[OOC] Precipice of War - We Write Under The Sign Of The Goat

[Shyri]

You wouldn't have any goats if Mihn hadn't painted Jamaica British-red, and if any of us gave enough fucks to protest it.

@Pepperm1nts

Well, I protested it. It just wasn't changed. :P

[Pepperm1nts]

@Cheesy: I think it's fine as long as you acknowledge that the problems with Ukraine and Czechslovakia are still on-going, and that they were not handled with the political dealings mentioned in the sheet. Likewise, you should probably acknowledge that Poland's army is not the best, and that it's probably still very stretched. The reforms mentioned in the sheet would not have - and should not - be enough to correct that.

I am still a little uncomfortable with your persistent mention of 'research into technologies', and a 'University of Technology' though, because I don't feel either or those things is worth mentioning unless you are planning on focusing heavily on them which, as we have already mentioned, should not be something Poland is doing because they are not in a position to do so, nor are they a nation likely to pursue that in any large scale. And if it's not large-scale, then it shouldn't be something mentioned in the sheet. Doing so gives off the impression that it WILL be large-scale, and we have already expressed concern there.

[Vilageidiotx]

Private investment driving the growth of technical schools is probably the best way to approach that. If a Polish arms industry is making a lot of money, it would make sense for them to fund schools to ensure they have employees. The governments might partly subsidize, or or give legislative preference too the business of these colleges, but they don't necessarily have to be the primary financiers.

You just have to look outside the box. The real world isn't a video game, so these things are much more complicated. The Government doesn't drag a research funding bar up or choose what tech they are going to grind. Rather, they go out of their way to clear obstacles in the way of what they want to develop. And this will be partially egged on by the fact that successful politicians will be the ones being funded by the arms industry.

To simplify, The Arms Industry makes shit loads of money from selling arms, they use that money to buy off politicians and pay for the infrastructure and schools they need to make that arms industry more successful, and the politicians they pay off earn that money by pushing through whatever benefits the arms industry.

...which happens to mean the conflict in Russia and Polish involvement in it, since war sells guns and selling guns is what the arms industry is all about. That means jingoistic propaganda, and a populace who's jobs depend on militarism and, for the most part, know that.

This is what an "Military-Industrial Complex" is, btw. That is what that word means, for the most part.

[Dinh AaronMk]

And let's not forget Armenia is being supplied by the Polish arms industry. So they have that.

I think at this point we ran the revision process about as far as it could go so you're good Cheesy. Just keep what we said in mind.

[Shyri]

Join the Diplomacy game! We just need two more people for it to start. Password is pow.

(Revan, Hug. You've played in the past/are interested in playing. Want in? > u >)

@Shyri

[Dinh AaronMk]

I'mma drop this here because it's amusing.

[Dinh AaronMk]

I was going to have more in that post, but that stuff involves the jet confrontation me and Googer and having and we decided we wanted to try and write it up in one big post. So I cut the jet stuff out and we're going to piece it together in PMs.

[Chapatrap]

Ohai, it's St Patricks Day, the day where everyone has to be Irish.

Dance, my little Bostonians, dance the riverdance...

[Vilageidiotx]

Ohai, it's St Patricks Day, the day where everyone has to be Irish.

Dance, my little Bostonians, dance the riverdance...

@Chapatrap

In the Midwest, it means "Everyone eats corn beef and goes to the bar." Also known as "Sickdayduetohangoverseve"

There is a bunch of places giving out free shit if you wear green. Would have done that, but all my clothes are black, blue, and grey.

[Chapatrap]

In Ireland, it means "everyone get drunk and watch the auld parade beside the church".

[Pepperm1nts]

In the confines of my dark, cavernous room it means 'jack-shit'.

[Vilageidiotx]

I work tonight, so the most the partying will effect me is making me wonder how many drunk drivers will be on the road when I get off at three in the morning.

[Chapatrap]

In the confines of my dark, cavernous room it means 'jack-shit'.

@Pepperm1nts

4edgy2me

[Vilageidiotx]

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4edgy2me

@Chapatrap

Crawling in my skin, these posts will not they will not finish.

[Pepperm1nts]

TIL not drinking and admitting to staying in my room for St. Patrick's Day makes me edgy.

Next thing: Breathing is edgy.

[Wilted Rose]

we don't celebrate it because we praise the sun not a saint

[Pepperm1nts]

I can get behind that.

[Vilageidiotx]

TIL not drinking and admitting to staying in my room for St. Patrick's Day makes me edgy.

Next thing: Breathing is edgy.

@Pepperm1nts

Hell yeh it is edgy. Straight edgy.

[Dinh AaronMk]

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Hell yeh it is edgy. Straight edgy.

@Vilageidiotx

I wonder how he sleeps at night with all those edges.

[Chapatrap]

I wouldn't mind cutting myself on those edges, if they were the edges of a Prussian post.