Originally Posted by Necrobaron (Post 197901)

Probably not the best examples but both Modern Warfare 2 and Fallout 3 (both commercially successful, widely recognized games) depict Washington D.C. and its various historically significant buildings and monuments in various states of destruction, ruin and decay. I don't recall there being any outrage over that, by Americans or otherwise...

Originally Posted by Ctrl E (Post 197904)

as an aussie with republican leanings, it was kind of the first building i was planning on targeting on my first sortie in a stuka.

Originally Posted by Avimimus (Post 198207)

You Aussies have the luxury of being republican! - you don't have an 8,900km undefended border with the land of Mordor ;)

(said in good humour).

Originally Posted by Avimimus (Post 198207)

You Aussies have the luxury of being republican! - you don't have an 8,900km undefended border with the land of Mordor ;)

(said in good humour).



I figured Oleg meant a literal law since MS CFS 1 also had invincible buildings.

Perhaps some European country views major cultural symbols as equivalents to a countries civilian culture and civilian population (and therefore vulnerable to hate and mock atrocities)??

However, destructible civilian buildings would seem to make this irrelevant.

Originally Posted by BadAim (Post 198275)

respect is kind of irrelevant when your dropping bombs on someone.

Originally Posted by Skoshi Tiger (Post 198215)

The only reason we haven't become a rebublic is that the differnt rebulican factions in Australia hate each others guts and even they know that if they got into power only public appathy would keep us from being in a civil war within a few years.

Originally Posted by BadAim (Post 198275)

What? I thought you guys liked us now that we have a Marxist president.

Originally Posted by Avimimus (Post 198302)

God bless pubic apathy (I almost thought it was a Canadian invention).
One tyrant 3000 miles away!



No BadAim ;) I suspect we still think you're all nuts... :D

I mean, you developed a republic before the French - that takes imagination; and you guys seem to think it is treasonous to modify your constitution, even the amendments, to your constitution. Lots of people dislike some of the private and public interference in foreign countries and are mystified at internal politics. But we've always liked the States (even when you elect strange politicians). The fact is that people really like most Americans as individuals and think America is a great country, if slightly unhinged at times. This is true almost everywhere.

But, back to the topic - we still don't know whose laws make buildings resist the laws of entropy and physics.

I wonder if this is a part of the reaction to the bombing of cultural targets (eg. By Germany during the war)?

Originally Posted by Avimimus (Post 198302)

God bless pubic apathy (I almost thought it was a Canadian invention).
One tyrant 3000 miles away!

Originally Posted by BadAim (Post 198328)

LOL! Public apathy is easy when the police aren't kicking down your door for thought crimes (probably only a short time away in both of our countries):)

Yes, were all nuts.

Why the laws of Political correctness of course, which have no relation to any known natural law, nor indeed to common sense, or any other kind of reality. But let those laws be broken and the PC police finds out about it; you'll be looking down the business end of a hissy fit brother!

Originally Posted by WTE_Galway (Post 198403)

The roots of the republican debate in Australia go back to a time when the country was divided on class/religion lines. The self proclaimed "better" classes were protestant (Church of England) of English decent and committed Monarchists. The working/poorer people tended to be Catholic and of either Irish or Italian descent and wanted a republic.

The protestant/catholic divide has faded in recent years and the monarchist debate confused with all sorts of modern political hype. But at essence its still the same divide.