I have a message I wrote yesterday: It's a little embarrassing now that it turns out Lifthrasil did suggest doubt over blotunga's Liberalness, but there's still some interesting points that might help you think.



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Hello Everybody. This is Joe from the past. I'm writing this on the 28th of September, 2019.

I am about to send this post:

"Maybe I haven't made myself clear. Let me explain:

Lifthrasil has just made the argument that:

We cannot risk eliminating anyone other than Joe, because to eliminate a second Liberal puts the game at 4 Liberals & 4 F.

He did not make the point that Blotunga may NOT have been Liberal. He made the assumption that he was.

Why?

I assume Blotunga is liberal based on Lifthrasil's behaviour. Is there anything about my behaviour that gives Lifthrasil reason to assume Blotunga is Liberal? No. Blotunga has been cleared of being Hitler, but not of being Fascist.

It is a slip. When all hope seemed lost, praise heaven it's a slip!!

Hopefully you'll see the significance and see that I've been Liberal all along, and you'll hear out my proposal:

Even though Lifthrasil is scum, I'm still in two minds about ZFR. I don't think he can be f, because why would he lie about passing a liberal policy to Pooka? It makes no sense. But. It's a possibility.

If he did lie about passing the L, then there'd still be an L in the pack, and it would mean ZFR's trusting Trentonlf to cover it. I propose we skip to SirPrimalform's presidency, and elect flubbucket as chancellor, who's the only one I can trust now that Blotunga's dead.

Does anybody see how Lifthrasil knowing Blotunga's alignment means he must be F? Please, please trust me! We're so clost to losing."

This message is a trap.


It occurred to me that, just because ZFR's lying about passing the Liberal policy, doesn't mean he's lying about drawing it.

Maybe he thought that a lie that's closest to the truth is the safest. Maybe he didn't want RTCVB or himself to look under scrutiny when the last three Fs emerged.

I don't know ZFR's alignment still, but it opened up possibilities in my mind.

I wondered: If ZFR's f, why isn't the game over? Why elect Pooka over Hitler?

There are two reasons:

1. ZFR is H - but this makes little sense when you consider that H doesn't know the other Fs.

2. H is unelectable.

And then something struck me.

If there was someone who couldn't be elected because they were seeming F, then the Fs would have to be very careful that they didn't get executed.

And that made me think that someone was conspicuously absent from the "Who-should-we-kill?" debate.

Who's unelectable?

And Unshootable?

Flubbucket.

The very idea is laughable. I genuinely laughed out loud when I pictured how energetically I pioneered for Flubbucket's government.

But there's a twisted beauty to the idea that I can't look away from.

So I'm going to test it out.

I'm sending my trap message. If ZFR's f, and my insane idea is right, he might take the chance to divert the game to victory. I'm hoping it will seem hilariously perfect - that Joe finally beats Lifthrasil only to deliver the game to H.

But, he might not risk it.

Or he might not be F

Or flubbucket might not be H

Still, it will be great fun to try. And if ZFR responds to my plan by admitting that lifthrasil's probably F after all, then that would probably be enough to swing the game to a liberal win in itself.

This is crazy, but it just might work. See you in the future!

Joe x

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So obviously I was putting even more hope into the 'trap' than I realised it deserves. I've been a fool.

But there's an interesting point to take from it: Why was flubbucket never considered for execution?

(cue someone pointing out to Joe some long debate over flubbucket that he missed)



Mania has not yet dissipated. More to come! x