The ABCs of the American Bourgeois Class
Jude Conners
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Greetings and Salutations, My Fellow Americans and
The move of the Socialist Freedom Party to the former offices of the now-defunct Liberty Advancement Party is now complete. It was a huge success. I would like to thank the SFP members who made the transition seamless. I also want to thank some of the former party's leadership for helping SFP ease into the new spot. And a shout-out ot PQ, who stayed behind to turn off the lights in the old party offices. Last but not least, mad props to Captain Recks for doing a great job at reinvigorating the party with activity!
Now let's talk a bit about Canada. A couple of months ago, I stood as the lone voice of reason and precognition and spoke out against the unwarranted aggression against our former Bros to the North. I warned about the wasted and excessive spending that would from a prolonged occupation. I warned how wasting the time and damage would hurt our allies. as now... Brazil is voting to leave Sirius.
I'm not going to say I told you so, but I kinda did. Luckily, the ripple of dissent I have been preaching since day one of the failed Operation: Grey Cup is becoming a tide of change. People are starting to see the folly of this useless war that hasn't even provided the USA with 100/100 resources and has cost the American players millions of USD. Just read the comments on these articles published by HeapSeppo and Hale26. It's clear that the movement's in motion.
And why wouldn't it be? Former President Gnilraps admitted to spending millions of American tax dollars on the war in wasted spending that SCI approved with no oversight from the rest of Congress. The cost of the war is so great that Economic Council members like Evry and Kemal have said the government is now in a deficit and that a reduction of merely 2% in work tax (which a group of good American Congressmen are now fighting for in Public Congressional Proceedings right now) would cripple the nation and lose resource bonuses. The USA went into this war with a surplus of money and is now in deficit spending. Financially, this war has bankrupt the nation and failed the American people.
So who is actually benefitting from this war? The American Bourgeois class is. The aristocratic politic elite fat cats that have bankrupt America and bullied Canada for it's own gain. They will continue to live in denial and blame this war on Canadian foreign policy, which sucking up tax dollars that help them level up faster, rank up faster, and spin a web of lies to confuse and take advantage of the American players like they have done for the past three-plus years.
It's a simple fact that the majority of the American Bourgeois are members of and the ranking officers of the government-funded military unit. That unit receives $215,000/wk. in American tax money and a lionshare of the money SCI approves for defense spending without oversight from the rest of Congress. Week after week, the "official" military is ranked #1 in American battle damage. That seems impressive, right?
Well, dive deeper, my friends. Last week alone, the government MU laid down 16.5 billion in damage. When you add up the damage done by the rest of the top ten military units last week, the "official" military only did 26.7% of the 61.7 billion damage done by the top ten. The majority of the damage done last week by American military units was done by private units like Easy Company, Seal Team 6, the eUS Military, S.H.I.E.L.D., and VMA-214 Black Sheep. Kinda looks like wasteful spending of American tax dollars, amirite?
Yet we continue to support the Bourgeois and it's elite clubs and take it up the butt without so much as a reacharound. This war... our wasteful spending... the horrid treatment of our allies... the lies and years of taking advantage of the American players... all the work of a small cadre of players in power for years now. Is this what the eUSA is all about?
It's time for this ALL to end. It's time to seperate ourselves from that herd and do what is right. The tides of change are amoung us, but we need to make it waves! Stand up and Fight! The House of Cards of the American Bourgeois Class will soon be tumbling down... but not if you remain a mindless lemming and follow them off the cliff.
And on that note... I'm out!
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Gnilraps has been associated with EZC for the past 2, maybe 3 years. That isn't the government sponsored MU, its a private one that he himself funds.
So many other inaccuracies in this article, /pass.
And MollyEmma is one of the founders of SHIELD. the elite isn't just the CP, bro.
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RAWR
It's like you're playing a completely different game.
I'm playing the same game a different way. I'm not letting you or your handlers tell me how to play anymore.
So do they (the handlers) call every day to tell you what to do? Good God it is about time you start playing your way. 😉
No. But they decide the laws and set the direction of the nation I play in.
BTW... I'm not God, I am but a Messenger. 😉
tl; but I did read. 😉
H*ll to the F*'n Yeah! Baaaaaaaaa!
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Power to the people!
Right on!
Your prediction as well as analysis is faulty. If you somehow manage to make others follow you and lead the nation into ruin, I doubt that you will be here to even see its effects.
You should read more articles from our oh-so-beloved northern neighbors.
If you think this article is about Canada... you missed the point, Bourgeois. Or are you ducking the fact that your handlers have lead the nation into ruin and will continue to forever?
My handlers? Way to be impolite. I recall you to be a better person. A shame.
I could call you a liar instead. It's more polite, I am assuming.
handlers? Kemal?
hahahahaha!!!
As a person Not connected to the government I have benefited from this eWar. More gold, more medals, that is the point of eWar isnt it?
The point of war in eRepublik is to better economics in the winning nation and increase activity in the community. That isn't the issue here, even though the nation as a whole has lost millions on the war.
The war is a byproduct if a small core group of players who have used the nation to better themselves. It's not so much that the war is wrong, as the reasoning behind the war.
I'm all for war, but wasted spending and fighting yourself into a deficit while "winning"... it proves that the aristocats in charge are self-serving.
Actually the game is dictated by the admin ... And that is lame that we have to have a good reason to go to war, its a war game. All the mechanics revolve around war. Canada is aligned with Serbia so good enough for war.
You'll understand one day. You buy into the lies and propaganda. i know how it works, I used to be in charge of American propaganda... under MULTIPLE CPs.
Ignorance is bliss, but there is no smile on my face.
You are a craven liar, and without proof to back up those ludicrous claims you will remain a liar in my eyes. Even horrible CPs like Oblige spent millions out of their own pocket, how do they exactly profit? Shame on you.
What are you even talking about here?
Your comment makes no sense.
"The war is a byproduct if a small core group of players who have used the nation to better themselves."
How?
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I love reading you guys' articles. There is much entertainment and laughter to be had.
Popcorn anyone?
I learned wayyyyy back when I was playing Candyland that games are played for entertainment.
there are those among us who still need to learn that. Many can be spotted by their real world biases and problems they want to bring into the game world.
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Thanks for your vote. hope you enjoyed the article.
oo i came from voters club ; )
i didn't buy any votes, but cool. thanks anyway!
This article felt like a RATM song 🙂
Good read
You know it's just another Bombtrack!
Rage, rage against the dying of the light, my friend!
I think the thing that aggravates me most about this game are people who ignore game mechanics and instead drag real world sentiment and invective. "Yet we continue to support the Bourgeois and it's elite clubs and take it up the butt without so much as a reacharound." Seriously? Bourgeois? Jude, this is a browser game, in essence a giant spreadsheet. But then if you actually put what you really mean in that statement, it wouldn't have quite the same impact now, would it? "Yet we continue to support the elected officials who don't agree with my opinions and refuse to change their minds, or even acknowledge my existence."
I challenge you to present a rational and logical arguments, based on the game and the way it works, against the war with Canada. The only thing in this article that I see that even remotely approaches such an argument is the section about deficit spending. I would need to see more supporting evidence of such a claim, not just "so and so told me so". And this fact by itself is not sufficient to outweigh the benefits battles provide in this game.
Battles mean more weapons are used, thus the economy is stimulated, Food usage has little effect, The admins have rigged that game so that it is relatively painless to produce all the food you need.
Occupation of resource regions also benefits the economy, as well. It follows that this economic stimulation benefits the government as well, due to the increased tax income.
You might argue that we do not need to have local wars to benefit from battles. I counter with the fact that people are more likely to fight, and administer larger amounts of damage for battles in which the eUSA is a protagonist. The incentive of TP gold can account for a large portion of this, but it is also human nature to fight for one's own group.
I think I'm in love.
Wild Owl... Your love flip flops more than Franklin Stone's stances on anything. Just saying.
Again, as I said in a comment above...
If you think this article is about the War with Canada, you are missing the bigger picture. The Canada War is a byproduct of the real underlying issue.
I accept the challenge:
1. Sign NAP, leads to us having the bonuses that you so much love.
2. NE Portugal and work our way into South America and we'll have border with Argentina for a full scale war. This has sadly become weaker since Brozil just left our alliance. One can argue about the reason behind it.
3. Constant wars and battles that makes you satisfied with more weapons spent etc. Hell you'd have more battles this way as you'd have RWs + Direct battles.
Does that satisfy the warmonger in you? This is just one among several options that we have. We can attack RoC, we can airstrike into Europe to help against Hungary and Serbia directly. There are a lot more options than just sitting back and fighting Canada.
Warmonger? I take quite a bit of exception to that remark, considering I'm an actual veteran who unfortunately really knows what war is about.
One more time, this is a browser game that is totally driven by the military module. There is no parallel whatsoever to the pain, grief, trauma, and suffering that is part of real warfare and calling me a warmonger because I play a game according to it's mechanics is insulting on so many levels. You actually sere impressing me by offering up possible solutions at the beginning of your reply, but then you blow it with that naive and bigoted personal attack. I have lost any shred of respect I had for you or your position.
FWIW Tsewell does not even exist in the metagame. He is about as pure an ingame player as one can get.
Sorry about that, but the Congress/JCS unpleasantness drove me out of the metagame.
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I misused the word warmonger, I am sorry. I looked it up afterwards and noticed that it really wasn't the word I was looking for. I took it as a word for someone eager of wars, and missed that it is used negatively. I am sorry about that, and I really did not mean it that way.
It is so rare to see an apology or retraction of any kind on the internet especially when people are getting worked up over nothing.
This is commendable of you.
If we had fun, then the war was worth it. Now, we need time to focus on eArgentina.
It may not be profitable. But, few things are in this game.
FIST
It's time to change it up, for god sake. End the war with Canada, and let's move on. At this point it is boring.
Heap made a couple of good suggestions.
Fun article Jude.
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I'll shout and scream, I'll kill the king, I'll rail at all his servants...."