Spite
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Dioism isn't a joke you pleb
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Arabic tribal religions worshipped Allah and idols of varying power.
Islamic monotheism was brought to Adam when he was created. Over time as it became corrupted by different civilisations it became necessary to distinguish them and islam
Then I am a proud illiterate half mad polygamist goat farmer
all prophets farmed goats
Pretty sure Jesus was a carpenter. He may have made the odd goat pen though.
I'm also pretty sure your line of thought is complete bullshit.
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Islam is just a mixture of Judaism, Christianity and Arabic tribal religions, and Abu is just butthurt that his religion is just the jaded interpretation of an existing faith through the eyes of an illiterate half mad polygamistic goat herder.
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Dragonism is the official religion of meatshields everywhere.
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I'm Catholic, and you're an idiot.
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You really dont know what you're talking about
He was complementing your ability to beat big alliances, and you missed it.
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This has to be a troll account
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Arrgh do lead in the raid boards it's true
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You missed "women"
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Responding to Vietnam etc is a waste of time, I swear to god he is a multi account of someone sensible who just trolls in the most predictable way possible.
I don't think prostitution should be nationalised but I think it should be heavily regulated. All sex work has a high risk of exploitation and a poverty/entrapment element. It's also one of the most dangerous jobs out there. Partly the answer is better regulation and part of it is promoting unionism amongst sex workers.
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Mensa is much cooler than Hydra. Our underground base has a giant hot-tub, floating in a shark tank, floating in a pool of lava.
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Good riddance
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Rather than go to an error page, make the error appear on the page. Kind of like how when you fill in a form for a website, if you miss a required form it won't let you progress and you just get red text at the top telling you what you did wrong.
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I'm loathe to get pulled into an Israel thread but...
Firstly, Zionism is a broad church. Even when the first zionists in the Russian Empire started preaching, there were many sects. Religious zionists, socialist zionists, practical zionism amongst them. Some of these wished to establish a Jewish religious state, some a national state, some just wanted an autonomous region of the ottoman empire, some just wanted to live in Palestine whoever the ruler was.
Secondly, let's look at the context in which zionism was shaped. As already discussed, by 1918 there were already over 70k Jews in Palestine. Between 1918 and 1945 that population grew tenfold. 80% of those immigrants were poor Jews from eastern Europe, specifically Romania, Bulgaria, Poland, Russia and the Ukraine.
Over this period there was a gradual pivot from an imperial mindset to a national mindset globally. The imperial mindset allows the idea that many nations live under one empire. The national mindset focused on the idea of a single nation and a single state. This change squeezed out the Jews and other ethnic minority groups all across Europe.
The zionist mindset itself became more nationalist in response, fitting in with the zeitgeist of the time. More pressure was put on both Jewish leaders in Palestine and leaders in the West to recognise nation states.
When the middle east was carved up, religious and ethnic minorities were given special preference for nationhood. An Alawite state was proposed and rejected. Lebanon was created specifically to prevent Christian and Shia minorities being swamped by the Syrian Sunni majority. Israel was proposed as a state where the border was drawn around the areas with a Jewish majority population.
Although the Jews were relatively new to the region, this idea of a Jewish state which closely held to the areas only with Jewish majorities made sense. In 1948 the borders of Israel contained 92.4% Jews, the rest were Arabs of various religions.
The right to self determination of populations is something enshrined in international law. In 1948 the Palestine area had been under occupation by the British, and prior to that the Ottomans, for hundreds of years. When consideration was given to which areas should become which states, the will of the people living there was taken into account. A single state with a mixed Jewish and Arab population was something both the Jews and Arabs did not want. So a two state solution was created.
The Arabs then invaded Israel and caused deep distrust between the two groups which continues to this day.
Granted this is a simplified explanation, but it's pure bollocks to say that Israel exists as a result of a conspiracy. It exists as a result of a partition of a much wider area which took into account the national identity of the peoples who lived there.
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I guess rising from the ashes is going to be a trick you get to do a lot with a Rose MDP.
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The resources part is the only part I don't like. Markets might not be interesting for everyone, but why have them if you're going to screw them up like this? One of the best parts of P&W is that everything has to be produced by someone. Shortages during global wars etc are part of the game. Imagine some whale-like character buying tonnes of credits and avoiding those price spikes. It's pigdisgusting.
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Looks like Mensa needs a Minister of Whaling
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Unity is strength etc o7
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I'm not sure what your question is supposed to be asking, but the short answer is "both". You want to ultimately end up in a position with maximum commerce, and be producing at least some materials, depending on how many free slots you have.
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Good work thinking about how to improve things, especially for a new player. I think your proposals come from a good place, but let me pose the inevitable counter arguments:
1. The double strike is a strategy- that's why people tend to declare just before a turn change, to allow a 3+4 point attack (ground then air). Co-ordinated with others, this lets you wipe a nation out of the fight in minutes. Whilst this sucks if you're that nation, it's just part of war, and it's why you have an alliance and a treaty web- to counter the aggressor with a similar attack next turn to allow you to regain the upper hand.
2. Whilst this does suck, the average price varies wildly. One solution for the accidental misclick button would be to have a pop up box (or whatever it's called) that says something like "buy 100 food for $9000?" and you click yes or no. That way if you stupidly click yes twice you deserve to be gouged.
3. I don't see a problem with this, though I'm not sure why you'd want to bookmark specific nations.
4. Obviously some sort of flaw in the code...SHEEPY
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Should link it to player title. If you have 100% you can be "The Benevolent", if it's 0% you can "The Odious Shit-stain", and everything in between.
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Zionist settlers were living in Israel since the turn of the 20th century. If you actually read about the philosophical origins of zionism, which took root in the towns and cities of Moldova and the Ukraine, where pogroms and guild limited professions were common. Many Jews left to live in the ottoman empire because it was more tolerant than the Russian empire was toward Jews. They settled in Palestine for obvious reasons. By the time of the balfour declaration there were already 70k there, working the land.
In other words the zionist emigration to the Syrian coast started before the balfour declaration with its own motives.
Also anyone who says that the Israelis are basically nazis is either being deliberately emotive or unintentionally ignorant.
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I have avoided posting much on this because as an involved party it's easy to look butthurt whatever side you take.
My thoughts are that "submarining" or coming back from a war maintaining a low score and up-hitting is a very strong tactic and was very clever of Arrgh to do. It was particularly impressive they managed to maintain cohesion (well, the main group of heavy hitters anyway) despite being trampled.
The problem is when peace is declared and the nations don't rebuild. Raiding is one thing, but staying low and picking off weak accounts permanently is a bit of a mean thing to do. It's not new either- the 99% guys used to do it and it was annoying as hell then.
I'm all for pixel smashing, but not everyone can be a raider, and low accounts with high military need lots of farms just to maintain their armies. So it becomes a kind of parasitic relationship, and since the low score nations don't really have anything to lose, it's just not worth the effort for the big alliances to counter them.
When a position is making the majority of players unhappy AND it's impossible (or extremely unprofitable) to counter, then there is a problem with the game. I'm not sure this solution is the one I would have picked, but it'll certainly nerf the tactic.
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The system isn't broken, it just replies on activity and cooperation. Those are qualities you need to succeed and a team game however the mechanics are.
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Nationalising the Sex Industry
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It even says in the passage you quoted that this was a figure of speech. He wasn't literally a Shepherd.