I said something along the lines of:

“Wow, I haven’t had a reason to smile ear to ear in a while.”

Along with

“Nah, the more dead corpos dragons, the better.”

In response to some liberal going off about how violence is never the solution, not mentioning how this murdered dipshit has personally overseen a system that perpetuates harm, suffering and death (violence) in the name of profit.

Good ole’ civility clause.

Whats the paradox of tolerance?

.world mods have never heard of it I guess.

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    What I’m saying is that there is no mechanical system that puts those particular people in charge.

    We had the gilded age, we had the labor battles that laid the foundation for the working economy of the 20th century, we had the New Deal and prosperity for a lot of people, then we let it get away from us and the crooks took charge again. But it all can change. We can make it different. People have fought their way back to good government from places a million times worse than modern-day America.

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      I’m not sure what you mean by mechanical.

      Obviously there is not a physical machine like a 3d printer that produces a sociopoliticaleconomic system.

      But there are absolutely empirically verified theories within sociology, political science, and economics which describe why historical events happened with a pretty good degree of accuracy, and a lot of them do function pretty mechanistically to predict likely future outcomes, though with a wider margin of possibility than physics predicting a physical machine.

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        I’m saying that nothing enforces these particular people being in charge, other than everyone agreeing that these are the people in charge, and that can change.

        It has, in huge ways, for better and worse depending, all throughout history.