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  1. The other commenters do not know de wey. Spit on them bruddas!
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  2. It’s quite simple we just and and then, is achieved
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  3. Soon to be added to my wiki: How Shifty was reborn as Lucifer After the mass nuking of Pantheon, Shifty's body was heavily irradiated and slowly dying. He continued to nuke and missile strike those around him. After there was nothing, Shifty imploded and was consumed by a bright bluish white light and everything around him was slowly being pulled into space. The rift threw him into darkness and for weeks he spent his days contemplating all his actions. He saw his entire existence; the good, the bad, and that which never was. Through the darkness he saw all his potential opportunities, all of which of course, were missed. As he finally gave up and found solace in the warp, he found himself tumbling through space. Of course, it was not space, for space a cold vacuum with intense radiation. Instead, Shifty found himself surrounded by a heavy air that he found difficult to breathe, but no need to exhale. He could walk in any direction, but was weightless and there was no dimensional axis. He simply existed. There he saw himself enveloped in light and reached out. He heard a voice tell him, "this is not the end, this is but the beginning for you, it is the end for all others." He found himself born again. Shifty now arose not as Shifty Stranger, but as what he was always meant to be, the great deceiver of nations. His otherworldly origin now was not just a fluke or paranormal, but preordained and prophetic. He had returned to deliver his people as... Lucifer Morningstar
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  4. I know de wey. Spit on the non believers my bruddas. Clap for da queen. *clok clok clok clok*
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  6. This is something I can get behind
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  7. I mean, it was an obvious solution when you think about it.
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  8. That’s right !
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  9. 50% of all marriages end in divorce.......however, 100% of divorces start with marriage.
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  10. Too much free time today
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  11. Glad to see Lordran at last working with t̫͍͙͙͡ḩ͔̮͈̼̳̼e ҉͙̺̻̗̭͙̰a̵̟̭̲̺l̙̖͍͕͚̩ͅl̳̜̱͙-̲́c̴͓̫͖͙͓͚o̲̟͙n͓̜̫͢s̵͚̯̭u͓̠̦͇m̪͖̺̤͟ͅin͍͉̣̬̺̜g͓̪̯͚͓͝ ̙̙͠v͇o̡i̗d̛̻ Best of luck!
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  12. Let the hate flow through you
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  13. Have some tunes. The deeds of one bold warrior can alter the course of a battle. I have three such warriors under my command and our every deed changes the shape of the world.
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  14. I was gonna quit, then suddenly I found de way to uganda. I am a very happy person now.
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  15. YOU CANT LOCK DE WAY TO UGANDA
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  16. What about CS:GO or TF2?
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  18. Patrolling the Mojave Almost Makes You Wish For a Nuclear Winter.
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  19. I reluctantly agree with OP.
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  20. Yes people could of died if not for my announcement
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  21. o7 Good luck in your future endeavors
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  22. The sound of the cold breeze and the scorching flames was all that could be heard. The bodies of countless people lie everywhere, motionless on the ground. This was the fate that had met city after city south of the Chinese border. Flying above each was the flag of the Branwen Tribe. Its leader, Raven, casually strolled through the now mostly silent streets. She looked at the corpses beneath her, occasionally kicking them to ensure they were truly dead. Once satisfied, she sheathed her sword and turned back to the rest of her tribe. “The requested Chinese territory has been secured. Let’s head home, men.” Cheers could be heard from the tribe as they started their trek back. Behind them, Raven changed forms, the sound of a raven echoing as the tribe disappeared into the darkness. Back in Astana, Takuma approached Kaname, looked at live footage of the aftermath. “Hey, um, Kaname? It’s wonderful that we’ve successfully secured the territory, and all, but…don’t you think we should try to do so without completely destroying what we’re trying to capture?” Kaname looked out the window, sighing. “The Branwen Tribe has certainly proven their usefulness. Thankfully, our main expansion force is finished with their assigned task, so all further expansions will done by them.” Kaname looked at the flag of the Branwen Tribe. “Hmm. Perhaps their skills could be put to use elsewhere…”
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  23. I feel like having the ability to war without it affecting stats or resources would make actual war non existent. Why waste months of building and stockpiling when you can just have a virtual war that you can click a reset button on. That would take the urge for people to war away. However a friend system would be nice, but not necessary. Maybe each nation could have a list of allies, maybe getting a notification if one of your allies are attacked. You could include embassy's into this system as well.
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  24. Guess the Nazi's got tired of fighting the Communist and figured they just soon fight with one another then against one another...the Democrats jumped on the bandwagon cause it was 'kool' and the Dragons figured if something went wrong they could just burn them all to ash and be done with it. Congrats!
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  25. God damn it Milton. It's really not particularly difficult. Nationalize the private insurers into Social Security, remove the restrictions that prevent Social Security from negotiating the rates they are willing to pay for various services rather than just going with whatever the biller says because there's no way to challenge it. So, everyone already now has insurance coverage since we all have Social Security cards and numbers, so we don't really have to even reprint things. A single-payer system funded by reduced taxation, avoidance of emergency treatment as much as possible and putting more of an emphasis on preventative care, which is far cheaper. No changes are necessary for the medical industry and there's no reason the transition would be terribly difficult in anyway. The infrastructure is basically already there and just requires a little nationalization and we're up and running. Besides the fact that there is no legal basis for nationalizing an entire private sector without declaring war or a national emergency (and we haven't done so since fighting the Nazis in the 1940's), such a move would cause chaos, and ironically more people would be without affordable healthcare than to begin with. You make restructuring a fifth of our entire economy sound so easy. Also, your claim for the "infrastructure already being there" is false. I'm not sure if you know, but for people to get Social Security benefits, they have to apply directly through the SSA. Besides the fact that the SSA is ridiculously understaffed and that taking on the rest of the 270 million people in the US would be an impossible task for that size of an administration, you're also missing out on the fact that there is no mechanism for enforcement to have people sign up. People would be confused at the onset, suddenly uninsured because now the government wants you to jump through bureaucratic hoops for health insurance. Obamacare is basically irrelevant since it's not single-payer and was sabotaged as it started by the GOP shortly after they'd been "working together" with Obama. The private insurance companies filled their risk pools to numbers they hadn't even imagined and then had the fun of increasing pricing while their risk level was decreased to convince the public that single-payer is terrible and look at all of the damage it's doing. I think none is the answer you're searching for. In fact, the limited socialism experienced during Obama's work to staunch the damage to the economy via government investment in endangered industries not only helped to keep several industries in business, but when it was over netted the United States a pretty nice profit, too. Then when that stopped they have yet to reduce their increased costs. But it is relevant. Obamacare is the closest thing we have to any healthcare reform since the 1960s. Obamacare came at a time when the Republicans were thoroughly hated by the public and the democrats controlled Congress. And yes, Obamacare is not a single-payer, but that's the point. There is so much political opposition to single-payer and "sabotage" that you should take it as a lesson from history. You should expect that implementing a single-payer now would have the same (if not more) political opposition and sabotage. Besides, I was talking about how complicated it was to get a website going, not the actual system. We don't have the infrastructure. We don't have the experience. I am. The answer is essentially none. If we fold it into Social Security we copy and paste the risk pool of the private insurers into the risk pool of the entire US population, Social Security would require a bit more management size, but that's hardly difficult since they already outperform the private sector there. With the ability to negotiate with medical providers regarding cost, a massive risk pool and basically no significant effort needed on our part it's actually a lot easier than other places have had it when they changed over. Where in god's name has the SSA outperformed the private sector? You can't just "fold" shit into another agency and expect things to basically happen. Let me give you an example: The VA had a crisis back in 2010 where vets couldn't get the healthcare they needed within 6 weeks. Like, people who needed liver transplants were on wait lists. It's obvious that the VA needs more funding to expand their facilities and staff to accommodate a larger flow of individuals. Since 2010, we've dumped almost $1 Trillion (with an annual increase of about $20 Billion each year) into improving the VA. That's excluding the money dropped on the bandaid "Veteran's Choice Program," which still struggles to deal with the crisis. How many years do you plan on implementing single-payer, even if it was politically feasible? Overnight? No, it's not. We have two versions of health socialism going for decades too. We just don't let them compete with the gougers in the private sector. The area they are allowed to alter reduces administrative costs by 50% of the private sector. Social Security is a conceivably already created either a prelude to socialism, or socialism that's just being prevented from adaptation into single-payer due to people waving their hands in a panic over a term. France had to change at some point to do what they're doing. Everyone has a time when thy don't have something that works as well as it should and find a need to change it. France's single-payer is excellent care and far cheaper than that of the United States. We also pay for the most expensive possible medical care in most cases by having to cover the full cost, without negotiation, from emergency room visits where preventative treatment could reduce ER visits just as much as negotiation of acceptable pricing can be. Yeah, and I'm telling you that France had decades to do it. It wasn't easy for them either, they spent a lot of time and money in a political environment that was conducive for it to happen. Even then, they still !@#$ed up time to time. For example, they still have to deal with supplementary health insurance similar to medicare. France had to slowly add people into the system over 3 decades, each time accumulating more debt between 1945 and 1973. In the late 1970s, France had to scale back its universal coverages because it was running up the deficit. All the while increasing taxes and reducing coverages. Right now, it's a decent system, but France had to play with it (and have the political motivation to do so) for decades during a time when the population demographic hadn't skewed towards a growing elderly population and France wasn't $20 Trillion in debt. Important Question: are the incoming elderly going to cost money somewhere to pay for medical care? If we avoid single-payer does that make that incoming cost less likely to happen or need to be addressed? Since the answer is no, we should probably be adjusting now to compensate for it since it's inevitable and we can begin earlier to ensure it's ready to begin absorbing the elderly and poor, especially, into a single-payer system. Or we can do Social Security (with its benefits like being unable to pay a fair, negotiated rate for medical treatment that prevents them from looking like a good way to go) OR go worse by using the emergency room treatments the US government gets to pay for on behalf of those who are unable to do so. Two socialist, or limited socialist, things we are currently doing. Perhaps we should adjust to make it less costly in advance of the inevitable influx of a larger number of elderly people requiring medical treatment in a way that makes it cost less to us before we just have it happen and have done nothing to prepare. That's the !@#$ing point about all this! Almost two decades of war, gross mismanagement of the government budget, and a massive economic crisis has put America on a rocky fiscal foundation. You do realize that the pool of money in Medicare is borrowed money from China, right? You do realize that as we pay into the entitlements via deductions from our income, it's going into a pool that is being drained faster than it fills, right? It's a giant !@#$ing ponzi scheme, where Chinese money is now paying for 65-year-olds going to the doctor. We shouldn't be giving tax breaks to the corporate wealthy. We shouldn't be trying to implement a system that we don't know works, and would take decades and a shit ton of money to invest in. We should be raising taxes, reducing coverages on medicare, relook at entitlements, and come up with a sound fiscal policy that will get us out of this deficit death spiral within the next 30 years. Anything other than that is going to bankrupt our country within the next half-century. Actually the debt really isn't as bad as you're suggesting. It picks up a little bit of profit while it's here. Many countries have had large debts and have paid them off over a period of 175 years or more. Our debt isn't a danger because if the major holders decided to try to cash it in and failed all of their assets of American debt would be rendered neutral and collapse the world economy. So people aren't going to do that. We're going to end up paying for stuff over a long period of time (shorter if we could do increased taxation and reduced government spending by pulling virtually everyone extra remaining in our two vanity wars Bush ran and knocking the bloat off of the DoD budget allocations.) Actually, yeah it is. The debt is currently 106% of our gross national GDP for 2016. That's not particularly interesting, but this is: the interest payments on the debt is 6.5% of the budget in 2016. It is the fourth largest budget item, barely under Medicaid spending. That doesn't sound high, but that's because interests rates are incredibly low right now. The thing is, interest rates are expected to rise because of the booming economy. Right now, they sit at a nice and easy 2.8%. They are expected to hit 3% this year. By 2020, that figure will rise to 4%. An incremental 1.2% increase in the interest rates would cause interest payments on the debt to surpass national defense spending. By 2021, interest payments will surpass all other discretionary spending combined. Anyone who tells you our debt isn't going to be a problem is a short-sighted dumb !@#$ who can't even see 4 years into the future. Contrary to popular belief, right now, entitlement spending costs almost twice the military spending we have now. DoD budget allocations are pathetic in comparison to what the debt rate will be when Trump leaves office. Also, I swear to god, Milton, if you pull this colored shit again, I'm going to kill someone.
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  28. Cool story bro.
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  29. To be entirely fair, it's not the boomer's fault. The last 70 years saw huge medical advancements. Things like vaccines, dialysis, heart surgery, radiology, and pharmaceuticals have radically transformed life expectancy unlike any period in human history. The last 70 years is the medical equivalent of discovering fire. Instead of people dying at 50 because of some organ failure, we have people living well into the 70s and 80s. In order to keep people alive that long, it requires a shit ton of money to be spent on relatively new technologies and procedures that are invasive and costly to begin with. All developed countries have this problem, where an aging population is now skewing the age distribution curve. China in particular (due to the one child policy) has this issue, where a younger generation must essentially make up for the older generation in sectors of the economy that support the previous generation. That being said, unlike France, the US doesn't have a strong social state infrastructure. Let me remind you that the Obamacare website - a prime example of the US attempting to fill in infrastructure for a social state - cost $2.1 Billion. And that was just a !@#$ing WEBSITE. Imagine the amount of money necessary to invest into creating a single-payer system run by the government, and then having subsidies ready for the high costs of healthcare for the elderly. Top that off with the fact that we have practically no price gouging regulations over big pharma, and you have a 40 year nightmare of shitty healthcare and a bankrupt economy. France and the other European countries have had DECADES (and the subsequent billions of dollars associated with the passage of such a long !@#$ing time) to create, fine-tune, and perfect their healthcare social state. A US single-payer system at this point in time is as unrealistic as a McDonald's worker wanting to purchase a rocket to the moon with their next paycheck. Debt stifles the economy. Anyone who says "oh, we have $20T in debt now, what does another couple of Ts mean anyway?" doesn't understand how having more and more of your nation's GDP devoted to paying off debt slows economic growth and production. Just look at Greece. The only reason why the US is staying afloat now despite having more debt than the next three major countries combined is because we are !@#$ing geniuses and everyone has confidence in American production and consumerism. Contrary to what Fox and Friends says, the American economy is doing well DESPITE Trump, not because of him, and its because everyone still has massive confidence in the American economy. We should be using this period of time to pay back the debt, not accumulate more.
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  30. IQ doesn’t want to lose again. They refuse to lose. Therefore there’s not gonna be any “good PR”. Also, isn’t that what you all said about Syndisphere splintering off, then dragged BK and friends when they did it? EMC has to be rolled in entirely, plain and simple.
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  31. You know whats a better idea instead of top 10 most influential? And run! Delete your post and run far far away before IQ comes bombing the polls, rigging the election, and kidnapping your children. RUN. RUN BEFORE ROQ GETS HERE!
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  33. Is there any chance we could "choose" a different sport, say, Soccer! Instead of Baseball? I enjoy baseball but a Soccer team is prime imho. Would anyone else enjoy a Soccer team instead of Baseball?
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  34. Being a male feminist gets you laid? Sadly for feminists I have better taste. Also telling white people what they can't do is racist. What if I told you what black people need to stop doing in 2018?
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  35. The issue isn't micros, but how the overwhelming majority of them are run. An alliance isn't something anyone can do, and one of the many things you need as an alliance leader is experience. One reason why most micros fail is a lack of experience from its high gov or leader. It's far wiser to just join one of the major alliances for experience for several months, watch and learn from their alliance gov, and if you work hard, you might even become a gov member yourself. Then perhaps you can get some friends to make your own micro. It's not too different from running a startup company; it's just smarter to stay as some bigger company for a few years before making your own. As far as I know, Queen M and durmij have both served as gov members in TKR and Rose respectively, which is why SGM was able to pass the early hurdles of starting a micro. However, no one in KoS has sufficient experience in running an alliance for themselves. I should mention that the majority of them were Esquire Templar dropouts or left ET themselves because they couldn't meet passing requirements or for some other reason. Josh was banned for attempting to poach, and Blake was apparently removed by AO. As far as I can see, KoS doesn't offer up anything unique as a micro, their IA and Econ are already a mess, with several of their nations not even building correctly (even their gov, excluding the people who weren't raided) and not on the same alliance color. Would you expect this kind of micro to succeed? All of them are low tier as well, so capital is an issue. And this is just the tip of the iceberg.
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  36. It's not some random micro, it's a recreation of a failed micro. And a 1 man blitz is pretty pathetic by any standard. It certainly doesn't warrant a public declaration war. Do you seriously think a real alliance wouldn't get shat on for doing this too?
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  37. Yeah I mean if you didn't want opinions you could've just not posted on the forums. Or not reply to those who give their opinions. Either way best of luck I guess?
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  39. I used to trade basically every kind of resource, and I only produced maybe three resources in total There are people on the market that buy and sell the same kind of resource purely for profit, and that's fine. There are also raiders who loot resources that they then sell, and that's fine too
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