Hypothetically, if you were facing federal agents

[sarisataka]

On horseback who are taking you and others around you into custody, how would you prefer they contain you and encourage you to move quickly- by using whips or hitting you with long reins?

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	I'll take the whip
	1 (7%)
	Use the rein please
	0 (0%)
	Excuse me? What century is this? Why is this a question in 2021?
	13 (93%)
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[Hugh_Lebowski]

1. Presumably we're actually talking about riding crops here?

Not actual whips, yeah?

I'd pick a typical crop over long reins any day.

That being said, if the people refuse to move after being commanded to verbally, the Border Agent should do nothing, just sit there, literally for days and nights on end if necessary, on the back of the horse ... verbally imploring the people to 'see reason and move along' of their own accord, with 0 physical cajoling under any circumstances.

Actually, they should just set up a camp together, agents and immigrants, roast a havelina on a spit over an open fire, have some cervezas, then pitch tents and just chill until everyone's ready to move.

Obviously.

[sarisataka]

3. What you do

In the privacy of your home with a consenting adult is not my business



However in this scenario not riding crops. Something more like this-
https://thumbor.forbes.com/thumbor/711x474/

[WhiskeyGrinder]

2. K&R.

[malthaussen]

4. It's "rein."

"Reign" refers to lordship.

-- Mal

[sarisataka]

5. Damn you text assist!

Now to fire my proofreader...

uh oh.

[malthaussen]

6. I turn off all spell-checkers.

If I'm not sure about a word (which happens increasingly in these years of my dotage), I Google it. Still make embarrassing typos. I may be the only person on Facebook who actually proofreads his one-liners.

-- Mal

[FakeNoose]

7. In my younger days I could have outrun that horse

[Beastly Boy]

8. Are the agents dresed in tight uniforms and wearing knee-high leather boots (preferably with heels)?

If so, whips, please! Hypothetically, of course.

[Binkie The Clown]

9. I like cheese. nt

[frogmarch]

10. At it again.

Cracking whips at, and onto the skins of, certain people in Civil War times is why, to this day, white people are often called "crackers" in some circles.