Why are you so upset? I'm not old or racist. You did look through my comments and cherry picked examples to try to smear me. I'm very liberal, but admitting that would be a big backpedal. You disagree with my opinions, so I must be evil. It's a bad sign with someone of your disposition is in a position of authority. If you wear the uniform you should strive to be worthy of it.

Is it gatekeeping to say fan fiction is not canon? Kurtzman's Trek is bad fanfiction with legal cover. I could write some nonsense and slap Star Trek on it and I wouldn't be able to force you to consider it Star Trek. If I had a billion dollars and bought the rights to the name would that change your mind?

If it ain't Tomino it ain't Gundam.

If it ain't Lucas it ain't Star Wars.

If it ain't Roddenberry it ain't Trek.

Importantly if you think Kurtzman is making Trek then you misunderstand the series. Star Trek is about a future where humanity lifts itself fully out of its worst aspects. It shows us what we should aspire to be. Kurtzman just wants to make Starship Troppers without the satire.

You have exactly one bargaining chit with politicians each election. First you need to make it very clear what is required in exchange for it, then you need to follow through. If you fail to do either then you'll just get more of the same or worse.

This is some next level mental gymnastics. Connect dots in whatever convincing fashion you want in lieu of attempting to understand someone's viewpoint.

I'm only subbed to freefolk.

Genuinely trying to help you here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_strongman

You are assuming that downvotes are some metric I optimize for. They're meaningless beyond the value that others put in them and reach a dogpile effect on discussion at some point. Most of my issue is not on topics I comment on or how they're received, but the topics posted on lemmy and how they are engaged. It's the comments I haven't made.

How is contacting politicians and alerting people to key issues (that will cost the election) inaction? Inaction is plugging your ears and saying "nothing can be done to change the status quo".

The only interesting Lemmy posts are related to federal politics. The second I open reddit suddenly it's a breath of fresh air.

Slapping the rails like this is exactly the lack of nuance that lemmy has. You're either with us or against us. That's not how people look at issues. What matters is how people are treated. I'm not going to vote for someone who harms people. Being pragmatic to avoid a bad scenario? Don't even bother.

My comment history is free to audit. That's a lot of work though and jumping to conclusions at any sign of a diverging thought feels better. Definitely not an echo chamber.

Density of toxic rhetoric is through the roof on lemmy. It rivals what you'd find on bad private forums of yore.

I think there are enough, they're just the wrong users.

They're happy to say that younger folks should be okay with it, but as soon as they're faced with it, it's suddenly a tragedy?

Horse shit. Fuck anyone gaslighting the value of housing security. I hope their home value turns to dust.

I remember this scene in The Big Short. Steve Carell goes to a strip club.

Two-wheel style car, or motorcycle? Sir, this is clearly a tomato pie.

The presence of the legendary Patrick Stewart, the most iconic of all Trek actors, does not make Picard a Trek show. It makes it even worse. It's like if you brought Mark Hammill back to Star Wars to be a grumpy slouch.

Reminder: the only new Trek since Enterprise are devoid of Berman / Roddenberry and are the Kurtzman abominations. Discovery and Picard are Star Wars sequel trilogy tier.

Hear here! Andor was a psychological thriller filled with conspiracy and intrigue with the window dressing of Star Wars. It could have taken place anytime, anywhere and still been the same show.