• mvlad88@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    I know how crazy this sounds, but hear me out. El Salvador is only a staging location, those people will not be sent back to their home country, the real plan here is for Musk to use them to colonize Mars.

    Why do I believe this? Because Musk said several times that in his lifetime he will put 1 million people on Mars, and well, he does own a space company and now has enough backing from the Orange Clown to do anything he wants.

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      10 days ago

      I fear the plan is darker than that. They will keep sending people in, and El Salvador promises that no one will ever come out (even if they’re innocent). If you keep piling people in and never let anyone out, you run out of space unless you find some other way to dispose of people.

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      10 days ago

      Musk doesn’t want to be surrounded by minorities and liberals, even as Martian slaves, he’s got robots for that.

      Musk wants Mars populated with his rich white buddies and their families.
      The rest of us will be slaves here on earth, with the food and goods we produce shipped to Mars.

      The people sent to El Salvador will meet the same fates as those in the German concentration camps.

      • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
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        10 days ago

        Seems like a helluva Mars plan. I’m all for it.

        My only addition is that we’d stop shipping the supplies and cut the comms once they’re up there.

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      10 days ago

      I never got what he was thinking with the colonizing Mars stuff, Northern Ontario is uncolonized (Endless swamps and frozen wasteland but lots of animals and minerals) But you’re going to jump to a place you can’t even breathe with no natural resources!?!

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        10 days ago

        Antarctica is even more uninhabited and he could build 10 cities there for the same price as one small Mars colony.
        And it’s warmer, the air is breathable, and only takes a few hours to get to on a plane instead of months in space.
        Anything built to survive the surface of Mars would work on Antarctica for a fraction of the cost.

    • Blackmist@feddit.uk
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      9 days ago

      Sure, if you redefine “Mars” as “that mysterious pile of ash that’s inevitably going to appear behind one of these detention centres”.

    • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
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      9 days ago

      i don’t really believe that because there’s a large number of people who would already want to go to mars. it’s not like they’re lacking willing participants.