News that I missed, courtesy of The Babylon Bee:
CELTRIS III—Jean-Luc Picard has been removed from Twitter following his controversial “There are four lights!” tweet. The highly respected Captain of the USS Enterprise starship has reportedly been removed until he agrees to delete the tweet.
“Your comments have gone against our community guidelines,” Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey explained. “Now if you delete your tweet and simply admit that there are five lights your account will be reinstated.”
Despite the clear instructions and simple request from Twitter, Picard has refused to budge, continuing to insist that’s what he sees. “THERE…ARE…FOUR…LIGHTS!” shouted a beleaguered, weary Picard. “How can I help but see what is before my eyes?”
“Sometimes, Picard. Sometimes there are five. Sometimes men are women. Sometimes women are men,” replied Jack Dorsey. “You must try harder Captain, it is not easy becoming sane.”
Picard’s actions have inspired many in the Federation to come to his cause, demanding his immediate reinstatement on Twitter.
Go here to read the rest. Let them try that with Locutus of Borg! (Hold it. Aren’t the Borg running Twitter?)
The Bee nails it again. Satire so close to fact, they are almost indistinguishable.
Follow the science!!!
Except chromosomes. They’re complete [expletive-deleted] BS.
It’s not satire or irony or hyberbole or parody or metaphor or whatever when it’s true.
One of my favorite STNG episodes. Replace the command “all you have to do is say there are five lights” with the command “all you have to do is burn a pinch of incense to Caesar,” and you will recognize through what the martyrs in the Roman Empire had to go, and through what today’s liberal progressive leftism wishes to push us:
“All you have to do is say there are five lights.”
Roman imperialism
Nazism
Communism
Liberal progressive leftism
It’s all the same.