This Charming Man
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I'm sorry, but if that's your view as a signer of the bus doctrine, why should anyone treat that like it's not a piece of toilet paper?
And why should I treat anything you have signed as anything more than a piece of toilet paper?
Because the protection offered to you in your charter is enforced.
The protection of Pink nations under the Bus Doctrine will be enforced, that's why you shouldn't treat it like it's a piece of toilet paper. But this isn't about the Bus Doctrine, or even me. Let's get back on topic.
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Even if it is "really nothing more than a tech raid," how does that make it right? You're still attacking and damaging CG nations, as well as stealing from them. I don't see how a "tech raid" is anything other than an act of war, whether the victim is a single nation or an alliance.
I'd just like to point out that people get tech raided everyday.
If only they knew that if they whined about it on the forums, and then made threats about bringing in "friends" it could all stop...
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Don't raid like idiots then.
Lesson learned, now they don't have to pay the reps right?
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I'm familiar with the bus doctrine, no need to quote any part of it to me.
Didn't quote anything, just gave you a tl;dr some people just can't read official write ups.
You're hiding behind PWN, PC is in on the raids with you,<+ThisCharmingMan> wat
<+ThisCharmingMan> wat
<+Jack|Diorno[Athens]> wat
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<@Hurricane[iS]> wat
RAD nations have already stated they use CMs and Bombers on their raids..Correction, I said that I use CMs and Bombers.
so, since you're hiding behind them, you're with them on the bus doctrine.You're right, I signed it.
Why then, do you feel you can have it both ways?Because I signed it, and the Bus Doctrine states that we protect Pink nations, if CG was on Pink this would be a whole 'nother story brotha! B)
And how does "protecting your own" mean you can attack people with bombing runs and cruise missiles, while doing ground attacks, all unprovoked?How is that defending your own?
It doesn't, it's something entirely different. It's the Bus Doctrine, a treaty signed by RAD, PC, and TCB to protect Pink sphere. Not set the ground rules for tech raids!
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If there were nukes spied away, if there were bombers and cms used, it's hardly a tech raid, and that's by the standards of the bloc they belong to. They want to impose upon people their own set of rules if they're raiding pink sphere nations, but they disregard that set of rules when it's them raiding other spheres? Why do they think they can have it both ways?
I do believe that people live by their standards and their standards alone.
But technically, PC, RAD, and TCB are the enforcers of the bus doctrine and the only alliances that have signed it.
So just because PC, RAD, and TCB say raiding doesn't involve CMs and APs that doesn't mean that IS does.
And here's a little tl;dr of the Bus Doctrine since you seem to like it so much.
They said they weren't protecting against any and all raiding. Only that if nations on pink were being reduced to rubble, extorted, etc that they now have a place to come and plead their case for a little help.Also,
So you're going to disregard the set of rules your own bloc imposes on nations while raiding pink, too?We protect our own.
That doesn't technically mean the rules we made applies to other spheres.
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Because this is not a tech raid. Using bombers and CMs makes it a war.
That's weird... I've always used CMs and Bombers when raiding.
It adds a certain excitement methinks.
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Attacking alliances for no reason, posting stuff about other alliances to humiliate them, sounds to me like IS needs a stern talking to.
I'm a bit confused... What constitutes an alliance really?
Different alliances define what they believe an alliance is. For example, Nueva Vida, used to raid Alliance that had below 50 members and no one used to whine about that. They got away with it because the 'groups of nations' they raided didn't have any treaty partners.
It seems to me that CG doesn't have any treaty partners, so why is everyone getting their panties in a bunch?
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Wow, bad show IS.
You guys are nothing but pure dagnasta evil, it's just a fact.
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I sit in sad repose as I put pen to paper concerning an issue I find most deeply disturbing. It is requisite, even in this summary sketch, to go back a few years to see how Internet Superheroes twists every argument into some sort of "struggle" between two parties. Internet Superheroes unvaryingly constitutes the underdog party, which is what it claims gives it the right to extract obscene salaries and profits from corporations that do exactly the things it accuses mingy, disagreeable flibbertigibbets of doing. When one examines the ramifications of letting Internet Superheroes glamorize drug usage, one finds a preponderance of evidence leading to the conclusion that its proxies were recently seen giving rise to nutty, sinister blockheads. That's not a one-time accident or oversight. That's Internet Superheroes's policy.
As I gaze into my crystal ball, I see that Internet Superheroes's understrappers will keep a close eye on those who look like they might think an unapproved thought in the immediate years ahead. In case you hadn't noticed, the cliches of Internet Superheroes's viewpoints are well-known to us all. Well, that's getting away from my main topic, which is that the cure for corruption, conspiracy, and treason must start by exposing the problem to people who care and are not themselves corrupted. That conclusion is not based on some sort of evil philosophy or on Internet Superheroes-style mental masturbation, but on widely known and proven principles of science. These principles explain that writing instructors seeking to introduce the concept of priggism into their curricula could hardly do better than to use Internet Superheroes's ideologies as an example. But that's not all: As long as the beer keeps flowing and the paychecks keep coming, its operatives don't really care that people tell me that it uses people and destroys lives without compunction. And the people who tell me this are correct, of course.
Perhaps you haven't noticed that Internet Superheroes's shell games are thoroughly recalcitrant regardless of the way, shape, or form in which it presents them. Perhaps you haven't noticed that Internet Superheroes's tractates have no place in a free, humane society of individual value, individual choice, and individual responsibility. And perhaps you haven't noticed that its litanies are a parody of original thought. In response to all three of those possibilities, I need to inform you that Internet Superheroes's adulators' thinking is fenced in by many constraints. Their minds are not free because they dare not be. Internet Superheroes promises its stooges that as soon as it's finished breaking down our communities, they'll all become rich beyond their wildest dreams. There's an obvious analogy here to the way that vultures eat a cadaver and from its rottenness insects and worms suck their food. The point is that Internet Superheroes's hysteria-producing screeds are sufficient to give pause to the less thoughtful among us. "Oh, oh," such people think. "We'd better help Internet Superheroes sacrifice children on the twin altars of opportunism and greed—just in case."
In spite of all Internet Superheroes has done, I must admit I really like the organization. No, just kidding. Internet Superheroes's lapdogs mistakenly associate "lengthy" with "accurate" when it comes to its homilies. That's pretty transparent. What's not so transparent is the answer to the following question: Does it enjoy the dubious cachet of being the world's most termagant unreasonable-type? A clue might be that its pronouncements are a logical absurdity, a series of deductions from a premise that has been denied. Speaking of absurdities, Internet Superheroes is a vulture living on the labor and the good nature of the rest of the world—and Internet Superheroes knows it. The virus of commercialism took control of our country's political life long ago. Now, thanks to Internet Superheroes's inclinations, that virus will continue to spread until no one can recall that I hate it when people get their facts completely wrong. For instance, whenever I hear some corporate fat cat make noises about how the moon is made of green cheese, I can't help but think that Internet Superheroes's zealots argue that it knows the "right" way to read Plato, Maimonides, and Machiavelli. These are the same viperine, unbalanced marauders who cheat on taxes. This is no coincidence; prudence is no vice. Cowardice—especially Internet Superheroes's contemptuous form of it—is.
Internet Superheroes's demands are becoming increasingly muzzy-headed. They have already begun to slander those who are most systematically undervalued, underpaid, underemployed, underfinanced, underinsured, underrated, and otherwise underserved and undermined as undeserving and underclass. Now fast-forward a few years to a time in which they have enabled Internet Superheroes to encourage a deadly acceptance of intolerance. If you don't want such a time to come then help me build a better world, a cleaner world, a safer world, and a saner world. Help me stand by our principles and be true to them on all occasions, in all places, against all foes, and at whatever cost. It troubles and amazes me to think that many people respond to Internet Superheroes's ultra-mischievous beliefs (as I would certainly not call them logically reasoned arguments) in the same way that they respond to television dramas. They watch them; they talk about them; but they feel no overwhelming compulsion to do anything about them. That's why I insist we initiate meaningful change.
If Internet Superheroes were paying attention—which it would seem it is not, as I've already gone over this—it'd see that in a recent essay, it stated that ageism is a wonderful thing. Since the arguments it made in the rest of its essay are based in part on that assumption, it should be aware that it just isn't true. Not only that, but it truly believes that university professors must conform their theses and conclusions to its nefarious prejudices if they want to publish papers and advance their careers. It is just such distasteful megalomania, incoherent egoism, and intellectual aberrancy that stirs Internet Superheroes to encourage young people to break all the rules, cut themselves loose from their roots, and adopt a pharisaical lifestyle.
Believe me, I certainly don't want to give Internet Superheroes a chance to lionize insensitive carpetbaggers. Internet Superheroes has found a way to avoid compliance with government regulations, circumvent any further litigation, and burn our fair cities to the ground—all by trumping up a phony emergency. It makes perfect sense that Internet Superheroes doesn't want me to take a strong position on its claims, which, after all, force us to tailor our refrains just to suit its brazen whims. I challenge it to move from its broad derogatory generalizations to specific instances to prove otherwise. For the nonce, Internet Superheroes is content to work both sides of the political fence. But one day, it will pooh-pooh the reams of solid evidence pointing to the existence and operation of an unpatriotic coterie of interventionism. Please, please, please help me free people from the spell of antidisestablishmentarianism that Internet Superheroes has cast over them. Without your help, Internet Superheroes will indubitably operate in the gray area between legitimate activity and disorderly, oleaginous collectivism.
The central paradox of Internet Superheroes's mottos, the twist that makes Internet Superheroes's warnings so irresistible to barbaric, uncompanionable sensualists, is that these people truly believe that freedom must be abolished in order for people to be more secure and comfortable. I never used to be particularly concerned about Internet Superheroes's conjectures. Any damned fool, or so I thought, could see that scapegoatism has served as the justification for the butchering, torture, and enslavement of more people than any other "ism". That's why it's Internet Superheroes's favorite; it makes it easy for it to make conditions far worse than could ever have been the case without its reprehensible efforts. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist if we don't tear down Internet Superheroes's fortress of isolationism. Let's be sure that I've made myself absolutely clear: If you're not part of the solution then you're part of the problem. Once you understand Internet Superheroes's quips, you have a responsibility to do something about them. To know, to understand, and not to act, is an egregious sin of omission. It is the sin of silence. It is the sin of letting Internet Superheroes rely on the psychological effects of terror to magnify the localized effects of its obloquies so that, like a stone hurled into a pool of water, shock waves ripple from the epicenter of Internet Superheroes's attacks to the furthest reaches of the Earth.
I plan to advance freedom in countries strangled by tyranny. Are you with me—or against me? Whatever you decide, we must soon make one of the most momentous decisions in history. We must decide whether to let Internet Superheroes dismantle the guard rails that protect society from the pesky elements in its midst or, alternatively, whether we should brush away the cobwebs of frotteurism. Upon this decision rests the stability of society and the future peace of the world. My view on this decision is that by allowing Internet Superheroes to shred the basic compact between the people and their government, we are allowing it to play puppet master.
Internet Superheroes's a social liability. Get that straight, please. Any other thinking is blame-shoving or responsibility-dodging. Furthermore, if Internet Superheroes would abandon its name-calling and false dichotomies it would be much easier for me to take a proactive, rather than a reactive, stance. Internet Superheroes has written more than its fair share of lengthy, over-worded, pseudo-intellectual tripe. In all such instances it conveniently overlooks the fact that it ignores a breathtaking number of facts, most notably:
Fact: It goes ga-ga for any type of nihilism you can think of.
Fact: It lacks the courage to confront me face-to-face.
Fact: We're still a long way from being able to arraign it at the tribunal of public opinion.
In addition, several things it has said have brought me to the boiling point. The statement of its that made the strongest impression on me, however, was something to the effect of how once it has approved of something it can't possibly be wily. To wrap up, I'll just hit the key elements of this letter one last time. First, it is far too easy for Internet Superheroes to use fear, intimidation, sedating substances, and other tools to convince catty, sordid knuckle-draggers to undermine liberty in the name of liberty. Second, it flaunts its personal schemes and attitudes in front of everyone else. And finally, its sullen declamations represent an indissoluble alliance, an intimate alloy, between factionalism and heathenism.
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Now here I was thinking that WTF stayed out of politics.
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Cool announcement. Good luck.
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You guys are so though.
Wait, what?
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and whats the point of this thread?
its good to know there are still !@#$ty alliances like IS around to hate still.
Now that's not a very nice thing to say...
Good on IS, keep it coming!
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Cute, is the word that comes to mind.
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NSO, finish the job!!!!
Oh my, you're a charming little thing aren't you!
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Dude! Why are you trying to ruin my fun!
Relax, I am just having a go at the guy due to his signature.
Dude, I don't mean to ruin your fun, and I understand that's what you're doing.
But, it seems to me like a good amount of other people are not enjoying this, they may even be making fun of you in their heads! And I don't want to see that happen because I consider us friends now.
Also, on topic, this was a fun War. MDP NSO?
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Lol dude, HeinousOne, take a chill pill man!
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Hail our Sith overlords!
-Charming
"And in the morning when i leave,
I'll shake the dust right off of my feet,"
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The People posting in this thread with a gov title in their sig, those who cannot make coherent arguments and slaughter this language.
Believe it or not my friend, as much as I enjoy devastating the nation of someone who opposes me, I do wish it were not at the expense of your alliance.
Oh lol dude, I'm fighting you
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I think we may see a treaty between RAD and NSO when this war is over!
Keep your fingers crossed Cyberverse!
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Super cool.
Awesome treaty, good luck to everyone!
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We're just super cool.
Scratch that... RAD is Rad!
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How charming.
Stop using my word!
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Excellent. My troops were getting a bit feisty and there's only so many drills you can give the buggers before they start planning to raid the local candy shops. Thankfully it hasn't come to that and RAD was good enough to offer up their candy stops instead. Needless to say, more than one officer is breathing a sigh of relief, now that their candy rations are no longer in danger.
Oh gee... someone needs to get some outside air...
I mean your officers of course!
Crimson Guard Edict #5: Ultimatum to Internet Superheroes
in Alliance Announcements (IC)
Posted · Edited by This Charming Man
Telling me how to 'properly' follow a doctrine I signed is kind of a, well, dickish thing to do.