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@Earth
Your turn to claim
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@Earth
I have said I am Kung fu, Savate or Sambo (I also had krav maga but incel claimed ot and I didnt cc).

I  unccd investigative PR
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There is a balance type theme and those balanced between two things are the towniest because we are not sure which the split has as the minority.

I will speak more on Aikido and Karate later.
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Krav Maga is still town. I am certain.
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I will now reveal that I lied partly.

The theme is not quite either I said.

I will explain later on.
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I will like everybody to massclaim, then I will reveal the real theme split.
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@ILikePie5
You claim first.
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by 'town' I am not implying Pie there, I am saying if everybody who isn't outing wants to ruin theme analysis (including Pie as a possible townie but not townread by me) then so be it.
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@ILikePie5
LOL that is not a compromise but if town wants to ruin a steamroll then so be it.
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@Earth
@Incel-chud
I like both of your reactions to things so far and believe that my vote on Pie is correct.

As for the 'why wait' I am incapable of fully answering it yet.

Let's just say that my suggested theme splits are not fully explaining what it can or cannot be.

I can tell you the following explicitly:

There is a split based on two areas of martial arts that in Kung Fu, Krav Maga, Sambo and Savate are extremely balanced meaning they are town no matter which way it's split if I fully understood the theme.

I am an investigative role and my role's description strongly, severely told me what the theme almost definitely is.

I will not explain more until the full out. I want others to claim first and fast.

If anybody cc's me for investigative role then I am willing to insta-out (I may be asleep or busy though).
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Progressive authority.
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@coal
Yes it does. You seem to think that the aim of legalising abortion is to target minorities to abort, you even called it covert eugenics.

I corrected you on the reasoning behind the non-deceptive agenda of pro-choice.
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@ILikePie5
I have given more than enough information for us to progress.

It is you withholding.
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@Lunatic
Pie is voting that2user
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@ILikePie5
How do you know there is a roleblocker?
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In fact, I don't understand the interactions from Pie so far at all.

It's like he wants to completely derail the theme analysis despite him having cracked apart other games by theorycrafting them prior to this.

Vtl Ilikepie5, this is not a pressure lynch this is a real suspicion, I am unlikely to unvote no matter what he claims unless it's Sambo, Savate or Kung Fu and isn't a CC to me.
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I have had enough of the silence/laziness.

I will tell you the theme split and full claim on Saturday early morning time for most of you here.

You can either claim before and get town cred or fail to.

I am very likely to be roleblocked because martial arts involve blocking quite a bit but because of the theme split it is possible that there is not actually a blocker on the mafia team, rather a strongman is and I will die.

This is why it is so important for us to not allow scum to drag this day out and why I outed instantly.

My role told me the theme split explicitly almost, I am telling you right now that I can hardcarry town if everybody outs their shit right now.
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The liberal need to "do something"
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@zedvictor4
When you are hungry, you crave food.
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Systemic racism debate
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@thett3
I think that when right-wing people hear the term they apply a much harsher definition than the left-wing people who use it mean.

What systemic racism means, when most use it, is the very structural issues (not just some malicious judge or policeman) that cause severe inequality in life for blacks that we cannot deny had ancestors that left them 0 inheritance of any kind that has snowballed over time, however there of course is something else to it that I dub 'passive prejudice'.

Passive prejudice is the part of systemic racism that conservatives find the most issue with and that part is indeed meant by the progressives that advocate for combatting it. It starts as simple as avoiding hiring someone because if they're a certain ethnicity one estimates that automatically they're more likely to be a flight risk. It can be many things, not promoting, intentionally bargaining harder for salaries where it's based on negotiated contracts, strongly implying that a defendant that's a certain ethnicity that isn't the majority should avoid going through with a trial and take a deal (because of what the jury may think of their background) so on and so forth.

Systemic racism even applies to people already inside prison where perhaps the guilty verdict was just. The idea is that there was definitely until recently, a pattern of consistently reducing sentences for good behaviour and being lenient on parole for caucasians vs minority ethnicities (especially black ethnicities) in not just America but other nations which have black minorities present as well. 

Anything you'd argue would be about other elements of the systemic racism, you see the fact that they are poorer to begin with and have to spread that thin across their unaborted, unsustainable generation upon generation leading to the poor children and teens growing up to realise maybe crime is better for them than doing some very mediocre 9-5 as the apex of what's 'out there' for them. A lot of issues regarding systemic racism begin to get somewhat solved when you properly handle social welfare, offer free contraception to the poor (or insist shops keep it VAT-exempt and ensure malls keep the price of them decently low) because then there ends up more and more sustainability to the raising of the children.
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@Swagnarok
Ironically, the UKIP movement in UK uses every single trick in the book of Nazi propaganda. It preys on a disenfranchised group that are bitter over issues that the right-wing has caused them and pretends it's the left-wing EU's openness and protectiveness that's the problem for how authoritarian it is in enabling foreignors to 'infiltrate' the UK and 'take their jobs'. It also ran further in alignment than just who it aimed its propaganda at; it specifically became about loathing Europe being united and negotiating things, preferring UK to be its own great imperialist self of the past the stood on its own. 

Let's ignore the false promises and extremely slimy deception involved, as that isn't identical to how the Nazi propaganda made promises.
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@whiteflame
@ILikePie5
Which one are you?
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@Lunatic
Official Question:

Is this based on MMA that hits rings like UFC-style cage combat or literally all possible martial arts even if they aren't suited to it?
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@ComputerNerd
Towny af if it's really your MA.

I will now publicly @ Lunatic to clarify something that will heavily affect how seriously I take Aikido as a viable MA to be in this
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@ComputerNerd
I want you to claim your martial art, not your role actually.
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@ComputerNerd
You didn't try to prove him Town, I'd already hard-cleared Krav Maga. You gave a read on him being a protective PR which only helps Mafia.
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Towards the ending of this day phase (unless a lynch rushes it) I will reveal the real theme split so that in case I die, you are armed with it.

Balance between grappling and striking may be an important factor or mental skill being prominent (not just physical prowess) may be the factor, which includes balance itself being important to the martial art as a side thing. 
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Incel is Town if he is Krav Maga, based on two very important wordings in my description that don't make sense if Krav Maga is scummy.
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Choose enlightenment
Idk about the 'I am god' thing that's some real new age Buddhist or Hindu-sect stuff.

As for the idea that we are all just reality experiencing itself, I've come across that before and consider that fairly axiomatic (as in irrefutably true, inherently correct).

It's not a new idea and it has truth to it, though I don't personally go to the whole ego death level, in fact I reached that point during a very bad depression I had in my own life. I never want to think like a Buddhist ever again, it makes me want to die to feel at peace. I am not sure who such a mentality is actually healthy for but I would advise a more Taoist approach; we are individuals playing roles in this reality, don't forget that others have their role and matter just like you. It's that simple really.
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@Swagnarok
As somebody who genuinely loves modern day Germany, as a country, for its extremely effective left-wing politics and the way it's helped the whole of Western Europe learn to forgive it and learn from its own jaded past, I personally don't understand why the fuck this whole 'remember we beat the Nazis' thing happens every year in the nations that did.

I get it, people died in the war and we need to respect that and remember it. Nazi soldiers died protecting their homeland too and many had no choice in the matter, much like the conscripted military men of UK and France at the time. They are hated for the very same loyalty and adherence to wartime rules that the good guys had the opportunity to live out while being on the morally correct side of things.

I personally think Remembrance days should remind us about Fascism and the harms it brings, not about particular soldiers and a particular war. I'm sorry but I am very similar in this attitude across the board so I am not a hypocrite. For instance, I really get irritated when the first thing somebody does to flex during a conversation about physics, philosophy, chemistry etc is to flex the 'I can name more things about who discovered and said what in this subject than you can and if you don't you're an uneducated poser'. It's much more about the ideas, not the men and women that discovered them.

That's just my take. I obviously don't have an issue with Remembrance day and neither do Germans in general but quietly I am sure quite a few Germans think this and even those in the nations celebrating Remembrance day. People died, remember why they fought and the problems that were in Germany and taken advantage of or suddenly you vote Brexit in the name of Nigel Farage's scumbag movement and forget the kind of false promises and preying on the jaded working class that Hitler himself took advantage of in his own propaganda and rise to power.

Never fall for Fascism masquerading as Populism and certainly never fall for corporatism masquerading as anti-corruption. It's easy to point the finger at the other side, the hard part is defending the plan you have when the other side is toppled.
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@oromagi
In fact the most ardent freedom fighters in history tended to be Progressives (relative to national political spectrum) in almost all civil war scenarios.
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@coal
 For example, the progressives' covert eugenics programs are often not what they're held out to be (such as pushing abortions on minority women while calling it "the right to choose," making birth control universally accessible and promoting law enforcement regimes which marginalize minority communities and institutions that relegate them to a position of de facto servitude).  
Nonsense.

The poorest within a nation (minority ethnicity or not)  have less access to contraception and such. They tend to therefore end up with unintended pregnancies more often and are the least capable of all income brackets to cope with raising many children. This is due to both finance, the access they have to information and examples of good parenting in their own communities and the fact that they often are faced every three days at least with dilemmas of needing to starve themselves an amount they have to estimate they can cope with, in order to feed their young.

The only way out of this hell for the children and parents is to give them a way to go 'oh shit I'm pregnant and didn't mean to be'. You can focus so hard on caring and loving this being that isn't born yet but the difference between you guys and progressives is that each child born is cared for in a progressive society after they're born, not just until they're born and thrown to the wolves and told 'you are lazy if you are poor'.

There is also the fact that during pregnancy itself, due to less access to quality food, healthcare products and checkups in any society where healthcare is private and simply needing to work a ton just to make ends meet, pregnant women of the poorest communities can't cope with pregnancy very easily, so actually going through pregnancy can put their whole family in danger of regularly being underfed.
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The fact you wrote 'character' and the vagueness of 'skill matters' makes it seem like you tried to mix truth with lies there and forgot this theme isn't characters.
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@Incel-chud
what do you mean by character?
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@Incel-chud
So what did Lunatic use as an adjective for your martial art?

Did he say it was mentally demanding?

Did he say it is balanced?

Did he speak about anything more?
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@Incel-chud
Which martial art are you
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@Incel-chud
I actually know the split because of my role description. I am pretending to be unsure about it. It's one of the things I said for sure.
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Muay Thai I'm unsure about because it involves very little mental game but it is an extremely balanced martial art that has balance as a category.

Muay Thai is much more about sheer athleticism, grip, hard bones, tough muscles etc. It could be that if it's mental vs physical martial arts that muay thai is the scummiest.
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@ILikePie5
Since nobody has outed yet or participated in the theme analysis, I will just spill the beans.

There are two possible theme splits based on what I got as my description, the fact I'm made PR due to something and the ways that the MMA martial arts would allow a minority vs majority split.

Either Town is balanced martial arts or it's martial arts that literally involve a lot of balance and mental game to them.

If it's the former, scum are potentially in Wrestling, Boxing, Judo, Taekwondo, BJJ and/or Karate (I'm aware how wide this is spread). If it's the latter, scum are potentially in Boxing, Karate, Capoiera (I know this is counterintuitive but it actually opposes balance as a priority altogether), Wrestling (same idea).

The towniest martial arts, under my understanding of the two ways the themes can be split and the way Lunatic has approached theory-crafting the theme are as follows:

  • Kung Fu
  • Savate
  • Krav Maga
  • Sambo
I have one of those four, it is not necessarily the Savate that I didn't mention before. I perhaps suggested my own one earlier to bait a CC but I realise now that it's better to conclusively say I'm in that, for later on.


The problem with the scum's martial arts is that the scummiest pair in the themes are not the same at all but it is very probable that wrestling is a scum martial art.

Let me explain now why Boxing and Karate are likely scum if balance (the literal balance and mental game) matter. Even though balance matters to both boxing-style and karate-style strike specialists, it is only important because they can't handle being thrown off balance well at all and have little capacity to un-grapple themselves when off-balance and get back up. 

In Kung Fu, Savate, Krave Maga and Sambo they specialise in countergrappling techniques, meaning if your balance happens to fail you, they are very excellent at getting you back on-balance.

This is an important factor to the town martial arts no matter how he's setup the theme, based on my role vs martial art.

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@ILikePie5
Not even though, that is in perfect harmony.
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Krav Maga, Sambo and Kung Fu are town based on my predicted theme split. Claim ASAP if you are them, we can steamroll scum.

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Also for the sake of the game I am unblocking all in the game who are/were blocked
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I am a power role and think I already know the theme split.

I won't full claim until others do. It was not a dumb decision for me to out that I am a PR fast.
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The term 'rat' for a traitor/snitch is unfair to rats.
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@oromagi
The second part of your post is the entire problem.

Many predators of rats are much more treacherous and scumbag-like to those they could choose to be loyal to.

These include feral cats, snakes and weasels.
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The opposite of a Progressive is not 'conservative' but 'regressive' :) scumbag Russia supporters.
Oligarchy is never progressive. Even if it is Communist, it is very conservative/regressive if you analyse what gets done.
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The term 'rat' for a traitor/snitch is unfair to rats.
I am not being snarky in a mean way to people like Snowden or some dude/chick who ditches a gang for justice and/or their own wellbeing.

I am telling you that rats are some of the most gang-oriented creatures out there. The rat is deeply loyal and concerned with the wellbeing of their fellow mischief (group of rats) members.

Rats are only violent for three reasons; food, sex and gang/tribal alienation. They take time to ever be truly kind and interactive with others and this includes their human owners. Rats can recognise smells very well and know their regular human feeder or even neighbour of they're wild and being fed now and again.

Unlike racoons or cats, when you feed feral rats they understand that your relationship is only a win-win temporary interaction. They only get cuddly and stuff if they are rather extroverted and sense you keep reaching out to do so. They comprehend social nuance very well and have a depth between best friend to stranger that is so intricate that they are one of the few creatures to successfully maintain social order despite being polyamorous. Sometimes there are brutal fights over jealousy, regarding the polyamory but there is a clever reason why the females are proud nymphos; the male rats never fully know which of the dudes that banged her are the father, leading to all pf the ones that did then protecting the offspring.
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The opposite of a Progressive is not 'conservative' but 'regressive' :) scumbag Russia supporters.
The fuck have conservatives ever conserved xD

Like literally, never have they done anything other than destroy, ruin and impede society's wellbeing, let alone the environment's, unless there was something more pressing to destroy for them (like Lincoln destroying the confederacy breaking off).

The progressives conserve society's happiness and wellbeing while progressing, this is not at all a mutually exclusive dynamic.
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Putin Thinks You're Full of Shit

I guess it's time for the perfect ending,
Fuck the fake gaslighting and pretending,
Real Vladimir slitting throats, there's no befriending,
Coast-to-coast only ghosts in Ukraine's devastastation's trending.

Done playing nice, I see, that's cool,
Still found a way to keep it oldschool; got them silenced or fooled,
This is nothing short of psychopathic, breaking every rule,
Slaughter indistriminate, hit a hospital with children in; dead bodies front-crawl position in the blood-filled pool,
This is beyond barbaric, shit's that pure-bred cruel,
If I were in Ukraine at this point, I literally may have never typed on the site to set the retards right 'cause I'd be scared shit in a tunnel like a tamed lil mule,
Or perhaps I'd be killed in battle, body amongst many just a broken tool,
To the brainwashed Russians I'd seem a Nazi, to Zelensky I'd seem a jewel,
To the rest of the world, a statistic, but to Putin personally in his dreams as taunted ghoul,
'Cause he doesn't fear a vampire or poltergeist, he's more vicious, blood chillingly cooled,
You speak the truth too bold and it's FSB agents with the blood-stained knuckles and your buttocks on a stool.
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@FLRW
Poly isn't Wiccan, she's Heathen (a different type of pagan who also can go by 'witch') and also a follower/practitioner of Spiritism (Tarot readings, palm readings, crystal ball stuff etc)
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@Stephen
As a fellow hater of the crime committed in the name of organised religions in the past, I'm surprised you're ok with the witch hunts.
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Should the world become one nation?
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@TheUnderdog
Mexico can keep pretty much all of it's laws just like the USA can keep pretty much all of it's laws.

But there are incentives to become one nation like world peace (Mexico doesn't want nuclear war because it would lead to a nuclear winter for them).
The world isn't one nation and between USA and Mexico there is peace... Maybe I'm missing something.
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@coal
Do you support what Russia is doing to Ukraine?
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