WorldConqueror

I know right, with the market share of PacifiCola and Sir Paul's domination of entertainment we're all doomed to Pacificanization. #OccupyFrancograd

You're about 5 years too late with this stuff buddy. We've already had the era of the anti-NPO crusades.

An unforgivable oversight, to be sure. Those who choose WANA over RV deserve the misfortune of the formers company.

I like the way you think.

with the amount of people this works on, all we need for world peace is a recruitment spambot

He's only broken character once, and it was glorious.

It's your theory, I'm just pointing out the holes.

Not sure I've ever seen a treaty with an oA clause but none regarding defense. Interesting idea.

Political and social aspects do not require a large nation. Them being attacked should have no effect on what they apparently enjoy.

gosh why did i ever let myself post this. Though apparently the program isn't working with Ukulele Land, that one doesn't even have trades!

At least you waited til after the war this time! Intriguing set of remaining allies you have there.

obvious xx black flag to allow reentry!!!

Those that do have their justifications picked apart too if what they do is demonstrably at odds with what they're saying. Though I can't think of an instance where an alliance said 'we didn't want to treaty x' after having just treatied x.

He's making a good point Rey. Disingenuous to try and construct a public narrative that relies on internal discussion none of us are going to see.

Welcome to official existence MI. Make us proud.

Yeah, you're not being as biting as you think. More ridiculous.

"Terrorist organization". Overblown rhetoric might get some cheers from the hail dajobo crowd but you're not doing yourself any favours with anyone else.

So who's the target here? I remember when the war against SNX started you were all claiming it was Polar. Why the sudden change?

o you guys

pretty sure this has been comprehensively dealt with elsewhere.

You're reaching a long way to get crying and infuriated insinuations in. No Walford, I am simply amused that you decided to take issue with a neutral term I used in the course of making a wider point about the culture of alliance conduct. There was plenty to engage with had you decided to. Why for instance was your war of aggression against NSO justified while Doom Squad's war of aggression on SNX is not? In my view, neither of the broader arguments they demonstrate are right or wrong, they just are. Both at base are the same action, yet they get filtered through your basic approach to this place. Every alliances core function is to secure their position, however they define it. You may dress up your actions to secure your position in legalese and precedent but you still do what you feel you need to. DBDC acts to secure the position they have defined for themselves too, aggressively so, discarding diplomatic niceties they feel they don't need. You can argue that's wrong, but therein lies the eternal conflict. If their position conflicts with yours it is your obligation to secure the place you have defined for yourself. That you have failed to do so and are now reaping the consequences causes me little heartache. Funny though that you avoided the core of my point and went for my choice of term and then devolved into taunts of crying. I suppose what they say about staring into the abyss is true eh?

It was my own musings on how alliances operate in our world, sorry I didn't inject your propaganda lines into it. I could rename traditionalist to pompous or neckbeardy if you prefer more subjective terms.

They do present themselves in a particular way. I see them as part of a 'traditionalist' pole, which values pageantry and RP as an integral part of how things should be done. The opposing pole is utilitarian, those who are prepared to strip everything back to its core function. Most alliances drift between, adopting a style depending on their relations with alliances at the core of each pole. Treaties can provide a good contrast, some require a formal document posted with distinct clauses laying out the various responsibilities and whatnot. Others are happy with posting something along the lines of 'x and y have an MDP now'. Conflict of style over substance as both types of alliances engage in the same behaviours, but interesting nonetheless.

man don't you know what happens when you let bond escape???

Feel free, though it will be no less farcical than anyone else's attempts. Unless Morgaine is an alterego of yours I didn't refer to anything you said at all. Deserve is such a subjective term though. Oh no, the relevance card. If I was mounting an argument denying the acceptability of attacking Kashmir on the basis that it contains WorldConquerors you would have a point.