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[–] Mojave 5 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Zelenskyy's message and overall chutzpah is sick! It's motivating and always a great rallying feeling to see your leader be a leader. It feels easy to dismiss his social media posts as something akin to virtue signalling, but it's truly not for the entire nation of people he's fighting for.

I want to cynically ask: does Sulu have some authoritative or qualified credibility on matters like the invasion of Ukraine? It has always felt strange to see right wing nut jobs get riled up when people like Hockey legend Wayne Gretzky endorsed Trump, and it feels equally weird to see people from the more broad political spectrums get riled up for this post of the gay sci-fi icon endorse Zelenskyy.

Why snip George Takei's response instead of just posting Zelenskyy's?

[–] warbond 13 points 10 hours ago

George Takei has proven himself to be a compassionate person, so outside of any political context, having such a parasocially trustworthy person give their opinion is to lend the weight of his accumulated goodwill to an idea to effectively create a social or cultural frame of reference.

e.g. "Even George Takei supports Ukrainian independence."

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago

He has experienced war as being a victim of the internment camp in the us war relocation center in 1942. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Takei

[–] RonnyZittledong 57 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

George Takei is a national treasure

[–] Iheartcheese 21 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
[–] woelkchen 24 points 18 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

He was federated before it was cool.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Why else would his head have been preseved for a thousands years.

spoilerfuturama reference

[–] RedditWanderer 17 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
[–] woelkchen 7 points 18 hours ago

Didn't realize he's active on both (or to be more factual: I forgot). I'll add it to the submission text.