Or, contrariwise, why will the victorious rebel leader order you spared when his forces come to drag everyone else in your workplace to the firing squad?
For purposes of this thread, please assume that you were as neutral as Heidi’s grandfather during the fighting.
ETA: forgot to answer myself!
It’ll be those damn overdue library books. Given that I checked them out in, like, 1992, they probably count as stolen by now.
I guess it depends on our new dictator. If s/he is Evil, I’d be up against the wall for that one dollar in taxes I never paid to the state of California in 2003. If s/he is benevolent, I could make myself useful in running things. I are trained in guvernment from ekspensiv skul!
Undoubtably my Wise Beard Man t-shirt.
Well, back before the last election it would have been a t-shirt for me too.
There’s a picture of the White House on it, and it says “Regime change begins at home!”
Because I’m the lawyer.
Because I’m the guy who
Ha! Nice try!
:rolleyes:
Because my friend, the evil overlord wannabe, has told me I will. I think I teased him one to many times about his barely legal girlfriends.
I work in politics. 'Nuff said.
I have a maid. If the workers rise not only does that put me in the upper class but they have keys to my house.
They can’t get rid of me, I’m providing the strawberries and cream.
But I am ze Leading Party Theoretician! You can’t do zis to me!
Probably certain pacifists would have the biggest beef with me. Fortunately, since they’re pacifists, there’s not a lot they’d be able to do to me without a lot of tortured rationalization (not that that’s not a strength among their ilk).
Is the wall Chinese drywall? I hear that’s dangerous
What Jodi said.
Or, in the words of Dick the feudal revolutionary:
I control independent media.
I’d offer to paint a building-sized mural—in the style of the fantastic Lenin, Stalin, Saddam Hussein, or Orwell’s “Big Brother is Watching You” murals—in their honor. You can’t be a proper Great Leader (or Héroe de la Revolución) without your mug on the side of a building.
I instinctively chafe at the structures and expectations of any group. This, of course, means I am a selfish bastard who cares nothing for others, especially if “others” are carrying AK-47s and ideologies.
I post here, obviously.
