“But but… what about shareholder value?”
- East India Company, United Fruit, and plenty others.
And God said go forth and multiply profits for the pharaohs, priests and tax collectors.
And kill the firstborn (who are my children, whom I love) of every tribe member (who are my children, whom I love) because the tribe’s leaders (who are my children, whom I love) were big meanies to my chosen children (whom I love the mostest)!
>“Nothing justifies genocide.”
>Proceeds to make arguments justifying genocide
I have no idea how you could possibly think this supports your position on things.
If Major Kira was living under a government that offered no alternative to genocide, she’d take up a phaser and start killing government officials, you know, like she literally did, in the show. She’d never condone someone who supported genocide, even if it meant resorting to violent opposition instead.
Proceeds to make arguments justifying genocide
“Justifying genocide is when you oppose genocide, and the more you oppose it, the more you justify it” - Very Serious Lemmings
Alternatively, “The prospect of an eventual violent revolution justifies genocide” - Very Serious Lemmings
Or more realistically, “I think that the prospect of virtue signaling without affecting government policy justifies genocide, because that makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside” - Very Serious Lemmings
I’m not accusing you of supporting genocide for voting against a fascist, I’m also voting against a fascist. I’m accusing you of supporting genocide for voting for a candidate that supports genocide. There’s nothing “secret” about it, it’s your openly expressed position.
“Justifying genocide is when you oppose genocide, and the more you oppose it, the more you justify it” - Very Serious Lemmings
“Opposing genocide is when you vote for someone doing a genocide and the harder you post about supporting them the more you oppose it” - Very Serious Lemmings 🤡
It’s very funny to me that you received friendly fire because people on your side saw a simple “genocide is bad” meme and just assumed it was about them. You’d think that would lead to introspection but what do I know lol.
“Opposing genocide is when you vote for someone doing a genocide and the harder you post about supporting them the more you oppose it” - Very Serious Lemmings 🤡
Ah, the good old “Thoughts and prayers to LGBT folk who are going to be genocided in the US under a Trump regime”, how classy. You’re literally just endorsing fascism with extra steps, but I’m sure we’ll have great fun in the camps together when you say “AT LEAST I DIDN’T VOTE FOR THE DEMOCRATS”
It’s very funny to me that you received friendly fire because people on your side saw a simple “genocide is bad” meme and just assumed it was about them.
I think it’s more that OP has made numerous comments in this thread arguing that we should vote for Biden.
OP’s vibe seems to be “Yes, I really really really do oppose genocide… but the responsible thing is to vote for Biden, and people who won’t support him are the true genocide enablers.”
And the commander of DS9 literally poisoned civilian settlements in one episode.
I’ll dig around, TBH I saw it on a YouTube clip a few months ago. He was chasing a terrorist I think in the defender and he retreated to this planet. And sico? was like if you don’t give up I’m going to poison the atmosphere with blah blah, and then he did it. And was like holy fuck did a star Trek Captain just commit genocide/war crimes? WTF…
Despite the trolls accusing people here of justifying it- I do t see anyone here is doing that. I’m pretty sure they know this, and this is what makes it hard to call them out for what they are doing. It’s like arguing with Christians.
They just misinterpret your words, rewrite them using their English-to-Troll filter, and shout them back at you once they say essentially the opposite of what you’re saying.
Example:
ME: “of course I don’t support genocide. But not voting for Biden isn’t going to stop it, and Donald ‘finish the job’ Trump is going to be far worse on Palestine than Biden could ever be!”
TROLL: “See! You support gEnOciDe!”
Now, you could accuse me of doing exactly what I’m accusing them of, but I’d urge you to look through my recent comment history. Somewhere between yesterday and today- you can see this exact thing happening.
The point is. From what I can see, NO ONE here is supporting genocide. The ones in other communities that do, get banned pretty quickly. And anyone that is accusing people of it, are proving to everyone that they aren’t here to discuss things rationally- because they’re starting from a complete and total lack of rationale.
They’re not who they pretend to be, they’re right-wing trolls from /pol or wherever trying to influence the election for their side
Meanwhile:
“I support the Green party.”
“So what you’re really saying is, you think everyone should not vote on election day, or vote for Trump.”
We have First Past the Post. You support Trump, Biden, or violent revolution – those are the choices
Nope, that isn’t how math works. A vote for the Green Party is equivalent to not voting at all. Lying about it and stamping your feet won’t change anyone’s opinion. Also you guys always assume the GP voters are a subset of democrats when in reality most of them are not. Most would not vote for democrats if their first choice were taken away.
They’re just a convenient excuse for you whenever Dems lose because it’s easier to blame them than to hold dem leadership accountable for their very obvious and repeated failures. And it’s surely easier than holding yourself accountable for constantly nominating weak candidates. I mean you all got handed fucking Obama and still fought tooth and nail against him in the primary because you’re so scared of even slightly rocking the boat. Dem voters are gigantic cowards and enablers
You will not shame people into voting for Biden, it’s actually insane to see you all trot out this failed tactic yet again
In a perfect world, that option would be viable. However, if you look around- and pay attention, it’s not. And it’s not even remotely close.
I’d be all over a third party option if there was even a small chance they’d succeed. But they can’t. And this isn’t an opinion. Vote third party and yeah- hate to say it but you are throwing away a vote. And it’s not a big stretch to understand how a non vote or a third party vote FACTUALLY benefits Trump.
I fucking hate that this is how it is, but I’d rather live in the real world than believe in my own reality.
You lost me when you lied about non-votes “fAcTuAlLy” benefitting trump. That is a blatant falsehood that assumes people would automatically vote for Biden instead. Your fear mongering and dishonesty won’t win over a single vote.
I see tenforward is leaking…
I approve.
Much like the federation, it’s their duty to explore and trade culture with far away, strange cultures. Much like here in our c/politicalmemes, a lot is different but there are many similarities to the c/tenforward they call home. They have families, jobs, sometimes get trapped in the pattern buffer, cloned, or stacked by a macrovirus . . Just like here.
Yep, this is definitely Ten Forward. It’s a bullshit dogwhistle designed to help Donald Trump get elected and do more genocide, so it can’t be from Risa, it must be from the crappy one.
No, it’s not. I’d suggest you look into OP’s post history and maybe delete this dumb accusation.
Time Traveller from 1993 (when this episode aired): “So, what’s 2024 like?”
“If you say you won’t support genocide, you get accused of being a Russian asset.”
