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They chose a word that evoked the Aryan and nazi heritage.

Nah, fuck Putin and fuck Trump and fuck anyone who apologizes for Aryan imagery.

I’m an antifascist troll who calls it out whenever it needs calling out.

Anyone with half a brain and knows history does.

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.

Nah, American space nut who has had this as a pet issue for decades.

And they conveniently left off the d in “ariadne”.

Obvious dogwhistle is obvious.

Changing the y to an i and adding an e to make it feminine doesn’t make it less racist.

Rocketry has an undeniably nazi past.

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

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.