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[–] Geetnerd@lemmy.world 15 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I don't recall Perry claiming she was an astronaut.

This stunt, however, is a colossal tone-deaf, obscenely expensive, wasteful PR stunt while millions of people are terrified about their economic futures. That money could have gone to much better use.

[–] SpitefulSprite@lemmy.world 6 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

The person who interviewed her after getting back to earth said she was an astronaut now.. teo very tone deaf dumb morons who played banter back and forth.. Katy didnt correct the woman and was enjoying being akin to an astronaut title and thats why she is being dragged... And she deserves it.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

If that's what happened then I don't think saying she called herself an astronaut is fair, but I also don't believe she or Gale deserve any grace after this ordeal. "Have you been to space? Go to space."

[–] SpitefulSprite@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Go read the last part of my comment again slowly... Its the fact that Katy accepted the title until the backlash in the midst of the DEI fiasco and real female astronauts who had their names removed from public views a day before

[–] Geetnerd@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago

Noted. Thanks.

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 15 points 11 hours ago
[–] bhamlin@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

Like, three minutes in one go? Not spread out over your lifetime?

[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago

Shame DOGE did not calculate the fuel load.

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 72 points 18 hours ago (5 children)

Poor Katy. The roasting is endless even though it's the piece of shit Bezos who actually deserves it.

[–] JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago

I don’t really follow celebrity news, but I think the last time I heard about her she was praising Musk and her cybertruck. It seems she has been open about whose side she is on for a while now.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 17 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Bezos deserves it for ripping billions of dollars out of the public space program so that he can indulge in a fantasy of privatized space flight.

Katy deserves a bit of flak for playing along to boost her fading brand.

They both suck.

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

But she's trying to make women in space glam again! 😂

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 8 points 8 hours ago

DOGE Staffer here. This is DEI and you have to delete it.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 24 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Bezos deserves most of it, but I think there's more than just misogyny that has lead to this particular flight's passengers receiving a lot more criticism than Shatner did. And it's that Shatner was visibly moved by his experience and you could tell that he didn't feel good about Bezos interrupting his attempts to share that, so Bezos could use him as a pawn.

The ladies on this flight seem to have been chosen and instructed specifically to give the most vapid shallow responses possible. And upon returning, that's precisely what they delivered.

[–] dumblederp@aussie.zone 13 points 11 hours ago

I think Perry is just vapid and shallow.

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Her music isn't even that bad. Its a pineapple-on-pizza thing.

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

That eye of the tiger or whatever song was straight trash though.

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 2 points 8 hours ago

Roar, iirc.

In my opinion it was decent, but extremely overrated/overplayed.

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[–] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 15 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 11 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

One minute is acceptable too.

As are solo flights.

[–] MJKee9@lemmy.world 10 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

One minute?! Jesus, you must run marathons with that stamina!

[–] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 5 points 13 hours ago

It’s hard to get my socks off.

[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 24 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

To be fair, she never claimed to be an astronaut.

Also, the Jeff-Dildo isn't capable of reaching the karman line, so she wasn't in space either.

[–] Harriet_Porber@lemmy.world 32 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

What makes you say that?

I'm in no way here to defend blue orgin, but the capsule does apogee "just above 100km". It's pretty clear getting above the karman line was their main goal.

If we're gonna throw shade we gotta be accurate. Lets make fun of them for being suborbital and for making the most phallic launch vehicle ever.

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[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 59 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (55 children)

did she call herself an astronaut or something?

edit: apparently not, people don't like Katy Perry/women and are making things up to get angry about.

[–] Aux@feddit.uk 3 points 10 hours ago

Misogyny is insane.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 18 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

Gail King did

Edit: Gayle*

[–] A7thStone@lemmy.world 6 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Gail King is the embodiment of everything I hate about liberals.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago

Laundering rhetoric works as well as laundering money for these people. Hand some spokesmodel a stack of queue cards that consist of a series of vile slurs, and the audience will just nod and say "I guess this is what normal people really think."

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