When did Trump or Biden attack the country of Iraq? Iraq is a US strategic partner and the US basically pays for their entire military. Even claiming Obama attacked the nation of Iraq is a big overreach, imo.

If anyone else was confused, this is Rochester New Hampshire, a city of ~30K people and the 4th largest American Rochester.

I agree but that has nothing to do with the “Nu” pejorative assigned to Kelvinverse films.

The reactionary racists and trolls started reapplying the term to the Black Lady show and pretended that crying a lot is somehow the same thing as Captain Kirk riding a motorcycle through a flaming ring.

no this is patrick

in my culture shitting on anything except the three kelvinverse films is a no no

they tried to take our word and they tried to take our culture away

California can still block the deal but I agree it does not look good right now.

At some point I think we will just have to accept that these old guard institutions are dinosaurs that will eventually die because they cannot adapt to the times. The supply of conservative media is already outstripping demand. And unless we get a genuine taxpayer funded fascist media people just aren’t going to watch.

I already started watching Doctor Who, does this mean I’ll need to add on a third franchise? Honestly this is getting in the way of me going through the entire Star Trek franchise for the 47th time.

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Great points all around. “Hope and Kindness” may seem like obvious cliche lessons, but one could argue that in today’s political climate they are as important as TOS calling out societal racism.

“Datalore” is another one that’s important, but it’s not very good. Most of the episode is Wesley running around trying to convince the grown-ups that Data is being weird and being ignored. It’s the one where Picard tells him to “shut up”.

And again in “The Menagerie”!

It says right in the meme “a lot of my masking is just making myself more palatable for other people”

Implying Spock is fictional

More mods and admins on Fedi need to step up and take bolder action, imo. Whether intentional or not, a mods inaction will often set the tone for a given community more than their actions.

Imagine the community you mod meets in person and someone is being obnoxious and disruptive. A new attendee is not going to speak up, they’re going to look to you for guidance. If you allow unwelcoming behavior to persist, then attendees learn that being loud is how to get noticed, and if they don’t want to be loud (as many of us don’t) they’ll just stop going.

I haven’t loved the post-Burn setting but the way this show is already contextualizing it, and the optimism it’s doing it with is already starting to change my mind.

Same. A lot of that stuff just feels more comfortable with time and I appreciate how Star Trek always pushes it a little bit. People FREAKED OUT with the Klingon changes in TMP/TNG. Then FREAKED OUT that DS9 was on a space station with a “politically correct” captain. Now we think of those things as normal, nostalgic even.

I liked it too, but I find rebuilding to be aspirational. Like maybe the most aspirational thing possible.

im absolutely calling it that from now on

Learning that the Lemmy.world team will capitulate to whatever it’s loudest users want explains a LOT.