Author Topic: Take the politics out of AH  (Read 845 times)

Offline Zigrat

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Take the politics out of AH
« on: August 26, 2000, 01:37:00 AM »
I am tired of all you idiots bashing Luftwaffe for being Nazi or the Allies for being Evil or the VVS for being murderers etcera.

Fly the game for the aircraft, not the regieme behindthem. Lots of you guys wont fly german or american or whatever aircraft because of the nation that made them. Well, that is stupid. I fly all countries aircraft, because I love aircraft. If you want to push a political philosophy, go somewhere else. I am an american, and if I was gonna fly in WW2 (thank god I didn't have to) I would have flown for the allies of course! But this is a game, and in peace time, you telling me you wouldn't want to take a ride in a Me109 if you had the chance!?

Seems to me we all have a love of aircraft, and for me that love spans country and political philosophy. I am an engineering student and I love all the aircraft because, well, I love airplanes! To me it does not matter whether the engineer who built that machine lived in germany or japan or the US or britain, thats where he was born, so thats where he designed them, and they are all IMHO works of art.

So cut out the political bullsh*t. We don't need it.

If you think about it, it is kind of a (much less serious) form of racism: FW-190 you are a marvelous aircraft, but your designer was born in germany instead of US so you are a piece of crap etcera. Obviously not the same as people, but in the same vein.


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« Reply #1 on: August 26, 2000, 02:16:00 AM »
Yepper Zig. It's about the planes, tactics, and flying skill. The kills are just a way to keep score. All the WWII airplanes are special. They represent the pinnacle of piston-powered, propeller-driven aircraft.

They are just planes.

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« Reply #2 on: August 26, 2000, 04:21:00 AM »
Yep Zigrat, you got the point.

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« Reply #3 on: August 26, 2000, 05:04:00 AM »
Wow.  Thanks again to the thought patrol.

I'm not a big fan of calling someone a Nazi because they fly German planes... nor refusing to fly anything American made.  I'm even less of a fan on being told how to think.

How about this...

Let people be.  If you don't like what's being said... don't read any farther.  Works for me.

AKDejaVu

Offline Jekyll

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« Reply #4 on: August 26, 2000, 07:34:00 AM »
Salute Zigrat.

A very good point well made  

Besides, I am yet to see a Fw-190 that was a paid-up member of the Nazi Party  


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« Reply #5 on: August 26, 2000, 08:25:00 AM »
nor the slaves that made them

Offline indian

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« Reply #6 on: August 26, 2000, 08:59:00 AM »
Remember this is a game first computers didnt realy exist back in WW11 so none of the plane in here faught in the war. I use alomat all the planes at sometime or another dont care what country it simulates. I do believe that the 2 countrys the US faught during WW11 are now our allies.

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Offline maik

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« Reply #7 on: August 26, 2000, 10:24:00 AM »
<S> Zigrat,

WELL SAID!!!!!!!!!

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Offline Torque

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« Reply #8 on: August 26, 2000, 11:32:00 AM »
Explain this then Zig i just saw Al Gore in a Nik.

Offline 1776

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« Reply #9 on: August 26, 2000, 01:17:00 PM »
He heeee I saw AlGore hugging a tree near A8!!

Offline Snoopi

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« Reply #10 on: August 26, 2000, 02:40:00 PM »
 
Quote
Originally posted by AKDejaVu:
I'm even less of a fan on being told how to think.

How about this...

Let people be.  If you don't like what's being said... don't read any farther.  Works for me.
AKDejaVu


**Put on Devils Advocate/SH*T Disturber Hat...
**Pulls Pin.......
**Throws........

I'M less of a fan of being told what to do.

How about this...

If you don't like what's being said... don't read any farther.

   LOL


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« Reply #11 on: August 26, 2000, 02:50:00 PM »
Great points Zigrat. I was an engineering student last year, now a beginning engineer (unfortunately not working with aircraft) and I like aircraft because of the engineering behind them and because of the flying. The 190 is my fav and you'll find me in either version most of all the time. I'm not a fan of politics and politicians though.. doesn't it seem like they bring their countries to war and thus make their people suffer for their decisions? Anyway, I'm pretty far from being a Nazi just because I fly the 190.. it would be self-defeating because I'm an American-born Chinese.

mauser

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« Reply #12 on: August 26, 2000, 04:55:00 PM »
  Right on zigrat lets take the politics out of AH.I don't care who I fly with as long as they ain't a Democrat.  

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« Reply #13 on: August 26, 2000, 05:32:00 PM »
Yeah, let's put football back in.  Some beer and pretzels too.

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« Reply #14 on: August 26, 2000, 05:43:00 PM »
You already have the beer in the Main, Fatty, but there's no giant prezel there.

And if there was..I'd be the first to run into it  

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