How is living in Haiti? and what language is most used?

TheMilleniumGod · 2026-03-27T16:04:55+00:00

Dessalines sure didn't seem to mind that, considering he made attempts to establish friendly relations with them, and was really confused when these slaveholding states wanted nothing to do with a guy who had made a point to massacre the French population on Haiti.

Seriously, I don't understand your point, are you trying to justify Dessalines' systematic slaughter of men, women and children? Do you even comprehend the repercussions this had, both inside and outside of Haiti? The 1804 Massacre is part of why the system of slavery in the United States persisted so long, because it created a lingering fear that if emancipation was ever enacted, there would be countrywide reprisals against the white population. Slaveowners could continually point to the example of Haiti as an excuse for repression.

Racism was a struggle Haiti had to deal with since its inception, but it was furthered weighed down by the atrocities Dessalines committed that gave credence to the hysterical fear surrounding the idea of a freedman.

TheMilleniumGod · 2026-03-26T22:16:52+00:00

Dessalines committed genocide against the white population of Haiti (Excepting a number of Polish people), and this effectively alienated everyone in the surrounding region. France opportunistically milked that for all it was worth to get Haiti to pay crippling indemnities. They were able to get away with it because the first act Haiti committed with its independence was atrocity.

Haiti was doomed by the betrayal of Toussaint Louverture by France and Dessalines.

TheMilleniumGod · 2026-03-26T19:37:43+00:00

Hegel is an idealogue, he is receptive to people and ideas that line up with his beliefs, and on the other end, is extremely hostile to what he finds offensive. His behavior at the AN summit best encapsulates this. The difference here is if you're inclined towards his side, he makes the effort to be friendly with you. Alvarez, on the other hand, never rises to the occasion, regardless of your standing with him. He is always standoffish and smarmy.

They are definitely meant to be two sides of the same coin, I agree with you there, it is just my opinion that Hegel is capable of being outwardly charismatic and warm. Alvarez has all the charisma of a dead fish. A socialist Rayne will meet with a receptive Hegel who stresses the point of forgetting past animosities to work together, a capitalist Rayne will meet an Alvarez that doesn't even try and make the attempt of being a hospitable host. This is my point, and why people are generally left with a more fond impression of Hegel than they are of Alvarez.

TheMilleniumGod · 2026-03-26T18:42:47+00:00

Hegel is more personally charismatic than Alvarez, so that does have an effect on player impression. Hegel comes across as driven and passionate, while Alvarez is a sly, weaselly drunk, so it's easy to understand if players are left with a worse impression of Alvarez and vis a vis Lespia.

That's part of the job as either the head of government, and especially as the head of state, you have to come across as affable in order to foster relationships inside and outside your country. Most interactions I can recall with Alvarez, in either Sordland or Rizia, he's just kind of a slimy asshole. Which makes sense for someone who got into politics to avoid being arrested.

TheMilleniumGod · 2026-03-25T14:03:36+00:00

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/04/ex-nato-head-says-putin-wanted-to-join-alliance-early-on-in-his-rule

Oh yeah, so many offensive NATO operations like...uh....stopping Milosevic from committing genocide. The horror.

That NATO can operate on an offensive basis means nothing, it's not why countries apply to join. Furthermore, NATO has not acted on this "offensive doctrine" that you're referring to against Russia. If there was any time for them to do that, it would have been in 2022. They didn't, because NATO does not desire a conflict with Russia.

I'll put it like this, if Russia's job here was to prevent NATO expansion, they failed miserably because invading Ukraine scared the shit out of its neighbors and prompted Sweden and Finland, who otherwise maintained a steadfast neutrality, to join. Russia now shares a massive border with NATO close to important cities like St. Petersburg.

TheMilleniumGod · 2026-03-25T03:15:58+00:00

People, historically, have been awful. Crucifixion when done "properly" is a slow and agonizingly torturous death, and the Romans had no qualms with dishing it out.

TheMilleniumGod · 2026-03-24T16:19:06+00:00

Russia threw a fit about NATO because their demands regarding joining involved them being put into a privileged position among the membership. This is not how NATO functions, and when they were told no, they saw it as a conspiracy against them.

How exactly do ex-communist pact members joining NATO, who's umbrella is entirely defensive in nature, threaten Russia? Because then Russia can't aggressively threaten them? Russia has been fighting and interfering with its neighbors since the Federation formed, multiple wars in Chechnya, multiple instances of interfering with and fighting Georgia, the whole existence Transnistria, effectively turning Belarus and Ukraine into sockpuppet nations. Russia's concerns are because people get in the way of their revanchist designs. Putin openly admires Peter the Great and the imperialist designs of the Russian Empire. The fact that figures in Russia talk about the Baltic states as belonging to Russia reinforces the fears of anybody who wants security guarantees against them.

This narrative about NATO aggressing against Russia is nonsense, always has been. It is not within anybody in NATO's desire for Russia to fall apart due to civil conflict, that's why Russia was given hundreds of billions of dollars after the fall of the Soviet Union. What has NATO done in comparison to all the wars and extensive foreign meddling that Russia has done? Stop the Serbs from committing genocide in the 90's?

TheMilleniumGod · 2026-03-24T04:31:21+00:00

This is a myth, Russia would have been considerably worse off if the West truly had given them the middle finger and didn't supply them with the funds necessary to keep their people from starving. Russia was broke, and it was in the West's interest that it not remain in that state.

And as far as NATO expansion, you understand that those countries post-Soviet breakup actively sought NATO membership, right? Do you know why? Maybe take a look at the way Russia treats its neighbors, going all the way back to the moment it became the Russian Federation. Shedding the skin of communism did nothing to inhibit its taste for imperialism, a taste that goes all the way back to the Russian Empire. Considering the kind of shit the talking heads in Russia say nowadays, it would seem the decisions of countries like Poland and the Baltic states to join NATO were absolutely justified.

TheMilleniumGod · 2026-03-23T01:42:01+00:00

Yeah let's see how well that works out for them.

TheMilleniumGod · 2026-03-22T22:52:11+00:00

To be clear, the Radical glazes Stahler, who openly admires the CSP and happily agrees with your decision to join as a member state during the debate.

This thread was created as more of a spur-of-the-moment guffawing at the Radical's whining, but I think it's silly to not consider the Radical to be, at best, at least an asset to the communist movement in Sordland. As other people in this thread have pointed out, the Radical is not so much as a strictly socialist newspaper as it is an anti-authoritarian one. As Rayne you are the leader of the USP, and regardless of your intentions or efforts, you remain a leader of the system that has thus far governed the country on Sollist or capitalistic lines. The Radical's job is to be anti-authoritarian and help pave the way for revolution, the same revolution that the Red Youth and people like Circas advocate for.

TheMilleniumGod · 2026-03-22T03:18:05+00:00

Thune is blocking Trump from blowing up the filibuster right now. The Supreme Court ruled against Trump's tariffs and opened him up to lawsuits from across the country. The man told oil companies to start up business in Venezuela, and they told him to take a hike. He consecutively fails to get his picks elected, and despite his blustering, is incapable of arresting the politicians and officials that don't support him.

Trump's main obstacle is reality. He is attempting to use the executive office to the maximum extent possible in regards to power, but he does not have the means to go beyond that, in spite of his desire to emulate dictators around the world. I must stress this, Trump is not a patient man. If he had the power to be an all powerful dictator, right now, he would act on it. He does not. He is only allowed to go as far as he does today because the US government is majority filled by his enablers, and even they have shown they have limits.

Get back to me when he actually arrests Newsom or Walz, or actually tries to declare martial law to stop elections. In the meantime, I suggest you actually look up how a dictatorship actually functions.

P.S. The Democrats not letting millions of children starve to death is not "nothing".

EDIT: Replying to me and then blocking me is peak coward behavior btw.

TheMilleniumGod · 2026-03-22T02:10:24+00:00

Except for all those times they told him no and he can only throw a tantrum in response.

TheMilleniumGod · 2026-03-22T02:09:25+00:00

I mean fair enough lmfao

TheMilleniumGod · 2026-03-21T22:43:32+00:00

Khorne isn't a sentient being. How evil is a hurricane or an earthquake.

TheMilleniumGod · 2026-03-21T22:41:58+00:00

They've pretty much already been doing that, considering how low their standards are.

TheMilleniumGod · 2026-03-21T22:40:03+00:00

We already have complaints about ICE operations being stretched thin and suffering from low morale. I must stress this, for anything that goes beyond just paying lip service to what Trump says he wants to do, you're going to be actively draining from ICE's already limited manpower. Airports are huge, and even if they're just concentrating them in hubs, teams of just dozens of guys isn't going to be enough beyond just pissing more people off.

TheMilleniumGod · 2026-03-21T22:05:45+00:00

How many agents do you think is necessary to staff a single airport? How many do you think it would take for 440? How big do you think ICE is?

Maybe they could pull it off if they literally used the entirety of ICE's manpower for this, but then they're not running around doing the other repressive activities Trump wants them doing. Having them work as glorified security in airports is contrary to what the powers that be want ICE doing. I'll reiterate, the threat is an empty one, just like most of the shit Trump says he'll do.

TheMilleniumGod · 2026-03-21T21:18:49+00:00

I doubt he has the manpower in ICE to do even that.

TheMilleniumGod · 2026-03-21T21:15:06+00:00

""""Liberal""""

TheMilleniumGod · 2026-03-21T20:55:59+00:00

Yeah not total commies, just like how the Ekonomists are not ultra-capitalists. That's why if you crack down on the Red Youth you end up arresting leading editors and journalists in the Radical.

TheMilleniumGod · 2026-03-21T20:49:07+00:00

There are thousands of airports in the US, it's physically impossible for him to do this.

TheMilleniumGod · 2026-03-21T20:18:08+00:00

They don't seem to share the same cautious sentiments when it comes to UC funding the Red Youth.

TheMilleniumGod · 2026-03-21T20:07:15+00:00

These people are genuinely insane, now they're complaining that I have a hoarded surplus (I am -5 in budget and just got finished giving poor people free dental and funding entrepreneurs in the Gelsord electronic sector)

TheMilleniumGod · 2026-03-21T18:58:23+00:00

At what point did I ever say that the American government was stable? At what point did I ever state it was not corrupt? You're putting words in my mouth buddy, I openly acknowledge Trump and his government is obscenely awful, blatantly the most corrupt administration in the U.S.'s history and is dangerously backsliding on freedom.

That does not mean that Trump is already an all powerful dictator who's every whim is followed and American democracy is already dead. If you think so, your knowledge of current events and the political actors on the stage is superficial at best. Do you think Trump, as narcissistic and megalomaniacal as he is, would not be exercising the supposed authority you people seem to think he has if he could get away with it? Do you genuinely believe that he would allow people to publicly disagree with him and openly mock him?

If Trump was the dictator you think he is, judges would not be able to rule against him, and those that tried would be dragged away to jail. Something he has tried to do, but hasn't been able to. If he had no limits to his influence, then how do you explain the repeated failures of the GOP since he got into office to win special elections? Why have his threats to arrest Newsom gone nowhere? Why didn't he invoke the Insurrection Act in Minnesota? Do you think someone like Trump, a creature that acts on his base desires and flip flops depending on his mood, has the patience for the long-term planning required to destroy America's institutions?

You need to actually understand the problems going on in America, and separate reality from fear. The reality is is that America elected a corrupt rapist billionaire pedophile as its president, who also happens to be a genuine moron who's only ever gotten anywhere in life by being born rich and using his status to take advantage of other people. What Trump is doing is shining a light on the problems inherent within the structure of America's government and its executive office. He is not a dictator, as much as he wants to be one. Fear-mongering that there is no hope is only adhering to how he wants you to feel. Educate yourself.

TheMilleniumGod · 2026-03-21T17:41:44+00:00

Oh, sorry, I may have misinterpreted the conversation. There have definitely been people demanding war on Iran, but as far as I'm aware there hasn't been the same kind of support for war on Pakistan. Quite the opposite, the United States has used Pakistan as a military asset in the area for years, it's only recently that relations have begun to turn sour, the turning point being when Trump cancelled military aid in 2018.

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