EnsignRedshirt [he/him] @ EnsignRedshirt @hexbear.net

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I tried opposing genocide but they threatened to put me in jail for antisemitism

If you can’t protest in support of innocent civilians going through an humanitarian crisis then how is the US different from the authoritarian police state fantasy that so many Americans love to project onto places like China or North Korea? What good is your freedom if you can only exercise it when it doesn’t inconvenience the state?

There is no argument that supporting innocent people is hate speech. If there’s no avenue to publicly support Palestinian victims of war then this is literally oppression of political speech by the state. It’s the only thing that the first amendment is supposed to protect and no one in power can even be bothered to pretend that this is a problem.

This is going to radicalize some folks and I am here for it.

There is no evidence that belief in Santa is harmful to children, nor is telling them the truth. They only believe in Santa for like maybe three years, and they’ll figure it out on their own. The vast majority of kids figure it out by age ~7-8. You can tell them whatever you want, it won’t matter either way.

If you do tell them the truth, or they figure it out on their own, be sure to also tell them that even if they don’t believe, other kids do, and being a Santa-truther will not win them any prizes or make them any friends. It’s a good lesson about living in a society.

This is terrific, but why isn't panel 3 a picture of Thomas Riker? Literally the second Riker, who also has a fuller beard (Thomas doesn't shape his beard the way Will does).

Didn't he go back to Earth to live with his human relatives? My guess would be that Worf would be his eccentric uncle/cousin who came to town every now and again to take him hunting and tell him war stories. Plus the Rozhenkos are on Earth, so I'd imagine Worf would ask that they keep in touch with him, too. I bet that, aside from the trauma in this episode, he probably had a pleasant and uncomplicated life on Earth, but he could tell kids at school that he was also a member of a Klingon family and they'd have to believe him or else his Klingon crew would have to show up to defend his honor. That would be rad, imo.

chef's kiss

Twitter Migration Report

I appreciate how many people are ignoring the X rebrand entirely and referring to it as Twitter. I doubt that'll ever go away fully.

I have nothing to add here other than that I'm impressed with both your in-universe rationale and TV production rationale. This is solid Daystrom work and I hope we get to see the Trek Voltron. Even if it's not a literal anthropomorphic robot-ship, I think you're onto something.

I don’t know about the media, but the official communication from the government is basically “End hostilities to avoid civilian casualties and make every effort to establish an independent Palestinian state as soon as possible.”

Not a super radical thing to say, but notable is that they did not condemn Hamas, and they explicitly call for Palestinian sovereignty as the only path to lasting peace. Israeli and western media are responding to that about as well as you’d expect (crying and shidding).

It's incredible that the "no difference/no opinion" line goes steadily down just as the neoliberal turn began in-earnest. There's basically no difference in economic policy between the two parties since the Reagan years, and yet that's the period of greatest polarization of opinion. We're looking at the high-level results of a pure propaganda war.

I don't even play in-person anymore and I still think about more dice

Oh, word? History is complicated and full of nuance? I wonder if that principle might apply to more recent events.

Feinstein's most recent term in office has been one long Weekend at Bernie's joke. You're not hurting anyone by piling on.

The backbone of the fleet, no question.

It’s all great, but the tiny podcasting mic is clearly the icing on the cake

I was half joking, the British shows are usually pretty good in their own right, but there are a lot of successful American shows based on British ones (as well as a few flops). Whether they’re “better” is subjective, but it’s a longstanding phenomenon.

The Office is the best example, but there are others. Three’s Company and its spin-offs were based on a British series. Sanford and Son, as well. Veep was made my the same creative team as The Thick of It and is a clear spiritual successor. American Idol was based on Pop Idol, the latter only ran two seasons while the former is still going.

Some British shows stand on their own, even if remakes are attempted. The IT Crowd, Red Dwarf, they tried like three different shows to try unsuccessfully to recapture the magic of Fawlty Towers.

Regardless, without British television, American television wouldn’t be the same, and without American television, most people would never have heard of most British television.

Either way, death to America and Britain as per usual.

They’re pretty good at making television shows that get remade into better television shows by Americans. That’s something, I guess.

When asked to rate the national economy, some people base it on how they're doing financially or what they experience themselves. That might seem odd at first

No it’s not! That’s not weird! The strength of the economy is supposed to relate to people’s personal experiences! If the economy is doing “well” but everything is still getting worse for almost everyone, then either we’re measuring the wrong things, or the premise that economic health, as defined, is good for society is false.

The deal is that the line goes up and everyone gets more. If that’s no longer true, there’s no reason to sacrifice anything for economic growth. We should just be making sure that people are getting their basic needs met and that’s it.

Ticket scalpers take way more risk, plus they don’t get sympathetic coverage on the news when they’re whining that people aren’t buying their tickets at a high enough markup. Also ticket scalpers aren’t withholding a fundamental necessity from people. Ticket scalpers work harder, too.

Really, ticket scalpers are just incorrigible scamps compared to landlords.

This is an incredibly embarrassing attempt at trolling. You should post it on Reddit, they’d love it over there.