The people who put America on the Moon were the very type that know-nothings Cernovich & bumbadum sneer at and brand as “geeks,” “nerds,” and strivers. The Saturn V was not built by kids proud of not doing their homework.
“We went to the Moon” is doing a lot of work when the people saying it spend their time deriding the sort of people who did the hard intellectual work as “strivers,” “geeks” and “nerds.” The trajectory math did not grade on heritage.
Who exactly were that “we”? Not Cernovich, not bumbadum, not the MAGA-Groyper clown menagerie of their day. These were people with their noses buried in mathematics, computer code, lab work, testing. Von Braun’s shop was full of people who treated differential equations like a job, not a personality defect.
Cernovich’s 1960 self would have sneered at them; his 2026 self wants to slide into the group photo.
Midwits Cerno & bumba claiming civilisational credit for the achievements of the very type of people they now disdain is risible. Put the anti-homework caucus in charge at Marshall and the Saturn V clears the tower sideways.
America's ethos is, "The kid who didn't need to do homework." That's why the country did testing. To identify them. IQ is genetic. Wasting your childhood in front of a spelling bee book doesn't raise it. Striver culture is un-American.