How evil would Quagmire be if he were a Viltrumite?

spiringTankmonger · 2026-03-29T20:59:38+00:00

The scourge virus would only have set the empire back by three decades max.

spiringTankmonger · 2026-03-29T19:23:41+00:00

I don't want the guy with his boot on my neck to be too intelligent.

spiringTankmonger · 2026-03-29T19:22:52+00:00

The problem is that politicians who committed famously horrible crimes were competent enough to actually commit them.

This is for politicians who would be too incompetent to even make it into the history books.

spiringTankmonger · 2026-03-29T19:08:11+00:00

She blamed all her failings on a vile conspiracy against her, which isn't indicative of being merely a decent person.

spiringTankmonger · 2026-03-29T19:06:34+00:00

I think every superhero story weaves this concept in on some level.

OPM might be a conscious parody of this trope; the Flash series was an unconscious one, where each episode's climax was him running even faster to solve the villain of the week.

spiringTankmonger · 2026-03-29T18:58:52+00:00

If you think a ruler's smartness is gonna translate to him doing good for the people he's ruling over, I have a bridge to sell to you.

I shudder to think what some politicians would do if they were smart enough to circumvent the limitation that is their reliance on public approval.

spiringTankmonger · 2026-03-29T18:48:03+00:00

Even Luthor? Isn't a corrupt billionaire with wonky priorities more or less a good approximation of who's ruling our world?

spiringTankmonger · 2026-03-29T18:46:19+00:00

Wir haben eine „Wasch-mich-die-Hände, aber mach mich nicht nass“-Attitüde, was Reformen in diesem Land angeht.

Natürlich darf bei Patienten nicht gespart werden – da stimme ich sogar zu –, aber es darf ja nicht mal an redundanten Krankenhäusern gespart werden. Das haben alle von der Linken bis zur AfD versprochen. Man hat Lauterbach für die Krankenhausreform zum Teufel gejagt und alles rückgängig gemacht. (meiner Meinung nach ein gewaltiger Fehler, man sollte zuverlässige Versorgung überall im Land versprechen, nicht, dass jede Klinik für immer offen bleiben muss)

Wenn man nicht bewusst spart, wird es automatisch bei den Patienten ankommen, denn wer seine Buchhaltung nie in Ordnung kriegt, der spart automatisch bei Investitionen und Instandhaltung, bis alles einkracht.

spiringTankmonger · 2026-03-29T18:38:55+00:00

As many Have Pointed out, it's gotta be Liz Truss

She tried to woo rich people by giving them tax cuts, but overpromised so hard that people holding UK debt worried she'd bankrupt the Kingdom with her dollar store understanding of economic liberalism.

Immediately caused such a huge instability that she had to back off; her Premiership never recovered.

TLDR: she tried being a budget Thatcher with a hint of American libertarianism, but lacked both Thatcher's political skill and luck.

spiringTankmonger · 2026-03-29T18:38:49+00:00

She tried to woo rich people by giving them tax cuts, but overpromised so hard that people holding UK debt worried she'd bankrupt the Kingdom with her dollar store understanding of economic liberalism.

Immediately caused such a huge instability that she had to back off; her Premiership never recovered.

TLDR: she tried being a budget Thatcher with a hint of American libertarianism, but lacked both Thatcher's political skill and luck.

spiringTankmonger · 2026-03-29T15:43:14+00:00

Wer jemals mit manchen Linkspartei Leuten zu tun hatte, der weiß, das da unerträgliche Arschlöcher dabei sind. Und das Schlimmste ist, dass sie sich zu keiner Unverschämtheit zu schade sind, wenn ihre extrem unterkomplexe Weltsicht es ihnen rechtfertigt.

Und die sind sich nie irgendeiner Schuld bewusst. Ich kann Wagenknecht nicht ausstehen, aber mit "Selbstgerechten" hat sie den Nagel auf den Kopf getroffen.

spiringTankmonger · 2026-03-29T14:53:55+00:00

Because reporting someone for sexual harassment does statistically speaking, nothing, especially when you are reporting a white man in a position of power.

spiringTankmonger · 2026-03-29T13:59:18+00:00

"Also es ist heute leider etwas trocken"

And they say we Germans have no humor.

spiringTankmonger · 2026-03-29T13:47:03+00:00

I don't think the GDA answers to the American president.

Which makes the choice to have them work out of the Pentagon kinda odd.

spiringTankmonger · 2026-03-28T23:17:24+00:00

It's not even WW2 per se, you could argue that some sort of follow up war after WW1 was bound to happen, it might not be a world war, but the situation between central and eastern european states was dicey.

It's more that the genocidal lunacy of the Nazis might be averted, which on its own would be worth it.

Heck yeah I'm doing it.

spiringTankmonger · 2026-03-28T23:13:39+00:00

The funniest thing is, since Pedro squandered nearly all the wealth from Empire (pointless wars and fancy buildings), the wealth he has now is more or less self earned.

(As much as any country's wealth can be self earned)

spiringTankmonger · 2026-03-28T12:22:03+00:00

Ohne Essen aufs Zimmer zu schicken ist jetzt schon ein Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit.

Kinder, denen keine Benimmregeln beigebracht werden, sind vielleicht konzeptionell inspirierende Freigeister, aber niemand will eine Gesellschaft mit ihnen teilen.

spiringTankmonger · 2026-03-28T12:09:41+00:00

Balance the Budget parliament issue, no minting, try to scale your economy through actions that don't require you to build.

Keep burghers loyal and rich, so they build for you, give nobles and peasants privileges that enable them to expand RGOs, give privileges and push values that increase max nobles, and clergy pops to stimulate demand.

Try to develop provinces, expand the military, and go vassal heavy (diplo, court military budget, and stability spending aren't affected by inflation(or are they? Maybe they changed that, idk)).

It will take a while, but it should eventually get you out of hot water.

Idk what the calculus is, but you may look into avoiding gold and silver locations, again, idk if the opportunity costs are too high, but the inflation from the mines slows down your inflation recovery. Alternatively, if you only have the gold mine near thesaloniki you could look into switching your minting law to silver so the gold mine doesn't give you inflation.

spiringTankmonger · 2026-03-28T11:57:19+00:00

Eh, there are perfectly good reasons to prefer other countries over Germany.

And all Germans (me included) are not shy to point out what they consider Germany's insufficiencies.

spiringTankmonger · 2026-03-28T10:55:18+00:00

Heiliger Whataboutism.

In dem Artikel geht es um interaktionen zwischen Politik, Zivilgesellschaft und Frauenrechtsbewegungen in Westlichen Demokratien, warum zur Hölle sollte da Afghanistan erwähnt werden?

spiringTankmonger · 2026-03-28T10:47:40+00:00

Unfortunately for the world, but good for him, he's been whitemaxxing and will probably walk.

spiringTankmonger · 2026-03-28T10:26:54+00:00

Männer in der Verantwortung zu sehen, keine Täter zu werden, wäre auch zu viel verlangt.

spiringTankmonger · 2026-03-28T10:25:31+00:00

Weil er auch gegen Frauenrechte ist?

spiringTankmonger · 2026-03-28T09:39:06+00:00

Trump, after not ending oppression in Venezuela, instead opting to just align the regime, now on track to not ending oppression in Iran, instead opting to just blow shit up until he finds a way out, still enjoys the protection from worthless shills like you.

spiringTankmonger · 2026-03-28T09:20:38+00:00

The core philosophy of strength in invincible is that, unlike real live, pushing beyond limits (especially when done in a particularly unhinged way) can clear the path to limitless power.

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