The poorest Americans are constantly fighting with the bureaucracy to get assistance, this is by design to make them hate it.

Any addition to the expansion of the state will be met with hostility.

Absolutely - I honestly think Dune and Dune Messiah should be sold as one book.

Amazing

Well aside from the time it totally bricked my system, it pretty good.

Uhhh, excuse me? My takes are totally original. T’Pol told me so.

Okaaaay, just because you’ve brought it up…

Transporters in Star Trek are shown to definitely not be duplication machines. “Our Man Bashir” (DS9) is probably the most definitive proof of that.

Personally, I think transporter technology explains the staunch atheist (but still open-minded and sometimes spiritualist) Federation mindset: they know that their entire being can be reduced to a matter/energy stream. The transporter makes a devastating philosophical challenge to the idea of a “soul.” Which is, ironically, why so many Federation officers refuse to accept anything that challenges that assumption (VOY “Sacred Ground”).

I cash in one million Xi-bucks for every comment on non-Hexbear comm

Uhh just play Outer Worlds you nerds

Yeah dawg that’s … the entire point of the Engels piece - “authoritarianism” is a meaningless buzzword.

CHINA COLLAPSING ANY DAY NOW

Tom Paris literally broke spacetime and did direct action to save a water planet.

Is there any question?

En clo sure of he commens duh