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Communists? Nah, not a problem. I mean I'm a Star Trek fan, and while it's not played up that much the Federation is a post-scarcity socialist-adjacent society. I'm all for everyone having their basic needs met without condition or obligation, and money being obsolete.
Tankies though can fuck right off. North Korea is not a bastion of democracy. China is not more free than the US. This is not a comparison even worth entertaining.
Exactly, the tankies make me not want to talk about/positively about communist theory. I've always aligned more with socialist ideas but wasn't opposed to the idea of communism. The tankies make me just cringe when someone brings up communism now. It's like all the edgelords who have no real world experiences have gather together under the tanky flag.
Now that's patently unfair. Half of them became full conservative fascists instead.
Star Trek is fully automatic gay space communism.
It’s not socialist adjacent.
Counterpoint: Riker.
Look, I know the Federation doesn't have money, but they probably brought it back just to charge Riker for all the extra cleanup required every time he visited the holodeck.
Quark's Holosuites were never clean again after Riker came aboard DS9.
I don't think anyone has a problem with post scarcity utopian idealism, we just aren't at the post scarcity part yet