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Snacks with Snex


Sometimes I chinwag with friendly people on the internet, and we talk in a most friendly manner about things that are friendly, like nukes. Most friendly indeed.

17:41 - snex: i love it when leftists think theyve trapped me by asking me "so you think people should be allowed to own nuclear bombs?"

17:41 - snex: uhh yes. people already do own them

17:41 - snex: and the people that already own them have already shown to be untrustworthy

17:41 - Matthew John Hayden: quite

17:41 - snex: and its not like theyd suddenly be at the 7-11

17:42 - snex: youd have to be rich as fuck to buy one

17:42 - snex: id trust bill gates with a nuke

17:42 - Matthew John Hayden: no doubt the contracts would come with public disclosure clauses

17:42 - snex: way more than i trust obama

17:42 - Matthew John Hayden: yeah

17:42 - snex: they wouldnt need to. you cant hide buying uranium and other parts required

17:43 - Matthew John Hayden: fairy nuff

17:43 - Matthew John Hayden: see how easily I can be persuaded when logic contradicts what I say?

17:44 - Matthew John Hayden: that same quality makes me very nervous about having arguments with he kind of nutters who disagree with me about everything

17:44 - snex: what i dont get is how leftists think somebody will acquire the wealth to buy a nuke in the first place

17:44 - snex: like say you are a sociopath who just wants to nuke the planet

17:45 - snex: you have to hide your sociopathy for DECADES to pull that off

17:45 - snex: wouldnt it just be easier to say, join the military instead?

17:45 - snex: where sociopathy is exactly how you get promoted

17:46 - Matthew John Hayden: maybe they watched the Star Wars prequels and assumed a real-life Palpatine can literally pull that shit off in private life

17:46 - snex: that pretty much is their understanding of these kinds of things

17:47 - snex: cartoon evil vs "The Good Guys"

17:47 - Matthew John Hayden: yeah

17:48 - snex: i cant even imagine why too many people would want a nuke in the first place in Ancap

17:48 - snex: the only thing i can think to do with one is fly it to the moon and set it off just to watch

17:49 - Matthew John Hayden: celebrate New Year by setting them off in orbit? Could that trigger brief fancy auroras?

17:49 - snex: like what are you supposed to do, hide it in a city and demand ransom? yeah good luck with that

17:49 - snex: nobody in a city of millions will spot you driving around

17:49 - Matthew John Hayden: hehehe

17:49 - snex: nobody will have geiger counters and just find it

17:50 - Matthew John Hayden: that was bothering me too

17:50 - snex: you somehow have to collect the ransom without somebody just murdering you

17:50 - Matthew John Hayden: its radiation signature can't be completely masked without the masking system being VERY visible

17:50 - snex: and where will you spend it? how many businesses will allow you as a customer?

17:50 - snex: when they can legally discriminate all of a sudden

17:51 - Matthew John Hayden: I think each individual's cognisance of past and future are ignored when people criticise ancapism

17:51 - snex: lets say you demand 1 million oz of gold and manage to collect it. oops now we use silver for money

17:53 - Matthew John Hayden: hahahahahahahaha

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