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*ahem* Marx's conceptions of socialism were correct, he just got the species wrong

OK. Thank you.

How does someone join the house of representatives, lone star?

I believe one applies to our Chairman for membership in the House. No requirements needed.

For a great indictment of the mercantile system in favor of free markets, I recommend Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations, Book 5. Seriously y'all, there are two good parts of that book and that's one of them.

Hello everyone. I encourage you to join the NSG Senate:

http://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=244924

Once you apply, you can immediately start participating:

http://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=270370

Also, you can claim a district on the Interactive map:

http://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=249853

Notable Libertatemites in NSG Senate:

[nation=shortnoflag]Blahbania[/nation]

[nation=shortnoflag]Snabagag[/nation]

[nation=shortnoflag]Liberosia[/nation]

*Ponders how best to create the political party that would most piss off the largest number of people in this region...*

Pax Osca wrote:*Ponders how best to create the political party that would most piss off the largest number of people in this region...*

well I don't know...The Marxist Party...

I'm thinking of restarting the DRP

The Time Alliance wrote:well I don't know...The Marxist Party...

I'm thinking of restarting the DRP

Not fascist or authoritarian enough... Besides, there are communists in this region! Gotta find a way to piss them off too! :3

Actually... my main nation's government would probably do it...

A socialist Huxleyesque Brave New World government...

Yes... *strokes beard* Yes...

Pax Osca wrote:Actually... my main nation's government would probably do it...

A socialist Huxleyesque Brave New World government...

Yes... *strokes beard* Yes...

The Stalinist Party!

Vardakia wrote:The Stalinist Party!

That is evil stuff right there.

Yep. It'll piss everyone off. :D

Pax Osca wrote:Actually... my main nation's government would probably do it...

A socialist Huxleyesque Brave New World government...

Yes... *strokes beard* Yes...

Having read that book, I can safely say that even you probably don't want that.

Pax Osca wrote:*Ponders how best to create the political party that would most piss off the largest number of people in this region...*

Already been done

Why are we password locked? Because Pev is busy?

Vardakia wrote:Why are we password locked? Because Pev is busy?

It's for Christmas.

Blahbania wrote:Hello everyone. I encourage you to join the NSG Senate:

http://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=244924

Once you apply, you can immediately start participating:

http://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=270370

Also, you can claim a district on the Interactive map:

http://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=249853

Notable Libertatemites in NSG Senate:

[nation=shortnoflag]Blahbania[/nation]

[nation=shortnoflag]Snabagag[/nation]

[nation=shortnoflag]Liberosia[/nation]

I'm heading back home tomorrow.. So plan on me being active again very soon.

I hope y'all had a great Christmas. I certainly did - spending time with my aunt, uncle and cousins has been great. Me and my uncle have been having some contentious, but good-hearted, political discussions, as he's a liberal. I've already started indoctrinating my 7-year-old cousin. He looks up to me, so I often hear him telling the family "Obama spies on everyone and kills the good guys!" x)

My uncle got me a book for Christmas: 'The Tea Party Goes to Washington' by Rand Paul. It's a pretty enlightening book that has convinced me of the positive influence the Tea Party is having on US politics. Too often is it misrepresented by the reactionary media as 'extremist'. Apparently, restoring the Constitution is extremism.

What I find crazy is that it's taken so long for the GOP to return to its roots, which hasn't yet been fully accomplished. As much as dramatists enjoy touting that W. was somehow the most right-wing President ever, he was very much a Democrat in disguise. He made no effort whatsoever to shrink or even contain the growth of government, expanding it in many areas. The passage of the PATRIOT Act and NDAA and creation of the DHS eroded civil liberties. Medicare Plan D was the largest expansion of the welfare state since the Great Society. The bank bailouts, on top of his love of corporate welfare, were monstrous betrayals of free market principles. He increased the regulatory state significantly. Even his protracted foreign engagements and military Keynesianism defied traditional conservative views and soiled the name of the party.

I don't know what the goals of that pointlessly destructive, intellectually baseless Presidency were, but Bush certainly succeeded in redefining the party as simply another tool for the statists. Reagan could not significanty reduce government due to the Democratic House. But the Republicans controlled all three branches of government for most of those eight years. And they destroyed so much of the progress that had been made by the party in the 80s and 90s.

So don't let anyone tell you that Bush was a conservative, or somehow different from Obama. Because he was neither. He was just another liberal statist, if a less ambitious one, who shifted the country to the left and helped re-popularise big government. And for these reasons he deserves a spot alongside Herbert Hoover and Richard Nixon as one of the most, if not the, destructive RINOs in US history.

Pevvania wrote:I hope y'all had a great Christmas. I certainly did - spending time with my aunt, uncle and cousins has been great. Me and my uncle have been having some contentious, but good-hearted, political discussions, as he's a liberal. I've already started indoctrinating my 7-year-old cousin. He looks up to me, so I often hear him telling the family "Obama spies on everyone and kills the good guys!" x)

My uncle got me a book for Christmas: 'The Tea Party Goes to Washington' by Rand Paul. It's a pretty enlightening book that has convinced me of the positive influence the Tea Party is having on US politics. Too often is it misrepresented by the reactionary media as 'extremist'. Apparently, restoring the Constitution is extremism.

What I find crazy is that it's taken so long for the GOP to return to its roots, which hasn't yet been fully accomplished. As much as dramatists enjoy touting that W. was somehow the most right-wing President ever, he was very much a Democrat in disguise. He made no effort whatsoever to shrink or even contain the growth of government, expanding it in many areas. The passage of the PATRIOT Act and NDAA and creation of the DHS eroded civil liberties. Medicare Plan D was the largest expansion of the welfare state since the Great Society. The bank bailouts, on top of his love of corporate welfare, were monstrous betrayals of free market principles. He increased the regulatory state significantly. Even his protracted foreign engagements and military Keynesianism defied traditional conservative views and soiled the name of the party.

I don't know what the goals of that pointlessly destructive, intellectually baseless Presidency were, but Bush certainly succeeded in redefining the party as simply another tool for the statists. Reagan could not significanty reduce government due to the Democratic House. But the Republicans controlled all three branches of government for most of those eight years. And they destroyed so much of the progress that had been made by the party in the 80s and 90s.

So don't let anyone tell you that Bush was a conservative, or somehow different from Obama. Because he was neither. He was just another liberal statist, if a less ambitious one, who shifted the country to the left and helped re-popularise big government. And for these reasons he deserves a spot alongside Herbert Hoover and Richard Nixon as one of the most, if not the, destructive RINOs in US history.

I personally identify with Libertarians more than the Tea Party. I have come to the conclusion on my own terms, not the media's, that the Tea Party has the right idea but goes about it the wrong way. To get anything done in our country (US) you have to be able to compromise, give and take. But, from what I have seen the Tea Party goes in guns blazing, "This is how we want it and we won't let you function correctly until you give it to us". And the GOP has to accept the Tea Partiers and Libertarians or let them take the place as the primary conservative party. Preferably the Libertarians.

Also, our government is back online, but we are kind of clogged up from the vacation so if you are waiting on us for something, give us awhile. The password will be lifted when he founder and president deem it necessary. We are back online people!

Pevvania wrote:I hope y'all had a great Christmas. I certainly did - spending time with my aunt, uncle and cousins has been great. Me and my uncle have been having some contentious, but good-hearted, political discussions, as he's a liberal. I've already started indoctrinating my 7-year-old cousin. He looks up to me, so I often hear him telling the family "Obama spies on everyone and kills the good guys!" x)

My uncle got me a book for Christmas: 'The Tea Party Goes to Washington' by Rand Paul. It's a pretty enlightening book that has convinced me of the positive influence the Tea Party is having on US politics. Too often is it misrepresented by the reactionary media as 'extremist'. Apparently, restoring the Constitution is extremism.

What I find crazy is that it's taken so long for the GOP to return to its roots, which hasn't yet been fully accomplished. As much as dramatists enjoy touting that W. was somehow the most right-wing President ever, he was very much a Democrat in disguise. He made no effort whatsoever to shrink or even contain the growth of government, expanding it in many areas. The passage of the PATRIOT Act and NDAA and creation of the DHS eroded civil liberties. Medicare Plan D was the largest expansion of the welfare state since the Great Society. The bank bailouts, on top of his love of corporate welfare, were monstrous betrayals of free market principles. He increased the regulatory state significantly. Even his protracted foreign engagements and military Keynesianism defied traditional conservative views and soiled the name of the party.

I don't know what the goals of that pointlessly destructive, intellectually baseless Presidency were, but Bush certainly succeeded in redefining the party as simply another tool for the statists. Reagan could not significanty reduce government due to the Democratic House. But the Republicans controlled all three branches of government for most of those eight years. And they destroyed so much of the progress that had been made by the party in the 80s and 90s.

So don't let anyone tell you that Bush was a conservative, or somehow different from Obama. Because he was neither. He was just another liberal statist, if a less ambitious one, who shifted the country to the left and helped re-popularise big government. And for these reasons he deserves a spot alongside Herbert Hoover and Richard Nixon as one of the most, if not the, destructive RINOs in US history.

Bush was just a whole pile of sh*t for both sides :P Everybody agrees he was a massive mistake.

How on earth America voted him in TWICE I don't understand.

Point is, trying to portray him as a "liberal" serves only as an attempt to distance him from the hypocrites in the Republican party that now are crying out to make the government smaller, while simultaneously being the same people who made the government so big in the first place.

The Republican party is, like most political parties, simply trying a new direction now that they've come up against failure twice in a row.

They'll change their minds about how big the government is supposed to be as soon as they get into power. Both parties are just as bad as each other.

I can't bring to words how much I loath the fact that I agree with you on so many things

Let this proposed resolution be an example of how NOT to author a WA Resolution.

Especially this line, no idea what this is trying to say:

"Mandates that all nations must allow citizens of who are deemed able to do so to own firearms"

As much as I am a full and avid supporter of rights to firearms, I feel that this is a poor way to do so. There's a reason I left and vehemently hate the WA, and it's because of stuff like this (And that they think that gun control is a valid category). The fact that the resolution even says "Assault Weapons" gets my ultimate NO.

A nation from an allied region wrote that proposal. While it is vague, it is one of the few pieces of WA legislation that actually relaxes legislation, and it has my full support.

I myself, being an American, is in full support of gun ownership. Everyone has the freedom to own a firearm.

If this statement is going to become a debate: In a Libertarian Communist society, the community would choose.

Mandating that other nations allow their citizens to bear arms is an infringement on the national sovereignty of a nation.

The WA proposal is preposterous.

Pax Osca wrote:Mandating that other nations allow their citizens to bear arms is an infringement on the national sovereignty of a nation.

The WA proposal is preposterous.

Basically this.

I mean, it's nice that it's lightening up on international law, but at the same time forces the individual member nations to pursue a particular course of action.

At this rate, if it was possible, I'd repeal GA #1.

Pax Osca wrote:Mandating that other nations allow their citizens to bear arms is an infringement on the national sovereignty of a nation.

The WA proposal is preposterous.

Why must we be so similar, and yet so different?

Lack There Of wrote:Why must we be so similar, and yet so different?

You're secretly a closet socialist ;)

*secret socialist smooches*

*Ignores slander*

God bless Tennessee. Cheap illegal fireworks are what made this country great. We tend to forget that up north

Off topic, but I love Les Mis so much. Being of direct French descent I feel some how akin to that story. It may make me a woman, but I love that movie so much.

It's a great musical, but I've never actually read the book

It's my favorite musical.

The United Regions wrote:It's my favorite musical.

but but but... Chicago!

Aah, lost our 100 people.

Lack There Of wrote:*Ignores slander*

God bless Tennessee. Cheap illegal fireworks are what made this country great. We tend to forget that up north

Lol, did you go buy some fireworks in Tennessee?

The only thing I never understood is Tennessee law says you have to be 16 to buy fireworks but 18 to buy a lighter... Wtf. Just another reason for my siblings to beg me to buy them "items" they can't legally purchase.

Muh Roads wrote:Lol, did you go buy some fireworks in Tennessee?

The only thing I never understood is Tennessee law says you have to be 16 to buy fireworks but 18 to buy a lighter... Wtf. Just another reason for my siblings to beg me to buy them "items" they can't legally purchase.

How about matches?

Pax Osca wrote:How about matches?

For a second there, I read "machetes" and was about to go on a thing about greatswords.

Oh well.

Pax Osca wrote:How about matches?

That i have not figured out.. but i would guess no.

Hello all, I am now using this nation for diplomatic purposes, I am Northern Prussia, the Minster of Mediation of the International Republican Union. I am here for a diplomatic mission to further strengthen ties between both our historic regions.

If any questions, concerns, or comments please contact me via Telegram.

We are glad to have you here. Pull up a chair, we can give you some Liberty Cookies and a glass of Freedom milk.

Roskovia wrote:Hello all, I am now using this nation for diplomatic purposes, I am [nation]Northern Prussia[/nation], the Minster of Mediation of the International Republican Union. I am here for a diplomatic mission to further strengthen ties between both our historic regions.

If any questions, concerns, or comments please contact me via Telegram.

Welcome [nation=short]Northern Prussia[/nation]!

I'm on a Presidential Vacation, so defer to State Manager Lack There Of concerning diplomatic matters.

Are there any pressing concerns, or is this just a good will visit?

I'm in Boston right now, still with my Canadian fam. Happy to be back in the good ol' US of A. :)

There are only three things I dislike about America: liberals, the Federal Reserve and th fact that the toilet water is so high up. I don't want to get into any unpleasant details... but it's a little unsettling having it that high compared to what it is in the UK.

In only two days, I had my first taco, went to Harvard and went to the Cheers bar. 'Murica.

Lack there of, This is to strengthen the ties between our region's.

What do you think of tacos? Also, what kind of taco was it?

It was beef. Loved it.

Mmm, beef taco. Hard or soft shell?

Hopefully hard shell. Mmmm....

I, myself, like soft tacos. It doesn't matter whether they're steak, chicken, or Taco Bell 'meat' - they're delicious and easy to eat.

Although there is this fast food chain that has cheap tacos that are hard shell on the outside and soft on the inside, and those are pretty good too. As long as you don't look at what's inside 'em, of course.

I live on taco bell

They have a location right between my classes and where I work

Man, you're so lucky.

Except for the effect that probably has on your health, but otherwise that's pretty awesome.

I work at a Taco Bell, it isn't actually that bad. It's not great, but it's better than people make it out to be.

Hmm...I wonder if the Taco Bell near my place is hiring. Doesn't sound like a bad place to work, and it's generally the other fast food restaurants that get the mean customers.

It is a pretty chill place, and we get a lot of stoners and college kids, they're always nice... or high (usually nice).

I thoroughly enjoy that today's census deals with the fattest citizens. It seems fitting after our Taco Bell discussion

If my ol' lady had it her way we would have taco bell every night... I like it but not nearly as much as her.. especially when you've had real mexican food!

I have a problem with Taco Bell, well at least the one here. The food is great (I love the Doritos Taco), but the restaurant is disgusting.

Vardakia wrote:I have a problem with Taco Bell, well at least the one here. The food is great (I love the Doritos Taco), but the restaurant is disgusting.

Then Drive-Thru

Mmm, Doritos taco.

I haven't been to a Taco Bell in a few weeks; I wonder if they still have their promotional items. The Beefy Nacho whatzit is probably the best thing I've had there.

The Time Alliance wrote:Then Drive-Thru

Driver window is broken, doesn't go down.

Post self-deleted by Muh Roads.

Conservative Idealism In Libertatem wrote:Mmm, Doritos taco.

I haven't been to a Taco Bell in a few weeks; I wonder if they still have their promotional items. The Beefy Nacho whatzit is probably the best thing I've had there.

They do.. It's ridiculously huge.. But for 5 bucks with a couple other items.. Not a bad deal.

Muh Roads wrote:They do.. It's ridiculously huge.. But for 5 bucks with a couple other items.. Not a bad deal.

Yeah, two Beefy Nacho...Grillers, I think they're called...fill me up about as fast as four-and-a-half of their tacos. They're loaded.

Just found out I'm go to Taco Bell for lunch (my work on my day off), but still oh yeah! *victorious fist pump*

Ill be back in a short time, I must go to another region.

Happier hour is the best thing to happen to the world since Jesus

I'll say. I went to Taco Bell today during Happier Hour and got a medium Baja Blast and two Beefy Nacho grillers. And it was awesome.

Personally, I'm a big fan of the buffalo chicken griller

This is Blahbania's puppet.

Hahahaha so I comeback from a Christmas break off of NationStates and the Regional Alliance that I belong to and for which I represent my country is discussing the World Wide Controversial Issue of .... food that tastes good.

Welcome to Libertatem!

It's a worth while topic. The Pepsi Co has done wonders to drive down fast food costs and keep the market diverse and competitive

Baja blast.. i wish they would just bottle that stuff already.. Lol

Happy New Year to all the nations of Libertatem!!

I am back now as well, Happy New Year.

Muh Roads wrote:Baja blast.. i wish they would just bottle that stuff already.. Lol

That has been my dream for many years my friend. I think it is hands down the best flavor of Dew, they are really missing out on tons of profit to be made.

Happy New Year! :)

It would make it less special if it were available everywhere

Happy new year as well!

Lack There Of wrote:It would make it less special if it were available everywhere

Maybe..

Happy new year, Libertatem!

My New Year's resolution is 3200x900, how about all of you guys?

Welcome back, Snabagag.

Sorry for the length, but this is worth the read. I encourage all to read it through.

The following post is guest-authored by a soldier who is currently deployed in service to his country.

To whom it may concern:

It has come to my attention that many people have been directing some of their anger about our country’s foreign policy toward the members of the military themselves rather than to our political leaders who dictate what our policy is.

As a solider, this saddens and upsets me. I joined the military not because I agreed with the politicians, but because I felt a duty to serve our beautiful country and noble people. Our way of life is worth protecting, and it requires that men like me make personal sacrifices so that others don’t have to. Freedom needs to be preserved and protected from those who seek to destroy it, and they are legion. The modern world is complex, and what we have here in our country is attractive to despots, terrorists, tyrants, bolshevists, and religious extremists. They will use any means possible to enslave and control us.

I don’t want to spend my life in the military. I never really wanted to join in the first place, but the economy was such that there simply weren’t any other options that came close to providing the benefits, pay, and security for my family. I have children, and I did what I had to do to make sure they had food on the table and a warm place to sleep. I joined the military so they won’t have to. I want a better life for them, and the surest way to provide that is through national service.

If you haven’t served in the military, you won’t be able to understand the evil that exists outside our peaceful borders. I’ve looked into the eyes of our enemies. I’ve seen the atrocities they commit. I’ve heard their anger. The peace and tranquility you experience at home is the result of the willingness of brave soldiers to pursue evil wherever it takes hold.

I do not mean to say that our soldiers are perfect and always honorable. Of course there are mistakes. Of course innocent people die, and it is always a tragedy when they do. But we do our best to minimize those deaths as much as possible. Sometimes those deaths are out of our control. We don’t always know what is behind every door, and we can’t afford to assume the best of every situation.

Some have criticized soldiers for their willingness to imprison our enemies without trial or charges. I have worked at a detainment complex where some of these people are held. I won’t say the name of the facility, but you will no doubt be familiar with it, as it is probably the most famous of this type of detainment center. I know for a fact that some of the people that were held there were innocent of any crime, and I did what I could to lighten their burden. If I wasn’t there, some other soldier could have been there and he may not have been so kind. We had a lot of people come through, and I didn’t always know their fate in the end. That information was above my pay grade. There was nothing I could do about it. I always tried to treat them with respect and dignity. Of course I couldn’t help them escape, because I would have faced disciplinary charges, and they probably would have been found and killed. This would help nobody. From my position I could at least make their lives a little more tolerable.

I’ve never killed anybody; I’ve never even fired my weapon at another person. I won’t follow orders which go against our national principles. I have taken an oath to our country, our flag, and our Führer, and I will not violate that oath.

Now that I’ve laid out my defense of my chosen occupation, let me offer some solutions.

Those who criticize our troops are always welcome to find another country to live in. Nobody is stopping anybody from leaving. Granted, there are certain checks and procedures that need to be followed, but that is only for security; those who have nothing to hide have nothing to fear. Those who get disappeared by the Gestapo are criminals and represent a danger to our pure nation.

If you don’t wish to leave, I encourage you to write to your politicians. They are the ones who make the decisions; they have the power to change things. Our political freedoms allow us to have access to the legislators, and to vote out those who don’t represent the voice of our unified people. We are only their tools and cannot make changes on our own. It is they who determine the orders; we only follow them.

I may not like the stench of the incinerators, I may not agree with every race law, and I may not believe fully in the final solution, but the only reason you enjoy your freedom is that rough men like me are willing to do violence to protect you. It is our willingness to put aside our personal lives, sacrifice our liberties, and deploy to the harshest places on earth that allows you to be comfortable at home, to enjoy the blessings of living in the greatest nation on earth, and to have a peaceful and prosperous holiday season. Don’t forget, as you prepare the Weihnachtsplätzchen this Christmas, that we, the National Socialist soldiers of der Führer Adolf Hitler are away so that you can walk down the Reichsstraße to the Rhine in peace.

Sgt Heinrich Ehrlichmann

Military Post Number 34 539 F

Ukraine

Miencraft wrote:My New Year's resolution is 3200x900, how about all of you guys?

This post made my day

Thank you, Pevvania. I wish a happy new year to you all.

Islands wrote:This post made my day

It's funny, I expected there to be that one person who's like, "how's that possible, even with Widescreen 16:9 you can still only get up to 1600x900."

Glad that didn't happen.

WOOooOoooOo!!!!!!!!!!!!

Happy New Year :D

Hey, Blahbania. I haven't seen you since last year. Man, I remember 2013 like it was yesterday.

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