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Region: Libertatem
Islam is more or less a remake of Christianity than an evolution of it. Yknow, theyve got new playable characters like Mohammed instead of Jesus
Theyre, um, interns? You typically dont pay them since theyre just getting experience. Bernie has voted against war since hes been in office
I've commonly heard Fascism described as Communism that acknowledges it's authoritarian reality. What pieces of fascist doctrine separate it from Communism and socialism
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Im gonna stop you right there
Kongeriget Island
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Yeah someone should have done that a looooong time ago
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I'm just pointing out their hypocrisy. Trump has been as consistent as he can be for less military interventionism within the current constraints. New wars under Bush: 4. New wars under Obama: 3. New wars under Trump: 0.
Which she had previously condemned. Believes private companies should pay Wage X, but she is allowed to pay her staff 0. Nice. Also, look up the 'fellowships' scam she's putting over on people now too.
Bernie is a false prophet: https://original.antiwar.com/justin/2015/05/28/bernie-sanders-the-ron-paul-of-the-left/
He voted for every US military engagement except the initial Iraq War vote, yet continually voted to fund it and voted for a resolution commending W. Bush's wartime leadership. He is not just a socialist, but a globalist too.
Socialists never practice what they preach, with these two authoritarians being the latest in a long line of examples.
Miencraft, The New United States, Kongeriget Island
Obama's ambitions were restrained by Congress, the Senate and the Courts. The 2020 Democrats that promise to get rid of the filibuster, pack the Supreme Court, nationalize the US economy, confiscate the firearms, open the borders and give healthcare to illegals may genuinely result in the death of our nation. Or at least, the reduction of it to second-world country status.
Miencraft, The New United States, Miri Islands, Kongeriget Island
This literally sounds exactly like Bush era fox news.
Fascism believes that the state is absolute and eternal, standing for the will and conscience of man as a historic entity. As such, fascism believes that the state sums up all the various permutations and manifestations of the life of a people, coordinates them together with a uniform discipline, engineers the moral outlook of society, and both originates and guides the development of national consciousness. Communism holds that the state is a second-order consequence of the prevailing mode of economic organization, part of the so-called superstructure of society, and only having contingent value insofar as it represents a facet of dialectical material progress toward the final condition of stateless internationalism.
In addition, fascism differs from communism in its conception of nation in relation to class. Whereas the communist considers nationalism a bourgeois conjuring trick to neutralize the revolutionary passions of working people, the fascist considers that nationalistic fervor, and the state of constant struggle which brings it about, are the very definition of a revolution on a grander scale, with entire nation-states representing an overriding class-character in conflict with one another for their relative share of resources, land, and prestige. The communist anticipates the withering away of the nation-states of the world in the wake of global revolution and international socialism; the fascist views the corporatist system as sufficient to combine the classes together into a single socioeconomic reality and thus transcending the class struggle.
The distinction between the materialistic determinism of communism and the romantic idealism of fascism is also of paramount importance. The communist places no particular value upon man within the universe, regarding him only to the extent that his class role determines the course of the dialectical shifts in property relations throughout history. In the communist outlook, man is a powerless cipher and only the theoretical underpinnings of an economic system hold meaning. The fascist on the other hand subscribes to the rawest anthropocentrism; man is the primary agency by which the world around him is transformed, and the method of transformation is the execution of "special actions" by exceptional people throughout history, changing the philosophical paradigm under which the rest of humanity mentally labors.
Last but not least is the greatest commonality that communism holds with its twin, capitalism, in that it subscribes to the understanding of human nature as Homo economicus: some creature which is immediately satisfied when some minimum material requirements are met. Both ideologies purportedly aim to arrange a system of production and distribution wherein the utility gained in consuming a product is maximized. Here communism promises to put the laborers in some democratic control of distributing the surplus of created value that would be left with the capitalist out of the way, whereas capitalism says that competition, product variety, and price will automatically allocate created value among paying consumers. This view of life is insufficient, as it fails to explain urges to pursue great and heroic actions that find no motivation in the desire to maximize utility. Never can any economistic view of life hope to model why man oftentimes appears to pursue disutility and defy the logic of self-centeredness, for the sake of an abstract ideal or a romantic myth.
Kongeriget Island
I like how liberals love nothing more but pointing out that conservatives are brainwashed by fOx nEWS, not realising that literally every other media is like Fox News except it swings in the other direction
Pevvania, The New United States, Skaveria, Tupolite, Miri Islands
New poll in Zentari. Come and vote!
Do You Approve of the Move by the United States to Kill Iranian General Qasem Soleimani?
I hate liberals just as much
Venomringo
Libertarians mostly agree on when it's just to start a just war, almost never, except when directly attacked, but when should a just war be ended? With a new regime? Should we just plunder a place until all losses are recouperated?
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It could if the plundered resources were consumed and distributed in some way that conforms to a centrally enforced plan. In fact, I'd say that following this logic is bound to lead to the greatest and broadest material prosperity within a nation.
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I'm not a libertarian, but libertarians put a high value on the Lockean "natural rights": life, liberty, and property. Seeing as prolonging a state of war is not conducive to protecting any of the three, I would imagine that the official libertarian position is seeking an end to war as soon as possible.
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He asked a question. I provided an answer
When are next elections anyway?
Of course, centrally enforced plans are how we can explain the marvelous prosperity of the still-thriving Soviet Union.
If government bureaucrats were any good at managing and directing production, they'd probably be employed as businesspeople instead of as parasites on the public teet.
Miencraft, Narland, The United States Of Patriots
You can have central planning without bureaucratic collectivization. Central planning and socialism, in spite of the association, are not the same concept. And besides, the USSR was more concerned with financing "anti-imperialist" rebels to dismantle Western civilization than seizing the resources of inferior nations
If youre attacked, continue the war until they enemy is repelled, then agree to a ceasefire asap and deal with the terms then. Otherwise war is not justified and just an excuse for Imperialist expansion
The New United States
First, bureaucracy is clearly a necessary corollary of any centrally planned economy. No planning board could ever accumulate enough data to understand consumer demand nor could they make the billions of economic decisions necessary to manage any modern economy. Thus, some sort of bureaucracy is always necessary when a central body manages (or mismanages, perhaps) the economy.
Second, any kind of state central planning is effectively socialistic, whether production is directly supervised by a government stooge or a private owner under government mandate. Sure, private owners might officially own the means of production and benefit therefrom, but there is no effective difference between that and the socialist system - the central planners dictate what to make, how much of it, and the price of the good.
As Murray Rothbard put it: "... since ownership is, de facto, the control of a resource, a Nazi, Fascist, or other 'centrally planned' system is as much 'socialism' as a Communist regime that officially nationalizes property."([I]Man, Economy, and State with Power and Market[/I], 959)
Miencraft, Narland, Miri Islands
I definitely sympathize. While I think Trump has mostly been a good President, his killing of Soleimani is incredibly dangerous and a clear reneging on his promise to end the pointless foreign wars.
I appreciate, regardless, his instinct in generally opposing foreign adventurism, but he's surrounded himself with far too many neocons.
Additionally, I think Trump's domestic and economic record has been great so far, despite Congress shutting down his immigration agenda, among other things.
I'll more than likely vote for the President.
Pevvania
Crush their military until they're forced to surrender, then take the amount of resources from the former government that would constitute reparations and distribute them according to the property damage suffered by each citizen and to public facilities. After that's done, leave immediately, no regime change, no more territory, no puppet government, and no aid. It'd be swift and fair, let the people who live there sort out their next government should they want one.
Tupolite
If you havent read through the Afghanistan and Pentagon papers, you should. Your government will send you to die in a war it knows it cant win, all for profit and then lie to your face about it.
Pevvania, Tupolite
First, fascist corporativism is explicitly not socialist in the Marxian sense because profits are still accruing to private shareholders. Socialism is not explicitly a doctrine of government control in spite of the instincts of neoliberals; it is the abolition of private property and management of the means of production entirely by a collective, which in practice becomes a band of red gangsters. Fascism does not see fit to go that far; ergo, it is not socialist. In fascism the industrial processes are controlled under a systematic regulatory scheme by the self-managing hierarchy of the syndicates to meet the centrally drafted economic goals, not totally nationalized in themselves. Secondly, the fascist corporative system is centrally planned, but not entirely done so by the bureaucracy. Corporative councils and syndicates include representatives of the workers and owners as well as bureaucrats, in order to ascertain through tripartite convergence of interests that everything goes smoothly regarding the management of the private enterprises. Ideally, actual direct government intervention in the manner of nationalizations, forced closures, and subsidization would not need to occur at the level of small and medium-sized businesses, as the syndicates which are part of the government do their job well enough that logistical errors between sectors of industry would not occur, production achieves sufficiently high levels, and prices are kept at a reasonable level. You say that bureaucracy is necessary to obtain information about markets, but in fascism this is not necessarily true: Those tasks have been delegated to entrepreneurs as they would have them under capitalism, albeit for the sake of accomplishing a centrally planned goal. As such, the fascist state does not anticipate usurpation of the private sector to support with unnecessary government spending, unless if a privately owned enterprise in a sector of critical importance cannot sustain itself by reinvesting its profits.
Also, I would like to file impeachment charges against Wilhelm for frivolous abuse of government privileges in unilaterally altering the WFE and tags.
Kongeriget Island
***insert facepalm here***
That has been (and is) my point in general (Communism and Fascism are progeny of Socialism) even though your particular example is flawed (False Equivalency).
Socialism cannot but be abject failures each and every time. It does not matter what kind of stick (Communism, Fascism, Nazism, Progressivism), used to beat the same dead horse (Socialism), the horse is still dead. It is never going to get up and pull its own weight if we just beat it differently this time.
Utopian Social Engineers cannot see the forest for the trees (the state and the people). The State does not make the man, the man makes the State (both Big and Little S), and Fascism uses the State to make the Man. That was the driving societal impetus with Fascist Italy for their creches. The philosophical outlook between Fascism and Communism are irrelevent to the issue of the tyranny they share in common.
Utopian Social(ist) Engineers insist on confusing and conpounding (whether by accident or design) the nature of the individual with the state by force. It brings death and destruction to both the individual and the state of their well being -- always. ... and millions of people die no matter what the name, and how they try to differentiate themselves from their siamese twin joined at the thorax.
The New United States, Miri Islands
Depends on the cause of the war. Traditionally (before Rhodesian idiots in our State Department convinced recent Presidents (Bush especially) we did it this way:
>>>The offenders are brought to a state of surrender (the offending State must surrender).
>>>The cause of the war must then be rectified by Treaty.
>>>The belligerents must be justly tried for their crimes if/when necessary.
>>>The recompense (reward) was in in making the enemy state into a friends by:
>>>>>>directing the People of the Surrendered State (as a Trust of the US) to choose a body of Common Law and are given a Constitution so that within a decade or two a free and equal people in a free and equal society (with all the rights, privileges, and immunities of each and every individual intact) may themselves freely trade (their goods, services, ideas, and pursuits (intellectual and otherwise) as individuals with other Free Nations (either as a State or Territory of the US or a Nation in its own right by vote of its people).
Since the Progressivists in our Federal State have for the last century increasingly denied the last (recognition of our own Rights live unmolested by our own government) to its own Citizens they have no impetus to do so in other Nations even when the opportunity is golden (Iraq). Instead they opt for Nation-Building and inflict their Banksterism on the subjected economies.
The New United States, Miri Islands
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To an outsider, such as myself, this doesn't seem an appropriate response from a leader....
Tupolite
No, you cannot. Central Planning by its very nature is agency. It is agency that collectivizes the proprietary decisions belonging to others.
It takes the decision making out of the hands of the interested party/ies (the owners, operators, entrepreneurs, patrons, and customers) and gives them to someone else (the Central Planners who by the pretense of some legal fiction are made to be interested). Whether it is done by Communists or Fascist to their particular ends is a distinction without a difference. It robs the People of their right to self-determination as individual human beings.
Their very name (Union of Soviet (Central Planning) Socialist Republics) kind of mentions the form of Socialism they were trying implement. The Politburo was the Planning Commission. What the USSR was more concerned with is irrelevant to the fact that they still seized the resources of their satellite (weaker) nations.
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I see that @New United States gave a much better response, but Tupolov just doesn get it. He is so busy looking at the differences in the freckle formation on the face of his brother, he doesn't see that onlookers notice the family resemblence more than the distinctions without a difference. Statism always begest more State, and less freedom without which enterpreneurs (who need indidual freedom to thrive) are mere employees of an omnipresent State who wither and die whether ir bit it manifests as an all encompassing party organ or an ever pervasive political instrument.
The New United States
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ok boomer
To an outsider, such as myself, this seems like an appropriate response from a dweeb like you
I'm not sure impeachment is appropriate, but I do remember I called a vote to alter them, there was no vote called this time. It isn't a rule, but precedent has been set.
The United States Of Patriots, Tupolite
Fascism is not utopian, and neither is Sorelianism. In this sense too, both are philosophically anti-Marxist although Sorel spent much of his life laboring under the Marxist paradigm (though he broke out of it in the last 10 years of so of his life).
Unless if all notion of direct private entitlement to profit has been obliterated, then it's not socialism. Central control is not the deciding issue. It's especially not socialist in the Marxist sense because the very act of profit-making, whether in a highly regimented and controlled market or a mostly free one, denies the premise of Marx's surplus labor theory: that shareholders taking dividends and workers getting subtracted wages denies the proletariat total collective ownership of all the value it produces.
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You once proved that Libertatem has historically not been averse to fascism when fascists could be useful against communists. The original and ideal function of the region is anti-communism, de facto, whether you like it or not. This reaction makes perfect sense in view of that
Kongeriget Island
Lib, why are you no longer in Discord? We miss you!
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Eh I always become a dick (read as: more of a dick) on Discord. Besides, I don't think I have time due to school and work and whatnot
I'm carrying your weight in there, you know.
You miss him too. Admit it. If only because you liked putting him down for his views, you want him back in the server.
Buh... but there's no accountability to the people. Wilhelm is a tyrant, a tyrant! We're all going to the gulag!
Lord give us some of that birch beer before he fluoridates our water!
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The birch beer! It's mixing with the Leninade! Oh no!
Narland
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That totally misses the point (and is incorrect, but that is not the point). Marx was wrong about nearly everything. Everybody trying to fix Marx (and Socialism) whith their myriad ideas while continuing in the paradigm are part of the problem of Socialism; even when rejecting those parts of Marx which are so obviously wrong to the rest of us. You are still advocating its form. Those of us who reject the paradigm see this quite clearly.
We see you arguing that your Zombies are different. We do not care that your Zombies are different. We care that you have Zombies. We know how this is going to end. What concerns us is that you cannot see how it is going to end.
Embrace Liberty.
The New United States, Miri Islands
People have a surfeit of liberty which is why they are always so eager to do away with it. Liberty as you would have it atomizes people and replaces the fine and meaningful qualities of life with a bunch of mass-produced kitsch and neon billboards.
What most here would recommend is making a government that doesn't enforce subjective morality. It should be up to the people to build a set of social norms that favor the elements of life that promote happiness and cohesion such as the nuclear family and self reliance. We see the same fault: rampant materialism post modernist destruction of long held virtues. The cause of this isn't government allowing more freedom it's the society no longer enforcing previous norms. The 50s in America are a good place to look. The government wasn't entrenched in people's lives that created the land of the working husbands and happy housewives with 2.5 kids, it was social pressure to pursue an ideal, a recipe for success and happiness. Capitalist economy allowed for reduced working hours and allowed more time for husbands to be a part of their family. It was when the government started enforcing a new morality with new kinds of welfare and regulations quotas in the late 60s that this paradigm shifted. Society does a great job creating a culture of happiness when left to it's own devices. Government destroys everything it touches
Narland, The New United States
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The dichotomy between people and state is a liberal concept intended to provide an artificial justification for the sham of democracy
Is suicide a natural right? Surely if you believe in bodily ownership and sovereignty, that includes the destruction of that body.
Discuss.
Rateria
Yes
Is this Region will harbor a Fascist that in past Commit Harassment to a Member of The Pacific Several times, and is Clearly proud to call "Degenerate" every soul that decide that love is free, and man can love a man, and woman love a woman. And in Past belonged to a Region, that he co-run and created several dispatches clearly full of hate speech?
You care? He calls me a degenerate on the regular, it's just who he is
Trust me, there are very few of us that actually take him seriously. Pretty sure hes called me stuff over my sexuality/gender multiple times. Not gonna let a fascist bring me down
Rateria
It's just so heartwarming to see you guys have my back
Get out of here, Khanter. There is no "hate speech" contained in any dispatch I made, and it's not like you cared about Xoriet before Integralist Canada screwed up.
The New United States
In other news, the policy "No Dissent" was apparently canceled in my nation simply because my nation's leader wants his subordinates to keep him well-informed about sewer maintenance.
Narland, Miri Islands
This means i have the lowest political freedom in the region!
Narland, The New United States, Tupolite
NO!
The New United States
The supposed natural right to suicide is contradicted by the clear natural [I]duty[/I] to serve the family, community, and people that brought each one of us to this Earth and toiled to raise us and provide for us - not to mention the God that gave us life and put us here for a purpose.
We each are indebted to our communities, our forebearers, and our God, and suicide is robbing that from those we owe.
We harbor enough SJW commies, might as well balance it out a little with a fascist.
Tupolite, Kongeriget Island
There's still commies here? Time to rev up the heli
The New United States, Tupolite
throaty laugh
The New United States
Duty? Don't make me go all Ayn Rand over you, son.
'If one were to accept it, the anti-concept duty destroys the concept of reality: an unaccountable, supernatural power takes precedence over facts and dictates ones actions regardless of context or consequences.
Duty destroys reason: it supersedes ones knowledge and judgment, making the process of thinking and judging irrelevant to ones actions.
Duty destroys values: it demands that one betray or sacrifice ones highest values for the sake of an inexplicable commandand it transforms values into a threat to ones moral worth, since the experience of pleasure or desire casts doubt on the moral purity of ones motives.
Duty destroys love: who could want to be loved not from inclination, but from duty?
Duty destroys self-esteem: it leaves no self to be esteemed.'
Rateria, Highway Eighty-Eight
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https://www.nationstates.net/region=the_empire_of_aztlan
the only "nuclear" family I know lived in Pripyat
Rateria
Suicide also has many externalities. I'm not saying that survivors of suicide attempts should be criminally punished that doesn't make any sense.
There are some duties that seem self evident. A parent has a duty to raise their child to the best of their ability, for instance.
To say that no one has a moral obligation to do anything at any time is a concept I reject whole heartedly. I, as a religious man, believe that I have a duty to nurture the talents I have been blessed with and to not hide them away. As is taught in the parable of the talents. I have a moral obligation to return someones wallet if I find it. I have a moral obligation to ensure that the same liberties and freedoms which I am so blessed to enjoy are preserved for my children and my children's children.
"Duty" is the recognition that there are somethings that are worth sacrificing for. If no such thing exists I would suggest that that is a wasted life you are living.
Rateria
The 50s Happy Family is a Progressivist Straw Man to convince those of us in the 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s to give into the Cultural Revolution and their march through the institutions. Their definition of happy is not mine, and by which Marxism cannot thrive.
Life before we started entertaining ourselves to death with Existential Relativist lies was always hard. Hard, but rewarding. Now it is just complicated.
The individual was part of a family and most families had a high bar for self-governance, reliability and dependability woven into society. The Income Tax was still Voluntary for one instance. Those in the 50s who embraced the American ethos -- work hard, play hard, keep your nose clean, keep it out of other peoples business, love others to the best of your ability, and leave the world a better place than whence you found it made for a happier society than those decided this was unhappy compared to European Statism.
Just assuming we were unhappier than Europeans in the 50s because we did not yet have Socialist paralysis is bunk. Americans are much less content after the Cultural Revolution and even more so after being shackled with Cultural Marxism than any time in our history. Returning to what worked in the 50s -- American concepts of Liberty and Equality as advocated by Objective Classical Liberalism instead of the detractors in our midst is a good place to start. Just going back to the extremely low crime, and suicide rates would more than make up for all of the Neo-Marxist tripe we have swallowed.
Addenda: Happy Days was the myth. It was vignettes on how 70s Me Generation idiots would have acted and behaved in the 50s. Most of them would have been spanked and grounded by their parents or blanket partied with a sound beatings by caring friends until they wised up. The would have been considered dregs to be avoided in most communities. Same goes for that 70s Show which was an even worse abomination of juxtoposition.
Miri Islands
You forget, Merv believes there should be a market in children per Murray Rothbard.
Republic Of Minerva
And just who are you to judge? You are no more or less than anyone else. Worse, you confuse Liberty for licence.
Man to be man has to be trained/discipled/disciplined master his appetites and free himself from his immaturity and indolence to attain self-satisfying maturity in self-governance by living his life (unmolested from the state) and being free to learn from his achievements and his mistakes in the open marketplace of ideas (whilst Lawfully respecting the rights of others) and by learning to serve others by finding a satisfying pursuit (offer a product or service) in order to find meaning, both of which you would deny. Tyranny is too scared to trust others to govern themselves. It sees People as a thing but not individuals. It is undaunted that People are an aggregation of individuals (emphasis on individuality). One is definite and concrete (the individual) the other indefinite and abstract. It denies the reality of the individual and gambles this delusional affectation of people upon the lives of individuals to their great harm.
Rateria, The United States Of Patriots, Miri Islands
I have been ill and have been given over to long bouts of sleep. Apparently, while sleeping WW III was over before it even began.
This is a Libertarian region, not leftist, which means while most of us aggressively support freedom and equality under the law and vehemently oppose Fascism, we don't silence people for "hate speech" or any other opinion they might hold.
Miencraft, Narland, Rateria, The United States Of Patriots, Miri Islands
You sound like Wilhelm now.
The fascist state does not oppress the individual; it sublimates his true nature, defining the great popular will that begins in the individual and emanates throughout the masses just as it finds expression among the masses and then permeates the individual. Liberalism oppresses the individual by equating liberty to caprice and thereby atomizing him, isolating the individual from society and stripping him of all meaning. True liberty is the liberty of the human soul, or the freedom to obey the moral dictates of his conscience, the fullest and highest manifestation of which is the fascist state. What you fail to understand is that the individual is just a microcosm of the state; ergo, the action of the state is binding upon the individual will, penetrates the individual intellect, and fills it with conviction. Furthermore, the state informs all the moral values of man; it is the alpha and omega for all man's worldly and spiritual aspirations. Without the prospect of totalitarianism and the fascist state, man's existence on this planet is purposeless and desultory.
By the way, you should get into some Hegel.
This is full of contradictions. Be honest, Fascism is not an individualist ideology. It favors the state above all else. If an individual is against the state they cannot exist in that society. Fascism is collectivist in nature as it favors the "popular will" over the ambitions of the individual. Even if you remove everyone who is against the state it doesn't change the fact that people are not free to pursue their personal will
Narland, Rateria, The United States Of Patriots
The state realizes the true self of the individual as a part of the state.
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Anyone remember when I condemned North Korea?
https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=313886
Those were the days...
Narland, The New United States
By the way, shouldn't elections be coming up? I'd rather the consuls not become an oligarchy just because we all forgot about elections.
Lets do oligarchy
I might be interested in joining the government again.
Not for the military though. If Pevvania is ever interested in rebooting the War on Totalitarianism, that'd be up to him.
Maybe for foreign affairs.
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All Hail the Third Republic!
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Fvck it, I'll run for Pres.
This is a response to Pev's "THE WAY FORWARD: BUILDING A PATHWAY TO THE 2020s" factbook.
My fellow compatriots.
A new decade is upon us. We have held out for nearly eight years, been through some ups and downs, and weathered the storm. Now, a new dawn approaches. A new decade with a new government is needed, so I decided to take the initiative to run as the first president of the Fourth Republic.
Most of the older folks here are familiar with my credentials, however, I do know we have some newer people who may be wondering who I am and what I stand for. I was one of the Military Advisor's during the Golden Age of Libertatem, leading raids on many communist regions and making our name known within raiding circles. I was also the president before during the early days of the Second Republic. My presidency was admittedly quiet, although so was Nationstates as a whole during the time. I hope to accomplish this more a bit time around, with reasonable goals that I outline below:
My presidency will hopefully lay the foundation for a new revival. I shall start by increasing Libertatem's numbers from 50 to 100 members effectively double what we have now. I will reorganize the military while I have no plans yet to reignite the famous War on Communism we are known for, I at least wish to be able to project some strength when necessary. Finally, I shall seek to create new alliances with other regions. We can become the largest liberty leaning region in Nationstates, but I cannot do it alone. So vote for me, if you wish to see all of this accomplished, and more. I plan on running as a member of the old Reaganist Libertarian Party, as a nod to the past.
Thank you.
Pevvania, Narland, The New United States, Rateria, Skaveria, Tupolite
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Let's play France and just keep making new republics
Narland, Rateria, Tupolite
Ew, France
Narland, The New United States, Rateria
The National Library Party is the modern equivalent and torch carriers of the Reaganist Libertarian Party, as said by Pev himself. Run on our ticket if you feel so inclined. That is... If a presidential position opens up. I'm hearing two proposals on the table, one to abolish the first consul position in favor of a senate, and another to have a presidential position, both of whoch require constitutional ammendments.
The New United States
Is this counting when we revolted?
Narland, Rateria
No. I am into Scripture, Cicero, Cato, Anselm, Augustine, Aquinas, Calvin, Knox, Montesquieu, Locke, Sydney, Black, Sydney, Grotius, Edwards, Whitherspoon and people who were relevant to the American Experiment, as well as those who participated in and enhanced it, and those who have screamed from the housetops what is wrong with Hegel -- Schaeffer, Lewis, Muggeridge, Sproul, Marino, Trueblood, Ellul, et. al. The Kantian Divide (including Hegel) is the principle reason Europe's Dead White Men (Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky, Mussolini, Hitler etc) produce death, destruction and mayhem with their empty promises, while the American Statesmen (and those Dead White Men of European persuasion who reject Hegel, Kant et. al. incldg. the aforementioned) make no empty promises. Just a lot of hard work, a bit of tenacity, and some ingenuity with liberty and equality to enjoy its bounties in this fleeting life if one is man or woman enough to keep it. Liberty is better than planned economy on all fronts except one -- liberty is worse for the despot and tyrant who by their self-imagined superiority desire to live off of the good graces of others' toil .
You should get into some Liberty and stop reading philosophers who confuse existentialist subjectivity for objective reality. Because millions of people have died by their presumptuously good intentions.
True liberty is the ability to to what one ought according to the dictates of his own conscience unimpeded by a state outside of the state of one's self. The state is an aggregate of the moral failings of the people who need an external state because they are either too indolent or too immature to govern themselves. Those who can govern themselves need no external state to obey, but may appoint public servants whose own frailties need a state in order to keep them (the public servants) in line. A federated constitutional meritorious republic of freemen (and freewoman) need no external state. Their constitution is state enough and it is bound in the individual self. They are their own government, and the state's only job is relegated to stopping what few government employees exist from lying, cheating, and stealing from the honest Citizenry (and those who would forsake their constitution/citizenship by defrauding and coercing the Citizenry themselves). Without the individual there can be no external state which is where you are confused.
The New United States, The United States Of Patriots
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Why not just put some effort into completing your region history dispatch?
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