• Shizu
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    169 months ago

    “A man who has nothing to lose, has nothing to fear.”

    • @Dead_or_Alive
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      259 months ago

      “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety”. - Benjamin Franklin.

      • @SuckMyWang
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        39 months ago

        What does he mean by liberty exactly? I feel like we’re well past that

        • @Dead_or_Alive
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          59 months ago

          :Looks at Trump MAGA slow motion facist take over of the government:

          Are we really over that liberty thing?

          • @SuckMyWang
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            49 months ago

            Is liberty referring to freedom? Liberation from what? What is freedom? The jan 6 people were mostly getting social media washed into their behaviour. Admittedly someone has to be open to it before they can be primed but each step is necessary to achieve this kind of mania. My point is how much are we truely freely thinking when we’re constantly having our attention pulled to events that have carefully curated narratives already prepared for our consumption.

            • @Dead_or_Alive
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              29 months ago

              Well you have the freedom to buy into whichever flavor of propaganda you prefer. I don’t think there are too many alternatives flavors of propaganda offered to Chinese or Russian citizens…

          • @[email protected]
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            49 months ago

            Magas don’t want liberty

            Magas quite literally want a theocratic dictatorship that pushes their sick beliefs on the entire country. As they’ll then control nuclear weapons, they’ll likely want to push said sick beliefs upon the entire world.

            Fuck magas

            • @Dead_or_Alive
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              19 months ago

              Yes fuck MAGAs, but if the times call for it, I want the tools to do more than just fuck them.

                • @Dead_or_Alive
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                  29 months ago

                  I would expect something like the “troubles” in Ireland or nation wide rioting like we saw in the summer of 2020. We really don’t know what the future holds. But I’d rather have something and not need it than to need it and not have it.

    • @SuckMyWang
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      69 months ago

      Sort of. This is more like “A man who cares for nothing, has no reason to care.” These people have everything to lose they just don’t think it will happen to them personally