I Made an Extremely Scary Political Connotation While Playing Rome Total War

**Realpolitik** · December 16, 2012, 05:44 PM

Some people here may be able to relate to this.

Anyway, playing Rome total war years ago, I found that my military expenditure was running me into debt. Then the political unrest happened and some of my provinces successfully rebelled.

I came back with vengeance, and retook the province, and exterminated everyone and took their possessions.

I literally made a "killing" (pun intended since I also fixed my debt problem and made a huge profit). This led me to simulate the same scenario in all my provinces! By the end of it, my provinces were much less populated, paying the highest taxes possible, and my treasure was immense.

I then saw this USSR propaganda video:

http://www.spike.com/video-clips/j2e...ist-barbarians

Skip to 14:15

I'm referring to the fat capitalist and the army general feeding a small black eagle (representing Nazi Germany's Military industrial complex) until it grows large and dangerous and reeks havoc.

This leads me to make a stomach churning observation.

World War 2 was a simulated and tightly controlled series of events designed to consolidate resources for the rich, boost the economy, and secure European and U.S hegemony in the world.

It makes sense.

**Dr Zoidberg** · December 16, 2012, 05:49 PM

That has got to be one of the stupidest things I've ever read on here. And this being TWC, that's saying something.

**Realpolitik** · December 16, 2012, 05:55 PM

Denial: Refusal to accept external reality because it is too threatening; arguing against an anxiety-provoking stimulus by stating it doesn't exist; resolution of emotional conflict and reduction of anxiety by refusing to perceive or consciously acknowledge the more unpleasant aspects of external reality.

**MrHenry** · December 16, 2012, 05:59 PM

Originally Posted by Dr Zoidberg

That has got to be one of the stupidest things I've ever read on here. And this being TWC, that's saying something.

Agreed

**Markas** · December 16, 2012, 05:59 PM

de·lu·sion·al

[dih-loo-zhuh-nl]

adjective

1. having false or unrealistic beliefs or opinions: Senators who think they will get agreement on a comprehensive tax bill are delusional.
2. Psychiatry. maintaining fixed false beliefs even when confronted with facts, usually as a result of mental illness: He was so delusional and paranoid that he thought everybody was conspiring against him.

**MrHenry** · December 16, 2012, 06:10 PM

Have I Ever told you... The definition... of Insanity?

But no man, gotta disagree with your statement OP

and epic laugh at Markas' post

**hellheaven1987** · December 16, 2012, 06:31 PM

Despite OP sounds stupid, unfortunately it did happen in our past several times and may happen again in near future.

**Col. Tartleton** · December 16, 2012, 06:32 PM

I remember my first Joint.

**Denny Crane!** · December 16, 2012, 08:51 PM

The problem with him is, and it isn't totally stupid, is that he has confused symptoms with causes. There was an awful lot of money made to the right folk during both world wars. But they didn't manufacture it to make money.

**hellheaven1987** · December 16, 2012, 11:21 PM

Perhaps, but rely on war plunder to get rich is not a new idea in our history; Caesar's treasury was largely relied on his plunder during Gaulic War, and during Thirty Years War plundering was generally the way to pay soldiers.

**Denny Crane!** · December 16, 2012, 11:28 PM

Originally Posted by hellheaven1987

Perhaps, but rely on war plunder to get rich is not a new idea in our history; Caesar's treasury was largely relied on his plunder during Gaulic War, and during Thirty Years War plundering was generally the way to pay soldiers.

State vs Private interests.

Plunder vs profiteering.

HH87 you seem rather confused.

**Veliky Kaiser Theos** · December 16, 2012, 11:33 PM

Originally Posted by hellheaven1987

and during Thirty Years War plundering was generally the way to pay soldiers.

Plundering was the only form of pay for most soldiers until the early modern era.

**Sphere** · December 16, 2012, 11:39 PM

World War 2 was a simulated and tightly controlled series of events designed to consolidate resources for the rich, boost the economy, and secure European and U.S hegemony in the world.

It makes sense.

If it worked so well it was probably organized by Jews.

**Denny Crane!** · December 16, 2012, 11:48 PM

Originally Posted by Sphere

If it worked so well it was probably organized by Jews.

Like any good spammer whether it is emails or world wars they used a proxy.

**Sphere** · December 16, 2012, 11:53 PM

Like any good spammer whether it is emails or world wars they used a proxy.

They also have plausible deniability.

**hellheaven1987** · December 17, 2012, 01:06 AM

Originally Posted by Denny Crane!

State vs Private interests.

Plunder vs profiteering.

HH87 you seem rather confused.

I bet it was Soviet's interest to plunder Manchuria and scrapped every industrial part then after WWII.

**Enemy of the State** · December 17, 2012, 02:00 AM

Boost the economy... By killing millions of people and utterly destroying the industrial base of Europe. Right.

**Nietzsche** · December 17, 2012, 04:55 AM

Originally Posted by Enemy of the State

Boost the economy... By killing millions of people and utterly destroying the industrial base of Europe. Right.

You mean I boost the economy by breaking a bunch of windows?

I will say that the OP would make for some interesting fiction. Stories about Top Men engineering such slaughter to bath in gold would probably sell rather well to the OWS demographic. If it was written well, it would be as good as anything by Turtledove or his ilk.

**~~removeduser_487563287433~~** · December 17, 2012, 05:08 AM

Originally Posted by Realpolitik

It makes sense.

**MathiasOfAthens** · December 17, 2012, 05:59 AM

So hitler started a war... killed all the jews, or most of them and then died himself to consolidate the resources for American and British Jews?

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