Warfare & Tactics

Ladies and gentlemen of Factional Warfare and Warfare & Tactics, I feel there has been a steady decline in the quality of forum interaction of late, with threads that would have barely received a handful of replies a year or so ago now going on for pages. To paraphrase Jean Anouilh, framed in the perspective of FW posts to W&T, ‘Your posts are soft weapons; hold them in your hands too long, and they will move about like snakes, and strike the other way.’

Let us not appeal to fear, prejudice or the flag-waving half-truths of people of wishful authority. The big lie of pretending to be the common man while cherry picking quotes out of context only obfuscates rationalizations of unstated assumptions, thus generating posts ad nauseam of exaggeration, loaded language, name-calling, and scapegoating. While euphemisms of intentional vagueness, wrapped around straw man arguments or red herrings, in an attempt to manage the news, demonize the enemy, or gain latitudes of acceptance might provide moments of euphoria or a milieu of control, in the end these actions only result in stereotyping and an oversimplification of issues.

Things are rarely black or white no matter how fervent a testimonial is or how often it is repeated. Unshackle yourselves from the operant conditioning you have endured through disinformation, lying, and deception, lest you be found guilty by association through your acceptance of the love bombs and glittering generalities of the beautiful people of W&T. Continued jumping on the bandwagon to demonize the enemy, to frame their actions, or label them through pithy slogans of inevitable victory only leads to levels of cognitive dissonance that even a post in the form of a thought-terminating cliché can’t penetrate.

I call on you, my brothers and sisters of Factional Warfare, to adopt a value system that strives to honor words of virtue and shuns a Pensée unique stance on issues and/or degenerates into ad hominem posts.

Less jibber jabber more pew pew

Word(s).

I already adhere to such a code!

This is true. That's why even though the efficacy of the rubbish is questionable, engaging with you is not an exercise in futility. More often that not, it is quite entertaining.

An appropriate reply to the underlying theme of my original post, stated with conviction!
"The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy." - Robert E. Lee

This I like.

You, my good sir, should be wearing a monocle while posting such eloquent verbiage.

If I can just get a word in amongst all the Galmil Pilots congratulating you on such a fine display of text. Obviously, a lot of limited educational background there. I'll keep it simple for you, wouldn't want to steal your thunder and all that.

Along with most of CalMil. I/we will happily adhere to any moral code or mature content that you and your Galmil colleagues set out. All you have to do is start paying for our subscriptions then you can tell us what to do all you like. Otherwise, the hypocracy of faction warfare Comedy Central will continue.


So long as Crosi keeps typing we can't be having that smug (I've done it before everyone else) attitude. The boy islost up his own dark tunnel with no way out!


CalMil best mil

KISS (Keep it simple stupid)