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[#] Sat Jun 03 2023 11:52:22 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

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Well this is interesting.

[ https://archive.is/0Gj7K ]

HelpDemocratsStealElectionsTube has reversed its policy of insta-banning anyone who points out the fact that the 2020 election was stolen.

What brought this about? Their stated justification is of course complete bullshit.

Do they feel they have all of their bases covered, and are now good enough at suppressing unwanted opinions in video search and recommendations that they can allow wrongthink to exist on their platform, confident that the number of people who actually view it is negligible?

Or are they running a Hundred Flowers Campaign, just like Maobama Tse-Tung did, to identify dissidents before locking them up?

[#] Sat Jun 03 2023 12:03:54 EDT from Nurb432

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I saw that too. Its a distraction of some sort. 



[#] Sat Jun 03 2023 14:30:28 EDT from LadySerenaKitty

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Interestering parallels between the real world and the part in Babylon 5 before the station split from Earth Force.  I'm rewatching the series and a few red flags presented in season 1 (when Jefferey Sinclair was still in command) which our real world is currently in the stages of.

Cmdr. Sinclair starts collecting pawlitical enemies as early as Episode 6 "Mind War".  In "By Any Means Necessary" the dock workers went on an illegal strike, the Earth Alliance senate called on the Rush Act.  A lot of people were expecting bloodshed just like when the Rush Act was used on Io to quell an illegal strike, but Cmdr. Sinclair found a more peaceful option, using the station's military funds that ... well the money is just sitting there, unused.

Commander Jeffery Sinclair is a lot like President Donald J. Trump in a lot of ways, including that he doesn't take shit from anyone.  Y'all would like the episode "Eyes" (ep 16) where you can see the government really has a hate-boner for Sinclair.

Too freaky that the US government is mimicking the slow fall of the Earth Alliance government.  It's uncanny.



[#] Sat Jun 03 2023 14:51:35 EDT from Nurb432

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Really a lot of scifi is that way. Even tho they are often set in the far future ( or alternative timelines ) the better stories do still use relatable human nature as a foundation of the story, so real life does tend to follow.

Even if the characters are not human.

They can also get away with a lot of 'statements' that would otherwise be shut down. 

Sat Jun 03 2023 02:30:28 PM EDT from LadySerenaKitty

Too freaky that the US government is mimicking the slow fall of the Earth Alliance government.  It's uncanny.



 



[#] Sat Jun 03 2023 15:15:24 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

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Is there an episode where an evil rich guy takes over the galaxy's computers with crappy software, then tries to eliminate meat and other foods from the universe while pushing fake vaccines, only to end up in an episode where he gets ejected from an airlock and explodes in the vacuum of space? I would like to see that.

[#] Sat Jun 03 2023 15:16:12 EDT from Nurb432

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lol

Sat Jun 03 2023 03:15:24 PM EDT from IGnatius T Foobar
Is there an episode where an evil rich guy takes over the galaxy's computers with crappy software, then tries to eliminate meat and other foods from the universe while pushing fake vaccines, only to end up in an episode where he gets ejected from an airlock and explodes in the vacuum of space? I would like to see that.

 



[#] Sat Jun 03 2023 20:45:55 EDT from zelgomer

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2023-06-03 19:15 from IGnatius T Foobar <ajc@citadel.org>
Is there an episode where an evil rich guy takes over the galaxy's
computers with crappy software, then tries to eliminate meat and other

foods from the universe while pushing fake vaccines, only to end up in

an episode where he gets ejected from an airlock and explodes in the
vacuum of space? I would like to see that.



And somehow I had gotten the impression that you wanted to see him fed feet first into a wood chipper.

[#] Sat Jun 03 2023 20:56:15 EDT from Nurb432

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its scifi .. gotta stay with the outer space theme. 

Sat Jun 03 2023 08:45:55 PM EDT from zelgomer
And somehow I had gotten the impression that you wanted to see him fed feet first into a wood chipper.

 



[#] Sat Jun 03 2023 20:56:46 EDT from Nurb432

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So i hear that musk censored the 'what is a woman' video.

That didnt last long. 



[#] Sat Jun 03 2023 21:47:59 EDT from darknetuser

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2023-06-03 15:15 from IGnatius T Foobar
Is there an episode where an evil rich guy takes over the galaxy's
computers with crappy software, then tries to eliminate meat and other

foods from the universe while pushing fake vaccines, only to end up in

an episode where he gets ejected from an airlock and explodes in the
vacuum of space? I would like to see that.



You can always comission it from me as literary fiction. I could integrate that in one of my existing series. Then my cover would be blown and it would suck :-(

[#] Sat Jun 03 2023 21:49:16 EDT from darknetuser

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2023-06-03 20:56 from Nurb432
its scifi .. gotta stay with the outer space theme. 
Sat Jun 03 2023 08:45:55 PM EDT from zelgomer

And somehow I had gotten the impression that you wanted to see him
fed feet first into a wood chipper.


If I were the creative director, I would have him killed by members of the resistence who would dispose his body in a Soylent Green production facility, so the bad guy would be eventually fed to his acolytes.

[#] Sat Jun 03 2023 23:23:46 EDT from LadySerenaKitty

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In one of the later seasons of Babylon 5, President Clark (POTEA) creates a propaganda department.  One of the programs created by that department is the Night Watch, and several B5 Security officers sign up (hey, it's an extra 100 credits a week!).  The Night Watch gives them AN ARMBAND and a list of things to look out for, and saying all of those things to look for are to be charged as Sedition.

It doesn't take long for everyone on B5 to have had enough of the Night Watch bullshit, so all the security staff are arrested and sent back to Earth Force (the Earth Alliance's military is called Earth Force).  Ambassador G'Kar of the Narn Regime provides a replacement security staff ... all Narn.  This is extremely hilarious because the Narn Regime and Centauri Republic are in yet another full-scale war.  No, this is still long before B5 splits from the Earth Alliance.

In the real world, we aren't yet at the point where the Night Watch is instituted, but we are getting dangerously close.  Y'all really need to watch Babylon 5.  If you've already seen it, watch it again.  Now is a good time to do so.



[#] Sat Jun 03 2023 23:58:42 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

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And somehow I had gotten the impression that you wanted to see him fed

feet first into a wood chipper.

That isn't science fiction. Let's reserve that fate for a more well-known terrestrial villain :)

[#] Sat Jun 03 2023 23:58:55 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

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So i hear that musk censored the 'what is a woman' video.

...and already reversed that decision.

[#] Sun Jun 04 2023 00:00:12 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

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gives them AN ARMBAND and a list of things to look out for, and

Oooooh ... we can see Mike Godwin lurking in the shadows!

[#] Sun Jun 04 2023 05:59:06 EDT from nonservator

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Oh yeah, Godwin, the guy who says his "law" totally isn't there for you 2nd Amendment Nazis.



[#] Sun Jun 04 2023 08:55:43 EDT from Nurb432

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Or how about eaten buy one of those robots that use 'bio fuel' as a source of power.  

they sort of looked like a little wood chipper with wheels.   



[#] Sun Jun 04 2023 14:38:51 EDT from zelgomer

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I just want to know what sort of future this is where they no longer have wood chippers.

[#] Sun Jun 04 2023 15:17:47 EDT from LadySerenaKitty

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In Babylon 5, wood chippers do exist.  You can tell because there's an area in the garden with wood-chippered mulch around the rose bushes.  There is no wood chipper on the station tho, so that stuff has to be shipped in from Earth Central.

Sun Jun 04 2023 14:38:51 EDT from zelgomer
I just want to know what sort of future this is where they no longer have wood chippers.

 



[#] Sun Jun 04 2023 17:08:59 EDT from Nurb432

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Well darn here was the wood chipper topic.  

For what its worth i posted a short story out on scifi, written by my bot on the subject ... 



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