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dr_rat
Jun 4, 2001
Oh please, carter would obviously be friends with the rabbits.

Now Bush, he's someone who'd have to worry about getting finished off by killer rabbits.

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Rushputin
Jul 19, 2007
Intense, but quick to finish

Antigravitas posted:

It's carnival season, and in some regions of Germany, that means local and world politics on floats.



Yep, it is indeed time for some of the dumbest assholes around to demonstrate their brilliant political insights.

mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

by Fluffdaddy

Rushputin posted:

Yep, it is indeed time for some of the dumbest assholes around to demonstrate their brilliant political insights.


Yeah that's dumb.

Hamas doesn't have uniforms.

Scratch Monkey
Oct 25, 2010

👰Proč bychom se netěšili🥰když nám Pán Bůh🙌🏻zdraví dá💪?
Yeah dog you by no means gotta hand it to Hamas

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

the hostages look more afraid of the tank. a good float

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

I thought you couldn't show the swastika in germany

Antigravitas
Dec 8, 2019

Die Rettung fuer die Landwirte:
Do you even Sozialadäquanzklausel?

zoux
Apr 28, 2006


I see the sporadic court rulings, how often does the issue arise in Der Discourse

Antigravitas
Dec 8, 2019

Die Rettung fuer die Landwirte:
There isn't much to discuss anymore. The big questions of our time ("does a crossed-out swastika symbolise opposition to the ideas the swastika respresents" and "are games art") have been answered.

e: I had totally forgotten Claudia Roth daring the cops to come after her though.

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal
What if you cross out a swastika so many times that you end up making a sonnenrad?

Ruffian Price
Sep 17, 2016

Scratch Monkey posted:

Yeah dog you by no means gotta hand it to Hamas

Well poo poo I was planning to hand an entire territory to them

poemdexter
Feb 18, 2005

Hooray Indie Games!

College Slice

Ruffian Price posted:

Well poo poo I was planning to hand an entire territory to them

Can't hand something to them that was already theirs to begin with...

Antigravitas
Dec 8, 2019

Die Rettung fuer die Landwirte:

Guavanaut posted:

What if you cross out a swastika so many times that you end up making a sonnenrad?

You get put into the Geschlossene Bundestanstalt für Politische Bildung.

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

That's schrecklich as hell

https://twitter.com/TheYcOrg/status/1757322958958117304

Why, that's much better

zoux fucked around with this message at 17:40 on Feb 13, 2024

poemdexter
Feb 18, 2005

Hooray Indie Games!

College Slice
Oops, we turned the legal system into the health insurance system and now ADT decides that a crime wasn't committed as a cost saving measure.

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

That's kind of where the free market uber alles people lose the plot. "Oh you'll be able to shop around and pick and choose your healthcare provider", bud that's the last thing I want to do. That's a lot of tedious work and I'm not even really qualified to evaluate my own healthcare needs, and certainly not qualified to judge which private security company plan to go with to avoid the now ubiquitous arson gangs.

steinrokkan
Apr 2, 2011



Soiled Meat
I like that in the replies op posted another image where he lists all the organizations that will provide you with private protection: Your employer, your HOA, your creditors... Dude, those people are precisely why I need state protection!

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

https://twitter.com/TheYcOrg/status/1757362905001914567

it's a good account

cat botherer
Jan 6, 2022

I am interested in most phases of data processing.
That's the most purestrain stupid account I've seen in a while. I thought ancaps had all switched to being open nazis by now.

jeebus bob
Nov 4, 2004

Festina lente
If that's not a parody account I seriously need to recalibrate my bullshitometer

Arbite
Nov 4, 2009





cat botherer posted:

That's the most purestrain stupid account I've seen in a while. I thought ancaps had all switched to being open nazis by now.

I'm sure there a flat Earther or so that hasn't moved on to Q-anon.

Capt.Whorebags
Jan 10, 2005

zoux posted:

That's schrecklich as hell

https://twitter.com/TheYcOrg/status/1757322958958117304

Why, that's much better

Walter is also covered by ADT. As Walter has been a customer for longer, and has earned a higher status tier, ADT finds in favour of Walter and recovers the cost of the process from Marie.

Marie is declared insolvent and in violation of her protection contract. ADT sells the debt recovery rights over Marie to a pornography production company.

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007

Professor Beetus
Apr 12, 2007

They can fight us
But they'll never Beetus
When you POTUS but she still votin'

Captain_Maclaine
Sep 30, 2001

Every moment that I'm alive, I pray for death!

zoux posted:

That's schrecklich as hell

https://twitter.com/TheYcOrg/status/1757322958958117304

Why, that's much better

And not for the first or even second time, we're back to Valhalla DRO.

Scratch Monkey
Oct 25, 2010

👰Proč bychom se netěšili🥰když nám Pán Bůh🙌🏻zdraví dá💪?
Walter is a Mexican cartel head’s nephew. He asks his uncle to make an example out of Marie to show others what happens to those who dare stand in his way. Marie is beheaded and her body hung from an overpass

Sundae
Dec 1, 2005
You, an ADT employee, are standing at the lever near a trolley line. Walter is barreling down the line toward Marie, who is tied to the tracks on one side. If you pull the lever, Marie will be saved, but two days of company revenue will be sacrificed instead to paying her. Walter has no trolley license, works for your Ring competitor, but is the nephew of the ADT boss.

021324_2
Feb 14, 2024

GABA ghoul
Oct 29, 2011

This may sound harsh, but as Walter's Ring councel my advice is to upgrade the robbery to a murder as soon as possible. Removing the ADT claimant removes the claim and saves everyone a lot of time and money and we all get to go home to our hotplates early.

GhostofJohnMuir
Aug 14, 2014

anime is not good
and if you're unsatisfied with the service you get, you're always free to start your own mercenary company. if you get through the period of your larger rivals attempting to literally crush the competition you are free to take a more consumer friendly stance on open warfare to enforce claims

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal
Personally, if I were head of the arbitration company, I would go hog wild committing crimes with impunity

Nebrilos
Oct 9, 2012

zoux posted:

That's schrecklich as hell

https://twitter.com/TheYcOrg/status/1757322958958117304

Why, that's much better

What incentive does Ring have to obey the arbitrator's ruling?

What prevents the best-funded security firm from hiring the most mercenaries and then conquering/seizing all of the other security firms and all of the territory it can control and then setting up a state again?

Wuxi
Apr 3, 2012

Nebrilos posted:

What incentive does Ring have to obey the arbitrator's ruling?

What prevents the best-funded security firm from hiring the most mercenaries and then conquering/seizing all of the other security firms and all of the territory it can control and then setting up a state again?

That's why every decent security firm should have nukes.

Eiba
Jul 26, 2007


Nebrilos posted:

What incentive does Ring have to obey the arbitrator's ruling?

What prevents the best-funded security firm from hiring the most mercenaries and then conquering/seizing all of the other security firms and all of the territory it can control and then setting up a state again?
Ring would have signed a contract before the ruling. You would want to adhere to the terms of contracts you sign, because the ability to sign contracts in the future will keep operating costs down (fewer wars).

Theoretically, if the largest group makes a play for power, as long as they are not already the majority group by themselves, the other groups could unite against them. Though while this is in the obvious long term best interest of all the other groups, it would not be in the short term interest of any of them so it's still a pretty plausible end to an an-cap utopia.

Nukes would also be a rational solution. That checks out.

(This is not to seriously defend any of this an-cap nonsense, but it's fun to think through what they think would happen.)

madmatt112
Jul 11, 2016

Is that a cat in your pants, or are you just a lonely excuse for an adult?

You and I are gonna disagree on “fun”, bucko

Gyges
Aug 4, 2004

NOW NO ONE
RECOGNIZE HULK

Nebrilos posted:

What incentive does Ring have to obey the arbitrator's ruling?

What prevents the best-funded security firm from hiring the most mercenaries and then conquering/seizing all of the other security firms and all of the territory it can control and then setting up a state again?

The only incentive to abide by the arbitration ruling would be that it costs more not to.

I assume this physical takeover is after the other companies turned down purchase offers or fought off a hostile takeover? Because without that pesky government ADT and Ring would just be two divisions of some hyper corp.

PT6A
Jan 5, 2006

Public school teachers are callous dictators who won't lift a finger to stop children from peeing in my plane
Let's hear this guy out. It doesn't sound like a terrible system, and once you have a reasonable monopoly on violence in an area, you could maybe get into some things that go nicely with that sort of power. Maybe some gambling, distribution of controlled substances... and, hell, if you already have the protection, might as well do some light pimping on the side.

Oh Christ, he's invented "the mafia."

q_k
Dec 31, 2007





Gyges posted:

The only incentive to abide by the arbitration ruling would be that it costs more not to.

I assume this physical takeover is after the other companies turned down purchase offers or fought off a hostile takeover? Because without that pesky government ADT and Ring would just be two divisions of some hyper corp.

ADT is a subsidiary of the first Johnson, Ring the second.

RabbitWizard
Oct 21, 2008

Muldoon

Eiba posted:

but it's fun to think through what they think would happen.
And never surprising that they stopped very quickly. Probably somewhere after "Maries rights to her body".
Obviously, this whole stupid thing instantly falls apart if you try to use it for any real life situation like "speeding tickets", but the important message is that it is better to pay 3 companies than one government so who cares.

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Kobal2
Apr 29, 2019

haveblue posted:

Personally, if I were head of the arbitration company, I would go hog wild committing crimes with impunity

Where we're going, omae, there are no crimes. Only infringements upon corporate policies.

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