I don’t have the original source, I only found a few others online that repeated her statement.

After the red scares and anti-communist purges in the US the 30s-40s, no writers or anyone in hollywood could come out and say they were communist or socialist. Many of them like Roddenberry were only able to push communitarian values and do societal critiques of racism, nationalism, and selfishness via sci-fi.

Star trek is unique among US media for telling a hopeful story about a communist / post-capitalist future, but these already had a long tradition in the USSR. This article gets into it a bit more:

• Star trek and its debt to revolutionary socialism.

Picard speaking to a whiny businessman: we’ve grown out of our infancy.

It is kinda a weird name. Lwaxana is one of the best characters tho, I love her episodes.

That one where she falls in love with the guy whose culture it is to kill their retirees, that one is really sad.

libertarian socialist/communist

When your socialist / communist group arms and starts defending themselves and their class interests, what prevents someone labeling them as authoritarian for doing so?

Socialist countries like the PRC lived through a hundred years of imperial exploitation by foreign powers (Britain, the US, and Japan), and fought a decades-long civil war against feudal reactionaries to finally liberate themselves from these oppressions. Do you know something they don’t, about how to establish socialism, “non-authoritarianly”?

but people in US finance everything

Damn I wonder why they do that. Must have nothing to do poverty. /s

Your main source is ASPI, a far right war-hawk australian defense industry think tank.

Do you have sources for any of these claims?

Props, this is like an diplomatic BDS.

This is gold. Comrades are on their meme game this week. This one was also fire:

A drastic increase in military funds to Israel took place during the terrorist Biden regime:

“The dying serpent always bites”. The roman empire went out like this too, overextending itself with a lot of imperialist wars, then devolving into internal strife and instability until it hollowed out and everyone left.

Today the US and Israel bombed and killed 85 people (mostly children) in an all girls primary school.

Death to amerikkka

First two months of 2026: The US kidnaps one country’s leader, murders another, and kills hundreds of civilians in two failed regime change attempts.

Death to the burger empire.

No probs, same. If it’s a “trump says” source, then it’s immediately sus and we need at least a confirmation from the other side.

They also bombed and killed several members of his family, including his daughter, granddaughter, and son in law.

I wish more US troops would commit treason and go against the US settler colonial project. There have been cases.

That and the condescending arrogance of “bombs are not the best way for Iran to accept our form of democracy” stuck out too.

So much coded language in here.

We desperately need an anti-zionist german language lemmy server.