426
this post was submitted on 24 May 2026
426 points (98.0% liked)
Brand New Sentence
152 readers
1166 users here now
Showcasing the brazen and nouveau in English communication.
- Be cool to each other.
- Post title must be the sentence, include username if available.
- Link for context if possible.
- Tag NSFW where applicable.
founded 4 days ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Depends.
Not competent at:
Competent at
Counterpoint: They were not that good at building rockets because they killed more people during production than were killed by the rockets.
They were gonna kill those people anyway. You can't measure the success of a project if you don't understand the goals.
Capitalism in a nutshell.
You forgot they continued building rockets after WW2. 😊
Yeah but von Braun didn’t have slave labor building Apollo
That wasn’t the point. And don’t forget that the USSR also had some help getting Laika into space.
I also meant to convey the off-topic sub context that a lot of Nazi walked away Hans Landa Style but without scar. A lot of Nazis weren’t punished, Nixon was pardoned, etc. We should stop allowing clemency in these cases.
Agreed. Humans are and always have been terrible.