fienen.bsky.social
Working with most things web, Buddhist(ish), theatre geek, playwright, fountain pen guy, scotch nut.
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If you're okay with that language and its casual use as an insult, I am not okay with you, and I ask that you self-select yourself off my friends list.
A line has been crossed.
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Is the canon of Harry Mudd really all that sacred though?
I was much more bothered by the Klingons than the Gorn, and most of that had to do with production quality, not any changes themselves.
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My long hair days are far behind me. I'm doing well to just hold on to what I have.
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Context (and this isn't even the weirdest it gets):
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Black, Asian, female, and other business owners trying to create opportunities in their communities, you should be VERY worried right now.
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It's useless policy pushed by useless people too lazy to do the work to fix real issues that face you and yours.
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Does it enhance national security? No. Does it support disabled veterans? No. Does it bring peace to the middle east? No. Does it reduce the influx of illegal drugs? No. Does it secure the border? No. Does it make travel safe? No. Does it reduce terrorism? No.
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Does it make healthcare affordable and accessible? No. Does it return America to a state of dominance in education and technology? No. Does it improve energy independence? No. Does it make affordable child care more accessible? No. Does it create jobs? No. Does it increase military readiness? No.
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Does it repair infrastructure? No. Does it reduce inflation? No. Does it lower crime? No. Does lower the cost of living? No. Does it address homelessness? No. Does it address illegal immigration? No. Does it address gun rights? No. Does it lower the tax burden on citizens? No.
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The people who picked Pac Man took a ton of acid before starting work.
RIP to the team that picked Concord.
Also, I would take an entire season of the Unreal Tournament story in a heartbeat.
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So many Whedon-tainted storylines now...
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They have to give a number. If there isn't a number, if it doesn't matter how many actual citizens get caught up in it, then really what they are saying is that they don't care about those citizens because of the color of their skin.
Man, there's a word for that...
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...citizens need to be wrongly deported before the idea is untenable? How many citizens need their rights not just violated, but outright stripped away? It's going to happen, so if they support it, you deserve to know how many they are okay with.
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...are many, varied, and frequently incredibly nuanced. But, when you come up against someone who won't stop talking nonsense, the only question you need to ask is incredibly easy:
How many Americans is it okay to deport? What's the number or ratio? One-in-ten? One-in-one-hundred? How many...
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...(on his worst day, Eisenhower was a better Republican that Trump has been any day of his life), similarly shipped citizens over borders without a thought. You know why the government got away with it? Because their skin color was brown. Full stop.
The arguments against mass deportation...
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America means nothing to them. The Constitution means nothing. It's all about power regardless of the cost. They will lie for it. They will make excuses for it. Eventually, they'll do worse, because at every opportunity, they've gotten worse.