Message from @gaydadsbear

𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐏𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐈𝐈𝐈 — 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐂𝐄𝐑𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐌𝐈𝐗𝐄𝐃 𝐏𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐂𝐈𝐏𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐄𝐒
*"(D)ifficulties occur in a new principality... (C)hiefly from an inherent difficulty which there is in all new principalities; wherein [the people] are deceived, because they afterwards find by experience they have gone from bad to worse. In this way you have enemies in all those whom you have injured in seizing that principality... (A)lthough one may be very strong in armed forces... one has always need of the goodwill of the natives. (W)hen states are acquired in a country differing in language, customs, or laws, there are difficulties, and good fortune and great energy are needed to hold them, and one of the greatest and most real helps would be that he who has acquired them should go and reside there... (I)f one is on the spot, disorders are seen as they spring up, and one can quickly remedy them; but if one is not at hand, they are heard of only when they are great, and then one can no longer remedy them...*

Mandatory Carry

2019-08-03 02:31:18 UTC

*He who would attack that state from the outside must have the utmost caution; as long as the prince resides there it can only be wrested from him with the greatest difficulty. The other and better course is to send colonies to one or two places, which may be as keys to that state, for it is necessary either to do this or else to keep there a great number of cavalry and infantry. A prince does not spend much on colonies, for with little or no expense he can send them out and keep them there, and he offends a minority only of the citizens from whom he takes lands and houses to give them to the new inhabitants; and those whom he offends, remaining poor and scattered, are never able to injure him; whilst the rest being uninjured are easily kept quiet, and... are anxious not to err for fear it should happen to them as it has to those who have been despoiled... (O)ne has to remark that men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because... the injury that is to be done to a man ought to be of such a kind that one does not stand in fear of revenge... (T)he prince who holds a country differing in the above respects ought to make himself the head and defender of his less powerful neighbours, and to weaken the more powerful amongst them, taking care that no foreigner as powerful as himself shall... get a footing there... The Romans were brought into... every... country where they obtained a footing they were brought in by [malcontent] inhabitants... (T)hey sent colonies and maintained friendly relations with the minor powers, without increasing their strength; they kept down the greater, and did not allow any strong foreign powers to gain authority."*

Mandatory Carry

2019-08-03 02:35:00 UTC

So.
Thank you for once again proving you can dismiss a motion without considering it. (*Scroll up.*)

pokemon_fetish

2019-08-03 02:36:16 UTC

Who is this in response to?

Mandatory Carry

2019-08-03 02:40:34 UTC

Uh, first part to everyone that days EU, et el are bad.
They are.

Goose

2019-08-03 03:01:32 UTC

2-Pac 3030