Eugene V. Debs' Ghost

Oh I meant I liked Last Jedi, it was the only good one.

The scene I wasn’t sure of, but the movie over all was good. I like the idea that Ray is a no one, and that helps the idea that anyone can be anything.

And then “whoops, youre only powerful because force eugenics!”

It has a lot going for it, and a really great setting/foundation for a thing.

I gotta read those comics sometime.

This has won me over. I was kinda meh about it outside of the nice visuals, but this clicked it together for me.

Thank you.

In a way, he did. Star Trek helped to break the racial barriers of 1960’s America, and inspired a generation of scientists and engineers to invent things that we use commonly today.

There was an entire generation of people who saw what Star Trek brought to the TV screen, and wanted to bring it into reality. Gene saw thousands of fans were inspired to become a better person because of an idea he had one day.

People saw an interracial kiss on screen for the first time. Some were outraged, most didn’t see a problem. Some saw a Japanese person working equally with white crewmen while Japanese-Americans still were treated like garbage and had their possessions still stripped from them.

Roddenberry intended the show to have a progressive political agenda reflective of the emerging counter-culture of the youth movement, though he was not fully forthcoming to the networks about this. He wanted Star Trek to show what humanity might develop into, if it would learn from the lessons of the past, most specifically by ending violence. An extreme example is the alien species known as the Vulcans, who had a violent past but learned to control their emotions. Roddenberry also gave Star Trek an anti-war message and depicted the United Federation of Planets as an ideal, optimistic version of the United Nations.[15] His efforts were opposed by the network because of concerns over marketability, e.g., they opposed Roddenberry’s insistence that Enterprise have a racially diverse crew.[16]

Gene didn’t live to see a post-scarcity, no violence, bigotry free society, but he inspired people to achieve it. Gene died happy with knowing he sparked an entire idea into action, some day in the future.

In the canon of Star Trek, humanity had a series of eugenics wars, wars for resources, and then capped it off with a World War 3 where the Geneva conventions were scrapped with nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons used by every world power.

The mess was still being cleaned up and the effects of hundreds of millions dead is when people went “Why did we ever hate each other? What did some dude in the African Union do to piss off some dude in the European Alliance, that pissed off some dude in China?”

And then when Zefram Cochrane used the Phoenix to test warp flight, everyone truly went “…Holy shit, we’re not alone. We can fix this for everyone.”

Okay?

Harry Potter is liberal political scripture.

If this is a big block of text “from weirdo I’ve never heard of” then what is a book to you?

They get more donations to fight back than they do in office. When Clinton lost, they got more donations for Biden.

When Roe V. Wade was overturned, they got a massive injection of cash and used it in campaign outreach, so they get money from saying they’ll protect women’s rights but don’t need to unless the money slows down.

The recent election and 2016 say otherwise. When Biden said he’d follow Sanders’ policies, he won the biggest margins ever in American history.

Fascism is tempting for undecideds and people scared of the future. Some dude says “hey you’re hurt, I’ll help you” you might not care what the costs are as long as you feel safer.

We could have built a policy of “Everyone is hurt, everyone needs a leader, I can be a leader for those Trump is targeting.” She could have been a silver bullet to Trump’s thick skull. She could have done so many things differently than Biden or Trump, and she played to the middle ground.

And the middle ground was still pro-border protections, fracking, not listening to the marginalized people Trump hates, and how the policies could improve America at the cost of the trolley problem of Gaza. Instead we’re getting none of her promises, but Trump is getting all of his high demands for order and fascism.

We gotta, otherwise we’ll see that one team openly hates the game, and the other team is still kicking around the ball and acting like moving 10 inches solves the game from falling apart.

Colbert was satire when he just copied what Republicans were saying, with the obvious intentions of “Jesus Christ, do they even hear themselves?”

The Onion can be satire now, and when “No way to prevent this, says the only country where this happens on a regular basis.”

Probably never will. We’ll be hearing them blaming us as we shuffle in a chain gang to the concentration camps.

I never voted for Trump each time I was able to vote. Not once did it ever cross my mind.

And somehow we’re the evil people for wanting meaningful promises that improve the lives that fascism tempts. Never once voted for a Trump and since 2020, never voted for a Republican locally, I always skip the blanket primary when I can, since “I can promise you’re not totally crazy” isn’t a thing anymore.

When I ask “Why are we supporting these bad polices that Bush started?” I’m accused of being a useful idiot. When I ask “Why did we stop COVID protections and doing tests? Isn’t that what Trump wanted?” I’m called a Russian bot. At some point I just learned:

Oh you don’t care about kids in cages. You don’t care about the 9/11 amount of Americans dying from COVID. You don’t care about police killing innocent people. You don’t want anything good, you pretend to for votes. You got jealous of how devoted and rabid Trump’s fans are, and wanted a piece of that fascist pie.

I give up. Democrats don’t want answers and polices, they just wanna be “Not the current evil guy.”

It really does feel like that. “Vote for lesser evil” but do nothing to be less evil.

Blue MAGA was a joke that became reality. There’s several people more angry at “I was entitled to more votes!” than Trump winning the votes and ending everything else.

…Is this somehow a big block of incomprehensible text to you, or are you somehow looking at a different image? It’s a tweet.

“Stein got a Nazi to endorse her even though she disowned it, she’s horrid.”

“Harris openly loved Cheney and didn’t say anything Spencer, she’s the the most progressive person to ever run!”

It’s a big tent party for “former” Republicans, oligarchs, corporations, but not anyone the Republicans are making hit lists of right now.

Palestinians can’t even attend, “she’s talking right now.” Meanwhile she just has lunch with the people who made the War for Oil on Terror, and acts like this is true progress and you’re the bad guy for not warming up to Dick Chaney.

Same arguments can and have been used to ban video games, tabletop games, and horror movies.

“Fictional things make people wanna do real life things!”

“If you don’t like America, leave!” Was what Republicans said for decades.

Now we’re expecting the poor and disabled and BIPOC to just do it because Harris failed. Unbelievable.