Comments on: Takei Supports Social Security Bill http://www.trektoday.com/content/2012/04/takei-supports-social-security-bill/ Daily Star Trek news Sun, 26 May 2013 06:11:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Kang the Unbalanced http://www.trektoday.com/content/2012/04/takei-supports-social-security-bill/comment-page-1/#comment-4624 Kang the Unbalanced Wed, 02 May 2012 15:55:00 +0000 http://www.trektoday.com/content/?p=16777#comment-4624 It's America, golden land of opportunity. We've had a retarded president, so why not? It’s America, golden land of opportunity. We’ve had a retarded president, so why not?

]]> By: Kang the Unbalanced http://www.trektoday.com/content/2012/04/takei-supports-social-security-bill/comment-page-1/#comment-4621 Kang the Unbalanced Wed, 02 May 2012 15:54:00 +0000 http://www.trektoday.com/content/?p=16777#comment-4621 Ooh! Rowr, tiger! Ooh! Rowr, tiger!

]]> By: hostile_17 http://www.trektoday.com/content/2012/04/takei-supports-social-security-bill/comment-page-1/#comment-4591 hostile_17 Wed, 02 May 2012 07:03:00 +0000 http://www.trektoday.com/content/?p=16777#comment-4591 But he's raising awareness about everyone who hasn't been in Star Trek. Which is a lot. But he’s raising awareness about everyone who hasn’t been in Star Trek. Which is a lot.

]]> By: Undead http://www.trektoday.com/content/2012/04/takei-supports-social-security-bill/comment-page-1/#comment-4585 Undead Wed, 02 May 2012 00:49:00 +0000 http://www.trektoday.com/content/?p=16777#comment-4585 George is catty every time he opens his mouth. George is catty every time he opens his mouth.

]]> By: Undead http://www.trektoday.com/content/2012/04/takei-supports-social-security-bill/comment-page-1/#comment-4582 Undead Wed, 02 May 2012 00:48:00 +0000 http://www.trektoday.com/content/?p=16777#comment-4582 ==="A lot of people are being and are going to be screwed out of the money that they have paid into the Social Security pot, and it's damn unfair."==== And yet, the "second-class citizen" is a former television actor with narcissistic personality disorder who probably enjoys a higher standard of living than either of us. Poor, poor, put-upon George. ===”A lot of people are being and are going to be screwed out of the money that they have paid into the Social Security pot, and it’s damn unfair.”====

And yet, the “second-class citizen” is a former television actor with narcissistic personality disorder who probably enjoys a higher standard of living than either of us.

Poor, poor, put-upon George.

]]> By: Kang the Unbalanced http://www.trektoday.com/content/2012/04/takei-supports-social-security-bill/comment-page-1/#comment-4534 Kang the Unbalanced Tue, 01 May 2012 15:42:00 +0000 http://www.trektoday.com/content/?p=16777#comment-4534 George is talking about being a second-class citizen because as a gay man, he is denied many things that would be handed to him if he were straight, for no other reason than because he is gay. This is systemic discrimination, which pretty much defines second-class citizen. Right now, homosexuals are having the same struggle that women and blacks and others have gone through. By your logic, elderly straight people should also be penalized if they made any money in their lives, and their spouses and families likewise, regardless of their having paid into the system. Yet you single out one man. If you're upset about how your society is treating you, feel free to do something about it, preferably something more productive than flapping your fingers on a message board. A lot of people are being and are going to be screwed out of the money that they have paid into the Social Security pot, and it's damn unfair. Now go put your outrage to good use. George is talking about being a second-class citizen because as a gay man, he is denied many things that would be handed to him if he were straight, for no other reason than because he is gay. This is systemic discrimination, which pretty much defines second-class citizen. Right now, homosexuals are having the same struggle that women and blacks and others have gone through.
By your logic, elderly straight people should also be penalized if they made any money in their lives, and their spouses and families likewise, regardless of their having paid into the system. Yet you single out one man.
If you’re upset about how your society is treating you, feel free to do something about it, preferably something more productive than flapping your fingers on a message board. A lot of people are being and are going to be screwed out of the money that they have paid into the Social Security pot, and it’s damn unfair. Now go put your outrage to good use.

]]> By: Undead http://www.trektoday.com/content/2012/04/takei-supports-social-security-bill/comment-page-1/#comment-4525 Undead Tue, 01 May 2012 09:08:00 +0000 http://www.trektoday.com/content/?p=16777#comment-4525 Sally Struthers, who in those commercials looked as though she'd actually eaten an orphan or two before the cameras rolled, and Bono, who is simply one of the most hypocritical douchebags alive, are not particularly good examples to cite in defense of George Takei and his rather vocal martyr complex. Mr. Takei has every right to put out a new statement every five minutes in which he uses his sexual orientation as a bludgeon to establish some kind of moral authority in the furtherance of some pet political cause. It's obnoxious, and it got old a real long time ago, but he's perfectly free to do it. But if he's going to whine about being a "second-class citizen" for some inequality in the type of Social Security benefits he gets, I think it's perfectly fair to wonder how far down the citizenship totem pole that puts those of us who are paying his benefits today but are going to receive JACK-all for ourselves tomorrow, and probably aren't going to be able to claim Gayness as an exemption from reality. Oh well, we ought to be getting a new pronouncement from Mr. Takei on some matter of social or political policy any moment now, and then we'll be on to the next thing. Sally Struthers, who in those commercials looked as though she’d actually eaten an orphan or two before the cameras rolled, and Bono, who is simply one of the most hypocritical douchebags alive, are not particularly good examples to cite in defense of George Takei and his rather vocal martyr complex.

Mr. Takei has every right to put out a new statement every five minutes in which he uses his sexual orientation as a bludgeon to establish some kind of moral authority in the furtherance of some pet political cause. It’s obnoxious, and it got old a real long time ago, but he’s perfectly free to do it. But if he’s going to whine about being a “second-class citizen” for some inequality in the type of Social Security benefits he gets, I think it’s perfectly fair to wonder how far down the citizenship totem pole that puts those of us who are paying his benefits today but are going to receive JACK-all for ourselves tomorrow, and probably aren’t going to be able to claim Gayness as an exemption from reality.

Oh well, we ought to be getting a new pronouncement from Mr. Takei on some matter of social or political policy any moment now, and then we’ll be on to the next thing.

]]> By: Kang the Unbalanced http://www.trektoday.com/content/2012/04/takei-supports-social-security-bill/comment-page-1/#comment-4492 Kang the Unbalanced Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:45:00 +0000 http://www.trektoday.com/content/?p=16777#comment-4492 So true. All that internment bullshit, it's ancient history. Get over it already! And tell those Jews to stop whining about that final solution crap, it's so 1940's. And all those Christians! I'ts been two thousand freakin' years already, come on! Mr. Takei is attempting to use his visibility as a celebrity to get attention for causes that he thinks are important. A lot of people in the public eye do this, and if it is alright for say, Sally Struthers to talk about orphans or Bono to go on all the time about human rights, then it is fine for George Takei to advocate about gay rights. I for one had not heard of this bill before, and because George, and Trek Today, brought it to my attention, I'm going to look it up. So true. All that internment bullshit, it’s ancient history. Get over it already! And tell those Jews to stop whining about that final solution crap, it’s so 1940′s. And all those Christians! I’ts been two thousand freakin’ years already, come on!
Mr. Takei is attempting to use his visibility as a celebrity to get attention for causes that he thinks are important. A lot of people in the public eye do this, and if it is alright for say, Sally Struthers to talk about orphans or Bono to go on all the time about human rights, then it is fine for George Takei to advocate about gay rights. I for one had not heard of this bill before, and because George, and Trek Today, brought it to my attention, I’m going to look it up.

]]> By: Kang the Unbalanced http://www.trektoday.com/content/2012/04/takei-supports-social-security-bill/comment-page-1/#comment-4489 Kang the Unbalanced Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:31:00 +0000 http://www.trektoday.com/content/?p=16777#comment-4489 George would be a lot more decorous and a lot less catty. George would be a lot more decorous and a lot less catty.

]]> By: Kang the Unbalanced http://www.trektoday.com/content/2012/04/takei-supports-social-security-bill/comment-page-1/#comment-4486 Kang the Unbalanced Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:09:00 +0000 http://www.trektoday.com/content/?p=16777#comment-4486 Thank you for thinking it through rationally. Thank you for thinking it through rationally.

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