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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If we were allowed to Sim City our way to goodness, I'd pretty much agree with you.

But my province, a fair chunk of that land is held and others aspire to it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I mean, my answer doesn't make any of those people happy, but it's basically just, fuck those people, if there's a correct way to do something, we should do things in said correct way, rather than capitulating to everyone's half-baked propagandized idiot desires

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure this is the reasoning espoused by every autocrat in history, many of whom thought they were doing things for the better.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I mean, yeah, but the major difference is that they were wrong and dumb and I am correct

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

sounds more dictatorial by the minute

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

and I'm loving every minute of it jerry