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What do you think of the Borgachev?

They give me red scare "Everyone under communism wears grey and has no individuality" propaganda. "Why do you resist us? We only wish to increase your quality of life"

Although personally, they remind me of what it's like working under capitalism.

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[–] Ildsaye@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

I really dig how their ships look like city-sized goth industrial nightclubs on the insides. But yeah, they do seem like a red scare capitalist projection. The Borg, when written well, are freakishly resilient in the same creepy way as capitalism, absorbing and assimilating whatever resistance they encounter, making everyone into a part of the machine. Later adding the Queen and introducing more and more wacky contradictions to the ways the Borg worked, just made them seem to have moved into later-stage capitalism.

A fitting mirror image for the Federation, which achieved communism without ever leaving the comfort zone of the liberal writers.