There were also superstitions about February - due to its role as a time for ritual purification and cleansing, that made them reticent to add days to it, so it stayed at the bare 28
I've seen all 10 films many times (no Abrams, your trash doesn't count) and I really don't remember an alien supercomputer saying any such thing. Or even being in any of those films. The closest thing would be V'Ger in TMP, which 'scans' (and thus kills) the Deltan navigator, Lt. Ilia and recreates her in the form of a computer probe with her memories to interact with the crew. While the crew do hit on the idea of using the probe's memories of the dead Ilia's romantic feelings for Captain Decker against her (it?) and that is really horrible in hindsight knowing what we now know about Decker's actor...
As for the cold war thing, yeah the Klingons were explicitly meant to be a standin for the USSR, and of course, an American tv show of that era is gonna present a biased perspective, tbh I feel they did a better job than many others would have at presenting even the possibility of peace between the two. Worth mentioning one can extend the cold war metaphor to include others - the Romulans being the PRC (sneaky, authoritarian, collective-minded aliens with yellow skin even! Plus baseless accusations from one character in Balance of Terror that they 'stole' Federation technology to make their ships even though they clearly have advanced technology the Federation doesn't have like the cloaking device and the plasma torpedo). If we accept the Romulans as being the Chinese to the Klingon USSR and Federation as NATO, one could posit the Vulcans as kinda like Taiwan/ROC/KMT? I'm not so sure on that one but the argument could be made.
I think one has to consider the material circumstances in which the shows were made. TOS was made in the 60s at the height of the cold war, TNG was made in the 80s/90s and reflects prejudices of that era (the showrunner once Gene died, Rick Berman, infamously vetoing ANY LGBT representation at all - going so far as to interfere with DS9's plans for Garak/Bashir, a show he wasn't running). I think it's about as good as one can expect given the environment in which it was made. Especially compared to modern Trek having people living in poverty and drug addiction on Earth of all places, and even having an "Elon Musk high school" or something mentioned in one episode.
As if these people care about (anyone other than cis-men's) consent lol.
In Marxist terms, the state is a tool of class oppression, it is the machinery by which one class imposes its will on all others. Under capitalism (or rather, under a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie (DotB), like e.g. the US, UK, France, Brazil, etc.) it is the bourgeois class who controls the state and uses it to oppress the proletariat (and any remnants of prior classes like the peasantry). In a dictatorship of the proletariat (DotP), that structure is inverted and the proletariat uses the state to oppress the bourgeoisie (and any remnants of say, aristocracy or whatever).
The idea is that in a DotP, the bourgeoisie will eventually become proletarianized and, after a long enough period when there are no more bourgeoisie, there will be no more proletariat (as classes are defined in terms of the conflict between them). Without a class system, there will be no longer any reason for the state - as that tool of class oppression to exist. All that will be left in terms of governance, will be the administration of things. You still need to manage healthcare, housing, transport, etc.
Oh certainly, it's just that anarchism can contain both of those things, with MLism, we know where we stand in terms of the end goal. And we also understand that it will not be within any of our lifetimes.
I'm not even sure we have the same intended long-term goal as them tbh. At least, a lot I've come across really seem to think 'stateless' means no government, no large scale infrastructure, the old 'someone will make insulin as a hobby' meme.
Also good, I just liked the rhyming of gals and n(on-binary)-pals, it's satisfying in the ear.
For plus? Or for pan?
If liking communism is too much for communists then they might not be communists...
Buying wizard game is a sign you're actually a piece of shit human being. I'm holding off on Atomic Heart until I find out a bit more about the politics, but might pick it up if it's not bullshit anti-Soviet propaganda.
~~and to support the war effort against the banderites lol~~
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I'm something of a breakcore fan myself, I can't say there aren't individualists amongst the fans or artists, of course, but it's like more genres in that regard. (Also depends on what you mean by breakcore I think cause there's quite the dispute between oldschool breakcore fans - stuff like Venetian Snares, Alec Empire's "The Destroyer", etc. - and new music being labelled 'breakcore' but which is mostly kinda shitty drum'n'bass with creepy anime cover art).