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John "Atlantic Charter Defence Squad" C

2 years

Just a reminder that I'm currently doing ✨Writing Commisions✨ Will do: - Worldbuilding (Histories,profiles,Technobabble) - Prose (OCs/Fanfic) More information on my card-thing

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John "Atlantic Charter Defence Squad" C

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Amon is not a Communist. He is a Blackshirt. He is a member of the ruling elite masquerading as a "man of the people" to divide the working class, sow chaos and eliminate minorities.

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your unpopular opinions on amon

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The problem with the academic concepts of the "coloniser/colonised" entering the public realm in such a cack-handed fashion is that you'll never get people to understand how many groups were...both

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Just been reminded of the time German Field Marshall Erhard Milch got exactly what he deserved

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Sometimes I wonder why my dad is so disillusioned with America but tonight I found out he got ran out of a town in Louisiana for "fraternizing with the coloured folk"....in 1989

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Penny Mordaunt out here dressed like she's about to report Captain Kirk to Starfleet Command for interfering with her society

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Has there ever been a more destructive piece of pseudoscience than "brains don't finish development until you're 25"

Cllr Julia Buckley

@JBuckleyLabour

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@kimleadbeater 's Graduate Driving License bill will have its second reading on May 17th. I fully support this bill and @owe65332 with her petition to push for Graduate Driving Licenses. You can find the petition below:

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@BadSocialism

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*cuts to Starfleet, the Progressive Volunteer force of hippy soldier-scientists who see off fascists, Eldritch horrors and actual Gods at least twice a week*

Meta Prime 👾

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Space fairing civilizations with a competent military require rw values

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@BadSocialism

3 months

Will always beggar belief that a cornerstone of the US Army's deployment to Britain between 1942 and 1944 "How much Jim Crow can we impose on these people before they finally tell us to stop"

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@BadSocialism

6 months

He looks like he's about to devalue the Greek Credit score to save the German economy

James Marsh 🌹

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6 months

Has a man ever looked more ran through than Daniel Craig wearing these glasses

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3 months

Not to go all "Housing Theory of Everything" on it but the reason London Nightlife is shit is because none of the staff can afford to live within 40 minutes of where they work and struggle to get home after 1am

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@BadSocialism

2 years

The fact that they took this existing meme and added Ukraine to the "shut up" area says everything you need to know

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@BadSocialism

3 months

@Agirisan3 True, but his key ally is that worlds' Henry Ford.

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@BadSocialism

5 months

>Childlike Innocence >The German and Dutch colonial empires

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germanoids have such innocent and childlike enthusiasm for the tropics imagine a world where the dutch or hanseatic league had colonized central america instead of the spanish

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The Guardian's review of the Crown is incredibly savage

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@BadSocialism

3 months

He is the street thug Rohm to Kuvira's Hitler/Mussolini

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@BadSocialism

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@thisismewhatevs *The French

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John "Atlantic Charter Defence Squad" C

@BadSocialism

9 months

Having done London to Edinburgh semi regularly for four years by car and train, take the train. Always take the train. There is no circumstance you should drive when you can take the train.

Granite Mtn. Movie Club

@gran1te_mtn

9 months

I once drove from edinburgh to london (less than 8hrs if you don't stop) and local london friends acted like it was an insane thing to do. it's about the same as the drive from boston to dc.

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@BadSocialism

3 months

Just to add I agree that they give him clear communist vibes but the delivery is closer to Brownshirt/Blackshirt street thuggery

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@BadSocialism

7 months

Didn't help when they got blown to pieces by Illiterate Russians, Working Class Tommies and Segregated African-Americans did it

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@BadSocialism

3 months

Shout-out to Denis Argent and the Sappers for seeing right through segregationist orders

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@BadSocialism

3 months

churchill: yeah i had no idea that FDR was talking about the Empire when he was talking about self determination. FDR: you know you guys want to run india forever? not anymore, babey

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Nothing like the phrase "British civilians needed to be educated out of their hospitableness towards black Americans" to make you want to reach into the past and punch a nameless US army officer

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@un_a_valeable Why does Ryan Gosling's childhood read like a Ryan Gosling film

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@BadSocialism

2 months

Britain is a command economy, but the only command is no

🥑🗽🏗🏘️ Na₂Ca(CO₃)₂•5H₂O

@Gaylussite

2 months

Median British boomer. Not just passive to mediocrity, but actively for it and hostile to any change. Enforced by car. Janet is not a meme. She is real.

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@BadSocialism

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Anyway as an Imperial Historian I struggle to take the popular narrative of Scottish subjugation particularly seriously, so long as it pretends that Scottish identity hasn't been massively tied to imperial service until very recently

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@BadSocialism

2 years

Already seen 2 followers retweeting threads about "the US backed coup in Ukraine", please don't do that

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@BadSocialism

3 months

You're trying to organise the largest amphibious invasion in human history and yet you're willing to take a sidebar to ensure that the Guys Who Like Lynching don't get too upset about the fact The Guys They Like to Lynch are also taking part in said invasion

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"ooooh it was going to be hard and violent and edgy" BEN SISKO USED CHEMICAL WEAPONS TO RENDER A PLANET UNINHABITABLE

Variety

@Variety

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Quentin Tarantino's "Star Trek" movie writer says the unmade pitch was "the greatest 'Star Trek' film." "His vision was just to go hard. It was a hard R. It was going to be some ‘Pulp Fiction’ violence. Not a lot of the language, we saved a couple things for just special

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The only bond film that gets that he really is just a thug in a suit

Stephen Ford

@StephenSeanFord

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Casino Royale is the sauce.

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John "Atlantic Charter Defence Squad" C

@BadSocialism

2 years

Tapping the "Star Trek is about a society striving for Utopia, not a utopian society" sign once again

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The answer is "more than the French put up with in 1918"

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I feel a lot of sympathy for the civil service having to deal with the Americans demanding *twice* the amount of military infrastructure just so they can segregate it

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1 year

1989.

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@BadSocialism

2 years

you know sometimes I wonder if I'm overthinking my view that Americans project their own racial biases and hierarchies onto the rest of the world but then -

The Daily Show

@TheDailyShow

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Don't call Rishi Sunak the UK's first Asian PM in front of @ronnychieng

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ME: so what brings you guys to England CUSTOMER: we let my son pick out family holiday and wanted to visit the Tank Museum in Bovington ME: CUSTOMER: SON IN QUESTION: they have a TOG

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@BadSocialism

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Killer paragraph here from Smith. The Jim Crow rot runs deep

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@BadSocialism

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Anson Mount burning his beloved actor reputation in 30 seconds flat would be embarrassing enough, but over *Eurovision*

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@BadSocialism

1 year

@DrFrancisYoung "Where are the monasteries?" is this tweet from 1538 or something

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@BadSocialism

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"oh bit Starfleet aren't competent, what about" I'm sorry the Federation + Starfleet managed to defeat a militarist warrior society through the power of friendship and post-scarcity economics, and then did it again a century later.

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@BadSocialism

2 years

I'm a big fan of Strange New Worlds embracing the unified theory of "Stardates are not allowed to make sense"

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@BadSocialism

2 months

This is the best thing I've ever seen

Battle Order

@battle_order

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Guam, invaded by PLA Hypersonic Commandos. Experience the story of the brave 🇺🇸 294th and 100th Infantry who blunted their slightly silly insertion. Written by @un_a_valeable , Presented With @TemplinEdu , Art by @vekllei and @Jhcrain1

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One thing that quietly fascinates me in the world of fandom culture and "canon" is the dogged assertion that anything said or asserted onscreen has to be correct, or directly interpreted, when that is not how the real world works.

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Complaining about the lower decks uniforms being badly proportioned is like complaining that Tawny and Jack don't have massive fucking heads

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Guy Who Has Never Watched Star Trek

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@BadSocialism

1 year

3 things: 1) "Captain Seven of Nine of the USS Enterprise" fucking rocks 2) Enterprise becoming a line exploratory cruiser instead of a battleship is actually a really cool idea to emphasise the fleet returning to its roots 3) Jack Crusher is Seven's batman, and that's hilarious

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@BadSocialism

3 years

Ngl I still think Star Trek Beyond is a much better film that it gets credit for

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@BadSocialism

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Yeah, that'll stop'em

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SNW is gonna end with Peck and Wesley walking into a turbolift and Shatner and Spock walking out in reused TOS footage and it's going to make some people here go insane

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@BadSocialism

1 year

@jk_rowling @jessiegender Have you considered getting a hobby, like woodworking or watercolour painting? Something that doesn't involve scouring the internet to see if people are talking about you?

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@BadSocialism

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Trying to find a free hospital for us by the US army only to discover it's unsuitable because it doesn't have space for a segregated ward etc

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@BadSocialism

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I'm sorry the Dutch did not exchange their entire North American holdings for one spice island for you to pretend that rich Europeans didn't have a massive hard-on for spices

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@BadSocialism

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Sorry was the bit where Nog had to explain monetary economics to Jake not enough for you

Brianna Wu

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@beemerw21 It’s kind of not. There is no interpretation of DS9 that is socialist.

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2 years

All of Trek Twitter rn:

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These guys accidentally developed a weapon of mass destruction and went "oh boy can't wait to end Interstellar land shortages and food scarcity"

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This is "Baby's First Foreign Policy Crisis" for a lot of people and it's gonna take a while for people to shed their Iraq War Brains

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Star Trek Twitter is great because one day you'll be talking about the ethical implications of colonial interventionism with someone and then the next day you're talking about how kinky Garak is WITH THE SAME PERSON

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@BadSocialism

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Go on, call the Federation an Empire again. Call Starfleet an oppressive force. Tell me the Klingons are the good guys. The Romulans. The Borg. Do it. DO IT.

Patrick Patterson

@PDPdoesTrek

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Is the Federation an imperial and colonial power? #StarTrek

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@BadSocialism

3 months

SUPERMAC STRIKES AGAIN

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@BadSocialism

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THEY BEAT ROBO-CTHULU WITH THE POWER OF FATHERLY LOVE

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@BadSocialism

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Star Trek Discovery's biggest and longest-running mistake was burning Michelle Yeoh in the two part pilot

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@BadSocialism

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why does it fit WHY DOES IT FIT

TrekCore.com 🖖

@TrekCore

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Heard that new Enterprise show took the long road to get here #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds

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@BadSocialism

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Anyway, this thread feels like it's about to roll over into the 'doing numbers' zone, so I'm just going to say that race relations and civil rights is not a points-based competition, and if it was everyone would be disqualified for bad behaviour. Grow Up.

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@BadSocialism

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"every Captain has a thing" reaches peak absurdity when you remember that Jim Kirk...did not have a thing. He didn't have a thing! He didn't even have anything close to a thing!

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@BadSocialism

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@bumblebybitch

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Broke the thread but the concept that introducing sundown towns to Norfolk was somehow the smart choice is insane

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@BadSocialism

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People will really just say "I'd like to get sued by a multi million dollar franchise and in the process destroy the entirety of Fanfiction culture" and think they've made a point

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@BadSocialism

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Elliott Roosevelt: maybe ease off the Empire thing FDR: what if I ease *on*

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@BadSocialism

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There's a lot of "OH FUCK OFF" moments here but the idea that socialism means no resource trading of all kind is whack What are you seizing the means of production for, exactly? Boy Scout badges?

Brianna Wu

@BriannaWu

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Star Trek is NOT SOCIALIST. If you think Star Trek was socialist, you didn’t understand Star Trek. Technologically has progressed to a post-scarcity society on some places like earth. But, there’s private property ownership (Sisko’s restaurant, Picard’s Vineyard.) There’s

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@failedanarchist No

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Shout-out to the girl in the smoking area of a soho bar who spent 30 minutes talking to me about Star Trek Enterprise at 2am in the morning

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@BadSocialism

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Sorry but this is an incorrect take, there is a correct third answer

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@BadSocialism

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People keep coming here to call Amon Marx when the closest Marx got to direct action was being kicked out of every pub along Tottenham Court Road

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3 years

Personally if I was an older Trekkie I wouldn't be a collosal dickwad about it

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@BadSocialism

2 years

Sure.

DiscussingFilm

@DiscussingFilm

2 years

Kathleen Kennedy says they learned from ‘SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY’ that getting a new actor to replicate any of the OG characters is near impossible. “Now it does seem so abundantly clear that we can’t do that.” (Source: )

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It's very vogue these days to say the Star Trek was secretly conservative all along when the Original Series included episodes that condemned the logic behind the Vietnam War at a time when the war was still popular at home

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@BadSocialism

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If SNW leads to TOS being treated like Shakespeare (re-adapted, restyled) that is *less* a failure/betrayal than the transformation of Star Trek into a important and long-lived piece of literature, and that's an incredibly good thing

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@BadSocialism

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Jean-Luc Picard:

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Not enough people on Star Trek twitter have seen Red Dwarf

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Fun fact! 100% of SS recruits with PhDs lost the war!

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Sometimes I think about the fact the Trek did a "the Vietnam War is a bad idea" episode that was blatantly about vietnam and modern Trek has yet to do a blatant "fuck you, transphobes" episode

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"oh John what about DS9" DS9 proves this point because the lesson of history is don't piss off the wishy washy liberals because if you do they're drop a sun on a city to prove their point

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@BadSocialism

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Made two guys day by telling them about the Penguin who is a major general in the Norwegian Army

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@BadSocialism

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There is a bit in TOS where Kirk looks straight at the camera and talks about how horrible war is why it should be avoided. And then he does it again five minutes later.

Trekkie Bill

@trekkiebill

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Them: #startrek used to be subtle and show both sides of a situation. Actual Star Trek in the 90s:

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@BadSocialism

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"Germany stepped out of the fold of western expectations" yes, by trying to eradicate liberal democracy and everything that meant you fucking clown

hayat ★ حياة

@hayxtt

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ppl need to realize that the only reason we are taught that Nazis are bad, is only bc Nazi Germany threatened the other empires of Europe. It was never about ideology, or protecting minorities, it was about the fact that Germany stepped out of the fold of western expectations.

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THE SECTION 31 FILM IS SET IN THE LOST ERA?????

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1 year

Kind of depressing that Tom Harwood, a generally tedious right wing hack, is more progressive on trans rights than most of Britain's media

Tom Harwood

@tomhfh

1 year

It is so unspeakably cruel that the state will list Brianna Ghey as a boy on her death certificate. A Gender Recognition Certificate is not a passport to spaces - you don't need one for that. What it allows for is basic dignity on documents like marriage or death certificates.

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@agnosticnixie Every once in a while a friend says something like that and recently I've started calling them out because it's horrendously childish

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Going to make myself one and wear it to WHWfest

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POV: you're watching any episode of Enterprise

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I really think Star Trek needs to pull a Rogue One and set a story in the WoK era where everyone wears 80s fits and has 80s haircuts

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@BadSocialism

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I am Once Again Asking Trekkies to Consider That Sometimes, They Build New Ships

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My current theory is that Kate is currently Quantum Leaping through all the royals since William the Conqueror

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@BadSocialism

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Sometimes I wonder how much Asbestos there is inside Constellation and Miranda class ships

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triple cheeseburger

@triplchii

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the dark forest hypothesis is so lame it sounds like something an edgy 14 year old would come up with. If we met aliens I think the best course of action would be to make out sloppy style with them, then spend 10 hours chatting and learning about eachothers cultures and societies

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@davelant The commonality in a lot of British reactions is the negative reaction to any American pressure to segregate: plenty are happy to do it in their own steam, in their own way, mind you: especially when it came to sex and relationships

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Largely feel like all words written on Churchill are pointless, considering that Alanbrooke nailed him down in 1944

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@tomhfh Tom "I don't understand linear time" Harwood

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@GoldwagNathan Another notch in my universal thesis of history: no one wants to be a fucking farmer

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@BadSocialism

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Still think SNW needs to introduce McCoy by having Spock spend an entire episode looking for him on a starbase to solve an incredibly specific and important issue but Bones has been in the bar the whole time

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