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Senate Prepping for US Autocracy

Discussion in 'Community' started by Bacon164, Jan 17, 2022.

  1. Lord Vivec

    Lord Vivec Chosen One star 9

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    I don't understand this. Why are we going from protesting to dying? Where is the fight?

    Dying helps nobody but yourself. At some point you'll have to accept that you need to use that dreaded violence.
     
  2. anakinfansince1983

    anakinfansince1983 Skywalker Saga/LFL/YJCC Manager star 10 Staff Member Manager

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    I’d also rather die than do that.
     
  3. Lord Vivec

    Lord Vivec Chosen One star 9

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    I know you think you sound noble here, but you don't. Laying aside and dying instead of fighting doesn't help your fellow comrades.
     
  4. SithLordDarthRichie

    SithLordDarthRichie CR Emeritus: London star 9

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    The scariest thing shouldn't be the dictatorship, it should be that a country that has flown the flag for democracy for so long would allow such a thing to happen.

    Surely the Constitution was created to prevent that

    Who is fighting to uphold the principles the nation was founded on?
     
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  5. Coruscant

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  6. Bacon164

    Bacon164 Chosen One star 8

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    Who are you, Padme
     
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  7. anakinfansince1983

    anakinfansince1983 Skywalker Saga/LFL/YJCC Manager star 10 Staff Member Manager

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    My values are against violence. There is little point in fighting against the alt-right dictatorship if I have to submit to another type of government that is also against my values.

    Or to put it another way, if I want to live in a society in which problems are solved by people beating the hell out of each other, I’d go hang out with the people who stormed the Capitol, people who shoot other people to protect their PS5s, or anyone else at a low-class bar with nasty “beer” and people who are too immature to use their words.

    If you want to call that “sounding noble” or “refusing to help,” do it.


    No. If my husband choked me I would just leave.
     
  8. Glitterstimm

    Glitterstimm Force Ghost star 6

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    If you haven’t already, learn to ride a horse
     
  9. Coruscant

    Coruscant Chosen One star 7

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    lol jump on the horsey and go “giddyup” whats so hard
     
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  10. Glitterstimm

    Glitterstimm Force Ghost star 6

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    It’s not hard, it’s just like tv
     
  11. BlueYogurt

    BlueYogurt Jedi Master star 4

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    I'm cutting the sleeves off all of my shirts, gaining 50 lbs, and throwing my toothbrush away. I want to make sure I fit in.
     
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  12. Bacon164

    Bacon164 Chosen One star 8

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    Don’t get gum disease
     
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  13. BlueYogurt

    BlueYogurt Jedi Master star 4

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    But...I'm a method actor.
     
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  14. Vaderize03

    Vaderize03 Manager Emeritus star 6 VIP - Former Mod/RSA

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    So which ethnic group will fall under the heel of American fascism first? The list is long, but you got to start somewhere.
     
  15. BlueYogurt

    BlueYogurt Jedi Master star 4

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    I think they're starting with taupe, then working their way through the other colors.
     
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  16. Yodaminch

    Yodaminch Chosen One star 6

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    The best thing we can do is get involved on the local and state level. States still have a lot of power over the federal government. And forming state compacts may end up being the endrun over a lot of federal attempts to interfere.
     
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  17. Bacon164

    Bacon164 Chosen One star 8

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    I’m in Texas
     
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  18. BlueYogurt

    BlueYogurt Jedi Master star 4

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    Then I guess you have a head start.
     
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  19. VadersLaMent

    VadersLaMent Chosen One star 10

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    I for one would welcome our new overlords and want them to know I can be a big help in rounding my fellow humans for work in a post-minimum wage world.
     
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  20. Jedi Ben

    Jedi Ben Chosen One star 9

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    Do you love God and guns? No? Yeah, you got a problem then.
     
  21. Lord Vivec

    Lord Vivec Chosen One star 9

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    You are already submitting to a form of government that uses violence. Or did you think your liberal democracy was founded on and continues to defend itself without violence?
     
  22. anakinfansince1983

    anakinfansince1983 Skywalker Saga/LFL/YJCC Manager star 10 Staff Member Manager

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    My liberal democracy does not exist.
     
  23. Lord Vivec

    Lord Vivec Chosen One star 9

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    But that doesn't change the fact that currently you live under a government that uses violence. You seem to be fine (not leaving or dying) about it. This seems to be only a problem when we're discussing using violence to defend leftist governments.
     
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  24. Jabba-wocky

    Jabba-wocky Chosen One star 10

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    I think violent fantasies are weird on the part of the of the right, and I don't think fondly of it when left does it either. There are things that aren't worth doing. Killing people is one of them.
     
  25. anakinfansince1983

    anakinfansince1983 Skywalker Saga/LFL/YJCC Manager star 10 Staff Member Manager

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    1. You’re welcome to go back and find any posts where I have defended either the CIA or preemptive war. I doubt you’ll find any.

    2. There is the concept of being so far left that you circle around to meet the far right.

    And while I certainly have greater sympathy for some of the end policies of the far left, if part of their defining methodology is “beat the hell out of everyone who disagrees” (or poison them or shoot them in the street), in that they meet the defining methodology of the far right. And that overshadows any good that might come from their end policies.
     
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