https://hexbear.net/comment/3998896

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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    9 months ago

    A staggering number of Trek fans are libertarians and that bewilders me. You'll see them on Star Trek Online zipping around in USS AYN RAND and USS FOUNTAINHEAD and the like, usually coming from tacticool Section 31 themed fleets. libertarian-approaching

    • Maoo [none/use name]
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      9 months ago

      Libertarians are not an intellectual people.

      I had a libertarian tell me that the minimum wage was racist the other day. They said this in the same breath as arguing that black people won't work without an incentive.

        • Maoo [none/use name]
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          9 months ago

          Yeah this was some kind of riff on that only it was even worse because they were talking about how there's just no incentive for black people in particular to gain skills when there's a minimum wage. This was, of course, a middle-aged white guy.

    • Gosplan14_the_Third [none/use name]
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      edit-2
      9 months ago

      Star Trek Online Fun Fact:

      In the Romulan Republic campaign, there's a lore terminal in one of the Tal Shiar bases that namedrops the Communist Manifesto as one of the many literary works seized from rebel Romulans. In fact that whole campaign's first arc is fighting a civil war to overthrow the Empire.

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