Cortath
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I knew Moo for something like 8-9 years. I miss him too. May the Server in the Sky treat him kindly.
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Nintandarek:
It's fine and all to ague that your movement was against "conditions" or that only certain "conditions" lead to Vox, but it's all a very self-defeating and circular argument.
Your whole argument is pretty much: Vox wasn't an anti-NPO movement, but we would only exist if certain conditions brought us forth, and the only time those conditions have ever been was this one time the NPO was powerful.And that, of course, is fine and all. That's your right, and long ago did I discard the naïveté that lead me to believe that people would be forthright after why they acted or did things. Perhaps that existed in the earlier ages of Bob, but not now. But of course, it explains why we see so much of this Vox-like sentiment aimed against Pacifica: old reflexes are hard to kick, eh?
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You talking to me? I am Blackbird/Cortath in that world. Been playing since Dec 2002.
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Why would you do that? The people are the invaded sphere could just move to another one. No real point in that.
That other game (in which I played a significant role, once upon a time), there were things to be gained from invading that could not be taken back easily. Liberations are hard. Here the solution is simple: if someone invaded the Red Sphere and messed up the NPO, the NPO could just move to another sphere just as easily.
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Vox built up an entire infrastructure dedicated to targeting the NPO. It's nice and all to talk about other alliances who were targeted, but the overwhelming majority of your efforts were against the New Pacific Order.
After Karma, and our other losses, we don't hear much out of Vox. Sure, y'all make posts every now and again, and a few of your individual members make statements against some injustice you decry, but I don't see your newspapers, I don't see spies infiltrating other alliances, I don't see scoops against other alliances.
You were always a group against the NPO. Whoever you might be against now, or whatever morality you currently espouse, you do not prosecute that crusade with a tenth of the effort you did against the NPO. That's why you're getting called out and why you will continue to get called out.
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I'm not dead yet!
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What about ...And call me Conrad?
To give it some perspective, Congrad shared a Hugo award, which didn't happen very often back then, with Dune, another super awesome book.
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I could certainly envision Cortath smugly sitting and chuckling behind the desk at the local Registry of Motor Vehicles. Thank you for furthering this mental image of him and all of its glory.
Comrade Cortath does not work at a DMV/RMV type thing.
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A shame that you're skipping the Marxist perspective, since it has so much to add both analytically and normatively -- it's a lot more complex than 'the end of capitalism as we know it'. You might also find that it ties in nicely to your hypothesis on the parallels of libertarianism, since both ideologies derive primarily from the petit-bourgeoisie. And of course, it's important for practical reasons too, given the role that anti-communism and the German Communist Party (KPD) played in allowing them to gain power.
Depending on how deeply you go into it there were also some fascinating debates going on at the time. The Comintern, for example, effectively took the position that all capitalists were fascists, so the whole phenomena could just be ignored (something they continued arguing even after Hitler had liquidated the KPD and sent its leader off to die in a concentration camp).
In any case, I look forward to seeing what you come up with.
I echo comrade Vladimir's sentiments that this preview of your analysis seems to be woefully lacking in a perspective that had a unique take on the rise of fascism and indeed, spilled quite a bit of ink (and more of their blood) figuring it out.
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You mistake the purpose of reparations.
The purpose of reparations in the modern age is not to enrich the victor but destroy the loser.
If you increase the amount of aid the loser can send to the winner by a factor of X, then the winner will demand more reps by a factor of X. The purpose is to gain blood and treasure of your enemy but to maintain your enemy in a subservient position for as long as possible while weakening them.
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Well if you are going to bring up Karma, I should then add that the Continuum has perpetrated far worse crimes then demanding a beer review after its curbstomps. It seems like your the pot calling the kettle black. Also to my original point, I didn't say I supported this conflict. However, in this post Vlad said that the conflict is black and white, where one person (NSO) is good and the other (RoK) is bad. The choice I referred to was him calling the NSO defenseless and alone, were them being alone was as choice made by the government of NSO. This conflict is many shades of grey, and saying otherwise is foolish.
EDIT: Typo
Do these arguments every grow a bit tiresome for you? How long much we continue to hear as justification for every act that "the Continuum did worse?" Do you think this tendency will lessen in another few months? At the 2 year anniversary of the Continuum being gone? 3 years? I admit curiosity.
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At the end of the day, it's all matters of scale. Three years, you could have a great war, and rebuild to pre-war levels in days and weeks. Two years ago, you could have a great war, and rebuild to pre-war levels to weeks and months. A year ago, you could have a great war, and rebuild to pre-war levels in months and years.
See a pattern?
A newbie has zero chance of creating a nation that can compete with the big boys the way this game scales. The game's economic system was never designed with the idea that nations would spend years building up, and though wonders and other high-infra goodies have been added, the foundations of the economic system are still one where perhaps at best only a couple thousand infrastructure were ever contemplated.
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I got an "A" in Social Studies so this is to be expected, really.
*chuckles heartily [at Arcturus Jefferson's poor education, since I can't simply write "*chuckles hearily*", which, after all, would have been a much more appropriate riposte, but alas, we have to provide reasons for when we write these things]*
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Vladimir, you should watch out. The witty rejoinders of Arcturus Jefferson are making me rethink my whole world view.
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Whatever it is you think we've done, I, the Emperor of the New Pacific Order, says, "Sorry."
Does that make you feel better?
I'm going to guess, "No." Probably because it was insincere. I can tell it's insincere, because I didn't mean it when I said it. And I didn't mean it when I said it because there was no meaningful dialogue between us. And there was no meaningful dialogue between us, because you haven't chosen to come to us with whatever issues you seem to have, but rather post a demand in a blog post. Come talk when you want.
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As a Laker fan, I'm pleased to see someone make Kobe look humble.
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*chuckles* Man, that guy is pretty stupid. [edit] He is stupid because of many self-evidence reasons, but I suppose I have to write at least one: namely that he is anonymous and contacting a member of government of an alliance. You were far kinder to him that I would have been. [/edit]
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Wow is right.
It's really all pretty simple:
To get unconditional surrender you need these things:
1) A rational state actor as an opponent
2) To persuade your opponent through force or demonstration of force that to continue war is tantamount to death.
This is all simple: a rational state actor will never choose a universe of unknowns, when that universe of choices can contain death, unless they believe death already to be certain. When death is certain, choosing among a universe of unknowns, among which death is one of a plethora of choices is rational.
Ramirus offered unconditional surrender. He did not get it. He must therefore assume that either 1) or 2) is violated. I do not believe it is 1), therefore it is 2).
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*chuckles heartily*
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Perhaps, Lord Curzon; though I consider that to be an overly literal reading of what I wrote. Regardless, I have taken the criticism and clarified what was meant. If Foucault has to burn all his notebooks for fear of being misunderstood, I can accept the need to explain myself every now and again.
I would like to add, however, that it is extremely refreshing to have someone misunderstand what I meant after actually reading what I wrote, rather than misunderstanding on the basis of a summary of a summary of a summary that some bloke down the pub gave them along with a stray dog. Another glorious advance for Pacifica!
So, tl;dr, I don't need to read your posts anymore, because other people are reading them now? Is that the take-away here?
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o/ Vladimir!
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First of your options have a bit biased touch and are not appropriate towards the question.
Now, NPO is under the leadership of Corthat (however you spell his name)
No longer it is trotksyrevenge or Moo pacific order. So obviously there will be new strategy and goals for Pacifica.
The karma defeat was indeed a disastrous blow for NPO, but you gotta give it to them; NPO has the best organization in Bob and have climbed from the bottom to top in less then a year.
Once the terms are over they will be buying them nukes and will gain atleast 2-3 mill in Nuke strength alone.
The power that NPO possessed before was based on the support from their allies. Now that they dont have any allies besides the TPF; they will be more cautious.
I think they will now focus more on who they are allied with this time.
C-o-r-t-a-t-h.
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You stated "You literally know nothing about NPO."
But I do know quite a bit about the NPO.
I know, for instance, that Cortath is the Emperor of NPO.
Therefore, you are lying.
It's simple. Much like you.
*chuckles*
As Emperor of the New Pacific Order, I will confirm that I am the Emperor of the New Pacific Order, and that therefore, Baldr is correct in identifying me as the Emperor of the New Pacific Order.
Emperor Blackbird
New Pacific Order
Comrade Chuckles
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The only liar here is you. "They made some mistakes but learned from many of them"? Go away. You're a joke. NPO knew what they were doing and kept doing it as long as they could get away with it, as long as it advanced their agenda. It's far too early to re-write history. NPO are not victims. NPO were not trying to be constructive members of the community who just happened to make a few mistakes and a few wrong attacks. You're either purposely misrepresenting fact (essentially, you're lying) or you're far too new to be talking of NPO so conclusively as to determine their motives and whether they were 'mistakes' or purposeful moves.
There is no wiggle room on this - you are wrong.
It is interesting to be the kind of fool that thinks us so smart and so evil, yet so stupid as to be unable to observe a new world and not change.
Most men would rather than think, in fact they do so.
It is a pity to be like most men.
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