rofl, thought you were done wasting your time? I'm not even gonna read this, dipshit.
Ding, there you go, you've taken the issues with Star Trek as a whole and applied it to DS9, while obviously ignorant of the show as itself. Knowing nothing of how the writers did everything they could to buck Roddenberry's communist leanings. Knowing nothing of what they did after he died and their hands weren't tied at ALL anymore.
"As far as the episode where Sisko gets preach about black slavery in America, it definitely happened. I'll leave it up to you to find it because you're far more likely to rewatch the show than I am. You'll come across it and see what I mean though." Meaning that you can't, and won't, put your money where your mouth is and will call it a victory because I'm either now obligated to rewatch hundreds of hours of TV and you can go "ha, I wasted your time," or because I won't do that and you go "See, you're afraid to find it." Fuck off, child.
Straw Fucking Man, and now Motte and Bailey. PLEASE waste no more time on this, I'm done here too.
Yeah, I've watched DS9 multiple times, and I don't recall any episodes about Slavery at all. There was a TNG where Picard was preached at/preached at us about how the White Man was bad to the Indians. There was ONE episode where Sisko went back in time to around 2020, and was trapped in a Sanctuary District in San Francisco, surrounded by criminals and drug users and homeless, and he helps convince the government that people don't need handouts and free housing, they need JOBS, they need to Produce for Themselves.
Now, there was the episode where Sisko has a vision from the Prophets wherein he lives out the life of Sci-Fi writer Benny Russel, who writes a story called Deep Space Nine, but then encounters a pair of racists and gets the shit kicked out of him. Two bad guys, despite all of Benny's white co-workers being his good friends, even ready to quit their jobs in solidarity with him. The episode ends, though, with the Preacher of the Prophets telling him that he's both the Dreamer and the Dream, which to ME says that he both has the power to make the future better but ALSO that his current reality is indeed much better than it could have been in the past; a message of both personal responsibility and thankfulness. Not "Blame Whitey," but "Work for your own Dream."
Maybe you're thinking of one Final Season episode where Sisko doesn't want to go to Vic Fontaine's Vegas Casino on the Holosuite because it's set during the beginning Civil Rights movement, and he feels like it's a lie, that hides the problems of history... but then Cassidy Yates is like "Ben, stop being a jackass, we're beyond all that drama, people don't care about race anymore, why bring it up if it's no longer a problem?" And then Sisko is like "Shit, I AM being a jackass!" and he helps everyone save Vic and the Casino and he and Vic perform a duet of "The Best is Yet to Come" at the end, a celebration of how everyone can work together and it doesn't matter if anyone is Black or White or even Ferengi.
Full of communist ideals? Like all the times that Nog and his business sense helps Jake, Sisko, Chief O'Brien, Major Kira, Dax, Dr. Bashir, Garak, Leeta, pretty much EVERYONE get things they need and live better lives? Like the episode where he explains that the Great Material River provides for everyone, if they can navigate its current? Anti-Christianity? WHEN? Show me ONE example.
EVERY SINGLE THING YOU HAVE SAID IS BULLSHIT. Don't Strawman. We're supposed to be better (smarter) than that, because it's so FUCKING easy to tear down when someone actually knows what he's talking about.
I hear you. DS9 doesn't really hit its stride until, like, season 3, honestly. I do love it, but when I rewatch it there's episodes toward the beginning that I skip because they don't matter AT ALL, but once I hit season 3 I may actually go back and restart an episode again because something distracted me.
If I remember correctly, Tuvok somehow had a guest appearance in the background of an episode of DS9, in the Alternate Universe, wherein he was a member of the Terran resistance against... whatever shitty government made of the Klingons, Cardassians, and Bajorans ruled all of space.
Tuvok was great, though. In any universe.
I feel the same way, but in reverse (though I'd say that Voyager is great, rather than just alright, but I think DS9 is one of the greatest shows ever made.)
Still, wasn't all the old classic Star Treks just great? Before they ruined it in this current clown fucking universe?
I agree. I'm not saying that fantasy is inherently bad, but there can be unhealthy adoration for it that beets in the way of the real. But it can a!so be just a pasttime, or even have a bolstering effect.
For instance, I'm WAY into Warhammer 40k. I use it, though, to measure my own faith. When a Sister of Battle's faith is enough to let her ordinary gun kill an otherwise impervious daemon, I reflect on how true faith, my own faith in Christ, just be even stronger, as I wage war against demons as I confront sin every day.
For by His grace... I shall know no Fear.
You do that, man. It's like when at work someone buys a boxed grill, but doesn't trust their ability to put it together, so I Constroy it.
In today's world, UNQUESTIONABLY. People literally fawn all over these jerkoffs and give them more devotion than people used to give to Zeus and Baal and Molech and all that. For every madman throwing babies off a cliff in sacrifice to a false god there were 100 guys in the marketplace like "Oh, yeah, Zulamech bless you too, man, where's that money you owe me, though?" who just did not give a shit.
Sentiment correct, but needs clarity:
False gods. Idols are, by their definition, false gods. If a thing truly is a false god, then it is a true idol. A False Idol would be like you go into a temple to, like, Baal or something, and you walk up to the golden statue and are like "Yep, that's a false god, alright," but then the statue jumps down in front of you and yells "Surprise! It's me, Jesus, in gold body paint!" THAT would be a False Idol, because it's ACTUALLY a real God.
I despise the tattoos and the mask. Other than that, I can't judge (well, besides the quality of people she's buying a car from. Not disparaging the vocabulary they're using in the tweet, you need to court sales somehow... but the fact that they're flying the American Flag (Good,) the Texas Flag (Also good!) and the MEXICAN FLAG (The flag flown by General Santa Anna when the Alamo Defenders died rather than surrender to foreign powers on Texan Soil,) tells me that they can all go straight to hell.))
But she's got a baby, and needs that car to get to work. Gotta start somewhere, and I'll choose to hope that she's trying to make better decisions NOW.
Sounds exactly like what the DNC does, only they TELL you it's what they're going to do.
Which is exactly the way the parties govern, too.
Which is why they're a uniparty.
Which is why we elected Donald Trump in the first place.
Yeah, we need to reclaim our politics from these fucking parties. Remember when GEORGE WASHINGTON was all like "Listen to me, don't get with these fucking Political Parties, ESPECIALLY ones based on geographical regions, alright? They're BAD FUCKING NEWS. Now let's keep killing people who tax us without representing us."
I do. Funny how now we've got political parties who EXCLUSIVELY court the votes of specific regions that they NEED to win, and then just tax the rest of non-stop, and don't represent us.
Bullet Holes would result in cucks with their Gun "laws." Thrown into the nearest body of water is the same optics for US, less scapegoating to what we need to protect ourselves, and the Boston Tea Party imagery that will get the message across.
Hit every target. Fight every battle. Win every fight. Taking on one and only one aspect of the enemy is like choosing juuuust the right basket to put all our eggs in. Fight them EVERYWHERE, and give no inches.
Article Titles from the Future!
"How White Supremacy thrives in the Black Community"
"Uncle Tom's Ballot"
"People of Color think too much, and why that hurts them."
Naturally, all of those articles are/will be written by White Lesbians.
Libertarianism is equal to Communism, so long as we live in a Real World. Both require Personal Virtue and humanity to have a better Base Nature than it does. Both would be completely unnecessary if people HAD that better Base Nature than it does.
It's another dream. Drop it and be Real, working within the confines of Human Nature to make the "selfish" thing also beneficial for others, because their success will create more opportunity and benefit for you as well. It's what our Founders saw, and how they built this nation in the first place.
Seriously. Even if he WAS an innocent guy in a terrible mistake, is his life worth ending the (on average) seven EQUALLY innocent lives that will die due to the riots?
And when he's NOT an innocent guy, when he's a habitual criminal with a history of violence AGAINST the innocent, what then??? When do the victims of the Riot start to COUNTER-RIOT over THEIR ACTUALLY INNOCENT DEAD???
I hate it. Used to be I was an American, surrounded by Americans. Can't be that anymore, they won't let me. Their choice, not mine.
You're sitting on the internet lecturing someone who's been working to earn his pay, telling me that it's wrong for me to earn a living, because something that you say other people have done. "An extra buck." There we are, communism, I'm not paying my bills and getting by, I'm the Fat Cat Oligarch.
Fuck OFF.
Me, Pre-Obama: "What? A Black Guy got killed by the police? What was going on? How did it happen? I hope he wasn't an innocent killed by mistake."
Me, Post-Biden (If this SHIT doesn't fucking STOP RIGHT THE FUCK NOW): "What? A Black Guy got killed by the police? Why only one? Why not the entire fucking rioting mob??? Why not just drop a goddamn MOAB on the 'Hood and get it fucking DONE WITH ALREADY???"
I'm getting really, really fucking tired of it. Stop forcing me to be on a team, or get ready for me to play the fucking game.
Every three months every associate gets what they call a "Myshare" bonus, based on the success of their individual store. Call me delusional, I've gotten five years of these things, and some of them are pretty damn good (best one was around 800 bucks.)
Take your commie "you're all slaves!!!!" bullshit elsewhere, shit for brains, every single one of us can quit any time we want to.
Stand for the anthem, then take the knee for the rest of the games.
Also? Do it at home, as to not give them your money.
At Easter, at my aunt's house, everyone sat around drinking whatevers, as nobody even wanted to drink the leftover cans of coke that were bought before the whole fiasco. Boycott would have been like "Welp, I already paid for it, might as well enjoy it." Nope. Sentiment was FIRMLY "Fuck them and their bullshit." Had a lot of cold cans of Doctor Generic Store Brand, as the warm-ass backyard-coke sat scorned.
Ahhh, I get it!
Chris Fucking Rock told this to the world in his "How Not to Get Your Ass Kicked by the Police" sketch, like 30 years ago, maybe 40! Hands on the Wheel, be Respectful, Comply, Don't be with an Angry Black Woman who will yell 'He got weed!" because she's mad at you, don't be with an idiot friend who will start yelling "He ain't do nothin' wrong, he ain't gotta tell you shit, pig!," etc.
Here's a TERRIBLE story: One summer night, I was walking up to Blockbuster Video with friends, when I was a kid. One friend was being a dipshit, stealing peoples' Lawn Gnomes and breaking them. Eventually the police got called. Not gonna lie, as a stupid kid (less stupid than the jackass breaking Lawn Gnomes) this was a scary moment, when the police pulled up to us. Know what I did? I was respectful, I listened, I told the truth (that I had neither stolen nor broken any gnomes or any other lawn ornaments,) and when all was said and done, my cousin and I kept right on walking to Blockbuster, as our idiot friend was taken for a ride to talk to his father... who was a cop. Even when Peripherally Guilty, being Respectful, Calm, and complying will most likely get you home not only ALIVE, but completely un-detained.
Because the Police have TWO desires. 1) Do Not Get Killed By the Erratic Asshole Who is Freaking the Fuck Out, and then as a DISTANT 2) Stop the Person we're Dealing With from Committing Crimes. So long as #1 is satisfied, they'll let #2 happen in the most easy way possible.