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Region: Libertatem
Of course.
YAY! Being mercenaries is fun! I like joining the large occupations. more people to talk to!
Once the gawddamn poll ends man.
Also, sort of unrelated, but my computer crashed ten times today for pretty much no reason.
Guess it's time to back up all my important stuff and then nuke the harddrive.
Anyone take the UDL's Gameplay Alignment test?
http://s4.zetaboards.com/UDL/pages/compass_main/
I did and got "cosmopolitan raider."
They're using some stupid coding for it that Chrome doesn't understand.
How was everybody's weekend?
Quiet and dedicated to sleep and rest.
Molon labe, bich
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Can I steal your flag plz
I love it!
Everyone ought to
This aggression against the standard will not stand, man
You guys all know who Barry Goldwater was right?
yes...
Barry Obama?
thanks bruh
Well, I found a book autographed by Barry Goldwater in my grandparents basement. It has a bunch of pictures he took in the Southwest.
I guess my great step grandmother must have met him at one point.
Just got back from my Model UN conference and used parts of a Nationstates WA Resolution in my Resolution to the chair. Since it's not UN, I got away with it.
Total pro
Honestly, model UN was probably my favorite highschool activity. And I did a lot of garbage in high school. Total props to any one out there doing the real work at model in conferences.
Yep.
Can anyone here read my nation's classification? It's a good easter egg if you can.
Also, after this OP I want to train a few other Libertatemites in the ways of the delegacy. Can't have all the fun.
Im going to be at Vanderbilt University Model UN in two weeks. My third and last year.
Ugh, Funky is going to get himself deleted if he keeps that up. It was funny the first time, now?
this one was creative though
ehhhhh
Im not saying move there. Im not saying make an embassy with it. Im not saying to condone it. All im saying is credit is due where credit is due
So. Colombus day.
Screw Columbus. Leif Erikson is the true herald of the new world
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YqehGlg6m8
Natives were here before the Nordics. There was a corpse found in Argentina older than the Nords. There is also evidence to support trade between Arabic merchants and North America in the 20s' BC.
Well, obviously, but the Natives aren't considered European.
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Are we talking about regions? Hey, United Korea is legitimate puppet storage.
Sure the DKSE one may have gone a bit far, but the standards become a bit fuzzy when the allow commie regions to state "RR rots in hell..."
Whoah! I just saw what you're talking about- I had nothing to do with the creation of DF. In the interest of maintaining [region=United Korea], that's the last region I'll be creating for a long time. I wish I'd thought up that name though- very clever.
Amirite, or amirite
Nah, I think the guys in AAA created Das Failune, judging by the name.
It's not that clever, really - all they did was put "fail" in the middle of it. If they wanted a real pun, they should have called it Das Picayune. Hahaha!
I wonder what's up with NBE?
Hey guys, I'm Timmy. Former libertatem resident and EOA( my region) WA Ambassador.
What's going with your region and the North Korean region?
Hi there, Timmy! I've seen you here a fair few times. Good to have you back.
North Korea is an enemy state that has frequently made its hostility towards us quite open. In fact, they are at war with us, and have been so for some time now.
I see that you've proposed embassies with three Stalinist regions, all of whom we are at war with. Not a good idea.
They've moved to a new region. Don't know why they're closing embassies exclusively with us, though.
https://scontent-b-lhr.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xap1/t31.0-8/s720x720/1026195_843593389008477_8720344749164286974_o.jpg
The ignorance of the Being Liberal/US Uncut crowd is unprecedented. If they're arguing that it's profitable and therefore beneficial to companies to pay very high wages to entry-level workers, then surely, if they were logically consistent, it would make sense for more companies to do this - to the point that government action is not needed? Higher wages for entry-level workers will either come through government action, from an argumentative standpoint, or via the market. They can't have it both ways. But then again, these are Democrats we're talking about here.
Hey, Timmy, welcome back!
To answer your question, we're at war with them. That's what's going on.
I am here in my capacity as a private citizen of The Commonwealth Of Democratic Nations.
The NBE region is defunct, and is only being kept for its historical significance.
Rest assured that the democratic reform of the NBE into the CND has been completed smoothly, and we are conducting activities relating to the appointment of our first government.
It is my wish that our regions should continue to enjoy a fruitful and special relationship. I must add the caveat that any official decisions can only be made by a future government.
That being said, I hope all is well, and wish to extend congratulations to your new President!
I'm a citizen today!
Yes you are! You can also have a spot on the map now if you TG Miencraft.
Congratulations, you passed our hazing rituals!
...Uhh, guys, did you remember to initiate the hazing rituals? ...What? We don't have any such rituals?
Never mind then! Welcome aboard :)
Wrote a short little essay on the ridiculous claim that libertarianism equates to "neo-feudalism". http://www.nationstates.net/nation=pevvania/detail=factbook/id=314409
The Capitalist Case for Land Redistribution
Capitalism is not merely an economic system characterised by private ownership of property, it is one based on natural rights and voluntary exchange. The fruits of one's labour belong to the individual. That is the case for property rights and of human civilisation itself.
Based on this fundamental axiom, one can deduct that the system of feudalism is incompatible with this principle. It is a system based on predatory exchanges and war. It postulates a vicious form of economic warfare, in which warlords are rewarded by their brutal conquests with the property and individuals who have been defeated by superior force. Of course, this does not constitute voluntary exchange. It is essentially localized statism. This is the prime example of a parasitic, involuntary exchange.
Historically, the system of feudalism originated in Europe during the various conquests of the Medieval Era, and similar systems developed in Asia - most notably Japan with the shoguns - around the same time period. A monarch would divide his 'kingdom' up amongst his political allies and friends (who were granted titles like duke, or earl), who would require the peasants within their portion of land to pay tribute to the landlord, who would use it to manage the land they controlled and raise armies for the monarch.
The peasants who suddenly found themselves living under these dukes and earls had been systematically robbed - they had mixed their labour with the soil, they had worked the land that they were now compensating someone else to control. Peasants had no incentive to economise or to make production more efficient; they often focused on simply amassing enough wealth needed by the landlord. Over the next several centuries, although Europe was able to break free of feudalism through the Crisis of the 14th Century, which planted the seeds of capitalism, this did not happen in Asia and many other parts of the world that ran on similar systems that were often related to colonialism. In dozens of nations, even in ones where feudalism had been abolished, the descendents of the pillagers and warlords still controlled vast swathes of land that justly belonged to the individuals who were originally expropriated from, and or their descendants. Rather than a less violent transition to capitalism, many nations and governments adopted ambitious land reform policies, which very often led to instability and violence that sometimes acted as an interim stage before a socialist state. Cuba, Vietnam, China and to a lesser extent Russia saw such reforms in order to more equally endow the working class with property.
Under a system of absolute property rights, all individuals who mixed their labour with land not previously transformed would be the natural owners of it, and have the right to exercise force in order to retain it. The argument for land reform is often a leftist one based on more utilitarian concerns for "inequality" and "fairness". But I, as a libertarian committed to property rights, assert that it can be a very capitalist one as well. Therefore, according to Lockean property rights theory, all stolen land should rightfully be returned to their original owners or their closest living descendants or relatives.
Will you be my friend?
Sure.
Geolibertarianism seems to fix the problem of land distribution and the Lockean tragedy of the commons quite well.
It does run into some problems though as it calls for rent based use, and rejects traditional homesteading rights.
If my region does close a embassy down temporialy with this region, it does not mean we are suspending relations.
We will continue relations with this region if we do close our embassy tho.
understood and appreciated
I am suspicious of geolibertarianism because it essentially collectivises the ownership of land. I also do not know how land can be objectively valued.
Hmmm? Property rights is the answer to tragedy of the commens scenarios. Private ownership of land means that individuals are held accountable for the conservation of resources, which is usually in their own self-interest. One of the many problems with socialism is how to make sure that individuals do not abuse collectively owned property for their own self-interest.
Yeah!!!
Well said Pev.
The Coalition of Catholic States shall maintain embassies with Libertatem. We support your mission and we will not allow any threat of raiders to change our stance.
Good. Just be very, very careful. Sharks are in the water.
I write for the school paper and have done an internship for the Register. I would like to write for the newspaper.
Thank you for your continued support as one of our oldest and most trusted allied regions.
Then do that.
You can write articles at any time if you've got NS++, and about 99.999999% of the time they'll be accepted as soon as I see them.
Of course, editor status is a totally different thing entirely and generally reserved for people who've written a few good articles beforehand.
Wait, the President is in charge of the newspaper? The State having control of the press?
Technically? Yes.
I got the Editor-in-Chief job from Pevvania, back when he was Editor-in-Chief, because nobody else was actually using the paper. In fact, Pev wasn't even using the paper. So, naturally, I got him to get into contact with Aforess and get it changed. That was back when I was just IA manager and Vice-President, but that's not important since pretty much everything will be allowed into the paper regardless.
It's not like I edit anyone else's articles (except to properly capitalize the title where it wasn't so already), and anyone else can contribute whenever and whatever they want. All I really do at this point is just change the byline occasionally and hopefully hit "accept" on new submissions.
I'm actually a lot of things, come to think of it.
When I was just IA manager, I re-established the Regional Map. Then I got control of the paper. Then I became President even though I was going to retire.
So, just a bunch of coincidences, nothing actually to suggest state control of the paper.
Also, if anyone wants to propose any more new flags, you've got ~3 days before I set up the poll for that.
President Miencraft was "going" to "retire." Hmmm
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Little-known-totally-not-a-fact: Humpy and I had a secret agreement that involved monkeys and guns.
The Mien-Hump Affair, or the RLPgate Scandal
I SMELL RLP TYRANNY!!
Miencraft=Gerald Ford
Here's a real fact:
I was going to retire after about a term or two as Hump's VP, then come back into politics several months later with a bid for President.
Obviously that plan changed.
So you planned on being Nixon, but instead became Ford
Miencraft = Frank Underwood.
I suppose that makes me Henry Kissinger. Move along sheeple, the adults are talking
This is basically everything that has ever happened.
I'm kinda new, can anyone give me something to write about?
All I can tell you is to just write about anything you want. Come up with some national event that isn't relevant to the region as a whole but is still interesting.
If you can't do that, then wait for something interesting to happen and write about that.
Also, as a writer, I know how annoying it is to just be told "go write something", but that's literally what this paper is. I don't like it, but it's just how it works.
I think I'm going to do interviews with government officials.
Hi all i am new here so hello!
I'd like to propose the current flag of [nation=Funkytopia2] as a contender.
Telegram me the base file, without the ripple, and I'll add it to the factbook I have.
Oh, and hello.
My first article is now up. Hopefully the first of many.
I'd like to propose we forget about this idea entirely and embrace our standered like the sheeple we are
um hi can i have some help killing Communists?
I was also going to run for president at some point. Maybe. Me and Humpy toyed with the idea of running against each other. #RLPconfessions
I miss Humpy
That sounds like an interesting story. I might do a bit on it.
Um... by "killing" I assume you mean banjecting? Also, we don't much care for fascists either...
i have a rp war on ok.
Can we get to the flag vote already? Bra has passed.
I have requested for statements from various individuals and should have a piece on the flag vote before it goes up.
We have miens flag. I think the confederate flag with the Libertarian snake with a dont tread on me in the white zone would be a good entry also. Then we have the current flag. We could have a us flag with the current flag replacing the stars
I would vehemently oppose this proposal. That is immensely disrespectful to the flag of the United States of America.
How about a Floyd flag?
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