[lbo-talk] the Bush style of clemency: love your gun

[Jordan Hayes]

>>>> the reality is using shotguns to fend off Apache helicopters
>>>> is hopeless in practice.
>>
>> And using nuclear weapons to "destroy communism" was similarly 
>> hopeless,
>> yes?
>
> When have communist countries ever been hit with nuclear weapons?

Exactly.  But they were *threatened* with it.


> I think something was lost in translation, somewhere.

What was lost is what you cut out: the trope of "you can't use your 
shotgun to fight the government (thus the 2nd isn't reality-based)" is 
dumb, because that's not the point of the 2nd.

/jordan