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My vote goes to Kaliningrad.

No. Really? Please elaborate. Never ONCE did he imply that he believed that he was racially superior. Likewise, I'm assuming that you believe that he believes that he is superior because he is American. For your information, 'American' is not a race, nor is it even an ethnicity. Therefore, he is not racist; you misused the term. Please learn what a race is, it has nothing to do with genetic similarities. Example: Many Lebanese and Syrian people are extremely genetically similar, two distinct races. Race is a social construct that has an ideology, cultural pattern or common descent as its core. For Americans their core is an ideology consisting of "Americaness", the American Dream, land of opportunity idea, etc. Although I would say the "American race" core has diminished since after WW2, things like the Social Register defined the finest of the American race, but with the infusion of more non-Anglo-Saxon races, the mesh of American culture is different and the idea of Social Darwinism has almost vanished (I like how American textbooks normally forget to mention Hitler's declarations of what was superior were often similar to America's and if you know of the Battle of Dunkirk you would know Hitler wanted to compromise with the other Anglo-Saxons. Again, Americans censor war to romanticize their heroism or lack thereof) I sort of agree with that, but I feel like the term "racist" is used too broadly. I could make a gay slur, and someone, somewhere would call me a racist. As for the Americanism, I view it more as the creation of an autonomous cultural identity and thus forsaking one's native identity (Anglo-Saxon culture became "less English" after the American Revolution, especially with the diffusion of Germans and Irishmen throughout American society. However, most groups have basically given up their true cultures and adopted the "American way of life". However, many people strongly correlate ethnicity with race. For example, I'm Anglo-Saxon. Some people would like to refer to this ethnic group as belonging to the great Germanic Race. However, many more people will claim that there is a "White Race", which includes all Indo-European peoples. However, there are people who only view Slavics, Celts, and Germanic peoples as members of the "White Race" while others include Iranians and some Indians (from the Aryan invasion of India). Race is too subjective and hotly debated. Personally, I think it's more accurate to categorize someone by their ethnic identity, but there are far too many ethnic groups for any sort of efficiency. Likewise, many people, especially Anglo-Saxons have a mixed ethnicity. Most Anglo-Saxons have Celtic blood due either in part with the interbreeding of Celts and Anglos following the Germanic invasion of Britain or Celtic immigration to these regions (including colonies such as America, Canada, Australia, or New Zealand). But at least everyone is in unanimous agreement when they say [bleep] the French!

Oo another AAR weee http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?t=469774

Political discussion on the internet are always so much fun.

Just pointing out that it's more like 1 or 2 Taliban fighters and 10 civilians.

Erm. Considering it was a video that whistleblowers got from the Pentagon's records, is the footage from inside an attack helicopter, details a story that has been reported by numerous news sources, and is...yes, completely real. Um. Also, there's this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MGRS Which gives you this (since Iraq is mostly 38S): http://maps.google.com/maps?q=33.313692+44.512055+%28UTM:+38S++454580m+E++3686170m+N%29&ie=UTF8&ll=33.313692,44.512053&spn=0.012714,0.015771&t=h&z=16 Looks pretty similar to me.

BECAUSE DEY TOOK OUR JERRRBS!

I thought it was blessed are the cheesemakers.

Likely because something was going on down the street. Cameras generally need to be pointed at the location you want to record for them to record properly. Just sayin'. There has to be some sort of [bleep]-up here with the soldiers not knowing exactly what their ROE is. And justification for shooting the first group can be brought up, but not for shooting the van. That's like shooting a bloody medic. Lol.

Ignorant statement. The guy with the 'RPG' was actually a Reuters journalist with a camera.

This is an article in 2007 detailing what happened: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/13/world/middleeast/13iraq.html?_r=3&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss Mod edit - This is actual footage of civilians being shot at, watch at your own risk. (pff pansy) This is the video: (The two kind of conflict as to what actually happened) Watch it while you can. Idk how many people here have been following the [cabbage]e storm wiki threw up when it said it had the video, but it's out now.

Yep...

No. They're terrible books. If you want some decent fiction books, try these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Saxon_Stories http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horatio_Hornblower#Bibliography http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Sharpe_%28fictional_character%29#The_Sharpe_novels_and_short_stories http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ender%27s_Game_%28series%29#Chronological_order Obviously, read the LoTR books as well.

No it's because the US is too interventionist in affairs that don't really directly affect them, but intervene because mmmmmmmurika! [bleep] yeah! I suppose someone with more time and patience on their hands could give a litany of reasons as to why the USA is a less than ideal country to live in, because I certainly can't be arsed to.

And while we're on the subject, what the [bleep] is up with scientists always having to act all sciency? I mean, WHERE DO THEY GET OFF TALKING ABOUT SCIENCE LIKE THEY KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT IT. The nerve of some people, sheesh. derp de derp, etc, etc. What a stupid premise for a thread. OP should be shot.

Our fleets were the same size, but I had the capacity to produce 10,000x as many ships as you did. If we did that, the Earth would be part of the Terran Federation. Virtually everything would be part of the Terran Federation (unless you're playing as an alien race). No objections from me. :razz: If you want control of the planet, you have to fight on land. If you just want to annihilate all life on the planet...you orbitally bombard it.

Mather, sometimes your stupidity truly amazes me. I was not talking to you.

Obviously, blargh.

Nothing all that useful.

This is true. Also, I think it's fair to say from the start that I will be ignoring anything that gets past a certain complexity level. Once the game starts to feel more like work then fun I end up losing all interest in it.

? We were talking about Civ-style games, Team Foretress isn't exactly that. I don't see civilization mentioned anywhere in Grim's post.

With their fists.

Yay Midgard returns

Mather, shut up. We know you live in Norway.

Lol. Alexander the Great killed a lot of people as well, socialist scum!