It’s definitely one of mine!

It’s quite a visceral look at how radicalization works, and how groups manipulate members and potential members through control of language, artificial camaraderie and especially, having an enemy.

And the end is amazing. When Chakotay sees the scary looking alien (can’t remember the species) on Voyager, all that fear and hatred still comes back to him even though he knows he was manipulated. Because being de-radicalized isn’t just like flipping a switch. It’s easier to learn to hate than unlearn it.

Obviously it could be better - as with most Voyager eps to be honest - but it’s definitely one of the ones I look forward to most on a rewatch.

Edit: I glimpsed a comment, now nullified: the nemesis is the Kradin

Literally the only reason I remember this person’s name.

If I move, this 👉👉 could die!

The first [of 3 catalysts], were the deaths of five adult males and one adult female - for reasons unknown - in 2014, which could have disrupted social networks and weakened social ties across the subgroups

They assassinated Archmonke Ferdinand!

Ah thanks! This is why I have manifold PTSD but also that was genuinely helpful.

This was covered fully in the only course I failed in my physics masters, lol.

It’s been a while so bits of this might be wrong. Manifolds give me PTSD.

A euclidean space is one where pythagoras’ theorem is true, like on a piece of paper. Even if you roll up the paper, everything still works the same. The angles of a triangle still add to 180 etc

But the surface of a sphere doesn’t work like that. You can’t fold up the paper into a sphere, it’s fundamentally different. Geometry changes a bit on the surface too, and you have to modify pythagoras theorem for it to describe triangles in one of these spaces. And the internal angles don’t add to 180 anymore.

These are non-euclidean spaces, aka Riemannian spaces.

So the meme is saying “ha ha you’re in a non-Euclidean space, it just looks like that because you’re small, dumb dumb! Why don’t you draw a big triangle, measure the angles and then cry yourself to sleep?”

Understandable. I get cringe PTSD when I know certain parts are coming up. Still worth it for me, one of my favourite comedies of all time

Recent ones:

Severance

Pluribus

Older one I didn’t see anyone mention yet:

Peep Show (amazing British comedy, truly uncomfortable levels of cringe)

Wow, he is abusive to women?! Cancel this man.

In unrelated news I’ve been living under a rock my entire adult life and I’ve been in a coma since 2015.

Trump just seems to repeat the thoughts of the last person he spoke to that actually got through to him somehow. Why Putin seems to be so good at doing that is anyone’s guess.

In any case, this will continue until he meets some European leaders again. I think the person who flipped him last time seems to have been King Charles?

But this all just shows it doesn’t even matter. As Orwell said:

“The enemy is the gramophone mind, whether or not one agrees with the record that is being played at the moment.”

He is too dumb to do anything else. The record will be changed and changed back again and again.

Strongly recommended if you like deduction/puzzle-y games. Wish I could play it again for the first time

British here. You’re right. It’s the culmination of decades of intentional misinformation and stoking the fears of the racist and stupid. Appealing to the politicians spreading this (e.g. Farage) is useless. Appealing to the public is useless.

I heard a story about a friend of a friend who thought that one million immigrants entered Britain every day. As in, the population would literally double in two months if this was true. But not only did he not realise that, he repeated the “fact” to other people.

Obviously a lot of us are fine. But Reform is leading in the polls and people believe shit like that so the reality is most of us are not.

I’m a totem loser so I will have to think of some way to do it with my dash, haha

I have to find some way to do this in my current campaign. I’m a barbarian though so as a bonus action might be a stretch

I will also accept bap.

It’s breadcake. Problem solved. No further discussion necessary

Yes, but people also misuse the idea that’s it’s misused to shut people up.

E.g.: hey maybe we shouldn’t starve children to death?

Zionist: wow why do you only criticise Israel like this, you anti-semite!

Point goes unanswered, OP probably feels the need to defend themselves instead of pursuing their valid point.

Alternatively…

Racist: some groups are just not compatible with western culture

Someone: you can’t make assumptions about massive groups of people. Many people come to the west because they don’t agree with their culture. To assume everyone from one place is the same is racist.

Racist: wow there you go! Don’t engage just scream “racist” at everyone you don’t like.

Again, point goes unanswered. The person probably feels the need to defend this accusation again

What I saw a lot of on Lemmy was democrat supporters and voters insisting that people will just hold their nose and vote for Harris and accusing anybody angry about the ongoing genocide of either supporting Trump or playing into the hands of Russia.

Any statement posted on Lemmy is directed at the voters, not the leadership, and assuming otherwise is arguing in bad faith.

Did I do that? Very confused.

The voters had the opportunity to stop Trump. They didn’t.

Ah yes, it’s all the voters’ fault.

If only the DNC had any power at all in this situation or ability to influence the actions of voters…

Okay, so I would be equally justified in saying: Liberals, this is what you get when you assume people must vote for you.

THANK YOU. This far down the road and they’re still ignoring this aspect.

Yes protest voters choosing to make things worse for Palestine and everyone in the US is stupid.

AND liberals and especially the party leadership made a huge miscalculation in assuming everyone would vote for “not Trump.”

Both contributed to the loss. Which is more to blame? There’s a discussion to be had there but imo the overall electoral strategy is a much bigger issue than a handful of stupid people who didn’t vote or voted Trump over this one particular issue

Yeah absolutely! My frustration is more that everyone chose to cede this rhetorical ground to them because of their already-obvious lies. It kind of implies it would be bad if some weren’t Jewish