Critical does not require outrage and name-calling, and all out dismissal of anyone else’s rights.

Which part? I thought I was pretty clear that I didn’t agree with him any more than I agree with any other poster here, only that both sides have a right, whether one agrees with it or not.

Oh, it doesn’t. Trust me.

Not trying to be high and mighty, just trying to lend a little perspective. Things are super confrontational these days, about everything. I’m not innocent of this. I know that. I am, however, weary of it.

I think you missed the point of some minor levity.

Same as the rest of us. Nothing singling him out. We all have to put up with Washington, whether we like it or not, from one side or the other.

So? Does that invalidate his opinion? I posit that no, it does not, no more than his opinion invalidates the majority.

Neither of those situations would apply to me, unfortunately. I think he has a right to his opinion, the same way I think you have the right to call him a “jack-ass” and me “fucking delusional”. I think it’s uncalled for, I don’t agree with it, but I respect that you have an opinion. One could say that you are now…

Hah! Nerd Fight!

Nice!

Yeah, but it’s not. It’s everyone these days harboring animosity towards almost anyone else. Case in point, you’re attacking so-called snowflakes right now, which will in turn make anyone who thinks you’re talking about them lash out right back at you. Back to a never ending cycle. Just relax, accept that other…

Upside of seeing on wrecked so early is you can see all the fake vents and how they pop off, amiright?

Are we sure the guy who hit him wasn’t too busy applying the eyebleach after seeing the CTR before he hit it??

Dude! Harsh! Heh.

Hah! You’re not wrong, especially about him being surly. He did have a field promotion, temporarily, of the D in TNG a couple of times, but then went back to being #1. I guess I just remember him being in command, so I count it.

Well, I stand corrected! Well done, sir.

I think I hate that you’re right most of all....

Only since we were specifically talking about the NCC-1701, and Robert April didn’t actually appear on the show, far as I know, just the cartoon, right?

Which, in turn, gives him the absolute right to roast you for being an SJW, or alt-left, or whatever he wants to say, because you feel justified, and around and around it goes. It’s a cycle because no one breaks it. And so it goes.

But seriously, you’re going to roast a guy for living a great many years in the world that is almost 180 degrees out of phase with the ideal of Trek, and not expect him to have been beaten down by the constant oppression that is our political wasteland? I’m not saying I agree with him, just that he’s entitled to have…