he is an extremely problematic person for the methods he was comfortable using to achieve his goals.
- foobarian 1y agoSeems isomorphic to today's slave-driving death-marching CEOs that we celebrate so much. In a past time they would be right up there on the podium
- mulmen 1y ago> Seems isomorphic to today's slave-driving death-marching CEOs that we celebrate so much. Von Braun used literal concentration camp slave labor. You should reconsider your use of “slave-driving” here because it is a very bad look.
- NeutralCrane 1y agoTheir point is that plenty among our current batch of sociopathic CEOs would be using concentration camp slave labor where they in Nazi Germany as well. That they don’t is because of the societal restrictions preventing them from doing so.
- drivebyhooting 1y agoVery insightful thought. Which tech CEO today would not have been up on the podium along side the leaders of the third reich? Would you, would I, if necessity required it?
- dekhn 1y agoI recommend reading "Operation Paperclip" to see the conditions the Nazis put their concentration camp workers in. Not really isomorphic.
- daveguy 1y agoConveniently this administration is not allowing access to their extrajudicial concentration camps.
- zorked 1y agoThe message you replied to is a reference to an anti-von Braun song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEJ9HrZq7Ro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEJ9HrZq7Ro
- DonHopkins 1y agoWasn't Vernor von Braun also infamous for poisoning pigeons in the park?
- ternus 1y agoThat's not his department.
- dekhn 1y agoI always laughed at that line from Lehrer, but Von Braun absolutely cared about where his rockets came down.