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I apologies if its been said and I missed it, but once this is done will the mod be available on the workshop? I am sure that communism will prevail
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ITT people wanting to make rash strategic decisions in relation to the base game without modded changes.
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Apr 17, 2019 18:09
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There's a lot we can do on the offensive with real tank divisions, especially if our enemies don't have them.
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Apr 18, 2019 01:27
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Dont even need that many, 2 or so with cavalry/motorized to exploit the break through will do Bad Things, especially in good tank country like france
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Ghost of Mussolini posted:I apologies if its been said and I missed it, but once this is done will the mod be available on the workshop? This would definitely be amazing.
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Ghost of Mussolini posted:I apologies if its been said and I missed it, but once this is done will the mod be available on the workshop? It's still not really completed and could do with a ton of balancing, but I'll probably release it eventually, sure. Just hoping that Paradox doesn't release too many patches until then.
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Apr 18, 2019 13:19
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Wonder how much all the Ibrizi combat experience is going to count for. It'd be nice if they could hold out longer than they did in the Great War.
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Apr 19, 2019 17:42
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I'm beginning to fear that our army is only making...moderate progress. 
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May 6, 2019 03:03
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Quite the opposite, we're actually doing better than any of us could hope for. In fact we're doing so well Hashim finds himself unable to actually spin it into a probable and likely narrative, in particular one the Goonmind would like. Yet no matter how many times he tries to replay the scenario we still end up winning, it's like the opposite of Dr. Strange's futures.
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May 6, 2019 07:15
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It's also around exam season, and Hashim mentioned that he'd be busy until that was over.
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May 6, 2019 15:29
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This is just the phony war before the attack on Paris. Just, you know, from the opposite political and geographical direction.
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May 6, 2019 16:24
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Maybe instead of wishing Hashim luck in the war we should wish our LP'er luck in the exams.
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May 6, 2019 16:59
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ZearothK posted:Maybe instead of wishing Hashim luck in the war we should wish our LP'er luck in the exams.
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May 6, 2019 17:14
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Good luck with your exams, Hashim. And lol, I just revisited the last update and remembered how screwed we are if we can’t manage to deliver a quick knockout blow to Francia. We are in such deep poo poo especially if we lose access to oil before we crack their defensive lines.
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Snipee posted:And lol, I just revisited the last update and remembered how screwed we are if we can’t manage to deliver a quick knockout blow to Francia. We are in such deep poo poo especially if we lose access to oil before we crack their defensive lines. Doesn't that boil down to "if we don't win, we lose"?
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SlothfulCobra posted:Doesn't that boil down to "if we don't win, we lose"? Thank you, Yogi Berra.
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May 6, 2019 23:29
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Just powered through this LP over the past month and wow, it seems like things really came full circle “how hosed are we?” wise.
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May 19, 2019 09:36
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Yeah, it's a solid place for a cliffhanger, narratively speaking. Things could really go either way at this point.
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May 19, 2019 19:33
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Naw, if there's anything I know about Al-Andalus it's that it always goes full circle. 50/50 we'll either get the snot beaten out of us by Frankia or we'll get the snot beaten out of us by opportunistic rebels. Things can never go well for Al-Andalus, it's like a universal constant or something.
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habeasdorkus posted:The classic example of this is the poverty rates in various countries before and after transfers: Just noticed the great graphic above (timg snipped to save space), which really illustrates domestic inequality by median income in rich countries. Filling in on that, modern capitalist countries (which are overwhelmingly socdem to a meaningful degree, with a few exceptions like South Korea) also have extremely low rates of absolute poverty owing to the wealth that the efficiency of capitalism creates, mixed with the well-developed human resources, social stability and long-term investment security that a solid welfare program creates: https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2013/05/End-of-absolute-Poverty-in-rich-countries-2.png (Graphic: The reduction of extreme poverty in countries that are rich today, 1820-2000.) Good Luck with exams! Hopefully when you get back it ends in an ongoing nuclear exchange between the Imariz Initiative and Europe.  Can't spread the sunshine a couple of decades later without wrecking the story.
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which countries count as capitalist and/or what standards one sets for success seem to be rather important to both of those posts tbh if one, say, deems success to be a practical elimination of poverty (not necessarily illegitimate) then a 40% reduction falls far short of the mark likewise, i very much doubt anyone'd claim that e.g. bangladesh is not a capitalist country and uh they have like 17% poverty rate which is extremely not great
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May 21, 2019 16:38
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Poverty is a capitalist construct
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The imperial core being rich and bribing their workers with social safety nets isn't exactly news, the whole global south is capitalist too and still as hosed as ever, we've known this for over a century.
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Very often with these sorts of analyses I feel like it comes down to the very ambiguous definition of capitalism. Everything feels like it's nestled in cold war era propaganda more than anything else. Very often it turns into long, sprawling bad-faith arguments about the incompatibility of freedom and social welfare. Notably, most arguments about benefits of capitalism are about free markets, but there is also a certain lack of free markets in areas with the worst excesses of capitalism.
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May 21, 2019 17:38
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 Careful there partner, that trail you're on leads to ancap town.It's a bad place.
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SlothfulCobra posted:Very often with these sorts of analyses I feel like it comes down to the very ambiguous definition of capitalism. Everything feels like it's nestled in cold war era propaganda more than anything else. Very often it turns into long, sprawling bad-faith arguments about the incompatibility of freedom and social welfare. Free markets are a bourgeois lie told to suppress class consciousness. Like the "middle" class or young Sheldon.
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May 21, 2019 23:06
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Carefully regulated markets, though, can be pretty damned useful.
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May 21, 2019 23:13
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Please God, let Hashim go back to killing French people
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paragon1 posted:
I mean sure, there's a load of problems that can't be solved by free markets, but when they work, they work. And when there's a massive power disparity they don't work, which can mean the labor market or healthcare or monopolies or cartels. One of the big things that governments need to do for maintaining markets is busting down anybody who "wins" the competition and starts setting up their own little hegemony. Which is a weird concept to get your brain around, but it sure is easier than trying to centrally manage everything. But so many people try to phrase everything into unworkable absolutes by shoving everything into fairly narrow boxes because they don't actually want workable solutions. Although due to current power differentials, right now there's far more bad faith arguments on the libertarian side than the other.
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May 21, 2019 23:53
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Rody One Half posted:Please God, let Hashim go back to killing French people
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May 22, 2019 00:28
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Rody One Half posted:Please God, let Hashim go back to killing Iberian people
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May 22, 2019 00:30
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I hope Hashim is okay.
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May 22, 2019 00:39
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ZearothK posted:I hope Hashim is killing French and Iberian people
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May 22, 2019 00:47
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I hope Hashim is killing the wealthy land owning class
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May 22, 2019 01:33
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Sampatrick posted:I hope Hashim is killing the wealthy land owning class 
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I find it difficult to imagine an alternative economic system that could endure without at least partially relapsing back into capitalism over the medium/long run or getting so economically eclipsed by wealthier capitalist enemies that national security simply becomes too costly to keep up. It is much easier for me to imagine a social democratic solution where capitalist interests are frequently made subordinate to public welfare but are otherwise relatively free to operate within regulated markets. Anyways, in this fictional hellworld with Al Andalus, failure to defend our socialist revolution would probably end up with us imprisoned and/or slaughtered by fascist Franks. Our totalitarian police state still easily manages to hold the higher moral ground in this world war. 
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Sampatrick posted:I hope we start killing the wealthy land owning class
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Snipee posted:I find it difficult to imagine an alternative economic system that could endure without at least partially relapsing back into capitalism over the medium/long run or getting so economically eclipsed by wealthier capitalist enemies that national security simply becomes too costly to keep up. It is much easier for me to imagine a social democratic solution where capitalist interests are frequently made subordinate to public welfare but are otherwise relatively free to operate within regulated markets. Wow it's like you almost got it and then it slipped away at the last moment
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Sampatrick posted:Wow it's like you almost got it and then it slipped away at the last moment Yes, that's what being imprisoned for failing would look like, if we were to slip away at the last moment in the fierce defense of our morally uprighteous ideals.
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Everything's good and my last exam is in a couple days, so we'll be back pretty soon
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