• sucius1@lemdro.idOP
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    just stop. You’re just embarrassing yourself. Making the same joke in every post about the launch is not going to make it funny.

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      It’s not a joke, it’s a criticism of nazi heritage during a time when nazi imagery is resurfacing.

      This is nazi imagery that never left the surface.

      I agree it’s not funny.

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        Nazi imagery? What? What the hell are you talking about?

        The name comes from the French spelling of Ariadne, a Greek mythical character.

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          Rocketry has an undeniably nazi past.

          Naming Europe’s largest rocket program since the nazis any variation of “Aryan” is nazi imagery.

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              The I and the Y serve the same phonetic function.

              Then they slapped on an “e” to make it feminine. Standard French grammar.

              It’s still racist even if it’s feminine.

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                Here’s French wikipedia calling the mythological figure “Ariane” with no D https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariane_(mythologie)

                “Aryan” in French is “aryenne”, it has a different vowel

                France had plenty of pre-WWII rocket scientists, like:

                • Yves Le Prieur, who developed anti-balloon rockets in WWI
                • Robert Esnault-Pelterie, who pioneered the use of joystick controls and founded an award for advances in space travel
                • Louis Damblanc, who built the first ever multi-stage rocket

                What France did not have was a counterpart to Operation Paperclip like Britain and the Soviet Union did

                And lastly, the guy that picked the name was a devoted supporter of Charles de Gaulle

                This criticism does not hold up any scrutiny whatsoever

              • macniel@feddit.org
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                No it really doesn’t.

                Aryan (/ˈɛəriən/)

                Vs

                Ariane (/ɑːriˈɑːnə/)

                How does the I and y serve the same phonetic function?

                And now it’s not just Nazi but racist as well? Get out of here.