1650
I can't disagree. (lemmy.world)
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 63 points 6 months ago

Star Trek should be required viewing for all world leaders.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 56 points 6 months ago

That sounds like it would be a good idea, but there is a strange but significant cadre of right-wing Star Trek fans. I think they just pay attention to the pew pew space battles and ignore everything else or something.

[-] lugal@sopuli.xyz 23 points 6 months ago

I honestly see why. While I love star trek, it has a very strong power structure "with the right people in power", as if power itself wouldn't corrupt people. The admirals may not always be right in the beginning but they accept their wrongs and have no bad intentions and the heroes are always celebrated by the establishment.

This can be understood as "this is the perfect world where even authorities are good" or as "I told you, authorities are the good guys". I, as a left libertarian, prefer Farscape (and still watch every star trek show)

[-] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 6 months ago

Exactly! The TOS/TNG era are "benevolent authoritarianism" and conservatives, of course, see themselves as the good guys. "If things only went our way, our society would be perfect, just like Star Trek!"

I think Edington said it best. Paraphrasing, "[The Federation] are even worse than the Borg. At least they tell you about their plans for assimilation. You're more insidious you assimilate people I think they don't even know."

[-] match@pawb.social 4 points 6 months ago

I, as a left libertarian, would probably end up in the Maquis

[-] Xeroxchasechase@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

What''s left liberterian even means?

[-] BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee 4 points 6 months ago

Anarchist or anarchist adjacent

[-] frezik@midwest.social 3 points 6 months ago

They're the OG libertarians. The right explicitly stole the term and celebrated doing so.

In short, they're a branch of anarchism.

[-] Xeroxchasechase@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

So neo liberal economic is just a right wing spinoff of libertarianism?

[-] lugal@sopuli.xyz 4 points 6 months ago

I wouldn't call it a spinoff but rather a ripoff. There might be few parallels but basically left Libertarians are against all hierarchies, including the state. Right Libertarian are against the state and want to build state like structures but privatized.

[-] Xeroxchasechase@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

What''s left liberterian even means?

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

I never thought of it that way, but you do have a point. I still think it's more pew pew than anything else though.

[-] lugal@sopuli.xyz 2 points 6 months ago

Steve Shives (I hope I got the spelling correct) made a video why conservatives like star trek and a part of it is they see it as stories of other worlds and by doing so ignore all the allegorical implications. "A planet where people have the false gender assigned to them at birth? How truly alien!"

And to be fair: escapism is a legitimate goal of scifi and media in general. You watch scifi to enter a different world, for at least an hour a week be free of all your problems in the here and now.

[-] Mirshe@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago

Even worse, I've run into fans who think the Terrans had the right idea.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago

Considering the Terran Empire ended up being conquered, this tracks with them idolizing other losers, like Nazis and the Confederacy.

[-] match@pawb.social 2 points 6 months ago

Khan-accerationists?

[-] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Sure, but I still genuinely believe the Gospel of Picard would have a net positive effect. Far moreso than the bible, which a good portion already have read.

[-] Deconceptualist@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago

IMO conservatives are either Klingons, Ferengi, or deluded enough to think they'd be chosen to join the Q Continuum. And Libertarians think they're Romulans or Cardassians but aren't actually that organized or clever.

[-] BakerBagel@midwest.social 2 points 6 months ago

I can't help bit notice all these "debate me" chuds talk exactly like Gene Roddenberry's writting style. Why does every conversation or discussion devlove into "the logic of your argument" "you misunderstood the logic of what i am saying".

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago

That type of person will arrive at the conclusion "see, it's okay to do eugenics and have nuclear wars, since humanity will turn out okay anyways".

this post was submitted on 20 Jun 2024
1650 points (98.0% liked)

Microblog Memes

6027 readers
1347 users here now

A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

Rules:

  1. Please put at least one word relevant to the post in the post title.
  2. Be nice.
  3. No advertising, brand promotion or guerilla marketing.
  4. Posters are encouraged to link to the toot or tweet etc in the description of posts.

Related communities:

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS