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trexmeyer wrote: So how many days until the next French revolution?
I would say approximately 652985.
"Our fantasy settings are grim and dark, but that is not a reflection of who we are or how we feel the real world should be. [...] We will continue to diversify the cast of characters we portray [...] so everyone can find representation and heroes they can relate to. [...] If [you don't feel the same way], you will not be missed"
https://twitter.com/WarComTeam/status/1268665798467432449/photo/1
Remind me, which country do have some good old nuclear missiles? .
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"Our fantasy settings are grim and dark, but that is not a reflection of who we are or how we feel the real world should be. [...] We will continue to diversify the cast of characters we portray [...] so everyone can find representation and heroes they can relate to. [...] If [you don't feel the same way], you will not be missed"
https://twitter.com/WarComTeam/status/1268665798467432449/photo/1
Our nukes are painted white to act as weapons of massive death, surrender, and destruction. Right after we kill everyone single member of your government along with 90% of your population, we surrender to your now obliterated army.
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"Our fantasy settings are grim and dark, but that is not a reflection of who we are or how we feel the real world should be. [...] We will continue to diversify the cast of characters we portray [...] so everyone can find representation and heroes they can relate to. [...] If [you don't feel the same way], you will not be missed"
https://twitter.com/WarComTeam/status/1268665798467432449/photo/1
whembly wrote: Isn't this "normal" in a parlimentry system?
It isn't like this:
Dr. Peter Venkman: This city is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions.
Mayor: What do you mean, "biblical"?
Dr Ray Stantz: What he means is Old Testament, Mr. Mayor, real wrath of God type stuff.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Exactly.
Dr Ray Stantz: Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling!
Dr. Egon Spengler: Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes...
Winston Zeddemore: The dead rising from the grave!
Dr. Peter Venkman: Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!
Mayor: All right, all right! I get the point!
Right?
I sense an undercurrent of somebody who wants to abandon his republican principals in favour of good old parliamentary democracy!
"Our crops will wither, our children will die piteous
deaths and the sun will be swept from the sky. But is it true?" - Tom Kirby, CEO, Games Workshop Ltd
Slarg232 wrote: So do you think this will cause some immigration from France to the States?
Did Obamacare cause some immigration from the States to France?
"Our fantasy settings are grim and dark, but that is not a reflection of who we are or how we feel the real world should be. [...] We will continue to diversify the cast of characters we portray [...] so everyone can find representation and heroes they can relate to. [...] If [you don't feel the same way], you will not be missed"
https://twitter.com/WarComTeam/status/1268665798467432449/photo/1
I hate the parliamentary system, always talking about the dissolution of the government this or form a new government that, in reality it sounds a lot worse than it really is. Its not like theyre rewriting the french constitution etc.
CoALabaer wrote: Wargamers hate two things: the state of the game and change.
"Our fantasy settings are grim and dark, but that is not a reflection of who we are or how we feel the real world should be. [...] We will continue to diversify the cast of characters we portray [...] so everyone can find representation and heroes they can relate to. [...] If [you don't feel the same way], you will not be missed"
https://twitter.com/WarComTeam/status/1268665798467432449/photo/1
I have two cousins in the Legion .
They are… very right-wing. Let us put it that way.
"Our fantasy settings are grim and dark, but that is not a reflection of who we are or how we feel the real world should be. [...] We will continue to diversify the cast of characters we portray [...] so everyone can find representation and heroes they can relate to. [...] If [you don't feel the same way], you will not be missed"
https://twitter.com/WarComTeam/status/1268665798467432449/photo/1
trexmeyer wrote: Aren't the combination of a poor economy and an "immigrant problem" two of the key ingredients for a nationalist movement led by racial supremacists?
All jokes aside, when governments fail to properly address major issues it does tend to lead to the election of populist governments with all kinds of irresponsible ideas. In France this typically means a government fairly fair down the socialist path.
I actually have no idea if that will be a good thing or not. Last time this happened France elected Mitterrand, and that was quite a disaster. But then the issue was that Mitterrand was using demand side solutions, increased government spending and increased wages, to atempt to solve the supply side problem in the economy, oil price spikes and terrible monetary policy were discouraging producers. These days the problem in Europe is Germany's insistence on austerity, which is basically a supply side solution, to the economic problems of low demand.
I'm not a socialist and think the election of a socialist in France will bring all sorts of other issues with it, but the big issue right now is the totally wrongheaded approach of the mainstream to the current economic circumstances. If the only way to actually break away from German imposed economic orthodoxy is someone from the far left, then maybe the price is worth being paid.
I mean, ideally the answer would be someone like Shinzo Abe, but guys like that aren't that common. People tend to be either radicals with lots big ideas fueled by ideology, or they tend to be centrists who stick pretty closely to the mainstream. Guys who can introduce radical ideas in one big area while remaining pretty even handed otherwise... and actually have the strength to maintain their big idea despite opposition, well those kinds of guys are rare. In Japan's case it took the lost decade to actually get someone like that. Hopefully it won't take the countries of Europe to lose 10 years of economic growth before they get similar men.
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“We may observe that the government in a civilized country is much more expensive than in a barbarous one; and when we say that one government is more expensive than another, it is the same as if we said that that one country is farther advanced in improvement than another. To say that the government is expensive and the people not oppressed is to say that the people are rich.”
Adam Smith, who must have been some kind of leftie or something.
sebster wrote: All jokes aside, when governments fail to properly address major issues it does tend to lead to the election of populist governments with all kinds of irresponsible ideas. In France this typically means a government fairly fair down the socialist path.
Uh? Our socialist party is kind of like your democrat party. I mean, not directly in term of ideology, I guess, but just like your two big parties are democrat and republican, our two big parties are UMP and socialist party. So it is certainly not “fairly far down the socialist path”, it is merely slightly more than the UMP. Our far-left, contrarily to our far-right, is quite weak and divided.
"Our fantasy settings are grim and dark, but that is not a reflection of who we are or how we feel the real world should be. [...] We will continue to diversify the cast of characters we portray [...] so everyone can find representation and heroes they can relate to. [...] If [you don't feel the same way], you will not be missed"
https://twitter.com/WarComTeam/status/1268665798467432449/photo/1
I'm Australian. Our Democratic party is currently Natasha Stott-Despoja and her cat. And I think Stott-Despoja might have left the party.
You are right, of course, that your current socialist party is much like our own mainstream leftwing parties, I think you could probably place them somewhere between the our Labor & Green parties. The point is that when mainstream parties fail to recognise or properly address major issues then the political landscape can change very quickly. While that change is unpredictable, you can generally assume that where a given country turned last time they'll likely turn again.
Our far-left, contrarily to our far-right, is quite weak and divided.
That's typically the case for most minor parties until their message finds resonance among the electorate.
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“We may observe that the government in a civilized country is much more expensive than in a barbarous one; and when we say that one government is more expensive than another, it is the same as if we said that that one country is farther advanced in improvement than another. To say that the government is expensive and the people not oppressed is to say that the people are rich.”
Adam Smith, who must have been some kind of leftie or something.
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