I’ve overloaded and am trying to get back into a sustainable orbit. The Smitty philosophy seems achievable.
Re: The Monopoly on Violence
Posted: Sun Mar 28, 2021 5:23 pm
by Smitty-48
Martin Hash wrote: Sun Mar 28, 2021 5:19 pm
I’ve overloaded and am trying to get back into a sustainable orbit. The Smitty philosophy seems achievable.
I'm not promising liberty
but sometimes you have to use the Fascists as a bulwark against Communism
just win, baby
Re: The Monopoly on Violence
Posted: Sun Mar 28, 2021 5:29 pm
by Smitty-48
you are not going to convince these people
the only way to beat them is to burn them at their own stakes, hang them with their own rope
the bourgeois liberals ain't gonna do it
you say you want to fight, well you're gonna have to fight dirty, no marquis of queensbury rules
Re: The Monopoly on Violence
Posted: Sun Mar 28, 2021 5:36 pm
by Smitty-48
it's just me & Dutch Reagan & the Iron Lady over here
if we have to use Pinochet to take the Communists down, so be it
if you think we are lunatics, we'll just wait some more, you will come over to our side in the end
our side is the Trump side, we are the Neoconservative Cold Warriors
Re: The Monopoly on Violence
Posted: Sun Mar 28, 2021 5:42 pm
by Martin Hash
As I’ve always said: if they need somebody to push the button or break the vial, call me; as long as there’s an even chance we get liberty back? If not, I’ll just spend my money & live the good life.
Re: The Monopoly on Violence
Posted: Sun Mar 28, 2021 5:47 pm
by Smitty-48
Martin Hash wrote: Sun Mar 28, 2021 5:42 pm
As I’ve always said: if they need somebody to push the button or break the vial, call me; as long as there’s an even chance we get liberty back? If not, I’ll just spend my money & live the good life.
this is not peacetime
a Cold War is still a war
these are war measures
it's like the War of Independence
that was no libertarian hippie commune
it was martial law from 1775 to 1783
George Washington was dictator for all intents and purposes
the defense of democracy does in fact require the suspension of democracy for the duration of hostilities
Hoplites at Marathon, get in ranks
Re: The Monopoly on Violence
Posted: Sun Mar 28, 2021 5:49 pm
by Martin Hash
Democracy was how we got here; I'm easily convinced that only property-owning men should vote.
Re: The Monopoly on Violence
Posted: Sun Mar 28, 2021 5:54 pm
by Smitty-48
Martin Hash wrote: Sun Mar 28, 2021 5:49 pm
Democracy was how we got here; I'm easily convinced that only property-owning men should vote.
it only worked because those property owning men were the warfighters
without the phalanx there was no democracy
Greek decisive warfare : we suspend democracy to meet the Persians at Marathon
after we defeat them, then we will hold a vote as to what to do next