No. Roddenberry started out a Kennedy New Frontier guy. But as someone said, "Liberalism entered the '60s proud of its accomplishments. It left the '60s ashamed of them."
I always thought that post-scarcity BS began from that throw-away line in Star Trek IV: "Money... they still use that here."
It's corporations that benefit from it
You're ignoring the 80+ years of crushing businesses and freedom of association, the very basis of a market economy. They were the original targets. They have since moved on.
Ayn Rand's last speech, "The Sanction of the Victims," talks about this.
But I'd rather have leftist power that is arranged against corporate (SJW) power,
"Let's align with the Old Marxists against the Intersectional Marxists!"
Let's not.
I do support unionization of 'journalism', as that may give journalism just the push off the cliff that it needs
American schools have been unionized for decades. The Federal government is now bailing unions out directly.
No.
Nixon used China to balance the Soviet Union quite productively
- Soviet Russia and Maoist China had already fought a war.
- Nixon makes promises to China.
- Soviet Union collapses of internal rot 20 years later.
- Red China now eating our lunch.
Yes, that's turned out so well for us.
Someone was criticizing the unions in patriots.win, and got this response:
Having a manufacturing job that pays $30 an hour with a REQUIRED 4% union vig or working at a non-union convenience store at $12?
I would sell my soul to that devil for a better life for me and my family.
He did!
Robespierre was "more bourgeois" than Danton (who created the Committee of Public Safety), who was less radical than Hébert. They all exterminated the Girondins and threw the Convention to the inner wolves of man.
Pre-Thermidorian France was not as totalitarian as a Communist government. But it remains the prototype of almost all left-wing revolutions of today, down to the CHAZ.
I accepted the dissolution of gender roles a while back
BAH. Admitting that not every male is a "man's man," nor every female a "girly girl," is no more strange than saying, not every white person is a tight-assed scold or a racist cracker, nor every black person a soul sister or brotha.
Destroying sex roles for the 1% of the population who don't fit them exactly is madness.
UGH.
You remind me of this guy, carefully explaining how mainland China is "surprisingly capitalist," since you don't have a right to social services in, say, Beijing, unless you live there, but housing is very expensive. (The funny bit is, he explains how he finally realized how he was programmed in school to be a Democrat. I won't tell him how far he has to go; I'd be worried he'd give up.)
liberalism
Orwell's phrase, "oligarchical collectivism," has a lot more to do with America's current economic system than classical Liberalism. The Left tried to push "Progressivism" once "Communism" proved too poisonous, then they dropped it after they smeared it with eugenics and other radical politics, and called themselves "liberals" to cover up their crimes. They poisoned that word enough that Hillary went back to "Progressivism" for 2016, then Biden abandoned even that for a "conservative," old-style Democrat veneer.
The common wisdom holds that “both parties” have to appeal to the extremes during the primary and then move to the center for the general election. To the contrary, both parties run for office as conservatives. Once they have fooled the voters and are safely in office, Republicans sometimes double-cross the voters. Democrats always do. ― Ann Coulter
capitalism
"Capitalism" was a word made up by Marx, probably from the French word for "the feeling of being well-capitalized," capitalisme. (Of course he named it after fee-fees.) But no one in 19th C. America or Britain would have called themselves "capitalists."
Another fee-fee smear word is "individualism." (Almost anything ending in -ism is capable of being used as a content-free smear.) Given the lust for collectivism on the Left, I'm not surprised none of them seem worried about surrendering their minds to the government, that "name for those things we all do together." Obviously, it's a matter of degree, but if America was anything before the New Deal, it was "familyist": if you were dead broke, the usual first option was to send you back to your family for them to put you back on your feet.
"Thou shalt not repeat fake quotes with faker attributions." ― Moses
There was no interest on our profilers’ part in doing investigation of massive voter fraud. They felt it was so obvious and the current work being done by citizens and published on hard-to-find blogs was state-of-the-art and no further investigations would find much more. Their comments were striking because they said the data easily available showed the election fraud patterns had two very alarming characteristics: It was not the first time this was tried, and it will be performed again, at scale, in the next election.
Sobering beyond belief.
Just remember: many of those "conspiracy theories" are in fact pushed by other conspirators to create dissension.
If you want to read two books on the Kennedy assassination, I strongly recommend:
- Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK by Gerald Posner, 2003. Amazon, Barnes & Noble
- Camelot and the Cultural Revolution: How the Assassination of John F. Kennedy Shattered American Liberalism by James Piereson, 2007. Amazon, Barnes & Noble
The first book is, in effect, the biography of Lee Harvey Oswald, showing you how he was definitely the only man in Dallas with the means, motive and opportunity to shoot Kennedy, and who was also ID'ed on the scene by witnesses.
The second book shows you how the first conspiracy theory about JFK's death was promulgated by Jackie Kennedy and The New York Times within 24 hours of the shooting.
against female video-game designers suspected of feminist leanings
Jesus Christ, Joe McCarthy is freakin' immortal. McCarthy and HUAC went after current (and former) members of the foreign-controlled CPUSA, not people who read The Communist Manifesto and thought, "heh, cool." That is a huge distinction, and one lost on Ms Garvin (who deserves the honorific due to his stellar and unthinking efforts on behalf of feminism), since almost all of the "gamers are dead" movement were avowed feminist activists.
"Forgery" simply means being copied from something else
That's plagiarism.
it does not mean a fabrication or inherently false.
That is exactly what it means. A forged check is an attempt to drain someone else's bank account. A Vermeer forgery is a painting designed to cash in on Vermeer's reputation, by imitating his style, by imitating his subject matter, by using the paints and canvases he used, by aging the painting. "Forgery" is identity theft.
Let's turn this around:
Being a dedicated Americanist (i.e., a person who wants to undo the New Deal, and then institute new, capitalist reforms that work far better and are less intrusive), I want to destroy the reputation of leading Democrats. To destroy them on health care, I have the following:
- In 1992, Hillary touted "single-payer" health care. Unlike the UK or CA NHS systems, doctors are not directly employed by the government, but all would be paid by the govt, so the distinction is moot.
- In 1994, Billary was rewarded with a total rout in Congress by the GOP.
- Obama was to the "public option" (AKA single-payer in slow motion) what Thomas Jefferson was to emancipation, offering more promises of it the further he was re-election or any political power. In Aug 2008, it was in his platform one, two. Even Politifact noted it: one, two.
- Obama, too, was rewarded with a rout in 2010. Even those Democrats facing the 2010 midterms were leery of single-payer.
- By 2016 and no longer up for re-election, Obama was again touting a "strong public option".
- Bernie Sanders wants "Medicare for All," which is just single-payer under another name.
Look at the links. These are all reputable sources (ha! Well, I suppose they were). All of the above is true.
Now, if I was a boring, normal person, I would just point out that every Democrat since 1992 has been cuckoo for single payer since forever, regardless of who you vote for. Bernie Bros who whine about Hillary (in between shooting up GOP congressmen) are really only whining that Hillary isn't deploying the Marines to force us all onto Medicare (and its massive, massive taxes) at gun point. And of course, BBs are racist, because they don't whine about Obama in the same way.
But, if I was a retarded freak, then I would forge something called, say, The Protocols of the Meetings of the Learned Elders of the DNC, in which I would pack all the above evidence into words inserted into O'Billary Sander's mouths, and also say that fetuses are not sold for medical experiments, but actually ground into pâté, and that the Trump administration is about to bust Big Pâté, and that everyone should sit back, do nothing, and wait for the prophesied HYUGE REVEAL, instead of doing something insane like going out and getting politically involved.
Now do you see why we don't trust you?
Judging by his history, he's the television reviewer for Reason:
- He calls ST:Discovery "a throwback to the early days of Star Trek."
- He calls The L Word "ground-breaking" instead of a Sex and the City retread for dykes, or The Big Bang Theory, swapping out comedy for sexploitation.
- What the hell is this??
- He's old, not some dumb kid. He was apparently a newspaper reporter in 1979 Miami.
And got it in 1933.