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After following this whole debate including Latine perspectives for awhile, "-e" feels like it fits the existing Spanish language better than the Americogenic "-x" (which I don't even like in English). Like, yeah, "latinks" (which is how I've heard "-x" pronounced) is possible, but it's exceedingly rare in the existing language compared to the other propositions.
Although I like the idea of 'placeholder for -o/-a/-e', I don't like the look of "@" in the middle of any word, English or Spanish. (although linguistic evolution ) It's also nice to have a dedicated 'neutral' suffix, because "@" seems to exclude nb people (going by your explanation).
Huh, I've never thought about the fact that the "Latino/-e/-@" debate is essentially about labelling. Maybe not microlabelling, but "creating a new word/phoneme to fill a gap in classification" is definitely labelling nonetheless.
I know that it's idealistic to not care how the people around you view you, but I've never overly cared about "we look like [insert opposite group]", and like 
Terrabod and 
Ruinenlust said, explicitly tagging ourselves "anti-[group]" opens the door for members of that group to come in and bait us about why we oppose them.
Wholeheartedly my dude. Just because a label may/not be used, that doesn't make some fundamental change to how all of us think. I was still ace before discovering asexuality, I just didn't have a label for it beforehand.
Oh my god I think this just singlehandedly shifted me quite a bit further left. I know this is an IC speech, but it's just absolutely run through a checklist of things I support. (municipalism, (voluntary) cooperatives, regulations on the absurd corporate influence on politics) I've flirted with decentralized, democratic leftism before, but i think it might be time to go do some more research...
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Finally made a pride-themed flag for this nation.
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Haha thank you I guess?
I myself am a social democrat IRL, but I do share many of these same sentiments as my character Shira Meron. Like I'm fine with the existence of corporations, I'm fine with people being rich (but they still have to contribute to society, like by paying higher taxes!), and I'm in no way anti-capitalist. However, what annoys me is just how powerful and how big and how inescapable these corporations are. When I go to the supermarket, I want to be able to get fresh, local, seasonal, non-pesticide fruits and vegetables made by simple, normal, down-to-earth farmers, not massive industrial farms. When you need to get a book, the first thought should be "does my library have it?" or "can I buy it from my local mom-and-pop independent bookstore?", not "let's scour Amazon or Barnes and Nobles for a book" (even though Barnes and Nobles is pretty great). When a corporation fails, they should face the consequences like everyone else, either go bankrupt or be nationalized/coöpified, rather than threatening to take down the economy with them and then receiving bailouts. Look, I'm fine with capitalism (though it should be strongly regulated and welfare-statist, I am a Social Democrat after all) and I'm fine with corporations and multimillionaires existing (but they obviuously should pay many, many times more). What angers me is just how much of a chokehold corporations have, and how they manage to get away with so much and stay so rich despite the problems that they have caused
And this is not to say that I am so far on the left. Sure, I'm a progressive, sure I'm further left than most Democrats, sure I support coöps and labour unions and nationalization/coöpification of bankrupt companies, but I'm still not a DemSoc, I'm still not that "woke" (though I'm woke enough to get into Reddit battles with conservatives and neo-liberals), and I still believe that capitalism works better than socialism, as long as capitalism is done in a fair, equal, and supportive manner (i.e. social democracy!). So I'm not trying 
Difinbelk to make you any more left than you already are (assuming that you are already pretty close to where I am, if you're just a SocLib then I'd want to try to push you more towards SocDem), but I'm glad that someone here shares my views on these matters
Edit: I see you mentioned flirting with decentralized leftism before. My views on this is that while LibSoc and AnCom societies sound great, they would not really be possible in developed, first-world, globalized, well-connected, post-internet societies like the Western World. However, in areas such as Rojava and Chiapas where these policies are already in use, or other less built-up, less modernized, more traditional and more "primitive" (for lack of a better term), more decentralized and disconnected areas, LibSoc and AnCom could be great solutions. These simply won't work in interconnected, globalized, built-up nations, but in more decentralized and agricultural societies these ideologies could go very well, like with the SDF in Rojava, the Zapatistas in Chiapas, and even in the Makhnovian Free Territory in Ukraine back in the day.
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Is it just me or clicking the "Board" button on the region's homepage now redirects you to the first page of RMB instead of the last?
It's Chan Island all over again..
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I have received a notification that 
Middle Barael has opened embassies with Kyratistani. Our team of ambassadors are currently on their way by mule to your capital. They are the first people to leave Kyratistani since the 1998 Demodernisation Programme closed all borders permanently. They will likely arrive in two months. It is a mystery how embassies were opened, but it is rumoured that a black eagle belonging to the Communist Party named Raksa heard that new embassies were being opened and told government it is a good idea.
Treat the team well!
(This post is here only to showcase the many oddities of Kyratistani.)
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I'm not sure when exactly I passed the threshold for establishing a national religion, but it's convenient that it was close to the time when I went through the Lore Questions I suppose.
I'm not 100% sure where I stand economically, (I sympathize with Leftist points but I also was a Jorgenson supporter during last year's US elections (at least before her opposition to mask mandates showed up)). I just noticed that I agreed with most of your points. Most of my 'research' so far has been springboarding off various anti-authoritarian ideologies' Wikipedia pages, but it appears it'd be worth it to do some legitimate reading.
Yeah, I do recognize that it's not reasonable to attempt mass municipalization/cooperatization, but I'm also not overly sure how to break up the corps dominating the economy without either nationalizing them or suffering major economic downturns while the hypothetical vacuum fills (again, haven't done much actual research so I probably just haven't found a proposal that assuages those yet).
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Not just you: I too suddenly found myself between the ten year old thoughts and insights of the older Foresidents :o
Italian has the situation that they already have -o, -i, -a, and -e as gender indicating endings. Recently I read that one commune or province had started to use the schwa (ə) as a neutral plural form where one otherwise should choose between -i for masculine and -e for feminine. I don't know why they didn't choose 'y', which is not your typical Italian character but already present on keyboards and therefore easily typable, whereas you need to look for the 'ə' elsewhere.
(And I'm not sure though if this applies only to words that in singular end in -o (masculine) or -a (feminine), or also for those that end in -e (plural also -i), as the latter group includes both masculine and feminine words so they are basically neutral already - but there you have other issues, such as masculine 'giocatore > giocatori' and feminine 'giocatrice > giocatrici' ("player"), which don't seem easy to replace by changing just one letter)
In Rakeinne (Rakavo's language) nouns and adjectives don't show gender. The only place where it is shown are the personal pronouns 'saka' (he) and 'soka' (she). The plural (they) is 'saktointa' but that is literally a plural of 'saktoinne' (it), which covers both animate and inanimate words. In singular, I therefore decided to add 'suka' as a gender neutral pronoun.
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Doesn’t that apply to all tags though? I’ve seen many regions spam them for advertising… haven’t scouted for regions in years, but it looks like solving the problem—ensuring tags are useful directives—through moderation, or other means, would be a worthy goal.
The “yet” double entendre in fairness in elections is scary. And article h seems… nakedly imperial…
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Think I might be a few days late to the discussion (not used to RMBs being this active and with such long posts), but I still want to contribute. TL;DR I think queer is a better term than LGBTQ+ for a variety of reasons.
People here were talking about the LGBTQ+ acronym and the letters in it along with the increasing size of it. I have some thoughts on it. I'm not a fan of the acronym and prefer "queer".
Firstly, the acronym favors sexuality over gender. Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual all get mentioned in the acronym. All 3 are different sexualities. However, all the gender identities get lumped together under a T. That seems unfair to me. Why does sexuality get to be expanded but not gender? This continues on with expansions of the acronym where increasing amounts of letter tend to be sexuality and only sometimes not being that.
Second, LGBTQ+ favors some sexualities above overs. Why do Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual get to be named dropped but all the others do not? All the ones that are not LGB get lumped together under a +. Like, what is that? "Oh, you're LGBT?" "Yeah, I'm a plus!" It's unfair to the other sexualities that are not deemed worthy of getting mentioned. There are expansions, like LGBTQ and LGBTQIA, which includes asexuality and bicuriosity, but there's still more because, surprise surprise, sexuality is a complicated thing because humans are complicated, and you can't just keep expanding the acronym. At a point, it's just too long to even bother saying or writing. That's why the + is there, but again, it's the same issue with the T of only somethings getting named dropped and everything else getting lumped together.
Third, the acronym actually has debate on it. People can't seem to agree as to whether the Q is "queer" or "questioning" nor if the A is "asexual" (it is) or "ally" (it's not. Allies are not LGBT. They're allies). Then it gets more complicated the longer you go. There's a particulary bad take on whether adding a P would stand for "Pansexual" or another P word that trolls love to insist that LGBT people are that I think a lot of you can guess as to what it is...
Queer is a better word to use instead. Queer favors no identity over another. It incluces gay, lesbian, bisexual, pan, ace, etc. It includes transgender but also all the other identities like non-binary, agender, genderqueer, bigender, etc. All are queer (also, if the Q stands for queer, then why not just say queer?). Queer is also 1 syllable compared to even the usual acronym now of LGBTQ+ that is 6 syllables.
And lastly, I like it's more...radical origins. LGBT is a very modern term when it comes to queer rights, coming after AIDS first started tearing through the community and when the rest of the world finally started caring about us (after straight people started getting AIDS, that is). LGBT was made in the wake of the deaths of so many queer liberationists and people began to call for a mainstream movement. While this was valuable to have and something I view as having been necessary for advancing our rights and acceptance, it's history is not very good.
The struggle to accept bi people, the slow acceptance of trans people into the mainstream movement (HRC especially was bad with this) even though trans women were some of the first organizers of Pride and queer liberation, and the thing I hate the most: the surge in Respectability Politics, the idea that there are good gays and bad gays and only some deserve to lead the movement. There's a reason why so much representation of queer people in media is just gay cisgender white guys and rarely anything outside of that because respectability politics demanded that only the queer people that the mainstream would accept were worthy of representation. Did any of you see the movie "Stonewall (2015)"? A week long riot that had so many people of color, women, trans people, and so many others, and they chose a cis white boy to be the lead and be the first one to throw the brick. Really? Luckily things are changing with media becoming more diverse, but it's been like this for decades now.
Also to throw in, "LGBT" reflects more western ideas of sexuality and gender and is a term that isn't very easily able to be applied to some non-Western understandings of sexuality and gender. This is why scholarly studies of sexuality and gender go with "Queer" as the word of use as it's more inclusive in it's scope.
I am fine using "LGBTQ+", especially considering the history of "Queer" as a slur and I don't want to be making people feeling triggered through any trauma they have with it just because I want to make a point, but I like identifying as queer and think it's a better term to describe us.
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Here is the latest update on the events spreading across Forest, particularly in Einswenn:
• The riot is purely anti-capitalist and anti-corporative coming from MB's first unrest but having no direct roots with it using the event as casus belli against Einset government;
• Police has been reinforced and relocated to the key streets of the capital;
• Prime minister has got permission from the Queen to use the force if needed;
• People do not follow peaceful supportive demonstrations and protests because anti-capitalist riot overshadows them; rioters claim they're constantly inspired by unrest in Middle Barael.
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The FBoAG has released a statement today on the situation in Middle Barael, as well as on the response by the Mayor of Seale, saying ‘I believe it is important that we do not attempt to interfere with the internal politics of other nations. I believe that while I am not going to side with anyone, the protests are not currently affecting Roless to a meaningful degree. I believe the mayor of Seale has acted completely irresponsibly by militarizing the centre of the city, and I support the notion of the parliament to restrict her access to the armed forces.’
The mayor of Seale, Sia Diaca, responded by affirming her stance on potential protesters by expanding her military occupation to predominantly Rolessian suburbs, though she has left Seali suburbs alone. A particularly radical MP Eachus Puahe has even proposed completely removing Seali autonomy, though this was not taken well by most.
The mayors of Ichasa and Atchta also condemned Ms Diacha’s actions, who also said she would ‘take further action if necessary’, and calling the condemnations ‘an attack on the Seali people’.
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I too am someone who bounces around democratic confederalism/municipalism and generic eco-socialism. Personally, I believe there should be a central authority that makes environmental regulations, however there should be a decentralized workforce that controls their industry via workplace democracy and co-operatives, and there is a council of labour that is elected by all the major unions of the nation that makes decisions regarding labour. There would also be a national assembly that is elected directly that makes decisions on other things like environmental protections. Direct democracy would also be prevalent. I'm not sure how much this is related to your ideology, but hopefully it helps.
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Hi all! :D i recently got back into NS and figured I'd resettle into one of my favourite regions!
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I didn't bother reading those 300 missed RMB posts.
Life is too short for that.
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We discussed LGBTQ+ issues and I think a fascist showed up at some point but I wasn't paying attention to that part.
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Warmest fraternal greetings comrade!
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A fac
A fascist showed up eh?
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idk I was asleep or half awake through most of it. Did a fascist show up or was that something that happened before?
Also I just now noticed the pan flag included on your flag. That's nice...
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i'm not pan myself. not part of the lgbtq+ community either. but i support it. One of my roommates is pan so i though i would show suppport by putting the pan flag on my flag.
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That’s mindblowing to realise how much can a small but sincere sign of support do.
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Very commendable! :D
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One did, their name was F Fascism, and they were very similar to Hellbloed, if you know who they are.
All you missed was us discussing LGBTQ+ issues, a fascist showing up for a day and then getting banned and Middle Barael entering a political crisis.
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No one else has said it yet, so you also missed that our embassy region of Force did a thing dumb enough that we near-unanimously voted to pull our embassy with them.
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Does anyone remember how to check who you've endorsed/not? I can't get Endotarting to work (might be my error?). Ik there were other options suggested but I don't remember them.
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