• gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    I would vote for someone who promised to legalize duels again. Having roughly half as many bloated egos to deal with seems way more manageable.

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      4 hours ago

      Won’t help here tho. Muskrat has already challenged various people to fights then chickened out when they take him up on it.

    • thisbenzingring@lemmy.today
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      19 hours ago

      those one shot, loud and deadly but more to leave a nasty scar and be painful instead of lethal guns

      yeah that might make some cowards exposed at the very least

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        5 hours ago

        iirc, historically, the practice of dueling eventually died out because “professionals” would go around insulting rich poofs, instigating duels against idiots with more ego than sense for easy $.

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          4 hours ago

          More typically they’d go after farmers and merchants since only the elite and soldiers could carry swords and were trained to use them.

          Hand the average guy a sword, have him face a trained fighter, and he’ll be kebab meat in half a minute.