"but in Soviet Russia, people are muted by YOU!!"
In this post i shall compare my experience on an anonymous clan server (certainly no LaD Benmachine server of any kind) to a totalitarian state, and the attempt at building an effecient human base on previously mentioned server, to attempting to run a business in previously mentioned communist regime (oh, did i say totalitarian state? i meant the USSR).
So all i wanna do is start a business in some supposedly empty area (LaD server), the owners of which i presume myself to be friends with (as one's family member might hold an office, one's friends may hold adminship). So i start a business in a place with no present competition (no one else on server) and i get it started beautifully, the business is ready to tackle the market in no time, and i am certain it will hold market share (my base is built and im waiting for aliens to join). So i have a finished business, and a competitor arrives (someone joins). My competitor is government-run, but it seems like a valuable ally, and we are able to do business together admirably, each testing each others accounting innovations (some LaD dude and I mess around for a bit, and figure out how to build a better base in the process). BUT, in the midst of all this fun, another government official comes along, this one is not as satisfied with how i run my business. I understand that one of the footnotes of Communism is that the only thing it takes to have power is to be at the right place at the right time (he is only an admin cuz he is in LaD, not becase of how fair or capable he is). He decides to take over my business, in the process reducing my yield and increasing my costs (he takes down my 15x massdriver turrets and builds 1x MD turrets that cost more BP and are nearly twice as large). Having worked so hard to start up my business, and seeing it torn down by an ignorant undeserving ruffian in a mere minute, i decide to protest (i ask him kindly not to build those, and tell him that mine were better). But the ruffian thinks he knows better (he ignores me), so i instead yell at him a little, and try threatening him (i deconstruct him in a vain attempt to stop him from ruining my base). This official is only angered by my attempts (he gets pissed off), so he removes my right to run my business and bans me from further social contact for the rest of my life (i can no longer build, and i am muted), all because of a conflict of interest.
crap like this happens all the time in the real world, but thats what the real world has hippies for, and the hippies think they can empathise. In the real world people learn from their mistakes, and choose to elect more qualified officials.
On the other hand, one fruit of that was the wonderful man George Dubya Bush, who certainly doesnt veto bills proposed by the people he supposedly works for for the sinple reason he doesnt like the sound of them... Nope, he shure doesnt do any of that...
And neither did PeeBrain of the LaD clan...
P.S. Im suggesting we dont try to elect more qualified officials, im suggesting we remove the officials altogeter, both in tremulous and (although the scale is totally off) the real world
P.P.S. And dont think i have any idea about what im talking about, but NEITHER DO YOU, have you been to communist russia, where the radio listens to you!!(?)
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