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starswordc
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Unless you've been living under a rock for the last two years, you ought to know that tonight is election night here in the US. If you've voted already, then congratulations! I voted two weeks ago when early voting started in my state.
If you haven't, get the hell out there and vote. East coasters, you've got a minimum of an hour left; anybody else, you can add up to three hours to that. A lot of people died to get you the right to vote; don't squander it. Click my sig if you don't know where your polling place is.
If you haven't, get the hell out there and vote. East coasters, you've got a minimum of an hour left; anybody else, you can add up to three hours to that. A lot of people died to get you the right to vote; don't squander it. Click my sig if you don't know where your polling place is.
"Great War! / And I cannot take more! / Great tour! / I keep on marching on / I play the great score / There will be no encore / Great War! / The War to End All Wars"
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— Sabaton, "Great War"
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- Robert Heinlein, speaking ex cathedra as Lazarus Long
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I Was A Trekkie Before It Was Cool ... Sept. 8th, 1966 ... Not To Mention Before Most Folks Around Here Were Born!
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We are. I'm scared to think what Trump's going to do once he gets into office, especially when it comes to LGBTQ issues.
Well done America.
Edit: It's still not over as of me typing this.
There's still a possibility the bankers puppet might beat the populist psycho.
If only those who voted for the science denier or the trade and foreign affairs ignorant one had have voted for one of the main bad choices.
Norway and Yeager dammit... I still want my Typhoon and Jupiter though.
JJ Trek The Kelvin Timeline is just Trek and it's fully canon... get over it. But I still prefer TAR.
#TASforSTO
'...I can tell you that we're not in the military and that we intend no harm to the whales.' Kirk: The Voyage Home
'Starfleet is not a military organisation. Its purpose is exploration.' Picard: Peak Performance
'This is clearly a military operation. Is that what we are now? Because I thought we were explorers!' Scotty: Into Darkness
'...The Federation. Starfleet. We're not a military agency.' Scotty: Beyond
'I'm not a soldier anymore. I'm an engineer.' Miles O'Brien: Empok Nor
'...Starfleet could use you... It's a peacekeeping and humanitarian armada...' Admiral Pike: Star Trek
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Does that mean we're actually at the origins of the Mirror Universe? Is "angry face with a dead tribble toupee" our version of Khan?
It's not like there was an actual good choice though. IMO, both candidates are potentially dangerous - the difference is just that one of them is not trying to hide it.
Well... next year it's time for us in Germany to vote. With the low participation in elections and the current situation I already know that once again our bigger political factions are going to need to fuse into an impotent big coalition, and somebody incredibly incompetent will be their 'flagship'. I'm not going to make up any illusions.
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Well. Did you expect the masses to have read that and still remember?
Like choosing between a Vorta and a Tamarian? Would certainly make for an epic TV-duel!
Maybe we should all just play the game, stick with game topics, or at least Star Trek?
Qapla!
Not even just the Brexit, the people don't realize that this is what happened in Germany in the late 20s, early 30s ...
I really have problems grasping the "no good choice" argument in this particular case. The vote was between your usual politician and a KKK endorsed mysoginistic racist. Anyone who could have voted not for Trump but either did so willingly or did not vote out of juvenile spite approved and actively helped making racism presentable again.
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Well suppose someone points out that in the MU Biff should be a good guy? The next person could take that further, and say well then so would (insert candidate name here) be a good guy, and so on, and eventually our nice game and the attached forums become a place more akin to a giant cat litter box, with all of us engaged in the task of trying to bury each other.
No good will come of this. Only a lot of non-Trek opinions, arguing, and eventually it will be closed. A waste of time, and bad for the community here.
There are so many places to properly have a big awful brawl over who won, or who someone thinks should have won.
I could recommend several, since I used to blog politics myself. I shouldn't need to though, since we all seem to be internet savvy here, and I am sure each of us can find another place to either have our views confirmed by group-think, or to martyr ourselves in enemy territory. No need to make this nice place a warzone, especially when we should be making it more hospitable to newcomers.
Let us not bring 'mutually assured destruction' to this haven from the real world's nonsense.
Will reason prevail here?
Qapla!
Well, thanks. Go ahead, if you use my corrected version (a word was missing). I don't know if it's that quotable though, just common sense
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All the pundits and the mainstream media, who are supposed to be very smart about this sort of stuff, were wrong.
So how smart can they be?
How can someone be worth that much money and hang onto it by being continually stupid?
How can someone be worth that much money and hang onto it if they surround themselves with stupid people?
Remember 2008? To borrow something from Ronald Reagan, are you better off now than you were eight years ago?
Would you be better off with a continuation of the status quo for the next four years?
Hillary was running partly on continuing Barak's legacy. What, she's not good enough to create her own?
While he is not the first choice I would have made, I think it is long past time the deeply entrenched elite in Washington, DC got their cages rattled. Hard. 'We the People" should not simply be the first phrase of the Constitution.
And all of you who threatened to leave if he became President. I'll be right over to help you pack. If you don't have the backbone it takes to stay and try to make things better for all of us, then GTFO. You'll not be missed.
You've posted some very interesting threads over the years. Where is the part in which I am supposed to care about something you did or said twenty some years ago? How are my opinions and feelings about something you did in the past relevant to whatever it is you are posting right now? Are you exactly the same person now as you were at eighteen? Do you hold the same views now as you did then? Are you incapable of learning from mistakes you've made?
I went and studied up on him. Don't really like him. I went and studied up on her. Like her a lot less. I decided to make up my own mind instead of blindly accepting "the Truth" from whatever talking head was on the telly at the moment. It is easy to parrot what others are saying. I see it here from lots of sheeple all the time. BTW, I did what I have done for the past four elections. I wrote in Colin Powell's name. Long history in this country of ex generals being good Presidents. General Powell really should have been the first African-American President of the United States. He certainly ought to be the second. The fact he will not saddens me greatly
As far as the Western countries electing bad leaders who do bad things. Donald Trump may be all the things you say. But there is no record anywhere of him executing six million Jews simply because they were Jewish, is there?
He didn't know it was on camera. It was just a man boasting to another man, something that is done in places all over the world and by people from all social classes. You shouldn't take it too literally.
Of course it's ridiculous behaviour for a president to talk like that, but it was ten years ago and, again, not meant to be filmed.
The same goes for 'threatening to throw his opposition in jail'. That wasn't said because Clinton was his opposition, but because there were clear clues she should have been prosecuted. Don't take things too literally, it's election-related rhetoric.
I, as an European, won't worry. I would have worried if Clinton had become president. It's about time that the US stops intervening in all sorts of different countries, undermining governments like in Syria by supporting 'rebels' (read: terrorists) and so on. If Trump is going to keep his promise and diminish American military presence in the rest of the world, I think things will be a lot better for us here.
More and more people (and not just in the countries that are being bombed) are getting tired of the agressive American foreign policy, policy that has been causing a lot of trouble for decades now and which hasn't made the world a safer place. I don't hate America, but I think Trump was definitely right when he said that this agressive foreign policy is the main reason why other people (are beginning to) hate America.
It's time for real change in that regard, and I hope Trump will keep his promise. At least he made the promise, Clinton would very likely have continued the awful policy that she executed as Minister of Foreign Affairs and we don't need that.
Time to start building that wall...
Winning.
Oh, now don't tell me you want in on all this! Well, ok. Look this that Egg Pawn hanging outside your window, pointing his laser rifle at you, waiting for my next order. He's doing his part. He helps conquer the weak-minded. He roboticizes the weak-bodied. Heck, he even helps keep the useless people from causing any trouble, but you know what? Join. Find the closest Nataran Empire roboticization center near you and join the ranks, before the ranks find you. Oh, I know, you figure it must be so satisfying to know I basically rule the world now, and you know what? It is, but do you want to know the true definition of satisfaction? Well, let me tell you a little story. One day, you see a brand new event. They're giving out boxes that give old event stuff. Your dilithium is plentiful. You buy a whole lot of Phoenix packs on your main, and open them all. You get one epic token. Then, you decide, that since you have all the Breen ships and don't give a damn about the others, you exchange it for an ultra rare, and grab yourself a Jem'Hadar Attack Ship and for the hell of it, a Voth Bulwark. You open both, leaving the Bulwark in your vast masses of starships as you jump into the bugship and deck it out, deck by deck, into the most awesome Jem'Hadar ship you can. You fly it. You enjoy it. Eventually, you get bored and leave, leaving the old Bulwark never flown... until later. Your main is long complete. Your new alt main, based off some character you pulled out of nothing just to explain away some starship being in service without the command of your dear admiral, is also complete. Mostly. Their reps and doffs are hard at work, getting you stuff. You realize the potential, and head back for your dear admiral, pull the most Voth themed build you can out of thin air, and suit up in your giant ship in the shape of you know what. You head out... and cause all sorts of havoc. Enemies scream out your name as their very life is drained away by your swarms of Aceton Assimilators. They complain to the devs of your OPness when you revive yourself from death every time you die. Do you show any form of mercy? No. After all, this isn't the United Federation of Planets, this is mother frakkin' Starfleet, where you explore strange new worlds and kick butt never kicked before. Oh, and you realize that I just wrote another speech rivaling your own signature. Cool. Oh, wait, that's just the original draft, it is part of my signature now. Oh, and yes, I am aware that I have become a Canadian Regent; one day, sooner than you'd expect, we'll suddenly decide to take over the world and declare an "alliance", and I shall become it's Regent. You know, like the Klingon-Cardassian Alliance in the mirror universe of our beloved Star Trek. Oh, who'll we be taking over with? I dunno, maybe [REDACTED], or maybe aliens from outer space. Guess you'll have to wait and find out, won't we? Until then, don't ask too many questions, or else my Breen allies on Titania might pick up on your -- [REDACTED BY BREEN CONFEDERACY FOR REASONS] Also, psst... keep an eye out for flying Tribbles! Also walls. Big, great walls, separating entire continents apart. Walls patrolled by Tribbles. Flying Tribbles. Flying Nukara Tribbles. Don't worry, it's not like they were on Venus with a herd of Tholians or anything, they just like the extreme heat and brutal weather like acid rain and hurricane force winds as the norm. Oh, and definitely keep your eye out on any two-tailed foxes, because if they ain't glowing, they're definitely an imposter. Possibly an Undine, we caught one of those once in my place once. Oh, and if you find a two-tailed fox that doesn't like the cold... most certainly ask him to say sorry. If he refuses, DESTROY HIM WITH A DOOMSDAY MACHINE, BECAUSE THERE'S NOTHING ELSE THAT WOULD BE ENOUGH AGAINST SUCH AN OVERPOWERED IMPOSTER!
tr;dr, I am winning last post wins 3.0. Thank you for your time.
There is nothing positive about this ... I really wish I had the money to move somewhere else, I don't want to be a part of an America that would elect Trump, and I don't want my kids subjected to a Trump presidency.
Trump is not perfect, but he was the lesser of two evils - and just like in Britain, the people have shown they are fed up with the status quo.
Come to Canada! We're really nice here, and it's only a matter of time before I finish building this here wall! *Continues building*
Winning.
Oh, now don't tell me you want in on all this! Well, ok. Look this that Egg Pawn hanging outside your window, pointing his laser rifle at you, waiting for my next order. He's doing his part. He helps conquer the weak-minded. He roboticizes the weak-bodied. Heck, he even helps keep the useless people from causing any trouble, but you know what? Join. Find the closest Nataran Empire roboticization center near you and join the ranks, before the ranks find you. Oh, I know, you figure it must be so satisfying to know I basically rule the world now, and you know what? It is, but do you want to know the true definition of satisfaction? Well, let me tell you a little story. One day, you see a brand new event. They're giving out boxes that give old event stuff. Your dilithium is plentiful. You buy a whole lot of Phoenix packs on your main, and open them all. You get one epic token. Then, you decide, that since you have all the Breen ships and don't give a damn about the others, you exchange it for an ultra rare, and grab yourself a Jem'Hadar Attack Ship and for the hell of it, a Voth Bulwark. You open both, leaving the Bulwark in your vast masses of starships as you jump into the bugship and deck it out, deck by deck, into the most awesome Jem'Hadar ship you can. You fly it. You enjoy it. Eventually, you get bored and leave, leaving the old Bulwark never flown... until later. Your main is long complete. Your new alt main, based off some character you pulled out of nothing just to explain away some starship being in service without the command of your dear admiral, is also complete. Mostly. Their reps and doffs are hard at work, getting you stuff. You realize the potential, and head back for your dear admiral, pull the most Voth themed build you can out of thin air, and suit up in your giant ship in the shape of you know what. You head out... and cause all sorts of havoc. Enemies scream out your name as their very life is drained away by your swarms of Aceton Assimilators. They complain to the devs of your OPness when you revive yourself from death every time you die. Do you show any form of mercy? No. After all, this isn't the United Federation of Planets, this is mother frakkin' Starfleet, where you explore strange new worlds and kick butt never kicked before. Oh, and you realize that I just wrote another speech rivaling your own signature. Cool. Oh, wait, that's just the original draft, it is part of my signature now. Oh, and yes, I am aware that I have become a Canadian Regent; one day, sooner than you'd expect, we'll suddenly decide to take over the world and declare an "alliance", and I shall become it's Regent. You know, like the Klingon-Cardassian Alliance in the mirror universe of our beloved Star Trek. Oh, who'll we be taking over with? I dunno, maybe [REDACTED], or maybe aliens from outer space. Guess you'll have to wait and find out, won't we? Until then, don't ask too many questions, or else my Breen allies on Titania might pick up on your -- [REDACTED BY BREEN CONFEDERACY FOR REASONS] Also, psst... keep an eye out for flying Tribbles! Also walls. Big, great walls, separating entire continents apart. Walls patrolled by Tribbles. Flying Tribbles. Flying Nukara Tribbles. Don't worry, it's not like they were on Venus with a herd of Tholians or anything, they just like the extreme heat and brutal weather like acid rain and hurricane force winds as the norm. Oh, and definitely keep your eye out on any two-tailed foxes, because if they ain't glowing, they're definitely an imposter. Possibly an Undine, we caught one of those once in my place once. Oh, and if you find a two-tailed fox that doesn't like the cold... most certainly ask him to say sorry. If he refuses, DESTROY HIM WITH A DOOMSDAY MACHINE, BECAUSE THERE'S NOTHING ELSE THAT WOULD BE ENOUGH AGAINST SUCH AN OVERPOWERED IMPOSTER!
tr;dr, I am winning last post wins 3.0. Thank you for your time.
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