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Vetriutan 2 wrote:There is no reason for the left to become divided on such small issues. If monarchists, neoreactionaries, and fascists on the right can come together through the alt-right, then there is no reason for the same thing to not happen among different contingencies among the left. That doesn't mean that debate shouldn't be allowed, but we should really tone down on the sectarianism.

I would not call it such a small issue. If we deny the workers direct control of their means of production, liberation of labor can never occur. We simply create a new class of brokers between capitalists and the proletariat which, with their power to control the redistribution of the profits of labor, can grow increasingly corrupt, especially without legal barriers to prevent such.

This is more of a revolutionary vernacular than I usually speak on such issues, but the position stands.

Vista Major wrote:I would not call it such a small issue. If we deny the workers direct control of their means of production, liberation of labor can never occur. We simply create a new class of brokers between capitalists and the proletariat which, with their power to control the redistribution of the profits of labor, can grow increasingly corrupt, especially without legal barriers to prevent such.

This is more of a revolutionary vernacular than I usually speak on such issues, but the position stands.

I support your position and like I said before, debate should be encouraged, but that should not get in the way of leftist organization.

Percyton

Vetriutan 2 wrote:I wouldn't consider Spain under Franco to have been fascist. While the Falangists were an influential political force in Spain under him, Franco only worked with Fascists during and after the civil war to create a political coalition with clericalists in Spain to fight Spanish republicans and the Spanish left. Under him, the most fascist thing that he did was some credit reforms that went under the name "National Syndicalism". Franco is more of your average dictator than an actual fascist. If you want to know more about Spanish fascism, then reading some of the works of José Antonio Primo de Rivera would be pretty good.

Apparently historians still argue over whether or not Franco's regime was fascist or not.

Jaslandia, Axeldonia

Nuremgard wrote:Apparently historians still argue over whether or not Franco's regime was fascist or not.

What do you mean "apparently"? This is a contentious issue and it is rightfully so.

Vetriutan 2 wrote:I support your position and like I said before, debate should be encouraged, but that should not get in the way of leftist organization.

We should, under no circumstances, allow issues to be swept under the rug for the sake of supposed unity. it can undermine crucial intersectionalism

Vista Major wrote:We should, under no circumstances, allow issues to be swept under the rug for the sake of supposed unity. it can undermine crucial intersectionalism

That's what I have been saying, yet you keep misinterpreting my position. I don't want to sweep issues under the rug, but you can be united and have several differences at the same time.

Axeldonia

Vetriutan 2 wrote:What do you mean "apparently"? This is a contentious issue and it is rightfully so.

I didn't mean anything by it. I was just saying it's still an issue these days.

Nuremgard wrote:I didn't mean anything by it. I was just saying it's still an issue these days.

Am I too argumentative?

Lavan Tiri

Vetriutan 2 wrote:That's what I have been saying, yet you keep misinterpreting my position. I don't want to sweep issues under the rug, but you can be united and have several differences at the same time.

Your unity is dependent on what you perceive to be minor issues being tossed to the side in order to advance the left. But that which is abandoned always comes back to bite. Nothing must be left unresolved. Kicking the can down the road has been the death of countless organizations, leftist, governmental, or otherwise.

Lavan Tiri

Vetriutan 2 wrote:Am I too argumentative?

No, you just nitpick sometimes.

All this talk of fascism has inspired me to keep New Salvatore and turn it back into a fascist state.

Lavan Tiri, Percyton

Vista Major wrote:Your unity is dependent on what you perceive to be minor issues being tossed to the side in order to advance the left. But that which is abandoned always comes back to bite. Nothing must be left unresolved. Kicking the can down the road has been the death of countless organizations, leftist, governmental, or otherwise.

I am not saying that these issues should remain unresolved or that unity requires that. Our positions on this are much closer than you think, yet you try to find differences that are not there to advance this argument.

Lavan Tiri

The Cross And Davids Star wrote:Its been a long time since I was on the RMB, time to get back into the swing of things.

Hello, Cross! Good to see you again!

Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica

Vista Major wrote:Finally, a decent political ideology coming out of your digital mouth

Pansexual polyamorous anarcho-communism not doing it for ya? :P

Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Vista Major

Axeldonia wrote:Pansexual polyamorous anarcho-communism not doing it for ya? :P

"What if, instead of just free love, there was free everything, man?"

"Woah dude, that's deep..."

Lavan Tiri, Vista Major, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica

Jaslandia wrote:"What if, instead of just free love, there was free everything, man?"

"Woah dude, that's deep..."

Kropotkin smoked some strong stuff

Lavan Tiri, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica

Axeldonia wrote:Kropotkin smoked some strong stuff

Considering 'Kropotkin' sounds like the name of a very strong illegal substance, I can belive it.

And before you ask, I know the guy you're referring to. It was just a joke.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Kropotkin

Lavan Tiri, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica

After tax, Nuremgard's citizens have around 11,000 rubles in disposable income. That is't very high...yet my people are very happy.

Tangshan has one of the highest though. I think it's 102nd in the world!

Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri

https://squawker.org/culture-wars/antifa-disrupts-lgbt-parade-claims-gay-people-are-offensive-to-muslims/

Christ above.

Lavan Tiri

Kalaron wrote:https://squawker.org/culture-wars/antifa-disrupts-lgbt-parade-claims-gay-people-are-offensive-to-muslims/

Christ above.

The source of this news article is a video from the YouTube channel Very Fake News, which rips certain segments of certain news channels to promote a pro-Trump and right-wing populist ideology. Not only that, but the article is characterizing one Antifa organization as a representation of all of Antifa. There is a multitude of different anti-fascist organizations around the world that operate with different strategies in different ways, yet Alisha Sherron, the writer of this article, did not care to make that distinction.

Nuremgard, Lavan Tiri, Axeldonia, Yukona

Kalaron wrote:https://squawker.org/culture-wars/antifa-disrupts-lgbt-parade-claims-gay-people-are-offensive-to-muslims/

Christ above.

Vetriutan 2 wrote:The source of this news article is a video from the YouTube channel Very Fake News, which rips certain segments of certain news channels to promote a pro-Trump and right-wing populist ideology. Not only that, but the article is characterizing one Antifa organization as a representation of all of Antifa. There is a multitude of different anti-fascist organizations around the world that operate with different strategies in different ways, yet Alisha Sherron, the writer of this article, did not care to make that distinction.

Not to mention that it's actually made up.

Nuremgard, Lavan Tiri, Yukona

Axeldonia wrote:Not to mention that it's actually made up.

Really? Can you provide a source for that?

Lavan Tiri, Axeldonia

Axeldonia wrote:Not to mention that it's actually made up.

Yee, like I said on the discord, thanks for the correction.

Vetriutan 2 wrote:The source of this news article is a video from the YouTube channel Very Fake News, which rips certain segments of certain news channels to promote a pro-Trump and right-wing populist ideology. Not only that, but the article is characterizing one Antifa organization as a representation of all of Antifa. There is a multitude of different anti-fascist organizations around the world that operate with different strategies in different ways, yet Alisha Sherron, the writer of this article, did not care to make that distinction.

Frankly speaking, if it were real, none of that would matter to my reaction. Was more about "People interrupted a pride parade for the sensibilities of others" than "All ANTIFA BAD" to me.

Naturally, however, it's fake.

Lavan Tiri, Vetriutan 2

What do you guys think about Shintoism?

Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri

https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=969575

Newsfeed post to come!!

Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica

Yukona wrote:What do you guys think about Shintoism?

I do not like any religion but Shintoism is just a way to justify the existence of the Japanese monarchy since the Emperor plays a central role in it.

Lavan Tiri

Nuremgard wrote:I do not like any religion but Shintoism is just a way to justify the existence of the Japanese monarchy since the Emperor plays a central role in it.

Well I really like how it connects all nature to this kind of non-theistic deity system with spirits. It's probably my favourite "religion".

Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri

Yukona wrote:Well I really like how it connects all nature to this kind of non-theistic deity system with spirits. It's probably my favourite "religion".

Fair enough. Asians in general are very in tune with their spirituality.

Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Yukona

Apparently, feeding your citizenry to sharks will kill them. Who'da thunk it?

Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Pirate Kingdoms, Yukona

Sturgeon is demanding a single market deal for Scotland since Northern Ireland is getting one. Cant wait to see what May's excuse is for denying Scotland this.

Or is it because the Northern Irish are special snowflakes and need that deal because they want to shoot each other?

Lavan Tiri, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica

Nuremgard wrote:Or is it because the Northern Irish are special snowflakes and need that deal because they want to shoot each other?

Yes. That's exactly the reason.

Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica

Unfallious wrote:Yes. That's exactly the reason.

Well we Scots don't kill each other over religion and politics but if NI are getting special treatment, we want single market access too.

Lavan Tiri, Axeldonia

Nuremgard wrote:Well we Scots don't kill each other over religion and politics but if NI are getting special treatment, we want single market access too.

I imagine that that's exactly why you won't get it tbh, the level of tension in your country isn't nearly as dangerous as Northern Ireland.

Lavan Tiri

Yukona wrote:I imagine that that's exactly why you won't get it tbh, the level of tension in your country isn't nearly as dangerous as Northern Ireland.

So basically we need to murder each other to avoid economic disaster? F*ck me. What a Union. Ah, well. We all know the Orange bigots have May by the short and curlies.

Lavan Tiri, Axeldonia

Nuremgard wrote:So basically we need to murder each other to avoid economic disaster? F*ck me. What a Union. Ah, well. We all know the Orange bigots have May by the short and curlies.

Well Canada never took Quebec seriously until they started shooting at people.

Lavan Tiri

Yukona wrote:Well Canada never took Quebec seriously until they started shooting at people.

Quebec has rejected independence twice (I think.) I hope Scotland doesn't get put in with it.

Lavan Tiri

Nuremgard wrote:Quebec has rejected independence twice (I think.) I hope Scotland doesn't get put in with it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front_de_lib%C3%A9ration_du_Qu%C3%A9bec

Lavan Tiri, Axeldonia

Yukona wrote:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front_de_lib%C3%A9ration_du_Qu%C3%A9bec

I legit thought you were joking. Quebec had a nationalist paramilitary? Wow.

Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Axeldonia

Yukona wrote:What do you guys think about Shintoism?

I would never convert to it, but I think it's really interesting. For one thing, a lot of people debate whether Shinto is an actual religion, with others saying it's just a set of folk traditions dating back over a thousand years (at least, that's how most Japanese see it, since most of them attend traditional Shinto temples and traditions without belonging to any formal Shinto organization or group). For another, the melding between Buddhism and Shintoism is fascinating to me, and the religions have merged a lot over their histories.

Nuremgard, Lavan Tiri

Nuremgard wrote:Sturgeon is demanding a single market deal for Scotland since Northern Ireland is getting one. Cant wait to see what May's excuse is for denying Scotland this.

Or is it because the Northern Irish are special snowflakes and need that deal because they want to shoot each other?

Nuremgard wrote:Well we Scots don't kill each other over religion and politics but if NI are getting special treatment, we want single market access too.

Nurem, c'mon.

Lavan Tiri, Axeldonia

Lex Caledonia wrote:Nurem, c'mon.

Come on, mate. You know that's what it boils down to. They are using nice ways to phrase it like "breaking the hard won peace." What they really mean is, "the Northern Irish cant be trusted not to start killing each other again."

Lavan Tiri, Axeldonia

Lavan Tiri wrote:Apparently, feeding your citizenry to sharks will kill them. Who'da thunk it?

Don't die again mudafuka

Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri

Nuremgard wrote:Come on, mate. You know that's what it boils down to. They are using nice ways to phrase it like "breaking the hard won peace." What they really mean is, "the Northern Irish cant be trusted not to start killing each other again."

I was referring to your statement that we don't kill each other over religion, there's tonnes of sectarian violence up here Nurem and many deaths attributed to it. It might have calmed down in recent years and we've not suffered nearly as much as the Irish have but it has bled over here.

Lavan Tiri, Axeldonia

Lex Caledonia wrote:I was referring to your statement that we don't kill each other over religion, there's tonnes of sectarian violence up here Nurem and many deaths attributed to it. It might have calmed down in recent years and we've not suffered nearly as much as the Irish have but it has bled over here.

I haven't heard of sectarian violence or murders here. However, I do need to put up with the yearly hate fest of the Orange Order ruining my city all summer.

Lavan Tiri, Axeldonia

Yukona wrote:Well Canada never took Quebec seriously until they started shooting at people.

Pfft, we took Québec serious enough. Separate language rights, separate religious considerations, French and Catholic education being offered in any province that had even a marginal French or Catholic population so as to specifically accommodate them, treading carefully around anything that could be seen as stepping on the toes of their distinct culture.

We just should have known better than to invite de Gaulle to make a public address. Sure, we aided in your liberation from Nazi tyranny, so why not repay the favour by fanning the flames of a separatist movement in our country?

Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona

Continental Commonwealths wrote:Pfft, we took Québec serious enough. Separate language rights, separate religious considerations, French and Catholic education being offered in any province that had even a marginal French or Catholic population so as to specifically accommodate them, treading carefully around anything that could be seen as stepping on the toes of their distinct culture.

We just should have known better than to invite de Gaulle to make a public address. Sure, we aided in your liberation from Nazi tyranny, so why not repay the favour by fanning the flames of a separatist movement in our country?

At least the Canadian government has been conciliatory and offers these things to the Quebecois. Canadian provinces have a lot of autonomy. Ironically, if I was Canadian, I'd probably be what you might call a unionist.

Lavan Tiri, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica

Nuremgard wrote:At least the Canadian government has been conciliatory and offers these things to the Quebecois. Canadian provinces have a lot of autonomy. Ironically, if I was Canadian, I'd probably be what you might call a unionist.

Which is why it’s all the more insulting that the President of another country would come to ours and use that opportunity to peddle separatism!

Even more ironically, as a Canadian I wouldn’t bat an eye if Western Canada separated from anything east of Manitoba. Equalization payments are the devil.

Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica

Continental Commonwealths wrote:Which is why it’s all the more insulting that the President of another country would come to ours and use that opportunity to peddle separatism!

Even more ironically, as a Canadian I wouldn’t bat an eye if Western Canada separated from anything east of Manitoba. Equalization payments are the devil.

Such emotional language lol. Separatists and separatism. That's what they call us over here. They love calling us nationalists too. As if it's an insult. They do it with no irony too. They think British nationalism is so exceptional that it's not nationalism.

Lavan Tiri, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica

Nuremgard wrote:Such emotional language lol. Separatists and separatism. That's what they call us over here. They love calling us nationalists too. As if it's an insult. They do it with no irony too. They think British nationalism is so exceptional that it's not nationalism.

Oh. Fair enough, but separatism and it’s derivatives are the colloquial language that is widely used to refer to their independence movement here. Having lived in Ottawa, which is literally a bridgespan away from Québec and therefore widely inhabited by Francophones, I can say that this is the term they even use.

Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica

Continental Commonwealths wrote:Oh. Fair enough, but separatism and it’s derivatives are the colloquial language that is widely used to refer to their independence movement here. Having lived in Ottawa, which is literally a bridgespan away from Québec and therefore widely inhabited by Francophones, I can say that this is the term they even use.

Fair enough. I don't have a strong opinion about the issue of Quebec independence. I don't know enough about it and it's none of my business. I think they should do what they think is best.

In terms of language, I identify as a nationalist. But being called a separatist does irritate me.

Lavan Tiri, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica

Nuremgard wrote:Fair enough. I don't have a strong opinion about the issue of Quebec independence. I don't know enough about it and it's none of my business. I think they should do what they think is best.

In terms of language, I identify as a nationalist. But being called a separatist does irritate me.

If it’s any consolation, as irked as I am by Québec independence I support Scottish independence if a referendum shows that’s the peoples’ desire.

Think of it like the Separatists from Star Wars.

Count Dooku was sick.

Be as sick as Count Dooku.

Become a Separatist.

Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica

Continental Commonwealths wrote:If it’s any consolation, as irked as I am by Québec independence I support Scottish independence if a referendum shows that’s the peoples’ desire.

Think of it like the Separatists from Star Wars.

Count Dooku was sick.

Be as sick as Count Dooku.

Become a Separatist.

I support self-determination in general. If Scots yet again vote to stay in the UK, I'll be pissed off about it and disagree with it but democracy can be a bitch sometimes.

Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Axeldonia

Aldwood posting on the regional message board!?

What is this shenanigans!?

Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Vista Major, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica

Aldwood wrote:Aldwood posting on the regional message board!?

What is this shenanigans!?

The coming of the Great Collapse :p

Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Aldwood

Pirate Kingdoms wrote:The coming of the Great Collapse :p

Roger Doger.

The Four Horsemen are on their way now.

Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Pirate Kingdoms

So, Easter Sunday is on April 1st this year. Imagine the guys that checked the tomb of Jesus and just found a piece of paper saying "I'm not dead. April fools! :p "

Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Vista Major, Mercunova

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:So, Easter Sunday is on April 1st this year. Imagine the guys that checked the tomb of Jesus and just found a piece of paper saying "I'm not dead. April fools! :p "

That's f*cking hilarious.

Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova

[spoiler=Today is February 9 and today are:]

Today is February 9 and today are:

- 2018 Winter Olympics start (South Korea)

- National Bagels and Lox Day (United States)

- National Kite Flying Day (United States)

- National No One Eats Alone Day (United States)

- National Pizza Day (United States)

- National Stop Bullying Day (United States)

- National Toothache Day (United States)

- Read in the Bathtub Day

- St Maron's Day (Lebanon)

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[spoiler=This day in history:]

This day in history:

- 0474 – Zeno is crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire.[1]

- 0951 – The Northern Han Kingdom is founded by Liu Chong in modern-day Shanxi.[citation needed]

- 1555 – Bishop of Gloucester John Hooper is burned at the stake.[2]

- 1621 – Gregory XV becomes Pope, the last Pope elected by acclamation.[3]

- 1654 – The Capture of Fort Rocher takes place during the Anglo-Spanish War.[4]

- 1775 – American Revolutionary War: The British Parliament declares Massachusetts in rebellion.[5]

- 1788 – The Habsburg Empire joins the Russo-Turkish War in the Russian camp.

- 1825 – After no candidate receives a majority of electoral votes in the US presidential election of 1824, the United States House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams as President of the United States.

- 1849 – The new Roman Republic is declared.

- 1861 – American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is elected the Provisional President of the Confederate States of America by the Confederate convention at Montgomery, Alabama.

- 1870 – US president Ulysses S. Grant signs a joint resolution of Congress establishing the U.S. Weather Bureau.

- 1889 – US president Grover Cleveland signs a bill elevating the United States Department of Agriculture to a Cabinet-level agency.

- 1895 – William G. Morgan creates a game called Mintonette, which soon comes to be referred to as volleyball.

- 1900 – The Davis Cup competition is established.

- 1904 – Russo-Japanese War: Battle of Port Arthur concludes.

- 1907 – The Mud March is the first large procession organised by the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS).

- 1913 – A group of meteors is visible across much of the eastern seaboard of North and South America, leading astronomers to conclude the source had been a small, short-lived natural satellite of the Earth.

- 1920 – Under the terms of the Svalbard Treaty, international diplomacy recognizes Norwegian sovereignty over Arctic archipelago Svalbard, and designates it as demilitarized.

- 1922 – Brazil becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.

- 1934 – The Balkan Entente is formed.

- 1941 – World War II: The Cathedral of San Lorenzo in Genoa, Italy is struck by a bomb which fails to detonate.

- 1942 – World War II: Top United States military leaders hold their first formal meeting to discuss American military strategy in the war.

- 1942 – Year-round Daylight saving time is re-instated in the United States as a wartime measure to help conserve energy resources.

- 1943 – World War II: Allied authorities declare Guadalcanal secure after Imperial Japan evacuates its remaining forces from the island, ending the Battle of Guadalcanal.

- 1945 – World War II: Battle of the Atlantic: HMS Venturer sinks U-864 off the coast of Fedje, Norway, in a rare instance of submarine-to-submarine combat.

- 1945 – World War II: A force of Allied aircraft unsuccessfully attacked a German destroyer in Førdefjorden, Norway.

- 1950 – Second Red Scare: US Senator Joseph McCarthy accuses the United States Department of State of being filled with Communists.

- 1951 – Korean War: The two-day Geochang massacre begins as a battalion of the 11th Division of the South Korean Army kills 719 unarmed citizens in Geochang, in the South Gyeongsang district of South Korea

- 1959 – The R-7 Semyorka, the first intercontinental ballistic missile, becomes operational at Plesetsk, USSR.

- 1964 – The Beatles make their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, performing before a "record-busting" audience of 73 million viewers across the USA.

- 1965 – The United States Marine Corps sends a MIM-23 Hawk missile battalion to South Vietnam, the first American troops in-country without an official advisory or training mission.

- 1971 – The 6.5–6.7 Mw Sylmar earthquake hits the Greater Los Angeles Area with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing 64 and injuring 2,000.

- 1971 – Satchel Paige becomes the first Negro League player to be voted into the USA's Baseball Hall of Fame.

- 1971 – Apollo program: Apollo 14 returns to Earth after the third manned Moon landing.

- 1975 – The Soyuz 17 Soviet spacecraft returns to Earth.

- 1978 – The Budd Company unveils its first SPV-2000 self-propelled railcar in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

- 1986 – Halley's Comet last appeared in the inner Solar System.

- 1991 – Voters in Lithuania vote for independence.

- 1996 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army declares the end to its 18-month ceasefire and explodes a large bomb in London's Canary Wharf, killing two people.

- 1996 – Copernicium is first discovered.

- 2016 – Two passenger trains collided in the German town of Bad Aibling in the state of Bavaria. Twelve people died, and 85 others were injured.

- 2018 – 2018 Winter Olympics : opening ceremony is performed in Pyeongchang County in South Korea.

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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]

Famous Birthdays:

- 1060 – Pope Honorius II

- 1737 – Thomas Paine, English-American philosopher, author, and activist

- 1773 – William Henry Harrison, American general and politician, 9th President of the United States

- 1789 – Franz Xaver Gabelsberger, German engineer, invented Gabelsberger shorthand

- 1846 – Wilhelm Maybach, German engineer and businessman, founded Maybach

- 1897 – Charles Kingsford Smith, Australian captain and pilot

- 1906 – André Kostolany, Hungarian-French economist and journalist

- 1910 – Jacques Monod, French biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate

- 1931 – Thomas Bernhard, Austrian author, poet, and playwright

- 1932 – Gerhard Richter, German painter and photographer

- 1940 – J. M. Coetzee, South African-Australian novelist, essayist, and linguist, Nobel Prize laureate

- 1942 – Carole King, American singer-songwriter and pianist

- 1945 – Yoshinori Ohsumi, Japanese cell biologist, 2016 Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology or Medicine

- 1947 – Carla Del Ponte, Swiss lawyer and diplomat

- 1949 – Judith Light, American actress

- 1954 – Ulrich Walter, German physicist, engineer, and astronaut

- 1966 – Christoph Maria Herbst, German actor and comedian

- 1979 – Zhang Ziyi, Chinese actress and model

- 1987 – Magdalena Neuner, German biathlete

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Quote of the day

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

- John Muir (American Environmentalist, 1838-1914) -

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Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Vista Major, Axeldonia, Mercunova

I'm Nazi-Communist :P

Russkov Soviet, Lavan Tiri

Kingsman Republic wrote:I'm Nazi-Communist :P

Hmmm.... Suddenly I'm torn between wiping your country off the face of the Earth, and welcoming you into the Red Brotherhood. xP

Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri

https://www.nationstates.net/nation=axeldonia/detail=factbook/id=928302

Finally finished with all the factions of the setting. Up next is the history or culture or tech... I dunno, I'm sure I'll think of something.

Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica

If anyone has something they'd like to know more about regarding the above, feel free to message me because I'm kinda stumped in regards to what to do next tbh

Lavan Tiri

New Salvatore has returned to fascism. Democracy just didn't gel with them.

Lavan Tiri, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica

Kingsman Republic wrote:I'm Nazi-Communist :P

The use of swastikas on your flag is forbidden by site rules. I'd advise you to remove it before someone reports you.

Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona

Who likes my new flag?

Be honest, Tell me it sucks.

Russkov Soviet, Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova

Aldwood wrote:Who likes my new flag?

Be honest, Tell me it sucks.

I like the purple and the wyvern.

Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Aldwood

https://youtu.be/R-TDGCWijMI?t=9

The anthem of New Salvatore's leader.

Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri

Aldwood wrote:Who likes my new flag?

Be honest, Tell me it sucks.

It looks pretty nice. Like Nurem said, I like the dark purple you used; gives it kind of an ancient Roman/Byzantine vibe (which I imagine is what you were going for).

Nuremgard, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Aldwood

Aldwood wrote:Aldwood posting on the regional message board!?

What is this shenanigans!?

Wasn't the Byzantine Empire Orthodox, not Catholic?

Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Aldwood

Nuremgard wrote:Wasn't the Byzantine Empire Orthodox, not Catholic?

Details, Details.

Edit: Also, This is taken straight from the internet;

"In 330 A.D., Roman Emperor Constantine I chose Byzantium as the site of a “New Rome” with an eponymous capital city, Constantinople. Five years earlier, at the Council of Nicaea, Constantine had established Christianity—once an obscure Jewish sect—as Rome's official religion."

Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica

Aldwood wrote:Details, Details.

Edit: Also, This is taken straight from the internet;

"In 330 A.D., Roman Emperor Constantine I chose Byzantium as the site of a “New Rome” with an eponymous capital city, Constantinople. Five years earlier, at the Council of Nicaea, Constantine had established Christianity—once an obscure Jewish sect—as Rome's official religion."

New Salvatore is happy there is another Catholic power in the world but you're far too liberal for them.

Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica

Aldwood wrote:Who likes my new flag?

Be honest, Tell me it sucks.

Your flag looks very nice. I like it. :)

Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri

Right at the beginning of this weekend I get sick. What a timing.

Lavan Tiri, Vista Major

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:Right at the beginning of this weekend I get sick. What a timing.

Sorry to hear that, Peng. Hole you feel better soon!

Nuremgard, Lavan Tiri, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:Right at the beginning of this weekend I get sick. What a timing.

Get better soon, mein Freund.

Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica

Jaslandia wrote:Sorry to hear that, Peng. Hole you feel better soon!

Nuremgard wrote:Get better soon, mein Freund.

Thank you.

Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri

[spoiler=Today is February 10 and today are:]

Today is February 10 and today are:

- All the News That's Fit to Print Day

- Carnival Saturday (Brazil, Panama)

- Feast of St. Paul's Shipwreck (Malta)

- Fenkil Day (Eritrea)

- Kurdish Authors Union Day (Iraqi Kurdistan)

- Maharishi Dayanand Saraswati Jayanti (India)

- National Cream Cheese Brownie Day (United States)

- National Home Warranty Day (United States)

- National Memorial Day of the Exiles and Foibe (Italy)

- National Umbrella Day (United States)

- Plimsoll Day

- Scout Sabbath

- Thanksgiving (Liberia)

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[spoiler=This day in history:]

This day in history:

- 1258 – Baghdad falls to the Mongols, and the Abbasid Caliphate is destroyed.

- 1306 – In front of the high altar of Greyfriar's Church in Dumfries, Robert the Bruce murders John Comyn sparking revolution in the Wars of Scottish Independence

- 1355 – The St Scholastica Day riot breaks out in Oxford, England, leaving 63 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead in two days.

- 1567 – Lord Darnley, second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, is found strangled following an explosion at the Kirk o' Field house in Edinburgh, Scotland, a suspected assassination.

- 1763 – French and Indian War: The Treaty of Paris ends the war and France cedes Quebec to Great Britain.

- 1814 – Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Champaubert ends in French victory over the Russians and the Prussians.

- 1840 – Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.

- 1846 – First Anglo-Sikh War: Battle of Sobraon: British defeat Sikhs in final battle of the war

- 1861 – Jefferson Davis is notified by telegraph that he has been chosen as provisional President of the Confederate States of America.

- 1862 – American Civil War: A Union naval flotilla destroys the bulk of the Confederate Mosquito Fleet in the Battle of Elizabeth City on the Pasquotank River in North Carolina.

- 1870 – The YWCA is founded in New York City.

- 1906 – HMS Dreadnought, the first of a revolutionary new breed of battleships is christened and launched by King Edward VII.

- 1920 – Józef Haller de Hallenburg performs symbolic wedding of Poland to the sea, celebrating restitution of Polish access to open sea.

- 1923 – Texas Tech University is founded as Texas Technological College in Lubbock, Texas

- 1930 – Yên Bái mutiny in French Indochina

- 1933 – In round 13 of a boxing match at New York City's Madison Square Garden, Primo Carnera knocks out Ernie Schaaf. Schaaf dies four days later.

- 1936 – Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italian troops launched the Battle of Amba Aradam against Ethiopian defenders.

- 1939 – Spanish Civil War: The Nationalists conclude their conquest of Catalonia and seal the border with France.

- 1940 – The Soviet Union begins mass deportations of Polish citizens from occupied eastern Poland to Siberia.

- 1942 – World War II: Imperial Japanese Army capture Banjarmasin, capital of Borneo in Dutch East Indies.

- 1943 – World War II: Attempting to completely lift the Siege of Leningrad, the Soviet Red Army engages German troops and Spanish volunteers in the Battle of Krasny Bor.

- 1947 – Italy cedes most of Venezia Giulia to Yugoslavia.

- 1947 – Crowds gathered at shop windows in Paris to see Christian Dior's New Look fashion - longer skirts, nipped-in waists and padded shoulders.

- 1954 – United States President Dwight Eisenhower warns against United States intervention in Vietnam.

- 1962 – Captured American U2 spy-plane pilot Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.

- 1962 – Roy Lichtenstein's first solo exhibition opened, and it included Look Mickey, which featured his first employment of Ben-Day dots, speech balloons and comic imagery sourcing, all of which he is now known for.

- 1964 – Melbourne–Voyager collision: The aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne collides with and sinks the destroyer HMAS Voyager off the south coast of New South Wales, Australia, killing 82.

- 1967 – The 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified.

- 1972 – Ras Al Khaimah joins the United Arab Emirates, now making up seven emirates.

- 1984 – Kenyan soldiers commit the worst ever human rights violation in the country by slaughtering an estimated 5000 ethnic Somali Kenyans in Wagalla in N.E.-Kenya.

- 1989 – Ron Brown is elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee becoming the first African American to lead a major American political party.

- 1996 – IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov in chess for the first time.

- 2003 – France and Belgium break the NATO procedure of silent approval concerning the timing of protective measures for Turkey in case of a possible war with Iraq.

- 2007 – Then Illinois senator Barack Obama announces his candidacy for president in the 2008 elections, which he later goes on to win.

- 2009 – The communications satellites Iridium 33 and Kosmos 2251 collide in orbit, destroying both.

- 2013 – Thirty-six people are killed and 39 others are injured in a stampede in Allahabad, India, during the Kumbh Mela festival.

- 2016 – South Korea decides to stop the operation of the Kaesong joint industrial complex with North Korea in response to the launch of Kwangmyŏngsŏng-4.

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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]

Famous Birthdays:

- 1744 – William Cornwallis, English admiral and politician

- 1785 – Claude-Louis Navier, French physicist and engineer

- 1890 – Boris Pasternak, Russian poet, novelist, and literary translator Nobel Prize laureate

- 1894 – Harold Macmillan, English captain and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

- 1898 – Bertolt Brecht, German director, playwright, and poet

- 1902 – Walter Houser Brattain, Chinese-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

- 1903 – Matthias Sindelar, Austrian footballer and manager

- 1910 – Dominique Pire, Belgian friar, Nobel Prize laureate

- 1929 – Jerry Goldsmith, American composer and conductor

- 1950 – Mark Spitz, American swimmer

- 1961 – Alexander Payne, American director, producer, and screenwriter

- 1967 – Laura Dern, American actress, director, and producer

- 1974 – Elizabeth Banks, American actress

- 1982 – Tom Schilling, German actor

- 1997 – Chloë Grace Moretz, American actress

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Quote of the day

Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

- Joseph Campbell (American Author, 1904-1987) -

Note: Penguania_And_Antarctica assumes no responsibility or guarantee for correctness of any given information. Any recourse to courts of law is excluded.

Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Vista Major, Axeldonia, Kalaron, Lex Caledonia, Mercunova, Cesorion

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:

- 1763 – French and Indian War: The Treaty of Paris ends the war and France cedes Quebec to Great Britain.

Lesser known fact: the 1763 Treaty of Paris also ceded Florida from Spain to Britain. Britain gave Florida back to Spain 20 years later in the 1783 Treaty of Paris (the one which ended the American Revolutionary War).

Nuremgard, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica

Jaslandia wrote:Lesser known fact: the 1763 Treaty of Paris also ceded Florida from Spain to Britain. Britain gave Florida back to Spain 20 years later in the 1783 Treaty of Paris (the one which ended the American Revolutionary War).

Florida is one of the places New Salvatore wants to reconquer so it can be part of a great Salvatorian Empire/Panhispanic Union.

Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Spanelsko

https://www.nationstates.net/nation=axeldonia/detail=factbook/id=867432

Chemicals in the water.mp4

Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia

Nuremgard wrote:Florida is one of the places New Salvatore wants to reconquer so it can be part of a great Salvatorian Empire/Panhispanic Union.

If New Salvatore wants to deal with all the crazies in Florida, then be my guest. But otherwise, I'm not sure it would be worth it.

Axeldonia wrote:https://www.nationstates.net/nation=axeldonia/detail=factbook/id=867432

Chemicals in the water.mp4

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Nuremgard, Lavan Tiri, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica

Hey kids! How is everything

Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Percyton

New Estaris wrote:Hey kids! How is everything

Hello, Est! How are you?

Penguania And Antarctica, New Estaris, Percyton

Nuremgard wrote:Florida is one of the places New Salvatore wants to reconquer so it can be part of a great Salvatorian Empire/Panhispanic Union.

good luck brothers, the might of Iberia will be feared again!

Nuremgard, Lavan Tiri

It has been too long, CFN.

Too long

Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, Confederal States

Sulania wrote:It has been too long, CFN.

Too long

Hello, Sul! How are you?

Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

Jaslandia wrote:Hello, Sul! How are you?

I've been okay, lol. Working two jobs, full-time college. Don't got a lot of free time. :P

You?

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

Sulania wrote:I've been okay, lol. Working two jobs, full-time college. Don't got a lot of free time. :P

You?

Sounds like a very busy schedule. I've been alright. I've also been attending college (community college for now, then I'll transfer to university in the fall), and it's been going good so far.

Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

New Estaris wrote:Hey kids! How is everything

Hey Est. Good to see you are back. I'm okay. Having a cold which sucks.

How about you? :)

Jaslandia, New Estaris, Percyton

“For an owner, you sure do have that slave morality,” growls Sherlock Bronte, infamously the cruelest slave owner in Spanelsko, as he lovingly caresses his whip. “We need slaves, but we must not make ourselves vulnerable. Slaves must wear identification tattoos, and their time and behavior must be closely monitored. Punish any disobedience with public beatings, or a bloody execution: that’s how a slave learns to mind their manners.”

The Talking Point

Slavers view "what did your last slave die of" as a request for a demonstration.

First time seeing this issue and i love it already.

Spanelsko wrote:good luck brothers, the might of Iberia will be feared again!

Thank you! The glory of the Iberian Peninsula will be restored!

Penguania And Antarctica, Spanelsko

Following new legislation in New Salvatore, suppression of pro-democracy groups is a daily occurrence.

Headline: Citizens Welcome Firm Leadership

Average disposable income: increases by 2,000

Salatorians disdain democracy. They need strong leadership. Plus, they just got a bit richer so the middle class support the regime. ;)

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Spanelsko

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:Hey Est. Good to see you are back. I'm okay. Having a cold which sucks.

How about you? :)

I got the flu i think

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

New Estaris wrote:I got the flu i think

Oh dats not good. I hope you get well and recover soon. :)

Jaslandia, New Estaris, Percyton

Hello, everyone!

If you didn't know, Hyder used to have an international bank to track trade and sales between our nations. I have taken up the reigns and rebranded the bank; we are now accepting applications! I encourage everyone to check it out!

https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=970816

Jaslandia, Percyton

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:Oh dats not good. I hope you get well and recover soon. :)

Thanks buddy.

Penguania And Antarctica

Can we do funny or trivial regional polls again?

Like: What's your favourite colour? or Do you like [insert generic thing]?

Please.

Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Vista Major, New Estaris, Mercunova, Yukona, Percyton

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:Can we do funny or trivial regional polls again?

Like: What's your favourite colour? or Do you like [insert generic thing]?

Please.

It might serve you better to PM the MOIA with that request :p

Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:Can we do funny or trivial regional polls again?

Like: What's your favourite colour? or Do you like [insert generic thing]?

Please.

Kalaron wrote:It might serve you better to PM the MOIA with that request :p

Lex Caledonia

Jaslandia, Vista Major, Lex Caledonia, Yukona

I recommend everyone give the show Derry Girls a watch. It's great.

Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona, Percyton

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