Intergalactic Summit

So the troll thread develops some actual discussion and the actual discussion thread gets trolled.
What tasteless irony.

A fallacy, a pretty saying people share because it sounds true. A man with no money can command the respect of armies. A man with infinite wealth can find his friends evaporate despite his protests and promises.

Power is power. Money is a currency.

Find me someone I have told a single story of my past to Arrendis. You strawman hard. I make no secret of who I am, but others are far faster to say who I am than I am. In this very thread it was Zekiel and you who brought it up, not me. And in none of this do I tell war stories or tell stories of eating gruel. You are more sure to let someone who you are speaking with know you are a goon than I am to let them know I am a Kamiera. You are far more likely to share some story than I am. I do not care however, I realize it is who you are and it is difficult to speak around it. You have to actively avoid mentioning anything that may indicate who you are for someone to not put two and two together and say you are a diehard goon. If now that is what is mocking worthy, to be who you are, then so be it. We will all have plenty of entertainment parodying each other endlessly if that is what you wish to fill your time with.

Like the idea that money is power however, I promise that in the end you will find its pursuit a waste of time.

This is unacceptable! The war is going on, peoples are dying because of the fascism and aggression of the Federation. And people must know what we are fighting for... And what we are fighting against.

The righteous hatred, hatred to those who disregard lives so easily, who torture, conquer and subjugate like Federals, is necessary in all parts of Space. People shall learn about hideous crimes of Federation, of its corrupted government and bloodlust soldiers, who genocide whole colonies, about their inhuman jailors, who torture POWs, and of course about their ideals (like freedom and democracy) that destroy civilization and humanity!

We can't defeat the Federation if we close our eyes on truth and will listen to their propaganda. Our main weapon is KNOWLEDGE. Knowledge about WHO they are and WHAT they are doing.

Know the enemy!

And here, dear readers, we can witness a typical gallentean bootlicking pet, who, instead of even trying to join a conversation, attacks Caldaro officers who participate in it.

I can recommend in order to maintain the conversation as sane and cultured, to block further transmission, coming from this Danneskjold person. It is quite obvious that he is unable to contribute in healthy way.

Danneskjolded.

And now Diana Kim comes out of the woodwork to dirty the thread up some more with her ceaseless racism against the Gallente. Truly, this thread is a masterwork of what the IGS can accomplish.

I am neither interested in how you look, nor what you write. Be gone, troll.

See, Miss Kim. Maybe we can agree on a few things. You feel a sense of duty that pushes you to the front lines to fight for your country, yes? Have you ever been anywhere except the front lines?

In the Federation, most civilians aren't fighting on the front lines. Most civilians aren't fighting at all. I doubt most Federation civilians care about the Federation much at all; I've said it before, but the overwhelming majority of Federation citizens don't speak Gallente. I mean like 60-80% of Federation citizens don't speak Gallente. Each member state mostly retains their own form of government from before they got their invitation from the Federation, and I know I've said this before - Caille is a Kingdom! No one seems to know that. Most Federation citizens don't consider themselves Gallente and instead think of themselves as citizens of their planetary government, member state first.

My point being is that they don't really care about the Federation, mostly because the Federation don't stick their nebs into their business, I think, but prolly because they've got more important things to worry about.

How often do you go planetside, Captain? The war seems so far away in the caves of Ainaille I or the alleys of artificial habitats in Esmes, especially when the average citizen here has other things to worry about. In our Omegas... They may not be members of the Federation anymore, but they were once before we failed them. They must worry about corporate slavery. They must worry about starvation. They must worry about gang violence. Even in Gammas and Deltas, the war seems so, what's the word. Distant. Bigger more immediate concerns? Gang violence. Tech disparities. Frankly I care more about getting the hospitals on my planet in my Delta up to snuff with the quality that you'd find in the Core Federation planets than the war, which I've never participated in even with my status as a DUSTer.

And you might think it's easy to hate a group of people you don't know. But hate's a matter of caring - the opposite of love isn't hate, it's indifference. I can't relate. The average citizen of the Federation just don't care.

You would agree with me, too, then, when I say that the Federation participates in a particularly insidious and effective cultural imperialism?

I fought for the Federation for roughly a week. It was more than enough for me. Now I make sure to visit the war memorial on Caldari Prime at least once a week to remind myself of the horrors of aggression and war.