• Pandantic@midwest.socialEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Reading through all the comments, it’s funny to me a Star Trek fan not being able to conceptualize a world without money.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      10 months ago

      A staggering number of Trek fans are libertarians and that bewilders me. You’ll see them on Star Trek Online zipping around in USS AYN RAND and USS FOUNTAINHEAD and the like, usually coming from tacticool Section 31 themed fleets. libertarian-approaching

      • Maoo [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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        10 months ago

        Libertarians are not an intellectual people.

        I had a libertarian tell me that the minimum wage was racist the other day. They said this in the same breath as arguing that black people won’t work without an incentive.

      • Gosplan14_the_Third [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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        10 months ago

        Star Trek Online Fun Fact:

        In the Romulan Republic campaign, there’s a lore terminal in one of the Tal Shiar bases that namedrops the Communist Manifesto as one of the many literary works seized from rebel Romulans. In fact that whole campaign’s first arc is fighting a civil war to overthrow the Empire.