Lapdogs and You.
I commented in an earlier OWF thread about the use(misuse) of the term lapdog as it applies to the politics at large of CN. It is almost as if people refuse to see reality. In every conflict, there are two sides. No more, no less. Even if you have 15 distinct spheres of power, a conflict comes down to two sides. 95% of all alliances will choose one of the 2 sides and fight (the other 5% that want to pretend to be above everyone else on honor, will foolishly help no ally, by fighting for all allies on all sides.) Whether or not you are a lapdog, is by and large determined by what side you fight on. Alliance 1 choosing to fight on side A, will be a lapdog to the central alliance on side A, regardless of what their own political goals and agendas are. It is literally impossible, in the eyes of EVERYONE on the losing side, and in some of the eyes of those on the fringe of the winning side, for an alliance to have supported a move, because there was a clear and measurable benefit to THEM. It can ONLY be that it was because alliance X said jump, and you said "how high?" It is further, impossible, for such a relationship to exist, that simplifies the political goings on of the world, so that a group of several alliances can all clearly see a path that is superior to them, versus another path.
TLR (athens, et.al.) supported VE's war on Polar because we were lapdogs of MK. We then supported TOPs war on Polar because were lapdogs of MK. We then supported MKs war on CSN because we were lapdogs of MK. It is not possible, in the eyes of those in alliances on the losing side that we supported VE's war on Polar because... quite frankly, we hated Polar. It is not at all possible we supported TOPs war on NpO because... we hated SF. And last but not least, no way did we support MKs war on CSN because ... well.. are you ready for this? We still hate SF. It can only be lapdog syndrome, it cannot be separate alliances sharing the same set of enemies and working together to kill those enemies.
People, at the end of the day, are very disinterested in who is, or is not, a lapdog. People care only about the perception from which their alliance currently sits. There is a massive segment of the player base on the other side right now, that eagerly await an AI led rolling of MK and friends. Literally, all of you are, by your own definition, sitting awaiting the opportunity to lapdog yourself out to them, so that they can finally do for you, what you all failed so miserably at for 3 years, and that is putting up any sort of a challenge. Certain segments of prominent alliances on the other side, whom absolutely hate everything there is to hate about Duckroll, sucking up so hard to them right now, that it is even funny to folks in Duckroll gov, trying to maintain a smile on their face as they hope to get themselves close enough to Duckroll to ride the coattails if Duckroll makes all of their dreams come true and finally slays the beast that is MK. Hypocrisy in CN is a grand thing. We all do it. I have done it. Every last one of you have been doing it. And until the day that this world is no more, we will continue to do it. Why? Because none of this is real. It is a game. And when you play a game, you get freedom to do as you choose in that game. Carry on lapdogs, wannabe lapdogs, and lapdogs to be.
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