The Monopoly on Violence

[Martin Hash]

Democracy was how we got here; I'm easily convinced that only property-owning men should vote.

it only worked because those property owning men were the warfighters

without the phalanx there was no democracy

Greek decisive warfare : we suspend democracy to meet the Persians at Marathon

after we defeat them, then we will hold a vote as to what to do next

Nice. Testosterone determines history and the future.

[Smitty-48]

Democracy was how we got here; I'm easily convinced that only property-owning men should vote.

it only worked because those property owning men were the warfighters

without the phalanx there was no democracy

Greek decisive warfare : we suspend democracy to meet the Persians at Marathon

after we defeat them, then we will hold a vote as to what to do next

Nice. Testosterone determines history and the future.

that's true, but you can't blame women for being weak then

they will throw liberty aside for security

not because the are evil, not because they are stupid, because they are women

it's not the women's fault, the empire is simply collapsing around them, so they are panicking, it happens

[Martin Hash]

Total agreement. We have come to the final conclusion. I'm going to drink fine whiskey to the occasion.

[Smitty-48]

Total agreement. We have come to the final conclusion. I'm going to drink fine whiskey to the occasion.

we are privileged to have Spartan wives

to have wives who would tell us to come home with our shields or on them

we few, we happy few, we band of brothers

[Martin Hash]

Total agreement. We have come to the final conclusion. I'm going to drink fine whiskey to the occasion.

we are privileged to have Spartan wives

to have wives who would tell us to come home with our shields or on them

we few, we happy few, we band of brothers

My wife will drive me to a dance in Portland tonight and I will revel in my newfound revelation.

[Smitty-48]

Total agreement. We have come to the final conclusion. I'm going to drink fine whiskey to the occasion.

we are privileged to have Spartan wives

to have wives who would tell us to come home with our shields or on them

we few, we happy few, we band of brothers

My wife will drive me to a dance in Portland tonight and I will revel in my newfound revelation.

my wife is a small town girl, she just likes to curl up by the fire with the dogs and watch auto racing

Formula 1 : Drive to Survive

[Smitty-48]

at the same time, you have to recognize the terrain

this is Marshall McLuhan world

"a guerilla information war where there is no distinction between military and civilian"

a classic example would be Tucker Carlson versus the Woke Pentagon

that's 5th generation warfare, the Pentagon would call Tucker Carlson a "hyperpowered individual"

hence why the Woke say that speech is violence, they understand Marshall McLuhan world

information alone shapes the battlespace, nary a shot fired

[Smitty-48]

another reason not to blame the females

none of this is actually rising up from the masses

again, the world is not shaped by the masses, the world is shaped by geopolitics

these are tectonic shifts at the geostrategic level, everything else is a symptom not the cause

[Martin Hash]

You keep saying democracy didn’t get us here but it did. I will continue to try and wedge myself into the gears so that my opinion makes a difference. It seems unlikely but will still provide fodder for the forum.

[Smitty-48]

You keep saying democracy didn’t get us here but it did. I will continue to try and wedge myself into the gears so that my opinion makes a difference. It seems unlikely but will still provide fodder for the forum.

democracy is just a tool

there is liberal democracy, there is illiberal democracy,

Demos is a tyrant, tyranny of the majority

I am not the one preaching democracy, that would be naivete in the midst of a communist takeover