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[–]SpiderJuice_violence connoisseur 364 points365 points  (0 children)

if only

[–]SporadicSanityfloppa 655 points656 points  (32 children)

I love how so many in the LGBT community attacked Homer Hickam, like he was the one personally responsible for cancelling her internship over the incident. When it came out in the wash that he had no hand at all in it, even working to get her a better position, no one cared and to this day my friends still hate him over it...

[–]faketherapist123 270 points271 points  (0 children)

are they brain damage

[–]Steve_Eni love edward snowden and terry davis and evangelion 155 points156 points  (1 child)

gonna be real with you your friends don't sound the brightest

[–]SporadicSanityfloppa 92 points93 points  (0 children)

Apparently him even bringing attention to the tweet was enough for them? Never mind that she literally tagged NASA in her own tweet...

[–]blondeboyzzzavery appreciator 180 points181 points  (12 children)

Honestly NASA's the real bad guy here. While it uses """explicit language""" or whatever, it's obviously an immature display of excitement, not any kind of hate or offensive behavior. It's extremely difficult to get that kind of internship, so she would've had to have worked her whole life to get to where she was when writing that. Sure, give her a stern warning and tell her to put her twitter on private, but don't terminate her internship.

Hickam seems like a nice guy and it's good that they worked out their miscommunication. I had seen this tweet in the past and until you pointed it out, I honestly thought he was the one who pulled the strings and got her internship terminated, I don't think it's common knowledge at all.

[–]UsagiNana 86 points87 points  (0 children)

I might be wrong but I think her internship actually got terminated because their friends spammed NASA via twitter over the whole Hickam thing

[–]sombrastudios 52 points53 points  (10 children)

that sounds so reasonable, until you consider that she literally prompted someone to "suck my dick and balls".

I can't believe anyone would think NASA is the one doing wrong here

[–]blondeboyzzzavery appreciator 56 points57 points  (0 children)

I don’t know about you, but my language is often explicit online and I could see her presuming that she was among friends, getting caught up in the moment and trying to make a funny reply to what she thought was nothing more than a troll.

Does it reflect poor judgement and immaturity? Absolutely. But not to the degree where someone highly intelligent who has worked hard their entire life for this opportunity should be prevented from making their contribution to the world.

[–]tenshiiiiiiiiiiii 19 points20 points  (7 children)

who the actual fuck fucking cares

[–]-Azure-Owl-trans rights 25 points26 points  (0 children)

noooo you're not allowed to swear online noooooo

[–]TRGAfloppa 7 points8 points  (0 children)

They represent NASA, and NASA doesn't get to be cool like that.

Guys, they are part of the US gov, they have to ask Republican dipshits for their entire budgetary allowance for the year, every year, the same dipshits who won't hesitate to turn tweets like this into a political circus. (Yeah its unlikely, and yes its just 1 tweet etc, but if it kept happening...some nut would try it.)

[–]notjfd 14 points15 points  (4 children)

HR does.

[–]ShadowMasterUvLegend 14 points15 points  (3 children)

It's like there are school kids commenting here, of course the company's gonna see your online activity especially if it's a government role.

[–]TheActualAWdeV¯\_(ツ)_/¯ -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

oh no not naughty no no words oh nyoooooo

seriously, suck my dick and balls.

The outrage over the actual interaction was so ridicously overblown.

I'm not blaming Hickam or anything but it was just a standard-ass online interaction that got blown up over nothing.

And peddled around way too much by gloating alt-righters and weirdly authoritarian toadies who were just happy watching her get taken down a peg.

[–]MrRedoot55trans rights 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a feeling these people don’t hate him because he appears to be an awful person, but rather find it amusing to resent someone unabashedly.

[–]SnooStrawberries632floppa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You need better friends.

[–]twinightwall2trans rights 143 points144 points  (12 children)

wait what actually happened?

[–]dogey11r/place participant 293 points294 points  (11 children)

[–]twinightwall2trans rights 172 points173 points  (9 children)

jesus christ what a dumbass lol

[–]Outrageous-Public-18platonic cuddling enjoyer 360 points361 points  (7 children)

i mean it ended pretty well

“She reached out to me with an unnecessary apology which I heartily accepted and returned with my own,” Hickam wrote. “After talking to her, I am certain she deserves a position in the aerospace industry and I’m doing all I can to secure her one that will be better than she lost.”
Hickam concluded, “I have also talked to the folks that had to do with her internship and made absolutely certain there will be no black mark on her record.”

[–]JohnnoDwarf 72 points73 points  (2 children)

Did she ever actually get her position back?

[–]outfoxingthefoxesDick Jokes' Inspector 💦 70 points71 points  (0 children)

One better apparently

[–]heiidra 62 points63 points  (0 children)

yea

[–]a_username1917custom 195 points196 points  (1 child)

What a based guy.

[–]fazebozo🥺👈👉 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Hes so cool holy moly

[–]SwadianZunistit’s turtles all the way down 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Ironic that he replied “language” because he thought that he was trying to help her when his comment is what made the tweet go viral and cause her to lose the internship.

[–]BigBoi20LMAO 41 points42 points  (0 children)

The good ending

[–]TobyNeko01 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Good ending, "friendly terms with your boss"

[–]Wizard-In-Disguisebug fables 13 points14 points  (0 children)

twitter

[–]flopperfloptrans rights 65 points66 points  (10 children)

smartest furry

[–]Vares__ 52 points53 points  (9 children)

I mean they did get a NASA internship

[–]218ms 1 point2 points  (8 children)

Lost*

[–]Vares__ 33 points34 points  (7 children)

And got it back

[–]Gucci_GoogleI am the greatest of all time, bow down to my custom flair 3 points4 points  (0 children)

She never got the NASA position back. Hickam just helped her out with making sure this didn't leave a mark on her record and helping her connect with other companies in the industry, but her chances at NASA specifically are dead

[–]sombrastudios 2 points3 points  (4 children)

source pls

[–]Vares__ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

One of the replies to a comment in this thread.

[–]4YoEyezOnly🍞 🍳 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Happened to me the other day

[–]Eminence_Front42r/place participant 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I met homer, nice guy