jimhensonslostpuppet

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Archer new what he was doing⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I liked Archer, I’d rank him up there with Kirk and Picard. Then again I havent seen the series in a long time, just bought the Blu Rays of it so I guess Ill rewatch it soon and see if I still think this

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Was it a good thing that SNW explicitly said the Federation is socialist?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well I’m a democratic socialist and def not a communist, so I guess there’s the distinction.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Was it a good thing that SNW explicitly said the Federation is socialist?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I dont believe in communism so Im not really concerned with that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Was it a good thing that SNW explicitly said the Federation is socialist?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well I’m not for ending US hegemony so that doesn’t sound appealing to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Was it a good thing that SNW explicitly said the Federation is socialist?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I doubt it personally, it doesn’t seem to match anything ever reflected in Star Trek.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Was it a good thing that SNW explicitly said the Federation is socialist?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think that’s what they were going with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Was it a good thing that SNW explicitly said the Federation is socialist?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Perhaps lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Was it a good thing that SNW explicitly said the Federation is socialist?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Though apparently remains a capitalist according to Lower Decks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Was it a good thing that SNW explicitly said the Federation is socialist?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t like the implication that full communism is only possible after a zombie apocalypse though lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Was it a good thing that SNW explicitly said the Federation is socialist?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well I’m not a Marxist Leninists or a anything like that, and neither is Star Trek ever promoting anything like that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Was it a good thing that SNW explicitly said the Federation is socialist?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Where did you read this?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Was it a good thing that SNW explicitly said the Federation is socialist?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He was a Maoist?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Was it a good thing that SNW explicitly said the Federation is socialist?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I find it odd because its Hollywood doing these references which isn’t exactly a left wing institution.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Was it a good thing that SNW explicitly said the Federation is socialist?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ironically The Orville did that better by saying there are no prisons anymore in the Planetary Union.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Was it a good thing that SNW explicitly said the Federation is socialist?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah yeah socialism I guess is a less dirty word in those parts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Was it a good thing that SNW explicitly said the Federation is socialist?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought socialism was social ownership, not welfare programs that exist under capitalism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Was it a good thing that SNW explicitly said the Federation is socialist?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Based

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Was it a good thing that SNW explicitly said the Federation is socialist?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  None of those quotes say private ownership of cars is gone. Cars aren’t the means of production btw, so I don’t even agree with SNW here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Was it a good thing that SNW explicitly said the Federation is socialist?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Star Wars?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Was it a good thing that SNW explicitly said the Federation is socialist?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The same episode says private ownership of things like cars no longer exists in the future, so it’s clearly a description of the economy. I agree its almost a dismissal though, which is why I prefer The Orville’s treatment of the no money post scarcity economy more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Was it a good thing that SNW explicitly said the Federation is socialist?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Socialism

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Was it a good thing that SNW explicitly said the Federation is socialist?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Where are you if I may ask? And I think it may have been a dictate of Gene Roddenberry to not name which economic system won out, which is kind of a copout. But yeah it’s refreshing to see it called what it is finally

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Was it a good thing that SNW explicitly said the Federation is socialist?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And it just seems accurate, at least with definitions of socialism I’ve read and studied

• Was it a good thing that SNW explicitly said the Federation is socialist?
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