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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

Too late Megatron, we’ve already stripped all the resources on Earth. Looks like you’ll have to checks notes fly into space for which you are more than capable of and comfortable with, and obtain all the resources you need there which were always there unprotected in quantities more abundant than humanity’s wildest dreams.

Megatron you suck as a leader. You should run for US President.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What happened in Florida now?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Looks like the Nazis doing their usual schtick. All 15 of them, lol.

About 15 people wearing clothing and bearing flags emblazoned with Nazi insignia demonstrated outside the entrance to the Disney Springs shopping center

What I don't understand is why we give these fucks any air time. Don't counter protest. Don't cover it in the news. Just let them be sad and angry about their pathetic lives.

Imagine for a moment how different these events would be if literally no one showed up to fuel their hate speech. No one yelling at them, or holding protest signs, just an empty parking lot. It would really take the air out of that whole "rally" part of it, wouldn't it? It's hard to keep up the energy of an event like that when there's no one to be angry at and feed back into it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

The reason this doesn't work is that Nazis without opposition are a danger to any community. When not surrounded by many times their number of counterprotestors they are likely to find a member of a targeted minority to hate crime. The protestors are there not just to show that the 15 Nazis are not welcome but also to protect anyone who might otherwise find themselves alone facing 15 violent Nazis.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have a different take on this. Maintain a register for "Known Nazis" like they do for the sexual offenders.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I feel like that would just backfire. They would wear it like a badge of honor. These people get off on conflict. Plus anybody who's an avowed Nazi will definitely let you know.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Considering Megatron started out as kind of a communist authoritarian, preaching against Cybertrons caste system and arguing that all living things deserve self-determination, the Nazis probably won't be happy with this development either.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So...Megatron is Satan? I've never actually considered this interpretation...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Wait, what does that make Galvatron? Super Satan?

I'd think the act of being remade by Unicron would be something akin to a "Fall". Blinding light, intense heat, pain, everything you are stripped away from you only to return twisted by the energy/trauma/will of a greater being.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Just flew out of Orlando. I have saved myself from cringe.