cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/7802418
Don’t forget about the Irish unification of 2024!
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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.
There were many people who supported Mao in the 60s and 70s, mainly because the terrors of the Cultural Revolution and the failure of the Great Leap Forward were not really known in the West.
China was a closed society. Academics didn’t even travel there. That’s what they mean when they say Nixon “opened up” China in 1972. Prior to that, people only knew what the Chinese government told them about the country.
Huey Newton visited China in 1971, he knew what it was like before 1972. Many other revolutionaries from many other countries also visited China before 1972.
Roddenberry died in 1991, which is well after 1972.
Lol really ticked off the tankies. Don’t tell them starfleet hq is… in America!
edit: sorry, I have been informed tankies’ localization actually has star fleet headquartered in… San Fransokyo from Disney’s Big Hero Six?
woah crazy totally not because THERE IS NO STATE YOU MORON
ITS A UNITED WORLD GOVERNMENT
god you libs are the most ignorant animals on the planet
literally how
Well I don’t think the federation government would be idiotic enough to try and make every farmer into an industrialist by forcing them to meltdown their own tools in the hopes of creating mechanised farming equipment only to end up with piles of unusable pig-iron slag, and thus contributing to another famine.
I see you picked up your politics from goebbels’ diary
Says the Stalinist who’d be the first lined up at the wall and shot by the very ideology they support.
And for the record, fuck the Nazis, fuck the Tories, and fuck every single fascist rightwing or leftwing.
Democracy isn’t perfect, but it gives people a voice and if they work hard to maintain proper democratic institutions, it offers the better outcomes for the majority.
Yea, democracy is nice. That’s why China has workers councils embedded into its constitution, to ensure democracy in the workplace.
A world where China respected its constitie would have really been something.
