look, you might describe it as ‘safer’ and ‘less terrifying’ but it was a more *interesting* society when just anyone could get dynamite and all the food had cocaine in it https://twitter.com/workingdog_/status/1123592100698886145

Humble SHOPKEEP: hello hello
Nefarious ANARCHIST: [in a Slavic manner] two cases of dynamite
SHOPKEEP: what on earth do you want that much dynamite for? why, a man could blow up the Capitol with-
ANARCHIST: fuck off
SHOPKEEP: yes sir, right away sir!
ANARCHIST: and some laudanum

SHOPKEEP: [eyes narrowing] Gelignite? I don’t know if I can sell that to just anyone
ANARCHIST: I’m a mine, and so is my wife
SHOPKEEP: ha ha yes of course, I must have had too many of the old radium candies this morning

don’t get me wrong there were a LOT of downsides to the past but it must have been okay to live in a society where you could mail-order a Gatling gun

like yeah okay if you went on strike they’d break your ribs and then fire you instead of just firing you, but the CEO’s address would be in the phone book! you could just knock on the door and try to kill him with a hatchet you brought from home! a simpler time

you could see all the mansions up on the top of the hill instead of them all being in fucking Napa or New Zealand

hmm I just got laid off from the Lastname company, but thankfully it’s 1919 so instead of some anonymous nerd there’s an actual Mr Lastname who publishes weird newsletters about Jews and lives in a place called Lastname Castle I can walk to, with a hammer

you try that shit now and the Blackwater sniper nest will take you out before you even set foot on Long Island