California exile. Safety Third.
Farmington Hills, MI
Joined January 2012
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Just for the record “love thy neighbor” is not synonymous with “let the state take money from others to give to thy neighbor.”
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I think tons of his proxies are betting on him as an op to push the odds in his favor. If he loses they will use it as “evidence” that the election was rigged and engage in civil unrest.
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Let me just make sure I have this right. The Democratic “big tent” is big enough for Hasan Piker and Cenk Uygur, but not for Haley Stevens or Joe Manchin?
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As a fan of both the Lions and 49ers, I have some level of ambivalence towards tonight’s game. Either way someone winds up happy.
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The best case scenario for Wednesday morning is watching a whole lot of prediction market bettors losing their life savings.
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The only negative about the @HaleyforMI announcement is that it came too late for the Sunday Morning shows.
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Ok, so some of these are reasonable criticisms, but number 1 is easy to dismiss. This is a post-scarcity society. When you can have anything you want from a replicator without cost and when energy is free, there is no need for money.
NOTE: I'm a fan of Star Trek, not a "hater." But I'm a tempered fan.
The show is a philosophical mess. Oh yes, its values are progressive, which is why it's incoherent--that's what progressive values are.
1. It pretends there's no such thing as money or currency. Never explains it. Pretends human nature changed and people just "do the right thing" with no commensurate reward.
2. Runs a military organization with a hierarchy, but pretends that it hates battleships and war. Pretends these things can be managed away if everyone would just Federation harder.
3. They wouldn't give up the Federation hierarchy any more than Marxists will give up their penthouse so that the poor they claim to care about are equal.
4. Puts 1,000 people and families on a warship, puts that ship in danger, then the crew insist on prioritizing the safety of nanites that are destroying the ship over the preservation of their own people and families.
5. Consistently places the sensible, cautious, and sometimes militaristic points of view concerned with survival in the mouths of what we would call "Maga-coded" caricatures today.
Even when the "Maga" character is right, and the Captain has to do what he suggests to save the ship, the smug crew and writers still mock him and act superior.
It's a great show. It's also a ridiculous, infantile, leftist liberal cream-jeans fantasy.
Gene Roddenberry and the main production crew for decades are liberal man children.
-Uncle Josh
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