SaltSong

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[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 22 points 3 weeks ago

Trade unions were particularly powerful in the 1970s, and were able to leverage an escalating series of concessions from government that were simply unsustainable at any time, let alone during economic crisis.

It's fascinating for the stuff for common people is always "unsustainable," but there's always money for people who already have money.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 53 points 1 month ago

If you can afford a private aircraft, you can afford to pay some fucking taxes.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 1 points 1 month ago

That was what my mind supplied.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 8 points 1 month ago

Or maybe tax the rich? They have money. They just don't want to use it.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 4 points 2 months ago

But he tries not to, so that's worth a few points.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Loved that line so much.

But it wasn't entirely true, was it?

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 1 points 2 months ago

You make some good points, but I don't want discipline out of her. She was a good captain, particularly for an environment that is supposed to produce Starfleet Officers.

She just needs some decorum.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

My only issue with Academy was the presence of a captain who refused to act like an officer. Stand up straight, put on your boots, sit in the chair like a normal human.

Other than that, I loved it.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 9 points 2 months ago

No, that's just me being stupid.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 8 points 2 months ago (4 children)

This sounds like the first chapter of 1986.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 17 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I really liked the episode with him and the Cardassian lad. The two of them bonding over Keiko's over-enthusiastic cultural dishes was wonderful.

And I'd like to think that it softened him on Cardassians, a bit.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 14 points 2 months ago

You are either answering the wrong question, or are defining a lie based on some criteria I don't recognize.

Telling a Nazi there are no Jews in my basement is a lie. The only way it's not a lie is if there are, in fact, no Jews in my basement. But it is not wrong to lie to a Nazi.

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