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By Riker’s Beard! @thebeardofriker.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

One conversation. One. One issue she didn’t want to talk about, and so the left decided to support an actual fascist instead. How shortsighted we were.

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By Riker’s Beard! @thebeardofriker.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Like Obama, the time to push her on one single issue was not on the campaign trail. Get her into office, and then push. It worked with Obama, and we have no reason to believe it wouldn’t have worked with her. Except that too many on the left made sure we didn’t have the chance.

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By Riker’s Beard! @thebeardofriker.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

I don’t mind that it’s a teen show. I loved Prodigy, and that was targeted even younger. I mind that what I’ve seen not very good.

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By Riker’s Beard! @thebeardofriker.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

You could have said the same thing about Obama and marriage equality in 2008. And you’d have been wrong. Again.

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By Riker’s Beard! @thebeardofriker.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Once again, do you think handing the country to Project 2025 wasn’t obviously going to make that genocide worse? If you can’t be bothered with harm reduction, it’s because you don’t actually care about that harm.

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By Riker’s Beard! @thebeardofriker.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

On a local level? Yes. On a national level? No there aren’t. No third party has put in the work to build a national infrastructure. The closest we have is the Greens, but Jill Stein is a literal Russian asset.

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By Riker’s Beard! @thebeardofriker.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Only if we on the left refused to vote against that fascist. Again. I don’t have enough privilege to pretend that’s okay with me. You do you.

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By Riker’s Beard! @thebeardofriker.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

The far right learned this half a century ago - you vote in every election, every office, until you’re an essential part of the coalition and they have to listen to you. Sitting out elections, promising not to vote, only makes it harder for us to get what we want.

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By Riker’s Beard! @thebeardofriker.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Excellent. I canvassed for him as well. And I want more like him in office. Which will happen if we stop silencing our own voices and join the greater conversation.

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By Riker’s Beard! @thebeardofriker.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

She definitely could have been. Obama was against marriage equality when he first ran. But in office, he was moved to the right side and he became a champion. I wonder what might have happened if we’d allowed that one issue to turn us away from voting.

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By Riker’s Beard! @thebeardofriker.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

This is what frustrates me so much - those of us on the left could easily win the conversation if we actually joined it. But by refusing to sit at the table, we silence our own voice. The far right learned that, they put in the work to make themselves essential. Why can’t we?

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By Riker’s Beard! @thebeardofriker.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

It’s a binary choice. Those who “couldn’t bring themselves to vote for her” were supporting Trump. If for no other reason than we need to cancel out the lunatic votes.

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By Riker’s Beard! @thebeardofriker.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Democrats are movable. They’ve shown that. Republicans are not. They’ve shown that. Keep supporting republicans, and you’ll never get what you want.

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By Riker’s Beard! @thebeardofriker.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Obama gave us the ACA, expanding health care to millions of Americans. If we keep electing Democrats, we can work to expand health care even more to everyone. Keep supporting Republicans and they’ll just take it away from everyone.

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Blue Tsunami #NoKings @bluefuture.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

This election is more important than Texas’s primaries which are really a fight over if the Democrats and Republicans will move away from the center. Wisconsin is having yet another Supreme Court race. Let’s push for an even bigger blowout than the last 3. youtu.be/NR72x13QG08?...

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Democrats Are DOMINATING This Race in Wisconsin NO ONE Is Watching

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By Riker’s Beard! @thebeardofriker.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Snyderbros are always the worst in any group of people.

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By Riker’s Beard! @thebeardofriker.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Thanks Robert for all the wonderful performances. I wonder what Godfather III would have been like of they hadn’t low-balled him out of participating. Might have actually been good.

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By Riker’s Beard! @thebeardofriker.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

How can we stop it? Our system does not allow for a change of government until the midterms.

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By Riker’s Beard! @thebeardofriker.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

You can keep repeating that, it won’t be true. And it won’t ever excuse your support of trump.

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By Riker’s Beard! @thebeardofriker.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

We’re seeing with Strange New Worlds how lazy a prequel can be. At once too interested in repeating the past, all the while showing they don’t understand the point of the old stories. I’m not the target for SA. I don’t resent them making all kinds of different Treks, just wish one was better.

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By Riker’s Beard! @thebeardofriker.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

It’s very easy to say that closing the government achieves much when you don’t rely on it for survival. Vulnerable people are hurt when the government is shut down. They are largely the *only* people hurt. But if you don’t count them as people, sure. No problem, go right ahead. Says a lot.

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By Riker’s Beard! @thebeardofriker.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

And putting Trump in office fixes the system… how?

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By Riker’s Beard! @thebeardofriker.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

I hate it. I want it to stop. The people who “just couldn’t bring themselves to vote for her” were voting to super-size the genocide. Kamala was movable. Just as we moved Obama on marriage equality. But the empty gesture of voting against her on this issue is killing more Palestinians now.

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By Riker’s Beard! @thebeardofriker.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

They don’t care about your facts. They only hate Democrats more than they love the people they claim to support.

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By Riker’s Beard! @thebeardofriker.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

You supported Trump because you’re against war crimes and DHS? I’ve got bad news for you. Every bit of progressive policy came because we got behind Democrats and pushed them while in office.

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By Riker’s Beard! @thebeardofriker.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Kamala was movable. That’s what Blue MAGA refuses to understand. Obama was anti-marriage equality in 2008. That could have been a deal-breaker, but we elected him and moved him to the right side. He became a champion. But that’s work, Blue MAGA instead just hands the country to fascists.

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By Riker’s Beard! @thebeardofriker.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

No, the only Blue MAGA are those who put ideological purity over getting things done. Blue MAGA are happy to hand the country to fascists rather than support incremental change. Blue MAGA don’t care about who gets hurt in the process, only their narrow ideology matters. We’ve seen that.

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By Riker’s Beard! @thebeardofriker.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

And yet so many leftists decided not to vote against Trump. Sad.

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By Riker’s Beard! @thebeardofriker.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

That’s presuming they actually care about the slaughter of people who don’t look like them. Supporting trump indicates that they don’t.

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By Riker’s Beard! @thebeardofriker.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Enterprise was sold as something new and different but was really same old, same old.

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By Riker’s Beard! @thebeardofriker.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Sadly wondering what excuse the “we will never vote for Democrats” left will find to hate AOC.

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Amyville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

douglas adams was our most accurate futurist

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By Riker’s Beard! @thebeardofriker.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

And that describes everyone who “just couldn’t bring myself to vote for her.”

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By Riker’s Beard! @thebeardofriker.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Like handing the country to Project 2025 wasn’t obviously going to make that genocide worse? If you can’t be bothered with harm reduction, it’s because you don’t care about that harm.

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By Riker’s Beard! @thebeardofriker.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

And all the people harmed and killed by accelerationism? What about them?

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By Riker’s Beard! @thebeardofriker.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Sorry, in this case “sides” doesn’t refer to Democrats and Republicans, but MAGA and the far-left Blue MAGA. If the far left really supported USAID, they wouldn’t have supported the guy pushing Project 2025 which promised to gut it.

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By Riker’s Beard! @thebeardofriker.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

It’s getting those cosplay communists exactly what they want: fascism in power.

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By Riker’s Beard! @thebeardofriker.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Both Geordi and the deaf ambassador have technological workarounds for their disabilities. If I recall correctly, the ambassador asks Geordi if he minds being blind. Geordi responds with something affirming like “being blind is part of who I am, and I like who I am.”

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By Riker’s Beard! @thebeardofriker.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Which is one of the reasons I’m still mad that Strange New Worlds killed off Hemmer so casually. The first disabled main character played by a disabled actor! And you casually fridge him to serve the story arc of a legacy character. Shameful and regressive.

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By Riker’s Beard! @thebeardofriker.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

I always read it as an over-dependence on technology. Even the deaf character didn’t prefer to use sign language, preferring to employ a technological workaround that allowed him to communicate. It was only when stripped of that tech he had to fall back on signing.

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Acoustic Meatus @acousticmeatus.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Did you know that in 1989 Star Trek: The Next Generation had an episode featuring a deaf character played by a Deaf actor? The original draft script had the character learning to speak after his interpreters were killed but the actor convinced them to have him teach others to sign instead.

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By Riker’s Beard! @thebeardofriker.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

I get it. I am a democratic socialist. I want to tear down a lot of our system and replace it with something that will serve the people, not just monied interests. But I won’t hurt or abandon those same people in the meantime. That’s the difference between me and Blue MAGA.

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By Riker’s Beard! @thebeardofriker.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

But neither side cares even a little for the many vulnerable people who will be harmed by burning down the world. It’s the same outcome for all those people.

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By Riker’s Beard! @thebeardofriker.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

It’s better than any of the sequels. But that’s not saying much.

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By Riker’s Beard! @thebeardofriker.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Filmmaking is a collaborative art. Even the best visionaries need people around them to help shape, formulate, and rein in ideas.

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By Riker’s Beard! @thebeardofriker.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

That sounds like work. Easier for the cosplay communists to just support Republicans and wait for the whole system to collapse so they can build their utopia. And everyone hurt in the meantime, well they should have chosen to have more privilege.

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By Riker’s Beard! @thebeardofriker.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Too many on our side don’t actually care about genocide. Only sticking it to Democrats for not being leftist enough.

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