Bold of you to assume they know it’s space communism. If the boys is of any indication Star Trek needs to explicitly say “we’re space communism” for there to be a 50/50 chance of Republicans getting it.
Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
So…Republicans are fans of space communism?
Goodeye8@piefed.social 5 months ago
chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Conservatives like Star Trek because it promotes the values of meritocracy, hierarchy, authority, and military discipline. None of these are commonly held by people in the American left (especially not the academic left, which tend to be pretty anti-hierarchical, anti-authoritarian).
The people usually referred to as Republicans these days are right-wing populists. They have very little in common with the types of conservatives who loved the franchise in the 20th century. Those older conservatives are almost extinct in the Republican Party today.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 5 months ago
it promotes the values of meritocracy,
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None of these are commonly held by people in the American left
Troll or idiot?! Taking all bets! I also offer videoooo poookkeeer!
zaphod@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
The right loves meritocracy. To them it means everyone got what they deserve, from the homeless to the billionaires.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Oh, is that why they kept ethnic minorities out of positions of power and established structures of “not what you know, but who you know” and established “legacy admissions” for the children of huge donors?
zaphod@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
Remember not so long ago when people noticed that Rise Against makes political songs? A lot of people are blind to stuff like this until you point it out.
entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 5 months ago
Likewise with Rage Against The Machine
halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 5 months ago
My absolute favorite bit of social media was this instagram exchange. It just encapsulates so much that’s inherently stupid with it.
Image www.instagram.com/p/BcjjnBqAZOV/
drcobaltjedi@programming.dev 5 months ago
Mine was when, i don’t remember, speaker of the house ®?, said his favorite band was rage against the machine.
Like dude, those guys hate you.
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
“What do you think is the machine they are raging against? The fucking printer?”
milkisklim@lemmy.world 5 months ago
TBF, I do really hate my printer.
Teal@piefed.zip 5 months ago
Yeah, I’m rollin’ down Rodeo with some toner
These people ain’t seen a color print since their grandparents inkjet