• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    16 hours ago

    If Virginians aren’t surrounding the county government building, 24/7, with firearms…

    Your fucking state motto is Sic Semper Tyranis.

    Live up to it, or never be taken seriously, about anything, ever again.

    You know what happened in Iceland in the 07/08 financial crisis?

    Something like 1/3 to 2/3 of the entire population of the island surrounded parliament, literally with pitchforks, untill they actually prosecuted the criminal financiers for their actual financial crimes.

    Iceland is basically the only Western country that didn’t bail out their bankster fraud artists, and sent them to fucking prison, instead.

    Ya’ll gonna let your selves get outdone by Iceland?

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      The state of Virginia cries about the battle flag the 1rst Minnesota took during the Battle of Gettysburg from the 28th Virginia on the July 3 day of the battle to this day.

      They have asked for the flag back 4 times. Each time we say No!. The 1rst Minnesota took that flag in open battle and the 70% casualties was the blood paid for it. The blood of 4 men directly paid for its capture.

      Their state motto hasn’t meant much since that battle.

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        48 minutes ago

        Hah!

        Well shit, I was not aware of that.

        … that’s uh, funny, I guess, in a more modern context, with more temporal distance.

        But, Minnesotans are bleeding again lately, due to armed tyrants, so I guess in that sense, its less funny.

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      Iceland has 400,000 people, and is an island. America has 340 MILLION people, and is 3000 miles wide.

      In America, it’s a LOT more difficult to gather a large population in one place. We tend to get gatherings in multiple cities, instead. The last big one had 3,300 hundred different protests around the nation, with over 7 million people.

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        Iceland has 400,000 people, and is an island. America has 340 MILLION people, and is 3000 miles wide.

        Lets reread the first line of the post you quoted:

        If VIRGINIANS aren’t surrounding the COUNTY government building, 24/7, with firearms…

        They are talking about a county in a state. Not America.

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      12 hours ago

      Ya’ll gonna let your selves get outdone by Iceland?

      I’ve seen, firsthand, how Icelanders group up and solve problems together as a unit. They have a cultural tradition of outdoing other cultures, because of this.