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written Monday, April 17 2006 15:22
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quote:  MagmaDragoon is Antarctica. While the US has obviously not invaded Antarctica, it has been a principal agent in molesting its political landscape. Incomprehensibly, it enforces the international ban on Antarctican land claims more or less single-handed - and reserves the right to claim any land it pleases on the austral continent. Posts: 794 | Registered: Tuesday, October 11 2005 07:00 |
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written Monday, April 17 2006 15:19
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quote:  Inthrall is Chile, land of Salvador Allende and Augusto Pinochet. It is in the latter we find our interest: this delightful free-marketeering tyrant was installed by forces armed and trained by the CIA for the explicit purpose of removing the elected Socialist president of Chile. What did Allende and thousands of victims of Pinochet die for? The nationalization of the American-run Chilean copper mines - a move so popular even Pinochet would not reverse it. Posts: 794 | Registered: Tuesday, October 11 2005 07:00 |
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written Sunday, April 16 2006 22:14
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 Jeff Vogel is honorably extended The Civil Rights Movement, a major moral crisis for 20th-century America. While the Civil Rights Movement generally achieved its original objectives with the Civil Rights Act - achieving effective ability to participate in national politics - it was only after decades of miserable and sometimes bloody struggle that this was attained. Furthermore, due to the strategic decision by segregationists to couch themselves in the rhetoric of civil liberties - states'-rights, local traditions, small government, and so on - the CRM has lead to an unfortunate lasting legacy that, for a large spectrum of local political thought, pigeonholes the American ideal of responsible government into inaction in the face of injustice. The scars of the CRM are still apparent in American politics; the American right, standing as it does on the shoulders of segregationists and their children, has grown unfortunately comfortable with American racists - although this trend has, thankfully, waned somewhat during the Bush administration. [ Sunday, April 16, 2006 22:16: Message edited by: The Worst Man Ever ] Posts: 794 | Registered: Tuesday, October 11 2005 07:00 |
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written Sunday, April 16 2006 22:02
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 Dolphin is Congo/Kinshasa, one of those countries any merciful God has clearly forgotten. Upon escaping from the repression of the Belgians, a native government was very briefly formed by Patrice Lumumba, who was believed to be too socialist and independent-minded for the US to properly manipulate. As the Congo held a large and strategically important area of territory, the CIA naturally sprung into action, orchestrating the murder of Lumumba and the rise to power of Mobutu Sese Seko, one of Africa's more memorable psychopaths. In the more recent conflict - in the western parts of what was then Zaire - the United States memorably refused to involve itself, effectively crippling UN response and horrendously aggravating a murderous, three-way guerilla war - the second-bloodiest war in human history, and a major example of ethnic cleansing post-Holocaust. [ Sunday, April 16, 2006 22:39: Message edited by: The Worst Man Ever ] Posts: 794 | Registered: Tuesday, October 11 2005 07:00 |
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written Sunday, April 16 2006 21:54
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 Croikle is Venezuela. Where the Cuban revolution fizzled as a source of effective opposition to US policy, the 'Bolivarian revolution' of Venezuela has gained a lot of steam of late - proving the only serious thorn in the side of the Washington Consensus in the western hemisphere. Despite US efforts to remove him from power, democratically-elected and astoundingly popular caudillo Hugo Chavez retains power, and seems to be becoming a hero to the dispossessed of Latin America. The election of a similar president in Bolivia and the recent successes of Obregon in Mexico are generally taken alongside a sweeping trend of anti-Americanism in the Americas pursued through electoral means. In terms of actual conflict, Venezuela has seen its share - a corporate coup (generally believed to be US-backed) around the turn of the century briefly ousted Chavez, but a wave of popular support returned him to office. Hard-right elements of the US government have vocally supported the forcible removal of Chavez's government (including, memorably, Pat Robertson). A time-traveller from 2008 reporting war with Venezuela would not be met with surprise by any well-informed American. [ Sunday, April 16, 2006 22:19: Message edited by: The Worst Man Ever ] Posts: 794 | Registered: Tuesday, October 11 2005 07:00 |
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written Sunday, April 16 2006 21:47
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 Salmon is China. The US has historically had a great deal of interest in influence in China; various treaties of cooperation were signed in the 19th century, and throughout the same period the United States leeched a good portion of China's middle-class, to the benefit of its railroading and gold-mining industry, along with California in general (although you wouldn't have known it to hear them talk). In the 20th century, the US pushed its Open Door Policy consistently - and unsuccessfully - as a response to the division of China into 'spheres of influence', which generally left it out. Participation in the international response to the Boxer Rebellion increased US influence in China. The defeat of the Guomindang by Communist forces in 1949 sent the United States into a panic; many inexplicably blamed the US government for Mao's success in China, leading to a brief but memorable Red scare - which we remember, of course, because it affected beloved Hollywood. China currently holds a stake in a large portion of the US's foreign debt, manufactures many of the non-durable goods sold in the United States, and is a consistent rival for the US on the world stage. With a billion people and an industrializing economy for which the sky seems to be the limit, the totalitarian People's Republic seems to be to the US what it was to Britain - bigger, faster, and stronger. Posts: 794 | Registered: Tuesday, October 11 2005 07:00 |
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written Sunday, April 16 2006 21:38
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 Thuryl is Canada, the United States's pretty cousin. Besides the fictional conflicts portrayed by Harry Turtledove in his Timeline-181 works, and the more interesting John Candy vehicle Canadian Bacon, the US has not actually fought any war directly with Canada; however, Canada proved an understandably tempting, annexable morsel throughout the 19th century. Several instances of limited rebellion against British authority, along with a predilection for Southerner-angering acceptance of black refugees before the Civil War, very nearly lead to annexation of Canada by the United States. The US states of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, and Alaska exist mostly out of a stated fear of the British aggrandizement of Canada, and several asinine territorial disputes between the US and Canada persist to this day. [ Sunday, April 16, 2006 22:37: Message edited by: The Worst Man Ever ] Posts: 794 | Registered: Tuesday, October 11 2005 07:00 |
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written Sunday, April 16 2006 21:34
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 Tyranicus is Iran, where a US-backed monarch was overthrown by a fundamentalist revolution - that that monarch's brutal but ineffective police force, with US support, failed to put a stop to. The lessons learned there were applied by the US and its clients in repressing other revolutionary action, Islamic or otherwise, throughout the world. And God willing, that's the end of the story on Iran - but we've got two years left, so I'm not holding my breath on that one. Posts: 794 | Registered: Tuesday, October 11 2005 07:00 |
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written Sunday, April 16 2006 21:14
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 Ephesos is Guatemala, wherein, with US backing - itself obtained due to lobbying of United Fruit Company of Boston - a jumped-up platoon of reactionaries roving about the outskirts of the country managed to cause such a national panic as to lead to a coup and a bloody repression of then-ascendant leftist elements. The intelligence action in the country would become the prototype for CIA meddling throughout the Cold War, although the specific strategy pursued in Guatemala would soon meet with miserable failure in Cuba. Posts: 794 | Registered: Tuesday, October 11 2005 07:00 |
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written Sunday, April 16 2006 21:10
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 TM is naturally The Pacific Theater of the Second World War, wherein the United States was drawn haplessly into war with - and eventually dismantled - one of the most vicious and bloody-minded empires the world has ever known. While the US certainly engaged in its share of questionable behavior before, during, and after this conflict (e.g. embargos and tarriffs that aggravated Japanese expansion; various firebombings; the atomic bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima; unneccessary and demoralizing rationing in the post-war years), the Pacific War is perhaps the least morally ambiguous conflict in American history. [ Sunday, April 16, 2006 21:10: Message edited by: The Worst Man Ever ] Posts: 794 | Registered: Tuesday, October 11 2005 07:00 |
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written Sunday, April 16 2006 21:06
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 Stew Boy is The Spanish-American War, wherein the United States viciously assaulted a moribund empire so as to steal its few remaining island possessions. The United States gained Cuba, Puerto Rico, and (technically - although that's a story for another day) the Phillippines; as a consequence, the US's prestige on the world stage rose tremendously, and this war is generally recognized as the first signs of the then-nascent superpower we all know and love. Posts: 794 | Registered: Tuesday, October 11 2005 07:00 |
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written Sunday, April 16 2006 20:59
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 FBM is The Quasi War, a conflict pursued by John Adams against the only other republic on Earth over the matter of a bribe. Despite the name, the Quasi War was bloodier by proportionate numbers than the first Iraq war. Inexplicably, John Adams's son was elected President - but, thankfully, found no pretense to continue his father's fight. [ Sunday, April 16, 2006 21:00: Message edited by: The Worst Man Ever ] Posts: 794 | Registered: Tuesday, October 11 2005 07:00 |
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written Sunday, April 16 2006 20:56
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 stranger is The Mexican-American War, a conflict deliberately provoked by American hawks in 1846; at war's end, the United States annexed a third of its current territory - and half of Mexico's. Almost half of Americans now live in areas ceded by Mexico under duress. The war was most vigorously pursued, of course, by Southern planters, who planned to use the land thereby acquired for slavery (and who were incensed by Mexico's decision to outlaw it within its borders). Posts: 794 | Registered: Tuesday, October 11 2005 07:00 |
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written Sunday, April 16 2006 20:50
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Yeah, a few years ago. Anyway. ---- Imban is The Indian Wars, a loosely-defined period of brutal genocide on which the westward expansion of the United States depended, generally considered to range from the early conflicts of the 19th century to the Wounded Knee Massacre in 1890. [ Sunday, April 16, 2006 20:52: Message edited by: The Worst Man Ever ] Posts: 794 | Registered: Tuesday, October 11 2005 07:00 |
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written Sunday, April 16 2006 20:45
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Post here for yours! Posts: 794 | Registered: Tuesday, October 11 2005 07:00 |
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written Sunday, April 16 2006 15:04
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I'm a pretty bad Christian, but hey, any excuse for eggs and chocolate. Posts: 794 | Registered: Tuesday, October 11 2005 07:00 |
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written Saturday, April 15 2006 21:14
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This test is terribly designed. You Are A: Chaotic Good Elf Barbarian Alignment: Chaotic Good characters are independent types with a strong belief in the value of goodness. They have little use for governments and other forces of order, and will generally do their own things, without heed to such groups. Race: Elves are the eldest of all races, although they are generally a bit smaller than humans. They are generally well-cultured, artistic, easy-going, and because of their long lives, unconcerned with day-to-day activities that other races frequently concern themselves with. Elves are, effectively, immortal, although they can be killed. After a thousand years or so, they simply pass on to the next plane of existance. Primary Class: Barbarians live outside the 'civilized' They have tribal goverments, and are often nomads. What they may lack in refinement is balanced by there strength of individual character and ability to survive. Secondary Class: Detailed Results: Alignment: Law and Chaos: Law ----- X (1) Neutral - (0) Chaos --- XXXXXXXXX (9) Good and Evil: Good ---- XXXXXX (6) Neutral - (-1) Evil ---- (-3) Race: Human ---- XXXXXX (6) Half-Elf - XXXXXXX (7) Elf ------ XXXXXXXXXX (10) Gnome ---- XX (2) Halfling - XXXXXXXX (8) Dwarf ---- (-1) Half-Orc - XXXXXX (6) Class: Fighter -- XXXXXXXXXXX (11) Barbarian -XXXXXXXXXXXXX (13) Ranger --- XXXXXX (6) Monk ----- XXXXX (5) Paladin -- XXXXXXXXXXX (11) Cleric --- XXXXXXXXX (9) Mage ----- (-1) Druid ---- XXXXXX (6) Thief ---- (-7) Bard ----- XXXXXXXXX (9) Posts: 794 | Registered: Tuesday, October 11 2005 07:00 |
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written Saturday, April 15 2006 17:02
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99 cents, so 99¢. 100 dollars, but $100. [ Saturday, April 15, 2006 17:03: Message edited by: The Worst Man Ever ] Posts: 794 | Registered: Tuesday, October 11 2005 07:00 |
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written Saturday, April 15 2006 15:35
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Krizsan Province. The realization has gradually dawned on the people of the province that there's a war on - and by the look of things, it's clearly over. The Hunter army is mobilizing; the Alliance, less the 500 men that mutinied a week ago, barely seems capable of defending themselves against the force already assembled outside Krizsan - and the element of the army from west of the Krizsan River haven't even gotten there yet. ... Krizsan River - South Crossing. A force of around eight hundred men, most on horseback, make their way to the riverbank, neatly drilled into rows and files. There is an unusual amount of river commerce today, but besides that, the day seems fairly normal. General Karadesa leads the first platoon over the river. Then there is a burst of fire and the screams of horses of men as the Guild ships, red flags suddenly at the hoist, open fire on the bridge. ... Krizsan River - North Ford. The demoralized survivors of a two-day series of shellings make their way into the marshy wood marking the northernmost ford of the Krizsan River. They're three days late, and missing the ranking officer in the Hunter army - but they'll be more than sufficient to retake Krizsan and put down the traitor McCallister. The morale of the disorganized cavalry finally breaks when a great horn sounds from the forest, and the same red flags as they saw at Kreman Bridge peek through the trees. ... Krizsan. The impatient Hunter army, having heard nothing from their compatriots in the west for almost a week, have finally had enough of waiting for the siege. A great bellow rises through the crowd as the reactionary forces charge at gaps in the city walls. Behind those gaps they find archers arrayed in triple files behind lines of heavily armed and armored city guards, and twisted, tangled barricades. Dozens fall within moments. The voice of McCallister from the guard tower - unaccompanied by a vision of his form - is commanding and full of lordly conviction. "Submit, wretches! By the force of our arms know that the compelling strength of our fallen sovereign is on our side!" The repeated call eventually grows to be too much. Lieutenant Morgan finally orders a retreat to Silvar, and the Hunters withdraw from Krizsan. ... Colchis. Lieutenant Morgan - a pudgy, red-haired man of around forty - drums his fingers on the table of the courthouse from which he had conducted the last defenses of the Hunter city. Silvar, they had found, capitulated to the Alliance a day before the assault on Krizsan; Colchis remained the last loyal bastion. As soon as Morgan's men arrived, that loyalty was put to an immediate and thorough test. Guild ships - those hateful ships that had cost the Hunters so much - shelled the life out of its meager port, day and night, as McCallister's forces finished off Hunter resistance west of the Candran; morale plummeted, but was roused - briefly - for a last defense against the Alliance invasion. Two hours ago, Morgan had raised the white flag. To do otherwise would have been suicide, and he could not bring himself to order his men to die for a man a month dead. McCallister was supposed to arrive himself to receive the Hunter surrender. ... Colchis Town Square. McCallister, surrounded by his loyal troops and the battered, tired, and weaponless men of the Hunters, stands on a hastily-constructed podium, and removes his iron helmet, revealing to the assembled forces his face. He is a lean man - rawboned, with straight and tussled hair black as night, and a pair of piercing green eyes. His nose is long and sharp, and he wears a thick, close-clipped moustache; his angular jaw rests heavy on a modest ruff emerging from his high gorget. He opens his mouth to speak. "We men of the Alliance stand assembled at the end of history as mankind has known it. Where our forefathers bent craven before the demands of superstition, we have cast down our dead idols and stood tall in the light of reason. We that stand here are the greatest men ever born - for we are governed in ignorance neither by mages or kings, but follow our justly great in glorious understanding. Let superstition be destroyed; let our wise spread the glory of the new science to every corner of the world, and let the Enlightenment prevail." McCallister enters Colchis courthouse, his lifeguards closing its thick wooden door to the great cheers. Lieutenant Morgan kneels. ... Posts: 794 | Registered: Tuesday, October 11 2005 07:00 |
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written Thursday, April 13 2006 16:52
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Mmm, leavened bread: delicious pizza and sandwiches. Once more, point gentiles. Posts: 794 | Registered: Tuesday, October 11 2005 07:00 |
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written Sunday, April 9 2006 22:40
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quote:I can speak many more, and far more lewdly. ;) [ Sunday, April 09, 2006 22:41: Message edited by: The Worst Man Ever ] Posts: 794 | Registered: Tuesday, October 11 2005 07:00 |
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written Sunday, April 9 2006 21:30
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I despair of this conversation. New topic: YTMNDs. http://awesomewolfen.ytmnd.com/ Posts: 794 | Registered: Tuesday, October 11 2005 07:00 |
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written Sunday, April 9 2006 17:16
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Satanists are generally the most 'productive' people, or at least the most apparently 'productive'. Blatant disdain for the Golden Rule only works if you're rich and powerful. Posts: 794 | Registered: Tuesday, October 11 2005 07:00 |
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written Sunday, April 9 2006 12:21
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Alliance for Science and Education - McCallister Distinct from the ASE of Lyonard, in a sense; where Lyonard acts as a shadowy manipulator, controlling the day-to-day affairs of the rebellion, McCallister has actually managed to build a sturdy ideological and intellectual base for the Alliance and has built himself up as a respected and beloved leadership figure. While in several crucial respects he defers to the judgement of Lyonard, he is proving an extremely difficult puppet. Has sought out the aid of the Guild in breaking the Hunter remnants; intends to hold off the release of the promulgation on magic until such a time as the Alliance is clearly in control of the show in Krizsan. Abyss Knights In stasis awaiting the completion of the Completely Harmless Circus plotline; lead by bumbling but apparently invincible Boleslaw, himself lead by a shadowy council of dynamic elders known as the Masters. Boleslaw is also a difficult puppet, but owing more to his strong-willedness than any kind of boundless romanticism or powerful intellect. [ Sunday, April 09, 2006 12:37: Message edited by: The Worst Man Ever ] Posts: 794 | Registered: Tuesday, October 11 2005 07:00 |
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written Sunday, April 9 2006 12:15
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I lump Satanism into a kind with Objectivism - an abuse of a perfectly good name by a group irresponsibly promulgating a worldview bordering on solipsist. I've got no brief with the death-metally kind of satanists (mostly), it's the kind who mumble about the will to power that bug me. Posts: 794 | Registered: Tuesday, October 11 2005 07:00 |