Awesome/Funny NS Quotes II (Not Your Own Quotes, Please!)

[Tinhampton]

Inadvertent LOLlishness:

I will report again after today's run as that will be close to 15 issues for each puppet

I'm limited to 5 issues per puppet. Do you have a special switch that lets you get triple issues?

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On the non-existent relationship between Catholicism and fascism:

We say that Catholicism is the most exalted branch of Christianity, and that with its philosophy and spiritual action, did place the Western Civilization at its highest value, this shall be considered at all times by the Social Integralist State, as we also believe that Catholicism has enough substance to solve all the problems of individual, social, national and international life, and because in the struggle between spirit and matter, Catholicism supports and desires the superiority and victory of the spirit.

And yes, TIC is a confessional state and the VRCC is the only religious institution able to proselytize.

Victory of the spirit? Good lord, were you guys looking into the relationship between religion and philosophy or something? The matter is not important and is only relevant insofar as you use it while you have it to bring enlightenment to other humans, as you'd see if you read into the writings that Catholics put in the curriculum offered to Theology students. Go check some Plato and Aristotle, and even then that's a view that was accounted for rather than the interpreted absolute truth. The only thing that matters in Catholicism is the soul and the saving of such. Imposing a state religion that is inherently opposed to the very things that fascism engenders in people is frankly absurd.

There is nothing particularly spiritual about fascism. The fact that TIC wants to use Catholicism to add some measure of legitimacy to an ideology that espouses superiority above other men, absolute dictatorship, and suppression of any who think to dissent is absurd. Go pick something that suits fascism better - no, better yet, ditch fascism entirely and choose something that isn't tied to massive atrocities in the history of the world. Catholicism as it was intended to be has no relation to the structure of fascism. Applying the philosophical terminology that is studied by Catholics to the religion itself erroneously doesn't suddenly mean it's accurate.

Additionally, Catholicism has no association to the concept of superiority over anyone. Catholicism is intended to be something that saves every human soul from the evils in the world and brings them to Heaven in the end, not promotion of a mindset of "We are better than them" the way you stated. If you've read into Catholic studies at all, doctrines written by the Popes state quite clearly that Catholics are not superior to other religions and Catholics should respect other religions instead of looking down on them for having different interpretations of the spiritual aspect of this world.

So no, your fascism + Catholicism hybrid state is not true to the spirit of Catholicism at all.

[Tinhampton]

Meanwhile, in the English Premier League...

ole is manager of the year.

wilder made fans of 1 club happy, ole made fans of 19 clubs happy

[Barometria]

The quote is on the card!:

https://www.nationstates.net/page=deck/ ... 6/season=2

I'm entertaining offers, but the minimum is going to be a $0.60 BID, I'm pretty fond of this card so it needs to be a healthy profit margin.

[Farnhamia]

The quote is on the card!:

https://www.nationstates.net/page=deck/ ... 6/season=2

I'm entertaining offers, but the minimum is going to be a $0.60 BID, I'm pretty fond of this card so it needs to be a healthy profit margin.

Not what this thread is for. You could have just quoted the motto.

[Barometria]

My apologies, it's funnier with the picture, in my opinion. I didn't really mean to be pimping the card, I just think the whole thing altogether is really funny. I'll not post any card links again.

[Crysuko]

Not my fault you came up with a metaphor that could be easily broken down by even mentioning inferior technology.

You're quite fascinated with my finger

[Tinhampton]

Assorted awesomesauce from LD:

Fresh meat for the gri- I mean... Welcome to the team! Yeah, that. Going into a super contentious US presidential election year. Should be a breeze, right?

... right?

I'm scared.

Ban all discussion about or related to the US. I guarantee this will cut down on the possible rulebreaking

What the hell is a love dodecahedron?

Generally, where the romantic/sexual relationships in a given work are so vastly complicated you need rather complicated graphs to figure it out.

[Yohannes]

While I did drop in a topic in Moderation to drag this back to a GP discussion, so it doesn't stray to NSG, I'm gonna try to re-align it myself. I know, this is very off-color from my usual shitposting.

From a GP perspective, the OP's question could take two directions:

1. Is it morally okay to R/D Defend Fascist Regions?

2. Is it morally okay to generally defend Fascists from the constant R/D strikes they're taking from the R/D community?

There's some really straw-clutching posts I'd like to address in this thread, but they're more tinted in NSG than GP so I'll avoid that. Instead I'll answer the above two lines of questioning.

1. From a GP and R/D perspective, moralism is grounded in the logic that regions who have done nothing to earn the harm raiders bring to them don't deserve that and that those who are defender-aligned have a moral obligation to defend those who are unable to defend themselves. This argument falls apart when it comes to Fascist regions in a couple places, which I'll attempt to detail as best as I can.

• The vast majority of "active" fascist regions engage in raider activity. Per most moral R/D arguments, those who choose to go out and destroy regions lose any moral argument that could be made towards defending them. Not only do they then theoretically have a military, albeit usually a very incompetent one, to defend themselves with, but they chose to use that military to hurt other regions. It's one of those "You reap what you sow" situations. Even if you discard all the specific fascist ideology parts, those of us on the Defender side of things do not come to the aid of those who destroy regions when they themselves are troubled. It goes further though. The four largest defender military groups at the moment are The Grey Wardens, TITO, SPSF, and RRA. Of those, TITO and TGW have specific provisions detailing a lack of any defensive effort towards raider regions, and in fact will often-times invade founderless raider regions themselves. SPSF has specific provisions that basically enables them to perform as many anti-Fascist operations as they want. RRA is purely defender, but similarly does not raise a single finger to defend non-treatied UCR regions which engage in raid-oriented activities.
  
  While you could definitely make a convoluted moral argument that everyone is worth of being defended, that simply isn't the case in reality. The ultimate end-game goal for Defenders is to reduce the amount of raiding that is occurring, and it would be significantly counter-intuitive for us to defend regions which would then turn around and go back to destroying other regions.
  
  
  
• On top of that, if you want to involve yourself in an R/D Defense of Fascist regions, you also quickly lose all military cooperation opportunities that aren't fascists. Defenders work as one collective faction, and we simply don't allow fascist collaborators into our ranks both our of our own objections to it and due to the fact that cooperation with the unaligned military groups (TEP, TNP, NPO, etc) is far more important to us than harboring people who can't seem to learn who's on the R/D No Fly List. If you look at Raiders, there's really only one major non-GCR power (TBH), and they're of a similiar opinion because they'd lose TEP, TNP, TWP, etc if they started working with fascists. Even if you just want to go to a pure "Well we want to work with anyone who's willing to work with us" argument, you simply lose more than you gain from collaboration with fascist regions.

2. That depends on where you draw the line, I guess. The fact of the matter is, those fascist communities typically become founderless because their founders break the rules and get their nations deleted. I would have a lot less trophy regions in my possession if they knew how to follow the game rules, as would many other players. Anyways, say you either have no idea or how to R/D or simply don't want to, but are still frustrated that the fascists are getting "unfairly targeted" and want to complain about it. Cool. I would argue you still have no moral high ground to stand on, simply based on the fact of who you're defending. Even if you go completely IC, you are dealing with a subset of regions who consistently have trouble with Moderation, who consistently invade and destroy other regions, and who consistently attempt subversive efforts against the rest of the wider GP community. If you personally think that those people still deserve defending, then you're a lot more idealistic than me or likely aligned with them, but it's your choice I guess.

Personally, I think regions who choose to harm and destroy other regions lose the moral argument for their own protection, and fortunately that is an opinion shared by most of mainstream GP.

Furthermore, that individuals need to realize that coming to the defense of fascist regions can and should be marked down as collaboration with fascists, and will be treated as such.

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Finally, I want to address a specific point raised by the OP. "

I don't like the SC being used to wage ideological warfare."

That's fine, but please realize that the SC has been used to wage ideological warfare for years before your nation even founded, and will continue to be used so. You can huff and puff all the hot air you want, but when it comes to a realist approach to the situation, you've got fuck all you can really accomplish. The Anti-Fascist SC voting bloc is pretty massive, because no relevant, major region is going to be caught dead voting in support of fascists.

Gameplay Forum post! I tried to be neutral—that is, I neither agree nor disagree with Tim-Opolis.

[Tinhampton]

Meanwhile, in the General Assembly...

OOC: So are you the OP? Because the thing is and remains a joke proposal as long as it has "dog talk" in it.

1/6 of GenSec not agree. 1/6 of GenSec appreciate IC stuff. 1/6 of GenSec enjoy membership diversity. 1/6 of GenSec think this attitude BAD!!! 1/6 of GenSec think OP very good boy!

1/6 of GenSec love agenda, "Make Legislation Funny Again!"

[Andsed]

Just this whole quote chain:

Sometimes I think it would be easier if I were born a cis female in a female body or a straight guy.

Like sure I reckon relationships aren't easy to get into for most people, but not being limited to a very tiny percentage of the population would be nice.

Just use a deceptive stratagem to lure your enemy into an ambush or trap. What I like to do is hide infantry behind a hill and put archers on the crest of the hill to lure the cavalry of my prospective mate onto my pikes, thus proving my worth.

Just use a deceptive stratagem to lure your enemy into an ambush or trap. What I like to do is hide infantry behind a hill and put archers on the crest of the hill to lure the cavalry of my prospective mate onto my pikes, thus proving my worth.

Tried that, but he got mad at me for killing his dog. What do?

Tried that, but he got mad at me for killing his dog. What do?

After consulting the Thirty-Six stratagems, you should ravage his countryside instead of laying siege to him.

After consulting the Thirty-Six stratagems, you should ravage his countryside instead of laying siege to him.

Oh, I'd definitely ravage his countryside, if you know what I mean

Oh, I'd definitely ravage his countryside, if you know what I mean

Yes. With his countryside ravaged, he will have to come out of the closetcastle and face you nakedopenly in bedbattle.

Yes. With his countryside ravaged, he will have to come out of the closetcastle and face you nakedopenly in bedbattle.

Although I shall bravely go into battle with no armor, he shan't be fooled, as I will utilize the weapons at my disposal to their fullest potential. Of course, he must notify me when he is about to come to our meeting site so I can have time to prepare, as this is the way of the honorable dueler. I suggest that we spar at the time of the cock's cry.

I really should be dissecting cockroaches right now, this is definitely not a productive use of my time

[Heloin]

Hot take: the diameter of an astral body must be less than 2000 km for it to be considered a planet

I'm a planet! I knew it! *orbits ecstatically*

[Crysuko]

Billy Ray Cyrus - Achy Breaky Ethnostate

A summary of Nazi Germany in 3 words

[An Alan Smithee Nation]

If they're calling for a second civil war, shouldn't it be called Boogaloo 2: Electric Boogaloo?

[Tinhampton]

you forgot park ji-sung in a conversation about great asian footballers but magically remembered son heung-min? o-k

this is why stanning just 1 footballer instead of supporting a team is weird

[-Astoria]

I want this to happen irl, let's see who a Roomba votes for in an election

If a roomba were to be sentient, they wouldn't vote. They would slowly crawl and consume the owners who used them as vacuums and estabilish the first Roomba order, which will then become the First Egregious Roomba Empire, commanded by King Room Bah the 1st, ruler of Dyson and Ariston.
/skipskip

[Tinhampton]

Can someone explain what a humane weapon is anyway?

A gun that shoots a bullet which gently tickles you until you surrender or 10 minutes go by, at which point it kills you instantly and with no pain.

[Nakena]

Lmao WHO is a corrupt mess

Who is?

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I've lost faith in the general populace when it comes to coffee consumption. I work in the coffee industry (as a barista) and the amount of sugar I've seen myself put into beverages should probably be classified as poison. I swear I've given hundreds of people a drink that could probably give both type 1 and 2 diabetes just from the taste alone. No one wants that bitter taste anymore, I essentially make desert drinks with a coffee hue.

a tragedy has befallen across mankind.

[Valentine Z]

It wasn't slightly faithful.

There was a skull. That's close enough.

Argument on whether Hamlet in Africa is faithful or not.

[Gormwood]

The only solution to this is a Mary Poppins remake with Mary Poppins played by Michael Rooker.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rezm7AJYEdw

"You'll take the medicine as it is... and you will like it."

"You listen to me, boy. Your gonna take this medicine and lick that spoon clean or I'm gonna shove it right up your ass and parade you around like a Popsicle, you hear me, boy? I ain't got time to mess around with no mambe pambe sissy boy that can't take his damn medicine. And what are the rest of you looking at? You think a bunch of cartoon animals and magic fairies gonna clean this room? Am I gonna have to take the back a' my hand to the lot of you?"

[Tinhampton]

IA on how (not) to format the operative clauses of WA proposals - TL;WR: Noting instead of Noting...

Do you remember Thunderhead? November 15 of '58! All was well, another day saved, when...his bolding snagged on a missile fin! Stratogale! April 23, '57! Bolding caught in a jet turbine! Meta Man, express elevator! Dynaguy, snag on takeoff! Splashdown, sucked into a vortex! NO BOLDING!

[Gormwood]

If democrats are scrambeling to grasp for hillary voters and other states they are fucking desperate

Desperate? 2.9 million more people voted for her than voted for Trump. It was just 77,000 in those three states that tipped it to him. Not campaigning in those states in the last week of the campaign was a mistake. Do you also think his inauguration crowd was bigger than any in history?

Desperate? 2.9 million more people voted for her than voted for Trump. It was just 77,000 in those three states that tipped it to him. Not campaigning in those states in the last week of the campaign was a mistake. Do you also think his inauguration crowd was bigger than any in history?

Nothing a little creative Bob Rossing with a Sharpie can't fix.

Nothing a little creative Bob Rossing with a Sharpie can't fix.

"And over here, some happy little people cheering for Trump. You can put in as many as you like."

[Farnhamia]

IA on how (not) to format the operative clauses of WA proposals - TL;WR: Noting instead of Noting...

Do you remember Thunderhead? November 15 of '58! All was well, another day saved, when...his bolding snagged on a missile fin! Stratogale! April 23, '57! Bolding caught in a jet turbine! Meta Man, express elevator! Dynaguy, snag on takeoff! Splashdown, sucked into a vortex! NO BOLDING!

Much ado about ...

[Tinhampton]

Awesome + educational value:

Under true communism, China was alot worse.

When was China ever a stateless, moneyless, classless society?

[United Muscovite Nations]

So do you really think starvation and oppression under the Kim regime are really better then the freedom, prosperity, and culture of South Korea?

I do not think, and nobody who is serious, is making such plastic claims like "this type of regime is better in the vacuum than this type of regime."

Listen:

North Korea and South Korea are the same country: Korea. They are populated by the same people, Koreans, who speak the same language, Korean, and both lay just and lawful claim over the entire Korean peninsula.

Korea was divided because of the USSR and the United States, not because the people of Korea decided to live in two countries across a militarised border. At the time that North Korea invaded South Korea, South Korea was terrorising its own people and especially its own left-wing population, so of course North Korea invaded it. North Korea also has a lawful claim on South Korea, and South Korea has a lawful claim on North Korea because they are both populated by Koreans. This was a matter for the Korean people, but as a consequence of the global context it became a matter for USSR and China vs USA.

Nobody can deny South Korea is richer than North Korea. On the other hand, this was not always true, and South Korea was allowed (1) to bend the rules of international trade, which gave effect to the Miracle on the Han, and (2) to afterwards participate in the global economic environment in a way that North Korea simply was not. North Korea saw good development under Soviet supervision but after late 80s onwards it began to become really bad. Being closed off to the rest of the world has not helped.

We are not saying that South Korea's system should be substituted for North Korea's. We are saying that the matter of Korean nationhood should be settled by Koreans, not by Americans. We are saying also that your concern for "human rights" in North Korea is a plastic concern and an excuse for imposing US policy on North Korea, which is blatantly true because countries with human rights concerns blatantly get away with it if their country follows US policy, and the US installs violent dictatorships, so long as they support US policy.

[Tinhampton]

How do I increase my population?

When a Mama citizen and a Papa citizen love each other very much ...