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Libertandonien

The Oriental Empire wrote:Plagg, transformez-moi 😩

The Oriental Empire wrote:As in small kitty djinn make me a furry

😳 I'm scared that I might know, what you're talking about

Libertandonien wrote:😳 I'm scared that I might know, what you're talking about

Are you confessing to watching French kid cartoons

St Scarlett wrote:They’re elegant smh

They look inbred 😭

Joshatu wrote:north korea has 'people's republic' in it's full name

yet, all it gives to the people, is a bunch of gulags, tight schedules, labor, military service, and a controlled lifestyle

it's more of a 'people's dictatorship'

'When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called "the People's Stick".'

Joshatu wrote:opinion about soviets?

They saved us, so favourable for that. Other than that... well.

Yahlia wrote:👏 Okay, newcomers to Europe’s RMB (regional message board), take a moment to chill out. So you’re all aware, triple-posting (posting a message three times in a row) and roleplay are forbidden on the RMB. Please do not clutter the RMB with questions which are easily searched online, unproductive one-word messages, or low effort posts. Don’t be creeps, don’t have freak outs, behave calmly.
I would highly advise you all to read our rules and regulations, which can be found here:
| GOVERNMENT | HOME OFFICE | FOREIGN OFFICE | WA OFFICE | DISPATCHES |
| ABOUT | STAFF | MODERATION COMMITTEE | EVENTS | REPORTS |

Explanatory Notes on the RMB Moderation Regulation

This is a collection of explanatory notes on the current RMB Moderation Regulations (full regulations Linkhere) to help newcomers and already established players to familiarise themselves with the rules, to better understand their provisions. For ease of use, the notes’ order follows that of the rules.

  • Triple post

    Posting three RMB messages in a row is forbidden.

    Posting three RMB messages in a row, without another player posting in between them, is forbidden. This includes three posts from the same player made using different nations. Any message made by another player interrupts the chain, even if those messages are later deleted or suppressed. A message made by the same player but later deleted does not count.

    This rule was initially created because NationStates did not save more than 10 RMB posts until a site update. But today, it is meant to prevent any single player from monopolising the discussion for too long without anyone else intervening.

  • Roleplay

    Attempts at roleplay and in-character declarations are forbidden.

    Attempts at roleplay, meaning the attempt to start roleplaying, and in-character declarations, meaning declarations done from the perspective of a fictional character and not the player behind it, are forbidden. Sharing dispatches or discussions about roleplay (also known as out-of-character) or the lore of the nations from a player’s perspective is however permitted and encouraged. The RMB should not be used as a forum for roleplay itself, but rather, to facilitate roleplay’s happening.

    Roleplay inherently creates walls of text which are mostly, if not entirely, irrelevant to the uninitiated reader. We want the RMB to be readily accessible for people who just joined the region. Requiring them to read thousands of pages of RMB roleplay or some handbook explaining the complex and bewildering state of the world in a hypothetical regional roleplay is an enormous barrier which prevents meaningful uptake. This is exacerbated by the size and length of that roleplay crowding out casual discussion, which noticeably is not dependent on doing detailed background reading as to the state of the RP. Imperium Anglorum, NationStates (23 Jan 2021) page=rmb/postid=42496963.

    Examples:

    Forbidden

    “Greetings fellow Europeans, the king of Regnum Italiae is happy to invite you to the royal wedding of his most gracious daughter.”

    or

    “We declare war on Regnum Italiae”

    or

    “I’m gonna invade you”

    Permitted

    “Hi, I wrote a dispatch on my royal wedding! Telegram me if you want to participate!”

    or

    “My nation gained its independence from Germany in 2013.”

  • Hate speech

    Insulting, cursing, or promoting violence against someone or a distinct group of people because of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, etc is strictly forbidden.

  • Threats

    You may not make any posts which contain threats of violence or violent acts against anyone.

  • Defamation

    Spreading lies to undermines someone’s reputation is forbidden.

    A post is considered defamatory if it undermines someone’s reputation non-trivially with lies or unproven statements of fact. This does not include statements made in good faith, with an honest belief in their truthfulness, or with the consent of the person being described. Obvious jokes and other humorous expressions are not considered defamatory regardless.

    This rule exists mostly to ensure discussions do not turn into a series of unsubstantiated personal attacks, even if made in a manner which is on the face a suitable tone for the discussion. If you are to make negative claims about other people, you must be able to substantiate them with evidence.

  • Malicious link

    Linking illegal or harmful content is forbidden.

    Linking videos, images, or any other content which is illegal (eg piracy or drugs), not suited for a younger audience (eg shock content or pornography) – a population which is generally not unprevalent in NationStates – or that may otherwise damage a user or computer is strictly forbidden. Linking sites where one can access such content is also prohibited.

  • Sensitive content

    Joking or exalting violent acts and their perpetrators is forbidden.

    Joking about, exalting, or defending tragedies and atrocities (especially genocides) is strictly forbidden. The same applies to joking about or exalting the perpetrators of such atrocities or the ideologies behind them.

  • Quote editing

    Maliciously editing a quote is forbidden.

    Editing a quote with offensive or malicious intent is prohibited. Quote editing is permitted in a limited manner if done with humoristic intentions and with the assent of the quoted person, especially if the original content of the quote is still visible, such as when using the strike-through feature. It also is permitted to ‘snip’ or spoiler long quotes, as there is no ill will involved.

  • Spam

    Posting meaningless or unsolicited messages is forbidden.

    Spam is “irrelevant or unsolicited messages sent over the Internet[...]”. Recently, this rule has been applied more broadly than how it was in the past to appropriately react to increased amounts of spam-activity. The Moderation Committee, generally, stays strict to the rule's definition and considers the repetitiveness of the action merely as aggravating. Although players are encouraged to discuss freely, at the same time the constant search for attention through posts designed solely for this purpose is, as of now, generally regarded as spamming.

    Greetings or expressions of agreement are not included in this definition unless they are made repeatedly without any kind of solicitation.

    Posts designed specifically to be meaningless, untranslatable, or offensive are always considered spam.

  • Flaming

    Cursing or insulting someone to start a fight is forbidden.

    The use of profanity, curses, insults, and other verbal abuse with the intent to provoke, harm someone’s feelings, or start a verbal fight is forbidden. Those starting the flame and those participating in the flame are punished equally.

  • Sexual contents

    Sexually explicit posts are forbidden.

    Posts containing sexual contents of any nature are forbidden unless made during a serious discussion on topics like politics, biology or similar serious matters (eg age of consent in different countries or the reproduction habits of animal species) or with humoristic intentions if done without falling into mere vulgarity.

  • Recruitment

    Trying to persuade players to join another region is forbidden.

  • Offense solicitation

    Soliciting or furthering illicit behaviours is forbidden.

    Any action that furthers or prompts a behaviour that violates any of the rules above (especially spam or flame) is punished as well. For example, in the case of spam, engaging with a troll or spammer in a way that furthers spam is considered a solicitation of spam and thus punished accordingly.

    Generally speaking, confronting spammers or other offenders to warn them that their behaviour is against the rules is not forbidden, but constantly answering and bickering with them is considered a violation of this rule. Report believed infractions to a regional officer with proof (like a screenshot and direct link to a post) and avoid giving more attention since, in most of the cases, attention is what they want.

Further Notes

While not being part of the most recent RMB Moderation Regulation, the following clarification of selected provisions of the Criminal Law Act 2018 (full text Linkhere) are included because of their potential impact on communication through the RMB.

  • Harassment

    Invading privacy or releasing the personal information of someone is forbidden.

    Carrying out or threatening to carry out an invasion of privacy or releasing someone’s personal information without their consent, also known as doxxing, is strictly forbidden. The definition of personal information includes name or full name, residence, address, age, nationality, sexual orientation, or any other information that someone might deem not to disclose to strangers online.

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Please remember the RMB is a public discussion forum for hundreds of people, not an instant messaging service. We have discussions and conversations here, not endless banter and spammy chats. If you want to, that sort of behaviour is more fitting in our Discord server, which can be found here: https://discord.gg/010oaU4r9QEPsjqwf

The Oriental Empire wrote:St Scarlett if I were a cat what breed would I be

Not Scarlett but you'd probably be Miette from the meme :Š

The Oriental Empire wrote:Scarlie if I were a cat what breed would I be

If you were Russian:

https://otvet.imgsmail.ru/download/16452232_147301008b8fceabe44fa74bb624acd6_800.jpg

Joshatu wrote:opinion about soviets?

While the Soviets defeated the Nazis, they also oppressed other parties and political dissidents were swiftly taken away, it was after all still a dictatorship. While it did improve the industry and that in a time where Russia was considered heavily underdeveloped in that sector, it steamrolled over many people to get there, both wealthy and poor. One of the biggest issues I can see (in my opinion) with the Soviets is the repression of nationalism, which was probably the reason for many revolts and revolutions such as the one in Hungary. They crushed every last one until 1991 when the union was dissolved, thankfully peacefully and not in a bloodbath like a certain country they had a split with early on (+ for Tito, - for the Soviets). While they propelled Russia into a height of power, they coincidentally killed millions with starvation and executions, became the red terror of the 2nd half of the 20th century, and assisted today's red terror in panda form. They were "okay", but not really okay like many other communist nations.

Libertandonien

The New Nordic Union wrote:'When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called "the People's Stick".'

Are you trying to kink-shame them? Smh 😤

Communism is when you get fired from your job and charged with treason in the world's most free country

Laver Island wrote:Communism is when you get fired from your job and charged with treason in the world's most free country

communism is when you got a death penalty from working harder than everyone else and government posters are encouraging people to work harder

Let's celebrate, because today for the first time since i started in NS i recieved a card from a European nation, and the one of the Poland-Lithuania Commonwealth no less.

Zarulia wrote:communism is when you got a death penalty from working harder than everyone else and government posters are encouraging people to work harder

Communism is when you don't own anything anymore because the party says so and what are you going to do about it.

Good day, Europe! I hope everyone's day is off to a fantastic start! I'm confident that mine is! It's time for me to check in with each and every one of you once again! Everyone, how are you doing today? I am having a great time! I'd like to pose a question to you all: What is your spirit animal, and why? A spirit animal is a teacher or messenger who appears to an individual in the guise of an animal and has a personal relationship with them. Animal guides, spirit helpers, spirit allies, power animals, and animal helpers are some of the other names for them. Throughout your life, you may have one or many spirit animals. I'd have to be either an arctic fox or a desert fox, two very distinct critters from very different corners of the planet! They're both adorably adorable! 😍 Anyway, take advantage of this lovely day while it lasts! Greetings and best wishes! ~Eco-Paris Reformation.

P.S. Good luck to everyone, including me, in the NS Tour De Anglo-Francois 2021, which is hosted by the one and only, Anglo-francios', my good buddy! Keep in mind that this is merely a fictitious race! Have a good time and be safe! May the most deserving man or woman triumph!

P.P.S. If you haven't already, please register for my Cultural Fair! It'll be a great time! I got rid of all the fancy dates and things like that! Let's have a good time, boys! Best of luck to everyone competing!

Hamyan, Anglo-francios, and Berlin and Hanover

Anglo-francios

The Champions League wrote:At last I rise up to the occasion

:)

Hamyan wrote:Wtf happened to me lmao

death and destruction

Noristoniaka wrote:It's Nori time

all the time

Einswenn wrote:i assoom you misspelled einswenn here

You assume wrong sir.

Laver Island wrote:Communism is when you get fired from your job and charged with treason in the world's most free country

Nein, communism is best...

Eco-Paris Reformation wrote:Good day, Europe! I hope everyone's day is off to a fantastic start! I'm confident that mine is! It's time for me to check in with each and every one of you once again! Everyone, how are you doing today? I am having a great time! I'd like to pose a question to you all: What is your spirit animal, and why? A spirit animal is a teacher or messenger who appears to an individual in the guise of an animal and has a personal relationship with them. Animal guides, spirit helpers, spirit allies, power animals, and animal helpers are some of the other names for them. Throughout your life, you may have one or many spirit animals. I'd have to be either an arctic fox or a desert fox, two very distinct critters from very different corners of the planet! They're both adorably adorable! 😍 Anyway, take advantage of this lovely day while it lasts! Greetings and best wishes! ~Eco-Paris Reformation.

P.S. Good luck to everyone, including me, in the NS Tour De Anglo-Francois 2021, which is hosted by the one and only, Anglo-francios', my good buddy! Keep in mind that this is merely a fictitious race! Have a good time and be safe! May the most deserving man or woman triumph!

P.P.S. If you haven't already, please register for my Cultural Fair! It'll be a great time! I got rid of all the fancy dates and things like that! Let's have a good time, boys! Best of luck to everyone competing!

Guten tag Europa! Hmmmmm, my spirit animal is my national animal. ^_^
I was joking my spirit animal would probably be an emu, they won a war against a bloody continent eh?
Annnnnnyyyways, I have really been into the word Wehrmacht, not because of its history or anything, its just fun to say. I hope you all have a great day as well! :D

I wonder what my spirit animal could possibly be... 🤔

The New Nordic Union, Laver Island, St Scarlett, Rivierenland, and 5 othersLibertandonien, Eco-Paris Reformation, New skandenivia, The new mexican confederation, and Berlin and Hanover

Anglo-francios

Eco-Paris Reformation wrote:
Good day, Europe! I hope everyone's day is off to a fantastic start! I'm confident that mine is! It's time for me to check in with each and every one of you once again! Everyone, how are you doing today? I am having a great time! I'd like to pose a question to you all: What is your spirit animal, and why? A spirit animal is a teacher or messenger who appears to an individual in the guise of an animal and has a personal relationship with them. Animal guides, spirit helpers, spirit allies, power animals, and animal helpers are some of the other names for them. Throughout your life, you may have one or many spirit animals. I'd have to be either an arctic fox or a desert fox, two very distinct critters from very different corners of the planet! They're both adorably adorable! 😍 Anyway, take advantage of this lovely day while it lasts! Greetings and best wishes! ~Eco-Paris Reformation.

P.S. Good luck to everyone, including me, in the NS Tour De Anglo-Francois 2021, which is hosted by the one and only, Anglo-francios', my good buddy! Keep in mind that this is merely a fictitious race! Have a good time and be safe! May the most deserving man or woman triumph!

P.P.S. If you haven't already, please register for my Cultural Fair! It'll be a great time! I got rid of all the fancy dates and things like that! Let's have a good time, boys! Best of luck to everyone competing!

Penguin, even though I hate anything about water...

Eco-Paris Reformation wrote:snip

honestly i dont even know

Anglo-francios wrote:snip

That seems normal to me

We, the stinky Americans, need need educational improvements! Communism and socialism are two distinct ideologies... Yet, in America, we treat them as though they are either what we want them to be or communist spies attempting to raise our taxes and expand government services! I'll explain everything in layman's terms below.

...

Communism Base Definition: Communism is a philosophical, social, political, and economic philosophy and movement with the ultimate objective of establishing a communist society, i.e. a socioeconomic order based on the ideals of common ownership of the means of production and the absence of social classes, money, and the state.

Here's the thing: real communism in its purest form has never been accomplished. The closest analogy is what would happen if a single authoritarian communist party controlled over specific countries and sought to implement such policies, but even then, they would eventually become capitalist.

Another thing: Karl Marx advocated for a class conflict that would result in a society where all property is held by the state and everyone works and is paid according to their skills and needs. He thought that this was the only way to succeed, and that he needed to work to depose western powers and install Marxist ones. He never imagined or wished for poor nations such as Russia and China to rise up and do this.

...

Socialism for Layman: Socialism is a political, social, and economic theory that encompasses a variety of economic and social systems characterized by the ownership of the means of production by the state. It encompasses the political ideologies and movements that are linked to such structures.

Hint: You can be socialist while being democratic, free, and open.

North of Americas, Hamyan, The new mexican confederation, Elania Kingdom, and 1 otherBerlin and Hanover

Laver Island wrote:Communism is when you get fired from your job and charged with treason in the world's most free country

Capitalism is when you go hungry on the streets because the business you sold hours of your life to fired you because they weren't making enough money and now you aren't making enough money, and also there's a bunch of things that run on oiilllliilllilllllllllllllll :D

Eco-Paris Reformation wrote:

Communism Base Definition: Communism is a philosophical, social, political, and economic philosophy and movement with the ultimate objective of establishing a communist society, i.e. a socioeconomic order based on the ideals of common ownership of the means of production and the absence of social classes, money, and the state.

Uhh does that say the absence of the state? I may be rephrasing it in a way it wasn't intended, but I don't think that the state was absent in communist states

Berlin and Hanover wrote:
Uhh does that say the absence of the state? I may be rephrasing it in a way it wasn't intended, but I don't think that the state was absent in communist states

In the way that humans have tried to "implement" communism, we did in fact, "abolish the state." Take that as you will. To become communists, they installed dictators. However, those dictators remained just that... Dictators!

Can you name a single 'communist' country that did not have a dictator? It just simply doesn't happen...

Marx's definition is the pure form of communism that countries adapted and evolved based on where it was "implemented." Karl Marx advocated for a class conflict that would result in a society where all property is held by the state and everyone works and is paid according to their skills and needs.

North of Americas, Hamyan, The new mexican confederation, Tank fish, and 1 otherBerlin and Hanover

Eco-Paris Reformation wrote:In the way that humans have tried to "implement" communism, we did in fact, "abolish the state." Take that as you will. To become communists, they installed dictators. However, those dictators remained just that... Dictators!

Can you name a single 'communist' country that did not have a dictator? It just simply doesn't happen...

Marx's definition is the pure form of communism that countries adapted and evolved based on where it was "implemented." Karl Marx advocated for a class conflict that would result in a society where all property is held by the state and everyone works and is paid according to their skills and needs.

Makes sense. I guess one of the purest communist states in the world would certainly be China lmao

Berlin and Hanover wrote:Makes sense. I guess one of the purest communist states in the world would certainly be China lmao

“China Is Communist in Name Only.”

Wrong. If Vladimir Lenin were reincarnated in 21st-century Beijing and managed to avert his eyes from the city’s glittering skyscrapers and conspicuous consumption, he would instantly recognize in the ruling Chinese Communist Party a replica of the system he designed nearly a century ago for the victors of the Bolshevik Revolution. One need only look at the party’s structure to see how communist — and Leninist — China’s political system remains.

Sure, China long ago dumped the core of the communist economic system, replacing rigid central planning with commercially minded state enterprises that coexist with a vigorous private sector. Yet for all their liberalization of the economy, Chinese leaders have been careful to keep control of the commanding heights of politics through the party’s grip on the “three Ps”: personnel, propaganda, and the People’s Liberation Army.

The PLA is the party’s military, not the country’s. Unlike in the West, where controversies often arise about the potential politicization of the military, in China the party is on constant guard for the opposite phenomenon, the depoliticization of the military. Their fear is straightforward: the loss of party control over the generals and their troops. In 1989, one senior general refused to march his soldiers into Beijing to clear students out of Tiananmen Square, an incident now seared into the ruling class’s collective memory. After all, the army’s crackdown on the demonstrations preserved the party’s hold on power in 1989, and its leaders have since worked hard to keep the generals on their side, should they be needed to put down protests again.

As in the Soviet Union, the party controls the media through its Propaganda Department, which issues daily directives, both formally on paper and in emails and text messages, and informally over the phone, to the media. The directives set out, often in detail, how news considered sensitive by the party — such as the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Liu Xiaobo — should be handled or whether it should be run at all.

Perhaps most importantly, the party dictates all senior personnel appointments in ministries and companies, universities and the media, through a shadowy and little-known body called the Organization Department. Through the department, the party oversees just about every significant position in every field in the country. Clearly, the Chinese remember Stalin’s dictate that the cadres decide everything.

Indeed, if you benchmark the Chinese Communist Party against a definitional checklist authored by Robert Service, the veteran historian of the Soviet Union, the similarities are remarkable. As with communism in its heyday elsewhere, the party in China has eradicated or emasculated political rivals, eliminated the autonomy of the courts and media, restricted religion and civil society, denigrated rival versions of nationhood, centralized political power, established extensive networks of security police, and dispatched dissidents to labor camps. There is a good reason why the Chinese system is often described as “market-Leninism.”

“The Party Controls All Aspects of Life in China.”

You were ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Most Inclusive

Yay! :)

North of Americas, Yahlia, The Champions League, Rivierenland, and 6 othersLibertandonien, Eco-Paris Reformation, New skandenivia, Hamyan, Zarulia, and The new mexican confederation

South St Maarten wrote:You were ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Most Inclusive

Yay! :)

Huh? When I looked on your page it says Top 6%... Are we seeing something else here?

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