we had a woman here charged with murder because she got shot and miscarried

What? TNG is only 35 years old, so what’s with the 50 years claim?

On the eve of battle, on a cold and windless night, an old general turned to a young soldier.

“Tomorrow,” said the master, “you will know fear.”

The young soldier — who had not yet experienced the agony of war — looked at the general with quizzical eyes, “How will I know fear if I do not know what it looks like?”

The general replied, “You will know fear because it speaks very fast and it speaks very loud…”

“If that is how fear acts, recognizing it is easy.” But as the young soldier considered the general’s advice, she asked the question facing us now, “Once I know Fear, how do I defeat it?”

Even so, I come to ask myself the same question that young soldier asked that general all those years ago: “How do I defeat fear?”

The general’s answer: “the only way to defeat fear is to tell it ‘No’.”

No. We will not take shortcuts on the path to righteousness.

No. We will not break the rules that protect us from our basest instincts.

No. We will not allow desperation to destroy moral authority.

I am guilty of all these things.

Some say that in life there are no second chances; experience tells me that this is true.

We can only look forward. We have to be torch-bearers: casting the light so we may see our path to lasting peace. We will continue exploring, discovering new worlds, new civilisations.

Yes. That is the United Federation of Planets.

Yes. That is Starfleet

Yes. That is who we are

And who we will always be.

My dad told me there was fake stuff on the Internet because he saw it on Fox News

I see little problem with not funding school lunches because we shouldn’t have public schools at all. Parents should have to pay for their kids education and food and they should owe more in taxes because they chose to have a kid. That, any gun control, emissions on vehicles, helmet or seatbelt laws, property taxes, sending aid to Ukraine, laws that criminalise victimless crimes are a few of the reasons I won’t vote for a democrat. And I won’t vote for a republican anyway.

They already have in some states. If a woman comes to the emergency room with signs of a miscarriage, they are supposed to ask her if she has taken any abortificants and if she answers in the positive it’s a crime.

So is shooting someone raping you and it’s still legal because you get to control what someone else does to your body.

We cannot even harvest organs from a deceased anonymous person without their permission. A corpse has more body autonomy than a woman

Not the same, just bad in different ways

Republicans want to force everyone to live by christian rules and want to let capitalism run rampant. Democrats want to force everyone to give up individual freedoms and involve the government more in peoples’ lives.

Both parties claim it’s for the greater good.

Both parties suck. The lesser of two evils is still evil and if you vote you’re agreeing to the social contract and you legitimised the system.

I just signed up after lurking for a while. So far it’s very limited compared to Reddit and if not for the loss of Apollo I wouldn’t be here. But I’m using an app that looks and acts like Apollo (Voyager) so it feels like Reddit did for years.

Is it really worth going to war over if a law could stop you from doing something?

According to my state constitution only Christians are allowed to hold office (ineffectualised by the 14th amendment, but it’s still there)

So I guess fuck people who use static images as screensavers