• minkymunkey_7_7@lemmy.world
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      Kropp on the other hand is a thinker. He proposes that a declaration of war should be a kind of popular festival with entrance-tickets and bands, like a bull-fight. Then in the arena the ministers and generals of the two countries, dressed in bathing-drawers and armed with clubs, can have it out among themselves.

      -All Quiet on the Western Front.

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    Okay but I want to be on that fight card. I have challenged Stephen Miller dozens, maybe even hundreds, of times at this point.

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        they only had good faith leaders long after the pieces of shit had set the world up in a way where everything would be shit unless someone had some sort of cold storage device for humans that would wake them up 500 years later

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      Ironically, I actually saw the cage fight where The Undertaker took out Mankind. I was visiting someone who was a big WWF fan and they had it playing.

      Non-scripted fighting? Can’t say I’ve ever watched that.

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    We were supposed to see Zuckerberg and musk, but then musks mom said he couldn’t play. Then we were all sad.

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    I mean the vulgarity of the event is obvious. And the mental image of Hunter bitchslapping Jr is enticing.

    However this kind of exchange in itself is so far of the classy scale, more in the trailer park terms of conversation.

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      We should give them a couple of pistols and let them shoot each other instead far more civilized. I’m not even joking, though I’ll add that I’d swap jrs ammo for blanks.

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      Who fucking cares? The US left needs to give up on the “high road” bullshit. It does nothing but harm.

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        I feel the need to stress that this is not a us thing only. I feel that trying to be better is the inverse of useless, it’s quite essential.

        And we should hold our leaders to that standard.

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          I guess I just value actual ideals and actual action to some kind of misguided, self-imposed, faux-kindness for PR

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        Without even a modicum of grace, society crumbles. Honour is still a thing even though it’s been pushed out of sight during this current admin-aggression. See graceless Jane watch society crumble. Crumble society, crumble.

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      Hunter is a piece of shit in his own right. The last thing we need is Hunter Biden as our new democratic “champion.” I hoped Jon Stewart would make a play, but I honestly think he’s too much of a bitch.

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      One of the first big civ’s in SEA ( I forgot if it was the harrapans or in (one of?) the first megacity, near present day angkor wat), The king had to climb a pretty steep climb after every day of work, so if they got really old or glutonous, he couldnt use the kings house and thus not be king anymore. Obv the idea is flawed, but I kind of like the idea of a built in physical test, that would disqualify you from a position of serious power if you fail to pass it.

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        I like it. Even if you had a disabled president or leader. They could still have a basic physical ability test. Seems reasonable

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      Even if it did it’s just to play poor people, IMO.

      Get me a realtime fact checked debate with real questions from the public!