• Zozano@aussie.zone
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    1 day ago

    Do you think Clouds Buster-sword was based on the guillotine?

    He’s a revolutionary who busts his way into the ivory tower, looking for gillionaires

    • BeeegScaaawyCripple
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      but what if cloud puts the gillionaire materia on the buster sword. does the therefore have to guillotin himself forthwith?

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    2 days ago

    The reign of terror wasn’t exactly a good time, though.

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      Yeah, and everyone seems to forget about what followed. France didn’t become a socialist utopia, it became a dictatorship

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      I think most of us aren’t having a great time now either and the evil pedofile overlords are doubling down

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        Don’t get me wrong, I’m cool with eating the rich, I just want people to guard themselves against righteous bloodlust.

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          Yet we’ve had to watch the social murder of millions at their hands for decades. When does it end if we don’t end it?

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      The phrase can actually be traced back to Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Confessions in 1765, 24 years prior to the French Revolution, and when Antoinette was nine years old and had never been to France. The phrase was not attributed to Antoinette until decades after her death.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_them_eat_cake

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      Spoken like someone who never saw his family be socially murdered and die slow horrible deaths by the for profit machine

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      What defines violence to you? Is removing an individuals health care and letting them die violence? Is increasing aggression on Venezuela that literally murders people who aren’t attacking violence? Is targeting an entire minority group to block access to healthcare that is evidence based to lower suicide rates violence?

      And at what point does self defense occur? Do you think the civil rights movement genuinely occurred because of MLK jrs speech and Rosa parks sitting on a bus? Or because of the far less discussed protests that often turned violent (because police were agitators) and other civil unrest actions that turned into fist fights but got white washed by history?

      Do you think women’s suffrage was just an issue that was voted on and again there wasn’t demonstrations and violence that has been white washed by history?

      Do you think slavery ended because the oppressors decided to stop or did you forget there was a literal civil war over the matter?

      If you have a child who is being bullied at school do you tell them to just ignore it? How does that work out? Do you tell them to tell administrators who are feckless and often do nothing of consequence to stop the behavior? In this issue what do you do? If the parents have money they can sue the district I guess, but what if you’re one of the 90% of parents that don’t have the privilege to retain counsel for such a thing? Do you blame that child when they snap and finally fuck that bully up? Sure they’ll face consequences, because schools are fucked now, but do the ends justify the means if it means a bully that has fucked with them for months or even years finally stops