Intergalactic Summit

If you take the Drifters seriously, maybe you could have just avoided this and maybe not caused a bunch of strain and drama?

Lady Tyrathlion might weather this. But the storm itself was optional.

The Drifters haven't made any new moves, but they also haven't withdrawn into Anoikis. We still don't know what the Elements are for, or even what they are. The same goes for the Hive structures and Nexuses.

We've got enough to worry about. More than enough.

You could have helped. Maybe you still can-- I kind of hope so.

But, I don't hold grudges well at all, and I can't speak for others.

Oh, I understand your premise, Binky. I just think it'd be nice if you actually phrased it in ways that weren't utter shite. You might think you're being verbally complex, but what you're actually doing is diluting your message.

So, let me make this clear:

As a writer or a propagandist, you want your message to be clear. You want it to be easily digested. You want it to be as simple and straightforward as you can get it.

Every iota of effort the targets and subjects of your agitprop need to expend just trying to understand you because you're busy wanking off about being able to maximize your syntactic complexity works against you.

Every. Single. One.

Because they stop caring about what you had to say. Your message becomes lost in 'what is this garbage?' and they mentally crumple it up and throw it away.

Keep it simple, stupid.

Because making your message complex, making your message even one little bit harder for the intended target to parse? That's exactly what it is: stupid. It's counterproductive. It helps your enemies, not you. It impresses exactly one person: yourself. And when you combine your slavish devotion to overly-complex verbiage with actually getting it wrong the way you repeatedly did? You turn people off even faster. Worse, you impress upon them that you have no idea what you're talking about.

Let's review!

"The degree to which one is in the eye of the slave and master is a poor yardstick for free men."

The degree [to which one is in the eye of the slave and master] is a poor yardstick for free men. << That's your primary subject/verb/object. That's fine. That makes sense. So let's look at the secondaries!

to which one is in the eye of the slave and master << to which one is what in the eye of the slave and master? Are you trying to say 'to which one is the slave and master in their own eyes'? Because that's not even close to what the construction you've used means. Are you trying to say 'to which one is important in the eye of the slave and master'? Maybe! It'd fit your message. Unfortunately you left out the most important word. Even more hilarious, considering in that construction, the most important word is actually "important"!

And then when I suggested you re-read so you could maybe edit it for clarity... Binky got pissy, and managed to again assemble an overly-complex construction that doesn't mean what he wanted it to mean... We've already covered it briefly, but let me give you another option that would've worked:

"Shall we trust our persuasion to one who can or will not parse the truth when so clearly it is laid before her?"

As noted, this needed to be 'can not or will not' if you want to preserve the construction you have. HOWEVER! There's another construction which, in fact, I was surprised you didn't opt for, given that it better serves your 'maximum syntactical complexity' fetish:

"to one who neither can nor will parse"

See? You have to negate the whole thing or you have to negate both actions individually.

Poor Binky. Loves to use lots of words, doesn't actually know how.

So, here's the first rule of literary rules: You need to know the rules before you can break the rules without just being confusing as heck.

That's not 'framing', that's writing. It's also propaganda 101.

This isn't propaganda.

It's provocation.

In that regard you have it quite twisted.

Your outburst was a delight, truly a metric by which future sperge shall be measured.

In other words, you're just trying to make us mad.

Soooooo....

Our best option if we want to annoy you in turn is to blow a raspberry and ignore you.

Noted, I guess?

Your pilot's license is a free service provided to all? I'll let the Jita market know they should drop the prices on PLEX, then.

Ahh, so you're moving your goalposts around. Cute. Hope they're light.

If you'd like to look into the cost of the pilots license rather than the clone contract, we spent roughly two hours of time for three pilots.

At a current rate of 1.124bn ISK for 720 hours of piloting, this cost us about 9.3666 million ISK. Not even a blip.

Probably

Oh but you don't understand. I am not its employee. I am Rote Kapelle.

This why we will forever talk past each other.

You are comfortable with what you are, and I am comfortable seeing you in the light of truth which glamour hides for those less accustomed to the raw and ugly products of empire.

Sweet. Other things still apply.