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Abso-goddamn-lutely.

John Brown. The man stood up for what was right, even at the cost of his own life.

A or (A or B) reduces to A or B, not A

Do you donate to Mozilla?

I admit I'm having trouble finding any transcript of the primary source. It's supposedly an answer she gave during a local convention and it's been repeated by enough websites citing each other that I don't know which one was the original.

I'll keep trying to find it, though.

According to his wife Majel, yes.

Gene Roddenberry was a Maoist. Pretty sure this was a studio thing, not a Gene thing.

How irresponsible are you that starting an uncontrolled fire with a tea candle is a risk?

When the CPC was losing to the KMT, they did not have more political power. I feel you're misunderstanding the quote, which is a colorful way of saying that force is the ultimate basis of all political power—which should be obvious from a cursory examination of international politics.

Roddenberry died in 1991, which is well after 1972.

This seems like an opportune time to note that Gene Roddenberry was a Marxist who strongly supported China. He almost certainly thought well of Mao.

Can you imagine an episode where Picard doesn't agonize over this decision for 22 minutes and ultimately not do it? The guy spared the Borg.