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#41

Gaming HQ / Re: Europa Universalis V confi...

Last post by Valmy - November 07, 2025, 06:27:33 PM

In EU5 you need to promote family values...and by values I mean members.

Why?

Because you get massive bonuses to the Crown Estate for doing so.

#42

Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by Jacob - November 07, 2025, 06:19:17 PM

... about to get exactly what they asked for, freedom from American hegemony. 

The argument is not necessarily that the state of the world post-US hegemony is desirable.

It is that there were (and still are) benefits to the US from having and exercising that hegemony, and that accepting and supporting that hegemony was part of the implicit (and sometimes explicit) bargain between the US and its allies.

If we are about to move into a post-US hegemony world we'll all have to figure out how to manage that. Ideally we maintain some of the mutually beneficial elements of our prior arrangements - even if they're renegotiated in new terms for a new reality - but the fact that the US is presently ruled by an utterly corrupt rapist who openly embraces moral evil and seems intent on undermining democracy makes it somewhat of a challenge to navigate for the rest of us.

#43

Off the Record / Re: Facebook Follies of Friend...

Last post by Darth Wagtaros - November 07, 2025, 06:08:39 PM

Powerful stuff. 
I don't understand a word of it though.

#44

Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by Jacob - November 07, 2025, 06:04:06 PM

But we didn't make the bed.  We had a say in making the bed that was larger than any other single state's say.

Agreed, though we probably disagree about the conclusions we derive from that.

My right to be pissy is not impacted.

Also agreed. Your rights are completely unaffected. Though, obviously, I have an opinion about the reasonableness and appropriateness of how you exercise those rights.

I also think the steam has kind of gone out of this fight, so I wish you a happy weekend

#45

Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by Razgovory - November 07, 2025, 06:03:59 PM

Was it: America bad?  Cause you've been on that one for 25 years now.

No, actually the opposite. Malthus used to accuse me of being too much of an American fanboi. Sadly that is no longer possible.

When was this?  1988?  You've been very unhappy with us for a very long time.  It gets tiresome.

He's been unhappy long enough to eventually be right unless you happen to think America is moving in the right direction, I suppose.

No, America is decline.  I think we are on the precipice of catastrophe.  All the our Anti-American friends are about to get exactly what they asked for, freedom from American hegemony.  

#46

Gaming HQ / Re: Europa Universalis V confi...

Last post by Josephus - November 07, 2025, 05:57:02 PM

In EU5 you need to promote family values...and by values I mean members.

Why?

#47

Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by Zoupa - November 07, 2025, 05:22:41 PM

It's a shame that you don't even consider what I'm saying. I'm not the first poster to point out this tendency of yours.

It's a shame you don't even consider the implicit judgement the most elite posters here have rendered about my good faith.  It's a shame you don't consider the possibility of your own biases and vanity clouding your judgement of who is excercising good faith.  It's a shame you haven't come to the understanding that moral authority is a privilege that has to be earned, not a birthright.

lol languish and elite don't belong in the same phrase

#48

Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by Grey Fox - November 07, 2025, 05:13:04 PM

It amazes me that the American education system forgot to teach Americans that they are the hegemon of this hegemony.

#49

Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by Admiral Yi - November 07, 2025, 05:04:57 PM

It's a shame that you don't even consider what I'm saying. I'm not the first poster to point out this tendency of yours.

It's a shame you don't even consider the implicit judgement the most elite posters here have rendered about my good faith.  It's a shame you don't consider the possibility of your own biases and vanity clouding your judgement of who is excercising good faith.  It's a shame you haven't come to the understanding that moral authority is a privilege that has to be earned, not a birthright.

#50

Off the Record / Re: Hungarian Politics

Last post by Valmy - November 07, 2025, 04:56:28 PM

This is our future if we don't crush Trumpism yesterday. We are all going to be supporting some incompetent right wing nut as the lesser of two evils. Ben Shapiro for president we will be saying, got to stop the 5th term of President Vance.