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Re:One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020 by throw0101a on Friday October 02, 2020 @09:59AM (#24662666)
> 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.

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Re:One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020 by throw0101a on Friday October 02, 2020 @11:34AM (#24663676)
> "Hey, that story about Polish people reminds me of those scurrilous Romulans!"

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

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Re:One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020 by YeGoblynQueenne on Friday October 02, 2020 @12:11PM (#24664070)
:gasp: Romulus???
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