(11-04-2020, 11:48 PM)NightskyeB4Dawn Wrote: There will be no rebuilding. You won't have to worry about Biden selling us out to China. You will have just handed America over to them, and any other country that wants to sift through the rubble.
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You will have no choices.
I agree with you in the main, except these two places.
You ALWAYS have choices. To think or promote otherwise is to give up your own autonomy, and merely go wherever the wind blows you, like a dead leaf. The choice to die on your feet rather than live on your knees is still a choice. You are still in the drivers seat of your own destiny, whichever choice you make at that fork in the road.
And there WILL be rebuilding. There always is. The end of America is not the end of all life. The important thing here is to make sure it is nothing more than rubble that these scary foreign people you envision have to sort through. Nothing of use to them left. Why bother coming if there is nothing here for them?
If Vercingetorix had stuck to his guns with his scorched earth policy, Caesar would never have conquered Gaul, and this would be a very different world we live in now...
... but it would still be a world, it would still be here.
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With that said, this is not the time for war. Action, sure, but not of a warlike variety. When one fights a war, he should fight it like he means it. the object is not to merely fight, it is to win, In a war to win, here, all stops would be pulled out. Lots of folks would die uselessly, needlessly, and more than likely randomly. This is a time for thinking, for strategy, for selecting proper targets and proper methods, none of which involve people dying or things getting blown up or burned down.
There are methods in place to combat what is happening, and most of them do not involve dreams of glory in the hearts of the young and stupid. They involve thinking and much harder work than just twitching a trigger or pulling a pin.
and a lot less random destruction.
I have to go now. I just heard 5 shots down by my moat, and have to go check it out.
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’