George Takei is a national treasure
this post was submitted on 21 Feb 2025
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He was federated before it was cool.
Why else would his head have been preseved for a thousands years.
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https://universeodon.com/@georgetakei/114038238750757674
Obligatory link to his Mastodon post!
Didn't realize he's active on both (or to be more factual: I forgot). I'll add it to the submission text.
Zelenskyy's message and overall chutzpah is sick! It's motivating and always a great rallying feeling to see your leader be a leader. It feels easy to dismiss his social media posts as something akin to virtue signalling, but it's truly not for the entire nation of people he's fighting for.
I want to cynically ask: does Sulu have some authoritative or qualified credibility on matters like the invasion of Ukraine? It has always felt strange to see right wing nut jobs get riled up when people like Hockey legend Wayne Gretzky endorsed Trump, and it feels equally weird to see people from the more broad political spectrums get riled up for this post of the gay sci-fi icon endorse Zelenskyy.
Why snip George Takei's response instead of just posting Zelenskyy's?
George Takei has proven himself to be a compassionate person, so outside of any political context, having such a parasocially trustworthy person give their opinion is to lend the weight of his accumulated goodwill to an idea to effectively create a social or cultural frame of reference.
e.g. "Even George Takei supports Ukrainian independence."
He has experienced war as being a victim of the internment camp in the us war relocation center in 1942. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Takei