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Region: The Confederacy of Free Nations
I was only half serious.
Kalaron, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia, Confederal States
Hello, all! I have some good news!
First, while repairs on Henry will still take a couple more weeks, he's feeling well. Or, at least well enough to argue with Gordon, who has dropped by the Steamworks a few of times to visit Henry. Here's one exchange they had a couple days ago.
Gordon: So Henry, I guess this serves you right for mocking and embarrassing me by bringing up the Killdane incident.
Henry: Mocking? Embarrassing? I did no such thing! I was merely trying to show that your statement was inaccurate.
Gordon: That may have been the end result, but your intent was clearly to make me look bad!
Henry: Intent? You have some nerve throwing around allegations like that, you galloping sausage!
Gordon: Galloping sausage? Why you big green whale! I oughta...
Victor: Calm down, my friends! Gordon, shouldn't you be pulling the Expr --
Henry and Gordon: Not now, Victor!
Suffice to say Victor wasn't able to pry Gordon away from his argument with Henry in time, so Bear took the express instead. Gordon was not happy about that, let me tell you.
And in more good news, I told you that the Flying Thistle was coming to help while Henry is being repaired. Well, I'm pleased to report that Flying Thistle is doing an excellent job: He is kind and courteous to everyone he meets, he does his work without fuss, and he's done a great job of doing Henry's work (including pulling the Flying Kipper, Henry's famous nightly fish train). I just wish it didn't take Henry having an accident to bring Flying Thistle back to Sodor; I wish he would come here more often to help out.
Happy birthday, PBS, and thank you for broadcasting my show for American audiences! I wish you would show Thomas & Friends more often, but I'll let the people at Mattel (the company that owns the show) work that out.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
How can I apply for your medieval RP ?
Which map is the official map for the CFoN?
Mine. Oel gave the position of Cartographer to me.
Why is the old one still on the page then?
Penguania And Antarctica
I have no clue. I do not control the WFE, nor do I know how to format it the WFE to change it.
Penguania And Antarctica
Hasn't been swapped yet, I'll do it now.
[Done]
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Thanks. It was not a long time ago- just maybe 2 weeks. And this was the guy I had thought for a long time was really good but just didnt know what he wanted.
Supreme, yet my bubbagump socialist utopia stomps it :P
Stomps it how? lol
Friedensreich
Well....
-Scientific Advancement
-HDI
-Inteligence
-Safety
-Eco-Friendliness
-Public Healthcare
-Public Education
-Military
-Culture
-Inclusiveness
-Tourism
-Employment
And Average Income to name a few :PP
Nuremgard
The Issue
Scientists and animal rights activists have once again brought up the debate over animal experimentation to your attention.
Hmm, is there any issue that would allow me to experiment on humans?
....Kinda. You can grow people from vats for their organs for medicine and meat for food
Nuremgard, Spanelsko
Who says we're trying to be good with public services or intelligence? lol
Friedensreich, Spanelsko
Hmm.... how sad, we can have human farms slaves and child soldiers but no experiments? How am i supposed to complete my list of crimes against humanity?
Nuremgard
Well, a happy, educated, and healthy people are a productive people!
Nuremgard
Well, being Marxist/Stalinist/Leninist is one of them, cant forget that :P
Id say the line should be drawn at biological weapons. Iirc, theres an issue for it
Intelligence is important, the official ´´facts and truth´´
Nuremgard
But we need to keep our people stupid and fearful to keep them under control.
Spanelsko
Oh you mean that issue where i totally didnt like 3 times put the option where our enemies starve to death and are high as fu*k
Nuremgard
Our people get all the facts and intelligence they need from our completely unbiased and utterly factual state-owned media.
Spanelsko
Classic dilemma for monarchical governments. You havent read The Dictators Handbook, have you?
Nuremgard
I have, it's very enjoyable but Tangshan is not a monarchy. It's a military junta.
Ye. I always pick the evil imperialistic options because it beefs my military up. Albeit with the expense of losing some points in my social scores.
Spanelsko
So second Pravda?
Nuremgard
The media is the only industry owned by the state in Tangshan. Everything else is privatised.
Social score or army? army, always army.
Well, monarchy as in mono-archy (one ruler), as opposed to oligarchy and the like. Not hereditary rule.
Nuremgard, Spanelsko
You mean privatised or do you mean privatised as big brother is watching you?
Nuremgard
Social score. Government is a servant of the people. An unpopular government has no legitimacy to rule.
Nuremgard
Well the General is an autocrat and worshipped as a god.
Privatised as in owned by corporations. Tangshan is a paradise for the super rich and corporations. Although it does have a massive surveillance state, police force and military. It also spends a lot on corporate hand outs, tax breaks etc.
Spanelsko
Oh ew.... cult of personality. Why didnt I destroy Tangshan before I left the RP????
Nuremgard
Well, are you sure you dont mean people are servants of the state and legitimacy doesnt matter as long as you have the guns pointed at their heads?
Nuremgard
Because there's billions of us, our military is massive, we have nukes and we're extremely aggressive and imperialistic?
I like to think our nations are great enemies because we have such polarising ideologies.
My nation also has its dictator as a god so add me too!
Nuremgard
Tangshan likes this guy.
Spanelsko
And we like Tangshan
Nuremgard
(No nukes in RP)
:p
Nuremgard
Nope. Because then said government becomes nothing more than a disguised bourgoisie, enforcing their wishes on the majority.
Plus, the Master Slave Dialectic and Social Contract Theory would mean that said governments days are numbered. As are all dictatorships.
Nuremgard, Spanelsko
We have slaves and are still alive! (even through we took down a dictatorship so we would establish another?!)
Nuremgard
We had a bigger population, bigger economy, and stronger domestic support :P
Plus, if you add in Yuk in Guangdong and Hainan, you got even more!
Nuremgard
Tangshan and Spanelsko should be allies.
The Tang military and police will keep the people in line to stop them revolting. However, in my new nation New Salvatore, the fascist regime has a kind of social contract ideology. In exchange for surrendering some civil liberties and political freedoms, and performing your duties as a good citizen, the government will in turn look after you and defend your interests.
Spanelsko
Ahhhh, thats the problem. The Master Slave Dialectic explains how a Slave (your people) will be grateful for their Master at first. But then it will yearn for its own independence and emancipation as time progresses. After that, the Master is fukked
Nuremgard
Yeah well...you suck! :P
Not if the Master has lots of guns and tanks.
Spanelsko
I would like an alliance, first defensive or also offensive?
Nuremgard
Both. I assume you are imperialist like Tangshan?
Spanelsko
wise words
Nuremgard
Tenporary material advantages mean nothing if the master loses his sources of income and labor!
Nuremgard, Spanelsko
Im half tempted to make a little cameo just to fight Tangshan in Tibet and Sinkiang!
Nuremgard
But we wont. We have billions of slaves - I mean, devoted citizens.
Spanelsko
I would love to build a great empire, so yes i am imperialist, the only problem is nations which dont like the whole genocide and slavery thing we have here........
Nuremgard
Tangshan: https://youtu.be/Yh7loJCdmLI?t=20
Imagine your nation as a well oiled machine. And, imagine the people as cogs in the machine. If even one cog breaks off, a chain reaction from the destruction will disrupt the functionality of the machine as whole. So, even if 500,000 of those billions become polarized, theyre still workers and productive people. That production ends if they refuse to work
We could enslave and genocide those nations too!
Am i the only one who finds this ironic when it comes from a communist regime?
Nuremgard
Why are you giving sage political advice to a nation ran by psychotic warmongers? :P
Spanelsko
I wouldn't necessarily class his country as a regime. He allows far too much political freedom.
Friedensreich, Spanelsko
Communist regime? SKREEEEEEEEE
Spanelsko
I knew you would be a great friend! For world cleansing!
Nuremgard
And were not even communist. At least not here in COFN.
Nuremgard
OOC: You can totally try though dude. Just cuz our nations are opposed to it IC, does not mean we would not like the challenge/story of you trying it.
Spanelsko
´´United Communes´´
The General is wondering though: why does your flag have the disgusting commie sickle and hammer on it?
TELs RP mang. Im allowed to be Communist there.
What are you then?
Market socialist. Its simply not possible for us to be communist here. Technological constraints.
Why was the first thing i imagined invasion of Tssera after reading this?
Nuremgard
Market socialist like the Scandi countries?
Jaslandia
No one ever stopped you from being Communist here.
We are national bolsheviks! (so more or less fascists pretending they arent in this leftist world)
Nuremgard
Technological constraints. I cant be communist here and make it logically work because achieving a point where currency becomes frivolous is simply not possible here.
Bolsheviks?!
*Tangshan has a seizure*
Jaslandia, Friedensreich, Spanelsko
i will return in 30-50 minutes see you later.
Percyton
False Leftists! REEEEEE
Nuremgard
Oh I feel ya. I thought you were saying, we just would not allow someone of that ideology, and I was like..."Um...no. Lies." lol
Andromitus
NOT the red bolsheviks but the right wing bolsheviks! (Adolf and stuff)
Why is Tangshan allied with leftists?!
Jaslandia, Spanelsko
I hope everyone had a nice day and will have a good remaining day.
I wish you all sweet pleasant dreams tonight.
Goodnight, my friends. <3
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Andromitus, Mercunova, Percyton
Hey if you wanna try, go right on ahead. Just make sure you know what your walking into mate. :P
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
I didn't even know there was such a thing as a right wing Bolshevik.
Jaslandia
Nah. I know its allowed here, but I cant explain communism working in a modern (2017) setting. I was able to explain it through specialization in a PMT setting, but here Im more restricted.
Andromitus
Night Peng :D
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Goodnight, buddy.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Theres still time to back out of it! I was suspicious why a right wing dictatorship was allying with Bolsheviks anyway....
Nuremgard, Jaslandia
He says they are right wing Bolsheviks but I don't think that's even a thing...
Well, Bolsheviks are more like state capitalists than they are socialists, so it makes some sense. But the state still ran the show, so technically they were socialist-ish.
Nuremgard
I have yet to decide if my fascist country will allow state-owned companies.
I would say do it if you want to give your people some rights, but if not, make it all privatized.
Well the government recently quelled a strike. I know Mussolini banned trade unions so I thought, if this state is fascist, I doubt it will take kindly to strikes.
I just got the Issue about robot judges. I went with allowing robots on the bench, not only because the robot judge seemed like a nice guy, but also because I think us engines can relate a lot to those robots: Both of us (engines and robots) are made by humans to fill a specific purpose, and both of us had a long struggle for our rights and legitimacy as sentient beings to be recognized. The only differences really are that robots are a lot more ver-sa-tile (as Edward puts it) than us engines, and that us engines have more 'free will' than the robots. Although even the whole 'free will' thing is complicated for us: While engines aren't programmed and told what to think like robots are, just like robots, engines don't really decide their own 'purpose in life', as that's largely based on what they're designed to do. I'm a small engine, for example, so I mainly shunt and pull small loads; in contrast, Gordon is a big engine, so he mainly pulls the Express and other heavy trains.
See you later, Span!
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Spanelsko
Goodnight, Peng!
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
You know nazis were national SOCIALISTS right? and they were far-right (left depending on how you look at them)
National Bolshevik = nazbol = to put it as simply as possible, a nazi that misses the good stalin days of CCCP yet is still fascist in his views.
I am also amazed that you didnt see my articles in the chat about our name.... INBWU= Iberian National Bolshevik Workers Union
The Nazis hated and exterminated socialists. They only called themselves socialist in the beginning to appeal to the working class. Also, I have not read the chat.
Axeldonia
OOC i was thinking of being a national socialist since i started this nation as a socialist then turned into nationalistic theocracy so i wanted to combine the 2 together, but i also didnt want to be seen as nazi nation and so i remembered that nazbols exist and thats how i remade my nation.
I know, but my point was that just because we are called bolsheviks doesnt mean we are bolsheviks (the feeling when you say you are left but are right wing extremist dictatorship)
Nuremgard
Ah, fair enough. Well, so long as you're not left, you'll have the support of the Supreme Stratocracy.
Axeldonia, Spanelsko
We even have racial laws just to show how evil we are :D
Nuremgard
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