Groucho Marx

It is my fault, more or less. I approached Ash a while ago offering a protectorate and started talks with them. We enrolled a few of their guys into our programs and we were "unofficially" protecting them for a time. Before I stepped back, we were waiting on TIF to organize themselves and make a decision on whether or not to pursue the offer I proposed to them. After I retired I simply lost interest and didn't think to really help close the talks one way or another. The off the books protectorate wasn't meant to be anything more than a temporary measure while talks were ongoing, but I simply didn't have enough drive to keep doing the Secretariat job after years of burn out and as a result I did not see this bit of small business through to its end. I was never very good at delegating responsibility and so Milton wasn't left with a lot of information on the status of TIF since I had been handling the matter personally. Anyways their members that did participate in our program were quite pleased with the results and it was a pleasure to work with them. Sure it's disappointing that they have decided to go another way but all in all, what they feel is best for them is what they need to do and that is something I had told Ash on several occasions when he wasn't certain about something. It is my understanding that they suggested the NAP agreement to us, though I didn't see it as necessary since we had been economic partners for a month or so but it didn't hurt either party to sign it and it will not hurt either party now that it has been unilaterally canceled. All that aside, I doubt NATO is capable of providing all the hands on help and training I had offered TIF but I suppose they are capable enough to protect a new alliance. Good luck, Ash.

<pokeymans analogy> Congratulations, nerds.

This will be an underappreciated post.

This has to be embarrassing for GATO and anybody else associated with III Percent. All of the reasons should be pretty obvious, too.

You're definitely helping your case here. Please continue.

Burn it all down.

It sounds like you need to log out and step away from the computer.

Without a psuedo-philosophy to guide the world, we are surely lost.

Are you really going to brag about statistics? Boy you sure showed me!

It was actually a reasonably clever way to say you and Methrage have a tendency to open your mouths and then promptly insert your feet. The "concept" of treaties wasn't what he was talking about anyway, but rather stating his opinion that your treaty with Methrage's rogue micro was a bad decision. I hope that clears it up for you.

Pity reply.

You're so vain you probably think this post is about you.

Anytime, since none of that was about you.

It's not hilarious but it was clever. Much unlike Tywin's posting.

Ha! Thanks for this.

Open Letter to Master Hakai; Stay fresh. -Marx

You, stop it. Let me have fun.

You can take that however you wish. If you were in an actual alliance maybe people would care, including me. But you're not so nobody is going to make an exception for you.

Yeah no I'm going to keep buying tech from that guy in LPH.

~tHeRe CaN oNlY bE 1~

I doubt this is legitimate since Kindle has been bombarding our members with absurd offers to join his micro and help destroy GOONS. Even if it is it does not change the nature of the minor clash RUKUNU reignited as soon as he returned from his hiatus. If that's even really RUKUNU.

I'd like to make an unofficial, personal request for Methrage to be sanctioned on Pink.

Good luck.

You should chalk it up as reality since GATO's membership and government deliberately held back in that conflict but clearly did not in the most recent one. The statistics don't lie, and neither do the wartime coalition boards and logs from that era. You can sell that line about your "commitment" to the truth to your ignorant electorate to justify GATO's poor decision making and weak long term political strategy if you want, though. Oh, no, C&G definitely adapted to the changing political dynamic. One they were also responsible for creating and perpetuating for their ulterior motives. The reality is that if you had taken that offer, you wouldn't have this thin veil of innocence to hide behind for your behind the scenes betrayal that C&G is guilty of committing. It would have totally ruined your post war prospects, and even NPO wouldn't want to be associated with that kind of behavior even though they're responsible for fostering it anyway. Your calculations about NPO's prospects after eQ were as wrong as we had all told you they were, and now you get to live with selling out your allies and destroying your credibility. Though congratulations on limiting the exposure of your true character. At least that was something you were able to do right when selling out your allies.

When C&G and Non Grata made their intentions known, we adapted to the changing political dynamic just as many before us have done, and many will continue to do in the future. No one (in GOONS, I won't pretend to speak for anyone else) set out to attack Non Grata, you made that possible on your own. What I find truly interesting is how committed you are to that lame excuse for why it isn't true that a chunk of your top tier refused to fight and that's why you couldn't get anybody out of PM. At least this time when you came out to fight you did it, even if it was only to soak up as much damage as possible for the NPO. Perhaps that is a good indicator of how much you were willing to burn for an alliance that has a lower opinion of you than you did of DH and why your members were so eager to fight in this war but not in the last. Hard to say.