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    Formerly Blackdragon6 Emperor-of-Dragons's Avatar
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    Default How would you use these secret orgs to fix USA and the world?t

    If you had power to fix America and the world, how would you use them?

    The resources at you disposal are: (any iteration you like)


    • The Court of Owls

    • The Hand

    • Spectre

    • Ozuno Clan from Ninja Assassin

    • League of Shadows


    I'm just trying to see something here lol.
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    I feel uncomfortable answering this question because it would mean that I'd in favor of a lot of criminal acts.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Alan2099 View Post
    I feel uncomfortable answering this question because it would mean that I'd in favor of a lot of criminal acts.
    Yes, you would become a supervillian however one wants to rationalize it.
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    Spectre isn't a secret organization.



    SPECTRE (Special Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion) is a different story.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Alan2099 View Post
    I feel uncomfortable answering this question because it would mean that I'd in favor of a lot of criminal acts.
    I mean well, Batman does a lot of criminal acts
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    Literature is loaded with the karmic price one pays for using (or rejecting) the power to make a better world (in one's opinion). The epilogue of almost every Greek Hero's story is usually about that.

    My arrogant inclination would be to bring down a range of folk from the Sacklers to Putin. Doubtlessly, I'd inflict an array of unintended consequences that I can't even imagine. That's before we even talk about betraying my belief that due process matters.

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    First thing I would do is destroy Blackrock

    Use the Hand, Talons, League of Shadows, and Ozunu ops to take out cartels and corrupt officials in Mexico and Afghanistan.

    Use SPECTRE to over throw the rightwing government in Israel and stop those settlement expansions.

    Use The Court of Owls to keep facists out of power in America, France, and U.K. or most Western world in general.

    Then set my eyes on Latin America and Yemen.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DrNewGod View Post
    Literature is loaded with the karmic price one pays for using (or rejecting) the power to make a better world.
    And I usually roll my eyes at stories like that, cause I suspect they want you to sit on your hands and do **** all. I'm suspicious of aesops like that.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Madam-Shogun-Assassin View Post
    And I usually roll my eyes at stories like that, cause I suspect they want you to sit on your hands and do **** all. I'm suspicious of aesops like that.
    You emphasize the using and ignore the rejecting. Every decision has consequences. Because inaction didn't turn out the way you want doesn't mean it would be better.

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    You can’t use secret organizations to “fix” the world. The solution is not in being “secret”, is in doing the right thing and in doing the thing that is possible.

    How do you fix the climate? When the problem lies in the way 8,1 billion people are living and the system that sustains them.

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    My Oath of Non-Interference prevents me from taking any action to fix the USA and the world.

    Hypothetically, if for some reason I was granted dispensation to interfere, here's what I'd do.

    At least one of the organizations listed, The Hand, has the ability to resurrect people with no statute of limitations. They brought Frank Castle's wife back and she's been dead for years. So I'll have them bring Ruth Bader Ginsburg back from the dead. Since Supreme Court Justices have a lifetime term and Ginsburg never retired, it could be argued that she is still a Justice. No doubt whether she is or not will be a case that ends up before the Supreme Court itself.

    Before it gets to the Supreme Court, I'll ensure I win whatever decision the Court makes by having my minions arrange fatal accidents for at least two Republican-appointed Justices and then bring them back from the dead after a week or two has passed. If the Court rules Justices who die before retiring are still Justices after being resurrected, then Ginsburg is back in. If the Court rules that death ends a Justice's term even if they come back to life later, then the two Justices who were dead for a week are off the Court and Biden gets to appoint replacements. Either way the power of the current Republican bloc on the Supreme Court is broken.

    Oh, and I'll also bring Prince, David Bowie, and a bunch of other dead celebrities back while I'm at it. Deceased scientific and medical geniuses too.
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    id like to reunite the classic-era simpsons writer's room and maybe consolidate the various streaming platforms libraries

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    Well, the obvious thing to do is have them not be criminals anymore...

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Watcher View Post
    My Oath of Non-Interference prevents me from taking any action to fix the USA and the world.

    Hypothetically, if for some reason I was granted dispensation to interfere, here's what I'd do.

    At least one of the organizations listed, The Hand, has the ability to resurrect people with no statute of limitations. They brought Frank Castle's wife back and she's been dead for years. So I'll have them bring Ruth Bader Ginsburg back from the dead. Since Supreme Court Justices have a lifetime term and Ginsburg never retired, it could be argued that she is still a Justice. No doubt whether she is or not will be a case that ends up before the Supreme Court itself.

    Before it gets to the Supreme Court, I'll ensure I win whatever decision the Court makes by having my minions arrange fatal accidents for at least two Republican-appointed Justices and then bring them back from the dead after a week or two has passed. If the Court rules Justices who die before retiring are still Justices after being resurrected, then Ginsburg is back in. If the Court rules that death ends a Justice's term even if they come back to life later, then the two Justices who were dead for a week are off the Court and Biden gets to appoint replacements. Either way the power of the current Republican bloc on the Supreme Court is broken.

    Oh, and I'll also bring Prince, David Bowie, and a bunch of other dead celebrities back while I'm at it. Deceased scientific and medical geniuses too.
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    The best thing to do would be to expose secrets. Reveal what the scumbags did, and let the rest of the world mete out the punishment.
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