Bay_of_Piggies [he/him, comrade/them]

Because things keep getting worse and Democrats keep running do-nothing losers

Why??

The two main anatagnositic forces in DS9 are the Cardassian Empire and the Dominions - different flavours of fascism. Sisko will often use tactics not technical fitting within the moral framework of the Federation to defend the Federation from both.

I would consider that fanfiction in modern parlence and I see it as distinct from plagiarism and piracy as well. And morally okay, good even.

Plagiarism is not pirating. Before copyright existed I doubt it would be socially acceptable to just steal people’s ideas as your own.

When I showed a pirated copy of Star Wars to my partner, I didn’t claim I made the movie.

I think it’s fucked that Israel’s role in the rise of Hamas is used as justification to discredit them as a legitimate representative of Palestinians. Its like TERFs doing misogyny through feminism. I think they just don’t want Palestine to have a legitimate representative that isn’t controlled by the West because Hamas is clearly out of the hands of Netanyahu now. Israel’s security officials said it would lead to all out war? Hmm, nothing to see here. Why are we quoting them uncritically? Maybe this revalation that Hamas’ rise was influenced by Israel delegitimizes Israel, not Palestines right to self defense.

Since they had a base in every corner of the globe with multiple outpost territories and a neo-colonial relationship with much of the developing world.

You typically need to win 1-2 wars at the start, at that point you either link up with friends or befriend your former enemies.

Im critiquing the subreddit more so then the game. The game mechanics themselves make égal/phile the most powerful playstyle as its much easier to befriend the galaxy then conquer it.

Yeah it bothers me. /r/Stellaris likes to make xenocide jokes and it makes me uncomfortable because I feel it hides a desire in the real. Threads like this: https://www.reddit.com/r/Stellaris/comments/18fvk6p/do_you_think_the_north_sentinelese_people_and/ reveal that people aren’t able to joke about genocide given their views on real world people.

I like to call all creepy crawlies bugs so I can pull this pedantic fact. I’m calling spiders bugs and you can’t stop me, because you’re just as wrong when you call a fly a bug.

Maybe other people have a similar initial experience, but changed as they aged and therefore can impart some wisdom.

What an odd and unhinged fantasy

Brushing for longer has diminishing returns and hurts your gums. I’m just speculating, but it’s mostly about removing debris from your mouth and applying flouride to your teeth.

I was arguing with friends about Uygur genocide and I mentioned that there is no evidence for mass killings (where are the graves?) And one of my friends responded that were still finding mass graves of Indigenous children in Canada and I just responded “Why are you assuming everyone is barbaric as us, China isn’t a settler colonial state, Canada is”. They kind of bowed out of the conversation after that. There is an urge to universalize the horrors of colonialism as though it’s a normal thing everyone engages with, and not a practice located in the conditions of settler colonialism. Even among people who are left leaning and acknowledge the specific evils of settler colonialism. Like obviously mass killings are a theme of human society, but that doesn’t mean literally everyone is doing it all the time.

Liberals don’t even know what liberalism is.

Some plants are going to enjoy all that extra co2

Emojis can express emotions in a way comments cannot

People out there not really understanding the cooperative roles of the state, government and capitial under capitialism to reinforce bougerois rule.

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