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An armed society is a polite society.
Who ever came up with that insane BS anyway?
#3 | Posted by TFDNihilist

Robert Heinlein.
#4 | Posted by Zed

Heinlein is a well known fascist. Literally an apologist for war, and not some notion of a Thomas Aquinas Just War, but rather, just war. He would likely blame the victim for being unarmed in a world of people whose heads aren't screwed on tight. He lived in the world-view Joe Haldeman portrayed in the later pages of The Forever War, where Heinlein would have blamed anyone for going out in public without a bodyguard for the inevitable violence that befalls them. That's the gist behind an armed society is a polite society. It's the same gist as "The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy is a gun." It's a Cowboys and Indians tough guy fantasy that makes good fiction but doesn't apply to reality, and that's why most of us grow out of it.

He's kinda like Republicans back when they still hated Russia.
Before Republicans had to start hating America because of Obama.

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As for how Heinlein reconciled the pacificist and warrior viewpoints, consider this excerpt from a speech he gave to a brigade of midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy in 1973:

I must pause to brush off those parlor pacifists I mentioned earlier... for they contend that their actions are on this highest moral level. They want to put a stop to war; they say so. Their purpose is to save the human race from killing itself off; they say that too. Anyone who disagrees with them must be a bloodthirsty scoundrel -- and they'll tell you that to your face.

I won't waste time trying to judge their motives; my criticism is of their mental processes: Their heads aren't screwed on tight. They live in a world of fantasy.

Let me stipulate that, if the human race managed its affairs sensibly, we could do without war.

Yes -- and if pigs had wings, they could fly.

The sole Republican judge to defend the rule of law in North Carolina is Republican Justice Richard Dietz, who has remained steadfast in his belief that rewriting the rules of an election after the election is unlawful and unwise. Resisting the pressures of partisanship in North Carolina is no easy feat these days, and his courage should be commended.

Outside of North Carolina, however, Griffin's crusade is over. North Carolina may be a state where Republicans get to do whatever they want to do, but federal judges aren't willing to participate in what is essentially a judicial coup. Griffin can appeal this ruling to the U.S. Court of Appeals, but they shouldn't expect a different result there. That court has already ruled against the argument once.

It's yet another reminder of how baldly and awfully partisan judges in North Carolina have become. The depth and diversity of people who know this lawsuit has no merit is incredible. It includes voters from both parties, elections officials of all political stripes, military leaders and hundreds of judges, government officials and attorneys from across the political spectrum. Now, a Trump-appointed federal judge has agreed. It's North Carolina's Republican judges who are the extreme outliers.

Republicans cannot lament a rogue judiciary or overreach by "radical left judges." They cannot accuse the judge who issued the ruling of partisan bias, although they may still try. This is a conservative judge, appointed by Donald Trump. He is a member of the conservative Federalist Society and the National Rifle Association. It's exactly the kind of judge Republicans would hope " or expect " to side with them. But he isn't " he's rebuking Republican logic and laying bare their attempt to steal an election.

A Trump-appointed judge rebukes NC judges' quest to overturn an election

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