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Star Trek is canonically socialist according to Strange New Worlds (youtu.be)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (28 children)

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at first, i thought you crossposed this to the star trek instance and i was going to warn you that they’re reactionary and delight in banning leftists. lol

the oniony layers of reactionaryism when it comes to star trek has been sadly fascinating to me: i lol’ed with conservative trekkies were lambasted by liberals for calling trek too woke because its newest iterations embraced lgbt and poc characters/stories and then i was just as stunned as those conservatives when those same liberals likewise ostracized leftists trekkies despite celebrating the leftist basis of star trek, like in the “fully automated gay space communism” meme.

i wish i could understood how you can celebrate a popular leftist series; but reject leftists.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (14 children)

Cognitive dissonance, that society is ideal but I don't like anyone that would being about that society I just want to snap my fingers and end up in post scarcity utopia.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

well they didn't do it through political reformation, they did it through fantasy tech. Socialism is quite easy when you have replicators that can make pretty much anything you could ever desire on the spot.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

They did do it through political reformation though. The replicators came ~200 years after getting rid of money.

The show this clip is from is set in a time before they had the replicator tech, even.

EDIT: It's set before they perfected it, at least. They don't refer to it as replicators but DIS and the other new prequel shows have fleshed out some of the precursor tech for the replicator in that time.

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