Why to resist CFC? Why to lose Fountain when all we had to do is to bow to Mittens and keep it as CFC members? Why throw away HBC and pick up the "rebel" gimmick?
There are several alliances in the CFC. Formally they are equal. No one calls them pets inside. But, despite shared jabber, mumble and fleets, they are in separate alliances. "Separate but equal" was the legal justification of the Jim Crow laws which prescribed separate "white" and "colored" rail cars, restaurants, barber shops, pubs, schools, drinking fountains and practically all places. Legally they were equal, practically very much not. The "colored" versions were always worse, even when there were attempts to provide equal services. The reason for that is simple: the white users were generally of higher status, and they could leverage this for better services. For example an "only white" restaurant could charge higher on average, therefore hire more staff, providing better services than a "colored", even when the individual customers had equal requests and money. This was the basis of the ruling overturning "separate but equal" stating that separation necessarily lead to inferior services to colored.
Even if there are honest attempts from CFC leadership to keep them equal, the pets get inferior treatment, due to the important figures mostly being Goons, and they naturally look after their people, while pets don't get this attention. However I doubt if there are even attempts. From time to time we here this or that alliance kicked from CFC for "underperformance". However Goonwaffe members don't even have to comply to formal standards. The position of the line Goon is safe without doing anything, by his "birthright" of coming from SA. On the other hand if a pet doesn't perform properly, he is punished. GSF had half as many troops to 6VDT than TEST, despite equal size. Will anyone has to fear consequences of this pathetic performance?
This creates and inequity between the line members of the core group and the pets. The legendary line was "you don't talk back to -A-", instead of "you don't talk back to Makalu". Makalu was a leader who had reasons to demand respect. But a line -A- was just as much an F1-basher as a line "pet". Yet, he was treated better, just like white men over "colored".
The CFC is in the state of the pre-emancipation society of institutionalized racism. There are "white" Goons and "colored" others. This is why TEST broke away from Goon pet state and kept fighting alone against the 3x bigger CFC. Being chased to Esoteria or Impass is better than being a pet.
It was asked if Tribe is a TEST pet? Since Tribe clearly cannot defend itself without TEST or from TEST, it holds its land only at the will of TEST. So Tribe had to do its best protecting TEST space, while cannot automatically expect the same. In this sense, yes, Tribe is a pet. The fact that TEST members and leaders never purposefully wronged them doesn't change that. Human rights needs to be guaranteed by systems and not the goodness of the power holders. If you read TEST forums, you will find a suggestion from me to offer them alliance merge, exactly to stop this situation and make them one with us, change the "separate but equal" into "mixed". Hell, I changed my forum signature to "Can we merge with TRIBE? We already fight as one, let's be one!"
If you are a member of a stable coalition (as opposed to a temporary cooperation of separate entities, like BL and PL at Asakai), and the leadership isn't from your group, you are a pet. Maybe a well-treated one, but still a pet. They might even "jokingly" use the N-word or other racist/sexist slurs on you. It is not funny. Not at all.
There are several alliances in the CFC. Formally they are equal. No one calls them pets inside. But, despite shared jabber, mumble and fleets, they are in separate alliances. "Separate but equal" was the legal justification of the Jim Crow laws which prescribed separate "white" and "colored" rail cars, restaurants, barber shops, pubs, schools, drinking fountains and practically all places. Legally they were equal, practically very much not. The "colored" versions were always worse, even when there were attempts to provide equal services. The reason for that is simple: the white users were generally of higher status, and they could leverage this for better services. For example an "only white" restaurant could charge higher on average, therefore hire more staff, providing better services than a "colored", even when the individual customers had equal requests and money. This was the basis of the ruling overturning "separate but equal" stating that separation necessarily lead to inferior services to colored.
Even if there are honest attempts from CFC leadership to keep them equal, the pets get inferior treatment, due to the important figures mostly being Goons, and they naturally look after their people, while pets don't get this attention. However I doubt if there are even attempts. From time to time we here this or that alliance kicked from CFC for "underperformance". However Goonwaffe members don't even have to comply to formal standards. The position of the line Goon is safe without doing anything, by his "birthright" of coming from SA. On the other hand if a pet doesn't perform properly, he is punished. GSF had half as many troops to 6VDT than TEST, despite equal size. Will anyone has to fear consequences of this pathetic performance?
This creates and inequity between the line members of the core group and the pets. The legendary line was "you don't talk back to -A-", instead of "you don't talk back to Makalu". Makalu was a leader who had reasons to demand respect. But a line -A- was just as much an F1-basher as a line "pet". Yet, he was treated better, just like white men over "colored".
The CFC is in the state of the pre-emancipation society of institutionalized racism. There are "white" Goons and "colored" others. This is why TEST broke away from Goon pet state and kept fighting alone against the 3x bigger CFC. Being chased to Esoteria or Impass is better than being a pet.
It was asked if Tribe is a TEST pet? Since Tribe clearly cannot defend itself without TEST or from TEST, it holds its land only at the will of TEST. So Tribe had to do its best protecting TEST space, while cannot automatically expect the same. In this sense, yes, Tribe is a pet. The fact that TEST members and leaders never purposefully wronged them doesn't change that. Human rights needs to be guaranteed by systems and not the goodness of the power holders. If you read TEST forums, you will find a suggestion from me to offer them alliance merge, exactly to stop this situation and make them one with us, change the "separate but equal" into "mixed". Hell, I changed my forum signature to "Can we merge with TRIBE? We already fight as one, let's be one!"
If you are a member of a stable coalition (as opposed to a temporary cooperation of separate entities, like BL and PL at Asakai), and the leadership isn't from your group, you are a pet. Maybe a well-treated one, but still a pet. They might even "jokingly" use the N-word or other racist/sexist slurs on you. It is not funny. Not at all.
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