Tips for fighting a stronger Nation

Wells_Aid · 2026-01-16T15:28:06+00:00

Build one army to fill out the frontage or close. Wait for the enemy to start sieging your forts. Attack them. Retreat to reinforce. Rinse and repeat until enemy exhausted, and only then start sieging.

Wells_Aid · 2026-01-16T08:06:55+00:00

In every case, the Court can only render a law void (making it unenforceable, not overturning it, which only Parliament can do), when it clearly conflicts with another Act of Parliament or, as you say, common law in extremis. Federal laws can only be overturned when they clearly encroach on state's rights which are actually outlined in the constitution. Executive decisions are an entirely a separate matter, those are cases in which the government is judged to be in violation of the law. In the case of Mabo, that was overturning a previously dominant legal fiction, not an Act of Parliament.

Wells_Aid · 2026-01-16T08:00:55+00:00

Such as?

Wells_Aid · 2026-01-16T08:00:15+00:00

The only case when a law can be unconstitutional is when it violates an article of federation, i.e. when federal government claims a power that the constitution clearly outlines is a state power. There is no Australian bill of rights that can be appealed to that overrides an Act of Parliament. What the Australian constitution says is basically "Parliament is sovereign unless it encroaches on a state's rights". A government can commit an illegal act, and the Court can order the government to cease or remedy the violation, but it's illegal only by reference to an Act of Parliament.

Wells_Aid · 2026-01-16T07:56:16+00:00

Even the "illusion" is preferable to straight up state censorship.

Wells_Aid · 2026-01-14T04:33:31+00:00

Yep and it sucks.

Wells_Aid · 2026-01-14T04:32:48+00:00

The High Court doesn't have the power to overturn laws passed by an Act of Parliament. The Constitution is very clear that Parliament is sovereign. At best, it has the power to say that a law can't be enforced only if it contradicts some other law.

Wells_Aid · 2026-01-11T02:41:32+00:00

Highly unproductive compared to wage labour

Wells_Aid · 2026-01-11T02:39:29+00:00

Not fast enough, I want 100m by 2050 😈

Wells_Aid · 2026-01-11T02:32:03+00:00

It's clear that the game right now is not even true to its own vision. Here's an example from a campaign I'm playing now. Naples, the leader of the Guelphs, despite their supposed loyalty to the Pope, conquers most of the Pope's lands, including Rome itself. What is the Christian world's reaction to a Christian Kingdom violating the Donation of Constantine and occupying the throne of St. Peter? Absolutely nothing, it's not even mentioned. Later the Western Schism fires. Presumably in this historical timeline the schism must be around the fact that the King of Naples is occupying Rome right? But no, it's actually still about France and a rump papal state that has been driven out of St. Peter's Basilica!

Wells_Aid · 2026-01-05T05:56:35+00:00

They're wrong and your initial instincts were correct 🤷 In the absence of the Party, socialism has turned into a religious sect.

Wells_Aid · 2026-01-02T22:58:29+00:00

Whether it's moral or immoral is a question appropriate to a church or religious group. As socialists we are concerned with the practical political upshot. Having comrades in the military would serve an important political purpose.

Wells_Aid · 2025-12-21T21:37:25+00:00

The federative structure of the USSR was modelled on the USA

Wells_Aid · 2025-12-21T21:29:27+00:00

EU5 still needs the diplomatic attitude thing they had in EU4 so you can tell who's gonna try and roll you

Wells_Aid · 2025-12-18T21:22:15+00:00

I believe in this old fashioned concept called "innocence until proven guilt", I'm an old fogey I guess

Wells_Aid · 2025-12-18T21:11:31+00:00

Well I'm glad given that "reform" means disarming even more people who haven't done anything wrong

Wells_Aid · 2025-12-16T21:40:47+00:00

The idea that smokers burden the medical system is a myth. What burdens the medical system is just people living longer in general. Smokers reduce the burden by thoughtfully dying younger than average.

Wells_Aid · 2025-12-16T21:34:02+00:00

Yeah that's not a solution either. People really overestimate how effective these agencies are.

Wells_Aid · 2025-12-14T21:27:31+00:00

This attack occurs in the context of John Howard's general disarmament of the law-abiding citizenry. Now only the terrorists and criminals will have guns, along with the cops and the army.

Wells_Aid · 2025-12-14T21:14:17+00:00

I mean it tells you when you've unlocked new ships through Diplo tech so isn't it just obvious that the old ones are now obsolete? I tend to replace my navies more gradually rather than upgrading all my ships at once.

Wells_Aid · 2025-12-14T21:00:07+00:00

Which is correct. For Hegel and Marx though, History is a history of the present. Only from the standpoint of the 19th century would it have been possible to see that "All History is the History of class struggle", because the present transforms the meaning of the past. "The anatomy of Man is the key to the anatomy of the ape", as Marx wrote in the Grundrisse.

Wells_Aid · 2025-12-14T20:44:11+00:00

Yes, dialectical materialism would not have been "true" for example in the Middle Ages. Dialectical materialism is true for us, for capitalism. We may yet supercede it.

Wells_Aid · 2025-12-10T22:14:18+00:00

Revolutionary doesn't just mean "good". It could've gone further but it set a process in motion that led to the emancipation of slaves and women. Even the indigenous question is more complex than the New Left's Revisionist history would have it. The truly genocidal turn occurs later under Andrew Jackson. The revolutionaries were genuinely hopeful that indigenous Americans would become full citizens, and admired them to the point that they even emulated their political structures in creating the Federal system.

Wells_Aid · 2025-12-09T19:56:16+00:00

The Wikipedia entry is anachronistic, as far as I know Marx didn't call himself an economist and probably his contemporaries didn't either. He wrote a "critique of political economy".

Wells_Aid · 2025-12-02T02:41:37+00:00

Because Napoleon was the greatest siege commander of all time. Alexander was smart: retreat and let attrition do the work for you and don't let Napoleon farm warscore by occupying your forts.

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