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Region: The Confederacy of Free Nations
YAY goodie !
Penguania And Antarctica
I hope you decimated Marxist theory :^)
Penguania And Antarctica
Submitted my 3500 word project on Scotland and Brexit. I need a B for uni but really want an A. Pray for me, my lovelies.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, The United Providences Of Perland, Percyton
Will do :D
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
If I pass, I'll go to church for thanksgiving.
Just kidding. I'll pat myself on the back because it was all my work. :P
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
British North America: "That's a nice city ya got there. Be a shame if something... happened to it."
Jaslandia, Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica, The United Providences Of Perland, Yukona
Lol.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Bloody rebellious Yanks.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
I submitted mine on Finnish Military Tactics, 5,000 word essay and a presentation. Good luck.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
What class are you taking, and where can I sign up?
Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
You too. No offense but reading that would put me to sleep.
Penguania And Antarctica
Indeed, if you pass you will have worked hard. I know you will pass though. I believe in you.
You owe yourself some pie. Delicious apple pie, with ice cream.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona, Percyton
It's called an extended project qualification, EPQ, the same as what Nurem is doing (I assume?). It's basically something you get to do in college which prepares you for uni life and acts as an extra thing to make universities go "oooh, this guy's sick, man" (actual thing they say). You can do it on what you want, if you really want I can send you my essay although I got a bit bored towards the end so I just bummed off the conclusion. It's more so marked on what you learnt rather than what your actual essay is on (it's not marked by a military history teacher, for example, it's just marked by a random teacher who's signed up to mark EPQs). It's all about finding out about time management, how to write big essays, what you learnt about yourself, etc, etc, etc. That part's repetitive where you have to write pages and pages about what kind of educational journey you went on. You have to stick your head so far up for own arse it's a job to get it back out again.
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica
As would yours :^)
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica
Never tried apple pie but I'll take the ice cream. And thanks for believing in me. I rarely believe in myself.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
In my paper, I also put forward the alternative of staying in the UK post-Brexit. Yuck.
Penguania And Antarctica
Let's just hope your teacher isn't pro-Unionist
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
He doesn't mark it. It goes to the Scottish Qualifications Authority. So just need to hope it's not a unionist bawbag there that marks it lol
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
I didn't need to write an essay. Am I a misfit now ?
Nuremgard, Yukona, Percyton
You rebel.
Penguania And Antarctica
Oh :(
Rebels are cool.
Penguania And Antarctica
No they're not, they fought for slavery and the secession of the south you racist
Penguania And Antarctica
Entitled "An Ode to the Molotov Cocktail - An Essay on Finnish Badassery", no doubt
Never had apple pie? What even is Scotland?
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, The United Providences Of Perland
Actually, I talked about why the stigma over communism in the West is not entirely true but not wrong either.
I pointed out how there are fundamental misunderstandings between the original Marxian ideal and it's more modern variants. For example, I established that Leninism is not a communist ideology because it advocated for a vanguard party in a state system. Whereas communism at the time was an anarchist ideology that believes the state structure to be a tool of exploitation.
This fundamental misunderstanding has allowed for "communism", a once anarchist ideology, to become associated with statism and authoritarianism in the West. It didn't exactly help that mass starvation and silencing of political dissent became the norm in "communist" nations like the USSR and Maoist China as well.
The result is that the West has taught 2 generations that communism somehow equals "total state control of the economy", when this statement is factually incorrect, as shown earlier by the establishment that communism is an anarchist ideology. Also tie in that it's easier to call something Communist than it is to explain how power corrupts people (I mentioned that the aforementioned atrocities were actually nothing more than dictators trying to keep their hold on power under the guise of "silencing counter-revolutionaries", with an added quote from "The Dictator's Handbook" by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita)
It is this association that has tainted socialism's reputation in the West, whom normally have heavily anti-government and populistic ideals. Just go down the street to a Trump supporter and they'll rant on and on about "state's rights" and "liberty".
As a proposed treatment for this tainted reputation, I wrote that education programs should teach unbiased accounts and definitions of communism. After that I left the discussion open, alluding to how my earlier papers explained how global socialism is not a question of "if" but "when"; teach people here in the West the actual ideology and they'll flock to it.
Russian Fedration, Nuremgard, Percyton
I wrote a bit about the origin of Molotov Cocktails, here's a quote from my essay (not to do with Mollies(not to do with the drug molly either)):
[spoiler]"Without stating the obvious, the harsh winter weather also had incredibly hindering effects on both sides of the war, with the average temperature fluctuating from approximately -3 degree to -14 degrees over the course of the war . This meant that often bodies would be frozen in place, often in the position they were in moments before passing, as from Jack Caseys memoirs A weird scene in still life. A Russian patrol standing by the side of the road, the men upright and frozen stiff in the snow. A Russian officer beside them, pistol in hand. All had had their throats cut, the officers pistol was loaded and not a shot had been fired . Jack Casey is known for the authenticity of his accounts, but many have been exaggerated for the media, as he was one of the few sources to bring news of the war to Finland. Although there is no way to verify his claim, it was a notably frequent (in comparison) occurrence during the war. This does more than highlight the true nature of warfare in the environment, especially how the Finns used this to their advantage."[/spoiler]
Soz. Did I trigger you? :P
The greatest country in the world!
Penguania And Antarctica
Hm, I see what you mean, but I also see a lot of problems in your argument. Communism's deaths weren't just dictators holding on for power, the amount who died from collectivisation comes to mind, what was it - 5 million just by 1928? Obviously, there are other instances of death as well, but the majority comes from the authoritarian nature of communism in itself, in my humble opinion. In addition to this, I feel there are a great many faults in socialist economics and would much rather a small government (with ownership over probably just health and education), whilst leaving stuff to private companies. Government intervention does and will cause market failure and for the majority of the time the free equilibrium does it nicely. Ron Paul's "The Revolution" and Milton Friedman's "Why Small Government Matters" comes to mind.
Smh absolute racist Scot back it again with his lies about the benefits of privatising the NHS and trident, keep out of England filthy dog
Penguania And Antarctica
Stay out of England? With pleasure!
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Dang it he got me again, my plan failed
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Get a nice big blueberry muffin, heat that sh*t
Thats a reward right there
Jaslandia, Tserra, Percyton
#1 country? Without apple pie? God, it's like your country doesn't have a national holiday for celebrating what was realistically the barbaric treatment of your land's indigenous population- during which you feast on apple pie- or something!
Huh, interesting. I read somewhere that the Finns would stand up the frozen Soviet bodies on the roadsides where they anticipated future army units would march pass to warn/threaten them of the harsh conditions they were about to experience.
Long story short, the Winter War is precisely the type of war I would expect Stalin and all his military genius to get wrapped up in.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
Better luck next time, Sassenach.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
http://s15.zetaboards.com/COFN/topic/10191281/1/?x=0#post10013039
First broadcast of Good Morning Magnatronia!
The Royal Republic Of Kumania, Jaslandia
I have a bit about that, too, and yes they did. In fact, when the snow melted at Suomussalmi, there were so many bodies they had to re-draft the army to clear it up and it was not, not, not, not pretty. There are some amazing this they done, jammed logs in the tracks of tanks to de-track them, the Red Army tried attacking across the Baltic Sea (near the Karelian Isthmus) so they just turned the coastal guns on the Soviet infantry and the blasts swallowed divisions whole into the icy depths (scary stuff). As you said, they used to prop up dead bodies, they knew the Soviets would attack along roads because of their heavy equipment and lack of skis, so they pulled off what's called a "motti" tactic, literally meaning a piece of chopped up wood:
[spoiler]In Finland, these unconventional tactics were known was motitus or motti tactics. A motti, as mentioned earlier, is a piece of wood chopped into smaller parts, which directly illustrates the way in which these tactics were employed. As abovementioned, Soviet vehicles were constrained to narrow roads due to the nature of the terrain, whereas Finnish troops experts on skis were able to slip through the forest at unimaginable speeds.
Glantz underpins this sentiment, A Finnish ski patrol was neither here nor there; almost omniscient, they struck quickly, destroying and disappearing in a matter of minutes . To further explain, the large fronts that the Soviets opened the war with strained the Finns and put their units in a precarious position. Should they establish a long defensive line right the way up the border, they would run the risk of easily being penetrated and flanked. In addition to this, a static defence could have left certain areas vulnerable to attack, especially in the north where the arctic port of Petsamo was critically located.
As a result, they used elastic defence where there was no definitive front line yet a number of high manoeuvrable divisions poised to attack at a moments notice, this essentially meant any assaulting unit may not meet any direct resistance, but would risk being cut off from supplies and reinforcements, and therefore vulnerable to attack. This is the ultimate process of motitus, and as can be seen the large and intimidating Soviet battle groups are now broken down into smaller, manageable portions; portions who are now suffering fatigue and attrition due to the weather and lack of supplies. This made neutralising these hostile easier for the Finns, allowing for successive depletion of the Soviet morale, knowing that most attacks were going to be unfortunately a death sentence. A clear cut example of motti tactics is the Battle of Suomussalmi, where in comparison to the 350 Finnish killed and missing in action, a total number of 27,500 Red Army personnel were tragically listed as dead or missing. [/spoiler]
Continental Commonwealths
TIL - Sassenach. Go back to your swamp, Jock :^)
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Oh, I forgot about this, which you'll find interesting yet none the less expected: The Red Army Generals were in awe at the success of the Blitzkrieg tactics utilised by the Wehrmacht in Poland. [...] These two stark contrasts of military attitudes are perhaps one of the biggest differences between how the Soviets imagined the war, and how it actually occurred. First of all, as Trotter notes, the advancement of Blitzkrieg tactics required speed, good infrastructure, combined arms and reliability . These are five points that the Soviets did not exactly possess in abundance.
Jaslandia, Continental Commonwealths
I'd think you'd hope he desolated communism.
On a related sidenote: God, it makes me irrationally angry when the word "Decimate" is used to mean you crushed something.
That is the issue; you have associated communism with a big state.
You have seen failed socialist states, like the USSR, and have been told that it is communism because communism is all about the "big state".
When in reality, the thinkers and theorists of the ideal, like Marx, Engels, Kropotkin, and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, said it themselves in their own writings: communism is not an ideal that likes the state. Period. Kropotkin and Proudhon actually said that communism cannot happen until the state is dismantled, because the existence of a state brings with it a class division. Which is clearly not a communist belief.
Russian Fedration
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhTf_f0bvkQ
Jaslandia
Decimated: "kill, destroy, or remove a large proportion of."
Let me re-word what I said, I hope you killed, destroyed or removed a large (hopefully all) proportion of Marxist theory.
Jaslandia, Continental Commonwealths
Called it
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
I don't do swamps. I'm a city-slicker through and through.
Penguania And Antarctica
Edited it
All of Scotland is a swamp you silly bean
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Well, in Star Wars I preferred the Empire. >:)
Nuremgard
Can you please make an overview factbook; I desperatly want to know more about how your nation operates. All I know is that its a coporate dictatorship with a social class system reminiscent of Brave New World. All I know is:
A Class - Wiley (perhaps light)
B Class - Informed citizen, deals with information-based jobs
C Class - Unknown
D Class - Lobotomized/uneducated lingually ensnared slave force
THATS IT
The Royal Republic Of Kumania, Jaslandia
Yes, that is the definition.
The part that annoys me is that it's from the Roman practice of decimation where every tenth man be beaten to death by the other nine if they fled from combat.
Not a very large proportion being killed there, is it?
Jaslandia
I need mooooooooorrrrrrreeeeeee
Yes, I understand what you mean - but I don't see how collectivisation, no private ownership, etc. could be enforced without a big government?
Haha- well put! My bf has a degree in history focusing on WWI military history, and he can go on for ages about how the soon-to-be-Soviets lacked those five things during the earlier World War as well.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
Decimatio? It's a really bad idea.
Jaslandia
Don't be jealous of our mountains, valleys and lochs, baby. Ain't my fault England is like a pancake. :P
Crush that rebel scum, Peng!
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, The United Providences Of Perland
I have a super majority of my ancestry for Scotland, so may I join you my brother? My clan is the Ross Clan :P
Nuremgard, Jaslandia
Yup, still annoying how the word came to mean something tangentially related (I mean, come on, Ten is literally in the goddamned word) because of a Christian Legion.
Jaslandia, Friedensreich
Hey, I'm f*cking off to Canada - not even Scotland can beat (I don't know whether to refer to Canada as 'our' or 'their') our(?) mountains, valleys, lakes, buddy eh.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, The United Providences Of Perland
My mum is Clan Campbell. Welcome, comrade.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, The United Providences Of Perland
I'm not your buddy, friend!
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, The United Providences Of Perland
The level of stupidity the Soviets possessed during the Winter War was immense. My argument was that if they didn't go to war with Finland they wouldn't have won World War II as they would have made all of these absolutely God awful cringe-worthy mistakes against the Wehrmacht of all people
Jaslandia, Continental Commonwealths
I'm not your friend, guy!
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica
?????????
says you 😂😂😂
Russian Fedration, Penguania And Antarctica
I'm not your guy, friend!
Penguania And Antarctica
Rebellious Scot and proud.
Jaslandia, The Vidnoye, Penguania And Antarctica
I would say Germany. :)
Nuremgard, Continental Commonwealths
I had another one of those state test. Course I fell asleep but this time i almost fell out of my chair when I woke up lmao.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
I'm not your friend, buddy!
Nuremgard
Oh, South Park. How I love thee.
Yukona
Local governments.
The reason why communism is an anarchist ideology is because it proposes decentralization of a nation into local communities. (And this is one big reason why I wrote earlier in the semester that Americans would love communism if they knew this was what it entailed- what with their hard ons for decentralization) Hence the shared prefix of "commun".
These local governments will be run through a direct democratic vote, and will be entirely voluntary. Those that do not want to be in the commune will be free to leave it and go it on their own. A great example of these communes working admirably are the Spanish Anarchists during the Spanish Civil War. Read chapter 10 of "The Anarchist Collectives" by Sam Dolgoff for more about them.
Yukona
I will, actually, thank you for your wisdom, wise one of ye olde collectivium
Friedensreich
To be fair, most words that were originally Latin have become bastardized over the years.
I blame the existence of the English language for this.
Jaslandia
You spelt Canada wrong again, Peng :^|
Jaslandia, Continental Commonwealths, Penguania And Antarctica
Kanada.
Jaslandia, Continental Commonwealths, Yukona, Percyton
In that chapter, "A Journey Through Aragon", an account written by Augustine Souchy, is probably the best example of how a communist community would operate.
Yukona
Atleast they Wised up after the Winter war...and Had Experienced officers than.
Out of all my love and Admiration for Stalin i will say that is one of his Dumbest moves is killing off the Experienced military leadership.
Thankfully Zhukov Survived and lived on to be a legend.
"Out of all my love and admiration for Stalin"
"Had experienced officers"
The Soviets? Oh, they had an experience if you can call it that :^). And as far Stalin I can't say anything else but ayyyyyyyyyyyyy lmao
Jaslandia, Continental Commonwealths
I just had a state test too. Got one on Friday, as well.
Jaslandia, Oelesa, Penguania And Antarctica
I'll probably have more too. I should bring a pillow next time.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Aww, little Oel with his cuddly blanket and his teddy bear. :)
Continental Commonwealths, Yukona
....K
You said you admired and love Stalin, don't really know what you expect dude
Jaslandia, Continental Commonwealths
I just wanna say that we're gonna be having huge changes in the FA.
Yuuuuge
Continental Commonwealths
ZHUKOV!!!!!!!!
Russian Fedration
Deutschland über alles, eh Peng :P
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
ok Great
so confused
I know all the great Generals. Strangely enough my favorite was the Desert Fox himself
Russian Fedration
Makes two of us
Russian Fedration
I admire his moustache game. But that's where it all ends.
Jaslandia, Yukona
Not quite.
Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit. :)
Jaslandia
Lol ok
Honestly the Desert fox was the First General I really Studied .
Than Patton not really too much into His Royal Highness Monty . (His Ego was GINORMOUS) and i only recently studied Zhukov.
Modern Tech Helghan
I can second that
Jaslandia, Continental Commonwealths
Awh, you're gonna make me pull out Google translate.
All I know in German is the above phrase, how to ask for a beer, and how to say, "well, I've got to go now". I think I'd fair well enough :P
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica
Those are the 3 first words of the German national anthem.
Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit
Für das deutsche Vaterland!
Danach lasst uns alle streben
Brüderlich mit Herz und Hand!
Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit
Sind des Glückes Unterpfand;
|: Blüh' im Glanze dieses Glückes,
Blühe, deutsches Vaterland! :|
Translation:
Unity and justice and freedom
For the German fatherland!
Towards these let us all strive
Brotherly with heart and hand!
Unity and justice and freedom
Are the foundation of happiness;
|: Flourish in the radiance of this happiness,
Flourish, German fatherland! :|
Jaslandia
Uh, so it's set in stone now. I really, really, really hate the school of business at my university. Aside from being elitists, they wouldn't let me in to take my final when I showed up about 10 minutes late because I had another final right before that one that ran late.
Russian Fedration, Jaslandia
It must be a pink bunny so I can be like Honey Senpai :P
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Fking Pricks man
Yeah. The good thing, though, is that I'm not a business major anymore and the class has literally no effect on my long term career now that I am a Poli-Sci major and Econ minor.
Plus, just between you and me, I already have an F in the course so it won't have any effect on my GPA that I didn't already account for....
Russian Fedration, Jaslandia
Tbh good plan
sounds like it all worked out
Yeah. Thank fùcking God I don't have to take another computer class.
My classes next semester are going to be good sh!t.
-Human Origins and Pre-History
-Argumentative Writing
-Second Year German
-Intro to Political Theory (I'm technically not supposed to be in Marxist Theory right now which is taught by the same guy because it is a 388 level course meant for junior and senior poli-sci majors)
-Intro to American Politics
Then the semester after that is going to be good too....
-Intro to Macroeconomics
-Intro to Comparative Politics
-Statistics
-Electives
Russian Fedration, Jaslandia
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