Open Bar: Drinks are on the Supreme Court

[The Johnny]

Carl Friedrich "Totalitarian dictatorship and autocracy"

"To envisage what this technological advance means in terms of political control, one has only to think of the weapons field.

The Constitution of the United States guarantees to every citizen the right to bear arms (fourth amendment). In the days of the Minutemen, this was a very important right, and the freedom of the citizen was indeed symbolized by the gun over the hearth, as it is in Switzerland to this day.

But who can "bear" such arms as a tank, a bomber, or a flamethrower, let alone an atom bomb? The citizen as an individual, and indeed in larger groups, is simply defenseless against the overwhelming technological superiority of those who can centralize in their hands the means with which to wield modern weapons and thereby physically to coerce the mass of the citizenry."
(p. 24)

Shout out to the person that recommended this author

[Cain]

Whoever that was sounds like a giant nerd who hates FREEDOM

[Don Coyote]

Whoever that was sounds like a giant nerd who hates FREEDOM

I can't hear you over the BRRRRRRRTTTTT of based Warthog.

[Q. G. Pennyworth]

Not dead not arrested

[The Wizard Joseph]

Not dead not arrested

[chaotic neutral observer]

Not dead not arrested

Two out of three ain't bad.

[hooplala]

I'm in Rome.

Anyone need anything?

[Doktor Howl]

I'm in Rome.

Anyone need anything?

Yeah, we could use a half-dozen Brutuses.  (Brutii?)

[Cain]

I'm in Rome.

Anyone need anything?

If you could bring back the Trevi Fountain, that'd be great.

[chaotic neutral observer]

I'm in Rome.

Anyone need anything?

If you pass near the Vatican, I could use some fresh holy relics.  Most of the holy has worn off my current set.  No femurs, please.

[altered]

Bring me one Roman legionnaire. I need it for a friend.

[LMNO]

Real olive oil, thanks. Some Colatura or Garam would be great.

[LMNO]

Hey, which one of youse wrote the psychohistory of New Bedford, again?

Weirdly enough, I think it's relevant to something on FB.

[Cain]

Just FYI, for all spambots I'm now putting sitewide bans on their email provider if they're not using a legit one.

So obviously gmail, yahoo etc are fine, but if someone signs up with say, an @seogreatspam.dprk address, everyone signing up with that address will get banned. Yes, I google them before I approve, so I know if the email is from a legit provider or not.

[altered]

Good to know. I'll make sure my spambots are all using stolen Gmail addresses from now on.

More seriously, thanks for keeping the shit out of here, every forum I know is packed with trash and spam now, if it's even alive.