No new PBEM's recently, are there?

[Valuk]

I'm for Age of War, and since I started this thread, I pick Russia
I am a bit concerned about my civplaying abilities, but, hey- who has ever sucseeded in conquering Russia anyhow )

[yop73]

I'll take Italy.

[Darius871]

Originally posted by Valuk
but hey- who has ever sucseeded in conquering Russia anyhow )

Academia. And I think Jmarks will soon too...

[Choke]

I'll take Britain.

[JamesJKirk]

Originally posted by The ANZAC
Well, it's John C. Calhoun as my avatar, so the US
I have my own blog spot too: http://theanzac.blogspot.com

Hopefully this is just a phase

I once had a political theory professor who was fascinated by Calhoun, which is kind of surprising, since the guy seemed reasonably left-wing (I know, what a shocker for a prof).

Libertarianism is so interesting, just because of all the ideologies it can hold, and how it in no way can fit on the standard political spectrum. I consider myself sort of moderate-left libertarian, but I'm not a member of the party because it seems to be run by conspiracy theorist gun-nuts. (No offense to conspiracy theorist gun-nuts, I just don't feel like voting for them).

Back sort of OT: I was actually hoping for a Crises of NWO game, but I joined one at CFC and don't have time for another.

[Choke]

Libertarianism: The most useless ideas of the right and left with no good policies from either combined to make one worthless steaming pile of ****e.

[Case]

Heh.
No insult ANZAC, but Libertarianism scares me. IMO it's a classic case of taking some good ideas too far as a result of a utopian view of the world.

Hell, I'm both a leftie and an economist, so I'm rather familiar with the conflict between 'good ideas' and harsh realities.

[JamesJKirk]

I actually agree w/ you guys on most of that, well not really w/ Choke, but the smaller, less intrusive govt parts, and the individual freedom parts appeal to me, but like I said, other parts turn me off. In my congressional district this year, there was just a Democrat and a Libertarian running, so I thought that was kind of cool, but I looked at the voter pamphlet and her platform was to abolish the IRS and withdraw the US from the UN...and to think that she didn't win

[Galvatron]

Oh I wanted to start a new PBEM but my attempt was hammered away by almost the whole community

[Darius871]

Well you can at least be proud you got that much attention. Want a civ?

[The ANZAC]

I guess the reaction to libertarianism wasn't as I had hoped I'm not that psychotic. I consider myself a conservative Libertarian, so you can't say I'm not trying to be realistic

[Darius871]

I think the problem is more with Calhoun than libertarianism. For a lot of people (not me) John C. Calhoun = slavery, even though to libertarians he means something totally different.

[Choke]

I've never heard of Calhoun, I just know that less involved governments are less effective. Libertarianism lacks moral fibre as well as economic sense.

[Darius871]

I've never heard of Calhoun, I just know that less involved governments are less effective.

So... the economy of the U.S. is generally less effective than that of Sweden? Or Cuba for that matter?

[JamesJKirk]

I think Libertarian tendencies are healthy, if prominent enough, as they've usually been in the US, is that they can prevent the government from being too intrusive and expansive, then downside is that they can also prevent government from working effectively