Canada, Rants and Balling Out of Control
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by PilotPhil
How Canada got it's name:
No one could decide what to call it, finally they put all the letters in a bag and just started pulling them out...
"C" eh, "N" eh, "D" eh...
For the last few days I have been slogging my weary and bloody body all over Canada. The folks in charge of the eUS and eCanada have seen fit to finally bring a long overdue end to an ill-conceived war and try not to kill each other for a bit. That’s good. Along with a number of my Comrades at The Socialist Freedom Party and The Bear Cavalry we have sponsored and fought in quite a few resistance wars to help right some wrongs and get Canada back it’s country. We have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars, eaten way too many tasteless rations, used up lots of tanks and blown up countless rockets, bazookas and bombs. We all got some nifty Resistance Hero medals so that was cool, but it was secondary to why we were there. This is what we do, we fight for the freedom of others. We fight for those that refuse to live under the thumb of oppression, even when that oppressor is our own country. We do what we know is right and just even when it isn’t popular. This little vixen appreciated her “liberation” quite a bit as a matter of fact…
In some folks eyes we went a little to far when we helped liberate Quebec. Apparently there were some handshake agreements about the US hanging on to Quebec for a while until we found some other smaller, weaker nation to oppress for their resources instead. This brings me to my first rant…
LET SOMEONE KNOW THE PLAN FOR CHRISTSAKE!!!
Seriously, did anyone in the administration think that after a dozen or so rollover resistance wars everyone was just going to stop? Tell us all that it’s OK to go moose hunting all over that frigid waste but expect us to stop before the job was done? A quick article laying out the plan to the rest of us plebes would have been nice. We could have taken a little break, done some curling,
hung out with the locals a bit,
or even caught a game.
Anyway, what is done is done and Canada is whole again… Except now for New Brunswick which we are attacking? Another agreement us commoners know nothing about? Does peace between our countries mean we just kill each other a little? How about a little communication from the top?
Rant number two:
THE FU*KING WORK TAX!!!
Honestly, the vote wasn’t even as close this time as last time that congress failed us! No one is asking for a free ride here. I am not asking to pay nothing to live in this country that lets me speak my mind without being thrown in the gulag. We all just want a little bit of a break. Apparently this country was running on five percent or so when we decided we needed $10 million in the bank in case we got invaded. We have that now, unless it has been embezzled in the last few days. I am OK with building that up a bit more, let it grow to protect our homeland and keep our borders secure. How about we just drop the tax a little. We can’t get by with two percent less? As I so eloquently said in a previous article, Bullsh*t!!!
Look, there is only one thing to spend money on in this world and its war. I can’t go spend my eRep money on a new boat,
or hookers or blow or anything else! If there was a “ball out of control” module (Plato?) then this argument fails, but there isn’t! I can only spend it on tanks and food. There is no doubt in my mind that as much as many of us rail on about the government, if we get attacked every eUS citizen is a patriot and will fight tooth and nail to defend this great land. We will spend our money in the only store in town and buy tanks and rockets and blast away. Let me have my money and I will fight harder for the country that let me keep it.
Rant three:
SIRIUS…
Nope. Every article in the last two days has been about that and the story is tired. Some people did some stuff and some people did some other stuff and we got kicked out or quit or whatever and that’s that. I am over it.
OK, rants over. My last order of business is the upcoming CP election. As much as I bitch about the government Molly has done a pretty bang-up job considering the sh*t sandwich she was handed when she took over. That being said I am ready for a fresh start and this is the guy to do it. Listen to what he has to say and remember to vote on the 5th!
John Largo
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Cool rant. Different environment with us kicked out of the alliance. Many felt in the sake of national denfence, we should hold on the tax. Not sure right or wrong, but that's what they did. There might have been some"pressure" though. It should be coming to vote soon.
Voted and will be shouting, Wasn't as good as I expected but still great because there was 3 rants.
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It's good to see other points of view, expressed in the media.
A free Canada is a happy Canada.
Like hell it is. In-fighting begins in 5..... 4..... 3.......
That chick at the top looks Canadian. Gross.
Oh yes, she's Canadian. Her double-doubles will Molson you so much, you'll be curling in delight as you poutine that sweet syrup - after which you'll be seeing plaid and singing the Canadian national anthem.
God save the queen.
I thought the national anthem was "Eh, Canada?"
That chick at the top needs some syrup on her beaver.
I want to be Molsoned!
Keeping the secret plan secret worked out for us 😉
thanks, eh
Those are Norwegian curlers, not Canadians. *facepalm* Says Norge on the uniforms.
Yes but I had to get those pants in there
Norge is the French word for Canada. Duh.
But the bumpers behind the Norwegians say "Tim Hortons." The rink is obviously located in Canada.
They also say John Deere and Ford 😑'
The vote tax was a bit of a disappointment. Now that we finally had the numbers for it to win- it didn't work out as the vote was poorly timed since we got kicked out of sirius, made some people nervous.
Maybe the next time we take a vote people will have calmed down and realized we're not all gonna go broke and die now that we're out of sirius.
Considering that we have a nice chunk of USD in the reserve, there is no reason to not cut the WT.
I had no idea USA was keeping Quebec, but I got a nice RW and FF medal for it! You're right, though... sekritz be crazee! Let the people know what's going on! An informed nation is a good nation!
I'll support John Largo for CP, if he promises to do something spectacularly moronic. I'm already in withdrawal from the eUS comedy routine that was the recent war.
A country 1/4 the size of the eUS was too risky. Direction was shifted to one 1/10 the size.
eSpain seems to have a point on the bravery of the eUS.
Let's not bring real life politics into the game, ok?
to me none of that was real life. I am talking in-game eCanada and in game eJapan
Maybe if you were in an MU worth a damn, you might have known about Quebec. Mine did. Hell, it was even being shouted on my feed, and in IRC. Don't blame us, blame yourself.
the Work tax vote was canceled because of the Developments with Sirius.
jesus man, put one and two together.
Wait - how does getting kicked out of Sirius effect the work tax? Was Sirius giving us money? Why do the powers that be in the eUSA continue to give phony reasons for the work tax? We need 10% to keep high bonuses. We need 10% work tax because we got booted from Sirius.
Guess what. We don't #need# a 10% work tax. No other major eNation has anything over 8%, and most are 5%. We are being taken for a ride with a story given out that continues to change.
I will only vote for a CP who promises to work to lower the work tax. No promise, no vote.
Sorry to see the vote was canceled, I was under the assumption that it just failed. Now I am even a little grumpier about it. Thanks for being so condescending though, it fuels my desire to get the work tax cut.
@ scott Losing an alliance is a turbulent thing, usually. Enemies see that and they strike. it's a perceived weakness. hence all in ill-informed articles just after the split. Congress decided it would be best to belay the tax cut vote (because we would have passed it) until after things settle down, and we had a grasp of our future foreign relations. Thanks to Molly though, we made the split gracefully, that's something Largo would have never accomplished. Molly was completely forthright with Congress about the situation with sirius, and kept us up to date as the situation developed. And we, as your elected representatives, decided that it would be best to hold off. I was all for the tax cut. In fact, I ran for congress specifically for the purpose of lowering the work tax. But I will not put my country in danger for it. better safe than sorry. we'll revisit the issue within this term, and it will be passed.
CP's have literally NOTHING to do with the taxes. so a vote for a candidate that promises to "work" on it, is wasted to a political promise.
@ pilot, no, we deliberately voted the tax cut down. even those of us that were for it. But i'm happy to hear that you have some desire, even if your passion is blocking your logic.
I don't live on IRC either, in fact, i work during most of IRC's peak hours.
Your "friends" comment makes literally zero sense. you have "better friends" because none of them knew what was going on? I seriously don't know what to make of that. I can't debate stupid.
Well I don't live on IRC so I didn't see it and I guess I have chosen my friends better than to see your shouts. If it was that important, some MUs that WERE worth a damn might have pitched in on the other side of that battle.
I was saying I didn't see your shouts because you aren't on my friends list
My MU is worth quite a damn by the way and while I understand postponing the vote I am still very dissappointed in the outcome. Thank you for fighting for it and I am sending you a friend request so I can stay better informed.
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