“okay, so… while one might, on the surface, compare the persecution of "User-believers” to the persecution of a religion, it feels to me much more analogous to ‘persecution of those who believe in fairly obvious scientific facts, a persecution often committed against them BY religious fanatics, who also secretly know deep down that the facts are facts, and make their own decisions based on this, while publicly they still try to frame other people’s belief in those facts as being no better than a heathen religion’“
"um…okay”
“also, Crom has six tentacles”
“wha…? why does a compound interest calculating program for a savings and loan company need six tentacles”
“he counts on his hands. duh”
“but… tentacles don’t have fingers”
“suckers. duh. you count the suckers”
“well… I suppose as a predatory lender you do have to know how to do that”
…
proof for headcanon 1:
Sark goes from calling User-belief a “hysterical religion” in public, to interrogating programs in private with questions like “WHO IS YOUR USER?” … revealing he clearly knows they exist. Clear parallel to when some rightwing pundit goes on that whole rant: “liberals claim their beliefs are based on science, but they’re just a religion as well, an inferior one, a pagan cult with evolution as the creation myth, abortion as their virgin sacrifice, climate change as their apocalyptic prophecy, you’re not being scientific with liberal views so you might as well convert to Christianity if you’re already religious like that” (even though of course that same pundit will still secretly pay for abortions and invest money with careful attention to the climate-change future)
proof for headcanon 2:
haha londo mollari guy