Evil is willing to lie, cheat, steal, and kill to win. As long as good keeps fighting with one hand tied behind its back, evil will keep gaining ground.

Just finished chopping a bunch wood. I don’t get it /s

The first book is phenomenal. The others are good, but not necessarily “must read”

This is what one would expect Plain Simple Garak the Tailor to say.

Out loud.

He can’t be a cunt, he lacks the warmth and depth.

Huh. TIL. Had always seen consciousness or conscious mind.

Not seeing it. Please explain.

You’re right, and it’s spelled conscience.

So one of my group had us fight a Garbage Mound which was a custom shambling mound. To hit it, players had to roll under its AC. Thankfully our friend Kevin rolled 1,2,5,1 and soloed it.

In a perfect world, that would be ideal. But for at least 50 years, capital has been buying the legislators and we’re backsliding even further from positive change. Without the threat, there’s no reason for them to let things change for the better for the rest of us.

She wouldn’t like it, but she’d understand.

I was just trying to show that taking the high road effectively does nothing, when the opposition is willing to stoop to any level to win.

And that, historically, whether we are non-violent or violent, both have been countered with violence.

You’re absolutely right about the spillover violence, but I would contend that we’re currently experiencing that anyway, as inequality runs rampant and people are forced to crime to survive.

We’ve been trying the peaceful way for my entire lifetime and made no real progress. Perhaps it’s time for a different approach. I’m not really comfortable with it morally, but I’m also not morally comfortable with things staying the way they are for another generation.

But still not answered the question.

I’ll reword it for you, since you want to be pedantic about it.

You’re in the process of seizing the means. They see this and don’t like it. They respond with overwhelming violence (as they have repeatedly in the past)

Now what?

Nice dodge

Okay so once you’ve non violently seized the means, and they come to violently take them back, then what?

This would be ideal but I’m skeptical that it’s actually possible. Bribes are cheaper than taxes, so I think they’d likely just prevent the taxes from happening by greasing the correct palms.

Nah, some of us just see that they buy the elections so that we can’t vote for change. And they buy the judges so we can’t sue for change. And they buy the media so we can’t speak for change. So now we’re exploring the extremely distasteful option because all other avenues for change have been blocked

What’s anarchy? If you’re saying you’re against it, you need to be able to say what it is. Otherwise your response is without value.

No, you’re arguing against what you think anarchy is

And your preconception is false.

Banana Nababa - like an old 8 bit action platformer, but it’s just the bosses