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Weak show. Put those hm and Rose wussies up against a REAL man. SOFT FAKE BIASED

From the desk of Pragglesan The bestest reporter ever Greetings, friends! On behalf of Habsburg News Hour I want to apologize to you! We knowingly clickbaited you friends! There is no easy ethical life hack. I had to get your attention because Exorock has made an unsettling discovery. You see. There are scammers in our midst! Hailing from the depths of egypt (for my american friends, this is egypt:) In egypt, they developed a system friends. It's called a pyramid! And now there are scammers in our midst friends! Scammers who are tricking unsuspecting new players into... ohhh I can't stand for this friends! Habsburg News Hour raises the alarm! Red flags! Outrage friends! I will start at the beginning! You see friends, recently we received the following testimony from an anonymous source! You see friend. This prompted us to do research! You see friends. Rose whales grow lots! And rose newbies less lots! Now rose newbies put half their money in the bank as an intry fee! Now friends. Eyes on the ball! Here is a link! Scour! https://politicsandwar.com/alliance/id=790 Friends, consider the Rose mission statement: Rose members contribute value to the alliance. Economic value that serves a higher purpose. This contribution is centralized. In the whale hoards! And the lowest levels fo this pyramid sacrifices for one another- the whale! I see you are not yet convinced friends. We have looked at the top rose nations and cross-calculate check algorithm'd it against our extensive habsburg royal marriage governance database of external alliances for union purposes (trademark leo'd). Through these advanced measures, we ended with the following list: Friends! Rose is a pyramid scheme! We as a community must come to action. We must boycott before more innocents fall victim to these scam artists! Exorock calls on all Rose victims to come forward and share their stories of economic abuse. Habsburg News Hour will give you your voice back. And together we may make a legal fist! For those friends among us who are old and slower in understanding (Greetings, Ronny friend!) I have summarized our reveal in this handy schematic. Please distribute it as you see fit in order to spread awareness! Ta!

Objection! That is not a duck!

iQ DiD nOtHiNg WrOnG Wash your mouth.

I wouldn't have it any way, friend ronny. One day I will join the whale road show. One day.

Cheeky. Please make sure to incorporate certain secret agreements that didn't exist but then suddenly did in your elaboration on that implication.

I appreciated and liked old CN npo tbh. They were a fun element to add to the political landscape. Even early game NPO while tiring wasn't really too problematic. Late NPO/BK though just went off the rails.

Sounds like a good matchup to me. I'm in.

Slowly, Partisan erected himself from a gloomy corner. He had observed the squabbling newgen leaders long enough. Now was the time. With a cataclysmic BANG, he whacked his epeen on their table and stared the men coldly in the eyes. They dare not measure. Silently, he zipped himself back up and strolled back to the shadows, leaving an uncomfortable, awe-struck room in his wake.

Regular (read daily) dms to our gov and/or myself on this subject sorta force a clarification. Don't worry. Adam remains the guy with the responsibilities.

Greetings friends, Partisan here rising from his retired chair in protest one more time. Please pause your frothing and foaming to listen to this heartfelt and apparently bloody necessary clarification. Take notes, because i'm going to state this one last time, and will simply begin dishing out personal discord blocks as well as blanket bans in the t$ servers to anyone who continues bothering myself, t$ gov or t$ members moving forward. Extremism -of all kinds- is morally reprehensible due to its inherent intertwinement with intolerance; be it race, religion, ideology or anything I might miss. Within its own (IC) realms, t$ has never stood for either extremism or intolerance. That is a double-edged sword, as it comes in many forms. We have over the years been meticulous about balancing core principles surrounding freedom of speech with guarding the moral boundaries of our community. Simultaneously we have been steadfast in our -OOC- denouncement of any and all behavior which may harm, in an OOC manner, the health, happiness or security of individuals both within and outside our alliance. That is where our responsibility ends, and the responsibility of moderation -both within your respective communities and on a broader level, PW- begins. We keep our community clean, and we expect you to keep yours clean. If a community radicalizes in !@#$ation, it is up to moderation to police that. Where OOC matters are concerned, attempts to self-cleans geopolitically are futile, because the burning of pixels has no impact on the state of mind of a shitty person out for toxicity. Moreover, such individuals *thrive* on the polarization it causes, and the cycle of negativity it perpetuates. All attention is good attention, after all. And so, we leave these things in the hands of admin and his staff. The second half of 2020 and first quarter of 2021 have been marked by an increasingly forceful and increasingly off-putting demand for t$ to conform to what we view as little more than mob mentality- induced symbolism. We have over the past months been ostracized by elements within the PW community for our supposed faillure to "do something about KT", and our unwillingness to engage in futile quasi-moralist activism in the form of ingame action against reprehensible elements whom we prefer to simply not work with has been marked as sympathizing with said elements. Despite consistent clarifications, the latest of which was made as recent as last week, we continue to receive regular dms from various individuals questioning our position. To all of you, I state -in principle on behalf of myself, and of any who may identify with my viewpoints-: Get a fricking grip. Our denouncement of these people and our unwillingness to assist them in any way shape or form is all the responsibility we have to this community. PW is intended to be a lighthearted escape from the actual *real* world for which I reserve my OOC outrage, political engagement and activism. Through your intolerance for even the mildest deviations in viewpoints from your self-proclaimed morally superior crusade against what is in essence a minor subgroup of sycophants and basement trolls surrounded by some edgelords and garden variety trolls, you are contributing to the polarization of a whole gaming community (read: PW) of moderates trying to simply play a game into two radicalized OOC "sides". By refusing to allow the middle to exist, you are forcing radicalization, not necessarily to your favor. That is a broad observation on these dynamics; not on t$ itself. We refuse to participate in your toxicity, and given the utter failure of some of you to leave us, as a community, be, a policy of instant blocks and bans is now in place. Leave us be. Be better, and just fricking play the game. - Parti out

Classic ronny! Making something that is all about partisan stroking himself, about quack. Classic! I reject your truth

@rose @hm @oasis/swamp look guys, proof kt wasn't part of quack as many of you claimed after all. I imagine you must all be shocked to tears and apologetic for your false accusations. Fear not! If you apologise I will forgive you!

Friends! This imposter is not an actual Pirate! He is FAKING! He's not even violent, as a real pirate would be! That's how you see the FAKES! Just earlier he was flying a FAKE syndicate flag! Shame! Shame!

This is not a syndicate member people. He's FAKE. Not even rich. Like real syndicate associates are. With his FAKE forum pip. Shame! Shame!

I'm good, thanks! Hope you are as well. I ddo agree with what you're saying. The distinction is generally hard to make unless you know someone more intimately, and you simply can't know 1000 people that well. One of the persons that approached me at the time imo did so particularly admirably. he didn't do anything extraordinary. He simply approached me and asked, respectfully whether I knew and whether it was deliberate. Once I clarified, he thanked me for hearing him out and we went our ways. That was the convo which prompted me to shoot aku a msg to clear it up. His approach was admirable due to its contrast with how (combative) many approach these more polarized and sensitive subjects. I guess that what I'm advocating is moderation. On both sides. Most people mean well and are more than anything, too stuck in their own bubble and their own life to seek out ooc conflict. It'd be great if some of the more zealous among us could be more mindful of that. On the other side, making a conscious effort to not make people uncomfortable over their identity unnecessarily, particularly when it doesn't cost you a thing is really a bare minimum. When you know something bugs someone, continuing deliberately to make that person miserable for shits and giggles isn't funny. ... It's pathetic.

No. Don't twist my words please. I speaking on ignorance or forgetfulness. "slipping in a quick joke" doesn't fall under making an effort to respect different persons for who they are.

Hi a a, ii understand there's frustration over some people deliberately bothering aku with transphobic shit. I wholeheartedly denounce that and am sorry aku has had to deal with that. If any such stuff comes from ts camp please do dm me logs and I'll have a word. I also want to share a bit of perspective and hopefully nuance. I have twice been dmed by third parties(not aku) aboutme apparently being transphobic. Whether there was discussion resulting in that conclusion somewhere or whether it was just inferred from my owf posts, I don't know. I figure the latter. In some owf argument, at the time, aku had apparently corrected with a *she in a post. Wrapped up in the ingame argument, I read over it and assumed it was a correction about something ingame (I.e. A who said what). ask I was surprised to get a dm from a third party about it. That was the first time I was made aware of her gender change. I promptly dmed aku to let her know it was unintended and that I'd try to be mindful in the future. The second time was a shorter time ago. Again, somewhere in a discussion I'd used he instead of she. There was no cause or intention behind it; it was a slip up. So I fairly quickly got told I'm transphobic. The thing is... I really don't concern myself with ooc unless it's rubbed in my face. Personally - and I'm certain this can be extrapolated to other experiences-I'm just a dude playing a game. I'm not looking for ooc trouble, I've got plenty on my mind irl and I don't track everything that goes on irl with people I talk to, let alone people I don't talk to. I try to make an effort to be chill about stuff like this. In terms of gender I try to defer to whatever is asked because it doesn't concern or hurt me to try. But at the same time I'm human and both probe to habit and error. That's something I can't entirely erase, even if I try. I hope that does not make me transphobic, and I hope that in that case, we can perhaps try to be a bit milder about the distinction on what's deliberate offense and what isn't.

C O N S O L I D A T E D edit: I just read the treaty and jfc vero

By all means, denounce them too. I'm with you lol.

I've stated multiple times that I believe everyone in those logs looks despicable. Not sure why you're bringing this up.

Since I'm being accused of pushing ooc for ic gain here, let me step out of character and set the record straight for the peanut gallery one time. In the 6 years I've played pw, I've been a controversial character and leader for tS. During that period I've seen a lot of shit hurled my way, ranging from accusations of pedophilia and rape being anonymously dmed to my circles, to accusations of me politicising the death of a ts member, to fascism/naziism accusations and so on, and so forth. Any slightly controversial or major leader will have had to deal with it. And everyone deals with it in their own way. For my part, I deliberately play a whack character in the game to allow for dissociation. Both for myself, and for those playing with or against me. I shrug shit off whenever it's ic, and I speak up or step away when it's ooc. Sometimes, that's not enough. When the aku stuff got on our radar, it wasnt fun to deal with. When a few months later (now) the logs dropped, that was a straw. Im not going okay with being linked to naziism ooc by someone who was projecting her own vile ideology onto me. Even after the logs dropped, aku doubled down in RON. So I stepped out of character and called it out. In doing so I explicitly made clear I don't give a shit about the ic ramifications this ordeal has. That's cotl business, not me business. Unfortunately, some seem convinced that it's some grand manipulative ic design of mine. I'm retired for a reason. Frankly, the fa scene has lost some of its appeal to me over the past 2 years. Stuff like this factor's into that. My stance on ic/ooc has been clear for a long time: there is a line. I'm quick to denounce it when it's crossed egregriously, both ways. And beyond that I mind my business where ooc is concerned, opting to simply play a character in an online sim. Kev, you were blocked because I genuinely don't want to interact with you anymore on an ooc level after your behavior last night and your failure to understand or acknowledge that. Please respect my wishes.

Can't say I care about whether or not aku stays in cotl or cotl gov. She and by extension cotl have left an incredibly sour taste. Ingame actions or lack thereof won't alter that.

The purpose of negotiations is to find a settlement that's agreeable to both parties. We found one, and as far as I'm aware the negotiations were a (positively) mild mannered affair. I'm merely stating that there were parties in both coalitions pushing for increased degrees of nap, albeit in different manners. Not sure what your comment is supposed to rebuke. That being said, my leash has been pulled by powers up above. I bid you adieu friend.

Stop signing secret treaties and dogpiling with them, and i'll consider not pushing for a NAP to give my members a reprieve from your bullshit. Is what I would have told you if I still led. Regarding the bolded part: I'm keenly aware quack is not doing any such thing. If it's not us... yeah... Thanks for confirming yet again why I mistrust the lot of you. lastly, you know why we pushed for a NAP. We did not however push for or agree to a gamewide NAP. It was Swamp/Oasis/HM/TCW's decision to NAP eachother as a high-give for fricking us. Or something.