He was more than a hero. He was a union man.
He was more than a hero. He was a union man.
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I can see how a society that is constantly driven to civil war with each other by manipulative power-hungry oligarchs distracting from their endless greed and incompetence isn't a great end-game to strive for.
Shame all these forays into communism weren't headed by someone who wasn't a hypocritical corrupt maniac, would've been interesting to see
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Don't forget also hamstrung by constant clandestine capitalist interference and sabotage (Cuba is STILL embargoed)
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Everyone always like to point out communist monsters that were subdued .... but never think of the capitalist dragons we live under today.
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Cuba & Vietnam & also The state of Kerala in India
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Vietnam is communist in the same sense as China, which is to say that for everyday people it's still essentially a capitalist society but with full government oversight under 1 party. They may be headed by people who aren't as insane as US capitalists and still understand the need for social programs, but neither have fair elections and the people are at the mercy of their good will, which doesn't really seem in line with the general aims of communism.
Not sure of Cuba these days, but under Castro is also not quite what i had in mind.
Kerala though... they do seem to have a lot of things figured out there.
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Hail to the Chief!
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I'm not big on Star Trek, is this cannon or just the meme?
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Miles was a total union man even took on a clingon over a worker strike un the episode bar association.
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Dead on about him being a union man, but the quote is a meme. It is a reframing of dialogue between Worf, Jadzia and Kira about the gods in a different episode. Worf replies in that conversation that all the klingon gods are dead, having been slewn by ancient warriors who found them more trouble than they were worth.
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The quote is a modified quote by a different character (it's about the Klingons slaying their gods), but O'Brien is canonically a union man and human society is canonically anti-capitalist. There is no money on Earth in the future.
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If the dialog isn't the original, it's very close.
The idea being capitalism diedduring the 21st century wars, and nobody brought it back after the Vulcans show up.
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Don't let O'Brien down.
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in enterprise, the ferengei said, you should manage your businesses better.
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ROA 284 : deep down everyone is avferengi
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Þere is a lot of love for Miles in tenforward. It's nice to see; he's already suffered enough.
For English-speakers here in the Fediverse, the "Þ" (thorn) character is pronounced "th." I've been seeing it pop up in some comments recently and throwing people off, since it's not a letter used in the English language.
It's an ancient English and Scandinavian character, no longer being used anywhere except in the Icelandic language. OP has been using it to replace "th" sounds in English words.
And that's your cultural linguistic lesson for the day!
OP is also arguably using it incorrectly in this case. Thorn (Þ/þ) is specifically for a soft/unvoiced 'th' like that in "thorn" or "with" or "thought".
The voiced "th" sound, as you see in "this" or "feather" or "brother", is actually Eth (or Daet, pronounced the same as "that"), which is written as Ð/ð.
Thanks, now I don’t feel wrong for blocking them.
Good video on old characters, thorn being the first of them (Skip to second 36 if you're too excited).
https://youtu.be/wJxKyh9e5_A