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Good luck fraser, kick some TWC ass
While it seems entirely irrelevant, you are actually right, I have no way of knowing if he is a true anarchist or not, I don't know him well enough. Anarchy, in its most fundamental nature, is the abolishment of all forms of government. Fraser doesn't appear to loath the concept of government necessarily, he just appears to have a conflict of interest with BD's.
To clarify, what I meant by that is he's not bound by the rules or expectations of others (thus he is free), and according to my interpretation of his words, it was the very presence of the governing demands of BD that led to his exodus, which is why I chose that word. Nevertheless, I embellished on my use of the term.
Truthfully...I really don't know what to say. Fraser really hasn't done much against TWC, and if Gicusan says that his assignment was to light them up...Then clearly he failed in that assignment, as I'm going to accept that Gicusan did indeed detail that assignment. Perhaps he made an effort and he killed hundreds of thousands of TWC soldiers, or perhaps he didn't and he failed without even attempting it. Nevertheless, defeat is defeat. Reasons can be given, and legitimate ones, but they don't change the fact that a loss is a loss. And Fraser, with any and all respect due, you've already lost to TWC by virtue of having a 6-1 record over three months during a time when you should have been attacking.
Granted, I'm more occupied with knocking off tiny Lycan villages (who we technically declared on at some point, I think) and launching nukes on DECIDE to care about this. But what can ya do?
For one second I was almost interested in this thread, the gentleman who likes to send bully boy mails then block you so you can’t respond, declaring against the Corporation.
I recall mentioning to Badlapie that if BD took him in all he’d do is cause trouble, and my prediction proved accurate even though I wouldn‘t put it past BD to concoct a little façade to draw us into attack him (I‘ll reserve judgement on that point). He destroyed his old tribe, CRY through bully boy tactics, selling them down the river when the going got tough but I don’t want this post to be an assault on fraser as he’s just not important enough to the Corporation strategy.
Fraser, posting stats of your performance against us is pointless as you don’t even feature on our list of quarterly objectives. I appreciate that Chris Shipley gives you sleepless nights but I can’t even remember the last time I read your name in our forum or Skype chat. As co-duke of the Corporation I can assure you when we attack you the outcome will be conclusive even with potwasher and his flaming parrots supporting you. Right now we’re not even going to bother marking you on the map when you decide to create your scary tribe name, although I’m sure Ben will invite you to H8 if you ask him nicely.
Will we be wasting nukes on you?
Will we be moving troops around to support Shipley?
Will we change our plans to deal with you?
Quite simply, the answer to all the above is no. You are a nobody, you have no concept of the big picture, no idea about how to execute a strategy and having sat numerous accounts you’ve attacked you unable to use the simulator to calculate the nukes needed to take a village.
Official Corporation Statement
Fraser is not recognised as a threat to the corporation, we will not be taking any action to deal with him and all players will continue with their assigned projects, this is our final official notice on this declaration.
Feel free to continue to bait our players into attacking you but the reality is we have no hotheads in our tribe who throw tantrums when they don’t get their own way.
@ Badlap:
I would disagree that I am wrong with what I wrote, though you are also right with what you wrote. There are certainly innacurate stigma's on the concept of Anarchy. (For example, the assumption that anarchy means chaos, or the fallacy that all anarchists are violent by nature.) However, at the core of Anarchy, as seen by more than just modern media, there is a system grounded on the removal of government and subsequently, its restrictions. That's not to say anarchists can't join in a common cause, be a part of a nation or group, or generally achieve some degree of a social state, they would just be such of their own shared will, not by the demands of an omnipresent governing body giving them no other choice. It is for this kind of liberty and freedom that the Anarchist thrives, and such a drive is grounded on the abolishment of government.
I find the Oxford Dictionary's definition a decent one. The OD defines Anarchy in part as "A social state in which there is no governing person or group of people, but each individual has absolute liberty (without the implication of disorder)."
So while I certainly don't claim to be an expert on Anarchy, from what I do know, I see us as saying very much the same thing, our only differing point being our personal definitions of the the heart of Anarchism. Having said that, I do appreciate the in-depth information. I fancy myself something of a student of Cultural Anthropology, and am fascinated by Man's multitudinous sociological views of government and society. I always appreciate it when a person with specialized knowledge is willing to share.
There is one point I am curious about, and would like to add. You said that "Anarchists are in other words hardcore democrats who value consensus decision making and who disagree with all forms of government where the substitution principle is not implemented to it's fullest." and "anarchy has always been about two core values which are seen to be inextricably bound: Freedom and Equality." Following this train of thought, you could have easily just described a Direct Democracy, where each individual is equal and all functions of government are managed by a progressive majority vote. What would you say is the defining difference in the two systems?
@ Badlap:
I would disagree that I am wrong with what I wrote, though you are also right with what you wrote. There are certainly innacurate stigma's on the concept of Anarchy. (For example, the assumption that anarchy means chaos, or the fallacy that all anarchists are violent by nature.) However, at the core of Anarchy, as seen by more than just modern media, there is a system grounded on the removal of government and subsequently, its restrictions. That's not to say anarchists can't join in a common cause, be a part of a nation or group, or generally achieve some degree of a social state, they would just be such of their own shared will, not by the demands of an omnipresent governing body giving them no other choice. It is for this kind of liberty and freedom that the Anarchist thrives, and such a drive is grounded on the abolishment of government.
I find the Oxford Dictionary's definition a decent one. The OD defines Anarchy in part as "A social state in which there is no governing person or group of people, but each individual has absolute liberty (without the implication of disorder)."
So while I certainly don't claim to be an expert on Anarchy, from what I do know, I see us as saying very much the same thing, our only differing point being our personal definitions of the the heart of Anarchism. Having said that, I do appreciate the in-depth information. I fancy myself something of a student of Cultural Anthropology, and am fascinated by Man's multitudinous sociological views of government and society. I always appreciate it when a person with specialized knowledge is willing to share.
There is one point I am curious about, and would like to add. You said that "Anarchists are in other words hardcore democrats who value consensus decision making and who disagree with all forms of government where the substitution principle is not implemented to it's fullest." and "anarchy has always been about two core values which are seen to be inextricably bound: Freedom and Equality." Following this train of thought, you could have easily just described a Direct Democracy, where each individual is equal and all functions of government are managed by a progressive majority vote. What would you say is the defining difference in the two systems?
I have read over each definition of Anarchy an wikipedia come's as close as you can come combining all Anarchism into one explanation.
Anarchists are those who advocate the absence of the state, arguing that common sense would allow people to come together in agreement to form a functional society allowing for the participants to freely develop their own sense of morality, ethics or principled behaviour. The rise of anarchism as a philosophical movement occurred in the mid 19th century, with its idea of freedom as being based upon political and economic self-rule. This occurred alongside the rise of the nation-state and large-scale industrial state capitalism or state-sponsored corporatism, and the political corruption that came with their successes.
Although anarchists share a rejection of the state, they differ about economic arrangements and possible rules that would prevail in a stateless society, ranging from no ownership, to complete common ownership, to supporters of private property and capitalist free market competition. For example, most forms of anarchism, such as that of anarcho-collectivism, anarcho-communism or anarcho-syndicalism not only seek rejection of the state, but also other systems which they perceive as authoritarian, which includes capitalism, capitalist markets, and title-based property ownership. In opposition, a political philosophy known as free-market anarchism, contemporary individualist anarchism or anarcho-capitalism, argues that a society without a state is a free market capitalist system that is voluntarist in nature.
The word "anarchy" is often used by non-anarchists as a pejorative term, intended to connote a lack of control and a negatively chaotic environment. However, anarchists still argue that anarchy does not imply nihilism, anomie, or the total absence of rules, but rather an anti-statist society that is based on the spontaneous order of free individuals in autonomous communities.
Look i prolly shouldnt nick pick here ... But it has to be said .. I respect your leadership skills JP .. but dont come on here with saying that Fraser failed at his task .. when your own personal achievements couldnt even equal Fraser at 500k points .. let alone where he is right now.
TWStats said:Side 1:
Tribes:
Players: JPohlman
Side 2:
Tribes: Lycan
Players:
Timeframe: Last month
Total conquers against opposite side:
Side 1: 8
Side 2: 2
Difference: 6
Points value of total conquers against opposite side:
Side 1: 66,122
Side 2: 13,090
Difference: 53,032
TWStats said:Side 1:
Tribes:
Players: Fraseryeah
Side 2:
Tribes: T-W-C
Players:
Timeframe: Last month
Total conquers against opposite side:
Side 1: 2
Side 2: 1
Difference: 1
Points value of total conquers against opposite side:
Side 1: 15,896
Side 2: 7,974
Difference: 7,922
Wrong again. Anarchy as a philosophy with that name developed in the second half of the 1700's. It was one of a triad of philosophies about how to order the society. On the right you had liberalism that advocated liberty as the most important value. On the left there was socialism that advocated equality as the most important tenet. In the middle you had anarchism that said equality was meaningless without liberty and vice versa.
The capitalist anarchists that you refer to are followers of Ayn Rand that have given themselves the title capitalist without deserving it. The way they visualise society is as far from anything in the anarchist tradition as is fascism. Capitalism never can coexist with anarchy. It's as simple as that. Not surprisingly this group finds home with the "individualist anarchists" who also give themselves the title anarchists because it's about as anti-establishment as you can get while in fact being simply huge egoïsts who care only about themselves and care pissall about others in society.
Anarchists cannot stop people from calling themselves anarchists when they are not, but simply being against authority does not an anarchist make. The problem with wikipedia is that it tries to combine all those who style themselves anarchists into one explanation when that is simply not possible because several groups have chosen the title anarchism for themselves because of the anti-establishment connotation whilst at the same time ignoring the rich philosophical tradition that anarchy has including the sense of equality that is innate in the anarchist definition of freedom. It's about as correct as calling somebody who says "i don't like politicians" an anarchist.