So quick thing. Our community has a rule of 'No bigotry'. Honestly? I think that if you voted for Trump you basically violated that rule. So lemme be clear.

If you voted for Trump, voted for Third Party, or didn't vote at all and you say as much on this community, I will permanently ban you. Yes, I am including Third Party in that. Jill Stein is an open asset of the Russians. More over, a Third Party candidate was never going to win. Your position of a protest vote did nothing other than fuck over everyone else in the country. You are just as bad as the people who did not vote and worse than the people who voted for Trump. At least they were honest about what they were doing. You deluded yourself into believing that a completely different election was happening and actively enabled fascism.

You do not get to call yourself a Star Trek fan when your actions have shown that you go against absolutely everything that it stands for and represents.

If you [...] didn't vote at all and you say as much on this community, I will permanently ban you.
- Fair, bad wording on my part lol
- I think you're off the hook. For now. Depending on where you live, I'm sure you'll get your chance to vote against fascists. Seems to be catching.
Fuck Cardassia Once Again.
This is the only thing that made me crack a smile today. It’s nice to know that some people still have brains.
Honestly?

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I hope this is a joke...

If not I think you need to step back and think about the implications of what you just wrote. You are straight up telling people who to vote for. That is not exactly democratic nor is it even in line with a lot of Star Trek. Also we are talking about a fictional series so you could basiclly claim anything is not in line with Star Trek.

If this is something you are serious about I can not longer be a part of this community. I think there are a few much smaller communities that I might move to.
- If this is something you are serious about I can not longer be a part of this community.
  
  Oh no, whatever will we do?
  
  I'm not telling people who to vote for. I'm saying that there are consequences if you behaved in such a way that encouraged the voting of a fascistic Nazi that has openly admitted he wants to kill people in my community and attack minorities. I do not tolerate this and I am openly saying that you are not a Star Trek fan. You don't understand the material, if you did you wouldn't have tried to claim that liking a Nazi is approved under Star Trek if you look hard enough. It isn't. They literally invent characters that go around punching fascists that become fan favorites like Kira or Shaxx.
  
  You are not wanted or welcome here. You do not believe in the ideals of Star Trek and have shirked the morals of every single Trek actor who has come out screaming that Trump is a fascist and against everything Trek stands for.
  
  Your word is worthless.
  
  Bye.
- I understand both of you. It's undemocratic to ban people for their political views, no matter where on the spectrum they land.
  
  I'd love to make the point that this only enables them to victimize themselves and therefore can't be the answer.
  
  I'd love to make the point that this only pushes them further towards radicalization and therefore can't be the answer.
  
  I'd love to make the point that the divide can only be bridged by political discourse on eye-level. But people are so emotionalized that it is near impossible now.
  
  I don't know how to push back against this.
  
  I don't know what's the right thing to do.
  
  I hope it's not banning people based on who they voted.
  
  I hope it's banning people based on how they act.

This punk fag won't go down quietly or nicely is all I'm saying. Fed it gets better bullshit my entire life lol.

Brother dead at 29 from heroin ✅.

Father dead at 62 from brain cancer ✅.

Personal Dx of pain and suffering, only cure is death for me at 34. Am 38 now. ✅.

Just tell me where to join team blue for Civil War II.

edit: I don't use the f word lightly....I was a very bullied boy...I'm trying to empower myself or whatevers. I won't go back!

You need a rotation on Risa, friend, not war.
- 🫂
  
  I'd probably pull a Lower Decks engineering and make a device to insta-cure stress because vacations are scary.
  
  For what it's worth I've spent last 2 years not working trying to recover from burnout etc everything. 🥹

All I've manged to say on the matter is this:

Just walking around with this expression and saying "fuck" but in a terrified but also numb kind of way.

I'm just numb at this point. I want to cry, but I can't.

I'm numb too. I'm having a hard time processing it. I woke up in a completely different country/world.
- I woke up at 2 am and couldn't help but look. Couldn't get back to sleep until 4, but it's all just been 'how did this happen? How could Americans not see all those signs as bad?'
- Yeah tbh I’m making plans to leave the country once my lease is up. Between the political leadership of the non-fascist party being demonstrably unable to consistently find their ass with both hands since, like 2012 at the latest, and the fact that so many people evidently pulled some Brexit-esque “protest vote” bullshit or whatever, this clearly isn’t a country that aligns with my personal values and ethics anymore, and I think this made me realize I’m just fucking done with it.
  
  So yeah - good job, DNC. You fucked up so hard that I’m gonna drain by brain in some other country. You had one job. ONE. FUCKING. JOB. And you couldn’t fucking do it. This shit is categorically indefensible. Jesus tapdancing christ.
- I find that hard to believe given that Trump isn't even president yet

I know this thread is about a serious topic

On a lighter note, this is peak “smell the fart” acting

It's okay, everybody gets the day off when the antichrist wins.

It's perfecto.

My mind today

You do not get to call yourself a Star Trek fan when your actions have shown that you go against absolutely everything that it stands for and represents.