Jerry LeRow
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Well... perfect snack for the GOP/TP.
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Progressivism 80
Socialism 37.5
Tenderness 40.625
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Well, missiles and nukes are only within our reach due to speed round, before speed round (normal mode) it took us months to reach daily incomes above 1 million. Changing the things now won't make it better afterwards, as post-speedround missiles and nukes will be more exclusive than they're now.
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National project name: EMP
Small description: ElectroMagnetic Pulse allows you to kill the electronics of the enemy's military units for X turns. Enemy has to repair his electromechanical divisions within the next X turns and can only attack you with non-electromechanical (=soldiers) units.
Project effect: New weapon
Resource cost: 2,500 aluminium, 5,000 steel
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Or you just increase the price for it as well as the percentage. RL Iron Dome is also expensive, 1 defensive missile costs 50,000$ to fire, maybe include that, but the fact is that it shoots down 90% of the dangerous rockets. Maybe name this one "missile defense system" and make a real Iron Dome for, let's say, 10-20 millions.
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Says the one with a flower in his signature
Hhmmm.... I personally would refer to myself as liberalist, I tend so smell... satisfying, and never smoked.
But I know TEst is an honorable alliance and will respect our DoN
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Nigeria
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Don't be a sad dinosaur.
The Atlas Confederacy for sure should be at least 5 spots higher.
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Approved. Next stop: Operation "Pop the bubble". Who's in?
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You know what would be funny? Actually using the location on the world map... e.g. no ground troops over oceans, requires ships, intercontinental vs intracontinental missiles...
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I have to admit, good ideas. Yes, the milscore to totalscore ratio should play a more important role and get a special meaning besides the totalscore.
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To be honest, Princess, everyone who takes a look at your bank transactions ( http://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=2661&display=bank ) will get the feeling that something's not correct here. According to that, let's take the 9th of july for example, you sent 55.5 MILLION $ to an alliance bank. No idea what alliance that was, it ceased to exist. Let me tell you something, I'm a financially very strong nation compared to the rest of nations around me, but 55 millions on 1 day? Impossible. Considering your GDP is half a billion lower than mine, I doubt you even had a large net revenue before your wars.
We all remember the times when you seemed to be on the right side and found out about abbas' method. My impression is though that the dark side now got you... come back into the sun
EDIT: looking at your war page, you fought about 60 wars on july 9th. On average got a little more than 1 million out of it, so the 55.5 millions mentioned above might seem plausible. Still, 60 wars, 0 defeats, 60 million wins... I always thought maximum of offensive wars is 3 at a time, now we got 12 in-game days per day, makes 36 wars imo... but please correct me.
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Don't limit the power of missiles
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Hm... I only know "lo" from spanish... weird.
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And your daily revenue is...?
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If that's the case, why do some countries have much higher gun murder rates than others?
Gun murder rates aren't simply derived from guns/1,000 persons or similar rates. Again, look at the process, why do people murder, what's their life before, what are their chances in the future, how will the police deal with them... some countries care about their people, like most european countries, in other countries, like america, people have to be far more self-reliant and the government doesn't meddle much in their life. May be an advantage sometimes, but in this case, fewer observation of people, fewer services to people,..., some people use guns to correct their state of life in which they wouldn't be if they'd be born in another nation.
The Second Amendment's purpose was to protect the states from abuses of the federal government, to ensure they kept the measure of autonomy they had retained when the Constitution was ratified. It has nothing to do with an individual's right to choose for himself how and when to be armed.
And that's, from what I often read, the National Guard. The problem with this is that the national guard's commander (governor) can be "overstepped" by the president, e.g. in arkansas under Eisenhower, where he withdrew the command of the democratic governor and gave orders to the national guard.
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Laws and regulations won't help much imo. The real bad guys will always get their weapons, whether it's the lone criminal who buys a gun on the black market or entire groups / countries who get supplied by guys like the lord of war.
What would help imo is pretty simple: Gov buys the guns from the people and destroys them. As a side-effect, the criminals selling guns will have less supply of guns, the prices will increase as the demand will stay the same. Eventually prices (on the black market) will skyrocket and guns will become too expensive for criminals.
Some laws that might help: Background checks, store the gun and ammo in different places & locked away, <-- this getting controlled by the police, no public carrying of guns and harsher penalties.
What is important is imo to think of the reason why a person gets a gun and eventually harms someone with it is to think of the person's life as a process, not just the actual "omg he's got a gun he's a bad guy"-impression. For some persons that's the last resort, they don't wanna use a gun but have probably a family and no other option to get money. And some people are just sick, but I wouldn't focus too much on them.
To the 2nd amendment: It allows private gun ownership, imo to defend private property and defend yourself against threats to your private life. If there are public threats you have the most powerful public army, under the command of the president, and you also have statewide public militias, the national guard, commanded by the governor. Most people imo can't separate private and public.
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Salzburg
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I do remember a video stating that the US' airforce is getting outdated or something like that
Well, Senate votes to keep A-10 Warthogs alive (I'd say retire them) and has less money for e.g. JSF F-35. So yes, it's partially getting outdated.
I believe that the USA should be much less involved on the world stage. We should drastically cut military spending, pull back our military projection massively, and find ways besides permanently occupying the middle east to keep the pipeline flowing. We should invest much more in systems for preventing/mitigating the damage of nuclear attacks using the extra funds we might have from cutting spending elsewhere.
Military spending doesn't need to affect world reputation and power imo. China has a far lower military budget, but is making friends not only by selling some weapons (e.g. DF*3 to Saudi Arabia), but also by funding countless projects that enhance the quality of life, e.g. in Africa (a China bank is second-largest funder of such projects after the World Bank).
In general, your military will be useless if you make enemies all around the world. I'm from europe, the vast majority of us hates you guys (I still like you, 'cause I don't forget what you've done for us in the last century) due to spying, TTIP/TTIS, NATO-expansion and making Russia aggressive, financial crisis,...
What I see now, especially in Germany, is that the leaders now use every incident (-> spying) for their own advantage, they shout it out to their people and the media and even expel CIA officers. Normally, such incidents were clarified in private room far away from the public, but this is obviously a very tempting tool to increase their own popularity at home.
The main mistake you americans make is that you, imo, overestimate yourself and underestimate others. You probably never thought breaking your promise to Russia, namely not expanding NATO into the east, would cause such a backlash from Russia and that Russia is so influential. For heaven's sake, yesterday I read in the St. Petersburg Times that Putin keeps the door for negotiations still open, is there any sane Senator who could grab the chance and normalize the relations with Russia again? Russia isn't that bad, compared to India or China, but you're about to lose Russia to China, India and Iran who will be the major powers in Asia.
Speaking of Asia; get out of there. Yes, make some friends, but forget regions like Arabia. I mean the Saudis get everything and sell everything, from everywhere to everywhere, they're not loyal to you. Maybe Qatar, it's often seen as the Geneva of the middle east, but forget about the rest. Instead, put some pressure on Ban Ki-Moon to allow a vote over Taiwan and help this small country.
Rather than Asia, go to Africa. China has been there for a long time, and you're about to lose it to China. Also the former colonial powers, headed by France, are re-discovering their interest and obligations in this continent (Mali, Lybia,... or Desertec), so not much is left for you.
Summing up, it's always easy to gain influence by buying more weapons and having a military empire (which you have atm). I can understand no one in Congress wants USA to lose it's #1 spot, and therefore I understand your FP is mostly realistic. But be friendlier to other nations, help them, and yes, move some billions of the defense budget into foreign aid funds. You'll make far more friends and far more sustainable friendships if you help African countries to build schools, hospitals, infrastructure, energy supply,...., whatever. You also have to realize you did a lot of damage, often covered and unnoticed by the world, to many countries, and you gotta overtake responsibility for that. An isolationist way how it's proclaimed by Rand Paul would be a disaster for America.
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I never thought a GPA member could reach a pollution index of 998
Shame on you
Don't take pills. Go out catch some air, bets medicine.
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Totally unrelated question, but: What is the "lo" supposed to mean?
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Sorry?
Don't cha look so innocent ;P
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The NS didn't use it, they abused it. As emperor666 says, the words have been used for centuries by many large, noble empires. Same with the symbols, but also the companies that helped them (e.g. Hugo Boss - uniforms, Mercedes - cars, Porsche - tanks,...); those things will endure, as long as we don't use them the same way the NS used them it's ok. But yes, there are some idiots in here who think that regime was something funny...
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