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Big Brother

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  1. I was thinking Opus Dayum! Hey, when you seize the means of production, you're gonna manufacture some drama. Anyway, congratulations to our ally NPO and the rest of their new bloc mates. I hope your new bloc serves you well.
  2. I mean, I do. I find having to stay up until 2 am when I have work or the class in the morning to be far more problematic than having to wait a few minutes. I haven't really experienced any problems with the snore screen at all but I guess that could be because my connection might be better than that of others. You're right that there's no difference from a programming point of view, only from a gameplay point of view, for obvious reasons. But hey, I can see your mind it set on this so I'll just quietly be on my way. Good luck with getting your changes through.
  3. Apparently, it depends on who you ask. My money is on the people who posted fake logs, presenting them as real, apparently while suspecting that they were fake, without actually telling anyone they thought the leaks were fake until that fact had been confirmed in later posts.
  4. Well, if the goal is to give people a chance to fight on equal grounds his solution might work too. He just went in the opposite direction of you. Instead of evening out the playing field by prioritizing active nations to reduce the wait he's suggesting you increase the wait for everyone, which could also serve as a kind of equalizer. However, while I do think your solution might help it seems like a losing cause. The fact that update is in the middle of the night or extremely early in the morning for a lot of players puts them at a disadvantage as well and I don't see how cutting down the waiting period at update would help that.
  5. Congratulations on the treaty! It's always good to see comrades working together.
  6. Huh. I guess we shouldn't be surprised that you're the kind of person that manages to confuse absolute trash with "culture".
  7. I don't know man, I read your post and I'm still waiting for you to provide a suggestion that's actually funny.
  8. The experiences are different yes, but no one is promoting white guilt. Supporting accountability and promoting learning about the transatlantic slave trade doesn't mean that you or anyone else has to feel guilty. However, if you do read about the slave trade and don't feel a single shred of sympathy for the people who experienced the terrible things that were done to them, there's probably something wrong with you and I think the same can be said for many things European colonial powers did. It's not really about admitting or assigning guilt as much as it is about acknowledging that part of history to ensure that we don't stray anywhere close to that again. Yeah, you're right about all that and that's why the word for slave comes from the word slav: Yeah, I get what you're saying. While I understand why they might see Communism that way, I would still argue it's an erroneous perception because the nature of Communism is so widely different from the kind of politics the USSR actually practiced. At the same time, the USSR was supposed to be the main Communist political entity in the world, had the hammer and sickle on the flag, used a lot of Communist rhetoric to win people over and so on, so it's no wonder people kind of equated Communism to whatever the USSR did even though that wasn't the case at all. Haha yeah, PragerU is basically just propaganda, paid for by the folks who don't want people to have access to free or more affordable education and healthcare and who don't want to pay for retirement, paid leave or vacations for workers because it means they'll make less money. Because you know, profits are what matter in this world, not people. Honestly, if one were to believe the opposite of everything presented in any given PragerU video, you'd probably be more right than if you just went along with whatever twisted narratives they're selling. And hey, I have my own history essay to write. Mine's about the dissolution of Austria-Hungary. Would love to hear what yours is about sometime.
  9. Ah yeah, you're right about all that and I see what you're saying now. Estonians and people in other Baltic countries might very well perceive Communism as being imperialist without that being something the ideology is supposed to propagate. Sorry about that. Guess I'm just used to people writing stuff about Communism that is just flat out wrong.
  10. That hardly even begins to describe what Communism is. No matter how you look at it I don't see how you can reduce the entire ideology, which was initially and primarily based on the writings of Germans, to be merely some form of Russian imperialism. Some people might use Communism as an excuse to pursue their imperialist ambitions but that doesn't mean the ideology of Communism itself is actually imperialist, it just means that people lie and deceive in order to achieve their goals. Also, Estonians have good reason to hate a bunch of people:
  11. Haha, I guess the sarcasm in your post was kind of drowned out by the high and very obvious level of sarcasm in Onion's post ?
  12. I'm not sure how you read Onion's post and still don't know why that is the case. That choice usually isn't a coincidence.
  13. Well, there is but there's only a few of them and they have godlike powers. I think it might be more suitable as a name for the board members of the bank rather than the people who own shares in it, but that's just me.
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