Odinkirk
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- Comment on The Starfleet Gazette Will Not Be Endorsing a Candidate for President of the United Federation of Planets 1 month ago:
Are you kidding? That’s very on brand for Janeway.
- Comment on I don't think we should be rooting for the Bell Riots but the pin is funny 5 months ago:
Nonviolence is an inherently privileged position in the modern context. Besides the fact that the typical pacifist is quite clearly white and middle class, pacifism as an ideology comes from a privileged context. It ignores that violence is already here; that violence is an unavoidable, structurally integral part of the current social hierarchy; and that it is people of color who are most affected by that violence. Pacifism assumes that white people who grew up in the suburbs with all their basic needs met can counsel oppressed people, many of whom are people of color, to suffer patiently under an inconceivably greater violence, until such time as the Great White Father is swayed by the movement’s demands or the pacifists achieve that legendary “critical mass. – How Nonviolence Serves the State
- Comment on I don't think we should be rooting for the Bell Riots but the pin is funny 5 months ago:
Critical support for the collection of Dims, Ghosts, and Gimmees just trying to make a better life for themselves.
- Comment on Star Trek: The Deep Space Nine episode that predicted a US crisis [bbc.com] 11 months ago:
“Meanwhile, Black Mirror presumably got back to the work of its horror-based arms race, as the show continues to try to find a doomsday prophecy that tech giants might still view as a warning and not a corporate benchmark for [next fiscal quarter].” – AVClub