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throw0101a on Oct 2, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020

> You are likening a nation of humans to a fictional alien species?

If you don't like it, talk to Gene Roddenberry. In ST:TOS the Klingons (IIRC) were used as a stand in for the Soviets:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klingon#Conception

* https://www.history.com/news/star-trek-series-episodes-vietn...

Or you could view it as the anthropomorphization of the vice of greed or stinginess/miserliness/parsimony.

propter_hoc on Oct 2, 2020 [3 more]

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throw0101a on Oct 2, 2020 | [–]

> "Hey, that story about Polish people reminds me of those scurrilous Romulans!"

Heh. You wanna guess where my ancestors come from? :)

YeGoblynQueenne on Oct 2, 2020 | | [–]

:gasp: Romulus???

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