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i like this idea it might be more realistic if farm production were just vastly lowered without the phosphate resource, rather than making it required, but i see how since it is required for everything else, you might want to just make it simpler by requiring it also, inflating the price of food significantly would mean those people who buy up all the food and horde it to sell high would make a !@#$ton of money off of the rising price, which i don't like for economic reasons. but overall, making food cost more would provide a growth-limiting factor, at the expense of making soldier upkeep significantly higher. i'm not sure if that's a good idea or not - perhaps this would need to be paired with lowering the food cost of soldiers, so as to not unbalance military

do you realize that there is a difference between anti-social personality disorder and full blown psychopathy? in your expert opinion, who else here do you think might be psychopaths? do you enjoy torturing animals? have you ever thought about kidnapping women from parking lots and torturing them instead? what is your favorite food? if not human flesh, why have you not tried it yet? do you admire jeffrey dahmer in any way, shape, or form? if not, why not?

thanks homie even though this announcement really isn't for you guys i just know there are a lot of commies who i don't know personally and if they're interested they can hmu rather than me going around PMing all the old comrades

>who take on the role of philanthropist was pretty clear in differentiating it from actual philanthropy...

i've received a lot of PMs from people since coming back to orbis in the last few months. many of them wanted to ask me about what SI was like, otherwise show appreciation for us, or to ask if i had any intention on reforming the socialist international. when i formed si i did so hoping that the workers of the world would lend their talents and personalities to the alliance to help us stake out a unified left on orbis. while we got a lot of good people, we never and won't ever attract the trust fund kids with lots of free time and perhaps careers that they can use to give us a near-professional organization. no, our demographic, like that of bernie sanders, is the young, the intelligent, the downtrodden, and the maligned. we attract people who have been chewed up and spit out; who are of modest means, who want a new world and suffer from the pains of capitalism in our daily lives knowingly and with great frustration. there were a few mistakes made last time around, and i intend to address those, should there be support for this idea. for one, we won't be using NSO's challenge system style of administration anymore. that was one of the biggest confusions and distractions for us, and it didn't do us a whole lot of good. also, at the time, i was going through a lot of psychological distress which made me difficult to work with internally and caused me to pull a bit of a stalin and take a bit too much control, to the detriment of those who were willing to put in the time and effort, and ultimately also to myself, as i ended up having to do just about everything in order for it to get done "right". while i have talked extensively about us being a stalinist alliance that used a non-worker-friendly style of government, this was mostly bullshit. while i did originally intend to just milk all the members for money and continually pile it into our upper tier, simply put, i'm just not mean enough to actually do that. those of you who were members back in the day will remember our extensive development programs that offered 6 free cities and hundreds of thousands of dollars to our lower tier every week to boost you up with the rest of us - and this was back when 1k score was the top tier. we paved the way by implementing a lot of programs that have since been stolen or copied by other alliances. we were a damn good alliance and i'm proud of our legacy of being hated and spit on by the people who we will burn in the revolution. workers of the world, nobody will ever lead us to socialism - if they could, we could be led right back out. this is the lesson we were taught not only by eugene debs, who i am paraphrasing, but by the whole of the soviet union, which eventually was dismantled piecemeal and sold out to the "communists" who ran it, one of whom was putin, a former kgb officer himself. if we want a good socialist alliance, we're going to have to work harder than everybody else, with less resources, time to spend, and ability to maneuver politically. we will by necessity need to be accommodating of some of society's most vulnerable people in order to be who we say we are. it will not be easy. but if you guys want it to happen, i'm willing to lend some of my free time, the name and graphics of the alliance, and also the trust that can be put in me as the first founder of SI, as well as a well-known radical leftist. this thread is just to gauge interest - post, PM me, whatever, i don't care. now that the socialist worker's front is gone, there is no large radical leftist alliance anymore. if you guys want there to be one, let me know, and we'll set up a channel and discuss this seriously. if not, oh well. i'm doing this on a whim, like most of the things i do. i'm really not even attached to the name socialist international - it might be better if we went with something like "orbisian commune" (those of you who remember the terran commune will giggle at this) or just "the worker's international". what we become is mainly up to who is actually willing to put their pixels where their mouth is - i don't intend to lead this. i don't have the time or the desire to be an alliance leader. but i am willing to help make this happen if there are some of you who actually do want to do just that.

george soros is a rich hungarian !@#$ who made millions by crashing the british economy there's no love for me here for people like that, who take on the role of philanthropist by stealing everyone's money and then giving a portion back to them

not really; racism and sexism have both been attacked by the establishment for monetary reasons, although you're correct that concentration on social issues distracts from monetary issues the left is correct that racism and sexism are wrong - that people disagree with us isn't our fault and doesn't make it a conspiracy the real struggles of all of the persons who get discrimination and bullshit from everybody for being different are not just "bourgeois"

remember that these are the people who were arguing against me earlier under the auspices of not being right-wingers who just want to see the nazis get to stay yeah tell me more about how you don't like OOC attacks

because the kids income doesn't mean shit if they're 16 lol i resurrected jodo didn't want to discourage honesty

it makes this way, way better if you guys are actually being serious lmao

never change

you literally just said "at least half of us aren't from NG" if you can't figure out that i was trying to be nice to you, there's nothing i can do

think about this for 24 hours and if you don't know what i'm gonna say to it, like my reply post and i will give you a real response why would you want to get !@#$ed over and lied to all the time by your actual friends i have friendships all over the web and they mean absolutely nothing as to whether or not i will raid the ever-loving shit out of them that's the game like yes i am playing it myself as an anarchist but i also literally created a stalinist alliance based on nso's ayn-rand-esque style of government you guys are no fun because it's all about accumulating years and years of resources and turning everything into a bunch of work rather than just going nuts and breaking shit and !@#$ing everyone over that's why i like arrgh so much. just play the damn game. some of the people in that alliance i absolutely hate (politically, ooc), but we still get on great because we're adults who show each other respect and can separate a game from real life that i unironically do not from an OOC standpoint want a bunch of !@#$ing nazis to use this game as an IRL nazi recruiting ground doesn't mean shit about that

i didn't say that it only had nazi connotations, and it is rare in other contexts that are actually viking-related GNU Image Manipulation Program

what if i have an issue with being called a troll for being right? good on you for changing the flag though, good luck

i am currently in vacation mode accumulating 10,000 dollars in successive amounts every day while ostensibly on vacation with my nation frozen is there any way you can pause this and just have it pick up after vacation ends? i feel like it's kinda gamey - if i were to log in every day and start with 50k, i could make over 500,000 cash while being in vacation mode. say i do it for a few months, i've made millions while being unable to be attacked. which isn't a bad thing - it's not a lot of money - but it is against what you intended for vacation mode and it seems like an oversight

but if you were to do a lot of the major ones in a simple way and then give us an other box you could do those neat religious demographics unless you just did it based on text but then you'd exclude christians from protestant, etc. pls i like statistics

when all else fails, shitpost i mean you could always just ignore me or reply to one of the others who agree with me lmao

actually, OP, right now you're going by "eisenhower", so you do go by something else that comment aside, while i think people who go by their nation names are weird, it's not a big deal but like what about this: what if i decided to get in here and name myself "Sentinel Optik" before you showed up, for whatever reason, and used that name. you'd still have to have to go by something else if i wouldn't trade you. imagine if you were, like, dicks, the ruler of karl, and i made a nation called dickstauffenheimserzehn, which was ruled by karl. you could force me to name myself dickstauffenheimserzehn when by all rights i should get to be karl

if none of you are going to actually be in different alliances i don't see much point in pretending otherwise most of these alliances literally kept their same names and treaty sets so basically this post of yours is like when leftists get accused of being racist for acknowledging that race exists as a social construct and that our reality is shaped by such

just doing my job, citizen

this is not cybernations, try again

except he literally DID, from his own mouth, use a flag that he didn't even know what it meant that's his own pro-him argument. i'd love to know where he got it from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younger_Futhark nothing you said here invalidates any of my arguments yeah and i'm a black white green purple elephant man not saying you're lying but saying i can't know if this is true or not so it's meaningless to me also, in the past, we've seen alliances such as this simply lie for these exact same reasons, so it isn't outrage, and saying that i'm doing this for political reasons has to be the biggest "lol. no, u" bullshit i've ever seen. you sure do know how to use a lot of words to say very little. do you ever post ANYTHING intelligent. ever?

so you're just arguing because you like to argue k, go away

too obvious