Infinite self parody - 'Techno-Thwarting The State'

Punk-Stasi 2.0 punks at tfwno.gf
Sun Nov 10 16:15:22 PST 2019



	"One of the clearest, classic triumphs of technology over tyranny I see is the invention of the man-portable crossbow. With it, an untrained peasant could now reliably and lethally engage a target out to fifty meters – even if that target were a mounted, chain-mailed knight" 

	
	The references to peasants and 'chain-mailed knights' suggest that for some absurd reason hammill believed that crowssbows were a european (peasant...) invention from the middle ages. 

	In reality they were invented in china some 2700 years ago, and were used by armies since then. Which means, tyrants have used crossbows to kill peasants for more than two thousand years.

	Hey Jim, you might want to do a minimal amount of research and critical thinking before assuming that any of the garbage that the randroid hammill spouted made any sense or had any truth in it. 







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