Schattenmann

From draft 3: So, are you sleepy or a sloven?

You know, an early draft included a paragraph to point out that the reader should guard his mind from lazy, slovenly attempts to reduce what they are reading into "lol npo sux" The existence of the Power Superstructure is not necessarily "good" or "bad" (but it's cute and funny that you tried to turn the debate to your favorite subject, morality). In fact, the portion posted does not broach that subject at all.

Also, it's fun and important enough that our own members will read and can understand it.

Thank you for Opportunity #43 to point out the difference between "no longer fielding a candidate on Red because we're moving teams" and "couldn't keep the senate". "No longer fielding a Red senator because we're moving to Yellow" is what Vox Populi did. "Couldnt' keep the senate" is what NPO did. As for membership numbers, there are three types of Vox Populi: Overt, Covert, Supporters. Our Overt membership is no longer 300. Our Covert membership is none of well, it is your business, but it's not for you to know. Our Supporters are more than you care to acknowledge.

Heh. The first draft of the portion posted started out as a nearly-5 pages long monster. Previews sent to friends for review were unamimous in their cry for mercy. The unfinished portion will examine a global event through the Power Superstructure perspective. "New way of saying what already exists" is, to my mind, far from what I am doing, in parring it down I may have cut too deep. While we have referred to "global hegemony" for a long time, the Power Superstructure goes beyond that, from a passive state of the world to an active organism that shapes the world.

I humbly request that all simps read, then post.

Dance, dance! Dance, little world, as I tickle your little bellies!

There is a specific forum for trading requests in the All Team Forum section. You'll have better luck there.

Turned Vox.

What a happy union!

It's a small worllllld after all, it's a small world after allllll, it's a small world aaaaaafter all, it's a small, small world. One day I'm going to nuke you.

And my sharp tongue. (2 pages late, sorry Brotherhood of the Insane)

Are you protecting SovietSindorin's Brotherhood of Nod which is dedicated to destroying NPO, or are you protecting Brotherhood of Nod which is dedicated to getting smarmy remarks from experienced jerks?

That was a little pretentious of me. If IRON doesn't think of its days as its own alliance as "glorious" then I don't see why I should care.

This was an undertaking worthy of respect and watching when it was undertaken, and it has grown into a group worth respecting today. Hime, you are ever eloquent.

IRON should do this more then remove themselves from the global tangle.

Sparta already had an exhaustive internal trade and tech system when they moved from Pink, Old Guard thinks it's stuff doesn't stink.

Tchah, I have no allusions about my war's effect on the NPO, but I know that one Pacifican is having a bad week and will continue to until he surrenders, and I know that one tech deal got screwed. And that's all I need.

Aw, you ruined the surprise.

I am talking in a JoshuaR announcement because it's the first one I've seen. Also, this is awesome to see. Go, Black.

MHA does still have democratic elements, doesn't it? I don't see what about my comment piqued your interest; I ointed out that as a member of MHA he has pledged to put his nation on the line in defense of NPO, and he should think about that. If anyone misconstrued that as an insult or jab at him personally, it's their misunderstanding of my wording.

Now see hear, dad, you know as well as I do that moving to Black had come up on more than one occassion and BDC would have been a strong ally there once we got over reps (5000 tech, 1/5th of which I had the funds/tech-on-hand to pay all by myself). The logs that got leaked were a pittance. I'm not happy about what happened, but Browncoats' enemies-to-be in the GATO war had made it clear. loud and often and publicly, what they had in store for us if it ever came to war, and war is what it was coming to. Had a disgruntled member not leaked logs thinking he was being a retarded hero, it would have been 3 days or war followed by a bright future. Browncoats was destroyed by the DCP bloc for giggles and by a lack of interest by anyone (you'll recall that after you left it was the amateur hour with me, Nintenderek, and Holloweyes being the most qualiied people left--not the best prognosis), not by the people I kept them out of war with. You're not a loony, so I know you have sense enough to know that Nintenderek is allowed ot have his own opinions inside an alliance without those being completely in line with the principles of the alliance. Do you know that after Umar Ibn informed GOONS that I was in an alliance with Electron_Sponge my access was removed? After over a year of service discreet. But I'll tell you the same thing I told GOONS: Electron_Sponge did what Electron_Sponge wanted to do because he could. NPO, TOP, TPF, other WUT signatories are the ones that put the knife there as far as I'm concerned. And the same weasels did the same thing to Sponge as soon as Sponge got like GOONS was; more than they could handle. The world didn't have a problem with NpO while NpO had the Silent Emperor Assington, they felt safe and secure; no, they had a problem with a man that would run a powerful alliance like a man. And there are days I wanted to leave my castle and go feed Electron_Sponge a piece of his own $@! charbroiled on a platter for the UnJust War, and I know just where to go, but that was a long time ago, and Sponge went as far as his pals gave him power to. NpO didn't get buttsmashed over year old crap because it was suddenly possible, they got hit when-and-where because the resurgence of Sponge meant the resurgance of sovereignty and the real use of power. But--yes ironically as hell--the world post-UjW can't handle that, and therefore can't handle "relevent" Sponge so it was time to deal with the tiniest inkling of change the same way we've dealt with it for a year: dig up th emost insignificant little thing we can, the slightest of insult we can find, and destroy the seed before it grows. Never fail to get a response from the big boys, though, do I? So insignificant that you can't let me slide, and that's as much importance as I've ever needed to make my ends meet. So you'll be acnowledging your mistakes and giving Martens a leg-up if he re-incorporates Grosse Deutschland? Red herring. I don't know how the schools in Slayanic Wehrmacht are so I'll take it a little slower this time around: Vox will take a wide array of applicants whose current politics are aligned with our current politics, and so long as they know how to play by the rules. From 6 months ago. The timing of Polaris' shameful behavior was created by the "Coalition's" inability to do what Sponge could: Declare war when the CB is fresh, not when they get permission. Just the opposite: Very inconvenient. We are the vanguard of change, the prophesiers of the future, we are your foil. But we cannot force, and do not and will not seek to force, anyone else's hand. We are openess and information and logic and hope and we bring all that as best we can so that others will see and taste it and make up their minds for themselves to attain it. O, Slayer, thou never knew me.

And to think your alliance has a military pact with these schlubs. Perhaps if you didnt' cut and run every time it looks like you might be in for the mouth-shutting you'r up for, you'd bee small enough to prove your point. I think that you've both missed the point and hit the nail on the head: This is not about his skill, it's about his opponents' lack thereof.

When Slayer99 dissolved the government of Purge and threatened ZI to anyone leaving the AA in order to "protect" Purge from itself, he betrayed the spirit and trust of his protectorate. By the time Electron_Sponge's enemies were allowed to attack him by NPO, Polaris' power structure was large and wide, but it was generally separate from the Power Superstructure's MDP Web. In fact, that is why it was necessary to destroy them. Interesting. It's sort of like TPF's releasing private information of an enemy's--oh wait, it's ok when it's the bad guys. Shut up. And if fairweather friends like Echelon and MCXA had had the guts or resolve, it would have been Sponge that broguht about a large part of its downfall. We are not static in time--Sponge, and all of us, are dynamics, we are individuals acting in the present, not museum exhibits. lern2reed. See above, we are all dynamic. Sponge's "low" (by your perception) state was brought on him by his actions in opposition to the hegemony and the fear of his former friends. I'll thank you to note that the Bubblegum War was my baby, not Hal's. In fact it would have been quite impossible to pull off if Hal had still been a member of Browncoats much less in a position of government there--but he was not. He had retired and joined RoK where he could become inactive for personal reasons.

Whoooooo! Can't say I miss 404, and can't say the name of the one I truly miss (her name's been [OOC] word filtered [/OOC]). I mostly miss the fun. But fun is fun and done is done, 404 ended the fun with Slayer's help. Said the retired has-been. Sponge joined Vox under the same circumstances that many people joined, after the world turned its back on him. If TPF [OOC]de-masks[/OOC] you, you're welcome to join too. After you've eaten crow and apologized to KaiserMartens. Sponge's past transgressions lay at the feet of the same people that your continuing transgressions lay: His supporting allies, the powerbase that allowed and supported those actions, toadies like Echelon and MCXA et al. We'll accept anyone so long as they are committed to changing the world and taking out the trash. Just as I was created in the rending of GOONS, the Sponge you see today was created in the world's coniving. Blame yourselves, you've created a deep enemy with deeper connections. Some of us would love to wipe out TPF, some NPO, some GGA, some any number of others. It is lucky for you that while we push hardest and most feverish for change, when that day comes it will not be for us to decide--and even still, if it were it would not be in our hearts or our movement to do so. I was going to say that TPF lost its compass in the UjW, but seeign as how it was formed on betrayal, I don't see that a rise from more betrayal could be considered a loss.