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Google says carbonated beverages weren’t invented until about a century after Jinu would have been alive. 🫧

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'We can't give them our brain cells. We need it for many science reasons!'

Come on. How are you all not loving this?

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One look at the opening credits monologue and yes.

The Last Frontier: Star Trek if they ran it through several shitty translators and then back into English.

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Hamas photograph themselves dining like kings on stolen humanitarian aid while Palestinians starve, and release videos of emaciated and tortured Israeli hostages digging their own graves and useful fucking idiots here in the West who like to imagine themselves as “human rights activists” happily spread their propaganda celebrating them as courageous freedom fighters instead of the evil fucking monsters they are. Absolutely ludicrous behaviour.

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People are more (performatively) upset about the Sydney Sweeney ad than they were about the Jewish protestors getting firebombed in Colorado

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hope no one has done this yet

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Here's the essay for all who are curious:

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STOP COMPARING WHAT IS HAPPENING IN GAZA TO THE HOLOCAUST WHAT IS HAPPENING IN GAZA IS BECAUSE OF FUCKING HAMAS THEY DID THIS TO THEIR OWN FUCKING PEOPLE. THERE ARE FUCKING AID TRUCKS ROTTING IN GAZA. GOYIM SHUT THE FUCK UP THE HOLOCAUST IS NOT ABOUT YOU DONT FUCKING DARE COMPARE IT TO ANYTHING ELSE

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that little walk to the turbo lift? the ear touch? and WS has the nerve to say that Kirk isn't gay..

BONUS: the crew laughing at them

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it's a particular kind of metaphorical whiplash when one is like "oh this spirk art is terribly cute and sexy and lovely I am going to see what else the artist posts" and then you look and it's all "ZIONISTS DNI!!!1" and various memes propagating modernized blood libel and other disinformation

and one may wonder if this person knows (given that "Zionism" is a movement which supported first the reestablishment of a Jewish homeland and now supports the continuation of a Jewish state in Israel and that the two-state solution means a Jewish state exists) that Leonard Nimoy said:

I reach out to you as someone who is troubled to see the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians continue apparently without an end in sight. In fact, there is an end in sight. It's known as the two-state solution--a secure, democratic Israel as the Jewish State alongside an independent Palestinian state... You might recall the episode in the original Star Trek series called, "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield." Two men, half black, half white, are the last survivors of their peoples who have been at war with each other for thousands of years, yet the Enterprise crew could find no differences separating these two raging men. But the antagonists were keenly aware of their differences--one man was white on the right side, the other was black on the right side. And they were prepared to battle to the death to defend the memory of their people who died from the atrocities committed by the other. The story was a myth, of course, and by invoking it I don't mean to belittle the very real issues that divide Israelis and Palestinians. What I do mean to suggest is that the time for recriminations is over. Assigning blame over all other priorities is self-defeating. Myth can be a snare. The two sides need our help to evade the snare and search for a way to compromise.

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I'm reading the scriptwriters' guide for TOS and it's cracking me up in many places. It's so obvious that, from the very beginning, they were already aware of so many of the issues people complain about today.

First there's a multiple choice quiz, what's wrong with this scene?

Answer: C! Absolutely Kirk would not hug the yeoman at this point! That's unprofessional!

The Prime Directive gets explained. As I keep telling people, it's not never broken, it's just supposed to only be broken for very good reasons.

For people wondering how to write a stardate: you make up some numbers!

No saluting! Yes optimism!

There is so much "think of the budget" in here. Yes you can use the shuttle bay but only if it's relevant, we have to use miniatures. Yes you can have a space suit but please don't ask for zero gravity. And where aliens are concerned, you can have some makeup but please focus on the interior differences not just tentacles!

Honestly I think Spock is a better alien than, say, Jabba the Hutt, because as human as he looks, he's much more different on the inside. People like to dismiss Star Trek aliens as "forehead of the week" but it's kind of a stage shorthand for "we're about to discover a unique culture, these people are different from you in ways you might not expect."

And to wrap up:

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i just love star trek... its like. space . friendship. curiosity. aliens. timely sociopolitical commentary. awesome 👍

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This song cured my depression:

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And that's all I have to say

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When others defend themselves physically or verbally, it's resistance.

Our fear is called an overreaction.

Our trauma is called manipulation.

Our survival is called supremacy.

Jews, 0.2% of humanity, are the only people expected to apologize for not dying quietly.

If Jews mourn, we're accused of weaponizing our pain.

If we speak up, it's propaganda.

If we stay silent, it's complicity.

If we push back, it's aggression.

No version of our humanity is acceptable unless we participate in our own destruction.

It's not just that we're disbelieved. It's that we're distrusted on principle.

Why? Because the story only works if we're the villain.

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The fact that even xfiles recognizes that people use zionist as a dogwhistle for jews yet people nowadays don't is wild.

Season 4 episode 15 Kaddish - a racist right wing white supremist accuses mulder and scully of being jewish because they're looking into a case where a Jewish man was killed by neo nazis. Then when mulder and scully say they work for the FBI, the dude claims the fbi and the US government are working for the jews.

"That's right. You call me paranoid 'cause that's exactly what (((they))) want you to do. But there is one thing you can't call me, and that is a zionist collaborator."

That episode aired in 1997...

This is literally more proof that for decades, zionist has been used as a dog whistle for jews. Yet people still use it in the same way and expect to not be called out on it.

Yes, when using zionist to mean the political belief, it is not a dog whistle.

But some of yall leftists are using the exact same language, down to the fucking punctuation, as neo nazis and white supremists from the 90's and 2000's and act as if you're not being antisemitic.

You can criticize the Israeli government without whipping out the same words neo nazis use.