• someone [comrade/them, they/them]
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    3 months ago

    In fairness to Sisko in that situation, Eddington did go out of his way to personally piss off Sisko. That's not usually a winning strategy.

    • buckykat [none/use name]
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      3 months ago

      "To be fair to Sisko, Eddington should have known what an unhinged maniac he is before daring to fight fascism anywhere near him"

                • buckykat [none/use name]
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                  3 months ago

                  No, they're antifascist guerilla coded because they're antifascist guerillas named for a historical group of antifascist guerillas. Starfleet trying to stop them is one of its more liberal moves.

                  • marx_mentat [he/him, comrade/them]
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                    3 months ago

                    I had an account with maquis in the name and I caught nothing but shit about it for years for it being reactionary and libertarian coded, including from people on this website.

                    • buckykat [none/use name]
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                      3 months ago

                      The first time we meet the people who would go on to become the Maquis they were a Native American tribe who had been displaced again and again for hundreds of years and had finally found a new planet to call home, then Starfleet rolled up and told them their new home had been ceded to the space fascists in a treaty they had no voice in and they had to be displaced again. They refused to be moved and so Starfleet left them and their planet to the space fascists.