[-] duderium@hexbear.net 16 points 6 months ago

I think from the Israeli perspective, none of what you say really matters, because in their view they are dealing with insects, not human beings. You don’t have respectful diplomacy with insects.

[-] duderium@hexbear.net 16 points 7 months ago

President Charlie Chaplin you mean.

[-] duderium@hexbear.net 15 points 11 months ago

THIS IS WORSE THAN SKIBIDI TOILET—some white lady filming herself in her car (seriously)

[-] duderium@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

Twitter has also become 4chan.

[-] duderium@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago

Working hard to not infuriate young people!

[-] duderium@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago

Um sweaty when half the population is enraged it’s called democracy, maybe you should retake civics 101.

[-] duderium@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I think it was the Enterprise-D that did it for me more than anything else. Coming home from yet another shitty day at school as a kid, turning on the TV, and suddenly there is this huge, incredibly powerful ship that can do anything and go anywhere. It really made an impression on me.

The Freudian design of the Enterprise (particularly the Enterprise-D) also wasn’t lost on my unconscious: a huge breast (the saucer section) with two huge dicks (the warp nacelles) plus a vagina (the sensor array). The Enterprise-E (and Voyager) both have a more phallic appearance (they look like spearheads), reflecting the series’ move away from families and getting it on and more toward fighting aliens.

Also Berman sucks but he was in charge of Star Trek during its golden age IMO. Nutrek is unwatchable. I looked at Picard getting his new enterprise and couldn’t help thinking: everything is the same but worse. The economic base is stuck which means that the ideological superstructure is also stuck.

Kirk never really did it for me, I was always a Picard guy, and now I’m also a Sisko guy. I thought DS9 was boring and confusing when I saw it as a kid, and after my kids and I watched the whole thing together they couldn’t believe that I thought that. They loved DS9 because they thought it had more pew-pew than any other series. There are good episodes of Voyager and Enterprise too (particularly the alternative universe episodes where the entire crew is fucking and murdering each other…). The Voyager episodes where Red from That Seventies Show is obsessively fucking with the timeline are also good.

My favorite bad trek movie is Generations btw. Everyone knows it’s bad so you don’t have to convince me. It was the first one I saw in the theater so it has some nostalgic value for me. What’s YOUR favorite bad trek movie?

[-] duderium@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago

Is Haley still in this because of her ego / liberal + corporate donors / she thinks Trump will somehow be disqualified, thus forcing chuds to vote for her in November?

[-] duderium@hexbear.net 16 points 2 years ago

Shut up you fucking loser.

[-] duderium@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago

“There’s Nazis all over the place so what are we supposed to do?” And yet for some odd reason Nazis have a habit of not existing in communist countries. It’s almost as though nazism can be eliminated entirely by getting rid of the capitalist economic system that generates them!

[-] duderium@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago

I mean, this is actually true, just not in the way he thinks. The amerikkkan ruling class (always maximizing profits) has offshored almost all of this country’s productive forces since Carter began the neoliberal counter-revolution, which means that it is harder (but more profitable) to buy and sell things in the USA. Various monopolies also mean that the capitalists can charge almost whatever they want for increasingly shitty commodities and services. The USA can actually produce everything it needs very cheaply, but this first requires us to drive the capitalists and their running dogs into the sea so we workers can do our fucking jobs.

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