NationStates Jolt Archive


a situation has come up

NYCT
03-03-2006, 04:48
Dear NS members,

let's say we lived in a alternate future where we're under totalitarian rule.
Would you become a freedom-fighter to start a revolution and overthrow
totalitarian rule or would you go along with society?
Potarius
03-03-2006, 04:49
I'd start blowing shit up the second I found myself in such a situation.
New Isabelle
03-03-2006, 04:55
Work my way up the ranks of the military elite and personally assassinate the dictator... Declare national elections, etc, etc.
Billus
03-03-2006, 04:58
I'd start blowing shit up the second I found myself in such a situation.

I'd do about the same, but might add some random killing into the mix
Cannot think of a name
03-03-2006, 04:59
Slowly replace parts of my body with implants and improvements to make me the best driver in the world, win the Death Race and blow up the 'president' with my hand shaped hand grenade. If it's a good enough plan for Carradine...
NYCT
03-03-2006, 04:59
Work my way up the ranks of the military elite and personally assassinate the dictator... Declare national elections, etc, etc.

what would happen after the assination democracy or anarchy what are
your intentions for society?
Kanabia
03-03-2006, 05:01
Escape and flee to the woods with my band of merry men and women.
People without names
03-03-2006, 05:11
Dear NS members,

let's say we lived in a alternate future where we're under totalitarian rule.
Would you become a freedom-fighter to start a revolution and overthrow
totalitarian rule or would you go along with society?

well i think the majority of people will be completely brain washed and go for society, esepcially if they knew of nothing else.
Megaloria
03-03-2006, 05:16
Depends on who's crazier, the government or the revolutionaries.
Von Witzleben
03-03-2006, 05:16
Dear NS members,

let's say we lived in a alternate future where we're under totalitarian rule.
Would you become a freedom-fighter to start a revolution and overthrow
totalitarian rule or would you go along with society?
I would become a freedom fighter. Overthrow the totalitarian rule and install myself as godemperor for life.
NYCT
03-03-2006, 05:21
I would become a freedom fighter. Overthrow the totalitarian rule and install myself as godemperor for life.

yeah but you became what you were fighting for. You would become the
person of your own demise.
Ashmoria
03-03-2006, 05:21
im not cut out to be a revolutionary so id be a sympathizer. someones gotta keep the freedom fighters in cigarettes
Megaloria
03-03-2006, 05:22
yeah but you became what you were fighting for. You would become the
person of your own demise.

He never said he was doing it for some altruistic purpose. The best way to gain power is to swipe it from someone else once they've done the hard work.
NYCT
03-03-2006, 05:25
well i mean this, your fighting for freedom not control over a society. I
mean you don't want to submit under a facist regime, so would you
rather want this new society to become anarchic or democratic.
Von Witzleben
03-03-2006, 05:29
yeah but you became what you were fighting for. You would become the
person of your own demise.
You mean what I was fighting against?
And no. Beeing a former revolutianary will grant me the insight which my secret police needs to execute my enemies.
Von Witzleben
03-03-2006, 05:30
well i mean this, your fighting for freedom not control over a society.
Speak for yourself.:D I'm fighting for the freedom to be a better opresser then the one I took out.
Dytsjkt
03-03-2006, 05:31
I'd be a freedom fighter :sniper:
Von Witzleben
03-03-2006, 05:33
He never said he was doing it for some altruistic purpose. The best way to gain power is to swipe it from someone else once they've done the hard work.
He understands.:)

Hmmmmmmm....



Sergeant...I want 24 hour surveillance on this user.
Megaloria
03-03-2006, 05:38
He understands.:)

Hmmmmmmm....



Sergeant...I want 24 hour surveillance on this user.

By watching me, you allow me to watch you.
Secret aj man
03-03-2006, 05:40
He never said he was doing it for some altruistic purpose. The best way to gain power is to swipe it from someone else once they've done the hard work.

what was the quote from jurassic park?

stand on the shoulders of giants!

that would be me:-(
Von Witzleben
03-03-2006, 05:40
By watching me, you allow me to watch you.
Who's watching? Don't be so fricking paranoid.



*meanwhile VW's SP bugs the users house*


*without him noticing*
Bobs Own Pipe
03-03-2006, 05:41
Subvert it from within by manipulating the weaknesses of key individuals within the hierarchical structure.
Kinda Sensible people
03-03-2006, 05:41
I'd probably create a very small cell of assassins with the sole intention of targeting and eliminating those who headed the government and then count upon the will of the people (when inundated with sufficient pro-freedom litterature) to carry through a democracy.

That or I'd make my way to the top of the armed forces and take over to force elections.

Maybe I'd just go live in Montana where no one would notice me...
NYCT
03-03-2006, 05:50
what happen if america become facist?
Megaloria
03-03-2006, 05:53
Who's watching? Don't be so fricking paranoid.



*meanwhile VW's SP bugs the users house*


*without him noticing*

I'm sure the powers that be will enjoy my myriad audible bodily functions as well as a playlist of all of Electric Light Orchestra's albums.
Northern Nation States
03-03-2006, 06:35
I would leave.

ANy society that allows itself to become a totalatarian one does not deserve the honor of my citizenship

Currently I have a large yacht moored on the west coast and as soon as I have the resources I'm setting sale for international waters. I plan on becoming my own nation by 2010
Andaluciae
03-03-2006, 06:43
A system defended from the outside is most easily destroyed from the inside. Earn their trust and respect, then destroy them at the moment they least expect it.

Coup d'etat motherfuckers!