RE: Just When You Thought Arizona Couldn't Get Stupider...
April 19, 2011 at 4:22 pm
(This post was last modified: April 19, 2011 at 4:29 pm by Violet.)
(April 19, 2011 at 12:21 pm)Minimalist Wrote:Quote:Depends on how many peasants you have vs the knights.
Not really. You can't mistake the movies for reality. In the movies trained men-at-arms never seem to know what to do with their weapons while shit-kicking farmers are ninjas with pitchforks.
This is the legacy of Rambo movies. Too many people think the bad guys always miss.
No... i just suggest that after long enough the soldiers get tired. The numbers are of course not realistic
Luckily, guns are a lot more deadly than pitchforks
Ace Wrote:You are a strange person, Saerules. Remember, very hypothetical situation. Something I don't ever expect to happen...ever.
In other words, it was a strawman?
Ace Wrote:It was a figure of speech, Saerules. Peasants vs Knights, Citizens vs Soldiers.
Also by "standing up to the government", do you mean by like how the Egyptians did with theirs?
I have no idea what 'news' goes on over in that area. A few (successful) revolts that somehow accomplish next to nothing? Nothing new.
Peasants supposedly differ from citizens (arguments like wage slaves don't exist, heh) depending on who you talk to. Luckily guns are more likely to be fatal than a charging pitchfork
Here the soldiers are citizens.Quote:"Nothing personal, Jack. It's just good business" - Pirates of the Caribbean.
You yell "charge!", I'll yell "good luck!".
You forget that if *I* am yelling charge: victory is certain. If it's someone else, there's a possibility of it being otherwise... but I don't typically yell charge. And when I do, you better bet you should charge.
JohnDG Wrote:this nation is also built on prisons.
Granted, our "prisons" are good enough that many would like to move there.
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
