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Ayy lmao

@Alex You accidentally striked me instead.

I made a meme to describe the opening post in a nutshell

Some of you may remember an alliance here last year that called themselves “The Coal Mines” led by Nokia Rokia. “What ever happened to them?” you may find yourself wondering. They picked a fight with The Immortals in 2019, and promptly disbanded, before a peace could be brokered – a sad day for coal enthusiasts everywhere. But, in a long list of crazy shit to happen in 2020, they have re-emerged from their collapse, with hopes of a better outcome. Sadly, however, there has not been enough oxygen down in the mines this iteration either, and it’s affecting their decision making once again. So let’s get the rest of Orbis up to speed on what our friends in the mines have been up to. Last week, their second in command Shadow aka Antman aka DarknessIncarnate, decided to ghost his post in TCM and raid multiple people in the Swamp, among other alliances – with the intention of causing as much damage as possible. Yet, with open wars still ongoing with The Immortals and others, Shadow rejoined TCM – and leader Nokia leaves to Weebunism – leaving Shadow as leader in-game. Well, The Immortals counter that open raid, as would anybody else, and promptly had the counters illegitimately countered. Then those bad wars were countered and so on and so forth. With no desire or need for further escalation, especially to TCM members who are caught up in this tomfoolery, peace negotiations began shortly that same day. All parties on each side acknowledged Shadow and TCM’s actions were in the wrong and a peace was negotiated. “Splendid!” one might say. But sadly all wars were not peaced as promised. No… wrought with anger and frustration from looking foolish, Shadow wasn’t going to go down like that. Shadow launched a nuke on a Fark nation hours after the peace he accepted was in effect, causing expensive damage. When asked hours later the next day “hey, what the hell?” minutes after such inquiry, a missile was sent to the same Fark target (who hadn’t attacked at all again mind you) ending that war and looting the nation and Fark’s alliance bank. Shadow knew hell was about to rain down on his nation, so he readied his troops and…. wait, what’s that? Oh nevermind, he zeroed everything, sold infra down to 0.01 in every city and deposited everything he had, including the spoils from his Fark loot, into the TCM bank and exited his position as government claiming he was quitting the game. Okay, see you in re-roll bud. Seems Shadow/TCM did not wish to honor the peace arrangement afterall, but Shadow is no longer government, so the next step is to talk to the new leadership, which is Nokia once again – THE KING RETURNS! Surely he would return the stolen loot from Fark and make amends for the violation of the peace treaty – a simple request really. No reps from TCM are requested, just Shadow’s deposit and we all walk away. But Nokia not only denies the request, but threatens nukes and months of war as a response – and readies TCM with war tactics – all while admitting “we are not in the right. Quite the opposite” – but he does not want someone to “push us around”. Apparently damaging somebody else’s property and expecting that person to pay for said damage is pushing folks around. Rather than not condone what Shadow did and make things right, it seems TCM gov’t wishes to take ownership of Shadow’s actions. Based on these series of actions, it is concluded that The Coal Mines have purposely and unapologetically voided the terms of the peace deal and Swamp now acknowledges and will finish the war they brought to us. Any members that exit TCM now will not be pursued – you shouldn’t have to be burned down because of incompetent leadership. -THE SWAMP

I'd tell you but it'd be a real uphill battle getting you to understand.

The real issue is, are the people who geniunely have good ideas and know what they're talking about going to be bothered to help fix the game? Plenty of people have checked out at this point.

You mean it doesn't?

Clarified in DMs with pre, its just giving/discussing ideas. No helping code 😛

Firwof. You don't get to respond to a comment about basic intelligence.

As it stands right now, Nokia has agreed to come on Thalmor Radio and give his side of things. James Wilson will also be coming on to represent Swamp and I suppose rebut Nokia. My show starts tonight at 9 PM EST. So, about 6 hours from now. Link: https://discord.gg/rcnJYAv

I've finally gotten the go ahead to created a player based development team. This will be a small group of players lead by me which have a separate channel in the Politics and War discord to discuss game development. There will also be an observer. The point of the observer is to provide public updates of the game dev group is working on, though I will still give my regular monthly updates. The observer will be required to clear their public reports through me first, just incase there is a feature Alex doesn't want to be public knowledge too early. Since this position will operating on discord, to apply contact me on discord. My user name is Prefontaine#5550.

After a Coup d' Etat, I am now selling Theo's art for 10 mil $ and he gets 75 %. Here it is:

Tanks price is changing from 1 steel per tank to 0.5 steel per tank in the coming patch.

Your odd offhand baseless comments about CotL has given us and other spheres material to bond over. Watching you post is similar to watching YouTube videos of crazy people doing odd things that make them look silly. You are a conversation piece. On one hand, thank you for the content. On the other hand, you should probably reflect more on the things you post before you hit ‘submit reply’ (for your own benefit)

I don't think you can call the leadership "incompetent" when there wasn't any leadership to begin with. 🤔

THIS MAN IS AN IMPOSTER!

I feel like there are quite a few nations out there with great / hilarious themes that get largely no recognition. I'm sure I'm missing quite a few myself. Share what your nation theme is and drop a link for us to check it out if you've decked it out enough. https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=60967 Mine is obviously pirate-themed with a twist from the Princess Bride. Let me know what yours is!

Do you suck at Politics and War? Are you tired of getting whipped every time you finally get that sweet infrastructure? Do you get triggered when other players are minding their own business? Well I have the strat for you with these simple steps! - Have no life - Kiss the admins ass - Search around for the slightest bit of sus activity - Screenshot - Open forum.politicsandwar.com - Make post & ping Alex And the best part is, it will never be Nerfed! ———————————— I think we can all agree this game is slowly becoming worse but a lot of us can’t just leave or do anything about it due to the time we’ve invested into it. (Even though a few veteran players have already left) It’s kinda stupid how this game’s community has very little importance to it’s owner when we as a whole make up most of the damn thing. The community has used it’s imagination to create many different variables towards the game’s Depth. Things such as Global Wars and NAP’s, Functional Government Positions & applications, Businesses, Banks, Etc. Without that the game is basically an Idle Clicker So yeah, not Poggers. Impulsively changing the rules and handing out strikes doesn’t fix anything. (I am happy my Friend Ironfist got his strike removed, thank you for that. And Sidd too, can’t forget Sidd)

Under the trade screen Bought / Sold search for Credits. There are lots of trades starting at $1 . This bug has been there for a while and still not fixed. For a new player that wants to sell credits and clicks on one of those it will leave a sore taste in their mouth. This is clearly scamming. Please either fix this so that's impossible to do in the future. I don't think anyone wants to sell their credits that they paid for with real money for an ingame $1. Also, perhaps issue warning to the scammers. Thank You.

@Alex Offending nation: Darby (https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=208002) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wehrmacht https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luftwaffe It's specifically nazi, not World War I German forces. I'm just surprised his navy wasn't called kriegsmarine. Also, Sheepy, please for the love of the human subconscious, add a damn filter so we don't have to manually report these for you to manually deal with. Thanks.

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My nation is based on South Wales. All the cities are places I know.

I think you miss the point. Poor people of today, left with little, are often the result of the inequalities of yesterday. The racist generalizations that people of minorities were "less trustworthy" stem from long ago, and thus minority families were then given less opportunities. Minority neighborhoods have faced inequality throughout history, including Romani families, Jewish families, and black American families, it is not the fault of the people in ghettos that they were disenfranchised from voting rights, given less power over themselves than others, and given less opportunities in education, in getting paying jobs, receiving loans, and more. This led to many minority neighborhoods becoming poor, with less access to education, being exploited by corporations, among other sad realities. Moving into a neighborhood where they are the racial minority is also dangerous because they are targeted by people who are raised with these racist generalizations, that are less compassionate towards them for their generally lower class and status. Excuse me? The government of the time was racist and ripe with segregation, COINTELPRO was a mechanism to keep that government in order by snuffing out resistance. The people rising in protest, that were targeted by the FBI in COINTELPRO, were against the authoritarianism, racism, segregation, the taking of land from American Indian tribes, and more. The FBI, who worked in the interest of the government, were clearly fighting to continue these practices by targeting activists within these communities. They tried to make Martin Luther King Jr. kill himself. If that isn't racist, then your worldview is clearly blocking some vital stream of information from you. Some of the drug traffickers were counter-resistance groups backed by the CIA, which leads to the connection. Ever take the time to think of why? Being out of opportunities drives many poor people to crime, and America has a history of denying opportunities to minorities. Suicide rates and crime rates increase in poverty. They stop minorities more because they usually have less opportunities to survive. The rate at which black people are killed by police is also higher than white people killed by police. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/06/04/economic-divide-black-households/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/investigations/police-shootings-database/

LMAO, I got a game strike because Sheepy accidentally striked me instead of the person I reported for nazism

I wouldn't describe this as a dev team, but perhaps a think tank. Also don't see the difference between this and submitting game suggestions.

I know I'm not gonna bother applying, I'm just too disillusioned.

Probably not. I mean there's very few people I'd consider competent enough for this and almost all of them checked out loooong ago. I'd do it, but then I'd get removed two weeks later for being well, me.

A teenage girl w/ an AK-47, but shouldn't be trusted w/ a gun in the 1st place...

1.Thx for the appreciation maan 2. Id recommend the same thing for some of your fellow associates *cough cough* *stares @ Change* Can confirm myself

Can confirm, Firwof is like that uncle who thinks 5G gives you cancer.

For clarity, are these people who simply help code new mechanics, or do they pitch ideas too?

Firwof, you're a great guy....usually. Face it, you aren't the sharpest tool in the shed. It isn't hard to figure that out. But to play devils advocate, ChangeUp lives in the state that technically isn't even a state and they think they are still part of the 13 colonies.... Ahem, "Commonwealth of Pennsylvania" You gotta be pretty silly in your head to live there.

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/the-burning-monk-1963/

Good luck Evernt, though it seems your chances are the same as the coal industries in 2020.

Mine is stuff that goes through my mind. Conspiracies, Halo, Memes, and Highlander.

TCM members who were yet unaware of what was going on in leadership channels :

see ya around. if you're ever looking for a place to troll, hit me up. could be a place like these very forums. oh and yes these changes are garbage lol

@ TCM allies... Escalate no balls

TCM was never one for basic intelligence.

Well that lasted long

Is he really still running with this? He's more proud than I thought.

Don't blame you one bit, have fun in CotL, I'll see you around.

It's important to take breaks from the forums, otherwise you'll end up endlessly smashing your head against edgy teenage contrarians and asinine game design decisions. The game barely functions anyway; the communities are the draw.

He will spam 1000 ships in his nation and permablockade the attackers

Can you leave this mechanic in place until you have an alternative ready to go? Otherwise, it'll do exactly what you say you don't want it to do should a war break out anywhere.

Hello everyone, I am the owner of this nation. My country is the Mongol Empire, and the leader of the Mongol Empire was Chinggis Khaan, which means ''universal ruler''. I know it might sound rascist, but if you knew your history, you'd know this is not discrimination to any group of people, thank you