The Ferengi are hyper-capitalist exploiters who enslave women and Star Fleet not only allows this but does business with them

Yes, this is the nerdiest post I've made.

    • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
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      2 years ago

      I dunno. I couldn't bring myself to do business with those little shits if I had the choice

      If O'Brian was allowed to unionize the ones on the ship, why can't they do that with them all? Lol

      • Retrosound [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        Nobody has to do business with them. Why would anyone, when you can just replicate whatever junk they're trying to rip you off with? Why would the Ferengi do business with the Ferengi?

        See, that would have been a good episode. Infiltrate Ferenganar and deploy replicators, introducing the population to a new way of life and disrupting an oppressed society. But noooo...muh prophets

        • Mardoniush [she/her]
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          2 years ago

          That's a Star Trek series I'd like to see. Section 31, but as a Special Circumstances agency dedicated to subversion and regime change of reactionary cultures.

    • The_Grinch [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      The following will be idealism but we're talking about fantasy so don't @ me about it; Could the federation not simply run a :vote: among the actual ferengi, bypassing their established government systems about what they would like the federation to do, including "leave us alone" or "please overthrow our government for us and establish FALGSC"?

      This is what I would want communist aliens to do for us :yea:

      • ssjmarx [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        This is what I would want communist aliens to do for us

        lmao you and I both know that 70% of humanity would choose their current status over being liberated by aliens, although maybe the falgsc would beam up the people who want to be beamed up and leave everyone else behind.

    • UnicodeHamSic [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      There is a book series the culture where there is a civilization called the culture. They have falgsc and they do around doing regime change to make sure everyone else has it to. So long a people are nice they can do whatever they want with it. However they have to have it.

      Alot of thr conflict is revolving that. Cultures that don't want falgsc and the culture saying too bad kids need medicine and such. So it is an intresting inversion to have a culture do imperialism openly but actually really be trying to improve things.