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“He despised you, and everything you stand for,” he adds

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[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 450 points 5 days ago (1 children)

“Stephen Miller, on behalf of Star Trek, and everyone who knew and loved him, keep my Captain’s name out of your f–king Nazi mouth,” he wrote. “He despised you, and everything you stand for.”

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 188 points 5 days ago

Wil Wheaton being awesome as usual.

Carry on!

[–] xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 246 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (10 children)

Yeah, that's fair. Stephen Miller should keep everything else out of his filthy Nazi mouth too, including atmospheric air.

Go on, Stephen: Hold you breath until we start liking your Nazi ass.

[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 44 points 5 days ago (1 children)

That would be similar to Hitlers last act of heroism before dying after living as the villain.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 5 days ago

You have to hand it to Hitler, at least he killed Hitler!

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[–] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 183 points 5 days ago (5 children)

If anyone had told me in the 90's that I would end up deeply admiring Westley Crusher and considering him one of my heroes, I would never have believed it.

In fairness, it's not new. Wil Wheaton has always been awesome. But this confirms his awesomeness.

[–] MelodiousFunk@lemmy.zip 129 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] boydster@sh.itjust.works 21 points 5 days ago

His dice do NOT roll nat-20s, lol, not unless the goal is to roll low

[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 49 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The hate for Wil Wheaton has never been warranted. He was a child. He had nothing to do with the writing of his character (wish fulfilment Mary Sue / Marty Stu type of character for Gene Roddenberry).

I’ve been a fan of Wil since before I started watching Star Trek TNG as a kid, when I saw him in Stand By Me. Later in life I learned that he was a nerd, and was “one of us” much more than the other Trek actors. There’s really so much to love about the guy that at this point if you hate him it’s on you, not him.

[–] Snowclone@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago

His character's a bit annoying in like the first two episodes he's in, once the writers find their footing he's fine. He's not the only character that took a few eps to make sense.

[–] Eldritch@piefed.world 41 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yep. Whill Wheaton has always been a pretty stand-up guy.

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[–] shittydwarf@piefed.ca 142 points 5 days ago

Wil is the fucking man, Patrick Stewart would be proud

[–] fonix232@fedia.io 151 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] theedqueen@lemmy.world 126 points 5 days ago (12 children)

Stephen miller should just not talk at all

[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 56 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Stephen Miller should just not breathe at all.

[–] Fartemis@lemmy.zip 24 points 5 days ago

I like this option.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 23 points 5 days ago (7 children)

The Romans had a method for that. We just need pair of tongs and a white hot knife, may as well go all the way too and take his junk and eyes.

[–] Jerb322@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago (1 children)

"To the pain"

"I can't say that I'm familiar with that term"

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[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 31 points 4 days ago

DON'T SHUT UP, WESLEY.

[–] TrackenDaKracken@lemmy.world 43 points 4 days ago
[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 89 points 5 days ago

Westley Crusher: "Shut up, Stephen!"

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 26 points 4 days ago (6 children)

The ancient Greeks had a good idea with Ostracism.

No need for a trial, or even an accusation of a crime. Just the population saying "this person is shitty and shouldn't be in the city/country" and they were kicked out for 10 years.

[–] kestrel7_7@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

In some ways, their democratic system made a lot more sense than ours, TBH. They didn’t elect people to positions, because they thought that would lead to popularity contests dominated by the wealthy (🤔). Positions of power were assigned randomly by sortition (lots) amongst all the male Athenian citizens, they only voted on policy.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 days ago

Yeah, that makes much more sense.

Especially because it was random, so in a room with 100 people, you're very unlikely to have a member of the 0.1%, so it's easy to decide that tax policy should be to tax the ultra-rich.

PBS did a special a while back where they actually rebuilt the machine used for selecting people. It was a lot like a modern dice tower where you'd pour things in the top and the machine would randomize it. But, instead of using dice, they used black and white balls, and one colour meant people were selected for the position, and the other one meant they didn't get selected.

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[–] HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca 93 points 5 days ago

Good. More. Bring public shaming back until these cretins scurry back under their rocks.

This one pisses me off. A lot.

[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 22 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Stephen Miller being a diehard Trekkie is one of life's great What the Fucks.

[–] InputZero@lemmy.world 17 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It's the military structure he likes. Everyone wears a uniform, everyone puts the uniform before themselves. It's all yes sir, no sir, Klingons decloaking off starboard sir. There is a clear structure of authority and everyone follows it without question. That is the part of Star Trek Stephen Miller likes. He's so blinded by the set and setting that he doesn't see the message at all. As far as he's concerned it's a space show about subordinates following their Capitan. Nothing more.

It's funny, I heard an interview once where Gene said he was writing morality plays, and hiding them behind weird alien make up so people wouldn't notice. I always wondered how anyone could possibly not notice until I read Hatemonger.

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

He's the one who likes all our pretty songs.

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[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 74 points 5 days ago

"Keep talking, Westley."

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 54 points 5 days ago

Fucking legend.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 20 points 4 days ago
[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 42 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Wil Wheaton is the man. He should be on Lemmy. He was on Reddit, and we’d love him even more here.

[–] one_old_coder@piefed.social 28 points 5 days ago (7 children)

He was on Reddit

And he was on Slashdot before that.

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[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 37 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Yes, Wil! Haha, yes!

[–] Gpennyhigh@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

That miller guy is scum and wants people to suffer, must have been abused and high ACE scores, so he wants revenge and to hurt others, to punch down as the gop, supernatural, military, and other controlling and dualistic groups work and indoctrinate. Trauma bonding is so damaging and unhealthy, yet it's treated as good and normal. Signs of a sick society that needs the truth. They let the ego and pain body control them and the result is senseless suffering. Many abused do not behave this way so there is hope.

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[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 29 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I don't think Will could beat up many guys, but I believe Will could beat the shit out of Miller.

[–] kata1yst@sh.itjust.works 22 points 5 days ago

Where there's a Wil there's a way.

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[–] RabbitBBQ@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago

It's been a long road, getting from there to here

[–] Manjushri@piefed.social 21 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Love this man. Been enjoying his It's Story Time with Wil Wheaton podcast. He makes little audio books out of short science fiction stories by lesser known authors.

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[–] FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 21 points 5 days ago

Always nice to see someone telling off the anthropomorphized cancerous polyp designated as Stephen Miller.

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