• Buffalox@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    How the fuck can Elon Musk claim to be a Trekkie? When he is against everything Star Trek stands for?!
    The psychological dissonance of that man is insane!

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOPM
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      4 months ago

      He also claims to love the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, a book series where technology corporations are absolutely loathed and every AI is either a broken or an asshole or both.

    • Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      It’s a common theme. There are a lot of conservatives who are still somehow fans of Star Trek because they the lack media literacy needed to figure out that they’re values are not shared by the good guys on the show.

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        4 months ago

        Remember how conservatives think that Rage Against The Machine is on their side. There’s no delusion too great after that.

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      4 months ago

      What I think is that because they are incapable of empathetic thought, the message gets lost.

      TNG’s Time’s Arrow, DS9’s Past Tense, VOY’s Life Line are all just made up stories to them. No human condition there.

  • phx@lemmy.ca
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    4 months ago

    Yeah nothing says “I support a post-scarcity economy” like a bunch of billionaires

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    4 months ago

    fucking poser. every piece of media you claim to love is a protest to your entire existence.

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        4 months ago

        Ok, of the humans, 75% are white.

        And I don’t know which show you watched, but most of Starfleet were humans

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          My head canon is that TNG, DS9 and Voyager are set in the Kelvin universe, where

          Star Trek 2009 spoiler

          Most of the Vulcans are dead.

          I have no (in universe) explanation for the lack of proportional human diversity, in TNG, in particular, though. I notice sometimes during a rewatch and it does break the immersion.

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            4 months ago

            Yeah, in 1990, America was still 80% white. It’s only in the past 30 years we dropped to 61%.