The good news is that cults of personality tend to fail if their personality becomes a disgraced loser.

Organizing a union?

Most of them are bots only capable of copy-paste

(There are a lot of dumb people, don’t get me wrong, but on twitter, most the people spouting his nonsense are bots.)

it could have really been an interesting counterpoint- Data being cold and logical, Lore being… more empathetic. That duality. maybe leading to a sort of balance; since neither is useful without the other.

But nope. they had to make Lore a manipulative asshole.

even if Data didn’t mean to be cold, exactly.

Data was good with information, logic and reasoning, etc.

Lore was good at people, colloquialisms and stuff.

Whereas, irl, data is just a collection of facts, a store of knowledge. lore is the myths and legends we tell ourselves, and not necessarily fact.

It’s really unfortunate that Lore was a villain.

Y’all’kaida

Does that include a jail cell?

Next up, they’re going to try and force women into wearing bedsheets cuz, you know, they can’t keep it in their pants when they see a modestly attractive woman go by in normal clothes.

The fact they had a trial to determine data’s personhood and that it was agonizingly close, that they were actually considering denying it.

If they were truly moral, the question would have never come up; or Maddox and the general would have been slapped down with a scathing “don’t be evil”.

Also, at that point data was hardly new- he’s been in starfleet for 20+ years in which Data earned his place as a decorated Lt. Commander.

In any case, this isn’t even a question for a starfleet court - this would fall under civil purview, and even hearing the trial is a miscarriage. (Also the IFP courts probably have some sort of test that doesn’t require destructive testing. Details.)

That’s because you’re awesome.

You forgot that it was starlet that created the need for this legal argument in the first place.

If the judge was truly moral; this trial would never have happened. If starfleet was moral, the docheberger that wanted to dismantle data would never have been a member.

Also the other best defense would have been to ask docuheberger to prove he’s not just a machine, and crusher explain in intricate detail how they can reassemble Ryker’s brain. And reattach Ryker’s limb after Warf rips it off.

(Okay, so maybe I don’t like Ryker.)

Yes.

no. its Cunningham’s- ah shit, you fucker.

He doesn’t hate you. or me. Mostly because he doesn’t even realize we exist.

Pinball?

Please tell me Pinball gets 2am zoomies

And if Pinball doesn’t… don’t tell me… the imagery is amusing.

And the context was they called PR garbage for no other reason than not being white enough; and he was responding to that.

Like, no. “Have you seen trump supporters” is a fair criticism to that.

I’m not sure climate change peeps would necessarily publish the raw lidar map in a way that would be useful for an archeologist.

There’s a lot of data there.

Why do you think musk bought twitter?

They’re voting trump because they were convinced they are victims. Calling them names may make them actually turn out more because it gives weight to trumps campaign and their arguments they make.

bullshit. even fox news and OAN and all the-even further-right-wing-rags air his rants. They’ve heard him speak. we ALL watched him incite an insurrection. all their propagandist rags have spewed his own words like “I’ll be a dictator on day one”, or “If I get elected, you won’t [get] to vote again.” comments. They’ve heard all his violent rhetoric. They’ve heard him praise douchey assholes like Putin and Kim.

They’ve heard his racist dog-whistles. his misogyny. His stupidity.
They like that he calls for political violence against immigrants, against women, and against anyone whose not ideologically with them. (that is… democrats.).
They like his vile shit.

The GOP is the party of Insurrection. The party of violence. The party of racism. the party of misogyny. The party of hate. The party of Fuck-the-Poor-so-The-Rich-can-save-a-Buck.

Sorry, but they’re voting for that. Knowingly. they’re voting for project 2025. Knowingly. They’re not ignorant. They know what and who he is, and they’re voting for the candidate they like.

we need to be hitting back at the people who try to ‘civilize’ trump’s message. “no he meant” needs to be met with “Trump meant to be fucking fascist, why are you lying?”

It’s tough to navigate this election, but fueling their emotions while their manipulated emotions have made them vote for trump in the first place, seems like an obviously bad idea, even for some idiot like myself.

yeah, the time to coddle their fucking emotions is long since passed. Hurt their feelings. the worst of trump’s supporters are not here to have civil conversation like functional adults.

they’re here to beat the shit out of you until you comply. They don’t give a flying fuck about your feelings. Only your compliance. It’s well past time to clobber the “undecided” or “moderates” that don’t really exist any more over the head with all of the GOP’s bullshit. Paint them with that brush. if they don’t like it they can prove it by NOT SUPPORTING THE FUCKING FASCISTS.

You mean… like trump did? When he doubles down on the PR being “garage”,

Or, every time he opens his puckered anus?

It’s okay to get angry. It’s okay to say that people that want to elect a rapist, racist, a raging misogynist, convicted felon, tax cheat, business fraudster.

a man whose policies are so awful, that his kill count is only lower compared to the likes of Mao, Stalin, hitler and Pol Pot.

That is who trump voters are voting for. You cannot be a good person- or even a half-way decent person- and vote for that.

You do not get to make jokes about Paul Pelosi getting beaten in the head with a claw hammer and then get offended when you’re called a piece of trash.

You do not get to attack people at voting polls with a machete, or burn ballot boxes or intimidate voters and complain about being called garbage.

You do not get to vote for laws that prevent women from getting necessary, emergency medical care directly leading to their death, and bitch about being called a callous, shitty human being.

Any vote that gets lost because of this was never going to be voting for harris anyway. Undecided voters don’t exist. We know who and what the candidates are. We’ve known for more than a year. It isn’t that complicated a decision.