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Region: Libertatem
A Socialist is someone who is horrified of the thought that there are people out there who can govern themselves without their input.
Miri Islands
:) :) :) :) :) :) :)
Thanx for the segway.
***Narland gets on his soapbox***
Please reprivatize the schools. Return them to being public schools (controlled by the private citizens of the respective community) with the lands and plant paid for by local bond, instead of state schools masquerading as public. Never have we spent so much per person and gotten so little in return. Enslaving a child for 12 years for the purported purpose of Education and Morality only to matriculate a lying, cheating, government dependent man-child who cannot read, write and think well enough to appreciate the liberal arts, nor apply the most basic of maths, science and reason to the most basic of needs, nor to ably govern himself productively in a free and open society is the height of child abuse. I am serious when saying there are administrators and bureaucrats who need to be jailed for this malfeasance/miscarriage.
Homeshoolers on a fraction of the cost, with the right curricula produce young adults with an average of 2 grade levels of academic superiority, better socialization and civic community skills, less criminality, better business acumen, and more productivity than government schools, or charter schools.
My fire brigade is a civic organization. They raise money like police departments used to do -- charity, BBQs, Salmon cookoffs, Fireman's Ball (really a poor man's gala) kickstarter programs, applying for grants, and occasionally a voter bond (not since the 70s, iirc).
My police department (when I lived in an incorporated town) used to be a volunteer civic organization until it was usurped the the city government in the early 1990s to receive federal funds. It is now a unionized tool of the city council no longer responsive to the community that spawned it back when it was a private civic organization . Now i'm rural, my firearms, neighbors and Sheriff's Department (if/when needed) are my police.
Yes, the Progressives broke the Police Departments just so they could institute squads of Marxist thugs who have no idea of Constitutional Rights or Peelian principles are. Solution: return to being civic organization based on Constitutional and (if need be) Peelian principles run by and answerable to the private citizens of the local communities in which they patrol as Peace Officers duly sworn to uphold the Constitution with its Bill of Rights, the respective State Constitution with its Articles of Rights, and the rights in the County/Municipal charter, seeing to that the rights, privileges and immunities of the People, each and every one are upheld.
Also when I lived in town, my sewage facilities was owned by the City of Paris, France (no joke) until they could no longer handle Socialist Nationalization and sold us to a private party, where it is dooing better than when we were a cash cow for the Citizens of Paris (and it is running much more efficiently). Of course now we have a septic tank and drainage field for humans and recycle the animal manure back onto the crops.
Every breath I breath, and every drop I drink is private -- a part of mine own private person.
Do not get me started on what a sham government run roads are... What a rip off. Administration of the roads by private citizens who caretake the very roads they themselves drive on within their own communities has been and is superior in efficiency in every way to public administration by city, country, state, and national unaccountable bureaucracy.
***Narland gets off his soapbox***
Auxorii, The United States Of Patriots, Skaveria, The New Icelandic Commonwealth
The water in the community my brother-in-law is from in Idaho has been private for over a century. The system was fronted in the early 20th century by his great-grandfather and another man through a zero-interest loan they floated to the community. They charged a "water bill" to pay off the loan until the 40's after which the entire community has been receiving free spring tap water. Of course the county government has tried to get their hands on it, but so far they have been blocked by the community.
Narland, Rateria, The New Icelandic Commonwealth
Good for them. May they forever be successful at keeping the wolves at bay. :) I love American can-do self-government.
Idaho is in a very real danger of turning into a Colorado (thanx to Boise (the capitol city running the rest of the state) in the next decade. We are doing the best we can to devolve political power to the counties and other local municipalities outside of Ada County but it is an uphill battle and perhaps too little too late.
If people only knew how little external government is needed when taught (and practice) some basic principles of self-government and civic virtue, they would be shocked at how little their paycheck (anything over 5% - 7.5% total taxation is waste, fraud, and abuse through inefficiency, oversaturation, and incompetence imnsho) needs to go to it. Under 10% total taxation means over 10% annual economic growth in free and open markets (with honest banking and a sound currency). That with a naturally deflationary stable currency means that the poor of the next generation can live as opulently as the rich of the previous generation when there is no welfare state to keep everyone from rising in actuality to the potential economic growth that is squandered by Statist exploitation.
Imagine the present where the poor of US having the means to live like Pelosi (should they so desire), but rioting because they cannot afford all the chemicals for their von-neuman devices (3-printers and such) for their home repair projects; complaining that their yachts are leaking and avgas is so expensive that they cannot take their private jets to St. Croix for holiday so have to settle for Barbados; grumbling that their FOSS PAIN (personal artificial intelligence networking) app only has an algorithm supporting a WAIS-R IQ of 130 (while the rich and famous have access to more than one with +200 IQ) and that their NIEENIDs (networked information, education, and entertainment neural input devices) only work 1/4 as efficiently as the one's sold to the rich and famous. And the actual opulent of the US having private space shuttles, moon bases and a manned expedition to Mars under our belts. Thanx a lot LBJ. Yeah, I am extrapolating a future that could have been, but we still have it pretty good when even our poor are carb rich in fatness, clothes covering their nakedness, have electricity, indoor plumbing, hot and could running water, access to internet, and churches, traditional civic organizations and a public library beckoning for them to come and learn.
I believed I've mentioned George Fitzhugh several times to this date, and I've mentioned him in one of my factbooks. His doctrine was that the American concept of slavery provided an antecedent to a socialist society on the basis that relationships of mutual obligation, both in the moral-social and material-economic sense, were fostered by the hierarchy of the master-slave relationship on the plantation, and that from this hierarchy of mutual obligations could arise a collective mode of existence where everyone contributes from their ability and receives according to their need. Fitzhugh differed from Marx in realizing that this could not be an egalitarian endeavor if it were to be accomplished. A society bound by mutual obligations and reciprocal responsibilities naturally implied an order where the power of authority is unequally stratified. Those who profess to call themselves socialists today have glossed over this self-evident fact: To create a system that establishes the standards of common welfare and prosperity, there must be someone to order the relationships of a society to achieve that result. This implies the state and the state implies hierarchy and authority, in complete contradistinction to liberty and equality which create chaos and destruction like that seen in America's cities, not to mention poverty and destitution for a majority and the obscene excess of a few cosmopolitan types who inevitably come to comprise a de facto international elite. Liberty and equality are already dead, waiting to be replaced. But because of the chimerical instincts of modern socialism, which revolts against hierarchy and authority, the psychic and ethical supremacy of the state and the evidence of this through the popular expressions of nationalism, socialism will never succeed in replacing liberalism. And don't get me started on the many, many people who think that liberalism can be resurrected in some form and that it won't just fail again. Those are the biggest dupes of all.
Republic Of Minerva, The New Icelandic Commonwealth
There terms and conditions are very illiberal. Section 6 IIRC transfers your copyright and grants them licence to reproduce and to modify any and all content that you post. Somewhere else they disavow any moral claim as to how this is used.
Another Section grants them the ability to cancel your account "for no reason whatsoever."
Not something I would recommend.
Memorandae imputeum et linquitur
Rest In Pieces CHOP. We barely knew ye... oh, wait, yes we did: You were just an incarnation of the Anti-American Marxists who swarmed Occupy Wall Street. You are no different than the Collectivos who ravage and ruin Venezuela. You are no different than the malcontents throughout history that demand things not theirs, to take that which other people by their own effort have built. You threaten utter destruction with no capability to maintain and keep let alone improve upon that which you occupy and plunder.
The United States Of Patriots, Skaveria, Miri Islands
Well, he did so because he believed that the white race was so superior, that they'd make superior slaves as well as masters. If anything, he was consistent.
There is no better time or place to be black, female gay, or any thing.than 21st century america
Miencraft, Auxorii, Skaveria
I was told that fireworks are being cancelled bc of antifa threats not just covid
Happy B-Day America. We get to celebrate our freedom from tyrannical government on Independence Day while being forced by tyrannical government to lock-down, comply to physical directives on our person and to wear masks of uncertain efficacy. Wheeeeeee!
Skaveria
Depends where in America, honestly. Gay and Trans panic defenses are still totally ok in most of the country, the Trans military ban is still in effect, and most recently the Trump admin repealed medical protections for LGBTQ people.
Rateria, Smolcasm
Happy Indepenence Day! The answer to 1984 is 1776
Narland, Rateria, The United States Of Patriots
Post self-deleted by Suzi Island.
I'd be curious to see a poll of the religious breakdown of Libertatem.
Narland, Rateria, Jadentopian Order
FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM
Narland
Probably like, 45% atheist? Surprising amount of us here.
Rateria
In my experience, Libertarians are usually either Atheists or Protestants, not sure why. Fun Fact, the guy who helped me organize my college LP is a practicing Quaker. Not that suprising actually now that I think about it.
Narland, Rateria
The poll just opened and I'm already disappointed that there's not 100% turnout for Tatemite Folk Belief.
Y'all showin' the Church of the Holy Longboat mad disrespect.
Auxorii, Rateria
Most hardcore classical liberal types I know are atheist or some sort of agnostic. The more conservatarian are usually Christian. I grew up in PA so Ive met a few quakers in my life. We used to have a whole ordeal about the Quakers here. Pretty nice people
Auxorii, Rateria, Skaveria
KANYE 2020!!!!
Said the heathen himself. You hypocrite.
Miencraft, Rateria
Also, if you're a Libertarian and an American, PLEASE vote for Jo Jorgensen. We're on track to hit five percent this cycle, but we NEED voter participation. Once we hit five percent, we're actually in the game. We got one L in congress, we got 50 state ballot access, now's the time to capitalize on our gains. No resting on your laurels yet, there's work yet to be done.
Yes Quakers are the epitome of individualistic personhood in light of conscience and conviction. Besides, who ever heard of a tyrannical Quaker? ... Except Nixon that is... (of course, Nixon wasn't a practicing Friend in his adulthood, obviously).
Who Whogensen?
Sorry but after Amash dipped out I lost interest. We have no high recognizable name right now and i'd be surprised if we even make it to 1%.
Auxorii, Jadentopian Order
your god was nailed to a cross, my god has a hammer
Nah im not really pagan but i find them cool i guess
Won't vote for him (not sure if he's trolling) but I do think Kanye is a genius
Jadentopian Order
Hope everyone enjoyed their holiday weekend
Narland, Rateria
Trump: Pals with Epstein, rapist
Biden: Voted for DOMA, rapist, "poor kids are just as smart as white kids"
Kanye: Defended gay rights before it was cool, has not raped someone, made Yeezus
Spike Cohen is on her ticket and he ran with Virmin, so that's something. We've been steadily gaining support since the last cycle. We gained two points from Gary 2012 to Gary 2016, when he got 3.28% There's no reason we can't do that again. We have similar election conditions, Biden is just male Hillary plus more obvious racism and proven sexual assault. With the economy and Carona, Trump is losing support as well. I'd dare say the conditions are BETTER this year, than in 2016. With 50 state ballot access, an L in congress, plus a WAY more active base than Johnson had. I see absolutely no reason we can't hit 5%
Wyattish
Post self-deleted by Narland.
You know that Trump called Epstein scum, and kicked him off his estate, right?
You also know that Epstein was a proponent of Gay rights, right?
You know that Biden had a stroke (and apparently several micro-strokes), such that he is an empty husk being manipulated and abused by a political party that is more concerned about power than caring for its elderly and what dignity remains of the man who was Joe Biden, right?
You know that those societies that successfully criminalized marriage (viz., Soviet Union) create a societal malaise from which they never recover, right?
You know that having not raped someone is a pretty low bar, right?
I hope you had a Independence Day weekend. :)
We had BBQ with friends;
met some new neighbors;
drove over to a patriotic town that had a grand fireworks show because their was more for them to use this year at a good price;
met with local churches to discuss how to better fight this current Marxist insurgency (this is at least the third organized one the US has had) -- conceal and open carry of members is back up to 60%. It hasn't been this high since the 1920s when the Democrats tried to bring in the clan to Idaho;
and got an "IngSoc symbol mask that reads "Covid-1984 | Make Orwell Ficition Again" as a present from a nephew that for some insane reason still lives in Seattle.
You can call Epstein scum all you want, does not change the fact you are in his flight logs and was buddies with him until it was public that he was an awful person. And what does Epstein being for Gay rights have to do with any of this? And yes it is a pretty low bar to not rape someone, which is why I'm not voting for a rapist this year.
Rateria
If you have to ask what Epstein being a proponent of and financial backer of Gay rights especially in the 80s has to do with anything then you aren't paying attention to the last 60 years. The entire purpose of Marxism is to supplant the natural order of individual liberty and self-government wrought by family and community in order to establish a fictitious Utopian stateless state that cannot be, never arrives, and leaves civilizations in shambles from which none recover. Epstein was a decadent narcissistic reprobate that relished the destruction of Western Civ by any means he could get away with for his own hedonistic hatred of humanity, and as a shadow broker pulled the strings of puppet-masters and directors in the halls of global power while mocking everything Western Civ stands for.
Are you a US Citizen eligible to vote? If yes, and you have proof that someone who is running for office is a rapist, you have an obligation to bring in your proof, which I sincerely doubt you have. I am under the impression that your citizenship lay in a European country. Nevertheless vote your conscience.
Miri Islands
Jaden is a Virginian
Rateria
Thoughts on each state:
AL: Seems like a cool state, good football and NASCAR
AK: Beautiful, wild, free.
AR: Where Bill Clinton is from
AZ: Unhabitable half the year also kept electing McCain
CA: Sad that such a beautiful state has such wonky politics
CO: Avoid Denver
CT: Northeast Liberals without the clue historic cities like Boston or Philly
DE: Where Biden is from
FL: Florida man
GA: Would love to see The Masters
HI: Pretty state but way too expensive to live
ID: Seems like a great state with good values
IL: Decent everywhere but Chicago
IN: Where Pence is from
IA: Caucus
KS: Flat both physically and in politics
KY: Stand with Rand
LA: Would enjoy drinking in NOLA
ME: Lobsters and a weird political vibe
MD: Too close to DC
MA: Massholes
MI: Home to Americas greatest college
MN: Avoid the Twin Cities
MS: AL lite
MO: I'll be deep in the cold ground before I recognize Missourah
MT: Great state where my grandfather grew up
NE: Tornados and Ben Sasse
NV: Vegas meh, rest of state cool
NH: Primary
NJ:Good food, corrupt politics
NM: Pretty state but too left
NY: Avoid NYC
NC: Pretty state would consider moving there
ND: The winters keep the riff raff out, also Fargo is a funny movie
OH: We care every four years
OK: Boomer Sooner
OR: Avoid Portland
PA: Philly is underrated, cool parts in between Philly and Pittsburgh
RI: Small in size and worth
SC: Seceding
SD: Underrated state
TN: Nashville is getting too hipster
TX: Seems to be losing its luster
UT: Mormons are nice (other than Mitt)
VT: Berns
VA: Further you get from DC the better
WA: Spokane is better than Seattle
WI: Progressive birthplace
WY: Yellowstone
Miencraft, Narland, Rateria, The United States Of Patriots, Jadentopian Order
Come to NYC for the pizza and then immediately leave and never return.
Muh Roads, Rateria
Ive known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy. Hes a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it Jeffrey enjoys his social life. -Donald Trump in 2002. Yes, Trump who was literally ONBOARD Epstein's private jet, which was also flown on by other noted pedohpiles, and was good friends with Epstein for year, just knew nothing. This isn't about the Clintons, I *know* they are evil.
Again, what the hell does Gay rights have to do with this? Are you calling Epstein a marxist? Yes, a Billionaire subscribes to the historical theory of Marxism that literally says he is the bad guy. Can you not see how ridiculous this is? And... if Marxists support Gay rights, who cares? So do like what, 90% of American politicians? They're all Marxists too, right?
And yes, I am an American citizen who is registered to vote. Trump and Biden both have rape allegation and I am inclined to believe their victims. Trump has 25 women who have accused him, this is the same man who said that you need to "grab them by the pussy.". Biden's most notable claim is Tara Reade who has been mercilessly slandered by American neoliberals hellbent on electing a rapist. If you have seen his behavior around women and girls, it's very clear he is a disgusting pervert.
Rateria
Watch the clip again. He says "you grab them by the pussy and they just let you do it because you're rich". Still bad but in it's full context he's talking about how women will do anything to get with someone rich and powerful and that you can get away with almost anything. It's not far from the truth considering how long it took people like Harvey Weinstein to get taken down
Skaveria
Yeah I've seen the full thing. It just comes off to me as him speaking from experience.
Rateria
I've also heard the street meat is good.
You can utilize whatever definition you want too.
Rateria
Pittsburgh is honestly pretty underrated IMO
And DC is cool, but NoVA sucks. Richmond is alright, but there's some really nice land out in the valleys out west.
>being virginian
i shiggy diggy
I still don't comprehend what could possess you to believe that electing Kanye West is a good idea. My best guess is it's your usual Bohemian streak desiring expression. Also, you know as well as I do that if the Democrats ran a log and the GOP ran a dead parakeet that one of them would still win over any third-party politician. I don't think it's ever been more painfully obvious how degenerate and debauched the institutions of the American republic and the cliques who monopolize them have become, and still you resign yourself to "voting your conscience" as if it were conscience instead of apathy and cowardice that anyone still resigns themselves to this sham at all.
I can't wait for South Park to return to make fun of everything in this crazy year
Auxorii, Rateria
Because at this point it doesnt matter who wins and I live in a Blue state so my vote ultimately doesnt matter
Umakia
Miencraft and Rateria vs Libertatem is underway in the courtroom on discord. The case relates to the passage of the "The Popular Delegation of Authority Act". Which was passed 2-1 and signed into law yesterday the 10th of July in the evening. The plaintiffs contend that the act is a violation of the Constitution and would require to be passed as a constitutional amendment in order to be take effect lawfully. The Government's Defense objects, claiming that they are given the authority for such an act through provisions in the Constitution. To see the full transcript of the arguments one can visit the court channel on the serves discord.
Auxorii, Rateria
The text of the law in question is available here: https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1403039
Rateria
The Justice has ordered a hold on the application of the law in question until court proceeding are finished.
Rateria
I support the new legislation
Auxorii
y tho
Auxorii, Rateria
i hate this [frick]in lockdown man, now my class schedule for next semester is all [frick]ed up
Narland, Rateria, Miri Islands
4 days ago: Pevvania ceased to exist.
*gasp*
Narland, Rateria, Umakia
Glory to a new era.
R.I.P Pevvania. I consider him somewhat of a mentor.
Narland, Rateria, Miri Islands
The Justice rendered his opinion on Miencraft and Rateria vs Libertatem this evening, Sunday the 12th of July, ruling in favor of the plaintiffs.
[spoiler=Full text of the opinion]"President Auxorii, while you make some good points, the truth is that the fact that the Assembly is defined in the Constitution (A1S1) makes its existence necessary; at least until the Constitution is changed. The fact that the Assembly can "create or amend binding rules affecting the operation of the Assembly itself" (A1S4) assumes that the Assembly be operating. Moreover, the Assembly does not have the right to give away its legislative authority; as doing so would require a constitutional amendment as the location of the Assembly's authority is defined outside its operations (A1S1), and therefore outside the Assembly's legislative authority. Of course the Constitution does not mandate in and of itself that the Assembly perpetually hold legislative authority, but one must assume it until an amendment is put forward and approved through the appropriate means. Furthermore, the Constitution does not concede the Assembly the powers to accord the President further authority, as the President's authority is defined in the Constitution (A2S2,3), and the Assembly's in A1S4. Interpreting the statement "Place restrictions on the powers of the Executive and Judicial branches, beyond the limits imposed by this Constitution" as meaning that the Assembly has the right to grant the Executive and Judicial branches further powers would be unreasonable; it goes contrary to the original intent of the Constition's writers, and sets a dangerous precedent.
It is therefore the Court's opinion that the Popular Delegation of Authority Act is not in accordance with the Constitution as a legislation, and that if the Assembly wishes to disband itself, it must do so in a proper manner, i.e. with a constitutional amendment
That would be all, and I consider the matter closed"[/spoiler]
A full transcript of the courts proceedings may be found in the court channel of the discord server.
Miencraft, Narland, Auxorii, Rateria
The transcript of the trial has been organized from discord and can be read here:
https://www.nationstates.net/nation=the_republic_of_libertatem/detail=factbook/id=1404028
Miencraft, Narland, Rateria, The United States Of Patriots
This is some good transcribing.
Narland, Auxorii, Rateria
Youre gonna make me blush.
Rateria
I have populist tendencies
Auxorii, Umakia
AL: A warm muggy state with good shrimp feeds and friendly people. :)
AK: Beautiful, wild, free. --> agreed
AR: Home of the " good ole boy" crime network since before J Edgar
AZ: Sad what the Neocons did to Goldwater and family just to get McCain on the most favored list
CA: A State of Confusion and object lesson of what happens when delusional people who willfully ignore reality are in charge
CO: Build a wall around Denver and cede it to California
CT: Northeast Liberals without the clue historic cities like Boston or Philly --> Nor any clue to their own history of learning trailblazing self-government experimentally
DE: Where evil corporations hide
FL: Only place in US besides Louisiana that was so corrupt (Dade County) we (enlisted men) had to treat local government as if it were an unfriendly foreign regime.
GA: Enjoyed parts of Savannah, but couldn't stand the disparity between rural poor and working ruralites.
HI: Pretty state but way too expensive to live --> nice place to be when there are no tourists and one has cousins there
ID: Seems like a great state with good values --> Traditional Idahodian, but the State is in real danger of becoming Colorado Jr.
IL: Build a wall around Chicago and cede it to Ontario, Canada. Jewish communities there are some of the best in the world.
IN: Something to do with race cars...
IA: Caucus --> too many Democratic Party farmers not enough cowgirls
KS: The most beautiful mountains you'll never see. :)
KY: Stand with Rand --> and Senator Paul too! :)
LA: Would enjoy drinking in NOLA --> 2nd worst shore patrol duty ever
ME: Lobsters and a weird political vibe --> here be things man was not meant to know
MD: Too close to DC --> too close to Marx and Engels
MA: Massholes --> from a great shining city on a hill to a narcissistic hell-hole
MI: Home to Americas greatest college --> Reformed Theological Seminary is okay... :)
MN: colder than it seems
MS: more shrimp and better crawdads than AL
MO: I'll be deep in the cold ground before I recognize Missourah -- My flapper grandmother at 13 was arrested in KS city for indecent exposure (wearing a bathing suit that didn' t cover her shins), plus she was in an illegal speak-easy during prohibition, underage in a beauty pageant, participating in an illegal beauty pageant, public drunkenness, resisting arrest, an additional charge truancy for good measure. For some reason she hated MO also. Denominational Capitol of the US
MT: Great state where my grandfather grew up --> One of mine also. His family owned the late great Bar 93 Ranch outside Hamilton. :)
NE: Cornfields and Missile Silos
NV: the horny toads are fun to play with
NH: Expand Greater NH to include rural NY
NJ: Where cars of rural states go to die because for some reason the state of NJsubsidizes at taxpayer expense a bounty to crush them.
NM: a river runs through it
NY: a shame it is a vestigial appendage of NYC
NC: I drove to Raleigh from Old Dominion Annex (at VB) to watch Wolfpack play Blue Devils (free ticket). Left ticket at home. Friends I was to meet there got an emergency deployment out. I had a couple of loads of laundry in back seat of car so did laundry at University. It is evening (fri or sat) with a basketball game going on. I am the only one doing laundry, except for a co-ed who comes in to do her laundry and strikes up a conversation about which quad I am in. No quad. Asks where I live. I say from out of state -- a sailor from Norfolk with some free time to take classes at ODU. Asks what I am doing in Raleigh. Unthinkingly, I say, "My laundry." She gets a weird look on her face, grabs her things and quickly leaves. :(
ND: Horrible place to homestead. Nice place to meet people, if one can find them.
OH: That state that people think Idaho is next to.
OK: The State one of my Grandmothers escaped from. No joke.
OR: Build a wall 20 miles round from Portland to Eugene, cede it to "Reality" TV.
PA: Excommunicated by an FGC Yearly Meeting without the courtesy to first be shunned. My first experience with being given the left foot of fellowship, but not my last.
RI: Residents don' t take petitions to change the name of the State to Aquidneck seriously...
SC: Took voice lessons to speak with a Southern Accent to not stand out like a Yank.
SD: Underrated state --> agreed
TN: Huzzah to the county that requires each home to have a firearm. Lowest crime rates in the country for some reason.
TX: Too many Californicans.
UT: Only Military fort in the US that built its cannons facing into the its Capitol instead close to the city facing outward.
VT: Depressing place if one is not a Progressive
VA: Further you get from DC the better --> yeppers
WA: Spokane is better than Seattle --> yeppers
WI: Cheese, and Gen Con,
WY: What Idaho would be without the influx of Californians
AQ: Those penguins are up to something...
DC: I cannot express my disgust for how the District is misgoverned/maladministrated. Split the civilian areas into two city/municipalities East and West Washington, and give them back to their respective Maryland counties (Montgomery and St George's). Keep the federally owned properties as the District of Columbia and have them "administered" directly by Congress as if the can administer anything.
CZ: Its been a hell-hole ever since the Progressivist Democrats gave it away. The canal itself is now run and (profited by) Communist China. Several Citizen refugees live in Idaho and have a lot to say about their displeasure still.
GU: Beautiful places and great people --and Guam still hasn't tipped over. Imagine that.
CM and former TT (Marshall Islands et al.): Great places to be an Oceanographer.
PR: Great food, and many good people. Lots of places to avoid though. Beware the chupacabra was big when I was there. Never saw one.
Rateria, The United States Of Patriots
Anyone who mentions a single detail about New Jersey without also mentioning the urban-industrial decay of Trenton and the apparent peculiarity of gas station attendants is missing something.
It's pretty sad seeing those big neon letters ("Trenton makes; the world takes") today, in an age when Trenton doesn't make anything whatsoever and half of the lights have burned out and never been replaced.
I forgot about the gas attendants -- worse than Oregon's. I was told to avoid Trenton so went through Cherry Hill instead.
Forgot VI -- Beware, most of the Island drives on the wrong side of the road. Hot, muggy, and some of the meanest tourists I have ever met. Locals were stand-offish, probably because they though I was one of those mean tourists.
If you missed Trenton, you didn't miss much, except maybe a museum or two. Just about every American city has degenerated into a squalid wreck, and I daren't even think about what they're like now.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
...
Auxorii
It is sad to watch America's cities rot away. I still believe that the answer is Liberty -- get rid of the Progressivist crap deliberately designed to destroy Liberty and Equality to impose their unrelenting Communist serfdom, and a return to Republican Classical Liberalism with an emphasis on Liberterianism -- republican as in republican governance, not GOP political party Republicans most of whom wouldn't know republicanism if it bit them in their wallet.
Miencraft
I agree that progressivism and the GOP are a cancer, but I draw the opposite conclusion.
Surely you do not believe the answer to be more tyranny (or more properly, more despotism)?
Umakia
It occurs to me that all liberalism only produces a single, particular, sordid result. Whether this liberalism is shaded by left-wing associations (as in social-democracy and democratic-socialism) or by right-wing ones (as in libertarianism and liberal-conservatism) is irrelevant in the final assessment. The principal characteristic of such systems is criminal irresponsibility.
Hewwo!
Umakia
Are you from Colorado? I don't remember. But this thought is on my mind day after day
hihihi
Umakia
Yeah I live near Trenton and try to avoid it as much as possible
hello
I don't wanna jinx anything, but whatever happened to the flavoured nicotine ban that was supposed to go into effect in May? It's been almost three whole months now and I've been able to buy vape juice just as easily. Was it overturned and I just didn't hear about it?
My apologies for not keeping up on the posts.
As a kid the book, The Virginian was one of my favorites. It colored my expectation of what to expect (unrealistically of course) of VA. But Virginia's slow creeping decent from aspiring to Liberty to acceding to "soft" despotism of Statism in every arena of life was saddening. Trying to find an honest politician (real statesmen) proved to be an formidable task. Both the GOP and the Democratic Party seemed equally cynically jaded and equally corrupt (at least in and around Richmond). I hope the corruption has been uprooted since the 80s but from what I am reading in the journals, it seems they are forever stuck in a good ole boy coterie.
ODU was a great place to take classes. The history of the Commonwealth (compared to Idaho) is extensive. I made some very good friends there.
***anecdote alert***
Unfortunately, my first encounter with the Commonwealth of Virginia (early 80s) did not go well. Long story short -- the Constable with whom I had a dispute (he didn't recognize my validity) over an unlawful detention that escalated into over +20 squad cars, and several illegitimate citations on my vehicle that was rectified by the court magistrate whereupon the charges were dropped and I recovered the court costs. The worst part was when both the constable and myself was called aside by the judge, and off record he proceeded to chew the both of us out like a Boot Camp Drill instructor on an unwashed Hippie for being disgraces to our respective professions but especially for not being respectful to each other. The judge was correct, we were absolute jerks.
After the court hearing, the constable and I apologized to each other. Apparently, he had had a very bad day. His wife recently had left him for a male stripper. My Idaho issued chauffeur's card listed that I was a bonded escort -- as in armed escort, documents courier, and process server. He knew the difference, but it apparently triggered him anyway. I was having a bad day myself and we took it out on each other. Moral of the story: Be nice, even when having a bad day.
***end Anecdote Alert***
Rateria
Now that I have become my grandfather -- bald is beautiful.
Auxorii, Rateria
Age is 21 here in VA so no idea, but I don't think anything's happened.
I go to school kinda near ODU, it's an alright area, just not much interesting around.
Narland, Rateria
Please forgive my healthy bit of skepticism over the way Trump is covered in the press. Everything is a total disparagement -- he cannot even eat ice cream and his wife cannot even wear high heels without being lambasted by supposed journalists whose purported reporting is more akin to the shrieking of jr.high/middle school mean girls who lost their popularity to the new kid whom according to them, cannot do anything right. and everything about her is "grody." The low bar of a baseline for a man not even being able to eat ice cream, by their own testimony leaves them beyond incredulity for any further word until they correct their course and apologize to the People for their prejudice against him and the their bigotry against the American people of Conservative and Libertarian persuasion.
The list of usual suspects (the Leftist Media, the Beltway ruling elite (both Dem and GOP), the so-called "Rational Administrative State" i.e., the federal bureaucrats who think they are a state unto themselves to subjugate the Citizenry (and are threatened by Trumps return to Constitutional regulation self-government), and the unconservative GOP Nevertrumpers in particular) Their expressed hatred to twist everything Trump does and says to the lowest rank of the most vile evil of intention perpetually is tiresome and they have shown themselves unworthy of the American Peoples trust.
The derangement is akin to those expressed to Bush 43 (of whom I did not vote, and whose policies I do not support), the same press whereof were forging documents to make it seem that he evaded the draft in order to subvert his presidency. They are not above aiding and abetting each other the deep state and the press) from attempting an illegal coup on Trump by forgery, deprivation of rights under color of authority, malfeasance and imprison of felony. The documents in question about Epstein were not entered into archives as documented history, and the corrupt cops who have subverted the DOJ, FBI and other alphabet agencies cannot be trusted not to continue to do the same corrupt acts that they purpetuated against Bush Lite and Trump, until those who are subverting justice in the Justice Department are brought to justice.
I am familiar with the tape of Trump and the jr high locker talk. Was he lying? No. Wealth and vigor are magnets for certain types. Not the type of women I would take to meet my mothers, mind you, but wealth and power are very attractive to certain women who will allow themselves to be fondled for perceived benefits. Is it a scummy thing to do? Yes. Is it illegal to be a rich playboy who grabs willing women in the crotch? Not yet, but we may become puritanical Communists soon enough.
If I am an egotistical jerk, but powerful and wealthy guess what part of me is attractive to women? Go on, take a guess..
Epstein supported Deconstructive Nihilism and the power structures of Globalism to deconstruct the West. A part of that plan to tear down everything while supporting his hedonistic tendencies viz., the destruction of holy matrimony, the self-governing sovereignty of the nuclear and extended family as the bulwark of Western Civ. Families tend to protect their daughters from sexual predation when allowed the opportunity. Epstein openly supported homosexuality as means to those ends. He was a tool of and part and parcel of the militant LGBTQ community back when it was just LGB. Note I am referring to the militants who are using the movement to deconstruct society (with NeoMarxist intent). Useful tools are to be found everywhere. Nonetheless, he is a part of that history.
I am glad you are American. I tend to be harsher on my fellow citizens, and hope they are the same with me. A friend is someone who will point out each others faults, instead of letting him run around all day with his zipper down.
I am no longer waiting for a Boy Scout Superman or Chaplain America. What caught my attention about Trump is that he was despised and feared by the DC powerbrokers, and that he is an egotistical wrecking ball with business acumen. Our Constitution can handle such as a Jackson, T Roosevelt, or even a Trump. Our Constitutional Republic was not made to handle the likes of of an FDR, LBJ, any Bush, Obama, or even a Romney if I am reading Romney right.
I have no ties to Colorado of which I am aware. I am an Idahodian (Idahoan) with ties to (in the US) Eastern Oregon, Eastern Washington, Western Montana, and the Wind River Basin of Wyoming. I currently have extended family in Hawaii, Utah, Eastern Montana, North & South Dakota, and Northern California but haven't talked to them in years. If Trump gets re-elected I am tempted to reconnect with then to restart full scale ranching, transportation, and packing operations. If taxes and regulation get out of the way it will be easy to employ 400 and expand to 2000 workers. Something to pass on to posterity.
But your answer seems to be assigning the power of criminal agency to the state.
Auxorii
Criminal agency lies with leftist progressives and rightist constitutionalists for keeping the state from actualizing the full and proper extent of its functions, such as can only be released through a palingenetic and revolutionary ultranationalism which will put an end to the gross entitlements and cultural disintegration which are laying waste the Western world.
The 1920s called - they want their policies back.
Narland, Republic Of Minerva, Rateria
screams profanity
Like the actual word.
The Roman Empire was pretty based
1930s*
*except in Italy
Auxorii
"It cannot be denied that Fascism and similar movements aimed at the establishment of dictatorships are full of the best intentions and that their intervention has for the moment saved European civilization. The merit that Fascism has thereby won for itself will live on eternally in history. But though its policy has brought salvation for the moment, it is not of the kind which could promise continued success. Fascism was an emergency makeshift. To view it as something more would be a fatal error."
-von Mises
Auxorii, Rateria
Post by Ljagna suppressed by Auxorii.
The ejection of Puerta Colina, Aseiven, and Drafunadomes from Libertatem is illegal and I would like to challenge it in Libertatem courts.
1. Its not illegal.
2. No.
Miencraft, Rateria, Umakia
cry about it
Rateria, Umakia
Post by Highway Eighty-Eight suppressed by a moderator.
yeah we already know facism is bad why are you telling us this
hoomans are a forgetful species. they must be reminded every generation -- slavery bad, liberty good. the littler the state the freer the people. the blglier the state the more enslaved the people. repeat over and over until it sinks in. unfortunately it sinks in like styrofoam peanut on an iron anvil so must be repeated constinually.
Miencraft, Auxorii, The United States Of Patriots
Fascism would like to disagree with von Mises. Fascism rose just as much to make up for the insufficiencies of selfish liberalism as to counter the uprising of Bolshevism. It would be wrong and limiting to conflate fascism with just any right-wing counter-revolutionary tendency, for fascism has got a fixed and well-defined ideology and professes goals that engender the transformation of society in its own way. This is why the Doctrine of Fascism explicitly corrects the error of viewing fascism as a reactionary movement, asserting that it has a revolutionary character in anticipating radical solutions to structural problems inherent to the status quo, instead of seeking merely to preserve the status quo or pine for an era before these problems even had the opportunity to manifest. It was only the stuffy old conservatives who believed in their silly, small minds that fascism could be tamed save for its violent opposition to communism. History ultimately demonstrates their folly, but it also demonstrates how fascism could exploit conservative senility in a similar manner should a similar arrangement of historical circumstances align again to concern it. If fascism will accept the favor of conservative political elites in the moment in order to crush communism, it is chiefly for the strategic value of minimizing competition in the marketplace of ideas for the hearts and minds of the youth. Unlike doctrines which preach to moderate reformism or material comforts, which appeal chiefly to cynical upper-middle class working stiffs who see no future beyond their pension and their mortgage payments, fascism and communism have the similarity of seeking their base of support among the vitality of youth, because both have programs to implement with the effect of revolutionizing the people and producing an extremist shift in popular political consciousness, albeit in the one case to consolidate the nation-state into a totalitarian, all-absorbing, ever-expanding presence on Earth, whereas the other preaches the disintegration of national differences and eventually even the state through a class-war. If conservatives grit their teeth and elect to suffer fascism in the hope to extinguish communism, they do nothing to rectify the inevitable decay of conservatism, but unwittingly hand over the future and the soul of their people to fascism instead. For my part, I think I would prefer to see the arrogant talking-heads of the center-left and center-right, with their insufferable pettiness and endless game of useless competition for voter turnout, to be chewed up by an irrepressible wave of revolutionary violence first. Fascists, National Socialists, Marxists, anarchists, libertarians, and whoever else can then fight over whatever is left once the despicable democratic-republican (both in the lower and upper case D and R) political establishment in the United States has been wrecked beyond repair or hope of salvation.
Also, it should perhaps be indicated that much of Mussolini's policies only began to go into effect in the mid-late 20s, since it took him about that long to entrench the PNF in the Italian Parliament, squeeze out all remaining non-fascist ministers and politicians, and acquire the absolute base of support necessary to make good on his promises. Mussolini's most "moderate" period was in the early 20s when he had to think about other parties and elections still, which is also why that era is when Mussolini made more contradictory statements. I like to think that Italy in the 1930s is a better reflection of the practical implementation of Mussolini's ideology.
I would also like to once more state that this is the best administration in Libertatem I have ever seen.
Auxorii, Rateria, Jadentopian Order
This administration is the most un-libertarian one we've ever had.
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