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Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com to A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world · 2 months ago

Moats are back!

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Moats are back!

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Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com to A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world · 2 months ago
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cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/7730578

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  • shittydwarf@sh.itjust.works
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    • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      What’s sad is, they already essentially do this with us.

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        The Epstein class literally do

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          Just to elaborate for the folks I’ve run into who doubt and downplay the worst of it - even if you remove the more lurid reports, the simple fact of “recruitment” for such a hideous enterprise, what accomplishing that requires - that is hunting humans for sport.

          Extending globally to identify and traffick vulnerable young people, targets meeting the right criteria to make it all “work”.

          No metaphors are needed, nor any reliance on anything remotely controversial in the files. Hunting humans for sport is exactly, dead on correct.

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    But can they really trust their guards? What guard wouldn’t want to have the nickname the kingslayer?

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      That’s why they’ll fit their guards with death collars to prevent them from getting ideas.

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        First you have to get said guards (who are hired to protect you) to agree to wear those. Only a moron would agree to that. And sure they malfunction too. So be hard if you security is fucking disabled from your death collar to protect you. Rich people are not smart.

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        Reminds me of Wedlock. Little perfect movie with Rutger Hauer.

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    There is a very thin line between “Safe inside your bunker” and “Trapped inside your bunker”. The people on the outside dictate how that plays out.

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      Walls work both ways. Sieges are back on the menu boys!

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      Who needs to get in? They wanted to be pharos - gods even. They want to be in there? I say let them be. Concrete is pretty easy to pour and it just doesnt seem capitalist to just leave such prime real estate under developed…

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    Luigi Gon’ Give It To Ya

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    Fine. Trap them in their palaces. Turn them into tombs.

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    Society failed when it allowed people to start accruing this kind of wealth

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      It’s been a problem since pretty much the very beginning.

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        Yes, it failed at the very beginning.

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          And will always continue to fail in the future.

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    Do they not realize the ones installing their security devices are also the same people they are trying to protect against?

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      “We cook your meals, we haul your trash, we connect your calls, we drive your ambulances. We guard you while you sleep.”

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    “Fixed fortifications are monuments to the stupidity of man.” -General George Patton

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    If you’re so afraid of the proles maybe you should give up a fair share of your slice.

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      But there’s so many of us…

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    Ya think this be related to the rumor that rich people taste like wagu? Plenty of alcohol an massages make for great marbling

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      Always wondered about long pig myself, but gosh, the regulations!

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        I hear tell they are looking to eas regulations in general

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          Hwel by golly and bless your heart, may the Lord do His work. Praise Him 🙏

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    These armed guards have the ability to do humanity a great service. I hope at least one of them finds their conscience.

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      Just like the secret service. And the military. Etc…

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    You know what’s cheaper than building fucking castles and living in fucking fear all the fucking time?

    Paying your taxes to fund a proper welfare state. Simple as.

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      But they earned that money. /s

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    if only, and stay with me here, if only there was some contraption invented since we last had moats around castle, i don’t know, something that can fly in the air and carry, oh i don’t know, bags of shit over these moats and into the castles, maybe even more of it at the same time like swarms of bees, maybe we could even name it after them like bee, or worker, or drone, or something. that would be something, I tell ya!

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      Doesn’t sound like any trebuchet I’ve ever heard of. Also plague riddled corpses work better, although they might be hard to come by nowadays.

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        plague riddled corpses work better, although they might be hard to come by nowadays.

        With RFK Jr in charge of the HHS? Give it a few months and there’ll be plenty.

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        Launch me alive and I will either fall a corpse or live long enough to see myself start a fire.

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          You’ll pretty much just be a corpse, not sure what You’ll accomplish. Seems a better idea to launch a bomb, or a rock.

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          The hero we need 🤣

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        While we are busy building some older contraptions used in times long past: perhaps might we add an additional favorite of the french revolutionaries?

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        That’s called a market opportunity.

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    When met with walls and steel gates, just use your cannon, as the founding fathers intended.

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      HAVE AT YE!

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