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Condemnation of my alma mater
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Lialus Raithe
Doomheim
#21 - 2013-04-01 22:22:16 UTC
Emile Belfleur wrote:

Understand me right - in an ideal universe, we would never have formed the Federation in the first place. At best, we would have a military and trade alliance with our neighbors. We would still be Gallente, we would still be Garoun, and we would still have our king.

Still, we must work within the reality we have. If there has to be a supernational superstructure overlaying our part of the cluster, and it has to go around spending the money of citizens as though they were its own, it should at least spend it on something sensible and worthwhile. Like engineers.


Ah, old blood. I thought I remembered you mentioning the age and pride of your name at some point.

We'll have to simply disagree then.
Emile Belfleur
Solar Zouaves
#22 - 2013-04-01 22:28:38 UTC
Lialus Raithe wrote:
Ah, old blood. I thought I remembered you mentioning the age and pride of your name at some point.

We'll have to simply disagree then.

Very well, Captain.
Rhiannon Dellacorte
Liberty Vanguard
#23 - 2013-04-01 22:31:44 UTC  |  Edited by: Rhiannon Dellacorte
Emile Belfleur wrote:
We would still be Gallente, we would still be Garoun, and we would still have our king.


I'm going to have to mark today on the calendar. Somebody said with a straight face we should go back to being a monarchy and in the same breath claimed that educational regulations were akin to tyranny.

Rules of Acquisition #261

A wealthy man can afford anything except a conscience.
Emile Belfleur
Solar Zouaves
#24 - 2013-04-01 23:03:59 UTC
Rhiannon Dellacorte wrote:
I'm going to have to mark today on the calendar. Somebody said with a straight face we should go back to being a monarchy and in the same breath claimed that educational regulations were akin to tyranny.

That is a complete misrepresentation of what I said. Supporting monarchy at the state level while remaining skeptical of supernational involvement in national affairs is not a self-contradictory position.

For the record, a monarch who would centralize all power under her- or himself and interfere overly much in the local affairs of the landed aristocracy would be a tyrant, too.
Rhiannon Dellacorte
Liberty Vanguard
#25 - 2013-04-02 00:46:45 UTC
Emile Belfleur wrote:
Rhiannon Dellacorte wrote:
I'm going to have to mark today on the calendar. Somebody said with a straight face we should go back to being a monarchy and in the same breath claimed that educational regulations were akin to tyranny.

That is a complete misrepresentation of what I said. Supporting monarchy at the state level while remaining skeptical of supernational involvement in national affairs is not a self-contradictory position.

For the record, a monarch who would centralize all power under her- or himself and interfere overly much in the local affairs of the landed aristocracy would be a tyrant, too.


I was going to try to argue some more but then I realized it'll be so much easier and most importantly, more entertaining for me, to watch you hang yourself.

Rules of Acquisition #261

A wealthy man can afford anything except a conscience.
Emile Belfleur
Solar Zouaves
#26 - 2013-04-02 01:47:32 UTC
Rhiannon Dellacorte wrote:
I was going to try to argue some more but then I realized it'll be so much easier and most importantly, more entertaining for me, to watch you hang yourself.

As far as I can tell, you haven't really argued anything at all, Captain. If what you're looking for is an exchange of insults, I suggest you look elsewhere.

Fly safe.
Felsusguy
Panopticon Engineering
#27 - 2013-04-04 06:56:05 UTC
Matari discrimination against other Matari? Pitiful. Simply pitiful.
I will not rest until the Federation makes serious modifications to the way it views ethnicity.

The Caldari put business before pleasure. The Gallente put business in pleasure.
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