Comment on What are the biggest red flags when talking with a Trek "fan"?

• bigboig@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Do you have anything else to add but more seething rage?

  I really doubt they were taking their other conversation that seriously and I don’t think you need to either

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  • UlyssesT@hexbear.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I really doubt they were taking their other conversation that seriously

    Scroll up.

    See how they reacted to my mirthful humor-intended comment, meme face and all, about the dubiousness of the writer-contrived “reformed” character mentioned.

    Play enlightened mediator all you want but you responded to my post in particular, 16 hours later. As usual, enlightened centrism is clearly leaning somewhere.

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    • bigboig@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Space Hitler felt kind of bad about some things and made some space friends and promises to make the next Space Reich a little nicer. No need for Space Nuremburg, for real. [Memeface]

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      Play enlightened mediator all you want but you responded to my post in particular, 16 hours later.

      This does not read as mirthful, it just seems like a mean-spirited, dismissive misrepresentation of their position . Sorry for bringing up what you said yesterday

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      • UlyssesT@hexbear.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        This does not read as mirthful

        To me, neither does this:

        So what about any of that screams “the Terran Empire did nothing wrong” to you? Or would you rather keep deflecting?

        Hypocrisy is super common among people that wave around pretenses of enlightened mediation, so I’m not surprised. Playing the “mean spirited” card while selectively ignoring the escalating petty hostility from the other poster isn’t surprising either.

        I’d rather just move on. If some edgy fan wants to stan for edgy characters from what might be the worst of recent Trek shows, I can’t stop them. What I said about what I see as red flags is only highlighted by that exchange, and will further advise me any time I see another edgy fan stanning for the Terran Empire or the like.

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