afronaut

@afronaut@lemmy.cafe

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I will not elaborate⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yea, millennials are the most progressive/leftist generation of them all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨He's taking some deep drags on that Marlboro as he considers what to do⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  lol yea, this is a shitpost after all.

  After flooding the earth in the Old Testament, God created the Noahic Covenant that said the Earth would never be flooded again.

  This meme would’ve made more sense if it was talking about Book of Revelations, but this ain’t christianmemes.lemmy.com lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Common Ground⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You are misunderstood. The path to crawling out of their hole of conservative bigotry is simple: abandon conservative bigotry.

  It is they who want us to compromise our ethics and values. They want us to compromise on immigration, LGBTQ+ rights, and helping the unhoused.

  You can’t be a conservative AND join leftists in organizing a better future, sorry. Conservatism is antithetical to progress.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Common Ground⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Keep in mind, the amount of conservatives that have shown any regret in the slightest is an extremely small percentage.

  The majority of them do not use social media outside of Facebook. They still get their news from Fox and Newsmaxx.

  We do not owe them anything. Conservatives who have a conscience need to abandon POLITICAL conservatism. If you want to be socially conservative, go right ahead and do that in the privacy of your own home. But, if you think you’re going to cross the aisle and try to organize with leftists while still holding politically conservative beliefs you wish to eventually see enforced for everyone, then yea, fuck off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Common Ground⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s unproductive to try working with people who, for the best few decades, were actively voting to get rid of my friends and family because they didn’t fit White Heteronormative Christian Right America’s box.

  They put all of their faith into Trump. They literally believed God sent him to save America from the Democrats and liberals trying to “destroy” this country.

  I’m sorry, but I do not want to put my trust in the hands of racist bigots who can easily be lead astray by their own greed and prejudices.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Common Ground⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mr. Pink does tip work with fascists

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Common Ground⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, they should both admit that they were wrong and okay with extreme bigotry in the White House.

  Meanwhile, the rest of us who will continue organizing with our fellow minorities, trans, and working class folks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Star Trek is dying." How would you sell it to a younger audience?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the sensibilities of the audience has shifted since the new millennia. Multicam feels claustrophobic to the modern audience and that’s one of the main aesthetics of retro trek.

  The other thing is that every Trek series, aside from DS9, depicts a pretty rigid, hierarchical, militaristic environment. Maybe not as much as Klingons or Cardassians but I think this setting, the nomenclature, the general vibe is becoming alienating to a modern audience. Keep in mind, people have become highly cynical toward predominately white and Westernized institutions, and the Federation is very much that. It feels like America with Aliens on board. English is the only language ever really spoken aside from some alien languages.

  In my opinion, there needs to be a show that pulls heavily from DS9 while maintaining some of that optimism and sincerity we love from retro Trek. It needs to oscillate between these juxtaposed tones. The show should be told from the perspective of multiple equals that make consensus based decisions instead of a primary Captain like Picard, Sisko, or Janeway who supersedes all decisions. Everyone has specific roles but there is no hierarchy.

  Also, remove the white savior element that retro Trek holds over many of the beings they come across in the franchise. The group, whomever they are, would be far more interesting as some kind of nomadic space commune that is extremely removed from federation involvement. If anything, I’d say at most there is one person with ties to the federation but perhaps they left for unknown reasons providing rich backstory and future storylines if they do come across the federation.

  This perspective is more akin to the actual lens the average viewer sees the world. We are not making cosmic decisions, we’re just trying to survive. And, when we see the government, we see a dark looming presence hovering over us, trying to tell us the best way to live our lives, and it’s fucking annoying, right?

  That should be the New Trek.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Driver caught doing 122mph on 30mph road as UK’s shocking speed records revealed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “Well now you see, we are staging a homage to William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and we’re a little late for the dress rehearsal. I’m playing the eponymous hero. Romeo, not Juliet.”