Abortion is a religiously mediated litmus test for politicians. As a Catholic, Biden’s personal religious delusions conflict with truly supporting the pro-choice stance. This isn’t something that will change soon. Voting Americans hate atheist/agnostic morality, and we are likely to get every single other denomination of president before we have an atheist one or even an agnostic one. (Wormald, 2014) The big issue is that abortion was not a political litmus test until subversive alt-right groups made it one after they failed to succeed with their segregationist ideologies. Just know that it all links back to creating a caste system where white, rich, and religious individuals are at the top. (Stewart, 2022)

Stewart, K. (2022). The power worshippers: Inside the dangerous rise of religious nationalism. Bloomsbury Publishing.

Wormald, B. (2014, July 16). How Americans feel about religious groups. Pew Research Center’s Religion & Public Life Project. https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2014/07/16/how-americans-feel-about-religious-groups/

After reading Four Battlegrounds, by Paul Scharre, and Surveillance Capitalism, by Shoshana Zubuff, I have no faith that our government can protect us from the CCP or Silicon Valley. The CCP wants to have all of our biometric data so that it can profile us within it’s social credit system and thus stiffle our political opposition to authoritarianism. Silicon Valley tech companies exercise their unethical behavior modification techniques at scale to drive consumerist behaviors and as an offshoot they also drive massive amounts of people toward extremism. There seems to be no technically savvy intellectuals in government that can thwart these changes and I foresee a crisis event being the only wakeup call for us to drive change.

I won’t argue on definitions of topics I am not an expert in. If you feel the Terran Federation meets your broad definition of fascism peace be with you. The only point of contention I’ll offer is that you are flatty wrong about Heinlein being fascist. If he were alive and you called him that to his face, he’d look down on you in confusion probably combing his mind over his years of service fighting actual fascists which gave you freedom to confusingly missaply it to him.

You are correct that the US is more xenophobic than the government depicted in StarShip Troopers. That being said the US isn’t the government on display in either the movie or book, it is the Terran Federation. The Terran Federation also isn’t fascist. It is a secular militaristic limited democracy. Every single person who wishes to become a citizen may do so through voluntary service. Unlike our current military recruitment which limits based on country of origin, physical ability, and other qualifiers anyone can join. Stephan Hawkings would have been turned down for service in America, while the Terran Federation would have found a place for him. There are also harsher judicial punishments for those who gain citizenship if they break the law than non-citizens so that citizenships is a privilege and a duty. This hierarchy diminishes the strength of oligarchy, because money has no bearing on voting. Only those who display and demonstrate their true public service affect how the federation operates. Many people who read the book come away thinking that Heinlein was some fascist militarist, but they overlook his criticism of the hypothetical system of government he proposes in the book. He was a Navy officer before being a writer and his righting reflects his admiration for his families long history of public service. There are thinly veiled critiques of the military throughout that my go unnoticed by non-veterans. The psychological manipulation of Rico is definitely something that Heinlein hammers. The movie recast the Phillipino Rico for the hyper Caucasian Casper Van Dien, so while the movie was trying to critique the book if fell flatly on its face white washing the diversity on display in the book, it also more than the book enhances the glory of blind militarism, while is not the type of militarism from the book. All in all both the movie and book’s Terran Federation are forms of government that are better than the shadow fascist oligarchical governments that we enjoy across multiple countries in 2023.

My head cannon is that a society that places personal autonomy as a core value avoids utilizing surveillance of their people as a means of societal control. It just does not occur to them to place cameras everywhere because it is so antithetical to their core values. That is also a reason Data gets so much leeway to act autonomously. Aside from people who want to diminish that freedom, everyone is just fine with the blanket protection of personal autonomy. Check out the book Surveillance Capitalism by Zuboff. It highlights the evergrowing behavioral manipulation tech companies are utilizing with surveillance and unethical behavioral shaping. Considering Star Trek is beyond capitalism, it makes a lot of sense that they would stop the unethical monitoring of individuals.

That dude has real “Atlantic City Magician” vibes.

I just saw this on my drive. Prepare yourself, we live in in a simulation that’s stuck on repeat.

Not another teen movie?

I use edge browser on my android. It has an emersive reader button that strips away all ads, prompts, and often allows me to push through paywalls. It looks like this and has the text to speech function.

Spent time in Florida after Katrina and he apparently payed out employees relief checks pretty fast before FEMA arrived. Then he also took more than he was owed and didn’t hire people back… So definitely a mixed bag of dicks. Lol. There’s a very short list of Floridian businessmen that I’d put on my “good dudes” list.

Thank you for for candor and self awareness in your response. Helps me synthesize ideas about possible future investigations. The broadness of the neurodivergent spectrum inclusive defintion is a good and bad thing. The term has a nice ring to it, but its broadness means that their are a wider variety of malingerers on the outer edges. As the edges get wider the more of that happens. I am more fond of direct identification of diagnoses instead of the conglomerated term. What are your feelings about self-identifying or being identified as neurodivergent? To clarify the question, do you find the label positive or negative compared to the label ADHD?

Honest question from a psych researcher: your self-disclosure about neurodivergence. Is that a self-diagnosis or clinical. Ive seena huge uptick in the term usage, especially on internet forums. Might be a good study to explore it’s etymological evolution over the past few years. Are you staying that members of the instance or members of the mod team are made up of neurodivergent individuals? Feel free to PM me if you don’t feel comfortable answering here. I don’t mind asking in public since you self-disclosed and public is always a good place to show the least bias to people.

No worries. Cunty is a fun way to be sometimes. Life shouldn’t be shades of niceness all the time. Glad your gonna take a watch. It’s a great B-movie with some solid jokes. Bill Paxton is great in it too. You’ll never say Penelope the same again after seeing it. And the ending is dope.

You are six comments deep on thread about a meme, about a movie, about a dead singer, played by a dead actor, that nobody remembers… IDK how you were even with me from the beginning let alone until I went wildly of the rails with “it’s not hard”. I’ll try to reign in my rudeness with people next time to make sure I secure your vote of confidence.

“Watch out everybody it’s the fucking fun police!” (From the movie in case anyone needs the joke explained)

I’ll draw out the path for you, because you and the previous poster seem genuinely confused.

Bill Paxton (shown above) is playing a character, Coconut Pete. He plays a character in a movie called Club Dread. A broken lizard production. In said movie, Coconut Pete’s music was ripped off by Jimmy Buffett. Specifically the song Pina-colada-Berg was turned into Margarita-ville. Pina Colada-berg is a bad song purposefully, because of parody law. The meme is that Coconut Pete would say this exact thing given the current news that Jimmy Buffet has passed away.

I hope now we can laugh together, but I doubt it because explaining a joke really cuts out all humor. Seriously take the advise given and just watch the movie to understand before posting. It’s not hard.

I believe you need to watch Club Dread to fully appreciate this meme and the song. Once you do you will understand why this song is vastly superior.

https://youtu.be/JL0tNiKTfLk?feature=shared For the uninitiated

“In seeking to rid the world of evil, I became that which I sought to destroy.” - OP

Prior to what I do now, which is completely different, I worked electronics on a military ship.

I don’t know how many officers destroyed equipment trying to do the most asinine things. One officer tried to feedback look a generator to charge said generator. Nearly destroyed the ship. Wasn’t even their work area or under their purview.

Even on the Enterprise, where all the officers were supposed to be hyper intelligent top tier specialists, I have no difficulty believing they mess things up on the regular. It’s more surprising that it happened so little.

I agree with your sentiment, but would ask that you reflect on how you are fighting it.

Vote, confront the opposition, protest… These are all options for fighting on a micro-scale. They all affect very little.

Run for office, get elected, write legislation. These are other ways to fight. But they are time consuming and a single platform candidate rarely gets elected. Still small scale.

So how do we fight?

We have to fight in the same way we fought reddits attempt to control its userbase. We have to jump ship and create a network of federated library databases which serve to make book bans impossible.

That in part is what Anna’s archive is. It’s a search engine of these databases.

The last refuge of this knowledge is within ourselves. You may or may not be a big reader. Idk. But you should begin reading in ernest to become a repository and deceminator of knowledge. Many people that say they are fighting, really mean complaining on the Internet void. They hardley read the books they say they are protecting. Do more than these people. Read, retain, disseminate, and fight in ways the people who want to take away your freedom don’t understand. I guarantee you the people who want this are not computer litterate. Use their illiteracy against them. Fight on the macro scale with technology and reading.