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We Are Not The ATF
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Postby We Are Not The ATF » Wed Jul 15, 2015 8:53 pm

The Kiss Master wrote:
We Are Not The ATF wrote:If this was happening in any other region, nobody would try to stop a refound. In my experience, the WA usually helps the natives refound after their region is liberated.


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We Are Not The ATF wrote:If this is the case, then this is possibly the most immature use of the World Assembly that I have ever seen.


See above

So basically your entire argument is "TBR are Nazis". I've read Liberate Nazi Europe, and it is not at all like this proposal. Nazi Europe was targeted on the basis that it represented hatred and that it was " a stronghold dedicated to abhorrence". They were screwed with because they actually spread real life hatred and promoted an ideology that is actually evil.

I love how out of all the arguments that have been given in this thread, you chose to respond to the least important out of all of them. You responded to 6 out of 14 comments, ignoring what most of them actually said, and 2 of those comments you only responded to so you could continue to be evasive as to your identity.

Curious. I seem to remember you championing the cause to liberate NE. Its all good and well when a region starts affecting GCR's, that they can use the SC for their purpose. I guess it is a different thing when us little guys are continually having our region raided over and over. We should just go it on our own?

I think that it is absolutely laughable that you think what you are doing is the same as Liberate Nazi Europe, seeing as they are not the same at all. I also think it should be noticed that Liberate Nazi Europe was later repealed on the basis that "every region should hold the right to self-protection".
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We Are Not The ATF wrote:I love how even after its death the SC is still biased against TBR. If this was happening in any other region, nobody would try to stop a refound. In my experience, the WA usually helps the natives refound after their region is liberated.

My favorite part of this is that I'll probably be the only one who asks the standard liberation question: does it have native support?

To the honourable envoy from the nation of We Are Not the ATF:
The Security Council is biased againist groups or organizations which malicously and continually attack defenceless regions. The World Assembly represents the views of the majority and therefore it is no suprise that raiders are frequently condemned by this body.

Mrs Lisa Bridge,
Luxdonian Special Envoy to the Security Council

No region is defenseless. There are non-executive delegacies, active founders, and passwords available to every region, unless they fail to keep hold of those defenses. I also feel that you should understand the difference between condemning a region and purposely disrupting its attempts at a refound. At one point back when I was trying to commend TBR, someone suggested that instead I try to repeal the condemnation. I responded saying that I believe that TBR deserves its condemnation, not because it is a "badge of honor" but because raiding is an offense worthy of condemnation, and I still hold that belief. However, I don't believe in using the SC as a weapon with which to attack a region that has already been defeated. Like it or not, the Black Riders is gone, yet in spite of this the majority of the NationStates community continues to beat its corpse even as it decomposes. Why don't you do the smart thing and shift your focus towards actual enemies actually capable of doing actual harm to you. In case you haven't noticed, DEN isn't even deployed in TBR, meaning that it's free to begin another occupation while the rest of the world can't take the time to notice what they, the ex-Black Riders as they have been called, are preparing to do.
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Postby Mousebumples » Wed Jul 15, 2015 8:56 pm

Europeia is firmly opposed to this nonsense. I look forward to using my 340+ votes to vote against this when it reaches a vote in a few minutes, in accordance with the vote on our regional off-site forum.

(For those who may be curious, current voting tally is running 0-15 against.)

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Postby Harenhime » Wed Jul 15, 2015 9:18 pm

Hehehe I just noticed if I edit my pretitles, they change on the proposal too ^u^

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Postby The Stalker » Wed Jul 15, 2015 10:14 pm

Wow, i'm rather shocked this isn't passing. I don't necessarily agree with the wording of the resolution, but it's function is more than appropriate.

Lots of talk about double standards, but the biggest double standard I see is the group who tormented tons of natives over NS and stolen countless homelands, gets to have their homeland back. Just wow.

There is a classy way of raiding, such as TBH's style, then their is The Black Riders who took raiding to it's worse possible extreme. (I'm reserving my judgement on DEN)

Sitting on Anarchy for six months isn't classy, nor was sitting on Atheist Empire for 4 months, or the other boring months long destructive occupations they pulled.

Stealing people's homeland on the refound isn't classy. Hippiedom, Eastern Europe, straight taken when the communities tried to refound. I mean damn Hippiedom wasn't even raided by TBR, they just stole it out of spite because they could.

As individuals a lot of former Black Riders are cool dudes, but as a collective some twisted mob mentality takes over. TBR are the worse least-classy kind of raiders, their homeland should be warzone, like Christmas is.

I seriously hope someone writes another liberation and words it in a way that it can't manipulate people into voting against the logical interest of every NS native the way this one has.

Only way i'd ever approve of TBR getting their homeland back is if they give back all the regions they stole. Gives us our homelands, then i'd think you'd have right to yours. Rebranding them as Den victories is both a lie and pathetic.

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Postby New Grestin » Wed Jul 15, 2015 10:19 pm

This has been out for, what, an hour?

It's already got more than a thousand votes against. Shocking.

Maybe if TBR hadn't burned every bridge they'd come across, we wouldn't have to shoot down a TBR related proposal every other week.
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Postby Topid » Wed Jul 15, 2015 10:23 pm

New Grestin wrote:This has been out for, what, an hour?

It's already got more than a thousand votes against. Shocking.

Maybe if TBR hadn't burned every bridge they'd come across, we wouldn't have to shoot down a TBR related proposal every other week.

You've got it backwards, they have their region back. They want to refound it so they go back to bothering everyone.
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Postby New Grestin » Wed Jul 15, 2015 10:29 pm

Topid wrote:
New Grestin wrote:This has been out for, what, an hour?

It's already got more than a thousand votes against. Shocking.

Maybe if TBR hadn't burned every bridge they'd come across, we wouldn't have to shoot down a TBR related proposal every other week.

You've got it backwards, they have their region back. They want to refound it so they go back to bothering everyone.

I'm aware of that now. Thanks.

In that case, switching my vote back to a "for".

This better not blow up in my face.
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Postby Ainocra » Wed Jul 15, 2015 10:45 pm

This seems like nothing more than an attempt to keep the region from being refounded by the native raiders.
We see no reason to support this.
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Postby The Stalker » Wed Jul 15, 2015 10:58 pm

Ainocra wrote:This seems like nothing more than an attempt to keep the region from being refounded by the native raiders.
We see no reason to support this.


My question is this, if these natives currently hold countless of other people's regions they stole, why do they get theirs back and everyone else doesn't?

How's that fair? How is that logical?

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Kalimshan
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Postby Kalimshan » Wed Jul 15, 2015 11:15 pm

TBR have reaped what they've sown. This is yet another attempt to ask for help and then attack another region and its nations whilst playing the "it's part of the game" card. TBR should not be "liberated".

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Postby Subterranea Palace » Wed Jul 15, 2015 11:21 pm

why should we support some region that would backstab at any moment?
they should win the support of the WA, not beg for it.

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Postby Kalimshan » Wed Jul 15, 2015 11:29 pm

I clearly misread the proposal, my thanks to The Stalker for clarifying the issue.

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Postby SirZane » Wed Jul 15, 2015 11:37 pm

I voted against the resolution.

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Postby The Union of Klotecnia » Wed Jul 15, 2015 11:37 pm

Thumbs up. I will vote 'for' your proposal.

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Postby -Larry- (Ancient) » Wed Jul 15, 2015 11:43 pm

Summary of this proposal...
TBR was mean.
We had a peaceful region there
TBR took it back
SC fight for us!

I'm pretty sure Sanctum will be voting against (129 delegate endorsements)

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Postby Amuaplye » Wed Jul 15, 2015 11:54 pm

"To me, this will provide peace through all regions." "They will not have to fear being raided by then."
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Postby Ikania » Wed Jul 15, 2015 11:58 pm

The Stalker wrote:Wow, i'm rather shocked this isn't passing. I don't necessarily agree with the wording of the resolution, but it's function is more than appropriate.

Lots of talk about double standards, but the biggest double standard I see is the group who tormented tons of natives over NS and stolen countless homelands, gets to have their homeland back. Just wow.

There is a classy way of raiding, such as TBH's style, then their is The Black Riders who took raiding to it's worse possible extreme. (I'm reserving my judgement on DEN)

Sitting on Anarchy for six months isn't classy, nor was sitting on Atheist Empire for 4 months, or the other boring months long destructive occupations they pulled.

Stealing people's homeland on the refound isn't classy. Hippiedom, Eastern Europe, straight taken when the communities tried to refound. I mean damn Hippiedom wasn't even raided by TBR, they just stole it out of spite because they could.

As individuals a lot of former Black Riders are cool dudes, but as a collective some twisted mob mentality takes over. TBR are the worse least-classy kind of raiders, their homeland should be warzone, like Christmas is.

I seriously hope someone writes another liberation and words it in a way that it can't manipulate people into voting against the logical interest of every NS native the way this one has.

Only way i'd ever approve of TBR getting their homeland back is if they give back all the regions they stole. Gives us our homelands, then i'd think you'd have right to yours. Rebranding them as Den victories is both a lie and pathetic.

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Too lazy to make an argument, too tired. TBR shouldn't be given their region back after all the harm they've caused. It's not a double standard to punish raiders for their malice and destruction.
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Postby Mundiferrum » Thu Jul 16, 2015 1:18 am

The Stalker wrote:Wow, i'm rather shocked this isn't passing. I don't necessarily agree with the wording of the resolution, but it's function is more than appropriate.

Lots of talk about double standards, but the biggest double standard I see is the group who tormented tons of natives over NS and stolen countless homelands, gets to have their homeland back. Just wow.

There is a classy way of raiding, such as TBH's style, then their is The Black Riders who took raiding to it's worse possible extreme. (I'm reserving my judgement on DEN)

Sitting on Anarchy for six months isn't classy, nor was sitting on Atheist Empire for 4 months, or the other boring months long destructive occupations they pulled.

Stealing people's homeland on the refound isn't classy. Hippiedom, Eastern Europe, straight taken when the communities tried to refound. I mean damn Hippiedom wasn't even raided by TBR, they just stole it out of spite because they could.

As individuals a lot of former Black Riders are cool dudes, but as a collective some twisted mob mentality takes over. TBR are the worse least-classy kind of raiders, their homeland should be warzone, like Christmas is.

I seriously hope someone writes another liberation and words it in a way that it can't manipulate people into voting against the logical interest of every NS native the way this one has.

Only way i'd ever approve of TBR getting their homeland back is if they give back all the regions they stole. Gives us our homelands, then i'd think you'd have right to yours. Rebranding them as Den victories is both a lie and pathetic.

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Double standard? Listen't what yer saying!

Well--if we give their homeland away, then what? They're still gonna raid and pillage like crazy, no stopping that. Best to actually keep our current standards of, well, generally giving back homelands to those who own them via liberations -- at least then we can say that we commit ourselves to giving back homelands and such, even if it's to nasty people. You know, not tarnish the entire purpose of liberations, not weaponize them or anything. They may have caused the creation of all those other liberations, but passing this only means opening the door some more on using liberations to attack regions (I mean, maybe now it's for "nasty" people, but really, there's not a real good definition of "nasty" anyway: look at "Liberate Nazi Europe", and its subsequent repeal). They've already a condemn and the general loathing of this assembly anyway.

Obviously, we're voting against.
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Postby Chuck Norris Island » Thu Jul 16, 2015 3:39 am

Against.

Not giving any reasons, the Proposal never merited discussion in the first place.

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Postby King Nephmir II » Thu Jul 16, 2015 3:51 am

Pathetic. This proposal had no purpose other than to be an annoyance, I am glad to see it struck down with the margin it deserves.

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Postby Shadows Song » Thu Jul 16, 2015 4:32 am

Against this rubbish!

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Postby The LBP Union » Thu Jul 16, 2015 4:40 am

While liberating TBR may not seem like an ideal answer, and will of course result in some strife, it is a much better solution than having TBR once again be an icon for raiding. If TBR isn't a raider region, there will be less raiders.

Sometimes the long term solution may hurt along the way but it is worth it. As one would say,

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It's quite a dissapointment to many to see the initial voting numbers but I encourage the rest of the WA to not use numbers to blur their judgement.
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Postby The Stalker » Thu Jul 16, 2015 4:50 am

Mundiferrum, I believe the SC is about balancing the books. Condemning the wicked, applauding the accomplished, and aiding the victimized.

Not aiding the wicked and marginalizing the victimized. Saying everyone should always get there region back defeats the purpose of the entire thing.

Because the people your giving their homeland back to, won't give you yours back if they had it.
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Postby Mundiferrum » Thu Jul 16, 2015 4:57 am

The Stalker wrote:Mundiferrum, I believe the SC is about balancing the books. Condemning the wicked, applauding the accomplished, and aiding the victimized.

Not aiding the wicked and marginalizing the victimized. Saying everyone should always get there region back defeats the purpose of the entire thing.

Because the people your giving their homeland back to, won't give you yours back if they had it.

That's where condemnations come in.

So what if they're "wicked"? Passing this would mean setting the precedent (again) of using lies and deceit to legitimize the liberation as a tool against a region's natives, as a weapon, which simply should not stand. If they're really that hated, then condemn them (again), fight against them, or even just plainly ignore them, but don't dishonor your standards, don't destroy what tools you use against them for some petty little hit. And again, if TBR is invaded, so what? Will that, in any way, stop the raiding, or really hurt them? At least not supporting the liberation will keep the essential nature of a liberation.

That is, by hampering the wicked here, you're essentially breaking the tool you're using to fight the wicked, or blurring the whole idea of wickedness. Blablabla moral argument, though I don't really see the R/D game as a morals thing.
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Postby The Stalker » Thu Jul 16, 2015 5:12 am

Like I said, I believe it's about balancing the books.

The Liberation function has always been a weapon against raiders, and that's what this resolution does, it's using the liberation function as a weapon against raiders.

By not using the liberation function against raiders you basically are approving of them taking people's regions without penalty. Not using the only tool the collective victimized natives of NS has against raiders.
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