[AnotherUnixGeek]

Mars is a hellhole. The central thing about Mars is that it is not Earth, not even close.

Mars doesn't have authoritarian Leftists trying to tell me what I can't read, can't say and can't think. So there's definitely a plus side.

[Bishop_Malachi]

Mars doesn’t have authoritarian Leftists trying to tell me what I can’t read, can’t say and can’t think. So there’s definitely a plus side.

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Do you really think that if human beings show up in significant numbers anywhere that the political Left will just leave them in peace?

[Publius]

Mars doesn't have authoritarian Leftists trying to tell me what I can't read, can't say and can't think.

In one of Robert Heinlein's books, the Mars colony was a clip joint and precisely that kind of place.