#Always punch nazis

[sjbattleangel]

Kitty Pryde says: GAMERGATE/COMICSGATE/THE FANDOM MENACE ARE HATE MOVEMENTS!

[jessicalprice]

Happy anniversary to all who celebrate!

[onecontinuoussigh]

That's a good bathroom door!

[thatstormygeek]

So, after the day where a shitload of substackers posted an open letter against the platform hosting, profiting from, and promoting Nazi creators, Hamish McKenzie finally deigned to respond yesterday. This is (the first couple paragraphs of) what he said:

Hi everyone. Chris, Jairaj, and I wanted to let you know that we’ve heard and have been listening to all the views being expressed about how Substack should think about the presence of fringe voices on the platform (and particularly, in this case, Nazi views).  I just want to make it clear that we don’t like Nazis either—we wish no-one held those views. But some people do hold those and other extreme views. Given that, we don't think that censorship (including through demonetizing publications) makes the problem go away—in fact, it makes it worse.

Basically, what he said here is "we don't like Nazis, but we do like their money." And they don't find the views of Nazis so abhorrent they do not want their business associated with them and its resources used by them. So, really they don't mind Nazis all that much.

What this does is create yet another Assholes Club.

The comments in the image are in the responses to McKenzie's note.

Asshole. Club.

Substack said "Hey, everyone welcome!" Then some assholes showed up and started making more and more people uncomfortable. People were like "um, could you do something about these guys? They are kind of making this whole place suck?" And Substack said, "Yeah, they might be jerks, but we said everyone welcome, so they can stay."

The folks who were already fed up take off at this point. They had one foot out the door already and were only sticking around because their friends weren't ready to leave. Their friends watch them go and consider heading out as well, especially the more they see the club owners palling around with the jerks.

Naturally, this emboldens the assholes, so their assholery becomes even more pronounced and harder to ignore. They are shouting and taking up much more space than they need. The group is a little bigger because some of the lower-level bullies were encouraged by the warm reception the bigger assholes were getting. The club has gotten quite a bit emptier, but it's hard to notice because the assholes insist on being the center of everyone's attention.

It doesn't take all that long before "everyone welcome" turns into "asshole fans welcome" which functionally makes it an Asshole Club because it's full of assholes and people who enjoy assholery, which are, by definition, assholes.

And as we all know, the one thing the internet needs more of is places for assholes to gather.

So congrats, Substack. You've followed the well-worn path of every other fucking website. Such bravery.

[xenonsreturn]

[weerd1]

ENT Rewatch Starlog, 28 April, 2024: Episode 3.24 “Zero Hour”

The NX-01 races to complete their modifications which will allow them to use their deflector to disable the Sphere they call “Sphere 41” while Archer, Reed, Sato, and MACOs are on Degra’s ship with Jannar the Arboreal, and the Primate council member chasing down the weapon. Dolim the Reptilian has now destroyed the Insectoids escorting him when they questioned him, but Degra’s ship will be no match for the Reptilian cruiser.

Archer has the still reeling Hoshi trying to decrypt Degra’s notes on how to disable the weapon when Daniels appears. He show’s Archer a ceremony seven years in the future, where Archer, Vulcans, Andorians, and Tellarites are about to convene the United Federation of Planets. Daniels warns Archer that he MUST be there for this to happen, so Reed or Sato must destroy the weapon. Archer is not persuaded.

The Sphere Builders begin to accelerate the spatial distortion around Sphere 41, meaning Phlox has to engineer a fix to keep the crew’s brains from unspooling at the neuron level…he will not be able to protect their bodies though, and the fix will only protect their minds for a few minutes. They are ready however, and Mayweather has to use thrusters to get them through, the impulse power being used to power the beam to destroy the sphere.

Archer and company catch up with the weapon and Dolim, who has already destoryed an orbital science station, but are the only ship to try and stop them. They are suddenly joined in battle by an Andorian cruiser; Shran has tracked them despite the orders of his government and begins to engage the Reptilians while the humans transport onto the weapon and start their sabotage. 

On Enterprise, they have started firing, but the space around the sphere is disrupted enough the Sphere Builders can board the ship and try to disrupt the operation. Phlox remembers the physiology of the test subject they found and instructs the MACOs how to set their weapons to affect the Builders. They are pushing their deadline and already suffering severe skin damage when Tucker succeeds in his attack on the sphere; it implodes and begins a chain reaction, causing spheres to collapse across the Delphic Expanse. The spatial distortions cannot be sustained and the Builder are thrown back into their dimension. 

Reed protects Archer and Sato long enough to complete the sabotage. They return to Degra’s ship while Archer stays to do the last step. Dolim transports to the weapon as Shran destroys his vessel. He fights Archer who dispatches him with one last explosive, and the weapon explodes as Archer races toward the extraction point. 

Later, Enterprise rendezvous with Degra’s ship, only to learn that Archer did not make it. T’Pol assumes command, and with the Xindi hopeful for a new chapter in their history, the Aquatics take the NX-01 back to Earth. Entering the system, they are unable to pick up any hails. Mayweather and Tucker take a shuttlepod down to San Francisco, only to be attacked by three WWII era P-51 Mustangs. Meanwhile, in a Nazi field hospital, a badly burned Archer lays on a bunk, approached by a red-eyed alien in full Nazi regalia. 

Overall a very engaging and exciting end to the Xindi storyline…not allowed to really end because of the head-scratching addition of space Nazis. The tension between the two desperate missions to confront the weapon and the sphere is nicely cranked up at a good pace throughout the episode, and nice to see Archer win a fight (even if he needed a bomb to do it). 

Something I really appreciate here is, as much as some crewmembers are almost forgotten through this season, this episode makes sure everyone has a piece: Hoshi with her decryption; Reed defending her on the weapon; Mayweather’s fancy piloting; Phlox knowing how to defeat the Sphere builders (even some bridge time!). Fits nicely with the Big Three’s efforts on their missions.  

Was glad to see the slightly shoe-horned appearance of Shran too. Always happy to see Jeffrey Combs, and nice to see Shran’s ongoing interaction with Archer, but I am at a bit of a loss as to why there were no, well, Earth ships defending Earth?  I know the NX-02 is still under construction—we heard that just two episodes back—but where is the rest of the fleet? Surely Admiral Forrest has SOME of the Intrepid Class or Delta Class ships in system just in case the NX-01 mission to the Expanse fails?  I almost thought that perhaps the timeline sabotage that we will find out makes Space Nazis happen had already taken effect, but that orbital station WAS there for Dolim to destroy, and that’s a point made later that other stations are only missing AFTER the change. Not sure that all makes any sense to me.

I have walked away from this episode with a New-Trek headcanon though: Surely the potential alliance now with the post-Expanse Xindi means some access to their technology, in particular their “vortex” they use to travel FTL.  Note how much similarity in the picture above there is between that and the way warp effects look in both the Kelvin Timeline and shows like Discovery or Strange New Worlds.

Perhaps THIS is one of the fluid changes to the timeline SNW has canonized as the differences between TOS and the modern shows’ 23rd Century. “Warp Drive” for the SNW 1701 includes Xindi vortex physics, just as I believe the warp drive the Enterprise uses in the ’09 film is enhanced by the telemetry the Kelvin survivors captured of the Narada’s transwarp technology from the late 24th Century. 

We KNOW all these time travel shenanigans have had lasting effects on the prime timeline (like the shifting of the Eugenics Wars from the 1990s to the 2040s); I’m going to say this was one of them.

I do wish the writers (looking at you Berman and Braga) had given a little more space for the denouement of the Xindi saga before plunging us right into this new time travel story…I know it’s tenuously connected, but I’d like to have seen the Earth aftermath now instead of having to wait two more episodes making extensive use of the Paramount back lot. I guess to really complete this rewatch, I have to take those on as well, so as much as I thought this would be my last Enterprise write up, stay tuned for…

NEXT VOYAGE:  The crew of Enterprise show us all Nazis, even Space Nazis, should be punched in “Storm Front Part 1.”  

(Images taken from the main website for @trekcore; I am happy to remove the images if asked.)

[plexflexico]

"Is fighting fascism the hill you really want to die on?"

You misunderstand. It's the hill I want the fascists to die on.

[whatthehelloh]

The headline says it all.

[theatrical-penguin]

My only response to the latest Kanye and Trump shit

[darkskyatnight]

All these far-right fucks praising Andor and completely missing the point like- the Empire is you, you fucking cunts! The Empire is you fat-necked, incel Nazi shitbags crying about the “M-She-U” and the fucking “Antifa commie libruls” GO FUCK YOURSELVES

[amysnotdeadyet]

no repairs are needed (just a spark) chapter 3 is up! It’s 9k of naked time, and that’s it.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/48401086/chapters/122205070

the rest of the fic will basically alternate between shopping and porn, with a brief interlude of nazi-punching, some food porn (obviously), and a cat.

[magpiedminx]

Wonder Woman says always punch Nazis.

[onenakedfarmer]

AmeriKKKA.

Read full story here.

On Nov. 5, 2021, a married couple calling themselves “Mr. and Mrs. Saxon” appeared on the neo-Nazi podcast “Achtung Amerikaner” to plug a new project: a social media channel dedicated to helping American parents home-school their children.

“We are so deeply invested into making sure that that child becomes a wonderful Nazi,” Mrs. Saxon told the podcast’s host. “And by home-schooling, we’re going to get that done.”

As extreme as the Dissident Homeschool channel is, the propaganda it shares targeting the American education system is just a more explicit and crass articulation of talking points made by Fox News hosts or by major figures in the Republican Party.

“Without homeschooling our children,” Mrs. Saxon said, “our children are left defenseless to the schools and the Gay Afro Zionist scum that run them.”

The Dissident Homeschool channel — which now has nearly 2,500 subscribers — is replete with material, including ready-made lesson plans authored by the Saxons on various subjects, like Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee (a “grand role model for young, white men”) and Martin Luther King Jr. (“the antithesis of our civilization and our people”).

There are even copywork assignments available for parents to print out, so that their children can learn cursive by writing out quotes from Adolf Hitler.

[xenonsreturn]

Always.

[eagle-writes]

“I’d rather be excluded for who I include than included for who I exclude”

NB: does not apply to Nazis. I will absolutely exclude the fuck out of you if you include Nazis.

Ink: Akkerman Hofvijer Grijs