what latter-day trek failed to *believe*--and this starts with abrams imo--is that all that peace and diplomacy stuff actually works "oh all the talking is cute, it's Right, but it's actually just a cute little luxury, at the end we must resort to Force"

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but the whole goddamn premise of trek--yes, including TOS--is that with science, reason, teamwork, faith, honesty, openness--all those old-fashioned liberal virtues--you can overcome these horrifying obstacles, overcome violence, overcome war and destructions

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I wonder what percentage of voters know that Musk is the largest donor to the GOP, and single-handedly the reason they have a huge money advantage.

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Tonight Polish PM Donald Tusk has finally insisted on 5 supreme judges legally elected by the Sejm take their seats, although anti-legal PiS president Nawrocki refused to swear them in. The EU & its courts are fully behind Tusk. Trump prefers Nawrocki (& illegality). www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Pretty wild that ProPublica dropped an unbelievably damning article about pay-to-play corruption by Collins and the entire national political press conspired to make it go away.

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