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Messages - hector13

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Are the people of your nation different enough from another nation that their decisions are better than the other?
No. We're not superior to other nations, where did I say that? It doesn't mean we should not preserve our culture or defend our nation against aggression.
It was implicit in what you said. Would you be willing to die in defense of another nation? If your nation was the aggressor against democracy, for example?

Culture can be preserved in museums and other institutions, places where it can’t be used to separate peoples.

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Oh, what I meant was more that modern democracy was the problem, not that we should go full Ancap or something. Not that I know enough about anarchocapitalism (or whatever it's called) to really discuss it. Is that what Rand was about? Not about to google it, I don't feel like putting my back out from cringing too hard.       
Capitalism goes great when paired with saner forms of government, at least historically. Maybe it's just the information age that has made a mess of things. *shrug*   


Edit: I somehow get the feeling Hector's the type of Scot who voted to remain latched onto England's teat...   

Voted SNP at every opporchancity mate :p

How will a classless society in the modern age destroy the concept of nation and culture
Don't communists want a world revolution which means erasing all borders, either instantly or eventually?

Is this a bad thing?
Yes because my nation is important to me and I would fight to the death to defend it, unless it has betrayed democracy.

What would a betrayal of democracy be to you? Democracy is government by the people. Are the people of your nation different enough from another nation that their decisions are better than the other?

why would that be a bad thing?
Because culture is the most important thing an ethnicity has.
Ethnicity is just one of many things used to separate human beings from one another.

Broadly speaking, we’re all the same when you boil it down; we all have the same needs and wants and desires, why complicate things by saying we have differences because of where your ancestors were from or what they did?
So you're saying culture doesn't matter, or that it matters less than some insane "utopia"?
Far from it, culture is history, and should be celebrated, so long as it doesn’t suggest it’s better than another culture.

It’s a difficult thing for me to explain what I mean, especially when I’m tired.

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How will a classless society in the modern age destroy the concept of nation and culture
Don't communists want a world revolution which means erasing all borders, either instantly or eventually?

Is this a bad thing?

why would that be a bad thing?
Because culture is the most important thing an ethnicity has.
Ethnicity is just one of many things used to separate human beings from one another.

Broadly speaking, we’re all the same when you boil it down; we all have the same needs and wants and desires, why complicate things by saying we have differences because of where your ancestors were from or what they did?

4369
How will a classless society in the modern age destroy the concept of nation and culture, and, separately, why would that be a bad thing?

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Why order? Light I can see (hah) but not so much the order.

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You wouldn’t represent the sun as a shooting star-esque thing with points like that.

So I’m right and you’re wrong. Nyeh :p

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I managed to take a pic of the comet

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

A rare find these days :o

Also pics or it didn’t happen.
Thats quite the sundrop, in a bottle?
That’s a star.

On a facade.

Which you probably won’t find anywhere because I think the company either shutdown or got sold and kinda folded into another electronics retailer.

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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol thread
« on: July 18, 2020, 05:59:04 pm »
It's only reasonable to assume that I'll live forever.  I mean, going by all available precedent, I haven't died yet, no?

But nobody has ever lived forever either.

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I managed to take a pic of the comet

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

A rare find these days :o

Also pics or it didn’t happen.

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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: SPAMKINGDOM-R: Jacobus V of Rufia!
« on: July 18, 2020, 03:54:14 pm »
A because we don’t need to legitimize the lessening of our power by tacitly endorsing them.

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Hey man, people who aren’t doing anything wrong have nothing to be afraid of.

Oh wait, I mean white people have nothing to be afraid of.

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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: SPAMKINGDOM-R: Jacobus V of Rufia!
« on: July 18, 2020, 02:46:03 pm »
B - Princess Elspeth best be as pleasing a wife as Von Salyberg is as cunning a diplomat, as we're apparently buying her.

Is this a local custom or are we getting conned?

Our kids will have claims on both thrones, hence he need for soldiers later :p

B

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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: SPAMKINGDOM-R: Jacobus V of Rufia!
« on: July 18, 2020, 01:52:16 pm »
C money can be recouped, soldiers take time and care to train.

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Oh hey it’s not like there’a a very important historical document that says the government can’t curb someone’s right to speak out against it.

Nothing that would be the basis for the founding of a nation or anything like that.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« on: July 17, 2020, 11:30:43 pm »
Nah, you just bother the wildlife for a bit, train your dodge and shield skills.

I started as a peasant and was murdering megabeasts aplenty. At least ‘til I got a quest to kill a roc. Ma’fa’ tore off a leg the first time I fought it, I managed to crawl away and train my crutch-walking skill to not be useless, then came back to finish it off and lost an arm!

Decided to retire in a nearby town after that.

Edit for retcon!

Shit was even worse than I recall! Not sure how I was throwing shit with no arms, but it was a long time ago...

Edit 2: Further commentary on the topic of rocs.

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