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You know, I would really say that Teddy and Abe belong in the first picture. I REALLY have a hard time picturing Military-Serving, National-Park-Making, Trust-Busting Teddy Roosevelt being pals with Trump.
 
And YES, I understand that these paintings are done on a Democrat/Republican split; it's just that the modern Republican Party is NOT "the party of Lincoln". The party has changed over the years.

You know, I would really say that Teddy and Abe belong in the first picture. I REALLY have a hard time picturing Military-Serving, National-Park-Making, Trust-Busting Teddy Roosevelt being pals with Trump.
 
And YES, I understand that these paintings are done on a Democrat/Republican split; it's just that the modern Republican Party is NOT "the party of Lincoln". The party has changed over the years.

You know, I would really say that Teddy and Abe belong in the first picture. I REALLY have a hard time picturing Military-Serving, National-Park-Making, Trust-Busting Teddy Roosevelt being pals with Trump.
 
And YES, I understand that these paintings are done on a Democrat/Republican split; it's just that the modern Republican Party is NOT "the party of Lincoln". The party has changed over the years.

After betraying Single-Cell Jesus, Judas Eukaryote felt so guilty that he threw himself off a cliff and burst asunder.
 
Then he felt twice as guilty.

Oh, in THAT case it's easy. You just store all the characters you're not using in quantum non-observational limbo until they're relevant to the story, at which point they spring back into full existence when the camera points at them.

Oh, in THAT case it's easy. You just store all the characters you're not using in quantum non-observational limbo until they're relevant to the story, at which point they spring back into full existence when the camera points at them.

As soon as I saw it, I knew that it was either microscopic or geographic in scale, but not which. I find that intriguing. Why is "not human scale" obvious to us when the difference between tiny and huge isn't? Is it just familiarity with what things look like at our own scale? Something to do with fractals in nature (but wouldn't THAT lead to similarities at ALL scales?)?

Surely in this internet connected era, it should be the Year of the Doge.
Many Zodiac.
Such Lunar.
Wow.

Surely in this internet connected era, it should be the Year of the Doge.
Many Zodiac.
Such Lunar.
Wow.

That's how it works for ants, and no one says that ants aren't an evolutionary success.

I choose to believe this is a cute and intimate film about Liam Neeson as an engineer giving emotional support to an anthropomorphic train working up the courage to be open about its sexuality.

I choose to believe this is a cute and intimate film about Liam Neeson as an engineer giving emotional support to an anthropomorphic train working up the courage to be open about its sexuality.

Around here, they take the train:
 

Around here, they take the train:
 

Around here, they take the train:
 

Around here, they take the train:
 

Really? With their strong barbecue tradition, I would expect Texas to have plenty of ground hog.

Really? With their strong barbecue tradition, I would expect Texas to have plenty of ground hog.

Really? With their strong barbecue tradition, I would expect Texas to have plenty of ground hog.

My take on it, based off of watching what they DO in the shows and movies, is that Starfleet is very much a military organization, BUT they have exploration and research as part of their job to a much greater extent than our current Earth navies do. By way of example, the US Navy--clearly and definitely a military organization--operates research vessels. It would make perfect sense for a research vessel operated by a military to have civilian science specialists on board. It would be kind of silly to try to combine defense and research roles into one ship, but that fits Roddenberry's vision of a more peaceful future.
 
I won't pretend that I've answered the debate, or that anyone is obligated to accept my opinion. I'm just relating how I've settled the question in my own mind so I don't have to keep gnawing at it.

Perhaps occupying their territory and killing their citizens is not the best way to accomplish this?

Perhaps occupying their territory and killing their citizens is not the best way to accomplish this?

Perhaps occupying their territory and killing their citizens is not the best way to accomplish this?

Perhaps occupying their territory and killing their citizens is not the best way to accomplish this?

So we have. The conservatives have defied the law in order to harm minorities and disadvantaged people, and the liberals have defied the law to HELP minorities and disadvantaged people. Not exactly equivalent, in my eyes.