this post was submitted on 06 Nov 2024

242 points (96.9% liked)

TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name

3728 readers

1060 users here now

/c/TenFoward: Your home-away-from-home for all things Star Trek!

Re-route power to the shields, emit a tachyon pulse through the deflector, and post all the nonsense you want. Within reason of course.

~ 1. No bigotry. This is a Star Trek community. Remember that diversity and coexistence are Star Trek values. Any post/comments that are racist, anti-LGBT, or generally "othering" of a group will result in removal/ban.

~ 2. Keep it civil. Disagreements will happen both on lore and preferences. That's okay! Just don't let it make you forget that the person you are talking to is also a person.

~ 3. Use spoiler tags. This applies to any episodes that have dropped within 3 months prior of your posting. After that it's free game.

~ 4. Keep it Trek related. This one is kind of a gimme but keep as on topic as possible.

~ 5. Keep posts to a limit. We all love Star Trek stuff but 3-4 posts in an hour is plenty enough.

~ 6. Try to not repost. Mistakes happen, we get it! But try to not repost anything from within the past 1-2 months.

~ 7. No General AI Art. Posts of simple AI art do not 'inspire jamaharon'

~ **8. Political commentary is allowed, but please keep discussions civil. Read here for our community's expectations.

Fun will now commence.

Sister Communities:

[email protected]

Want your community to be added to the sidebar? Just ask one of our mods!

Honorary Badbitch:

@[email protected] for realizing that the line used to be "want to be added to the sidebar?" and capitalized on it. Congratulations and welcome to the sidebar. Stamets is both ashamed and proud.

Creator Resources:

Looking for a Star Trek screencap? (TrekCore)

Looking for the right Star Trek typeface/font for your meme? (Thank you @kellyaster for putting this together!)

founded 10 months ago

MODERATORS

242

Nothing else to say. (timewarriors.co.uk)

submitted 6 days ago by FlyingSquid to c/tenforward

57 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 64 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Gay man here in Missouri. A lot of my trans friends and me are very concerned about our futures.

[–] [email protected] 64 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You should be. We should all be concerned about our futures. I'm a white, CIS guy, and I'm concerned. We're completely off the rails now.

[–] Thebeardedsinglemalt 16 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

I'm a white CIS guy as well, and I'm worried to the point I can barely function this morning.

I work at a not for profit hospital that's already on a shoestring budget. Any cuts to government healthcare coverage and my department may as well get slashed in half

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

In a country with a barely functioning (for the non-wealthy) medical system, it can still get worse.

[–] FlyingSquid 29 points 6 days ago (5 children)

I'm concerned about your futures too. My daughter is queer and as of 2 am this morning, we've been working on plans to get to the UK, where I have dual citizenship.

[–] then_three_more 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Doo it. You should me able to get a family visa as long as your daughter is under 18 and your family income is over £29k.

[–] FlyingSquid 11 points 6 days ago

We're working on it. My wife is sending out resumes today.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

My boyfriend ~~totes not domestic partner of 7 years, because I'm trying to get on SSDI~~ does have dual citizenship in 🇮🇪 (also an O'Brien lol).

[–] FlyingSquid 6 points 6 days ago

Can you get emergency married and have him get you over?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Best of luck to you and your family to get out of there as quick and easy as possible.

[–] FlyingSquid 5 points 6 days ago

Thank you. Best of luck to you as well.

[–] Thebeardedsinglemalt 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Godspeed

[–] FlyingSquid 7 points 6 days ago

Thank you.

[–] negativenull 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

care to take 3 along with you?

[–] FlyingSquid 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I wish I could. I wish I could take my daughter's girlfriend and her trans friend with me.

[–] negativenull 8 points 6 days ago

That would be much better for sure

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Any chance you and your friends can hijack a decent State and dig a giant moat around it?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I think our best hope is to move to California and then wait for The Big One to break CA off from the rest of the US.

[–] CrazyLikeGollum 20 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Move to Alaska. We need more left-leaning people. We're already starting to go purple and our population is so low that it probably won't take much to get us to go solidly blue.

Plus, you won't have to wait for a massive earthquake to separate you from the rest of the country. Canada will do that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

Tempting. It is beautiful up there.

[+] [email protected] -33 points 6 days ago (5 children)

What do you actually believe is going to happen to you? Why didn't it happen during his first presidency? Unless you were killed and are talking from beyond the grave? In which case I'm sorry you're dead.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 days ago

They came in as bumbling idiots and still managed to wreck a few things, thankfully we still had some institutions left to push back on him the first time.

They have a detailed takeover plan and a sympathetic supreme court now. Things are a little bit different.

[–] FlyingSquid 22 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Some of it did happen, including a million unnecessary COVID deaths. The rest didn’t because Republicans didn’t control all three branches of government. They will in January.

People are really showing America’s ignorance on basic civics. It’s so depressing.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 days ago

Don't look up the statistics for LGBTQ hate crimes under the Trump presidency then.

The ones who survived last time are not fancying their chances, especially when their friend's corpses are staring back at them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

The last time was truly different. JEB was supposed to win the Republican nomination, leading to a dynasty clash-off between the Bushes and the Clintons... except it didn't happen, when Trump called him a big meanie poopy-pants or whatever, and he cried, looked weak, and basically went limp (tbf, his father was very ill or sth).

So then it was a toss-up between Ted Cruz and Trump, or as the Republican leaders at the time said, a choice between being poisoned vs. shot in the head. They chose the poison.

After that it came down to Hillary vs. Trump in the general election, and due to some helpful little Russian interference, people voted against her. Not for him, mind you, but against her. It was a one-time thing that would never, Ever, EVER happen aga-...

Well shit.

Edit: Tbf, after he won even Trump didn't know what Trump was doing the whole time, besides wandering around eating McDonald's hamburgers. Though now people are READY to make use of him - they know how, and what they want done. THIS IS VERY DIFFERENT.