>>11941278People hate Scott because he’s lately been posting a lot of liberal politics stuff. He also shamelessly defending Obama cutting NASA’s budget, even in the wake of valid criticism. He’s also a smart ass and is pretty passive aggressive to people or groups of people he doesn’t like on both YouTube and social media. It just so happens that the people he doesn’t like are Conservatives.
However lately Scott has been criticizing Elon Musk to the point of denouncing his support for him. It’s a running joke that if Artemis gets cancelled and NASA is forced to suspend manned spaceflight to build a new climate observatory, Scott would defend it.
Tim Dodd is another story in a similar vein. Basically he had a livestream of the Chinese Mars Rover - Tianwen-1 - launch, and several people in the chat noted that China shouldn’t be getting praised while murdering innocent people and abusing human rights and trying to create a hegemony in the pacific. Well anyways Tim saw these comments and got angry at the posters and went on a long rant about how you should not judge another country’s actions if you’re not there and all that.
Retarded take but he’s trying to appeal to the blue checkmark audience.
So long story short, both of them came out as leftist/liberals while also taking very vocal stances on controversial issues, while giving a very obvious political bent.
In truth people are angry too that they’re getting into politics. People watch them because of space science, not to hear about how great China is or how Obama was the best thing for our country or something.
