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Guys he used it to kill Godzilla.
Wanted to doodle dome expressions for him. I. Love just. Messing around with his eyes. Cartoony little thang.
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"90% of men have a Nazi phase" is a statistical error. Nazis Platner who comes up with a different excuse for his emotional support Nazi chest tattoo every single day is an outlier adn should not have been counted.
My "I'm not a Nazi" tattoo is prompting a lot of questions that are answered by my tattoo!!
Okay, so I don't think it's literally true that 90% of American men "had a Nazi phase." But if I did really believe that, I would absolutely be fine with removing them all from the political process. I am also fine with removing all rapists, domestic abusers, and sexual harassers from the political process. That's a much larger portion of the male population than guys who "had a Nazi phase." I don't think even that group makes up 90% of American men (despite all the accusations of being a man-hater, I don't think most men are nearly as awful as the men who post from the ends of the political horseshoe think their fellows are). But I'm just saying, if that group did make up 90%, I'd be perfectly happy to have 90% of American men excluded from political office.
tbh i don’t think any aesthetic or fandom is inherently leftist. people will say “you can’t be goth/punk/emo/alt/whatever if you’re not a leftist!” and “how do conservative star trek fans exist?” and like. it’s simple. they’re literally just aesthetics and fandoms. there is nothing inherently leftist about dressing a certain way, or listening to certain music, or watching certain tv shows.
i think a lot of people want to believe that performing a certain aesthetic or being in a certain fandom makes you a better leftist, because they’re at least semi-aware that they aren’t doing enough. but instead of going out and trying to improve anything, they just reframe something they’re already doing as radical and leftist.
Also, a lot of right wingers are just amazingly obtuse. They can watch a show or sing along to a song with a heavy-handed message and just completely miss the point in a way that is staggering.
Like, Star Trek has historically included 100% intentional political content-- not very far leftist political content, but metaphors, allegories, morals, and casting choices that were meant to be progressive for their time. Participating in Star Trek fandom does not make you progressive or center-left, just like participating in Tolkien fandom does not make you a conservative Catholic. And if conservative dudes who love space lasers and hate "wokeness" were just going, "Jim Kirk is a badass. I don't care about all that diversity bullshit," they would be pretty much equal-and-opposite to progressive-leaning Tolkien fans. But no, every time a new Trek comes out, there's somebody going, "Keep politics out of Star Trek! Make Trek apolitical again, like it was when I was watching TOS/TNG/DS9!" They didn't just notice the message and disagree-- they apparently didn't pick up on it at all, even though Star Trek is not subtle. There are Republicans who will say that their favorite band is Rage Against The Machine, and instead of adding "I don't agree with their politics, but the music slaps," they'll claim that the band's early lyrics had no obvious political content, and not even seem to realize what an own goal it is to admit they missed that.
Star Trek has histoircally included a lot of stuff that would be considered very progressive for its day, but would be mainstream and middle-of-the-road today.
Also, you are literally the sort of person OP was talking about.
I think another aspect to this that @sparklinglakemonster misses is that star Trek was very very rarely directly allegorical. The people who fight wars via computer simulation(to use just one example) dont represent any real conflict or peoples. They are a fable to discuss philosophical concepts: the nature of war, the question of whether making war 'safer' would actually be good, or it would just create an incentive to allow it carry on forever, etc. The episodes that ARE direct allegories are generally considered not that great.
And even when star trek went political(which not every episode did btw), it never belittled or insulted its audience or anyone who might have a different opinion than them. It kept the ideas front And nobody was ever told(at least not until very recently) that not liking Star Trek, or liking it the 'wrong' way made them a bigot or bad person.
Thats what people mean when they say 'keep politics out of...'
Hey @robinhoodforfreedom and @siryouarebeingmocked
Quit being dicks to my friend. They are literally agreeing with OP. Yeah, Star Trek has a messy and complicated history and especially TOS because it was made in the 1960s, but being pedantic about that is missing the forest for the trees here.
Oh no, I think you missed the point:
The fact that ToS didnt have a lot of allegories or belittle its audience is actually why it(and every series through Enterprise) was great, actually. We need to go back to that.
Shut up, man. You're hung up on the example used.
Its not like the points I made are unique to Star Trek.
This isn't about Star Trek, you dipshit. It's about you and this other blogger being a jackass to my friend.
Go take a short walk off a long pier.
I think that we can safely say these guys are actually right wing as they say they don’t want to be called bigots for not liking Star Trek without actually addressing the minutia of what their specific reasons for disliking current Star Trek are (sexual and gender minorities being present, non-white folks in positions of authority within Starfleet’s structure) that might get you called a bigot.
That and like one of them called @jackalopeisaac a faggot in another reblog so like I think we can safely say this whole convo has been disingenuous.
Actually my main issues with nutrek have more to do with the overall writing, and in particular how none of it feels like Star Trek anymore. No more allusions to classical literature or philosophy, characters all sound like they are from some CW teen drama, with a gratutious amount of swearing(I'm not against swearing, but it doesnt belong on Star Trek), plots that go into outright goofy territory.
I didnt bring those things up because it wasnt relevant to the conversation at hand.
And ironically you are actually doing precisely what I was complaining about.
“And nobody was ever told(at least not until very recently) that not liking Star Trek, or liking it the 'wrong' way made them a bigot or bad person.”
I was primarily referring to this portion of your original reply. I think that we do have to engage with the fact that there are a vocal group of people who say they don’t like Star Trek, don’t like being called a bigot, but do dislike anything new solely or mainly for the presence of minority groups targeted in the ongoing culture war.
That being said, of course that’s not the only reason someone might dislike Star Trek. You prefer a specific writing style that you feel matches the overall theme of the series/setting. I grew up with Next Gen, but had no interest in Picard because I felt we’d had enough time with him as a character. Also, are some of those things you’re talking about Lower Decks? I never watched that because adult animated comedies have a bad reputation in my eyes.
I think at the end of the day this concept of right wing folks being oblivious to political things may just be another side of the same coin (or maybe twenty-sided die?) as the original topic of obsession with aesthetics. If you’re too focused on aesthetics, of course you may be ignorant of any underlying political themes that may be contradictory to your personal views, whether you’re left wing or right wing. No one is immune to this, which is what I think is pretty in line with the original position.
Also sorry that you caught a stray there, I kinda see red when I see someone calling someone slurs in the notes of a post.
tbh i don’t think any aesthetic or fandom is inherently leftist. people will say “you can’t be goth/punk/emo/alt/whatever if you’re not a leftist!” and “how do conservative star trek fans exist?” and like. it’s simple. they’re literally just aesthetics and fandoms. there is nothing inherently leftist about dressing a certain way, or listening to certain music, or watching certain tv shows.
i think a lot of people want to believe that performing a certain aesthetic or being in a certain fandom makes you a better leftist, because they’re at least semi-aware that they aren’t doing enough. but instead of going out and trying to improve anything, they just reframe something they’re already doing as radical and leftist.
Also, a lot of right wingers are just amazingly obtuse. They can watch a show or sing along to a song with a heavy-handed message and just completely miss the point in a way that is staggering.
Like, Star Trek has historically included 100% intentional political content-- not very far leftist political content, but metaphors, allegories, morals, and casting choices that were meant to be progressive for their time. Participating in Star Trek fandom does not make you progressive or center-left, just like participating in Tolkien fandom does not make you a conservative Catholic. And if conservative dudes who love space lasers and hate "wokeness" were just going, "Jim Kirk is a badass. I don't care about all that diversity bullshit," they would be pretty much equal-and-opposite to progressive-leaning Tolkien fans. But no, every time a new Trek comes out, there's somebody going, "Keep politics out of Star Trek! Make Trek apolitical again, like it was when I was watching TOS/TNG/DS9!" They didn't just notice the message and disagree-- they apparently didn't pick up on it at all, even though Star Trek is not subtle. There are Republicans who will say that their favorite band is Rage Against The Machine, and instead of adding "I don't agree with their politics, but the music slaps," they'll claim that the band's early lyrics had no obvious political content, and not even seem to realize what an own goal it is to admit they missed that.
Star Trek has histoircally included a lot of stuff that would be considered very progressive for its day, but would be mainstream and middle-of-the-road today.
Also, you are literally the sort of person OP was talking about.
I think another aspect to this that @sparklinglakemonster misses is that star Trek was very very rarely directly allegorical. The people who fight wars via computer simulation(to use just one example) dont represent any real conflict or peoples. They are a fable to discuss philosophical concepts: the nature of war, the question of whether making war 'safer' would actually be good, or it would just create an incentive to allow it carry on forever, etc. The episodes that ARE direct allegories are generally considered not that great.
And even when star trek went political(which not every episode did btw), it never belittled or insulted its audience or anyone who might have a different opinion than them. It kept the ideas front And nobody was ever told(at least not until very recently) that not liking Star Trek, or liking it the 'wrong' way made them a bigot or bad person.
Thats what people mean when they say 'keep politics out of...'
Hey @robinhoodforfreedom and @siryouarebeingmocked
Quit being dicks to my friend. They are literally agreeing with OP. Yeah, Star Trek has a messy and complicated history and especially TOS because it was made in the 1960s, but being pedantic about that is missing the forest for the trees here.
Oh no, I think you missed the point:
The fact that ToS didnt have a lot of allegories or belittle its audience is actually why it(and every series through Enterprise) was great, actually. We need to go back to that.
Shut up, man. You're hung up on the example used.
Its not like the points I made are unique to Star Trek.
This isn't about Star Trek, you dipshit. It's about you and this other blogger being a jackass to my friend.
Go take a short walk off a long pier.
I think that we can safely say these guys are actually right wing as they say they don’t want to be called bigots for not liking Star Trek without actually addressing the minutia of what their specific reasons for disliking current Star Trek are (sexual and gender minorities being present, non-white folks in positions of authority within Starfleet’s structure) that might get you called a bigot.
That and like one of them called @jackalopeisaac a faggot in another reblog so like I think we can safely say this whole convo has been disingenuous.
Ah no wait that wasn’t said by one of the people who started this argument, but I imagine they have to be following them in order to see this post.
So like if ye care, @robin-hood-for-freedom maybe ye don’t wanna be the kind of person who someone who’ll randomly call someone a faggot would follow.
