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 the hangman's gambit: do you trust that your allies can defeat the hangman? if
 so, then do nothing. If not, then you're fucked anyway.
 
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRDq7aneXnk
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=== SIMILARITY RANKED ===

--- #1 messages/1222 ---
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 when they come for you, simply buy enough time for your allies to
 overcome-intervene. This is the truth of all conflict.
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--- #2 messages/168 ---
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 If there's no sword of damocles, then power shall corrupt
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--- #3 fediverse/5249 ---
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 enemies are just guys you haven't figured out the value in cooperating with.
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--- #4 notes/hear-your-enemies-lose ---
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 if you hear your enemies lose, that means you should fight harder, not give up
 the fight
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 if you're afraid of spies, then they've already won.
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--- #6 fediverse/2224 ---
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 No plan survives contact with the enemy, and any plan that everyone knows is a
 plan that your enemy knows.
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 @user-246 
 
 or why they'd ban you without fighting you, trying to change your mind
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--- #8 messages/1231 ---
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 Has it ever not been? Logic beats gold. Just ask strategy and famine.
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 The fall of man, in pursuit of those who give a damn
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--- #10 fediverse/5382 ---
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 they are the players, we are the pawns, and there are oh-so-many more of us.
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 You must always defeat your enemy at their own game. Otherwise, the game will
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 if you need a gun, you will be given one. don't trust anything where your
 pistol is what saves the day.
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--- #13 fediverse/5345 ---
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 you can't win every battle, but if you're losing then you've lost.
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--- #14 fediverse/5541 ---
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 they assassinate or defame your leaders. so what do you do? you organize
 without them.
 
 they beat up or frame your strongest, so what do you do? you mobilize without
 them.
 
 they cheat out or steal from your most renowned, so what do you do? you make
 do without them.
 
 they capture or seduce your young, so what do you do? you try to be good to
 them.
 
 they kick and they strangle you whenever you're down, so what do you do? just
 get over them?
 
 you can't play if they don't want you to play. Something tells me the board is
 their own.
 
 you don't have to play their games. But games can be won, and if you dare,
 then try.
If god were there to witness, I'd die before I let him to heaven.
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 if all you see are allies, slow down. 
 
 never come to a stop, even through sleep.
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--- #16 fediverse/1022 ---
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 @user-750 
 
 if you aren't afraid, then either you aren't in danger or you've misjudged
 your opponent.
 
 if you're constantly afraid, then they cannot yet defeat you.
 
 EDIT: either that, or they need you.
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 when every crime is a framing, they win
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 There's no such thing as cowards. We are together or we are not at all, and we
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 my favorite enemy is one you never need to fight.
 
 "they would give us a king, and you're worried about broken windows?"
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--- #20 fediverse/2086 ---
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 You cannot have hope without justice, because hope without justice is betrayal
 waiting to happen.
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--- #21 messages/768 ---
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 when the meek are the bold
 and your loyalty's sold
 then your masters should fold
 or their hearts are full of cold
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 @user-1449 @user-1074 
 
 I mean, you're allowed to fight about stupid shit as long as you realize it's
 about something that doesn't matter. As long as people are working together
 toward their common goals then... whatever, right?
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--- #23 fediverse/6341 ---
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 if you want to win, play suboptimally without danger of losing.
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--- #24 fediverse/1582 ---
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 @user-698
 
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9EKV2nSU8w
 
 This video is 5 years old but it's relevant
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 they want to start wars so they can force people to view "just accepting it"
 as the honorable option.
 
 it, being the conditions they cause.
 
 it, being brutal crackdowns, murders of people like me, authoritarian police
 forces wielded to implicitely or explicitely force or frame people who are
 against them.
 
 the hangman's due is when death you choose to rule. [I didn't write that part]
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--- #26 messages/1139 ---
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 Peace is a lie. A precious, sacred lie, that we cherish above all else.
 
 War is the game of states. Violence is the trade of the [survival of the
 fittest/natural chain/endless pain/gods gifted mercy]
 
 >;-)
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 "mankind would not consent to be governed if it had any other choice"
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--- #28 messages/625 ---
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 I am not personally prepared for violence, but that doesn't mean I won't tell
 you why to do it.
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 if you spot an ambush about to strike, shut the fuck up and get in position.
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 every condemnation is a confession, and "the election is cooked" just sayin'
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--- #31 fediverse/1724 ---
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 you can believe all the right things and still be a bad person
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--- #32 fediverse/3916 ---
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 life isn't JUST a game, but it is a game.
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--- #33 fediverse/5577 ---
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 for every foe, you must face the woe.
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