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Region: The Confederacy of Free Nations
There are many communist parties in the UK. Too many.
Communist Party of Britain
New Communist Party of Britain
Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist)
Revolutionary Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist)
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Jaslandia
While this is true, communism is a dead ideology and poses no threat to western democracy. Fascism, Nazism and the alt-right definitely does though.
I was pointing out how sectarian the left is.
Nuremgard
The left needs to get its act together. Europe's shift to rightist nationalism is unnerving to me.
Gualimole, Midasia
Aren't you a nationalist? What makes your nationalism superior to the nationalism of the right?
I'm a civic nationalist. I believe that if you live and work in Scotland then you are a Scot, regardless of your nationality, ethnicity, religious affiliation etc. I am not opposed to those of other countries and cultures coming to make Scotland their home. Right wing nationalism tends to be ethnic, in the sense that it wants to exclude those from other countries and cultures.
Jaslandia, Midasia
We have human rights, but why not have human lefts?
Yukona
eeeh, the thing is when you look at leftist factionalism compared to right wing 'unity' you've also got to keep in mind that leftism is always going to be like this and can never be as unified as the right. This is because, at its core, all right wing ideologies favour the status quo so they can all work together at maintaining this status quo. The right looks 'unified' because they can all agree on this base. The left looks divided because there is no comparable base for them to rally around since they all agree that the status quo is bad, but cannot agree on where to shift the status quo to. Do you remove capitalism? Do you reform capitalism? Do you keep the state? Do you remove the state? That's even before you go into the real nitty gritty of identity politics. Do you pursue the immediate aims of the POC groups? Do you pursue the immediate aims of the trans groups? What about class inequalities? The left is so infightey because all these groups are all pursuing their own aims, as well as pursuing their own economic aims (reform v. revolution, capitalism v. socialism).
There is no way for the left to get its act together because there isn't really a single unified 'left' and there never really can be.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Axeldonia
So we're f*cked then?
Not entirely. The liberal left has been historically pretty good at working together, they just also have a knack for collaborating with some centre-right elements which discredit them in the eyes of further left groups. But, for bringing us over to the left we either have to entrust in the liberal-left parties to bring us over to the point where the further left groups have an easier time working together or hope that one of the further left group grows enough that it can operate without having to enlist the help of other leftist groups.
Axeldonia
I don't see the left gaining power in Britain for a very long time. Even then, if Labour does get back in, it'll be when it's led by a Blairite who appeals to the conservative middle class.
Axeldonia
I dunno, I think the last election had some very promising results, and as time goes on Labour can only strengthen whereas Conservative can only splinter. This is one of the rare times where the Conservative side is afflicted with factionalism whereas the left in Labour are more or less unified, and I wish Labour would more aggressively exploit it.
Axeldonia
Aww Christ, like we needed this
Yukona
I don't see this unity in Labour. I don't even know where they or Corbyn stand on Brexit. The Opposition should be miles ahead in the polls right now. They should be tearing this shambolic government to pieces but they aren't and it's extremely infuriating. I mean, what do the Tories actually have to do before people start turning against them? Does May need to slaughter a newborn infant live in the telly before the Tories lose votes?
Then again, depending on the socioeconomic status of said newborn, that might actually gain them votes. I'm sure she'd be complimented on her "strong and stable" wielding of the blade.
I think Nurem will beat me to this but then why has May consistently been trouncing Corbyn in polls for months now? Sure, she did before last general election too but Corbyn also came up only to 265 seats or so. This suggests a repeat of that performance if another snap election is held.
Nuremgard
She might even obtain a workable majority next time instead of needing to rely on the DUP.
I think it'd be very funny if the results of the next election turned out exactly the same as the last one.
Nuremgard
The sheer embarrassment of May and the Tories at the last general election was a sight to behold. Me and my sister stayed up all night cheering on Corbyn.
Jaslandia, Mercunova
Sister?
Mercunova
He still lost the election.
Everyone was expecting the Tories to succeed in a landslide. Corbyn lost, but he was able to make gains while the Tories lost their majority.
Nuremgard, Mercunova
He still lost the election.
Losing an election can mean different things in a presidential democracy and in a parliamentary democracy. You are approaching this entirely from the perspective of someone living in a presidential democracy.
Nuremgard, Axeldonia
No, I'm approaching this as someone who can count.
317 is greater than 262.
Those numbers might be closer together than the last set, but he still lost the election. Not that May or anyone else won, but he still lost the election.
I know full well how parliaments work. If he is what he says he is, then he should have had a majority last year. He didn't. Therefore he lost, as did every party.
!!!GERMANY!!!
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Mercunova, Yukona, Midasia
I came home from work one day to a horrendous smell. Following my nose to the kids' bathroom, I saw my daughter, then maybe 9, with a Barbie doll. Barbie was naked, and her hair had been chopped off. My daughter was holding Barbie by her little neck over the sink, and had a lighter at Barbie's foot.
"Talk," my daughter screamed, as Barbie's foot melted into the sink. "I told you to talk!"
My first thought was that my daughter should not have had access to a lighter, so I asked her where she got it. "Oh, it was with daddy's cigarettes," she told me, sweet as could be.
"What are you doing with Barbie?" I asked her, trying to keep my voice calm. My little daughter's eyes hardened and she nearly snarled "She won't give up enemy secrets, so I have to torture her!"
This was out of character for my daughter, and we were not a household that condoned torture, under any circumstances, so that really took me by surprise.
"OK, Honey, can you maybe find a way to torture Barbie that won't release toxic fumes?"
My daughter thought about it for a moment. "Sure," she cheerfully told me. "And Honey, please give me the lighter." She handed it right over.
Mercunova
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Terminal_Event_Management_Policy
I enjoy this emergency policy.
Jaslandia
Jesus f*cking Christ, this is the most leftist thing I've read today
Midasia
Yeah no, thought crime is bad even if the one doing it is a Nazi.
The best case, IMO, is to debate them and bring them down rather than outlawing a viewpoint since that only radicalizes the issue. You won't get everyone, but you also manage to avoid setting a precedent for how "some people just don't deserve free speech" later on.
Midasia
Gonna have to agree with Kal on this: obviously, Fascists and neo-Nazis shouldn't be advocating for their free speech when the regimes their ideologies associated with were repressive af, along with the fact that they advocate the general idea of inequality and supremacy of the state for the former, and outdated racial policies that dehumanize individuals for the latter. Despite that, advocating for the removal of their right to speech is just as abhorrent as it sets the slippery slope on who has access to free speech, they generally don't get too violent to the point of murder (I say generally given riots and assaults are common, plus the Greensboro Massacre showed they were willing to kill, despite it being a CWP rally), and everybody knows that they're weak as hell and tend to go for lawsuits rather than backing themselves up.
Kalaron
Ah, the wonderful world of stock photos.
https://youtu.be/C0MeKIecXDc
Also, my take on the whole 'Nazis free speech thing': Provided they aren't inciting violence, groups like Nazis and fascists should be allowed to say their piece. That said, I don't think such speech should be encouraged, and I think people are fully within their rights to protest such speech.
Its part and parcel to FPtP as well
Jaslandia, Mercunova
She lost enough votes that it forced her to bribe a bunch of bigots with a billion quid just to ensure her political survival. She may be in office but she's not in power. Tories use the "but she still won" line to mask the humiliating fact that their party is controlled by terrorist sympathisers.
I have an older sister.
*Hisses at the mention of FPTP*
Jaslandia
https://youtu.be/s7tWHJfhiyo
Nuremgard
She didn't win. But neither did Corbyn. No one did.
The whole political system here just sucks.
Mercunova
Ok..... That's strange. I logged into NS and my flag was replaced by the default one you get when you first make a nation. I tried to re-upload the Imperial Standard, but it's not working. Uh... I guess I'll fly something else?
Penguania And Antarctica
Post self-deleted by Russkov Soviet.
Voting systems? Is someone finally talking about voting systems? I am willing to speak about voting systems right now!
Their ideology is inherently violent and intolerant. Tolerating the intolerant allows them to destroy all tolerance.
Nuremgard, Midasia
Voting systems are complicated and technical. I wrote an essay on them and doing research on them was soul-destroying.
Mercunova
They are. That's what I like about them.
Nuremgard, Mercunova
Society: "Robots are dangerous because an AI might be crazy and kill us all just because we're organics and it's creators we need to stop AI before they start treating us poorly"
Also Society: "Wow haha stupid robot you got in my way so I kicked you as hard as I could that teaches you ya dumb food delivery drone if you cross my path I'll do it again!"
https://m.sfgate.com/technology/businessinsider/article/People-kicking-these-food-delivery-robots-is-an-12980712.php
If androids look like this in the future then I welcome our robotic overlords.
https://inhdw.com/4k-connor-detroit-become-human-video-game-1120/
Axeldonia
>.>
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Unfortunately, it's as likely that we'll have Jupiter Brains and their larger matrioshka brain brothers as we are to having android AI.
Having intelligent androids like the one in the picture I showed would be awesome.
Jaslandia, Axeldonia
It would be, but to be honest the world we'd live in would be pretty much perfect anyway with some of what would go into that android. Having a computer capable of hosting an AI that is as small as a human brain would be a massive achievement for mankind and would represent a real leap in our processing power. Having power systems that could keep that computer running at brain speeds with out needing to be plugged in would mean we have massively efficient, massively powerful batteries or power generation systems that need only scaling up to make practically any solution to the energy crisis totally valid. The servo-motors or synthetic muscles would represent a whole new world of solutions to the typical prosthesis and would make everything so much simpler to build in all conditions including maybe even space.
Super computers would become practically outdated over night and Fusion power might finally see a solution to it's field problems if the AI could simulate the complex field geometry of holding it.
Ultimately, we'd already be in as close to Utopia as possible.
To be honest, I just want a smexy android pal like Connor.
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Axeldonia
If I had to choose one, it'd be the girl andriod with the white hair option. I saw Criken playing and she looked pretty nice.
Don't lie Kal. We're all gay for Connor here.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Mercunova
Connor/Bryan Dechart is gorgeous.
Axeldonia, Mercunova
supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
Nuremgard, Jaslandia
https://youtu.be/gUgop8B_Mw0?t=3m55s
Penguania And Antarctica
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/england-fan-told-to-take-down-lgbt-england-flag-in-russian-stadium/ar-AAz6wfS?li=BBoPWjQ&ocid=mailsignout
F*ck Russia.
Jaslandia, Axeldonia
C'mon, you know Russians don't like rainbows on their flags, it's not like they put them on the flags of their constituent Oblasts or someth-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_the_Jewish_Autonomous_Oblast
Nuremgard, Jaslandia
That whole video made my day. Thanks for that, buddy. :D
Jaslandia
You're quite welcome!
Penguania And Antarctica
An oblast just for the Jews eh? How segregationist.
Axeldonia
Giving an oblast just for one ethno-religious group? What's next, giving them an ethnostate and displacing the natives?
Oh.
Nuremgard, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica
Ssshhh. You cant criticise Israel. That makes you anti-Semitic.
Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova
It's not majority Jewish anymore, though.
"By 2010, according to data provided by the Russian Census Bureau, there were only 1,628 Jews remaining in the JAO (less than 1% of the population), while ethnic Russians made up 92.7% of the JAO population."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Autonomous_Oblast
Fair enough.
The Elections Dispatch Has Been Updated
https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=841402
Bearlong, Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia, Marristaria
Either that, or it makes you "emotively biased" to criticize Israel for killing Palestinian protestors.
Nuremgard, Axeldonia, Mercunova
You don't get it. Every single Palestinian they shot was part of Hamas. That includes the baby that died from the gas they deployed.
Axeldonia, Mercunova
Hey there! Are you talking about dead babies? Stop being so emotively biased and look at the facts, just not the fact that Israel's occupation of Palestine violates international law. It's okay if our allies break international law because we're the good guys fighting against dictators who oppose the liberal world order freedom and democracy.
Nuremgard, Axeldonia, Mercunova
BABY KILLER BABY KILLER BABY KILLER ABOWRSHUN MUST BE BANNED!!!!!!!!
Jaslandia
That would be an accurate comparison if fetuses were actually babies and had the capacity to feel pain.
Mercunova
Israel cant commit war crimes or crimes against humanity. To suggest otherwise makes you an anti-Semitic scumbag.
Axeldonia, Gualimole
Please tell me you didn't think that that's my actual opinion
Conner is actually sorta ugly IMO.
Penguania And Antarctica
I didn't. I thought you made that post to prove how absurd my position on Israel is by making a comparison to pro-lifers.
Mercunova
That's one thing you're right on.
No, I was partaking in the mockery of neocon nutjobs.
Gualimole
By making fun of how they ignore Israel killing babies while they are supposedly against killing babies?
Axeldonia, Mercunova
That's right!
Yukona
*sees recent posts*
F*ck that, I'm not touching it
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Kalaron, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
How's your day been, Merc?
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova
I've been to the desert on a horse with no name.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
Okay, you did not just say that. How is he ugly?
Explain yourself.
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Lex Caledonia, Mercunova
Did you mean Elaborate. ?
Nuremgard, Axeldonia, Lex Caledonia
I was gonna' say that lol
Lex Caledonia, Mercunova
What's new, pussycat?
Excuse me
how dare you
i will fight you on this
connor is a cutie and an adorable cinnamon roll that is probably a bottom but he pretends like he's a top but he also has no idea what he's doing and takes everything too literally
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Lex Caledonia
We're declaring war on these heathens, right?
Nuremgard
You used the same word as me. Heathens.
Connor is completely adorable both physically and personality-wise. And I can totally see him being a bottom who pretends to be a top. :P
Axeldonia
Conner does look ugly, not gonna lie
Penguania And Antarctica
You have no taste. This is his voice actor.
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMjc1MjIxNjgtZWFlZC00YjY1LTg2MGQtYzNiYTU0YjlhNWEzXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMjQwMDg0Ng@@._V1_SY1000_CR0,0,625,1000_AL_.jpg
Axeldonia
Straight, remember?
That didn't stop you commenting on the male video game character's looks.
Axeldonia
His face looks like dough
Well you're wrong. He's lovely.
Axeldonia
I prefer my androids to be tanky killing machines
You like killer androids, I like sexy police androids.
Axeldonia
Tutti Frutti.
Jaslandia
Who Do You Think You Are?
I am the walrus.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
YOU ARE NOT THE WALRUS
I AM THE WALRUS
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
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