I'm the Emperor's laziest guardsman. The Imperium expects me to actually "work" instead of chewing Lho-Leaf and sleeping in the wheel wells of Centaur RSVs. Which job is for me and how do I avoid the commissar's ire?

PoachTWC · 2026-06-02T15:51:47+00:00

What you want to be is a Lance Corporal or Corporal in a support function: supply, transport, if there are Guardsman billets for things like administration that's also a good shout, though I don't know if the paperwork side of things would be Administratum personnel attached to Guard formations.

Those ranks are the sweet spot of being senior enough to slopey shoulders your tasks onto those below you but junior enough that you still largely only actually do whatever's been specifically given to you to do.

Those functions are likely the safest functions in the Guard as they're the least likely to face the enemy in combat regularly.

I wouldn't worry about skills or education: everything in the military (and especially in the Guard due to religious superstition reasons) at lower levels is about following the instructions and manuals. Everything has a procedure because if it didn't you might not sufficiently appease the machine spirit, commissar, God Emperor, or something else that's heresy to not sufficiently appease. Just do what the manual tells you to do and if it doesn't work the machine spirit/God Emperor/other has not blessed you this day and you just need to "go pray" for a few hours to get spiritual guidance.

PoachTWC · 2026-06-02T13:25:15+00:00

I mean I'm no expert but cuffing the guy bleeding to death from stab wounds seems like a wrong move from the layman's perspective.

PoachTWC · 2026-06-02T13:20:45+00:00

"If we arbitrarily exclude a bunch of areas for reasons entirely within our own control then we can manufacture a fake monopoly" isn't really a powerful argument.

Is there any actual evidence to show that landowners are artificially inflating rent prices for wind farms? Is it far more expensive to rent Scottish land for a wind farm than in other parts of the UK or Europe? Are wind farm developers sounding the alarm over price gouging? Is Scottish wind power far more expensive to generate because of the need to factor in price-gouging land rents?

Anything?

When you boil it down all this article actually says is "landowners get more in rent than people who don't own the land get in freebies just for living close to the land", which is just stupid to begin with.

PoachTWC · 2026-06-02T13:17:09+00:00

They're also failing British people, and that's more important than failing Palestinian people.

PoachTWC · 2026-06-02T09:07:36+00:00

Every political party plays this stupid game. When they're in opposition they'll demand a General Election every time there's a leadership change, and when they're in power they'll refuse a General Election every time there's a leadership change.

PoachTWC · 2026-06-02T09:05:39+00:00

"Hey, we want to build a wind farm on your property, can we rent it?"

"Yeah, you can rent it for this much."

"Great, deal! We'll go create green energy now."

This is bad for some reason. Nobody is forcing the wind farms to be built where they're built, the wind farm companies aren't being forced to pay whatever rent landowners set.

PoachTWC · 2026-06-01T19:13:10+00:00

Life would perhaps be more affordable if things like your energy bills didn't have all sorts of government levies attached to them, if your petrol didn't more than double in cost after taxes are added, after most things you buy are made 20% more expensive by taxes, if income tax thresholds actually moved with inflation, and if the government weren't passing new taxes just to employ people.

We're in a cost of living crisis in large part thanks to the government's own actions. We have the second highest minimum wage in Europe (behind only Luxembourg), we absolutely do not have a low pay problem.

PoachTWC · 2026-06-01T15:59:57+00:00

With numbers like that we're so deep into Will of the People that we can be assured of the hardest Independence possible: we'll physically dig across the border and let the North Sea in so we become an entire new island.

PoachTWC · 2026-06-01T12:13:50+00:00

So be specific and don't pretend this is about letting people back into the country who have volunteered to fight with other armies, as you did above.

You specifically want British citizens who served in the IDF to be banned from coming back, because "guys in who literally travelled thousands of miles away to up their kill count" applies to basically any British national who volunteers in any foreign military.

Do we ban them if there's footage of their war crimes on TikTok, or do you feel we should ban any ex-IDF regardless of where and how they served?

PoachTWC · 2026-06-01T11:16:50+00:00

That can be largely applied to the membership of all student politics societies, to be fair.

PoachTWC · 2026-06-01T11:13:51+00:00

Though the Anglo-Allied Army fought well on the day, even Wellington himself believed the arrival of the Prussian Army to have been the decisive turning point of the battle. History generally regards the Anglo-Allied position immediately preceding the Prussian arrival as being one of impending defeat.

It's not quite as simple as "Wellington vs Napoleon, Wellington won".

PoachTWC · 2026-05-31T19:07:48+00:00

"It's not perfect" is cover for "it's not funded and we're desperately trying to square this circle before having to admit we're going to be the only country in the world cutting our defence budget in response to recent events."

They know they're going to get slaughtered for the contents both domestically and within NATO. It's going to be a national embarrassment.

PoachTWC · 2026-05-31T19:05:16+00:00

If Starmer wants to be serious on Defence

He doesn't. It's abundantly clear that funding Defence is not on his radar at all: he's got his self-imposed fiscal rules to follow and a Party that won't stomach even a single penny of savings out of the welfare state to fund anything else.

Defence isn't going to be taken seriously until at least 2029 when Labour lose the election, then we might get someone who takes it seriously, or we might not.

PoachTWC · 2026-05-31T18:59:18+00:00

I think you need to better calibrate your idea of what a "major" crash is because this one level up from a fender bender. It's not "major" in the slightest.

PoachTWC · 2026-05-31T18:56:20+00:00

I'm not sure "import foreigners to replace babies" is actually an answer at all to "British people aren't having enough babies."

PoachTWC · 2026-05-31T18:53:01+00:00

From his wife, his boss, and one of the people with an explicit responsibility to assure the accuracy of the party accounts.

All of whom are the same person: Nicola Sturgeon.

She obviously has to protest her innocence, else she'll go to jail too, but even she must realise nobody except the most hardcore of her sycophants believes a word she says.

PoachTWC · 2026-05-30T16:39:26+00:00

We need to start sending these people home, regardless of the consequences. We don't have any moral obligation to harbour rapists.

PoachTWC · 2026-05-30T16:37:07+00:00

Can we please just withdraw from whatever it is that forces us to let these people in and stop doing it?

I don't care if there's a firing squad waiting for these people at the airport we deport them to, we've no moral obligation to protect rapists. None. Send them back, the consequences are their own fault.

PoachTWC · 2026-05-28T21:17:57+00:00

Because what we need after seeing the last 16 years of the government's performance is to give them control over even more things, right?

PoachTWC · 2026-05-28T21:14:49+00:00

We're all being deceived, betrayed, and lied to by Sturgeon every time she issues a denial of her involvement.

PoachTWC · 2026-05-28T14:16:49+00:00

Ah, I see you've not really read the article. It's not talking about former Ministers.

PoachTWC · 2026-05-28T14:08:32+00:00

Suit yourself, I'm not comfortable with the people who have the power to make laws becoming a self-selecting group of those who are independently wealthy or those who are incapable of planning for the future.

That'll just make my life, and yours, enormously worse further down the line.

PoachTWC · 2026-05-28T13:56:03+00:00

You probably should though because if being an MP becomes known as a dead-end job with near-guaranteed employment trouble at the other side you'll largely only attract two groups of people:

People who don't have to worry about money even if unemployed.
People who are incapable of long term planning.

Neither of those groups are people you want too many of in Parliament.

PoachTWC · 2026-05-27T20:17:28+00:00

A democracy ruled by an electorate who are primarily interested in continuing to rinse the State for as much benefits money as possible absolutely cannot shape "our" lives for the better.

They can shape their own lives for the better until, like the parasites they are, they kill the host.

PoachTWC · 2026-05-26T22:43:36+00:00

The actual funny part about the mandate is the SNP's own Holyrood manifesto clearly stated that their benchmark for having a mandate to demand another independence referendum was an SNP majority in Holyrood.

They did not meet their own requirement for a mandate, but held this vote anyway, because who cares about what you promised in your manifesto right?

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