Thread by @ElieNYC

Me: I live in a world where people think we should kill other people who annoy us
Hobbes: On no. Sounds like you live in the State of Nature. The solution to that is authoritarianism.
Me: You say that, but in my world the authoritarians ALSO support vigilante justice
Hobbes: Wut?

Me: Yeah dude. They support a monopoly of force not from the state, but from any white individual who is afraid.
Hobbes: So the Leviathans of your time are not just petty and stupid, but also racist? Man, I didn't see that coming.
Me: Yeah. That's why you've always been wrong.

Hobbes: I'm not wrong.
Rawls: Really Thom? Riddle me this, from behind the veil of ignorance, would you choose to be black and poor?
Hobbes: Fuck you, John. I'm not playing your stupid game.
Plato: You just need a better ruling class.
Me: Eric Adams is our mayor
Plato: fuuuck

Jefferson: Consider a bourgeoise Republic where men of wealth and status can decide for themselves who is to be murdered on community transportation?
Me: It's not really working out.
Jefferson: Oh look, the slave can type. How novel! Can you also sing and make me a sanwich?

Marx: You know what the solution is.
Me: Leave me alone, Karl.
Marx: Search your feelings, you know it to be true.
Me: I don't think trading white supremacists for a ruling group think politburo is helpful
Marx: Hey, that wasn't me, it was the other guy.
Lenin: Hello fellow kids.

Nietzsche: I have thoughts...
Me: No.
Nietzsche: It's really simple.
Me: Dear God, please shut up.
Nietzsche: YOU COULD ACT, LIKE A MAN!!!
Me: Motherfucker, this is how people get syphilis.

Jesus: Elie, I get you. In everything, do to others what you would have them do to you.
Me: That's... yes that's right.
Jesus: If you see a poor person, shoot them. Make it go quickly.
Me: ... oh no, you're NRA Jesus
NRA JESUS: The cross is for pussies, AR15s are for Gods.

I have to go pick up my mom from the dentist. I'm not on the Supreme Court so Harlan Crow wouldn't do it. Happy Thursday, y'all.