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FSPR wrote:

If I may ask, what is endo cap?

Nations can recieve a maximum endorsement number of 150 if I can remember. Though the reason is mainly for the region's security reasons and stuff

4D Donkeys wrote:

Heyy doesn't the priority of mods getting more endos make TCB kinda like a bureaucracy? Ik you said that jokingly but let's get serious for a sec, mods shouldn't be allowed more endos just because they're mods as their work is voluntary and communal. Not wanna criticise everything just sayin
Oh and if the endorsement cap is updated I suggest making a system similar to The Leftist Assembly where common members have much more power. We could raise it to 300 for norm members and 600 for vice delegates? Idk but definitely raise it over 250 pls :)

i mean. going by the definition of "a system of government in which most of the important decisions are made by state officials rather than by elected representatives," tcb's staff functioning is literally a bureaucracy, but so are most other regions on NS. you don't get to elect the mods, the admin team picks them. that's normal.

being a mod means that i need to have more influence than the average rmber so i'm capable of banjecting whoever i need to banject. that means i get more endos so i can collect influence faster than the average rmber.

vice delegates have no cap beyond "don't overtake kethania's endos (and don't be close enough for a del bump to be possible)."

i'm definitely not raising the cap above 250. we already occasionally are irritated by having to spend absurd amounts of influence to ban troublemakers who have collected a lot themselves. having the 160 endos that we allow is enough to put a nation in the top 0.5% of the world statistically for endorsements, so we don't really need to raise the cap much higher than it is already. i may add ten, possibly twenty more to the limit if we can consistently stay at 700 endos on micha.

(also not sure why you're conflating endorsements with power or believing that tla cits have more power than tcb cits?)

anyway, endos ultimately aren't some special power meter, they're just a tool used to obtain influence. the people in the region who actually need to have influence naturally get more access to that tool, whereas people who have no need for it can just sit back and enjoy their top 0.5% in the world endorsement stats.

Rysfffffd wrote:

Извините, что отвлекаю. Я про игру не вмешиваюсь, но разве не цель коммунизма в реальной жизни, что все люди равны и власть рабочим и крестьянам? Скорее это уже социализм, где кто-то более главнее. Так у нас в СССР все всегда стремились к коммунизму. Заметьте я все перевел, но возможно в переводе есть ошибки. Заранее говорю, что систему вашего управления в Коммунистическом блоке я не осуждаю.

Translation: Sorry to interrupt. I'm not interfering about the game, but isn't the goal of communism in real life that all people are equal and power is given to workers and peasants? Rather, it is already socialism, where someone is more important. This is how everyone in the USSR has always aspired to communism. Note that I have translated everything, but there may be mistakes in the translation. I say in advance that I do not condemn your management system in the Communist Bloc.

see the key phrase there is "real life" and this is not real life this is an outdated browser game where whoever is willing to do all the work is just given the resources to do all the work

Rysfffffd wrote:

Перед моим высказыванием скажу, что я не пытаюсь вас оскорбить и осудить вашу систему управления. А теперь начнем. Я говорю, что ваша система управления напоминает социализм,где кто-то где-то главнее, а не коммунизм, где власть народу. А так-то мне вообще безразницы на вашу систему управления. Как и большинсто россиян у меня просто громадная политическая апатия на все это. Дальше мне будет трудно говорить без русского мата, поэтому закончу тем, что управляйте как хотите, но стоит признать, что это социализм, а не коммунизм. Ибо так и есть.

Translation: Before my statement, I will say that I am not trying to insult you and condemn your management system. Now let's get started. I say that your management system resembles socialism, where someone is in charge somewhere, and not communism, where the people have power. As it is, I don't care about your management system at all. Like most Russians, I just have a huge political apathy for all this. It will be difficult for me to speak further without a Russian mat, so I will end up saying that you manage as you want, but it is worth recognizing that this is socialism, not communism. For so it is.

it's actually not socialism Or communism because this is an online browser game and not a legitimate economic system

Lussr wrote:

Yes

If it's not at 500 million pop, then you unlock it at 1 billion pop

Rysfffffd wrote:

Извините, что отвлекаю. Я про игру не вмешиваюсь, но разве не цель коммунизма в реальной жизни, что все люди равны и власть рабочим и крестьянам? Скорее это уже социализм, где кто-то более главнее. Так у нас в СССР все всегда стремились к коммунизму. Заметьте я все перевел, но возможно в переводе есть ошибки. Заранее говорю, что систему вашего управления в Коммунистическом блоке я не осуждаю.

Translation: Sorry to interrupt. I'm not interfering about the game, but isn't the goal of communism in real life that all people are equal and power is given to workers and peasants? Rather, it is already socialism, where someone is more important. This is how everyone in the USSR has always aspired to communism. Note that I have translated everything, but there may be mistakes in the translation. I say in advance that I do not condemn your management system in the Communist Bloc.

Even the USSR did have a legal system which had individuals more powerful than ordinary citizens, so that they could actually enforce anything.

Rysfffffd wrote:

Перед моим высказыванием скажу, что я не пытаюсь вас оскорбить и осудить вашу систему управления. А теперь начнем. Я говорю, что ваша система управления напоминает социализм,где кто-то где-то главнее, а не коммунизм, где власть народу. А так-то мне вообще безразницы на вашу систему управления. Как и большинсто россиян у меня просто громадная политическая апатия на все это. Дальше мне будет трудно говорить без русского мата, поэтому закончу тем, что управляйте как хотите, но стоит признать, что это социализм, а не коммунизм. Ибо так и есть.

Translation: Before my statement, I will say that I am not trying to insult you and condemn your management system. Now let's get started. I say that your management system resembles socialism, where someone is in charge somewhere, and not communism, where the people have power. As it is, I don't care about your management system at all. Like most Russians, I just have a huge political apathy for all this. It will be difficult for me to speak further without a Russian mat, so I will end up saying that you manage as you want, but it is worth recognizing that this is socialism, not communism. For so it is.

NS is just a web game, our bloc is more like a left-wing alliance than a left-wing party, it's just a club that plays NS and is interested in socialism

4D Donkeys
By the way, I remember you're an anarchist, right? Anarchism seems to be divided into many factions, I think you also agree with the theory of Marxism, are you an anarcho-communist? I'm curious about the ideology of anarcho-communism, it's hard to find information on this in mainland China👀

Socialist Republics of China wrote:

And the purity of our bloc is not very high, similar to the Paris Commune, anarchists and communists are present in our bloc (even pro-capitalist traitors)

What do you mean by purity? I'm a little confused as to what you're saying here
Do you mean that the Bloc has a very diverse number of political ideologies?

UFROE wrote:

What do you mean by purity? I'm a little confused as to what you're saying here
Do you mean that the Bloc has a very diverse number of political ideologies?

It can only be said that there are many left-wing ideas. After all, our nature suggests that we cannot be as highly organized and pure as political parties.

Socialist Republics of China wrote:

It can only be said that there are many left-wing ideas. After all, our nature suggests that we cannot be as highly organized and pure as political parties.

I'm still a little confused (probably cuz i need sleep) but I will say that TCB is a very complex community, and we manage to have a highly efficient government despite some flaws in our system.

Socialist Republics of China wrote:

But in the face of a unified and powerful enemy, we still have to unite. After all, untimely infighting is nothing more than weakening one's own strength, just like Wang Ming's purge during the Chinese revolution

As far as fighting "unified and powerful enemies" goes we don't have any unified or powerful enemies to fight against, but we sure are unified as a whole in the fight against fascism and bigotry within nationstates

4D Donkeys Guess who reached 1b pop, time to plan out the free Canadian pork and flannel shirts gift baskets.

Socialist Republics of China wrote:

4D Donkeys
By the way, I remember you're an anarchist, right? Anarchism seems to be divided into many factions, I think you also agree with the theory of Marxism, are you an anarcho-communist? I'm curious about the ideology of anarcho-communism, it's hard to find information on this in mainland China👀

Yes, I'm probably an anarcho-communist and I guess the systems of so called ''anarcho-syndicalism'' and ''anarcho-collectivism'' are very similar if not exactly the same thing, if you ever heard of them. I believe in marxist theory and I also consider myself anarcho-feminist since I value the worker's rights as much as women's rights.

What is anarcho-communism? You might even see it as ''an-com'' or ''ancom'' which are slang terms for anarcho-communism. I don't know if Wikipedia is blocked in China, so here's half of the first paragraph of ''Anarcho-Communism'' from the Wikipedia: ''Anarcho-communism, also known as anarchist communism, (or, colloquially, ancom) is a political philosophy and anarchist school of thought which advocates communism. It calls for abolition of private property but retains respect for personal property along with collectively-owned items, goods and services. It supports social ownership of property and direct democracy among other horizontal networks for the allocation of production and consumption based on the guiding principle "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs".'' Yes anarcho-communism gives respect on personal property, like a personal toothbrush or shirt that only you can wear, for health reasons ofcourse, or for family-owned operations. I can't know if this is relevant in a socialist society, though. I don't know if eventually personal property will be abolished, the people will decide.
This is the article here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-communism#:~:text=Anarcho%2Dcommunism%2C%20also%20known%20as,owned%20items%2C%20goods%20and%20services.
Here's another article: https://libcom.org/article/anarchist-communism-introduction
As I can see I can't find much information on anarcho-communism online

Those are the major concepts of ancom: Anti-authoritarianism, Anti-capitalism, Anti-statism, Class consciousness, Class conflict, Classless society, Common ownership, Common resources, Commune, Consensus democracy, Co-operative economics, Direct democracy, Egalitarian community, Free association, "From each according to his ability,
to each according to his needs", General strike, Gift economy, Give-away shop, Market abolitionism, Mutual aid, Prefigurative politics. All of these are a selection from the Wikipedia, again.

The most important anarcho-communists: Déjacque, Makhno, Kropotkin, Cafiero, Covelli, Malatesta, Goldman, Galleani, Magón, Berkman, Bleikhman, Durruti, Volin, Faure, Bookchin, Meltzer, etc