Yeah Star Trek is being written by idiots that don’t understand how to write Star Trek. The message used to be that the social issues we have today would be alien to a future utopian society. It was the aliens had all of these social issues, but the protagonaists have moved past those issues and have to be reminded that humans had these problems in the past. It says we should stop being weird about shit so we can have cool starships.

Now it seems the future utopian society later decides they want to go back to being racist assholes again. I think the writers may have good intentions, but carelessly made a very depressing statement about how these problems will always come back and can never be overcome permanently.

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I don’t know… I’m just joshing around.

Wouldn’t money laundering result in the casino making more money than it should?

Did he put a rock in the snowball? Everyone knows that’s against snowball fight rules… straight to jail!

Did you miss me?

This is weak sauce. So… whatever LOL.

This is obviously weakening Trump, so it’s killing two birds with one stone. You never know Americans seem to love him no matter what, but it looks like he’s lost a lot of support. So the Ayatollah is dead and maybe Americans will get their head out of their asses and actually vote for the political opposition.

Yeah so I’m not American. You’ve spent too much time on the internet, it’s made you hate everyone that doesn’t look like you. Maybe take a break from it? Hatred doesn’t achieve anything except destruction of yourself. Choose life over hatred.

Do you think of the massacre of women and children to be a game? I consider the actions Hamas commuted on October 7 to be genocidal, not a game.

You a disgusting person to think of genocide as “a game.”

Since yesterday, I may have spent some time listening to what Iranian people have to say about the subject. You’re assumption about it being like Afghanistan 2 is completely off.

The US has a record of replacing a dictator with even worse US friendly dictators. Not to mention if the regime doesn’t fall this will be a bloody campaign, the bombs alone can easily kill more than 30,000 Iranians.

The Israel-Hamas war lasted more than two years. Iran’s government killed about half the number killed in a two years long war in just two days. But you didn’t see too many photos of it so you pretend that a bombing campaign is going to be worse.

Why do you care so little about Iranians? If Israel killed 30,000 Palestinians in just two days would you still be “meh, don’t care, not my problem”?

Right now everyone in the resistance is saying to stay inside while the bombing campaign is happening. They will wait for the signal to start the uprising. Because obviously taking to the streets when there’s a bombing campaign happening is a really dumb thing to do.

Consider that this site might not be giving you all of the information about what’s happening in Iran.

No way to know how many will take to the streets when they’re told “it’s time”. Last time it was millions. The regime machine gunned down tens of thousands, bodies piled up in the streets, really horrific. This time I’d guess the resistance is going to have weapons air dropped to them and some drone support and intel. Should even things up.

There are very few people in Iran that don’t know someone that was executed by the regime and the IRGC is being decimated. If the members of the IRGC were smart, they’d get out while they can, though I don’t know who would take them. I suppose Russia is always looking for some more criminals to send to the front lines.

Best of luck to the resistance when the time comes.

You’re a genocide denier then.

You don’t care about genocide, so long as it’s the people you hate being killed.

What are YOUR feelings and thoughts about the real, actual genocide of Palestinians in Gaza/West Bank that has been ongoing for several decades?

I actually do think what happened on October 7 was a genocidal act. The people that deny it are actually disgusting to me. You look the other way when Jews are massacred because you’re antisemitic. A war targeting the perpetrators of a genocidal act, that’s what you label as genocide instead.

You bought into the bullshit about Hamas being freedom fighters. When they committed a genocidal act, you’re too narcissistic to admit you were wrong to ever support them. So you needed to “both sides” actual fucking genocide. You’ve weaponized the word genocide. You don’t care when actual genocide occurs in Sudan. You look the other way when the Ayatollah butchers over 30,000 people in a span of 48 hours. If someone hates Israel they’re your ally and you’ll look the other way on any atrocity they commit.

If you actually cared about Palestinians, you’d hate Hamas. They’ve only ever made things worse for the Palestinian people. But you look the other way when Hamas tortures and executes Palestinians. You’ll look the other way on any atrocity, as long it’s done by those who hate Israel. If Hamas survives, another generation of Palestinians may be indoctrinated into their system of hate and sent into the meat grinder so Hamas can profit. You don’t care about Palestinians if you make excuses for Hamas.

If you were to admit that Hamas committed a genocidal act on October 7, then maybe I could think “this person applies the word genocide way more easily than I would.” But you don’t. You do not consider deliberately massacring women and children to be genocide so long as those women and children are Jews. That’s antisemitism.

This isn’t the first time antisemitism has been popular. You’re not the first one that just went along to get along. Look in a history book you’ll find many examples of people rationalizing their hatred towards Jews. You’re not the first ones to come up with a different term for Jews so you could deny being antisemitic. “Rootless cosmopolitan”, “Globalist”, “Zionist”, it’s all the same scam decade after decade. And you fell for it.

The Jews outlived the Nazis. They will outlive you. Iran’s propaganda machine is getting shut down. How long will you continue to be angry that the Jews outlived the people trying to kill them? You kind of get a pass for being upset when you’re seeing imagery being put in front of you by a propaganda machine. But if you continue to hate Jews (even if you’re careful to always use the word Zionist, that’s obvious bullshit) after the propaganda machine is shut down, you’ll be in some very bad company, historically speaking. There’s signs the “anti-zionist” movement will be folded into the post-Trump fascist movement. How far are you going to go down this dark path you’re on?

What would be a worse situation than someone saying they want to destroy other countries while building nuclear weapons?

And you seem to be ignoring them massacring people by the tens of thousands. If you have the stomach for it maybe read a little bit about what happened in Iran in the last few months.

Or is it because Trump might not really care about it that means you don’t care about it either? What kind of logic is that?

Why is it you see Iranians on the streets with both the pre-republic Iranian flag along with the Israeli flag? Do you think they’re so naive that they don’t know anything about Israel or Gaza? Have you considered that what they’re going through has made them so desperate they will accept help from any country with the willingness to overthrow the Ayatollah?

Just because you’re not seeing imagery of the atrocities the Iranian government has done, doesn’t mean they didn’t happen. Piles of bodies on the streets 30,000 people executed in a 48 hour period and you’re talking about “well things could be worse!”

Maybe you hate Trump and Netanyahu, but do you have no empathy for the Iranians killed by the Ayatollah’s regime?

Like…I haven’t seen you say anything in favor of having a king, or of having this king in particular?

I have but you haven’t been paying attention. If you don’t have a King, people will create one. The US technically doesn’t have a King, but they’ve created on in Donald Trump in all but name. You don’t seem to think about any potential of a politician doing the things that you mention in all of these hypotheticals, but you worry greatly about an actual King doing them. And that’s the problem, a politician can become a tyrant without anyone noticing. If the King became a tyrant everyone would notice.

You label the King as a “genocidiers, looters, and pedophiles” even though he has not personally done those things. His brother has done some crimes, and he’s being prosecuted. When will Donald Trump or any of the billionaires in the US get prosecuted? Probably never.

And are you accusing the King of everything his ancestors have done? Sounds to me like you really believe in lineage stuff way more than I do. Seems unfair to judge someone for what their ancestors did. If there was no King would you be devoting time to researching what Mark Carney’s ancestors did and unfairly judging him for those things?

The monarchy acts as an emotional lightning rod for many people. All the emotional garbage whether it be grievance over things from the history books, nostalgia, or just a love of pomp and pageantry gets focused on the monarchy who are apolitical. That separates the emotional garbage from politics. Allows people to think about the actual policies the politician is proposing rather than some historical grievance or how “Presidential” they look. Americans keep voting in old coots out of nostalgia for some good times when Ronald Reagan was President. We still get a touch of that with Justin Trudeau benefiting from nostalgia over his father, but you’ll have a tough time arguing people had loyalty to him like he was a King.

Americans feel like they’re supposed to be loyal to the President and because of that they won’t remove a President from office even when he commits egregious crimes. The Prime Minister gets some degree of respect for the job, but a vote of no confidence is something much more likely to happen as it won’t seem disloyal to the country. For those that feel they must show subservience to a person to prove their loyalty to the country we have a King who’s apolitical. In the US, the subservient must show loyalty to the President since they have no king.

There are many many reasons to have a King, not least of which was the reason Pierre Trudeau brought up: It would take a lot of effort to remove the King and it wouldn’t really change anything. Why bother removing the King?

The only reasons you have to go through that effort is hypotheticals (which would also apply to a President) and your belief that there’s something wrong with the Royal lineage. Which is… hmmmm.

It was a massacre of every Jew they could find and couldn’t carry back to their dungeons. Why do you deny that it was genocide?

It seems you’re very selective about what you label a genocide. What criteria do you use?

There already has been a mass shooting in Texas done by someone with an “Iranian themed” shirt on.

And someone shot up an Iranian owned gym in Toronto, the owner of which was an activist against the Ayatollah. No one was there, no injuries. That guy isn’t cowering in fear of the Ayatollah, so why are you?

Do you consider the acts of Hamas on October 7 to be a genocide?

The Iranian nation has had their autonomy taken away from them, first by Khamenei and now by the US and Israel.

Are you saying they got their autonomy back in the last month after that asshole executed 30,000 people? Pretty sure they didn’t have autonomy for quite a few decades now. They have slim chance to take it back. The odds are the IRGC will hold onto control, but it’s ridiculous to imply they somehow lost autonomy twice. You either got it or you don’t and with the IRGC around they don’t have autonomy.

In you’re little analogy is the abusive dad always saying he wants to kill me and was handing out guns to people in the neighbourhood, telling them to take shots at me, which resulted in one of my kids getting killed? Then the abusive dad starts putting together a bazooka, all the while saying he’s going to kill me?

Your analogy kinda sucks. The abusive person is up to all kinds of shit in the neighbourhood and gets himself killed. If he was abusing his family and not going out into the neighbourhood and causing shit, he probably wouldn’t have gotten killed. But he’d still be a shitbag.

The wife and kids may or may not be upset by him getting killed, but I wouldn’t expect anyone in the neighbourhood to stick up for an abuser like you currently seem to be doing. Very bizarre to attempt of some analogy to be all “think of the children” over a guy that was such a terrible person.

Only idiots brain rotted by Iranian propaganda would be upset by that asshole’s death.

The guy executed something like 30K people in the last month. What kind of shit person supports a guy like that?

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Fucking noob… a lot of big talk, but didn’t leave the basement of his house.