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President Eden (2750 D)
24 Jul 11 UTC
How the hell does one succeed as Turkey?
I've done well as Turkey before, but rarely ever in high class play and never in high class play when I haven't jumped in mid-game.
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cpman (0 DX)
28 Jul 11 UTC
Please Join this Long Term Game
Hello all! I would like to ask you to join this game: http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=64615
Thanks!

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1brucben (60 D)
27 Jul 11 UTC
Lets take back this forum liberals!!
are we gonna let these conservative retards take over this forum? Liberals post your ideas here. comservative ideas will be deleted
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MaxVax (5610 D)
28 Jul 11 UTC
could someone pick France? - low point game, good practice.
Could someone pick up France here?
http://www.webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=63317&msgCountryID=7&rand=61916
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Menteith (171 D)
27 Jul 11 UTC
Newbie Question - Draw/Pause/Cancel Votes
I've seen the voting buttons, but I can't find anything on-site about how they work. What happens if you vote Draw/Pause/Cancel?
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dD_ShockTrooper (1199 D)
28 Jul 11 UTC
Can anyone defend Austria when being attacked by Italy, Russia and Turkey?
Can anyone defend the idea that a "power" can produce a better situation for Austria by diminishing the attackers' SC control in exchange for increased unexpected imposition of diplomatic pressure on the attackers?
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1brucben (60 D)
27 Jul 11 UTC
LETS SEE HOW MANY POSTS WE CAN GET ON THIS THREAD!!!
JUST POST RANDOM CRAP!!!! IT WILL BE FUN!!!
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1brucben (60 D)
27 Jul 11 UTC
Politics on a Diplomacy website??? WTF
why are so many people spending hours making stupid points about politics on a diplomacy forum???? TALK ABOUT DIPLOMACY PLEASE. I agree to shutup my liberal trap if those conservatives do also.
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☺ (1304 D)
27 Jul 11 UTC
Can anyone defend SPARTAAAA?
Leonidas can.
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Thucydides (864 D(B))
27 Jul 11 UTC
My partial departure
See inside
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Fasces349 (0 DX)
26 Jul 11 UTC
Can anybody defend stealing from the wealthy
Something that has always confused me is why people say taxing the wealthy is fair. How can one justify governments taking quadruple the money on those who earn twice as much as the middle class? How is it fair?
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obiwanobiwan (248 D)
26 Jul 11 UTC
The Master of PR Disaster, Glenn Beck Does It Again...Says Norway's Victims=Hitler Youth
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2011/07/glenn-beck-hits-a-new-low-compares-norway-victims-to-hitler-youth.html

I mean...even for HIM, that has to be one of the lowest and most disgusting utterances this side of Jerry Falwell's blaming 9/11 on gays...
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Riphen (198 D)
25 Jul 11 UTC
Are you ready for some Football!!!?
Yes finally after 136 days in a lockout we can finally watch as are favorite teams start to select free agents! Who is excited!! ME! ME! ME!

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King98 (0 DX)
27 Jul 11 UTC
Live Game
I don't see many live-games going on... I find long term games boring, so I hosted my own http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=64593
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SantaClausowitz (360 D)
27 Jul 11 UTC
The Prison Norwegian Killer May Spend The Rest of His 21 Years In
I'm not a crime and punishment sort of guy, but this might be a bit much
http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2011/07/26/will-norways-mass-murderer-end-up-in-a-luxury-prison/?hpt=hp_bn2

Thoughts? I'm torn, but mostly toward exporting this guy to an Egyptian prison for the rest of his life.
obiwanobiwan (248 D)
27 Jul 11 UTC
Well, I mean, as long as he's comfortable...

I mean, yo have to be more sensitive, Santa! The man killed 90, maimed 100+ more, set off a bomb, and published a 1500-page manifesto and a 12-minute video all in the same day...

He's CLEARLY tired and deserves some comfort for all that hard work murdering people...
denis (864 D)
27 Jul 11 UTC
The sentence can be extended indefinetly in increments of 5 years.
I've heard that doesn't happen often, and all the guy has to say is he repents, cry a couple times, write some letters to be deemed not a threat. The release is not based on the severity of the crime but on whether he is a danger to the community
denis (864 D)
27 Jul 11 UTC
Well we'll see I'm sure after writing a violent manifesto its a given that he's never getting out.
hope so, but I actually doubt it, the law is the law, and something tells me the norwegians take that seriously.
denis (864 D)
27 Jul 11 UTC
Well I think they take the fact that he's a mass murderer seriously too
Thucydides (864 D(B))
27 Jul 11 UTC
Yeah no way they'd ever let him out he is Norway's national villain. He is unprecedented.
Octavious (2701 D)
27 Jul 11 UTC
The only way he'll not be out after 21 years will be either because he's dead or because he does not want to leave. Norway's reaction to this guy has been to do everything possible to convince themselves that their core values cannot be changed by the actions of madmen, and as such I fear they will make a point of treating him in the same way they treat every other criminal. He'll get out early on good behavoir after promising to limit his political activities to door to door leafleting and song writing.
Darwyn (1601 D)
27 Jul 11 UTC
"he is Norway's national villain"...and Israel's hero.

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/215928#.TjALJWH-Xvs

Breivik's 1,500 page book attacks the European political establishment because he sees it as an ally of the Muslims against Israel, and praises Israel for not giving Muslims the same rights they enjoy in different European countries.

Breivik says, "The time has come to stop the stupid support of the Palestinians...and to start supporting our cultural cousins - Israel." The sight of the massacre was a camp which demanded, days earlier, that Israel "finish the occupation." Anti-Israel, pro-Arab signs were hung in the camp.
Mujus (1495 D(B))
27 Jul 11 UTC
Norwegians are notoriously soft-hearted toward the mentally disturbed, even violent ones, but this time there are going to be many that do not forgive him. I predict life in prison until he is too old to get around on his own, then a safe, comfortable retirement home for his last days.
Geofram (130 D(B))
27 Jul 11 UTC
So what? He's Norwegian, the victims were Norwegian, they make their laws and their prisons. You're not a victim, you shouldn't even care to have an opinion on what should happen to him.
Draugnar (0 DX)
27 Jul 11 UTC
Geez... And they call me a cold hearted bastard... Geofram, the Norwegians are fellow human beings. They have all the same joys and fears as we do, so discussing how we'd feel if we were Norwegian is only to be expected.
Cachimbo (1181 D)
27 Jul 11 UTC
BRONSON!!!!
He'll be Norway's Bronson! Or not... Still, hell of a movie that I recommend to all of you out here!

As for Norway and how they'll deal with him, it's hard to tell. Even if they have a very sophisticated judicial and penal system, they also have political institutions that have their own necessities (read: any government seeing to this man being released will pay a huge political price).
Also, I don't believe that any decent system (and Norway's is surely decent) would be deprived of means to deal with cases such as this one. The psychology and science on which their penal logic lies also suggests that people like this man usually cannot be trusted to be safe before old age (75 and up): once the hormones and strength are gone, the desires to act out on irrational thoughts also dwindles.

But my real point is: we'll see!
Draugnar (0 DX)
27 Jul 11 UTC
Who's Bronson? Do you by chance mean Manson?

Nevermind, a google search showed who you were referring to. Stupid American me...
Octavious (2701 D)
27 Jul 11 UTC
I don't know, I find Geofram's attitude refreshing in its lack of hypocrisy. Around 25,000 other children died on the same day due to boring reasons such as pneumonia, diarrhea, malaria, measles, HIV etc, which we happily ignore as somebody else's problem. The only reason this bunch of fellow human beings are being talked about is because they died in an exciting and dramatic fashion.

Well... maybe not the only reason. A really cynical person might say that we're talking about the poor Norwegians because it's a problem that we can do very little or nothing about, and therefore have no obligation to actually do anything no matter what we conclude. The other problems, however, can be solved, so if we talk about them we're in danger of being inconvinienced by an urge to do something about them.

...luckily I'm not cynical :)
Cachimbo (1181 D)
27 Jul 11 UTC
Hahaha! No worries Draug, I didn't know of him either before I came across the movie.

Don't believe the people who will sell you this movie as an action flick, or a Stallone-style-prison-flick. It's really clever, and superbly put together. Bronson is played by that cool guy that joins with Leo's team in Inception.
From the same director, Valhalla Rising is a must see. You need to be into contemplative movies with a high dose of violence though (Peckinpah movies come to mind as a comparative). The main character here is played by the actor who did LeChiffre in Bond's Casino Royal.
Baskineli (100 D(B))
27 Jul 11 UTC
@Darwyn: ""he is Norway's national villain"...and Israel's hero."

I live in Israel. He is not Israel's hero. He is a mass murderer, and I hope he will never live outside of prison.


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Putin33 (111 D)
26 Jul 11 UTC
Dear Francophobes
Any regrets about your rush to hang DSK?
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obiwanobiwan (248 D)
27 Jul 11 UTC
Chris Hedges: Hitchens, Harris and "Secular Fundamentalism Caused Oslo Attacks?
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/fundamentalism_kills_20110726/
Quite possibly the WORST PROFESS IONAL ESSAY I HAVE EVER READ. Stylistically lackluster at best and completely banal at worst, with an emhpasis on terms poorly defined and adjectives poorly used, it's message is confused and WRONG--WHEN has Hitchens had "twisted yearning for the apocalypse and belief in the “chosen people?" UTTER STUPIDITY...
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Agent K (0 DX)
27 Jul 11 UTC
Dubloon Challenge
Nimen hao,

Join this game to acquire dubloons beyond imagination.
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doofman (201 D)
26 Jul 11 UTC
Doofman returns!
That is all
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SergeantCitrus (257 D)
26 Jul 11 UTC
Can anybody defend baby eating?
I mean they make a good stew, but the meat is too stringy.
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Fasces349 (0 DX)
26 Jul 11 UTC
Obama's Speech on the Debt Crisis
What are peoples thoughts on it?
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denis (864 D)
26 Jul 11 UTC
Vanguard
I've been watching quite a bit of this TV documentary show, Vanguard, on CurrentTV. Just would like to know if anybody else has seen it. And start a discussion about the topics below.
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taylornottyler (100 D)
25 Jul 11 UTC
Disease - To eradicate, or not to eradicate
Given all the yicky microbes bent on killing millions each year, why don't we have disease eradication as a higher priority?
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1brucben (60 D)
24 Jul 11 UTC
TripleA
For those of you who love strategy games like diplomacy, there is a free software program called TripleA. almost any time a day you can find 20 users online to play Axis and Allies games. My user name is Colonel_Klink and here is the download site. http://sourceforge.net/projects/triplea/files/ it includes a link to the official forums too.
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obiwanobiwan (248 D)
26 Jul 11 UTC
Welcome To The Obi Factor! (And I'm Inviting ALL the Conservatives In On This One!)
We have a great crop of crazed posts and threads that just seem to keep popping up in this last hour on how AWFUL the Democratic Party is and how the GOP and the Republican Way is, of course, the ONLY Way!
So--krellin! Tettleton! Conservative Man! And any others! Come on in and explain your positions HERE, in the concise No-S*** Zone! THIS IS THE FACTOR!
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thatwasawkward (4690 D(B))
22 Jul 11 UTC
Drunken Diplomacy
I'd like to set up a live game for alcoholics at some point in the future. Every time you gain or lose a SC, you take a shot. Every time the year changes, you take a shot. Every time a nation is eliminated, you chug. The idea is that as the war goes on, you become more and more "drunk" with power... only for real.
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Babak (26982 D(B))
21 Jul 11 UTC
Buckeye Game Fest XII (FTF dip Tournament)
Thursday 13th October 2011 - Sunday 16th October 2011
Columbus, Ohio, United States
Contact: Thomas Haver ([email protected])
Website: http://www.buckeyegamefest.com/
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gigantor (404 D)
25 Jul 11 UTC
Draws vs. Cancels
I just set up my first live game for months, as I have not had a whole lot of spare time recently. However, I was disappointed to see Turkey NMR in Spring 1901, Russia in Autumn and finally Italy in builds. More inside.
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dexter morgan (225 D(S))
22 Jul 11 UTC
An honest question for Christians regarding trinity
Trinity - god being one but three - has always and will always be something that I find impossible to swallow... but, for those who believe in it, it occurred to me that it is a model consistent with other Christian beliefs in a way that I hadn't realized before... I have a question about this...
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Indybroughton (3407 D(G))
26 Jul 11 UTC
A coastal question:
Fleet in Constan; Fleet in Bulg north coast. Can the two swap places:
Con-Bulg south coast; Bulg north coast - Con.
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