Quotes of People in Your Nation Mk. V

[The Yorkshire Commonwealth]

Out of nothing but curiosity what exactly is the evidence for her father getting her the placing? Even if that is true, she certainly had credentials of her own. Also I'm fairly sure Michael Foot was working for a newspaper at the time.

He was a journalist at the time, he tried to join the army at the beginning of the war, but his asthma prevented him, so he stayed in Blighty and joined the home guard, he was never a full-time soldier, but he was in a part of the home guard called 'The Rascalls,' who were trained as I said, as guerrila warriors to, in the case of a Nazi invasion, disolve in to the hills, and ready themselves in hiding, to amongst other things, murder the puppet leader. Michael Foot, a mild-mannered man who was so old it seems like he probably met Noah, quite candidly said that if The Nazis had put Lord Halifax or whoever it would be, in charge, he was prepared to kill him.
As for Mr Roberts, Nah I'm just screwing around, she got a scholarship so fair fucks to her, it's the exceptional that make it to number ten, even if they dont do great once they're there. Brown's academia points to that, yet as incredible as that is for a woman in that particular decade, a woman with parents of 'the right sort,' who were active in politics and the church would be ahead of the rest.

[Las Palmeras]

"This place is increasingly just Bereia and its inbred siblings, varyingly sadistic communists, leftists with all the tact of a drunken teenager, sparkly ponies interacting with lizard-cat-things, and bleak dystopian futures."

"When was it ever anything else?"
- C.M Tagliaferro and Josu Inaki, in conversation

"Sadism cannot exist without masochism, it's a basic rule for non-psychopaths...that and I suppose the 300 Year-Plan really does intend to make capitalism obsolete with capitalism.

How does that work?

'Bettering the means of production by making them too accessible to be commercial in a grand scale'. Says so in the constitution, that's why we're de-jure socialists wanting to be communist by currently being capitalist.

Are you admitting we are sadomasochists or 'communists'?"
-No Name and Sefirot

[The Yorkshire Commonwealth]

"There are three tiers of educators, they are, in radically increasing value and decreasing quantity: Those who show you what to think. Those who show you how to think. And those who show you how to be people, who think."

-Minister for Education and former Sixth Form history teacher, Rory Reeves-Finnemore

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"My first act was to gather nine economists who I trusted and respected, these were the Marxist Steve Harper, the Behaviouralist Pam Shiraz, Classical-economist Jay Moony, Neo-classical-economist Tina Monsoon, the Austrian Economist Billy Monsoon, the Developmentalist Christine D'Merren, the Institutionalist Hannah-Marie Hawkthorne, the Keynesian Jaime Perez and the Champêtrean Tak Shing Tang. I gave them the address of a large cottage in the countryside, that was to be well stocked with wine, food, dope and notepads. I told them that in a week they were to come up with a consensus on what our immediate actions were to be, and I would reimburse them handsomely for their time.
Despite the fact that Radical Feminism is not a school of economics, it should come as no surprise that self-declared Radfem Melanie Hoover insisted that if she were not included then I was a 'manocentric misogynist.' I explained to Ms Hoover that she was not an economist, that I was not a man, that only two of my economists were men, that only four were, as far as I know male, and that two of them were as accomplished if not more accomplished as gender-equalist writers than as economists, but this fell on deaf ears attached to a very shouty mouth. So I gave up and told her that she could come to the meeting, I gave her the address of a building which didn't exist and told her that at a previous meeting there Ralph Buckhouse, an aging historian with slightly historical views on women who I knew she detested, had embarrassingly failed to find the place. She laughed at this and I gave her my phone number to use if she too got lost and needed directions.
It should equally come as no surprise that while she obviously didn't find the non-existent address, she was not willing to call me for directions, and I didn't hear from her since.
Throughout the week I received texts from the nine economists along the lines of: 'Why have you put me in here with [BLANK] ze's an idiot and a total cunt.' And I heard from the staff who were there to keep the wine flowing that there was the occasional scuffle... Admittedly it was the slapping and hair-pulling scuffle that academical types have, so there were no broken bones... Anyway, at the end of the week I went there and asked them what they had achieved. They told me they had failed to achieve much, and handed me a single notepad containing what little they had all managed to agree on, I collected this, and then raided the wastebaskets for the several dozen notepads crammed full of ideas that had convinced seven or eight of them, but had fallen just short of consensus by being contested by one or two economists, and it is from these that our post-crisis economic policy was forged and why you and me still have an economy to stand on sonny-jim... Oh, and finally, it should come as no surprise whatsoever that by the end of the week the nine economists were not using all nine of the beds, if you catch my drift... Passion is passion after all, rage and lust are only degrees apart."

-Minister for Business and The Economy, Dee Silph, on the post-2008 recovery.

[Allancia]

"Attention citizens of the Groß Allanzireich. As of 3:00 PM tomorrow, 2 and a half million members of the Primary Army shall be retired to the Reserve Army. This shall include ships, artillery, tanks and airplanes. But most importantly, troops that which have served our glorious nation for years.
Fenzengruß, the State Military Sector."

-Television broadcast on October 12th, 1976, marking the end of the final Allanzi-Mandorian War

[Estainia]

"How does the immortal watch us age? But with a longing sorrow as we fade, and they remain." - Morgan Isgar

[Bereia]

"If you make a study of history you will note that the sudden explosions of wealth which occur periodically in the world tend to coincide with increases in personal rights and liberties, including the liberty to expend one's own energy, skills and knowledge for personal profit."

-- Julissa Hickman, Citizen.

[Greater Mackonia]

"Thank God for East Asia! Showing western ideologues Economic Success has jack shit to do with Democracy! May as well throw in Prussia and even Modern Russia as well."

-Tseila Kathangi, Seventh Sector.

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"Distrust most of all those who try to tell you what sort of person to be."

-Z.Maglos.

[Bereia]

"As a boy I was always told to respect my mother, as she had brought me into the world and given me life. This made sense to me. Now, if a man owes that much respect to his mother, who gave him life, how much more does he owe to God, who gave life to all the world?"

-- Senator Stanton Raschke.

[Las Palmeras]

"A Marxist , a 'Behaviouralist', a Classical-economist, a Neo-classical one, an Austrian 'economist', a Developmentalist, an Institutionalist , a Keynesian Jaime Pere and the Champêtrean? Outrage! How wasn't one of our Econometrics experts invited?!

Because the cottage would have been full of liquid Carbon Dioxide cooling and computers...and because the expert would have tried to strangle the Austrian one with electrical wiring or the Marxist, at least once in their stay. That or the expert would have stayed locked up in a room, not actually wanting to interact with other people or trying to use the Behavioralist to more-or-less measure actions."
-No Name

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" It's true...'mankind is weak, P-fishing and other things sprout up, some parallels are useless due to social and historical circumstances that are not repeatable, human actions can be generalized but not computed or measured successfully, the mathematical models tend to be rigid and even if incorporating 'micro' scales also tend to have an awkward inarticulate language and also reports false positives more than usual when not real-time. There are painstaking chunks on ifs-ands-or buts when Game Theory speculation is used with economic thought to delete or include variables prone to analyst bias...but the Austrian economists are philosophers and wannabe power holders masquerading as economists. And at least we haven't proposed selling children in the free market.' That's what a Palmeran number-cruncher would say."
-The Office Lady

[Auroya]

"You should not need a diety to think you have rights. If we cannot make rights solely out of our capability for reason and our compassion for one another, without thinking that it can only mean anything if it is ratified by something greater than us, what does that say about our entire species?"

--- Evangeline Monty

[Wisconsin9]

The idea that we make these grand 'Universal Declarations of Whatever Rights' out of some sense of compassion or nobility, or because we believe them to truly be universal... they're nice thoughts, which is why we tell ourselves that that's the reason, but really it's just because we don't want other people fucking around with us. You don't take away my rights, because if you do and then I get a position of power down the line I'll probably end up abusing it to fuck you over.—LittleBoyBlue, forumgoer.

[Gajra]

“Rights do not exist. They are mere psychological fabrications of the human mind to enable any man to do what he wants within societal boundaries of ‘law’. Humanity's sole right is to orchestrate the creation of more empty rights to further the evolution of humanity’s societal breakdown into an abyss of unrestrained progressiveness; for technological progression to the humans means more time for compassion, as they say. The basis of rights is founded upon the ability to act upon desires that another man would regularly shun and perceive as socially unneeded to further civilization, such as the retched homosexual-isms. No, rights are what makes Man a slave to it’s own self.

Humanity's only right is to lie to one another for the greater evil of deception through civilization and pseudo-compassion.”

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— Vijay J. M. Suraj, nihilist.

[Las Palmeras]

"Yes...the uncompromising 'Revisionist'-hating Marxists and closet-case Reds have their run-ins with the new Palmeran economic fad and the experts that are in the spotlight. Probably as much as with the Austrians, equally for being 'economic theology' and a 'pudding of witty phrases with no substance meant to invoke emotional value and Deterministic philosophy closer to basing political goals'. Alfredo Jímenez also called K. Marx, a 'Patron Saint for atheist Reds who want miracles' and deemed them as 'obtuse and inflexible'.

It's really bad news when a robot says you're a robot."
-The Office Lady, continuing

[Greater Mackonia]

_{"With the demise of ideology and the sickening spectre of idiots everywhere proclaiming liberal democracy as the End of History, ethics swiftly degraded to what? To 'common human decency', to 'compassion', 'happiness', happiness is the ideology of the present. But what is the 'ethics of compassion', it is fundamentally an appeal to animals, to man's lowliest and irrational instincts which level any degree of individualism and talent he possess, a yearning desire to reduce all to aspects of our pity and wallow in our intervention therein."}

-Lauriem Excahvir.

[Gajra]

“The problem with Denominational Christianity is not it’s dogmatic doctrine, no; it is the controversy between itself. Denominations such as Calvinism say that most of humanity has already been doomed to an eternity in hell-fire, while more liberal denominations such as Christian Universalism believe that all human beings will ultimately be restored to a right relationship with God in Heaven. These schisms in dogma and doctrine, these false prophets of Christ from all of the spectrum of the polities, and the mass surge of atheism that plagues this world, actually proves the validity of the Word of Christ.

Let us observe Matthew 24: 3 - 5, and 10 - 11.

‘Tell us,’ they said, ‘when will this happen, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?’

Jesus answered, ‘Watch out that no one deceives you, for many will come in my name,.. At that time many will turn away from the faith... and many false prophets will appear and deceive many people.’ ”

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— Indrajit J. S. Aravinda, a "Non-Denominational" Gajran pastor, in Maro to his flock.

[Sekuo]

There is no deity and no rights to begin with. Humans are simply creative animals, and rights or god given ones or what not? It's all constructed for the benefit of humanity. Calling upon a deity is easier to establish those particular rights in a deeply religious nation, as is using well worded utilitarian rhetoric in a non-theistic nation. However I may add that it is more common for those to call upon a higher power when discussing rights, even if the rhetoric is secular in nature... it still has some basis in theology.

However, it is in the end fundamentally better for everyone to have some form of liberty and respect for their existence. It increases their ability to improve their well being and their happiness may flourish under it.

It has a use, these things called rights, and their use is for the people's happiness.

―Anon member of the SRPPS

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The objectivists have it right at one single point. No gods or kings, only man. That is the ethos that is to be embraced by not just the 'God-fearing' capitalist pig, but by the misguided revisionist foreigners who endorse the ideals of communism! It is foolish to think of God as the ultimate property owner of the world, just as it is foolish to believe that a king is by birth right entitled to enslave the common worker!

Let the revolution live on, and glory be to the revolution!

―Propaganda from 1987

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We are obligated to protect the Earth and the environment lest our existence be snuffed out by our current misdeeds.

―Bhante Raolā Šōkthayā, Wāt Veāng

[Greater Mackonia]

The idea that we make these grand 'Universal Declarations of Whatever Rights' out of some sense of compassion or nobility, or because we believe them to truly be universal... they're nice thoughts, which is why we tell ourselves that that's the reason, but really it's just because we don't want other people fucking around with us. You don't take away my rights, because if you do and then I get a position of power down the line I'll probably end up abusing it to fuck you over.—LittleBoyBlue, forumgoer.

"See, behold the attitude of the Judeo-Christian laid bare! It is fundamentally built not upon 'compassion', but revenge! Fear! PITY ME OR I WILL DESTROY YOU! Be it in the Infernos bred of the Church, the implicit hypothesis of Do unto others or the Kantian kingdom of ends."

-Lauriem Excahvir.

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"Happiness and Wellbeing, as good a codeword for blind idiocy if there ever was one. Happiness and Wellbeing are poisons to the well of thought which runs best in overbearing turmoil and solitude. Everyone is a fool when they are happy, for why think when one can fuck, eh? Happiness is the gospel of the modern ideology, the ideology of complacency, compromise and the consumer."

-Z.Maglos.

[The Yorkshire Commonwealth]

"What history shows us time after time, is that an explosion of economic growth occurs when society is sufficiently equal so that the majority, rather than a tiny minority can be economic actors and can have the means to unleash their potential, and that the slow-down or regression occurs when the wealth of these societies becomes concentrated amongst the few, with the rest living meal to meal and unable to save, build, invent or even plan ahead. Take the immediate aftermath of the second world war for example, the so called 'Golden Age Of Capitalism,' a 30 year period after society had been somewhat leveled-out by the war, which showed the greatest sustained economic growth in history.
What neo-liberals will not readily tell you, is that this period, in which both growth and stability were achieved in levels never seen before or since in the history of humankind, the rich economies had more, not less, regulation, redistribution and government-intervention, than they did before, and that they've had since.
The greatest irony is that as nations have switched to following the neo-liberal doctrine since the 1980's, in recent years they have torn up every example of protectionism, redistribution and government-intervention indiscriminately, good with the bad, proven successes with improvable quantities, at great human cost, throwing money and a free-pass at the already rich few in a desperate attempt to maintain economic growth rates that are far lower than those that were achieved in the, distributionist, regulatory, interventionist, Keynesian 1940s to 1970s. They claim to be tearing up modern red tape and inefficiency to return to a golden, 'pure' capitalism... That in actual fact never existed..."

-The Great Long-Conk MP (famed for zer humorous luminous nose)

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The so called 'Free Market' has always been and continues to be redefined, reshaped and tweaked again and again by the purposeful actions of humans, from removing from the marketplace one at a time thousands of goods that were once freely traded, such as slaves, untested-medicines, government-positions, narcotics, child-labour etc. To limiting work hours. To fining firms for environmental damage, thus attaching an artificial and arbitrary 'price' to what would be an otherwise free resource: The environment... The truth is that the 'free market' is not some unchangeable, natural thing with immovable boundaries and natural laws, it is as much a human-made creation as this pen, and it changes from place to place, and from time to time. One person's idea of what a 'free market' should be is no better than anyone else's, Rand Paul may say he does not believe in 'interfering with the free market,' but I suspect he actually does, I suspect that he is in favour of, for example: banning children under 8 from working in cotton-mills. After much debate, the Victorians banned this heinous practice, but the Rand Paul's of their day protested that this was a horrific intrusion in the 'natural' workings of the market by the government... Despite themselves being in favour of banning slavery, itself, considered a grave invasion into the 'natural' workings of the market by the Rand Paul's of the 18th century."

-Prime Minister Florimel 'Flossy' Gardner

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"Fine... You don't have to pay for the welfare state, but if we lose our safety-net, then you lose yours. if your business fails, there'll be no bankrupcy law, no limited liability. You'll lose every penny and every scrap of clothing you own and you'll spend the rest of your life cracking rocks in a debtor's prison... After all, that's how business-people such as yourself operated in the 'glorious old days' before welfare... No deal..? I thought not."

-Prime Minister Florimel 'Flossy' Gardner

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"Still worshiping God are you...? Last think I heard he was worshiping me."

-'Grasping' Gripper Vice, CEO of Telemorphix inc, to an old friend, Father Windy Shepherd Henderson

[Children of the Macrocosm]

" Everything is a hard-wired base to attain survival, individualism or communal values outgrows usefulness when they become a marked threat to survival, ironically. Yes, it's animal-like in it's base, appeals to emotions. But concepts sprung from enough neural networks are no more than pretty words which are in their own romanticism are only a tiptoe away as they're a rationalization of working in nature, inherently animal. I'd rather be an adaptable animal than a self-destructive animal."
-A saucer operator

[Greater Mackonia]

"You can insist Man is an animal and his soul little more than a ghost in a machine all you like. Indeed, he is! But what makes Man great, is his potential to be so much more, to rebel in an eternal Non Serviam against all those who deny the spirit within him. To create. To burn the world in the name of art."

-L. Excahvir.

[Sekuo]

It's a feel good response stimuli. A feel good response stimuli that can well, effect your biological chemistry and also changes the aspects of your brain.

I mean... okay hold on the information here is a bit finicky since universes are parallel in name only. I mean talking colorful ponies? Talking nihilistic lizards? Bat guano insane robot human... thingies?! For fucks sake my job ain't easy hun.

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Ah there we go. Neuroplasticity. I'm sure y'all have heard that word at some point in your life, hm? Well happiness and all those emotions you feel during any event is simply restructuring the brain bit by bit. So by self conditioning or through simple rewarding tasks, you could in the end restructure your brain to be happier overall.

You adapt, essentially, and this model of neuroplasticity is being applied in research for AI as the Artificial Neural Networks. Essentially, you learn some things to be happy, and now we are teaching robots to learn how to do various tasks as a result.

Well, I'm certainly not going to say this is absolute truth, as with any observation of the brain and the human condition, it's more finicky than the whole multiverse issue.

Eh, I'm a mere fashion designer who simply loves these little things. I feel really bubbly today too~

—Jumithak (Melissa) Ngāmy, Fashion Designer and Secret Universal Traveler

[Bereia]

"Foreign birth is no more guarantee against Justice than sex, color, or creed. You were born abroad, but you chose to come here and break our laws, and so by our laws you will be punished."

-- The Hon. Judge Hector Owens, to a tourist convicted of rape, whom he sentenced to death by hanging.

[Greater Mackonia]

"Happiness is the essence of nihilism and desert of genius."

-Lauriem Excahvir.

[Sekuo]

In the end the natural order of death, suffering, malice, and delusion are the reality. There are many ways to work around such realities, but, in the end, you would be only perpetuating your delusion and suffering even more than ever.

You face the reality and accept it. That's the only way you can escape.

―Scribblings

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Nihilism is yet another delusion, and is a foolish attempt to escape the realities of the universe.

―Bhante Raolā Šōkthayā, Wāt Veāng

[Greater Mackonia]

"We cannot live our dreams. We can still dream our lives."

-Lauriem Excahvir.