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I'm not sure why you were DV'ed, I agree. As an outside (non-US) your policing organisation's seem so damn over the top, whilst at the same time your security

I'm not sure why you were DV'ed, I agree. As an outside (non-US) your policing organisation's seem so damn over the top, whilst at the same time your security (the:personal ownership and carrying of weapons ccw or open) seems fucking batshit crazy. I have never been able to get the two into a mesh in my head as to why they work that way.

BLKNSLVR 3y ago
It's like the treat the electronic as the real world and the real world as a game. It's like some kind of acknowledgment that ideas really are more dangerous than actual weapons. It's also incongruent with the very origins of the United States.
- TheOtherHobbes 3y ago
  The US is one giant LARP park. In-game fantasies of wealth, power, unlimited freedom and attractiveness are more real than the physical world.
xkcd-sucks 3y ago
- The USA is about 400 years old as a "civilization" (idk) and 250 years old as a nation. - Throughout all that time, immigrants were mostly trying to escape political and economic conditions in older nations - The first 300 of those years, the majority of the land was sparsely populated frontier - Its settlers were in violent competition with the original inhabitants - Its settlers were often also in violent competition with each other, mostly over natural resources (mining claims, grazing range, etc.) but also over political control (slave vs free, Mormon vs non, etc.). Wild-West cowboys vs other cowboys (and cowboys vs. indians) fighting was still happening up to the 1920s - Regional governments arose mostly bottom-up from settlers self organizing. This was a matter of principle, but also a practical necessity in privately-settled sparsely populated regions. - The nation was established by a civil war although it's not called that (England vs colony) - *When the nation was founded, a future civil war was a foregone conclusion.* (North/"Free" vs South/"Slave" although this was *not* a strict equivalence) The first hundred years ish was a mostly linear progression to this civil war! And the subsequent 150 years have been strongly influenced by it as well.

BLKNSLVR 3y ago

It's like the treat the electronic as the real world and the real world as a game. It's like some kind of acknowledgment that ideas really are more dangerous than actual weapons. It's also incongruent with the very origins of the United States.

TheOtherHobbes 3y ago
The US is one giant LARP park. In-game fantasies of wealth, power, unlimited freedom and attractiveness are more real than the physical world.

xkcd-sucks 3y ago

- The USA is about 400 years old as a "civilization" (idk) and 250 years old as a nation. - Throughout all that time, immigrants were mostly trying to escape political and economic conditions in older nations - The first 300 of those years, the majority of the land was sparsely populated frontier - Its settlers were in violent competition with the original inhabitants - Its settlers were often also in violent competition with each other, mostly over natural resources (mining claims, grazing range, etc.) but also over political control (slave vs free, Mormon vs non, etc.). Wild-West cowboys vs other cowboys (and cowboys vs. indians) fighting was still happening up to the 1920s - Regional governments arose mostly bottom-up from settlers self organizing. This was a matter of principle, but also a practical necessity in privately-settled sparsely populated regions. - The nation was established by a civil war although it's not called that (England vs colony) - *When the nation was founded, a future civil war was a foregone conclusion.* (North/"Free" vs South/"Slave" although this was *not* a strict equivalence) The first hundred years ish was a mostly linear progression to this civil war! And the subsequent 150 years have been strongly influenced by it as well.