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Postby The Reformed American Republic » Tue Dec 14, 2021 3:52 pm

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I'm sorry, did you think I was an Anarchist or something?

Quit while you're ahead, dude. You're getting straw on the carpet.


He doesn't think you're an anarchist but he's vehemently opposed to any politics that seek to seriously disrupt the status quo.

Which is equal parts amusing and sad because the status quo is rapidly sending us towards a dead world and civilizational collapse.

He doesn't like my politics for that reason as well. His positions are cringe to say the least.
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This is extremely dangerous for Our Democracy
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Postby The Reformed American Republic » Tue Dec 14, 2021 4:02 pm

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Lady Victory wrote:
Neither am I.

But I'm also not going to shill for a government built by the rich, for the rich, with the rich at the expense of the poor and founded on the death and suffering of millions.


And I’m going to be a “burn all down” type of guy because of a hatred of institutions, which I don’t have.

You have too much faith in failing institutions that have been subverted long ago.
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Postby Comerciante » Tue Dec 14, 2021 4:03 pm

I'm certain that if we keep trying the same formula that has failed us multiple times already things will work out just fine.
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Postby New Regovia » Tue Dec 14, 2021 4:07 pm

Comerciante wrote:I'm certain that if we keep trying the same formula that has failed us multiple times already things will work out just fine.

Well why would anything change? Anything? We're perfect as is. Just ask inflation. Or police-public relations. Or the housing market. Or vaccination rates. Or-

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Postby The Jamesian Republic » Tue Dec 14, 2021 4:33 pm

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Oh, yes. I’m a “liberal”. :roll: I know, we need to own those g.d libs. That is the most important thing right now. It doesn’t matter if Trump wanted to overthrow our government.


Have you seen our government? Wanting to overthrow it isn't necessarily a bad thing.

It was the corporate police state he would have replaced it with which was a bad thing.


Overthrowing the government and replacing it with something worse whether it be Corporate Police State or whatever the other possibility is would be a bad thing.
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Postby HISPIDA » Tue Dec 14, 2021 4:34 pm

The Jamesian Republic wrote:
Lady Victory wrote:
Have you seen our government? Wanting to overthrow it isn't necessarily a bad thing.

It was the corporate police state he would have replaced it with which was a bad thing.


Overthrowing the government and replacing it with something worse whether it be Corporate Police State or whatever the other possibility is would be a bad thing.

overthrow the government and replace it with communism
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Postby The Jamesian Republic » Tue Dec 14, 2021 4:37 pm

Hispida wrote:
The Jamesian Republic wrote:
Overthrowing the government and replacing it with something worse whether it be Corporate Police State or whatever the other possibility is would be a bad thing.

overthrow the government and replace it with communism


Unless our democracy is preserved I will not support this.
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Postby Nationalist Northumbria » Tue Dec 14, 2021 4:38 pm

The Jamesian Republic wrote:
Hispida wrote:overthrow the government and replace it with communism


Unless our democracy is preserved I will not support this.

Whether or not you support it is irrelevant, because it's not going to happen.
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Postby Washington Resistance Army » Tue Dec 14, 2021 4:39 pm

The Jamesian Republic wrote:
Lady Victory wrote:
Have you seen our government? Wanting to overthrow it isn't necessarily a bad thing.

It was the corporate police state he would have replaced it with which was a bad thing.


Overthrowing the government and replacing it with something worse whether it be Corporate Police State or whatever the other possibility is would be a bad thing.


anon you're already in a corporate police state
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Postby Nationalist Northumbria » Tue Dec 14, 2021 4:39 pm

Washington Resistance Army wrote:
The Jamesian Republic wrote:
Overthrowing the government and replacing it with something worse whether it be Corporate Police State or whatever the other possibility is would be a bad thing.


anon you're already in a corporate police state

People are not anonymous on this forum.
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Postby The Jamesian Republic » Tue Dec 14, 2021 4:40 pm

Washington Resistance Army wrote:
The Jamesian Republic wrote:
Overthrowing the government and replacing it with something worse whether it be Corporate Police State or whatever the other possibility is would be a bad thing.


anon you're already in a corporate police state


Yes and replacing it with another one or a communist police state is still a bad thing.
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Postby Comerciante » Tue Dec 14, 2021 4:40 pm

Off topic but uh who will be making the next thread? we are nearing the end of the line for this one.
"Rumors of CFC affiliates building superweapons in orbit over Earth is fake news. Watch groups have corroborated this even though it would be to quote the BoD "totally rad."

#00: "The first step to acquiring real power, is to learn how to steal it from someone else, the second step is learning how to keep it the third step is to restart from the first step."
"Good and Evil are Two Tall Trees sitting upon a hill, the Tree of Good is Strong and Tall and does not bend, the Tree of Evil is Short and Flimsy when the wind blows Good resists, and breaks and falls on the floor and dies and Evil? well, it bends and it lives."

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Postby San Lumen » Tue Dec 14, 2021 4:40 pm

Hispida wrote:
The Jamesian Republic wrote:
Overthrowing the government and replacing it with something worse whether it be Corporate Police State or whatever the other possibility is would be a bad thing.

overthrow the government and replace it with communism


communism doesn't work and never has.

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Postby The Jamesian Republic » Tue Dec 14, 2021 4:41 pm

Nationalist Northumbria wrote:
Washington Resistance Army wrote:
anon you're already in a corporate police state

People are not anonymous on this forum.


It’s internet slang. You call someone that when you don’t know their name.
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Postby The Jamesian Republic » Tue Dec 14, 2021 4:42 pm

Comerciante wrote:Off topic but uh who will be making the next thread? we are nearing the end of the line for this one.


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Postby Washington Resistance Army » Tue Dec 14, 2021 4:45 pm

San Lumen wrote:
Hispida wrote:overthrow the government and replace it with communism


communism doesn't work and never has.


Plenty of leftist systems have worked fine tbh. There's a very good argument to be made that the only reason the USSR stagnated and fell is because GosPlan got taken over by a bunch of boomers who refused to move the economy into the future and thought just continually focusing on heaving industry like it was the 1930's would be fine ad infinitum.
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Postby Nora Xent » Tue Dec 14, 2021 4:51 pm

The Jamesian Republic wrote:
Comerciante wrote:Off topic but uh who will be making the next thread? we are nearing the end of the line for this one.


I have a name: American Politics IX: There’s Got To Be A Morning After

What about Rise of MTG? I thought we agreed that it was going to be a star wars related name.

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Postby Austria-Bohemia-Hungary » Tue Dec 14, 2021 4:51 pm

Nora Xent wrote:
The Jamesian Republic wrote:
I have a name: American Politics IX: There’s Got To Be A Morning After

What about Rise of MTG? I thought we agreed that it was going to be a star wars related name.

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Postby Comerciante » Tue Dec 14, 2021 4:54 pm

American Politics IX: The Decepticons Among Us
"Rumors of CFC affiliates building superweapons in orbit over Earth is fake news. Watch groups have corroborated this even though it would be to quote the BoD "totally rad."

#00: "The first step to acquiring real power, is to learn how to steal it from someone else, the second step is learning how to keep it the third step is to restart from the first step."
"Good and Evil are Two Tall Trees sitting upon a hill, the Tree of Good is Strong and Tall and does not bend, the Tree of Evil is Short and Flimsy when the wind blows Good resists, and breaks and falls on the floor and dies and Evil? well, it bends and it lives."

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Postby Esthe » Tue Dec 14, 2021 4:55 pm

Comerciante wrote:American Politics IX: The Decepticons Among Us

Sounds great.
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Postby Spirit of Hope » Tue Dec 14, 2021 4:55 pm

Austria-Bohemia-Hungary wrote:
Nora Xent wrote:What about Rise of MTG? I thought we agreed that it was going to be a star wars related name.

inshallah no.

What have you got against Magic the Gathering? I get its almost as expensive as crack but still.
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Postby Shrillland » Tue Dec 14, 2021 5:14 pm

Comerciante wrote:Off topic but uh who will be making the next thread? we are nearing the end of the line for this one.


Either me, Kowani, or someone else.
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Postby Esthe » Tue Dec 14, 2021 5:16 pm

Shrillland wrote:
Comerciante wrote:Off topic but uh who will be making the next thread? we are nearing the end of the line for this one.


Either me, Kowani, or someone else.

Probably won’t be me because I’m afraid I’ll completely butcher it.
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