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Epignosis wrote: ↑Thu Apr 19, 2018 8:53 pm "I wanna get rid of more people with 2 lives" is not a civilian course of action at this stage. It's effectively a scorched earth policy. Blindly eliminating first lives means mafia are free to eliminate people for good.

That's evil talk.

As long as no people have more lives than I do, I'm golden.

(well not THAT golden I mean)

Yellow ducks give me goosebumps.

Where I live it's a symbol associated with the coup we had 2 years ago.

M Plus 7 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 20, 2018 3:52 pm
Dragon D. Luffy wrote: ↑Fri Apr 20, 2018 1:14 pm Yellow ducks give me goosebumps.

Where I live it's a symbol associated with the coup we had 2 years ago.
Wait, seriously? That sounds... crazy but intriguing.

It's an interesting story.

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There is an expression in Portuguese, "pagar o pato", which translates to "pay the duck", which means getting screwed up by someone else's immoral actions.

In 2016, our president (Dilma Roussef, a left-wing politician) was impeached. Leading to the impeachment, there were a series of nation-wide protests, comprised mostly of rich people. Some of these protests were organized by an industrialist association, FIESP. In the protests, they used a giant yellow duck, with the expression "enough of paying the duck", implying that the people were being screwed up by the government.

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Now whether this impeachment was a coup or not is a subject for debate, at least here. The argument for impeaching Roussef was that she employed some creative accounting to get around the fact the government spent more money in 2015 than it should have. It's technically illegal, but not necessarily criminal, and nothing in the law says that a president has to be impeached or punished for doing that. Then again, an impeachment is a 100% political process, where the congress can start a voting whenever they want and use any reasons they like. If you ask a right-winger, they will call it an impeachment, if you ask a left-winger, they will call it a coup.

What makes it look more like a coup (in my opinion) is a long list of things, but one if the huge double standard regarding corruption. There was a big scandal in 2014 involding corrpution multiple Brazilian companies and government branches, which the media sort of associated with Roussef (though she was never directly implicated) and which helped impeach her. But as soon as the new president (Michel Temer) took over, he immediately fired all of the staff and replaced it for allies of his who were currently being trialed in the same scandal. Then all three powers started vetoing all attempts to investigate corruption as long as they came from right-wing politicians, while being ruthless to crimes from left-wingers, even when minor or umproved. There was even a leaked audio from a minister admitting that the impeachment was part of a "pact" to stop the "bleeding" from the corruption investigations. There is also the matter of ideology. As soon as Temer took over, he immediately turned government policy 180º, doing reforms to take away rights that have existed for nearly a century and cutting all public investment in education and healthcare. Problem is that he was the vice-president, and Roussef only picked him in the first place because his party was too powerful to be ignored (using the US as an example, it's like if Bernie Sanders had to pick HIlary Clinton as VP in order to be accepted by the Dems, and after winning was impeached one year later, and right afterwards HIlary immediately fired his entire staff and started undoing all his policies). Point is, when you vote for a president, you assume that their VP won't do the things the president's political opponents are proposing.

Anyway, the yellow duck thing ended up becoming an expression used by the left to make fun of the right. Whenever there is news of a right-wing politician getting away with corruption, the left will usually mock them by saying something like "why is the yellow duck crew not protesting", like if the people who went to protest in 2016 were fooled or only did it out of ideology.

Cool game. A little imbalanced in the sense mafia probably had way fewer kills than they needed, but overall had a lot of cool roles. Thanks for making it and doing this job for such a long time, Golden and Juliets.

I was never fully involved in this game, sadly. First it was the competition with FE, and the slow nature of it meant whenever I got involved for a few days, I would lose focus again eventually. Also my role being basically unlynchable didn't help much in that regard, since I felt like I owed nothing at all to other players. My default reaction to being suspected was "I'd like to see you try".

Then again, I alwsys thought it would be pretty cool if I lived till lylo and then used my immortality to destroy the mafia in the end. Hence my wanting to get rid of double life players.

Also I assume the extra votes I gave to people made the polls into a complete chaos. I'll check the actions to see what they did lol.

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