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I did watch the video last night, and it was excellent

Tucker Carlson is one of the very few journalists today who actually cares about finding the truth -- and not just repeating Democrat-party talking points.

For almost 2 years all we've heard from the mainstream media is "Mike Flynn is a liar", "Mike Flynn is a traitor". We never heard (except a little from the conservative media) about the shady and illegal tactics our own government used against him. Until now, we never really heard Flynn's side of the story at all.

I think you can tell a lot about a person by just listening to them, and I must say Flynn seemed very forthright, intelligent, and 100% aware of what's really going on in the world. I don't think anyone willing to be honest about it can deny the case against him was an egregious abuse of the justice system. Agents lying to the FISA court; listening to calls without proper cause; FBI changing documents after-the-fact; Comey bragging about breaking the rules; all Americans should be disgusted by these things.

It's easy for Democrats to dismiss it because they are happy with the outcome. They took down one of Trump's people -- the ends justify the means. They're not realizing that if we allow our government to do that kind of stuff to Mike Flynn and get away with it, then they can do the same thing to any American citizen. Someday the shoe will be on the other foot, and they're gonna cry when it happens to someone on their side.

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I couldn't find another copy of it anywhere on YouTube, I couldn't find it on any google search. I found it only by searching DuckDuckGo. Here: tucker carlson michael flynn full episode

Damn I just tried to watch the video, and its already taken down by youtube. Censorship much?

(and people wonder why conservatives say big tech is biased...)

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Kirjutas Rock Lee, 13.10.2021 at 23:19

I think I am unto a new forum game: what is the dumbest thing your government did during the pandemic?

"2 weeks to flatten the curve"

I still refer to Dave's essay first..

Kirjutas Noir Brillant, 13.10.2021 at 07:27

So I assume that manual (non-auto) reinforcements also count as a move? If so ... O.M.G. took me 7 years to realize that.
I think I'm gonna cry - all those times being turnblocked and failing to turnblock.
7 years

Yes. Manually buying reinforcements counts as a move too. (sorry)

Scan immediate landscape, test for biohazards, pray to Zizou.

Check my inventory and peer at my immediate surroundings for geography indications or landmarks.

Kirjutas DeepFriedUnicorn, 11.10.2021 at 20:43

Have you a got a Decent resolution Original map?

here: https://atwar-game.com/tmp/worldmap8_borders1.jpg

This is now fixed.

Kirjutas Dave, 06.10.2021 at 05:07

Damn I forgot to add Canada to the list

Take that Brian! ♥

I actually came on to specifically address that! You got it covered I see...

Kirjutas Palmitas, 10.10.2021 at 22:43

then how it counts? If I turn auto produce in India does it mean every single city is a move or only the entire country counts as 1 move?

Every city counts as 1 "buy troops" move.

Kirjutas Palmitas, 10.10.2021 at 22:43

tbing with auto produce is hard then

Yes.

The top players by SP are the most active on average. Activity and dueling are not the same thing. Why does the "current playerbase" have to mainly consist of duelers? Dueling is a large minority, even among everyone in this thread dueling doesn't make up a majority of anyone's recent games here besides Palmitas.

Would be cool to have a tab to sort by seasonal Elo or get rid of regular Elo.

Kirjutas Frieren, 10.10.2021 at 16:03

Does auto produce count as move priority?

Yes

Kirjutas Chess, 09.10.2021 at 13:12

Can you add a warning message when a player tries to leave the game laying out the consequences of leaving games? Perhaps that may sway some people to not leave if they are made aware of the immediate consequences of their actions and what will happen in the future if they keep up this behaviour.

that's a good idea, I'll see what I can do

Personally I think our most likely future is Firefly, where after a horrible war we all end up living under an authoritarian central "alliance", and we all swear in Chinese.

Kirjutas Tribune Aquila, 09.10.2021 at 12:18

You are right to be skeptical of the attempts by western governments to provide "safety" to their populations... when the measures they use to provide safety are in many cases disproportional to the risks associated with other viruses. For example, if we quantify the safety measures governments use today and the dangers of COVID and then divide the former by the latter, the product must surely be greater than the prevailing ratio among other viruses. Why is this the case? Well, that's not obvious... and it's not right to jump to conclusions about it and the future of our world without contemplating more than a few factors.

^^ agree with this. I'm not saying Covid isn't serious -- clearly it is, and people have died from it. However the response to Covid has been wholly out of proportion to the actual danger level. Draconian regulations, lockdowns, forced vaccinations, the deliberate ruining of entire sectors of the economy (to make people even more dependent on the government), and the shifting of huge sums of money from one group to another in the name of "covid relief" (with little accountability where this money is actually going)... it is all quite stunning to watch.

As Rahm Emanuel said:

Tsiteeri:

You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.

Kirjutas ITSGG1122, 09.10.2021 at 11:43

People dont leave this game because of toxity. People leave this game because of trolls and because the game gets retarded. Leavers and trolls ruining games makes us leave the game.
Any other game has penalty system for trolls and leavers. Toxicy was not even their first priority.

You spend hours to play 1 game then get trolled or when someone leaves the map or ruins it, thats hours wasted > hence reason to leave atwar is high. So its just logical that atwar is played by less and less people.

Right now the penalty for trolls and leavers is that they don't gain any SP or PC from the game... and of course you can add them to your banlist too.

But this is why I reworked how the Abandoned Games % is calculated... to quote myself:

Kirjutas Dave, 28.03.2020 at 02:14

Be careful though, at some point in the future I'll be adding a way for people to block users from games if their abandoned % is above a certain threshold... so try to keep your percent low!

... that's still on my list, it will happen at some point.

My grandmother grew up during the great depression. When I was a kid she used to tell me stories about how bad it was. Her family was so poor, they would steal vegetables from the neighbor's farm just to survive.

Personally I was hit very hard by the 2008 recession. By 2009 I had exhausted all my savings, lost my house, lost my business. Thankfully I never had to resort to stealing food, but it was close. I had no family to fall back on. I ended up living on a couch in an office for a while, and despite working long hours I still couldn't make enough to live on. There were many occasions where I'd look in my wallet and see maybe $10, and have to decide how much of that to spend on food and how much to spend on gas for my car, because that $10 was all the money I had in the world.

I think its hard to understand that feeling -- spending the last dollar you possess, not knowing when you would have any money again -- unless you've lived through it. Still, my experience because of the 2008 recession was not as bad as those who lived through the great depression. I never faced starvation, cold winters without heat, or living on the street. It could have been worse. I only share my story to give some context to my perspective. I'm a conservative, which according to our mainstream media, apparently means I'm supposed to be evil and heartless, but in truth I'm very sympathetic to the cause of people who work hard and yet struggle to survive.

In my grandparents' generation, after WWII you could live a middle-class life on a single income. For example, my grandfather was a construction worker, and he made enough by himself to support his wife and 2 daughters and to buy a house in the suburbs of Los Angeles. Try doing that in 2021! It's totally impossible. Unless you're a doctor or a highly-skilled tech worker, realistically it takes a minimum of 2 incomes now to live at the same level, and even then you might still not make it.

Clearly, the economy has deteriorated a lot from the 1950's to now, from the perspective of low- and middle-class workers. (The elites, on the other hand, seem to be richer than ever.) This is not a sustainable situation. Will the economy crash in 2021? 2022? 2030? I have no idea. I am only certain that that's the road we are on, and unless something dramatic changes, it's going to end badly for us.

Unfortunately, the goverment is doing everything it can to speed up the decline. Ignore everything they *say*, because you never know if politicians are sincere or not (I tend to assume they are not, unless proven otherwise). Just look at what the government actually *does*, and you will find the answer. Maybe they have good intentions and are just ignorant of how economics works, or maybe they deliberately want us to be poor, I don't know. Either way, the fact is, their policies are actively making us poorer. (By "us" I mean the low- and middle-classes, not the elites who continue to get richer.) A lot of the problem is inflation.

Since the coronavirus pandemic, the U.S. has been printing money like there's no tomorrow. Only a tiny % of this has made it into the pockets of people who actually need it. Where did all the other billions and billions of dollars go? Probably to big corporations who didn't need it, but got it because they are politically well connected. Probably a lot went to numerous politicians' "pet projects". (Example: a town in rural Nevada got $8000 in Covid relief money to paint a mural on the outside of a community center. That's nice and all, but what does that have to do with recovering from Covid? Aside from the artist who got a big paycheck, how does that benefit anybody?)

Recently the U.S. even floated the idea of minting a $1 trillion dollar coin. So far they haven't actually done it, but that they would even consider it is evidence of the situation we are in. Can't print money fast enough? Let's just make trillion dollar coins!

It reminds me of this:



That's a 1 billion Reichsmark note. Maybe you could by a loaf of bread with it in 1925.

You see, we already know that when you recklessly pump money into an economy it causes inflation. Weimar Germany in the 1920-30's is the textbook example of this, but it's happened the same way in various places and at various times. Nevertheless, our elected leaders seem blissfully ignorant of history as they set off to do exactly the same thing all over again.

Inflation is already showing up, and it's bad. The prices of everything are going up. The elites don't care because they have plenty of money, so it doesn't effect them. Inflation hurts most the people who are least able to deal with it. And then the government says "no problem, we'll just raise the minimum wage" -- as if companies will just pay the extra money out of the goodness of their hearts and not pass it along to customers in the form of even higher prices! It's a vicious cycle, and once you get it started it's incredibly difficult to stop.

So yes, I am very concerned that we are right now living through times eerily similar to the 1920-30's.

I'm fascinated by the history of WWII, and the events leading up to it, because it shows us how quickly societies can fall. Weimar Germany was a vibrant democracy, but their horrible economic conditions directly contributed to the rise of nazism. In the space of 10 years they went from liberal democracy to the Third Reich and the holocaust. How can an entire nation of people abandon their beliefs and turn to evil in such a short time? And, more importantly, what's to stop it from happening again somewhere else?

I'm shocked by how much the United States has changed in the last 10 years. This time the danger is not from nazism or fascism, but rather communism. Either way though, the end result is certain ruin. As a nation we have lurched hard to the left, and ever since the pandemic this process is accelerating very quickly. Racial tensions, which had been steadily improving since the 1960's, are now getting worse daily. Economic conditions are the worst I've seen since 2008 -- despite the high stock market, cryptos, and real estate -- it feels like we're on the verge of another bubble. Crime is the worst it's been in decades. Homelessness is out of control. As I look around, by almost every measure our country is falling apart. I hope I'm wrong, but it's hard to deny the obvious.

The big crash hasn't come yet, but like I said, the course we're on is not sustainable. It could be months, it could be years, but it's only a matter of time. When it happens, there's no telling what horrors it may lead to, because apparently we have all forgotten the lessons of 100 years ago.

/end novel

Please do not make multiple appeals. Be patient.

Not the right format, and sending a message, added a week.

Unprosecuted Supervisor and General Director are new ones though, i'll add them to the list of hats.