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Region: The Confederacy of Free Nations
Who are we going to support in Syria to prevent a power vacuum from developing in the country while terrorist organizations attack us? Around 60 percent of rebels against Assad are Islamic fundamentalists and many rebels we have trained have surrendered their arms to either an Al Qaeda affiliate of even ISIS, and the Kurds are currently cooperating with Assad's regime to fight against Turkish-backed rebels. And if we decide to support Turkey and the rebels they're supporting, then we'd be supporting an authoritarian regime, but I guess that's okay because Turkey is a NATO member.
We promised to the Soviets in the 1990s that NATO wouldn't expand in return for them supporting German unification. And Russia essentially is the successor state to the Soviet Union due of the Alma-Ata Protocol, which means that we made a promise to what is now the Russian Federation for NATO to not expand and that promise was then broken in the 2000s. We were the aggressors in that case and I'm tired of you acting as those the US and its NATO allies are simply defending the free world from the Russian bear.
There is no justification to kill civilians. When Hamas kills Israeli civilians, its morally wrong. When Israel kills Palestinian civilians, which their rockets do more effectively, it's morally wrong. The political context doesn't matter when it comes to the lives of innocent people. There is no justification for the killing of civilians. I also like how you justify Israel killing civilians while talking about how horrible it is for Assad to kill civilians.
How do you know what Putin knows? How can you read his mind? Now you're just making an argument based on speculation.
Everything that you disagree with is bait to you. I am not trying to bait you. I was not trying to elicit a response from you. I was simply making some light fun of what you do on Discord. Is that too much for you to handle?
Nuremgard, Axeldonia
All I see is a box. What emoji are you showing?
Axeldonia
Your first point is a very important one. Who will take over if Asaad is removed? How can ISIS be our enemies in Iraq but when they cross the border into Syria to fight Asaad, they magically become "moderate rebels?" (Whatever the hell that means.)
Asaad is an arsehole like all Arab dictators but he is preferable to the alternative. And quite frankly, whether a country is a dictatorship or not is none of our business. If people in Syria want regime change, they'll need to do it by themselves in their own revolution. You cant liberate people or force democracy on a culture which has no experience or inclination towards it.
Axeldonia
But don't you realize that only the white man can liberate people?
Axeldonia
That's not a valid criticism. It's akin to saying "You're in favor of feeding the poor, when are you going to open your doors to them and feed them out of your own pocket?".
Frankly speaking, I aim to become a police officer in my future, but you'll notice that I've strived to understand the military and support higher taxes to support them as well.
Right, it's stuff I disagree with because you've never posted bait before at all. That's all I'll say on this.
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The rest of you're post has been answered time and time again before, so I'll save my breath as always.
Save us from this secular fascist and replace him with an Islamic one! Freedom!
Ah. So you're fine with intervention, so long as you don't personally need to do the intervening.
The hmm one
Look, you don't have to respond to everything I say, even if it is bait, which I don't intend it to be.
Axeldonia
I turned out to be right, so there's no need to "hmm".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1r20kewSOQA
Axeldonia
How about we take a step away from the RMB for a hot second, it seems like some things are getting a little fired up and some should take a second to cool down.
Watch a cat video or something.
Jaslandia, Percyton
No, we should watch this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1r20kewSOQA
Your country is commie and it has a lower tax rate than Nurem. Yikes.
Gualimole is not commie. It is a demarchy.
No? If my country really needed me to join up then I suppose I would. That said, I don't plan to drop every other segment of my life for a relatively small portion of it. If we really wish to devolve the conversation to "Well you support X but don't want to drop everything for it" levels, there are a billion things to throw up there though that affect us all.
Yup, that's why I'm not going to correct you from now on.
I'll watch a cat vid with you. :3
A what? I assumed it was since your economy is planned.
who constables when the constables need constabling
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Continental Commonwealths, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia, Yukona
My lore does not necessarily align itself with my stats on NS. And having a planned economy doesn't make me a commie. It makes me a state capitalist.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
True.
Penguania And Antarctica
We don't need any constabling with the current batch of constables considering what they've done on Discord, thank you very much.
Penguania And Antarctica
Government is formed by selecting random samples of officials, or more laconic, a government formed by a lottery
Percyton
What a terrible, terrible system.
I wonder if there have been any other demarchies in the COFN.
Would you rather have Parliament made up of 650 wealthy Tories or 650 random people from southern England?
Neither as I'm not keen on being ruled by a bunch of English people regardless of their socioeconomic status.
It's based on the idea "power corrupts" and aims to lessen the impact of corruption by continuously cycling candidates through the offices (nice unintended alliteration there)
Probably not, but for the site as a whole, more than likely yes.
Nuremgard, Axeldonia, Gualimole
So the choice is have a bunch of morons from the upper class or a bunch of morons from the masses.
You can't choose neither in scenarios like this one.
Keep in mind the selection pools are formed from political officials, not necessarily just the populace, similar to Athenian democracy
You're both a populist and an elitist at the same time. How do you do it?
Nuremgard, Axeldonia, Yukona
650 randomers then.
Career politicians then. Just as bad.
By being Scottish.
Yukona
Gualimole actually goes farther and has it that the selection pool is any willing person from the general adult population.
Elaborate.
Axeldonia
It was just a joke. I'm curious though. How am I a populist? I get why I am an elitist since I constantly denigrate the electorate of my state but how am I a populist?
Yukona
You really do despise the elite, especially if they're English.
Axeldonia, Yukona
I despise all elites, including Scottish ones, especially since most of the Scottish elite are unionist arseholes. I don't hate the English. I love English people. I just don't want to be ruled by them or have their country dominate mine in a faux union. What's wrong with that?
Axeldonia
I hate London's mayor but I am from America and hate seeing the bullshit going on that is affecting the everyday lives of normal people there. lol knife ban
Didn't you once like a post about killing Englishmen?
Yukona
Oh aye, because that means I'm calling for English genocide. *eye roll* And for the record, I apologised for that. Didn't you used to go on about how it was good that ME nations executed homosexuals?
No, but it did imply that you really hate the English.
Yukona
I'm pretty certain there was a time when you were posting some pretty nasty sh!t on the RMB about gay people. And no, I don't hate the English. If I do, I better tell my mate from Leeds.
That was two years ago. What you did happened around a month ago.
Does a timescale matter? And what exactly do you want me to do to prove that I don't hate English people? Film myself sucking off an Englishman and upload it?
Bearlong
Time really does make a difference. And while your suggestion is interesting, finding someone to suck off would be difficult.
No it wouldn't as I'll most likely be doing just that this summer.
Doing what? Sucking off an Englishman?
Yes. I've been talking to a guy from down south and he wants to meet up with me.
Percyton
Do you know him personally or did you just meet him off of the internet?
Met him online. Spoke for a while there. Then we moved onto talking over the phone.
Percyton
How far down south is he?
He's from Birmingham.
Percyton
It's worse than we thought
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Continental Commonwealths, Lex Caledonia
I believe he's from Brixton to be specific. Whether that makes it better or even worse is unknown to me. Not unless I misheard him and he just works in Brixton or something. I dunno. He mentioned it at some point I think.
Jaslandia, Percyton
Birmingham?
MOVE THE TUC
Why?
https://youtu.be/NbfZJyGChEk?t=6
It's a Kaiserreich reference, specifically relating to how the Union of Britain can move the capital of the Trade Union Council to Birmingham through a focus decision.
Axeldonia
That's why I didn't understand that reference. I know sweet FA about the Kaiserreich.
You probably shouldn't play a game where an authoritarian socialist Oswald Mosley can come into power and institute direct rule from London.
Sounds like my nightmare but a hardcore Yoon's wet dream.
Yoon?
It's a term some ScotNats use to describe particularly zealous unionists.
Ooooh, you met a guy, Nur?
Percyton
Given the whiplash that conversation was giving me, this was a perfectly timed and executed interjection.
Ten out of ten. Would trust with looking after my pet hermit crab for a long weekend.
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Percyton
Yes I did. We've been chatting for a few months now.
Jaslandia, Percyton
And? What's he like
Percyton
He's very nice. When we first spoke by phone, we spoke for over two hours. He works for a publishing house which is pretty neat considering I'm a writer.
Percyton
Writer? What do you write?
Percyton
But what is he interested in? What does he look like?
Percyton
Wrote a lot of poetry when I was younger. I want to write fantasy novels.
Well he's older. Nice looking with a beard. Bit on the tubby side. He is generally into the same TV shows I am (Marvel, Game of Thrones.) He's also well travelled and is left leaning.
Jaslandia, Percyton
Are you dominant or are you submissive?
I'm glad you found someone that you're interested in.
Jaslandia
0.o
Jaslandia
What is this, Fifty Shades of Grey? I'm submissive by nature.
Thank you.
Axeldonia
Planned economies in reality would have lower tax rates.
Lower tax rates are what I need. I'm a lefty but even my tax rate makes me want to weep.
Who needs taxes when you own the entirety of the economy anyway?
What? I thought dom/sub was normal.
Vista Major
Exactly.
I think what you're really asking is "are you a top or bottom?" It's not always a binary answer. Most gay couples are versatile but some do have a strict top/bottom or "dom/sub" dynamic.
Vista Major, Axeldonia
Just didn't expect it on the RMB.
Jaslandia
It the topic I often use to break the ice during working lunch conversations.
Nuremgard
top/bottom =/= dom/sub
Vista Major
BTW, I'm a sub.
Why?
True.
Vista Major
Mmm, ye, tis what I ask my ultra fundamentalist boss. "So, do you like to dominate or be dominated?"
What's the difference?
Were about three more lines of dialogue away from a Johnny Rapid video here.
Jaslandia
It's complicated. Sexuality always is.
Vista Major
Everything is complicated. Can you just summarize it?
I mean technically you could still be dominative while being a bottom, like for instance "ordering" your partner to do it or do things in it.
Vista Major
One defines the penetrative partner, the other defines the roles one generally assumes within the relationship dynamic. (For de gays, at least)
Where these roles come out- sexually, romantically, generally, etc.- is further a definition of the relationship.
Alruniea
For example, someone who is very dominant and in control in real life may crave to be dominated in the bedroom in order to escape their own dominant personality. Likewise, a very submissive person may seek to dominate in the bedroom to make up for their lack of pro-active life choices.
Being dominant or submissive doesn't affect your sexual preferences, however.
Gualimole
That's what we in the gay world call being a power bottom.
Alruniea
I'm guessing you're not a power bottom, right?
Nuremgard
0.o
Jaslandia, Vista Major
Ha. No. I'm submissive in most ways. To be crude, I'd be the "girl" in a relationship.
You clearly have never heard of femdom.
I mean it could be in any sexuality's relationship but yeah.
While a bi male, I'm not too into the dom/sub dynamic but that's just me, though I guess I'd be somewhere in the middle of that spectrum.
Nuremgard
We are slowly slipping into the old-CFN RMB.
Jaslandia, Axeldonia
I have heard of it.
I personally like the dom/sub dynamic but not to extreme extents. I have a philosophy: in all aspects of the relationship, we are equals. But in the bedroom, he's in charge.
Which can be a good or bad thing depending on what you're into until we get into the real messy stuff.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia
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