Seattle now has its first warlord. Congrats!

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  1. Marso

    Marso High speed, low drag.

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  2. Steal Your Face

    Steal Your Face Anti-Federalist

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  3. Marso

    Marso High speed, low drag.

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    That's it. I'm ordering a truckload of popcorn.
  4. Ten Lubak

    Ten Lubak Salty Dog

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    Never thought Capitol Hill of all places would be America’s first libertarian experiment

    Hopefully they don’t fuck with Terra Plata, that’s a great fuckin restaurant
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  5. Marso

    Marso High speed, low drag.

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    Disingenuous. Libertarians are not anarchists.
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  6. garamet

    garamet "The whole world is watching."

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    True dat. They're just spoiled middle-class Endangered White Males.
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  7. Ten Lubak

    Ten Lubak Salty Dog

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    Lol ok, thanks Mr I get all my information from my Facebook feed

    Although i will concede that the world’s premier libertarian paradise, Mexico, hasn’t devolved into pure anarchy
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  8. Bailey

    Bailey It's always Christmas Eve Super Moderator

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    All the more amazing then that they seem to understand the concept of liberty more than many who describe themselves that way.
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  9. Ancalagon

    Ancalagon Scalawag Administrator Formerly Important

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    So... Marso is upset that someone stopped a guy from graffiting a local business?

    Is there something else I’m missing or is just because the dude is a scary black guy?
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  10. Ancalagon

    Ancalagon Scalawag Administrator Formerly Important

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    :yes:

    Next time you are in Seattle come check out the sister restaurant down in Columbia City and I’ll walk over 2 blocks and buy you a beer.
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    Ancalagon Scalawag Administrator Formerly Important

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    Also, it has been hilarious watching the fear mongering taking place around here. Most newest right wing rumor was that there were armed groups extorting business owners.

    This was quickly debunked by the anarchists over at the *checks notes* Chamber of Commerce.

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    Ancalagon Scalawag Administrator Formerly Important

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  13. TheLonelySquire

    TheLonelySquire Fresh Meat

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    Sure, if liberty means extorting local businesses. What are these people, Italians?
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  14. TheLonelySquire

    TheLonelySquire Fresh Meat

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    Debunked by the anarchists? Oh yeah that'll work!

    #burnitdown
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  15. spot261

    spot261 I don't want the game to end

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    Hey, organised crime's been at the backbone of the American Experiment since at least prohibition, why stop now?
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  16. spot261

    spot261 I don't want the game to end

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    And Socialists are not Communists.

    You, in fairness, are none of the above :)
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  17. spot261

    spot261 I don't want the game to end

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    You know, snark aside the frustrating thing is we have literally been telling you this would happen for years.

    Here we've seen the IRA take control of neighbourhoods and whole towns and become a de facto local authority precisely because our government couldn't see beyond the use of force to entrench it's own power. This is what libertarianism as a response to authoritarianism looks like, anarchy and terrorism.

    Each and every time you laud the military and law enforcement whilst ironically fetishising the gun as a check against tyranny this was always where it was going.

    Always.
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  18. oldfella1962

    oldfella1962 the only real finish line

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  19. spot261

    spot261 I don't want the game to end

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    Or you could have avoided this whole situation in the first place by actually listening to people 200 years ago, or a hundred years ago, or fifty years ago...
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  20. oldfella1962

    oldfella1962 the only real finish line

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    If I wanted to be British I'd have picked my parents differently. Seems I chose wisely. Yes we have more guns, but we have orthodontia so it's a wash.
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  21. spot261

    spot261 I don't want the game to end

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    Ok, suit yourself.

    People have bee trying to help because of the many Americans who could see the problems looming.

    Now you have a White House virtually under siege, open battles for control of the streets and enclaves of people declaring autonomy. The world no longer has any respect for the US government, you have zero credibility as a superpower, moral leader or arbiter of human rights, you are red flagged by the UN, China are seriously looking like overtaking your dominance, you have over 100,000 dead to corona virus (we did even worse there thanks to Boris and co), the 2A is now being used by at least two opposing groups who would be willing to fight a civil war and you have someone in the White House who most of the world are already calling the worst first world leader in history.

    But that's ok, because you can laugh at a stereotype about teeth.
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  22. Lanzman

    Lanzman Vast, Cool and Unsympathetic Formerly Important

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    In fairness, it's a pretty funny stereotype . . . :lol:
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  23. MikeH92467

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    But....but...Biden would be worse....:soma:
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  24. Tererune

    Tererune Troll princess and Magical Girl

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    So @Marso hates freedom and people existing without cops cracking their skulls? That seems like marso. How is his warlord bunker boy doing with his inspection of the underside of his bed in the bunker? Are all the dust bunnies doing ok? Has marso's hero named them all yet?

    Seems like things are doing just fine without the police agitating things.
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  25. oldfella1962

    oldfella1962 the only real finish line

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    I think spot needs a hug! Or maybe he's watching too much CNN (or the Brit equivalent). From the perspective of someone with actual "boots on the ground" experience actually living in the U.S. I will state that the news quite often makes things seem much worse than they really are. In fairness almost all mainstream news agencies have an agenda - Fox, CNN, NBC, etc.etc. and the truth is in the middle, and most likely ignored if it isn't exciting enough.

    That said being flagged by the U.N. is the best thing I've heard all week! :banana: I was having a rough week, but this information fills me with hope.
    Now I'm going to get a t-shirt made saying FLAGGED BY THE U.N. and yes I will show pics.

    And spot - I don't think you really comprehend what an "open battle for control of the streets" fully entails but if you want to call it that. be my guest.
  26. oldfella1962

    oldfella1962 the only real finish line

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    :weep: just say on your side of the pond and you'll be safe and sound. You had your chance to make us British and blew it - guess you'll have to find some other place to colonize and preach to.
  27. Marso

    Marso High speed, low drag.

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    Maybe the U.N. will get scared/fed-up enough or whatever to pull up roots and get the fuck out of my country. That'd be the best day ever, and honestly, it would make this entire shit show entirely worth it.
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  28. Lanzman

    Lanzman Vast, Cool and Unsympathetic Formerly Important

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    Short sighted. We need the UN here so we can watch third-world banana republic shitheads lecture us on our human rights record.

    :lol:
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  29. We Are Borg

    We Are Borg Republican Democrat

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    28 posts without this?

    :dst:

    Wrodforge, I am disappoint. :(
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  30. oldfella1962

    oldfella1962 the only real finish line

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    :hail: and :salute: to that comment! I think the U.N. should relocate to Somalia.
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