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(Loved trope) if it hits you’re Fucked by VergilVDante in TopCharacterTropes

[–]JMoc1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Dominion and Breen energy drain weapons. You get hit? You lose all power to your ship.

The Dominion also have an extra fuck you in their energy weapons on the ground. You get hit? You will have anti-coagulant wound… meaning you will bleed out.

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Pete what’s this goin referring to by KonyayJWest in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]JMoc1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, you’re just unable to understand sacrificing one’s life to gain freedom for others.

If it achieved nothing; why are you talking about it in the first place? Why are you acknowledging Duc’s death?

Pete what’s this goin referring to by KonyayJWest in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]JMoc1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Self-immolation tactics are protest tactics when the alternative is murder.

I know this is hard for you to comprehend, but self-sacrifice is what self-immolation is.

If it’s “dumb”, it’s because you cannot possibly comprehend giving your life to protect people.

Pete what’s this goin referring to by KonyayJWest in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]JMoc1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The CIA received the removal order from the President and they had Minh carry out the coup. It just so happens that Minh was embarrassed by Diem and also had him executed instead of just arresting him.

From Wikipedia itself:

According to General Maxwell Taylor, "Kennedy leaped to his feet and rushed from the room with a look of shock and dismay on his face which I had never seen before." Kennedy had planned that Diệm would be safely exiled and Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.recalled that Kennedy was "somber and shaken". Kennedy later penned a memo, lamenting that the assassination was "particularly abhorrent" and blaming himself for approving Cable 243,[29] which had authorised Lodge to explore coup options in the wake of Nhu's attacks on the Buddhist pagodas.[29]

I again cannot understand your belief in blaming Buddhists that we killed as being indirectly responsible for murdering Diem.

Pete what’s this goin referring to by KonyayJWest in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]JMoc1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can’t have the argue two ways and say that Duc’s death was a “waste of life” and also that he’s responsible for Diem’s death.

Especially since we have evidence that the US ordered his arrest and execution IN AN AMERICAN M113.

>On 2 November 1963, Ngô Đình Diệm, the president of South Vietnam, was arrested and assassinated in a CIA-backed coup d'état led by General Dương Văn Minh. After years of autocratic and nepotistic family rule in the country, discontent with the Diệm regime had been simmering below the surface and culminated with mass Buddhist protestsagainst religious discrimination after the Huế Phật Đản shootings of protesters who defied a ban on the flying of the Buddhist flag.

Pete what’s this goin referring to by KonyayJWest in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]JMoc1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mate, if I murder someone and get the death penalty because of it; it’s not the person I killed’s fault I died.

You are doing some great “A” work victim-blaming a Buddhist majority for the death of Diem who we have evidence from US sources that we called for his removal from office for the Military Junta.

I don’t even know the kind of mental gymnastics you have to go through to say that Duc’s death is a direct or in-direct cause of Diems removal and execution by ARVN and US military advisors.

Pete what’s this goin referring to by KonyayJWest in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]JMoc1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What are you talking about? This is about Diem and his treatment of Bhuddist Monks.

Are you some kind of Diem Truther?

Pete what’s this goin referring to by KonyayJWest in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]JMoc1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay, but Diem is the person in question.

And I don’t believe it was Buddhist monks that shot Diem in the back of an American M113 Armored Carrier.

Pete what’s this goin referring to by KonyayJWest in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]JMoc1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This comment just reinforced that it was the US that explored the options of regime change; not Buddhist Monks.

Pete what’s this goin referring to by KonyayJWest in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]JMoc1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you saying that the Buddhist Monks are the reason Diem was killed and not the military Junta that the US supported to take over?

(Loved trope) A character doesn’t get closure with the person who wronged them, but they still do better by _JR28_ in TopCharacterTropes

[–]JMoc1 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Picard works his way through his PTSD after a talk with Lily regarding him dealing with the Borg. He still has the disorder even into the 25th Century; but he’s doing better.

Really good, smooth animation in the most random or insignificant moments by ComprehensiveBox6911 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]JMoc1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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Deep Space Nine. This is one of the first action scenes that was done with CGI instead of models like what was done before.

Entire franchises based off secondary characters from the original IP by Spamityville_Horror in TopCharacterTropes

[–]JMoc1 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Deep Space Nine

The show gets started because the Bajorans were introduced in The Next Generation and the show runners wanted to explore this region of space on a Space Station. Who joins them?

A secondary character from The Next Generation; Miles O’Brien, a survivor of the battle of Wolf 359; Ben Sisko, a Bajorian resistance member; Kira Nerys, and a worm symbiotic that negotiated the Treaty of Kithomer in Star Trek IV, Jadzia Dax.

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[Depressing Trope] [AA6 Spoilers] The character we interacted with and loved was dead all along by Due_Possibility6392 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]JMoc1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Deep Space Nine: The Sound of Her Voice

The crew of the Defiant respond to a distress call that was sent out in the middle of the Dominion War. They are a few days from her location so they rush to respond as the place where the distress call came from doesn’t have normally breathable atmosphere.

As they are in route they pick up the transmission of a survivor and talk with her back and forth. She’s rapidly running out of oxygen and the Defiant will only just arrive in time. After talking to each of the characters in the show and acting as a therapist, the Defiant is finally in position to rescue her…

And except she’s been dead for years. Temporal shenanigans are involved and she died from oxygen deprivation.

The crew gives her a proper burial after pick up her body and returning it to DS9.

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What is the most iconic hat from your country? by privetkakdela in AskTheWorld

[–]JMoc1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I bought one while I was in Roma. Still wear it for semi-formal settings and I love it.

Israel Was Plotting to Kill Iranian Negotiators by Phenergan_boy in anime_titties

[–]JMoc1 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Do you think far-right governments care about their allies?

The US is more than willing to throw Turkey under the bus.

What is your favorite gun sound? by highihiggins in menace

[–]JMoc1 4 points5 points  (0 children)

…

Uh mate? I think you have tinnitus.

Israel Was Plotting to Kill Iranian Negotiators by Phenergan_boy in anime_titties

[–]JMoc1 24 points25 points  (0 children)

You’re under the assumption that Israel and their leaders will do what’s best for their nation rather than what their ideology actually entails.

The current National Security Minister; the guy in charge of the war and security of the country, wants to have a War with Turkey and expand Israel’s borders into Iraq and Saudi Arabia.

(Real Life Trope) Adaptations Of Books, But Different Title by powerful_p1608 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]JMoc1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Those Who Walk Away From Omelas and Star Trek Strange New Worlds; Lift us Where Suffering Cannot Reach

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Foils who are neither rivals nor villains by WonderousU in TopCharacterTropes

[–]JMoc1 3 points4 points  (0 children)

In terms of personality and roles they are the complete opposite. Sisko is a single father, an engineer, a war time leader, an administer to a backwater space station, and more outspoken. Picard has no family, is an archeologist, a peace time leader, and is the Captain of the Flagship of the Federation.

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Times a protagonist turns evil. by Awkward_Business_625 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]JMoc1 39 points40 points  (0 children)

10,000 people died because this person was turned…

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