• hello_hello [hy/hym]@hexbear.net
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        Then did a decapitation strike with regime change and that apparently reversed a century of genocidal colonialism; he even transformed part of the colonized peoples land into Singapore.

        The comics have Aang stop reparations because his aristocrat buddy tells him that the colonizers have settled there and are actually a separate national identity that is neither colonizer nor colonized.

        Aang the first liberal bender.

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        I mean i truthfully think that’s different. There is a difference between maybe killing people in the heat of battle and approaching a fight with the goal to kill someone even if they are otherwise defeated.

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          And most of the deaths are like Nolan’s Batman death: is not Aang that killed them, was gravity!

          I think only when they get Appa that Aang just straight up goes killing spree

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    “Every revolution is doomed to lead to even worse things” is a personal favorite of mine

    It’s so insidious

    “Don’t bother to think we could do better!”

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      And then after spending years reading books about the history of actual revolutions, the second you start doing something some lib comes up and smacks your hand away like a parent of a small child, admonishing “You uneducated fool, haven’t you seen movies??”

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      “Every revolution is doomed to lead to even worse things” is a personal favorite of mine

      Just respond with “True, Russia definitely got worse when it revolted against communism. If that hadn’t happened, we wouldn’t have Putin.”

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    Death is too good of a prospect to these people. Jeff Bezos should work a 9 to 5 retail job while paying rent for 60% of his wage until he gets to a billion or dies, whatever comes faster.

    Another option is just using them to build railways or some other manual labor for them to repay their damage.

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        Yeah, but look at those guys

        They’ve got no fat on them, they’re gonna be tough and stringy if we roast them

        And who has time to braise 160 pounds of billionaire these days?

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          We must do to them what Zuckerberg is doing to his cattle. He exclusively feeds them macadamia nuts because he wants like superior beef so he is basically spending a small fortune shipping enough macadamia nuts to feed his cattle in Hawaii so that he can only eat the finest cuts of beef.

          I don’t think there is a punishment strong enough to inflict upon these monsters.

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      I am for this. After the revolution we will turn Japan, Sweden and Germany into penal colonies where these people can live in capitalism for eternity once we get a hang of the immortality thing.

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    Hahaha. In Paris, the Revolution Square where they went a bit guillotine-happy, was renamed to Concorde Square after some decades. Bad, powerful people keep the poor in check with this kind of cognitive, cultural warfare. It is there all the time. Jesus teachings, btw. Was that really Jesus the son of God? That god used to be a bad mf, but their son happens to be a good lamb teaching this to all humanity? Idk, sounds made up by some abusing kind of turd.

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    Vengeance against evil doesn’t make you evil. Delighting in committing a heinous act, and justifying that delight because it’s directed towards evil makes you kinda evil though. If the thought of putting someone in a woodchipper brings you joy, you’ve lost the plot. At best, against the worst people, I’d feel hollow catharsis. But the primary emotion I’d feel is grief over someone’s abandoned humanity and the fact I got pushed so far.

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      Yeah I joke about making bad people go through suffering as a form of justice but honestly if I had to get revenge I’d just do it quick and fast. The most important thing is to remove the bad person so they can’t hurt others.