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Region: Libertatem
Great, a terror attack in London Bridge. Which I get the train through twice a week. When will the madness end, and we all decide that Islam is the problem?
Stay safe, Pev
Pevvania, Narland, Rateria, The United States Of Patriots, Jadentopian Order
Much appreciated, Humph. I'm fine since I don't live in London, I only commute. The trains and tubes are pretty well-guarded. But still, who knows, this kind of stuff can happen to anyone.
I love it when 'geeky' girls obsess over Harley Quinn and say how much they'd love to have a relationship like Harley and the Joker.
Ok, so you want your boyfriend to physically, verbally and psychologically abuse you, try to kill you multiple times, and treat you like a pet?
...actually, that makes perfect sense as to why girls want to emulate this.
Republic Of Minerva, The United States Of Patriots, Libiceland
Don't die on me Pevv.
Pevvania, Rateria, Fascist Dred
Take up arms and show them ragheads hell if they ever try mess with Brits ever again!
Pevvania, Fascist Dred
Yes it is
How do you fix up your country?Do you just wait for the issues to roll in?
Rateria
That's about it, yeah. You can only change your nation by answering issues, so if you're in a bad spot you just gotta answer them correctly and get stuff fixed.
Rateria
Crap
I'm sorry if im appearing a bit daft but, when and where did Condy say he was retiring?
He announced it in private, in the channel for the commanding officers.
Please endorse me.
Post self-deleted by Aenaan.
https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=834464 Memorial is up, currently being worked on.
Rateria
no
noRateria, Terra De Libertatem
The reason TF2 is better than Overwatch is because Overwatch takes itself seriously while TF2 doesn't.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SW-BU6keEUw
undertalefandom.mp4
LSPAN: Join us tomorrow at 2PM EST for Condealism's Memorial service at LSPAN Stadium. Afterwards, Condy's friends, admirers, and former bandmates will perform as "Van Chiron" in the Concert For Chiron.
Rateria, Jadentopian Order
Aw man, I come back to Condealism leaving?
Rateria, Terra De Libertatem
A truly sad day. Sorry you had to come back to this
Rateria, Inissbeln
I request a dizi solo
You will be listed as dizi
The World Assembly is a deadly lazer
Not anymore there's a resign button
Rateria, Terra De Libertatem
I realize the timing for this is gettig worse, but I'd suggesting reserving spots for future dates.
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/j9Dr1anRP9w/maxresdefault.jpg
A Concert for Chiron circa 2017
Like many larger-than-life self-made peops irl, Jackson was a mixed bag. His tenacity, determination, and drive for accomplishment were marred by a cruel streak and sense of exacting retribution. Jackson for good and ill as a warrior obliterated what he perceived as enemies to the United States (and thankfully the National Bank was on his bucket list). Unfortunately the Amerind Tribes were on that list as well.
His solution to the previous generation (our Founding Father's generation)'s (unintentionally) ambiguous stand, and the Southern States' discontent on the exact relationship of the Indian Nations in Constitutional Law had tragic consequences. He was politically correct to the letter of the Constitution (States have contiguous jurisdiction within its borders regarding all matters of statehood), but off base in the spirit of it (States thus lawfully constituted do so do not have to secure the rights of the individuals within said jurisdiction at the discretion of the state). This became yet another textbook case of Democracy in Action having tragic consequences for his generation' s attitudes to Tribal relations, the rights of American Indians to this day, and helped set the Democratic Party on its increasingly distancing course from the goals of our Founding Fathers (not that the GOP has a sterling record either).
Sounds good. Now if States will remove tax deductibility of the Federal taxes in their forms we will get somewhere. :) Perhaps more people will start to see their tax dollars at failing to work.
I see it more as upstairs neighbors running an entitlement meth lab and continuously playing their genre of defame-blame music persistently and loudly. When confronting the neighbors that what they do is detrimental to the community and to please turn the music down, they call the police officers. The downstairs neighbors are ticketed and must then must defend themselves in court to the Justice-Warrior-of-the-Peace against the false charge of hating entitlement addicts and wishing them to die.
I only want the philibuster removed when the Senate is returned to being elected by the States.
In 120 days he has fulfilled at least 15 of his 44 campaign promises--what president in the last 50 years has done that? and has (like Reagan after Carter) in that time and with an overseas tour got some of the world respecting us as a nation again. Much of what America elected him to do needs to be done with the Congress. Congress is corrupted by its own ambition, nepotism, sycophancy, and sloth. Its like Speedy Gonzales and his cousin Slowpoke Rodriguez. Trump is whizzing by "MAGA-lé MAGA-lé! arriba arriba!" and Congress has barely moved.
Good book. Read it in the 1st grade and it captured my imagination with the political realities around me. It is thematically appropriate even today, even though the characterizations are outmoded.
It especially helped me to peg concepts and form my understanding of the developing conflict between land-owning Ranchers (like my family) and groups like the Cattlemen's Association in dealing with the hostility of the Federal government toward us. LBJs decision backed by Liberal think tanks ***cough-brookingsinstitue-cough-cough*** that self-sufficient family run enterprises with international reach must die affected us out to three and four generations of cousins--the Loonies. When looking at the larger theme of the book it makes understanding the power struggle even today such as the Bundy ranch standoff. Those trying to economically survive with their livelihood intact (the Bundys and their supporters), and the rest of Americas reactions (indifference or disgust but little outrage at fellow Americans incarcerated without Writ of Habeas Corpus, denied basic care, and brutalized while in Federal custody) because of later bad decisions.
It is a 50s scie-fi so no whips and chains as the title may suggest to Millennials.
Rateria
YAR (Yet Another Reason) why I dislike Wikipedia. Protest didn't mean as it connotes today personal disagreement, vapid difference of opinion, or unruly behaviour although that is sometimes the unintended consequences. Quite the opposite, a protest (think pro-test) is an orderly presentation of topics/theses for deliberation in demonstrating/affirming principles that express concern and resolve in a forum. This was usually, but not necessarily in opposition to that thing tested. Today, it is the second to the last resort by Law-Abiding Citizens when more expedient forms of due process have been neglected, abused, or denied; or the decent respect of opinion has been suppressed, even though it is used opportunistically by the unruly as an excuse to riot.
The Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and Bill of Rights are protestations (in the older sense) of the British Crown, the Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution itself, respectively. Notice that in the first, the pro-test led to the separation from the Crown; In the second an ignoring and superseding of the Articles of Confederation; and In the third it was an addenda to and confirmation of the Constitution (the thing being con-tested.)
In todays parlance Protestants are not protesting the Roman Catholic Church but pro-testing (affirming and demonstrating) reliance/affirmation upon reforming (semper reformanda) to the catholic (little c) Church by Articles, Remonstrances, Credos, Councils, Constitutions, Rules of Order, Confessions early Church Tradition and if not those certainly by the Bible itself. This is in counter-claim to the Roman Catholic (big C) Church's at-test-ation of being the true Church. Therein lies the disagreement--Roman Catholics assert and maintain (protest) that they are fundamentally the catholic (little c) Church unbroken since Jesus Christ and Simon Peter. In this sense the Counter-Reformation pro-tested the con-testation of the Evangelicals by reaffirmations and Anathemas at the Councils of Trent. Evangelicals (the word for themselves) assert and maintain (protest) that they are fundamentally a part of the catholic Church for reasons other.
The short of it, if you stand for, affirm, and have resolved to order your life according to certain principles you are pro-testing those things by which you claim to live.
BTW, October 31st will be the 500th anniversary of Luther nailing the 95 Theses on the Wittenburg Door. Time Magazine's Most Influential Man of the 2nd Millennium AD. Hiss, cheer, or meh as you may.
Miencraft, Rateria
Regardless, historic Christianity all agree as to the Church of Jesus Christ being catholic (universal), orthodox (right-thinking/believing), evangelical (preaching good news), apostolic (Jesus established his church by the 12 apostles), etc. The problem I have is not with Creed or Denomination, but with the confusion by turning those adjectives into proper nouns--much like adding "-ism" to something it changes the meaning.
.....Catholic (little c) goes from being all Christians everywhere to becoming only those particular Christians of a specific rite from a certain geographical area that expanded worldwide into Christianity's largest sect.
.....Orthodox (little c) goes from being all Christians everywhere who believe rightly the things that Jesus testified about himself to a set of rites within those who take the name Orthodox.
.....Evangelical (little c) goes from being all Christians everywhere who witness to /testify of /are martyred for the good news of the resurrection of Jesus Christ to being the Protestant Reformers and their subsequent congregants (also a large demographic chunk of unrelated American believers)--nonetheless an innumerable number given altogether to no consensual agreement as to rites or orthopraxy.
Compare progress--> Progressive; natural --> Naturalist; commune -->Communist, positive --> Positivist, Ipian-->Ipianist
Republic Of Minerva
:) As someone majoring in avoiding con-men whose only solution seems to be robbing people of their natural rights as a human beings so that we can be "enlightened" under their dictatorial tutelage, I concur. From what I understand, a mere thousands of years ago there was a mile of ice over what will become the City of Chicago and Florida had 2X the acreage/hectarage that it does now with the shoreline 400ft/120m lower than today because the Ice Caps were huge (if not the more scientifically sounding humongous). When I was in Italy we recorded Mt. Etna belching several times more hydrocarbons high into the atmosphere during its eruptions that year than it has been calculated we have released as a species. That big gaseous fireball in the sky what comes out only in the daytime might have something to do with how warm and cool it gets as well.
There is. :) People who have to live out in nature tend to call it weather. The climate gets cold in winter, and hot in summer and then it changes back. In some parts of the world the climate changes from dry to drenchingly wet and back again. I think "climate change" is a weasel word for the duplicity of whether our freedoms can be taken away with scaremongering warming or cooling--too fears for the price of one.And of course NASA never falsifies data, makes mistakes, is swayed by politics, or is subject to its own confirmation biases...
They taught it all the way up to the 1980s in many public school systems. The basic message was, "Because of Capitalism we're all going to die!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" "You're going to freeze your children to death unless convince your parents to vote Democrat and you grow up to do the same." "Only Progressive Scientists who believe in Global Cooling are real scientists, those who disagree are frauds."
The science fiction selection in the Public School Lieberries were full of frozen apocalypses from Silverberg's Time of the Great Freeze, to some which I cannot recall the titles--Sail boats on ice skids with pirates and people trying to survive the thawing oceans. Equatorial Powers herding Northern Europeans into slave pens because there wasn't any place for them with all the ice freezing over the Mediterranean but they were really being processed as kibble (shades of Soylent Green). Space Pioneers colonize a perfect world but must stop the less advanced indigenous life forms from irrationally trying to heat up the planet to uninhabitable levels. (Turns out the Space Pioneers are methane based and the indigenous life forms are ***gasp*** humans who ruined the planet). Thankfully there were more soothingly realistic stories by Lovecraft and Howard to browse using inter-library loan.
Safe journeys. Don't forget to send us a t-shirt.
Rateria, The United States Of Patriots, Libiceland
If I missed anybody please let me know. :) There is so much activity now with 100+ nations ***woohoo!** No time to responde to everyone anymore. :( Have a good morning all.
Rateria, Jadentopian Order
It's a bit disingenuous to call the 1800s a period of laissez faire. Economy wise, it was all over the place with a bank run every Friday.
Narland, Rateria
Apparently this June is one of our coolest on record.
Miencraft, Narland, Rateria, Libiceland
Just make sure to be present at Condy's memorial service at 2 PM EST today! And have a good, late morning
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Greetings,
I know some of you do not know me, but I am Hyderbourg, the President of this region.
I would just like to welcome the large influx of nations, I know a lot of you are new here and I just want everybody to know that this is a warm welcoming region.
As soon as a nation joins, there's a lot of things it can do to get involved in the community.
We have an active Regional Message Board where you can engage and talk about politics as well as our own Discord channel with a link in the WFE.
You can also apply for citizenship by telegramming The United States Of Patriots.
Once you become a citizen you can be one of our regional leaders through the Judicial Branch, Legislative Branch, or even Executive Branch.
Telegram me if you have any questions.
Narland, Rateria, The United States Of Patriots, Libiceland, Terra De Libertatem
I feel like my Empire is a mixture of Middle Eastern, American,British, and Balkan just because of it's setting
Narland, Rateria, Hyderbourg, Libiceland
Last call for Senate nominations. Elections start tomorrow.
Can I enroll?
My Republic is a mix of Gaelic, Jewish, American and Catholic culture
Rateria, Czekania
You are not a citizen, so no. It would be futile at this time however since granting citizenship right now is halted due to security reasons, but by August elections you can run!
Czekania
Condealism Memorial Service 2PM on the Discord.
Rateria, Hyderbourg, Jadentopian Order
I announce my candidacy!
You have to pick a seat.
LSPAN: Liberatem officials and citizens gather at the capitol building for Condy's memorial service. Van Chiron will conclude it's Concert For Chiron with "Art Of Dying" by George Harrison at 8 PM EST.
Rateria, Libiceland
Gah, Boes Othan had a terrorist attack. Smh. Apparently we need more wholesome diets than just pie...
Free old flags:
http://imgur.com/a/pCwGZ
Got a big folder with flags I don't use sitting around, figure I'd dump some for the public.
Rateria
I know you guys hate when I do this- but I'm switching nations once again. For the final time.
The reason I switched originally was because of how high the taxes are in this nation. But I'm just gonna get them down.
Sorry for the burden.
This is me
Uhh
Would you like to switch your senate campaign and everything?
Yeah
You're killing me, but finee.
Auxorii, Rateria
Make sure to TG patriots
Auxorii, Rateria
I did
Leslie Jones is an ape. That's not at all racist, because I'd apply the same (accurate) epithet to Rosie O'Donnell, a white woman.
Remember when SNL and late night TV used to be classy and poked fun at everyone regardless of politics? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
Miencraft, Narland, Auxorii, Rateria, Libiceland
I love how the Dems are hopelessly trying to turn Russiagate into a thing. I suppose it's hard to blame them for trying to get something to stick, since the House investigation into Benghazi was what led to the email scandal being uncovered.
There are clear advantages to adversarial politics, however. In the UK there's been broad bipartisan agreement about the environment, guns, drugs and cigarettes, pensions, abortion, and to a lesser extent the welfare state (it's increase a little bit vs. decrease a little bit, but nobody actually wants to get rid of the NHS). Of course with Corbyn and Brexit, the age of consensus seems to be unravelling once again. But the point is that consensus is very bad in that gives voters far less influence over policy, minimising their voice in government, and brings the political parties closer to the centre.
Hating the divided nature of American politics is totally reasonable, but the beauty of it is that it gives voters two clear visions, two ideologies, to vote on.
Miencraft, Auxorii, Rateria, Libiceland
Resurrect Maggie Thatcher please. She was a classical liberal Prime Minister in almost every respect, nowhere near the wet Toryism of May and her lackeys, and would surely rescue this country from the crisis of confidence we find ourselves in right now.
Narland, Libiceland
As an Irishman, no thanks.
Lol a Republican right?
I'm an international supporter of Republican Sinn Feín and a member of the G.O.P.
What Thatcher did to the Catholics and Irish Republicans in the North was cruel.
I'm far from knowledgeable on Irish issues and I've been told it's best not to argue with you folks about it, for our own sake, but the general view in Britain is that Sinn Fein is/was somewhat of a terrorist organisation or at least harboured many terrorists. Sinn Fein, like all other UK nationalist parties, is also severely left-wing.
I've heard that Leo Vadakar, a half-Indian gay man and noted Thatcherite, has just become the presumptive Irish PM. Big win against identity politics and the regressive left!
Republican Sinn Feín is known to be the political wing of the Provisional I.R.A, a paramilitary organized to fight against British occupation in the North. Thatcher let Bloody Sunday happen, she allowed Bobby Sands to starve to death, and she didn't care of the needless bloodshed going on in the North. If you notice, I said Republican Sinn Feín, which is different from the mainstream Sinn Feín, RSF is more active on Irish nationalism and republicanism and advocates Éire nua. But yes, a lot of Irish Republican parties are socialist, like éirígí, that's why I shy away from the mainstream.
I actually don't know much about the new guy, however, I was very against the water tax which was proposed by his party. Enda Kenny at least had the dignity to refuse to speak English in the Dáil and insisted on speaking Gaeilge.
That's because of how personal it is. I grew up in an Irish Republican house, my father would go through the roof at the sight of a British flag, and a lot of people in the Republic of Ireland know members of the I.R.A and we agree with the cause that they're fighting. It's one of those things where you have to experience it from the points of view
Narland, Rateria
I would be fine with just bringing Cameron back. lol
True from one perspective, but from another, it was a golden age for entrepreneurs, businessmen, tradesmen, et al because in most of the country people didn't bother asking their regulators for assistance--they just went out and did it.
For the corporato-statists and banksters and those industrialists in bed with Federal and some State governments that is true, but this affected only those who were willing participants in the collusion. For the fast majority of Americans they never saw a Fed or State employee unless it was to deliver the mail, check bills of lading for overseas transport, or the citizen was gullible enough to axe for government assistance. The vast majority of Americans did not. Most Americans relied on the social networks created by their churches, communities, relevant occupation organizations, fellowships, beneficent societies, coöperatives, extended family and alma-maters for their livelihood. Except in major cities (a minority of America) government had little do do with any of it, and it was easy to escape its grasp by voting with one's feet.
Until the 20th Century most Americans outside of urban areas regarded banks as places where criminals kept their money. Fewer than 20% of Americans owned bank accounts. It affected high society the worst and they got most of the press. High society was where well-born could pretend they were Europeans instead of Americans (a jaundiced view of my great-grandfather). The (working) and middle class were vastly unregulated at the local levels until the rise of the Progressivists incrementally from the 1890s and their eventual reign by the 20th Century.
95% of all Americans were self-employed or owned their own estate from which to be industrious. Most did agriculture and light industry outside of the urban strangleholds. In an age before electronic surveillance it was easy to do an end-run around unreasonable economic stupidity so that families could survive and thrive with hard work and honest dealings. If you wanted to start a factory, business, or trade and you didn't like the ordinances all you had to do was move to where the environment was more hands off.
America is one of the few places in history where smuggling (to over-regulated countries) and under the table work (domestically) were honest and open as long as the activities were otherwise lawful. Money, finance and credit transfer through beneficent societies, co-ops, the valuation of real money being high (in spite of bimetallism), and the pervasive honoring of personal checks, iou's, in lieu of bank notes allowed most citizens to engage in the free market--of course in the minds of socialists this is scandalous and criminal, even though people were getting and giving expected products/services at fair prices. That is not to say that it wasn't a hard life, it was. But unlike today the rewards of one's labor were readily seen and more easily attained without the parasitic burden of bad government sucking the life out of the natural consequences of people's actions.
So yes, in a sense, America never had true laissez-faire from the text-book perspective, especially since we never really had sound currency and honest banking simultaneously like UK and some of the European States; but we had it where regulatory over-reach was non-existent/feeble, other States engaged in beneficent indifference, or the government rightly served its People.
If you have balklava we have beef, corn, and washed-up comediennes to trade.
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I can understand the hot-hotheadedness. My great-grandfather was from Cork. He was Sinn Féin and supported the IRA until betrayed by them. They massacred his first family at his farm while away on business some time after the Great War. He immediately immigrated to the US. I am sure their is more to the story that is lost to history. He loved Ireland but hated both the Brits and the IRA, but especially the IRA.
He would go off the rails at their mere mention of the IRA. He was one of my caretakers as a kid (both of us living at my Grandfather (his son-in-law)'s ranch. I made the mistake of letting my music teacher in 1st grade me some Irish songs to sing thinking it would please him, but they were IRA songs. It sent him into a drinking spree and drunken rage that lasted for weeks. :( It is hard to believe that that was almost 50 years ago.
I tried to correct the grammarage but failed. It seems that Irish politics in the 20th century was intensely personal and ofttimes tragic. It helps in understanding your perspective on some issues.
Auxorii, Rateria
No thanks. Better than May, but still a one-nation Europhile. Same as Major. Last good PM was Maggie.
So, upstairs neighbors.
Narland, Rateria
Hello there, it is I, Yukona and this is my puppet
Rateria
Watching 13 Reasons Why reminds me of how petty and juvenile being in high school is. 99% of the stuff that matters to high school kids does not matter after it's over.
Narland, Pugmerica, Rateria, Jadentopian Order, The Sithist Galaxy
I thought the same, but I remember being in high school and actually thinking adults don't understand how impactful it is. Yeah, it was tonnes of bullsh*t, but ultimately it has a huge deciding factor on how you develop as a kid and what the experience of what should be some of the best years of your life, void of most responsibility, is like.
First, welcome to the region.
Secondly, that's true as well. I was kind of confident in high school in the class clown kind of way, but my environment made me way too self-conscious to properly grow as a person and be myself. I have no regrets at all, but if I could go back to myself 6 or 7 years ago I would say "relax, don't care what anybody thinks of you, have fun and study hard". And I'd say that to any other high schooler too.
Narland, Rateria, The Sithist Galaxy
Couldn't have put it better- Irish politics is intensely personal and tragic
Pevvania, Narland, Rateria, The Sithist Galaxy
i think you mean this
Narland, Auxorii, Rateria, The Sithist Galaxy
That too
Rateria
I think I may just become inactive, the whole "leading a country to success" is a lot harder than I thought.
Rateria, The Sithist Galaxy
It takes a few years, but eventually you get to a point where it's easier for you to screw your country up than make it better.
Narland, Rateria
[B]OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT[/B]
Using the powers vested in me by the Constitution of the Second Republic of Libertatem and Section I Subsection II of the HOLIDAY Act, I hereby pronounce June 4 as Libertatem Memorial Day. This holiday will be treated as an observance as outlined in Section I Subsection IV of the HOLIDAY Act. On solemn this day we will congregate in the Capitol Building at a time indicated by the sitting president and remember those who have built Libertatem but are no longer with us.
Thank you,
Hyderbourg
Rateria
The elections have started. Pevvania will win Seat 2 by default. All other seats are contested.
For Seat I, the President of Libertatem officially endorses The Aradites.
He has proven to be a capable senator and should be given the ability to continue doing so.
Rateria, The Aradites
[B]OFFICE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT
[I]Vice President Humpheria
In my capacity as a private citizen and a former Senator, I am proud to endorse Aradites, Pevvania, Jadentopia, Auxorii, and VenomRingo to serve in the Senate. As the Vice President and Chancellor of State, I look forward to working with whomever is victorious.
Humph
Pevvania, Rateria, The United States Of Patriots, Venomringo
Haven't seen it, but I agree. A lot of teens don't get that they're gonna be a nobody as soon as school ends. My brother is the same way. He does all this dumb stuff just to get the other kids to like him. I gave up on that stuff in middle school.
Miencraft, Pevvania, Narland, Rateria, Libiceland, Pulceria
Going through old puppets when suddenly there are two old Black Riders recruitment TGs in their inboxes
http://imgur.com/a/GxKJo
Rateria
So Glad I'm Home-schooled!
Pevvania, Narland
How long will the "book of the month" stay the "book of the month"?
"The Law" isn't the only good political book.
Rateria
Until someone gets around to changing it. It was [I]The Cat in the Hat for a while.
Pevvania, Auxorii, Rateria, The United States Of Patriots
Well here are some of my suggestions that are a little more political then The Cat in the Hat.
Real Dissent by Thomas Woods.
Whatever Happened to Justice by Richard Maybury.
Common Sense by Thomas Paine.
The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith.
The Tuttle Twins series by Conner Boyack.
The Creature from Jekylle Island by G. Edward Griffin.
Pevvania, Narland, Rateria
Liberty Defined by Ron Paul is my favorite
Narland, Rateria, Pulceria
That sound awesome I'm going to look into that.
Also Tom Woods was Ron's right hand man so you would like his books.
Narland, Auxorii, Rateria
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Not cool. you probably lost votes from that.
Auxorii
Responding inb4 ban
Auxorii, Rateria
Yakian is a true voice of the people, I commend him for his candor.
Yakian will definitely not be getting my vote, that's for sure
Auxorii, Rateria
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