USWP - Making eAmerica grate again?
Day 3,398, 18:59
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by Ilene Dover
So, we’re officially a democracy again, not that you’d know it from, like, any actual official outlet. USWP are already out claiming credit for it.
To be clear, this is the same USWP that has been arguing FOR dictatorship since 1999 or something. In case y’all forgot, here’s a selection of quotes from USWP notables in relation to dictatorship.
And, of course
Which was a topical response to this:
What’s changed then?
This:
That means it will cost money to keep a dictatorship. So, USWP has finally decided to publicly admit what we all already knew? Money is more important than national security. What a way to make us all grate again.
File photo of SColbert during his most recent tenure as Speaker of the House
On an entirely unrelated note, I’d like to extend my thanks to SColbert for trolling well enough that I cared enough to login for more than 5 minutes and then spend an hour writing this article.
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pertamaxxxxxxxx (whatever that means)
Yay
Tremendous
I thought kemal died.
Well said. We have to fight for democracy, a nation we can only make together.
Right on.
That was my fav avatar that I made for Rainy ❤
It's pretty distinctive and sexy. 🙂
V!
You spent an hour on this?
30 seconds of reading I shall never get back 🙁
45 mins was research for good quotes... 10 minutes was image uploading on proxy regional internet. 'nuff said
I didn't think your reading speed was so high??! 🙂
It had pictures 😃
\o/
USWP in a nutshell. Great job, Ilene!!
You are exactly correct.
When the game mechanics favored the wisdom of Dictatorship, USWP was pro-Dictatorship. We authored most of the Dictatorship legislation.
When the game mechanics shifted and now favor the wisdom of non-Dictatorship, USWP is non-Dictatorship and we authored the legislation that made it so.
Using USWP and wisdom in one sentence is forbidden!
What Ilene rightly points out here is that game mechanics changed in terms of money. The "game mechanics" of holding the dictatorship haven't changed all that much, but the cost of doing so has.
The money needed to keep the dictatorship would leave us with nothing to defend ourselves in the case of an invasion. Unless you want to raise taxes to compensate. Are max taxes your goal?
pertamaxxxxxxxx Taxes!
Changing the money aspect meant a change in the mechanic. In the original dictatorship mechanism, there was no reason NOT to use it to our advantage with a defensive dictatorship. This was the smart move.
They added a cost to the mechanic that we turned into a benefit for ourselves. The additional cost made it not worth using for what it was: an early warning.
This isn't some dramatic change of mind. The situation changed, we analyzed, and reached a new conclusion. Welcome to logical thought.
Wow DMJ appears in-game. 😃
There were (and are) plenty of reasons to not use a defensive dictatorship. That argument has been had many times, and a comment reply isn't the appropriate place to bring it up again.
I originally wrote this article as a light hearted troll piece in response to SColbert, but I think it has become something more now. What changed was a monetary cost. What didn't change is all the dire risks pro-Defensive Dictatorship supporters have been scaremongering with for years.
My originally flippant observation that USWP put money ahead of national security is apparently quite apt. If you could pay 35k CC a day to make all those horrible risks go away, why wouldn't you? If you actually believe the risks are real, of course.
I can't speak for others, but my argument has never been scaremongering. My argument was that the defensive dictatorship was an easy way to know about an impending foreign coup for more than the 3 hours the mechanic gives you. There were no costs other than the initial installations, and "muh feels!"
The defensive dictatorship served the purpose it was intended for and now that there is an upkeep cost, no, I do not consider the added warning to be worth half our tax income.
What DMJ is suggesting is that there is cost-benefit analysis to be considered with the Defensive Dictatorship. Ilene is therefore correct in her assumption that national security has a value to certain people in the game. When that cost is too high, national security of our core regions is threatened. It's a slippery slope.
Come back, ID. You're one of the good ones. 🌟