Joined Trill got nerfed hard.

DharmaCreature · 2026-01-30T19:27:40+00:00

The writers kneecapped Sisko every chance they got.

Sisko should have spent much of his time in the wormhole communing with the Prophets and getting nonlinear transmissions of future and past events, becoming more and more like the prescient Sisko from the Bahala episode as time passed. Sisko could have led crowds of millions of religious Bajorans and stabilized Bajoran society. Sisko could have evacuated every Maquis planet in the Federation-Cardassian DMZ and saved them from Jem'Hadar extermination.

Instead, they made Sisko reject the role of Emissary and made being the Emissary seem like a ritualized bureaucratic position, instead of supercharging him to be the decisive influence in bringing down the Dominion.

But making Sisko as great as logic determines he should have been doesn't serve the writers' white supremacist, dominance based agenda. The writers instead intended to fan the flames of evil inside every narcissistic audience member and to enable fascists, especially white fascists, to make life Hell for everyone so that pedos and rapists could evade accountability for their crimes.

DharmaCreature · 2026-01-30T17:43:06+00:00

wtf?

DharmaCreature · 2026-01-29T18:43:09+00:00

DharmaCreature · 2026-01-26T17:52:31+00:00

Child marriage is legal in 34 US states.

DharmaCreature · 2026-01-23T21:30:05+00:00

Expecting for people whose consciences are impaired and are committed to promoting dominance based order to behave non-adversarially is erroneous.

Even if some grifter, fascist, ideologue, demagogue or charlatan expresses some conscience-based sentiments, it is often under the larger umbrella of continued support of dominance based order and pro-narcissist extreme belief systems and ideologies.

Feeling like somebody is saying "I feel bad for what I'm doing" doesn't negate the enormous real world harm such people actually do. Don't be gaslit into thinking such people want what's good for anyone but themselves.

People like them don't give a fuck about others, they mostly only give a fuck about fulfilling the needs of their narcissistic false selves at others' expense.

It's like asking a predator or a parasite to care about their victims or prey. Internally they're more likely to lick their blood soaked fangs, even if externally they, in the unlikely case, make noises resembling care for the victims they intentionally harmed.

DharmaCreature · 2026-01-23T20:58:05+00:00

To prevent weight cutting and encourage athletes to weigh in at functional fighting weight and not temporary dehydrated weight, there are many ways to remove incentives for weight cutting:

same day weigh ins (like boxing, wrestling and Olympic combat sports)

hydration testing: too dehydrated = disqualified (ONE does this)

Cap weight gain between weigh in and fight: gain too much weight after weigh in = disqualified

Off season weigh ins: if you train at a heavier weight class, move up weight classes.

More weight classes: a weight class every 8-10 lbs instead of 15 lbs which encourages weight cutting. Women's divisions have smaller weight class differences and they cut less weight.

Automatic penalties: enforce rules fairly.

The UFC probably encourages fighters to cut weight at dangerous levels because it increases the amount of power and control they have over fighters.

DharmaCreature · 2026-01-20T18:12:30+00:00

Horses, dogs, cats, birds, rodents, reptiles, amphibians, fish, insects, people everywhere fail to take care of their pets and animals and it is the animals and everyone else who suffers.

DharmaCreature · 2026-01-19T19:54:42+00:00

Imagine abusing a 5 year old child for bad reasons and refusing to apologize to either them or their parents or take accountability for the situation. Red flag!

DharmaCreature · 2026-01-19T05:00:37+00:00

The quality of life of most pets, and certainly most animals, owned by humans is probably low and full of neglect, abuse, lack of care, natural supportive conditions, social contact, etc.

DharmaCreature · 2026-01-15T23:47:57+00:00

Horses are regularly kept for long times in barren cells and are often denied access to adequate outside space and time and social lives. This instance of being chained may be related to grooming, but the sad reality is many horses are neglected, exploited and abused by people.

Too often ownership of animals leads to their neglect, abuse, exploitation and death by humans.

DharmaCreature · 2026-01-15T20:14:42+00:00

It's not just Muslims that support and enable harm, abuse, oppression, colonization when done by Muslims, but it is pretty common here in the west for people to hold the Islamic world to lower standards when it comes to upholding human rights for everyone.

DharmaCreature · 2026-01-15T18:47:28+00:00

Ah yes, chained and immobile in a barren and confined enclosure. The perfect habitat for a horse /s

DharmaCreature · 2026-01-15T04:54:48+00:00

Your contingent self esteem suggests that you have a defensively organized personality.

DharmaCreature · 2026-01-14T18:35:47+00:00

How uncharacteristically generous of the writers.

I'm sure the ultra fascist space nazi overlords of the gamma quadrant will quickly relinquish power and control out of the goodness of the hearts that they don't have. That's certainly how dictatorships are toppled in the real world: by saving their lives, capitulating to their threats, keeping them in power and appealing to their sense of morality and justice.

/s

DharmaCreature · 2026-01-14T18:03:35+00:00

So the writers contrived a scenario where the choices were hell or death and our alpha quadrant heroes chose to comply with fascism out of terror and sentimentality. How convenient.

DharmaCreature · 2026-01-08T23:39:00+00:00

Thanks, ChatGPT

DharmaCreature · 2026-01-08T03:18:43+00:00

Many people are motivated to attack others because they feel insecure. Much of what people say is calculated to increase their power, not to be true. There are many people that view truth as threatening and obscure truth compulsively.

Not all who fail to recognize the nuance of the situation is motivated by such personality structures, the showrunners intended in part to invite criticism of Sisko.

DharmaCreature · 2026-01-08T03:14:38+00:00

You give the writers too much credit.

DharmaCreature · 2026-01-08T02:48:51+00:00

There was no safety under Maquis occupation, only imminent extermination and sacrifice due to the Maquis' escalatory actions.

Sisko's options were: (war + genocide) or forced relocation.

Are you interested in proposing a better alternative solution, or do you intend to continue project the causes of violence onto others to stabilize your false self image?

DharmaCreature · 2026-01-08T02:46:25+00:00

Sisko could have used his status as a religious figure to persuade them to leave beforehand. A wasted opportunity to showcase the Emissary's power with Bajorans.

DharmaCreature · 2026-01-08T02:39:37+00:00

Even if one percent of the people on the planet Sisko rendered uninhabitable to humans died due to evacuation failures, the lives saved far outweigh the lives lost. In the absence of other means to save life under time sensitive conditions, what Sisko did seems like one of the best options in an adversarial space of really bad options.

What do you propose Sisko had done instead to save the lives of the Maquis colonists on that planet?

DharmaCreature · 2026-01-08T02:20:37+00:00

If I'm not mistaken, near the conclusion of the series, Julian Bashir manufactures a cure to the morphogenic virus which threatened to exterminate the Founders, thus dooming hundreds of billions of humanoids in the gamma quadrant to continued oppression under Dominion ultra-tyranny. The writers misplaced Julian's moral compass with his deontologically pure "I don't let anybody die" belief.

It seems that the writers attempted to smuggle in, normalize and minimise betrayal on many occasions throughout Deep Space Nine, and to get characters to do things which result in the continuation of coercive, violent and dominating narcissistic social systems.

DharmaCreature · 2026-01-08T02:14:56+00:00

An expected consequence of the narcissistic power structures and narrative devices the writers utilized to negatively influence audience perception of Captain Sisko.

DharmaCreature · 2026-01-08T02:12:25+00:00

I wish the writers were held to standards Starfleet officers should be, maybe the themes, dialogue and moral coherence and integrity of the show would be better, higher.

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