The_Dude

Could be Hajery afoot.

I wanna be a Caesarian. Im an activist now.

I've NEVER met a liar who was just 'regular forces' like I was. They always gotta up it. "I was a HALO Marine Delta Operator!" Now, I've met plenty a real vet who just cannot help themselves and embellish and lie their asses off. I call them "storyfellers." I love me a good storyfeller. Surely it must be a common feeling by now?

NO. GODDAMNIT NOOO. No. Stop. No. The Romans didn't know what lead poisoning was because they didn't suffer from it. Yes they used lead pipes, but within a couple weeks the pipes had a phosphorus buildup on them that prevented lead poisoning. Roman water was cleaner than Flints is now. I hope you're just ***** with me.

You might like this story. It's a short story in which the Nazis invaded India....I'll cut to the gist, Gandhi informs the Nazi's he's organizing a hunger strike and the Nazi's laugh because they're just gonna kill 'em anyways. Pacifism can only work when you're going up against a power that is benevolent.

Anybody who applauds pacifism should read The Last Article by Harry Turtledove. By its conclusion you'll see it's a stupid philosophy.

I'd like to take this one.... He couldn't keep his dick in his pants and he was a foolish pacifist. Now what a man does thats not illegal is his business, save one profession. And that was Martin's profession. His God gave him 10 rules, but Martin HAD to get his dick wet. Further, pacifism is foolish.

I'm afraid I'd be rather disappointing in conversations on political theorists. I have a base knowledge to be sure, Machiavelli, St Ambrose, Talleyrand, Locke, and Voltaire are all people I'm familiar with. But I cannot lecture on them, nor could I keep up with somebody keen on the topic.

1. Not my area. 2. My fascination is akin to Gibbons. I'm obsessed with Rome. I'm obsessed with it's autopsy. How did such a juggernaut fall? The more I learn the harder it is to figure out. I want the US to avoid being Rome at all costs. That wasn't Plutarch's game. I've never read his work direct, but as you can imagine it's cited often in things I have read. I study mostly military history. Rome is something I will study till I die. My other fascinations are WWI, Churchill, and just warfare in general.

Why ask by the way? Brutus of all people.

Um, ok.

He was a patrician obvlivious to the political landscape around him. The legend of his name had more to do with his actions than anything else. He was like a son to Caesar. Had Octavian declined Caesars wealth it would have gone to Brutus. Brutus did what he thought was right, but his lack of political savvy that only a patrician could have made him blind to the results of his actions which created another 2 decades of civil war. Brutus was a man. He was neither bad nor good. He was a man. It’s complicated. But other than the murder and Phallsarus he’s not really overly important.

Actually, it’s kinda my thing, and they are. But nice chirp in.

Actually, lady, there’s a lot to be learned there and the similarities are freaking frightening.

I advocate for a republic but not one in which any asshat gets a say. More liberal demagogues are buying votes from idiots who believe in their socialist utopia because they’re too stupid or uneducated to know better. Why should those people get a vote? Our founders knew better. Shame on us. There needs to be some sort of criteria for the vote. Otherwise the idiot socialists will drown us with them.

But im not. Look at my boy Sulla. Its a long and very complicated story but before Caesar became dictator for life, Sulla was just that. After fixing things-n-stuff he laid down his dictatorship, restored a strengthened republic (it was strengthened but ironically would die) and went home. Lincoln blatantly ignored the constitution. Churchill interned people without habeas corpus. Extreme times, extreme measures.

I disagree. The trick is to jump on his back and choke him out.

This is my country. I’ll try to fix it.

I don’t want idiots like you voting.

That’s what I advocate for, but we need to purge the rolls as universal suffrage is an awful idea because of people like you. People like you who feel they should have some say in how other people’s money is distributed. People like you who vote for savages that promise their base free crap at others expense. The anti-American freeloaders are sinking the ship. We need to stop them from voting.

One of my heroes, Sulla, basically overthrew his government twice to save republicanism. Lincoln took many constitutional liberties to save the country. I’m not advocating for fascism but I’ll utilize fascist methods to get the America I want.

That explains him, but what's your excuse? Ok, but hear me out -- I'm havin' a helluva time findin decent drywallers these days.

I hope your friend is armed. They’ll kill him for blasphemy.

How much they askin for? About tree fiddy? You tell that monster “hell naw!”

Um....have you had a chance to catch up on the news in the past 48 hours that shows they weren’t really doing anything dastardly?