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Region: The Confederacy of Free Nations
Likewise! It's been so long!
Everestopia, Jaslandia
Yeah I know the process I just figured there would be nominees in the last four days
Peng and Per have been making campaign posts.
Not sure if Peng's are genuine given that there's been jokes before about how Peng and Percy should run and share a ticket for President and Vice President. If either or both are genuinely running, I am totally down for that.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Per is short for Perland, not Percy. Just realized that could be a tad confusing.
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
How have you been?
Einsiev
Evening all, how are we faring today?
Not bad. Just listening to inspiring music from GoT and thinking about how awesome Daenerys is. You?
She is pretty awesome. Nothing as exciting.. just drying off from my shower, lol.
tjey found a match
Hail Daenerys Targaryen, First of Her Name, Queen of the Andals, Rhoynar and the First Men, Lord of the Seven Kingdoms and Protector of the Realm!
Vista Major
Ew
Was always a Lannister man myself.
Continental Commonwealths
Who do you support, traitor?
Vista Major
Now that really is worthy of an ew.
#Vista4Prez
[I]For a Newer Confederacy[/I]
I bet either Tully or Stark.
Jon's a Targaryen so he should be Dany's vassal in the North.
What can I say...I'm attracted to power.
I did enjoy Tywin's character.
Half Targaryen.
Still has dragon's blood.
Everestopia
Chancellor Amos Baxfield of the Federal Democratic Commonwealth of Vista Major, Head of the 85th Federal Government
Yeah, good point.
But Ma main girl Cersi truly knows how to separate church and state!
Boom!!! ;)
Nuremgard, Continental Commonwealths
Touche.
Cant wait to see Dany burn the bitch.
Because he was a sassy badass, who didn't take no as an answer.
He was a Machiavellian for sure.
Will be great.. when we finally get to it!
The time Of kings is over, 'tis the battle of the queens now! :D
Nuremgard
I've always supported Dany from the beginning. The one true Queen.
Without a doubt... he literally played the game of thrones.
Nuremgard
Charles Dance played him perfectly.
To be fair, as have I. As soon as she dealt with the people in slavers bay and walked out with the aligence of the unsullied.. I was waving the Dany flag!
Nuremgard
Love Charles Dance, amazing actor.
If you ever get to see him perform in a Shakespear play at the Globe theatre in London.. go!
Nuremgard
I don't just support her because I think she would make the best ruler due to her personality, it's also because her family ruled for nearly three hundred years. They united the land so they are the rightful rulers.
Until her incestual family started going crazy and killing their subjects without a second thought.
Yeah...they maybe should have stopped the whole incest custom after Aegon the Conqueror's death.
There's good things and bad things about every house, except Tully. They're just boring AF.
Something fishy about them.
Everestopia
1. That was terrible :P
2. I've just always found them to be boring and pointless.
Nuremgard
They did get the sh!t end of the stick though as much infighting took place in the Riverlands. And they were conquered by the Ironborn for the time.
Everestopia
I've been decent, just busy due to school. Yourself?
Everestopia, Jaslandia
True, but even so.
Good, glad you're okay :)
Bought an apartment with my boyfriend. So got moving into that to look forward to!
Einsiev
I always did find the Tullys to be one of the more uninteresting families. The most uninteresting are the Greyjoys though. I hate the Ironborn. I also found the Baratheons a bit boring until I read about the House's founder, Orys. I also like their motto, name and sigil.
Ah, neat! I hope everything goes well for you!
Jaslandia
Oh I don't know... Renly Baratheon, I rather liked him.
Thanks Ein! I'm sure it will!
How's school?
I didn't mind Renly. Didn't like Loras though. Thought too much with his dick. Loved Margaery.
Hey dudes, sorry for not posting in the RPs, I've been super busy with school work and I like spending whatever spare time I got with my dude. But hopefully this weekend I'll have time to post on the Confederacy General and the Khutonga RP.
Everestopia, Vista Major
Oh I just liked Renly as he was cute, lol.
Nuremgard, Continental Commonwealths
I pardon you, thou art forgiven.
Vista Major
Rhaegar sounded like a hottie.
School has been more demanding, as I've been promoted to a Cadet Captain in my JROTC as well as becoming a Squadron Commander (Overseer of an entire branch of jobs which my subordinates are expected to complete) and the Color Guard Commander. My second semester is much smoother than my first semester thankfully. XD
Jaslandia
I appreciate that. I don't think I can enter politics right now, because my railway work and king duties have been keeping me pretty busy. But in the future, who knows? I don't like to permanently rule stuff out.
Jaslandia, Continental Commonwealths
Farily Well, You?
Thats great!
New factbook:
https://www.nationstates.net/nation=nuremgard/detail=factbook/id=765338
Jaslandia, Percyton
I've been great! Long time no talk :P
How has life been treating you?
Yukona
Interesting. I'll have to talk to Gordon to see if we can have something similar to that in Percyton. It wouldn't be a whole season (we can't give up that much work), but I'm thinking a few times a year, the important engines and important humans could gather at Tidmouth, Knapford, or Vicarstown to interact and raise money for charity.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia
*riots, topples statues of Nurem*
(P.s. You'll all be happy to know that my phone has already learned the words "Nurem" and "Nuremgard")
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Hello. Greetings from Berlin.
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[spoiler=Today is February 4 and today are:]
Today is February 4 and today are:
- Day of the Armed Struggle (Angola)
- Farmer's Day (Taiwan)
- Ice Cream for Breakfast Day
- Independence Day (Sri Lanka)
- Lace Day
- National Create a Vacuum Day (United States)
- National Homemade Soup Day (United States)
- National Stuffed Mushroom Day (United States)
- National Thank a Mail Carrier Day (United States)
- Quacker Day
- Rosa Parks Day (California and Missouri, United States)
- Sweater Day
- Take Your Child to the Library Day
- USO Day
- World Cancer Day
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 211 Roman Emperor Septimius Severus dies at Eboracum (modern York, England) while preparing to lead a campaign against the Caledonians. He leaves the empire in the control of his two quarrelling sons.
- 634 Battle of Dathin: Rashidun forces under Yazid ibn Abi Sufyan defeat an outnumbered Byzantine force near Gaza in Palestine.
- 960 The coronation of Zhao Kuangyin as Emperor Taizu of Song, initiating the Song dynasty period of China that would last more than three centuries.
- 1169 A strong earthquake struck the Ionian coast of Sicily, causing tens of thousands of injuries and deaths, especially in Catania.
- 1454 In the Thirteen Years' War, the Secret Council of the Prussian Confederation sends a formal act of disobedience to the Grand Master.
- 1555 John Rogers is burned at the stake, becoming the first English Protestant martyr under Mary I of England.
- 1703 In Edo (now Tokyo), 46 of the Forty-seven Ronin commit seppuku (ritual suicide) as recompense for avenging their master's death.
- 1758 Macapá, Brazil is founded.
- 1789 George Washington is unanimously elected as the first President of the United States by the U.S. Electoral College.
- 1794 The French legislature abolishes slavery throughout all territories of the French First Republic. It will be reestablished in the French West Indies in 1802.
- 1797 The Riobamba earthquake strikes Ecuador, causing up to 40,000 casualties.
- 1801 John Marshall is sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States.
- 1810 The Royal Navy seizes Guadeloupe.
- 1820 The Chilean Navy under the command of Lord Cochrane completes the 2-day long Capture of Valdivia with just 300 men and 2 ships.
- 1825 The Ohio Legislature authorizes the construction of the Ohio and Erie Canal and the Miami and Erie Canal.
- 1846 The first Mormon pioneers make their exodus from Nauvoo, Illinois, westward towards Salt Lake Valley.
- 1859 The Codex Sinaiticus is discovered in Egypt.
- 1861 American Civil War: In Montgomery, Alabama, delegates from six break-away U.S. states meet and form the Confederate States of America.
- 1899 The PhilippineAmerican War begins with the Battle of Manila.
- 1932 Second Sino-Japanese War: Harbin, Manchuria, falls to Japan.
- 1936 Radium becomes the first radioactive element to be made synthetically.
- 1941 The United Service Organization (USO) is created to entertain American troops.
- 1945 World War II: Santo Tomas Internment Camp is liberated from Japanese authority.
- 1945 World War II: The Yalta Conference between the "Big Three" (Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin) opens at the Livadia Palace in the Crimea.
- 1945 World War II: The British Indian Army and Imperial Japanese Army begin a series of battles known as the Battle of Pokoku and Irrawaddy River operations.
- 1948 Ceylon (later renamed Sri Lanka) becomes independent within the British Commonwealth.
- 1961 Angolan War of Independence begins.
- 1966 All Nippon Airways Flight 60 plunges into Tokyo Bay, killing 133.
- 1967 Lunar Orbiter program: Lunar Orbiter 3 lifts off from Cape Canaveral's Launch Complex 13 on its mission to identify possible landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo spacecraft.
- 1969 Yasser Arafat takes over as chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
- 1974 The Symbionese Liberation Army kidnaps Patty Hearst in Berkeley, California.
- 1974 M62 coach bombing: The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) explodes a bomb on a bus carrying off-duty British Armed Forces personnel in Yorkshire, England. Nine soldiers and three civilians are killed.
- 1975 Haicheng earthquake (magnitude 7.3 on the Richter scale) occurs in Haicheng, Liaoning, China.
- 1976 In Guatemala and Honduras an earthquake kills more than 22,000.
- 1977 A Chicago Transit Authority elevated train rear-ends another and derails, killing 11 and injuring 180, the worst accident in the agency's history.
- 1992 A coup d'état is led by Hugo Chávez against Venezuelan President Carlos Andrés Pérez.
- 1996 Major snowstorm paralyzes Midwestern United States, Milwaukee, Wisconsin and ties all-time record low temperature at −26 °F (−32.2 °C)
- 1997 En route to Lebanon, two Israeli Sikorsky CH-53 troop-transport helicopters collide in mid-air over northern Galilee, Israel killing 73.
- 1998 The 5.9 Mw Afghanistan earthquake shakes the Takhar Province with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (Very strong). With 2,323 killed, and 818 injured, damage is considered extreme.
- 1999 Unarmed West African immigrant Amadou Diallo is shot 41 times by four plainclothes New York City police officers on an unrelated stake-out, inflaming race relations in the city.
- 2003 The Bengali Hindus declare the independence of the Republic of Bangabhumi from Bangladesh.
- 2003 The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is officially renamed Serbia and Montenegro and adopts a new constitution.
- 2004 Facebook, a mainstream online social networking site, is founded by Mark Zuckerberg.
- 2015 A TransAsia Airways aircraft with 58 people on board, en route from the Taiwanese capital Taipei to Kinmen, crashes into the Keelung River just after take-off, killing at least 31 people.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 1682 Johann Friedrich Böttger, German alchemist
- 1871 Friedrich Ebert, German lawyer and politician, 1st President of the Weimar Republic
- 1897 Ludwig Erhard, German soldier and politician, 2nd Chancellor of West Germany
- 1902 Charles Lindbergh, American pilot and explorer
- 1906 Clyde Tombaugh, American astronomer and academic, discovered Pluto
- 1906 Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German pastor and theologian
- 1913 Rosa Parks, American civil rights activist
- 1929 Eduard Zimmermann, German journalist
- 1943 Ken Thompson, American computer scientist and programmer, co-developed the B programming language
- 1948 Alice Cooper, American singer-songwriter
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Jaslandia, Vista Major, Continental Commonwealths
Oh aye you Canadians like hunting. Savages.
Ha. Nice one.
Different way of life to be honest, considering Canada has vast wilderness I don't think one Canuck hunting a racoon is gonna do a lot.
Hunting for food is a different matter. Hunting for sport is barbaric.
There's no need to come off as brash just because someone has a different way of life than you man
I'm not being brash. I'm expressing my opinion. Barbaric is the word I thought most apt. Rather than "hunting is not nice."
I don't mean that, I mean the "Savages. Ha. Nice one."
Yes. It was tongue-in-cheek.
Continental Commonwealths
That's fair enough then, if it's any consolation on my French EU4 game I forced England to release Scotland :^)
Nuremgard, Jaslandia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLCEUpIg8rE
Jaslandia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSH0eRKq1lE
Nuremgard
That song does not represent Scotland ever since the cowardly decision in 2014.
I'm having a Burns Night tonight to honour my uncle (MacDonald Clan)
Nuremgard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87Xkr8z3lEo :^)
My mum is a Campbell by birth. Those two clans are ancient rivals.
We're doomed to argue in the RMB forever.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia
Saor Alba!
I dunno man, as much as I would not stop Scottish independence, I feel such an absolute warmth towards the United Kingdom as a whole. I know it may sound weird and probably doesn't resonate with you but when I see the Scots Guards, or the Union flag on the shoulder of men in World War II, I just think we've shared so much and in my opinion to break it all up instead of coming to a new status-quo would tarnish that in some way. You may not think the same, but over all the years a lot has been achieved in unison and it's by no means the be-all and end-all of the debate, nor does it excuse the way in which Scots or anyone else has been treated.
Nuremgard
While I do not resonate with your emotional attachment to the UK, I recognise that some do feel the way you do and I respect that. We have achieved much together but I think the Union has passed its sell-by date. Scotland and England were independent far longer than they were in union together. A new status quo will never be reached because Westminster is averse to any kind of reform, and there is no desire for reform in England as many down there don't want England to lose its dominance in the union.
Time for us to go our separate ways and be true, independent equals once more.
Yukona
[B]Per4Prez[/B] "Transparency & Stability
Penguania And Antarctica
I mean, those men in WW2 fought for the ideal of Democracy and against Fascism, I hardly think very many of them would be upset if their children decided to seperate thtough Democracy.
Besides, the US and Britain shared quite a bit in the old days, but the split was for the better ;P
Nuremgard
Yes. I notice how many unionists don't argue for the US returning to Westminster's bosom. Although I have heard some argue that Ireland should rejoin the UK.
Not at all what I mean, I mean that they were united in a cause and clearly had to love their country, be them Englishmen, Irishmen, Welshmen or Scotsmen. I feel there's a special something in that, something that in hindsight is quite hard to perceive.
...do they want the IRA?
That's how you...geez...déjà vu
I mean, the US never will by the way.
Honestly, Britain is closer to being our Fifty First State than Puerto Rico
Nuremgard, Jaslandia
To be fair, the man I saw arguing for Ireland for rejoining the UK was a Scotsman in the Orange Order so his politics and allegiance were clear.
I've no doubt there was a greater sense of unity and Britishness back then. But you could serve in the Armed Forces and still support Scottish independence. My late grandfather served in the Merchant Navy and he voted Yes.
The cause being to destroy Fascism and prevent their families from being destroyed.
That special something, as far as I can see, is the same thing that united those soldiers from disparate states into one fighting force. It was brotherhood made by combat, and it certainly wasn't felt soley by those of one country.
Nuremgard
And let's not beast around the bush here. Churchill admired Hitler and Mussolini. He also agreed with some Nazi policies. His primary reason for fighting the Third Reich was to protect the British Empire's world hegemony.
*beat
NS badly needs an edit function for RMB posts.
Vista Major, Yukona
I know, that was the point :^)
Continental Commonwealths
"One may dislike Hitler's system and yet admire his patriotic achievement. If our country were defeated, I hope we should find a champion as indomitable to restore our courage and lead us back to our place among the nations." - I see no problem with saying that at all.
"If Hitler invaded Hell, I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons."
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/not-his-finest-hour-the-dark-side-of-winston-churchill-2118317.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-29701767
I am not an admirer of Churchill. He is seen through rose-tinted spectacles by far too many Brits.
The UK, France, Canada, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand were at war because Hitler invaded Poland and threatened Europe with Fascism.
The US entered the war more than two years later because their fleet was attacked in harbour. Their own president, who desired war, won an election just a year earlier by appealing heavily to the majority anti-war electorate.
We were hardly at war for the same reasons.
Nuremgard, Yukona
The United States of Latrovia agreed to construct embassies with Commonwealth of Liberty.
"I am extremely happy for our new regional success on the Inter regional Arena. Long live the Confederacy!"
Also I do hope that good and fruitful future is in store for us in our cooperation and team work with our new partners! :)
Who are you quoting? Are you quoting yourself?!
Humpheria Major
Yeah, I forgot to type that down, so I quoted myself. :P
"That's a little weird." - Continental Commonwealths ©, 2017
The Royal Republic Of Kumania, Latrovia, Vista Major, Yukona
Lool hahaha Continental Commonwealths, you're a legend man! :D Latrovia ©, 2017
Well, I don't agree fully.
US public opinion was swayed to war due to the bombing of Pearl Harbour, but that was hardly the point where every American turned around and said "Alright, who the fvck do we gotta beat up in Europe?"
Admittedly, the public opinion was split between waging war and maintaining peace (I'm afraid WW1 kinda took the wizz out of European war for most Americans) before the event, but we went to war against Hitler for the same reasons as the Brits when Hitler declared war on us after Japan bombed PH.
To quote an American Soldier speaking to a captured German troop: "We're invading you to free you from the delusion of being a master race"
If we really want to split hairs, those nations went to war against Germany out of concern for their own security rather than a deep seated hate of Fascism.
Indeed, during the 1930s some members of Britain's nobility and Parliament even praised the Nazis...so the eventual point of why Britain's people waged war was the security, of the nation, which could be argued to have been the same reason America went to war seeing as our Convoys were being destroyed by German U-boats.
Donald: Aye! I'll drink tae 'at!
Douglas: But we're engines; we dornt drink alcohol.
Donald: I meant water, ye moron!
Douglas: That's nae how it works, Donnie. We engines dornt drink water fur pleasure, an' our water tanks are awreddy full.
Donald: Och, haud yer weesht! I was 'spikin figuratively.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Amen, Hallelujah, praise the lort
Penguania And Antarctica
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