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- Comment on Driver stopped in Tesla Cybertruck banned in UK 4 days ago:
Didn’t realise they’re illegal here. Makes you feel a bit patriotic.
- Submitted 1 week ago to startrek@startrek.website | 19 comments
- Comment on Leftist Officials Move To Delay British Elections As Their Approval Ratings Collapse 4 weeks ago:
A completely normal procedure, not a ‘bizarre loophole’. The British Conservatives also delayed several elections during the last Parliament due to the pandemic. This is not sinister and sharing reporting on it as if it is reflects badly on you.
- Submitted 1 month ago to energy@slrpnk.net | 1 comment
- Comment on NBC created the perfect template for Star Trek to follow with future comedies 1 month ago:
Totally agree with you. One of the things that I love about LDS is that it’s not just by and for fans of the show - that’s more or less a given with any longstanding franchise - but that it’s about fans of the show.
[Spoiler tag here because I’m talking about the most recent episode and I know some people won’t be caught up yet!]
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My favourite scene in the most recent episode was Mariner geeking out over getting to hang out with Data. It worked because that’s how we’d all react if we got to hang out with Data. ‘Aw, respect. I’d go back for Geordi, too’ was a fantastic line because it was both funny and felt completely real to all the TNG fans.
- Comment on Annotations for *Star Trek: Lower Decks* 5x07: “Fully Dilated” (SPOILERS) 1 month ago:
Great notes, as always!
Freeman sends Purple Data back through the fissure in a photon torpedo tube, much like how Spock’s body was shot towards the Genesis Planet at the end of ST II.
Along with the use of the torpedo tube, I thought Mariner’s off-key flute playing in this scene was a homage to Scotty playing the bagpipes at Spock’s funeral.
- Comment on Kate Nash and Lily Allen on OnlyFans should be a wake-up call for the music industry 1 month ago:
A classic party game!
- Comment on Kate Nash and Lily Allen on OnlyFans should be a wake-up call for the music industry 1 month ago:
So you get a puzzle piece with a photo of a that might be a bit of boob, and after six months you have enough pieces to see that it is, in fact, a man’s very smooth knee?
- Comment on Interview: Nana Visitor On Star Trek Putting Actresses In The “Female Box” And Going Backwards In ‘Enterprise’ 1 month ago:
These interviews are really interesting! I’m going to have to go and read the book now.
- New ranking puts Denmark, the Netherlands and the UK on top for climate performancewww.euronews.com ↗Submitted 1 month ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 0 comments
- Comment on Where to start? 2 months ago:
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- Comment on Where to start? 2 months ago:
If us Star Trek nerds can’t get our facts straight, what hope for humanity?
- Comment on Where to start? 2 months ago:
Measure of a Man is season 2!
- Comment on Where to start? 2 months ago:
I’d start with Strange New Worlds. It’s very classic Trek in terms of its themes and stories, but as it’s still being made it has contemporary audiences in mind. If you like it, I would then go to TNG.
- Comment on So, this was totally predictable. Here's why. (long article) 2 months ago:
I’m not going to go through this point by point. Some of it I think is probably about right and some not. What I will say is that I don’t think it’s consistent to say people were crying wolf over Trump, who tried to overthrow one election and would have done the same with this one had he lost, and then in the same place to suggest that a Harris win would’ve resulted in the end of democracy based entirely on a loosely defined notion of elitism.
- Comment on Biden thinks Trump voters are trash. 2 months ago:
My point was that if the man is still ‘armed’, he hasn’t been ‘disarmed’, he just has one less (type of) gun. For example, if I told you that there was a man in my street with two guns, and then added that he’d now been disarmed (forcibly or otherwise), you would assume that he now had zero guns.
- Comment on Biden thinks Trump voters are trash. 2 months ago:
The fact that he didn’t call them trash is the salient point here.
I mean, apart from anything else, the word he used, whatever it was applied to, was ‘garbage’.
- Comment on Biden thinks Trump voters are trash. 2 months ago:
disarm
If a man had an assault rifle and a handgun, and he put down the assault rifle, would you describe him as ‘unarmed’? If so, I don’t think you can describe removing assault rifles as ‘disarming’ people.
- Comment on Biden thinks Trump voters are trash. 2 months ago:
No, he didn’t. Both the context and the grammar make it clear that my interpretation is correct. Even if you interpret it unsumpathetically, the infefence that it’s ‘all’ Trump supporters is something you’ve added.
Any Trump supporter pretending to be offended by what Biden didn’t actually say is in any case a massive hypocrite, because Trump built his political career on being offensive. They can’t turn around now and act all offended unless they also repudiate Trump.
- Comment on My Fellow Republicans, It’s Time to Say Enough With Trump 2 months ago:
That’s part of the reason I’m sharing it here!
Anyway, I’m sure there’s a non-zero number of conservative-leaning readers of the NYT. Every one of them who’s swayed away from Trump is a win.
- Comment on Biden thinks Trump voters are trash. 2 months ago:
He didn’t. “The only garbage I see is his supporter’s” garbage, i.e, it’s the possessive “'s”.
Anyway, Trump called the whole country a garbage can, so if you’re so desperately offended by your misreading of Biden’s comments, I guess you’re also pretty torn up about Trump’s, right?
- Submitted 2 months ago to conservative@sh.itjust.works | 6 comments
- Comment on 'The worst thing I've ever heard': Holocaust survivor blasts Harris for comparing Trump to Hitler 2 months ago:
Missing the vital context that Trump keeps praising Hitler, and that’s the reason people are making the comparison.
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- Comment on Confessions of a Republican Exile 3 months ago:
I put an archive link in the post! Here it is again.
- Submitted 3 months ago to conservative@sh.itjust.works | 4 comments
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- Comment on Everybody who ever voted for trump is a cunt. 3 months ago:
I broadly agree with you that everyone who voted for Trump was in some sense wrong, but I don’t think your framing is helpful. Even honest people with good motivations make mistakes and I think that some percentage of Trump voters was essentially mistaken when they voted for Trump (and if they’re planning to vote for him again).
Specifically, the mistake they’re making is believing that the ends justify the means.
Let’s say a person holds some sort of conservative belief that’s not in itself evil, like that taxes should generally be as low as possible, that any fiscal headroom should primarily be taken as an opportunity for a tax cut rather than for more state spending. There’s nothing wrong per se with believing this (all tax policy is a matter of balance and there will always be some people who, on balance, think taxes should be lower). However, believing that this is so important that you should vote for a person like Trump is wrong: the ends (low taxes) don’t justify the means (Trump regaining the presidency).
NB: The question as to whether low taxes are actually good, or of whether Trump will actually deliver them, is irrelevant to this argument; the whole point I’m making is that these people are mistaken, so if they’re also mistaken about the merits of low taxes that’s a point in favour of my argument, not against it. For what it’s worth, Trump will raise taxes on all Americans because his tariff scheme is a tax that will be paid for by Americans.
- The Moment of Truth | The reelection of Donald Trump would mark the end of George Washington’s vision for the presidency—and the United States.www.theatlantic.com ↗Submitted 3 months ago to conservative@sh.itjust.works | 0 comments