Vivre libre, ou pas / Live free, or don't
Rotten.ImmOrtal
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So... Finally it's coming. Imperialists waited for PMV to use our stock and launched an invasion, four countries on a half-one.
I could talk for hours about the meaning of that strategy; about making good use of fakes, scripts and bots while officially saying "oh no no we don't support THIS !"; about lying, both in public and privately; about attacking for no reason, just "for fun" i guess.
It would probably be useless; instead, let's talk about consequences. Because, oh, yes, such decisions have consequences, the kind of stuff that hit you in the face weeks later, when you've half-forgotten what you've done.
France can give you lessons about this, yes, we learnt from our past. Whatever the (good) reasons of our fury towards the Swiss government in june, we answered by invading them. That was just something like "HEY WTF !" *blaaaam*. And then, what ? Nothing good, neither for french nor for swiss people. Nothing wrong either. It wasn't a month before we realized it had been completely useless: the traitors were still running, the idiots were still talking, and our gold was spent.
But, well, you'll tell me we had a reason, so the war had a meaning. Wars are often useless, but can be fun if they have a meaning. Ok. What about this one, now ? Is there any reason to fight ?
It isn't to see who got the biggest muscles between Atlantis and PEACE, for sure. The answer is written in the marble of Atlantis' charter: they just grouped the most powerful countries to reign and invade whoever they want. If Atlantis really wanted to show its superiority, it would attack a strong point and prove it can be as organized as PEACE without sending PMV's tanks first. It could be a great fight, even for a peaceful guy like me.
No, they choose France. A little country, peaceful, diplomatically active, tired after having forced PMV to spend its wonderful multi-gold treasure. A country who, from the first days of eRepublik, decided to discourage fakes and cheating, and must now be one of the countries with least banned accounts in the eWorld. A country who never hesitated to sacrifice itself for allies, like in Portugal a few days ago.
Let me guess. Sweden: "Ugh ! We want a war to show how strong we are !"
USA: "Oh yeyeyeyeyeaaaah ! We're the #1, we can invade anyone ! USA rulezzzz !"
Romania: "Shhh, WE are the #1. Adminia FTW."
UK: "Let's think about it. Who could we attack ?"
Sweden: "Indonesia ! Pakistan ! Italy !"
USA: "Thailand ! Thailand is easy ! Please, please, we want Thailand for our rookies !"
Romania: "..."
UK: "Nonono we must attack, uh, in Europe. A country with borders with us. With UK. So we don't waste fuel, eh."
Sweden: "Whatever."
Romania: "We'll eat them all anyway."
UK: "Ok, let's make a vote in Congress. Between, uh... Netherlands and France."
Sweden: "WTF ? Tiny prey. We want bigger. Italy. Turkey. Brazil."
USA: "OMG nonono ! Too big ! We... We... We'll get pwned so bad ! And hey, we hate cheese, let's kick some french ass !"
Canada: "Uh ? French ? Yeah cool."
UK: "May we remind you that Gouda is produced in...-"
Enough jokes. Seriously, guys, what do you think you'll win in France ? Do you really think we'll leave more than dust behind us ? Do you really think we'll spend gold we don't have for every single region you'll assault ? Do you think we'll play with your rules, creating thousands of fakes to feed 4 or 5 soldiers ? Or maybe that PEACE will invest every single gold it has to save us ?
We won't give you this pleasure. If it is fun you seek, then we'll deny you the fun. You'll put your muddy feet on barren lands. You'll use weapons and gold versus brainless walls. You'll gain a few regions, split them so each of you has its share, and then find a next target, probably.
I hate real-life references in eRep, but i'll indulge in one: you decided to use brute force, speechless, inhuman, unexplained, unbalanced war. We'll answer by resistance and terrorism. We'll bully you, cripple your economy, steal congress seats, spy your governments; France will be a burden for Atlantis, a burden you'll want to get rid of. French people know what it means to resist and sacrifice for friends and allies.
For each enemy foot that will sully our land, you'll pay, weeks later, twice the price. Is that the war you want ? Are you ready to bear the consequences ?
From this day on, France is a ghost country, and French people will become PEACE citizens, waiting and working for the resistance. That will come soon and put an end to the imperialist hopes of our enemies. PEACE will survive, and Good shall prevail.
Vive la République, vive la France !
Matthieu
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vive la France!
I'm french today.
I feel any single frenchman my brother in this game.
I came.
Vive la France !
Matthieu, I'm sure they had exactly this discussion.
Jamais la France ne mourra !
Vive la France !
i lol'd at this discussion!
I'm french today [2]
Guess USA people haven't learned form invading afghanistan/irak. It is of no use, well go terrorist, well spread in every organization of you, we might become leaders in your army's, and then destroy everything you buildup, steal all your gold, or at least what is left of it after you spend fortunes to capture our soil.
You might capture our soil, and maybe our body's as well, but you'll never capture our spirits.
Wahoo... I love this post 🙂 I'm proud today to defend our nation against the imperialist agressor. Don't forget, we've the power of cassoulet with us.
Vivre Libre, ou pas.
But it seems there's no spirit to loose in dumb french because they are frenchies lobotomy.
France is leaving because it's scared. Very scared, and it has every right to be. You had no reason to invade Switzerland, and now you're running away because you've got no shot at winning. Have fun in Croatia, I hear that's where you're all headed.
We'll be doing what you couldnt which is actually producing a workable economy, market, and products. Not to mention currency value, and military.
Cheers.
'French people know what it means to resist and sacrifice for friends and allies.'
Now that made me laugh, I don't want to bring RL into this but you're the biggest bunch of cowardly, rude, pathetic people in the world.
Dishmcds, if you were able to read something long and had read the article, you would have seen that we're not leaving to eCroatia.
Too bad you can't read well, caveman.
Do you trully think this article is gonna make any difference? This is a game, stop moaning.
Well, read it better.
I see no moaning there.
Maybe you should go back to school.
I won't take it well if a foreigner would speak French better than me, personnally.
"Now that made me laugh, I don't want to bring RL into this but you're the biggest bunch of cowardly, rude, pathetic people in the world."
That was out of line Widds.... I'm half French and that comment had some real venom...
Thats not what your intel says, unimportant person. Guess my sources have better intel than what you have access to 😉
So, dear Kirill, I'd suggest you go find a rock to hide under before the bombing starts. Should be just a few hours now.
Cheers.
'"Now that made me laugh, I don't want to bring RL into this but you're the biggest bunch of cowardly, rude, pathetic people in the world."
That was out of line Widds.... I'm half French and that comment had some real venom...'
I just call it how I see it, I've been to France more than enough times, the people are incredibly rude (only the Italians are worse) and I think you all know why I called them cowardly and pathetic.
vive la France!
because widdows, racism makes you cool
Dishmcds, seems your source is as good in French as you.
It has been discussed, and no, we won't go there. 🙂
We don't need this.
widdows9000, strangely, I went to both UK and USA for some weeks, and, oh, surprise, they were all incredibly rude too.
Seems like it just depends on the point of view...
'because widdows, racism makes you cool'
You actually think that's racism? I think it's the fact I've been to France 5-6 times and each time I've been there I've bloody hated the place and the people.
'widdows9000, strangely, I went to both UK and USA for some weeks, and, oh, surprise, they were all incredibly rude too.
Seems like it just depends on the point of view...'
Where'd you go in England?
Btw, I never said the Americans were polite, they get on my tits as well.
Widds you are just lumping a whole nation together with that comment including half my family. You maybe going to war but that is no reason to be uncivil.
I actually lolled with the little US, UK, SWE conversation.
heck, I didn't knew you frenchies had a taste of humour.
Meh, stereotypes come together for a reason. I have never met one nice French person, I've moved out of the way to let people pass, yet when it becomes apparent I'm English I get not even a thank you...
For some reason the French hate us even though we saved their arses twice while they sat and waved the white flag.
Vive la Suede!
Kirill, if this article is not a complaint... then dawg... I dont know what else it could be 😛 anyways, yours was a good attempt.
And the end of France began when those socialists decide to invade my beautiful and peaceful country Switzerland.
From that moment on, some of us collaborated with the French invaders, joining their parties, signed agreements with other foreigners to make Switzerland a colony of those arrogant little frogs.
Most of my Swiss fellow gave up the game then, finding no interest in playing with the french morons. But fortunately some French people on the libertarian side supported us and even other strangers like Billy Bob Joe.
Then we harassed the Frenchies, we mocked on them, we drummed up every support and Pregentil had the art of it. We made it clear how dumb that war against us was and we wanted revenge. We received hate testimonies from the frogs, but in verbal fight they were never at a very high level.
So now rude, arrogant, socialist Frenchies we are going to participe in the invasion, we will have fun doing it more than in any other country. We are going to show how petty and vain you are.
Now we hope our friends from Spain, Sweden, UK and USA will give us the right to be free and will ruin you enough to make you regret all the francs you stole us.
You are going to be punished for your sins, the same way you punished us for nothing.
and the winner is...... widdows!
you convinced me. Atlantis' actions are stupid and thoughtless.
France, vivre libre! Quand le temps arriver vous auriez les néerlandais dans vous amis, nous aidons toi.
Liberté mon frères
Atlantis lovers or wannebees it is useless to use insults.
Your military might is the strongest. No problem.
There are other tactics. Matthieu Bonne mentioned them. They will be used. The more you win by military might, the more you will loose in time.
Viva La France! Viva Peace! Viva la resistance!
I'd like to thank my mum, my dad and everyone who's helped me through my tough career. This reward's for you.
Vive La france
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=110783025746960261350.00045d692df9f1db4d667&ll=50.499452,3.999023&spn=7.549855,16.962891&t=p&z=6
Vive la France!
Very nice speech!
Fun map.
Yellow bubbes in switzerland.
So, "swiss", did you learn your new language, Sweden ?
F..K FRANCE
here's something that rhymes:
the problem with the frenches,
is that they fight like wenches!!
but they hit you on the head with wrenches 🙂
Luuklag, your map is outdated :/
voted, well written
Viva la france.
I am sad.
"From this day on, France is a ghost country, and French people will become PEACE citizens, waiting and working for the resistance. That will come soon and put an end to the imperialist hopes of our enemies. PEACE will survive, and Good shall prevail."
I admire youre words.
But the problem is ... Peace isnt doing crap, they are all hiding trying to cover theyre asses. So i would recommend trying to find a new perspective to the world scene.
They cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war...
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/a-h-bor-kuty-i-706180/1
do you suggest us to try atlantis ?
CITIZENS OF EREPUBLIK!
Kijk eens naar deze!
Look at this!
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DEFEND FREEDOM! NEW POITIERS!
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Pertamaxxxxx, ben ouè, personne l'a dit 😃, et moi, ou que je sois dans le futur, je serais française et admirerais mon pays pour ses valeurs morales....like RL, USA make war in other Land without any sens, only for profit.....and they are proud :/ so pathetic...well, well,well...i was, i'm, and i will be a french one even when death bring me up.
*tain vais planquer mon Nutt' moi maintenant ;p
VIVE LA FRANCE ! JUSQU'À LA MORT !
@Meza 😉 😉
Well spoken 🙂
"PMV" means what ?