One of my favorite all-time SF TV shows is not Star Trek, and hasn’t been for years (Wrath of Khan is a movie). Instead, it is an odd, often nearly-canceled series about a space station that is at a crossroads between empires, Babylon 5. Yes, it was idealistic – the station was supposed to provide “diplomatic” solutions. Yet Michael J Straczynski was far too clever to write anything anywhere near as utopian as Rodenberry wished for, and got in ST:NG. Leaving aside the utter awesomeness of the…
In the recent periscope [https://www.periscope.tv/w/1mnxemkkjQAxX] by Vox Day discussing the fallout from the rally in Virginia, he focused again on the stupidity of Nazi imagery, the Alt-Reich, and issues of “are we just cucking” in not embracing Nazi imagery. So – if they’re calling us Nazis anyway, why not, right? Right? OK. Are we Nazis? I’m not. I’m certainly not German, I’m certainly not a German supremacist much less a white one, I have no desire to rule the world, and I want no part o…
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