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Region: The Confederacy of Free Nations
Excluding Scotland's gorgeousness, what else is there to see in Britain? England's green and flat land? ;)
Solla Ultima
I'd imagine if, even in jest, I said that to you - I could expect a pipe bomb under my car or a bottle over my head by the morning.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia
The fighting in Northern Ireland?
Nuremgard, Baxten
You're mistaking us with the Irish there. ;)
Why do they call it Blighty anyway? Is it because Britain blighted the world with its imperialism?
Well they do have an annual freak show every summer. People dress up in orange and celebrate a military battle fought by a long-dead Dutchman.
Jaslandia
Sighs No, it came from Hindi origins if I remember correctly, where it was used to refer to many things and then when it got morphed into English it ended up meaning Britain - this was, as you probably know, intensified in the Great War - when ol' Blighty served as an endearment for home.
No need to sigh, sweetie, I was only jesting because I didn't know where the term came from.
Kinda hard to visit a nation you were born and currently live in.
Why does everyone like Luxembourg so much?
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Yukona, Solla Ultima, United Continental States
Eurocentrism
When I think of Monaco I think of Grace Kelly.
Jaslandia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5EOuppHoTM
Nuremgard, The United Providences Of Perland
Would anyone be interested in like, a state dinner RP?
Jaslandia, Peoples Liberation Republic, Vista Major, Percyton, Solla Ultima, United Continental States
I would be!
Jaslandia, The United Providences Of Perland, Percyton
When I think of Monaco, I think of rich people gambling their money away on 80-ft super yachts with expensive Bordeaux wine, strippers, and new movies from Cannes
Sounds like the life to me
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, The United Providences Of Perland, Yukona, United Continental States
Seconded.
Well you have to hand it to the rich, they know how to live well.
Jaslandia, Kalaron, The United Providences Of Perland
fun fact, I am in the same fraternity as the Prince of Monaco
Nuremgard, The United Providences Of Perland, Yukona
The only thing I know of fraternities are dooshbags named Chad driving their Dad's expensive sports car
Peoples Liberation Republic, The United Providences Of Perland, United Continental States
https://youtu.be/ryH8Mrf2Ooo?t=26
The United Providences Of Perland
Chad Hogan... my lord
Nuremgard
Palestinian independence triggers me so much. I need to go and hide in my Israeli safe space! I can't believe that some people want companies to not do business in an illegally occupied territory and want Israel to comply with international law. Don't these people know that only the enemies of America have to comply with international law? I am so triggered by all of this that I want to put these people in jail for 20 years and fine them a million dollars!
https://www.aclu.org/blog/speak-freely/first-amendment-protects-right-boycott-israel
Kalaron
He's the most popular kid in school.
Yukona
Well now you know that PLR and the Prince of Monaco are in the same fraternal order
They don't recognize the power of LIECHTENSTEIN!!!
Jaslandia, United Continental States
*raises hand*
Jaslandia, The United Providences Of Perland
*Scoffs* then why would anyone wish to leave this spectacular and holy paradise?
Get out while you still can!...I..I mean, TRAITOR
You see, now I'm starting to doubt if you guys know me or not? Because I've been pretty vocal about my desperation to leave this idiotic country of mine and move to Germany where its nice and every 9/10 people aren't actual illiterates -_-
Yush Yush! Count me in!
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, The United Providences Of Perland, Percyton
Germany is an awesome country and recently made itself even more awesome by legalising gay marriage.
Jaslandia, Peoples Liberation Republic, Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica
I like Germany
Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica
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America > Rest of the world
The United Providences Of Perland, Magnatronia, United Continental States
To some Americans, America is the world. The other nations are mere provinces of the Empire to be toyed with.
Peoples Liberation Republic, The United Providences Of Perland, United Continental States
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3qjfQieg2w
Anybody interested in having a diplomatic meeting with the Vice-President of the PLR?
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, The United Providences Of Perland, Magnatronia, Percyton
Where would this take place? Over TGs?
Jaslandia
This sounds like a holiday invented by a porn company, and that makes me uncomfortable.
Richard Nixon: Neutrality? What's that?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Barrel_Roll
I'd be interested.
Penguania And Antarctica, The United Providences Of Perland, Percyton, United Continental States
I can set it up in the RP region we have
Eh. I'm too lazy to RP.
That just sounds awful....
Hell yeah
Auxorii, United Continental States
I'm in
Percyton
Where do you want me to set it up? On the forums or the RP region?
Rp region. I won't respond immediately, but definitely today
4 hours ago: The United Provinces of Baxten tagged the region "Eco-Friendly".
I guess that explains why we're required to write all House bills on recycled, biodegradable paper. And why all the bottles in the Parliamentary vending machine have a label saying 'Made from 100% Recycled Materials'. Looks like the CoFN is going green!
Vista Major, Yukona, Percyton
Not on my watch
Jaslandia
So little love for the Vatican... :(
Also, I love watching Sovereign Citizen videos. They're funny
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, United Continental States
Note- the Vatican is the best country along with the U.S. It's a tie
Nah, that's reserved for Deutschland.
Vista Major, Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LJKiwbOvK8&index=23&list=PLSSHL9XETepuDohx2_uz8VyUd7eDbbQkE
Oi, use renewables to power it too!
Jaslandia, Percyton
[I]SCHLAND[/I]
It's about time
Jaslandia, Oelesa, Percyton
I mean... I mean... I can't say I agree. It's America First, Netherlands Second
Jaslandia, Andromitus, Oelesa, Kalaron
Ew
Nuremgard, Oelesa, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
I concur with this statement
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica
Hey now, the max financial punishment was just 250K :P
No but really though what a terrible bill.
https://youtu.be/ELD2AwFN9Nc?t=35
Jaslandia, Kalaron, Yukona
Now, if you dissolve NATO, your going to make our problems great again; And we know you're going to be putting America First, but how about, the Netherlands, Second.
Jaslandia, Oelesa, Yukona
BAHAHAHAHA. HAHAHA. Haha. Ha.
Nuremgard, Vista Major, Andromitus, The United Providences Of Perland, Yukona
"The frighteningly efficient Percytonian economy ... is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology."
Sounds about right. Visitors come from all over the world to see our famous sentient engines, and then the scientists come to figure out how our sentient engines work. Not only do these scientists often stay on Sodor and contribute to our IT industry (either directly by taking jobs in the field, or indirectly by teaching future IT people at the University of Tidmouth), but it's also made Percyton a valuable part of the research into artificial intelligence (which I've always found strange, since I think our sentient vehicles have more to do with magic and chance than AI, but good luck convincing the scientists that).
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, The United Providences Of Perland
Don't insult the poor evangelical. They're a delicate bunch
Andromitus, Yukona
Which one do you disagree with?
You were literally talking about microaggressions yesterday.
Vista Major, The United Providences Of Perland
On what scale besides your opinion lol?
Oh, I simply disagree with the logic of there being a measure for "best" country. It's like determining who is the best person; which measures are determining factors? Philanthropy? Intellect? Running speed? Number of hotdogs consumed in a single sitting?
But I do wonder which measure you're using to arrive at VC and the US. Number of wars they've instigated? Muslim countries invaded?
Nuremgard, Yukona
VC just because I'm Catholic. US because of the values and foundations of the country.
The United Providences Of Perland
Slavery and elitist democracy by property owners? ;)
Yukona, Solla Ultima
White heterosexual property owners at that.
And can't forget how even among whites there's a sort of hierarchy among them. Irish are a no no, Italians are gangsters, and Russians are secretly spies.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia
Values as in the Constitution
Article 1 Section 2 Clause #3.
If four other people endorse this post in the affirmative, the first referendum of the Second Confederacy can be on whether to compel Kal and Sul to flip the design of one of their flags so that they're not exactly the same.
I'm kidding, of course, but srsly you two!
Jaslandia, Sulania, Vista Major, Friedensreich, Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona, Confederacy Of Free Nations
Goodnight, friends and foes. <3
(PS: The Discord is quite dead lately. :( )
Jaslandia, Vista Major
To be fair, I woke up at three in the afternoon :P
Anyhow, Night!
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica
Rainbow Space Cat Founder endorses on the condition of belly rubs!
Jaslandia, Oelesa, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
For real lol. It is bugging me too.
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Yukona
Welp, looks like we got a referendum coming!
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
That was yesterday
Sunday is the one day where one should be allowed to let go their social justice tendencies and, as the Lord commands, rest.
I would actually endorse this
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
At least people agree for once...:)
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
Offfh, I just wiped out my nations entire private sector in one click.
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
Goodnight, Peng!
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Penguania And Antarctica
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I really lile Sul's bill, but I really think it should have been put to a debate. I believe Parliament should be able to remove merits, even if the threshold is set at a 70% majority or something.
I also think there's an issue with saying that the "Ministry of X" rather than the "Minister of X" can confer and remove honours as the latter is the elected officeholder while the former would logically be composed of the deputy and staff that report to the elected officeholder as well. If we truly mean the former, then does the Minister get the final say? Does the deputy and/or staff members get an equal vote? The bill doesn't specify, but saying "Minister" instead would alleviate any interpretation issue.
Jaslandia, Sulania, Oelesa, Penguania And Antarctica
Look, I am from Iceland and I'm not teally interested in American politics but what are microaggressions? Can someone explain it to me please
Oelesa
It's speech or an action that in a subtle or seemingly indirect way harms or discriminates against a group of people, specifically when the group is marginalized (ethnicity, nationality, sexuality, gender, ect ect ect) and the statement/action is unintentional.
source: https://www.google.com/search?q=microaggressions&oq=microagressi&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0l5.2713j0j1&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
"mi·cro·ag·gres·sion
ˌmīkrōəˈɡreSHən/
noun
plural noun: microaggressions
a statement, action, or incident regarded as an instance of indirect, subtle, or unintentional discrimination against members of a marginalized group such as a racial or ethnic minority.
'students posed with dry-erase boards documenting their experiences with microaggressions on campus'"
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microaggression
Jaslandia, Oelesa
Can you give me examples?
?
I mean, I'm not an advocate or really care for it, but sure.
These kind of qualify for where I live
"You don't act gay." (Which I have heard, but I never cared cuz I never saw it as a problem)
"They're probably from the other side of the river." (Refers to black people. I live in a suburb on the other side of a major city, which the city is not exactly the best in terms of racial ghettos)
"They're pretty smart for being black." (Have actually heard from my boss, though he's the only one)
Kalaron
It's basically people being pus*ies.
Nuremgard
Very much so.
Nuremgard, Auxorii, Kalaron
I see now
Auxorii
I suppose I can see the issue. However, I would point out that given that the Minister of Internal Affairs is the de jure and de facto head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, along with other ministers and the prospective ministries, they would have the say in the matter as leaders of the Ministry.
I worded it in this specific way so that Ministries that may be operating outside of the normal parameters may still give out awards. For instance, an award can still be given out if an inactive Minister gives their deputy powers, or if there is an Interim Minister and someone wants to be pedantic about wording. I wanted to avoid specifying a specific person in the case of certain situations where an award can, and potentially should be given, but would be incapable of doing so given certain situations.
I know my reasoning may seem a bit convoluted, but I worded that way for a reason.
Jaslandia, Oelesa, Kalaron
Three Fifths Compromise, codified into the Constitution via Article 1 Section 2, Clause 3. Counts native Americans as worth 0 votes unless taxes and three fifths for everyone else that isn't free.
Yukona
[spoiler=Clause #3]Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, b]which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons. The actual Enumeration shall be made within three Years after the first Meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent Term of ten Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct. The number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty Thousand, but each State shall have at Least one Representative; and until such enumeration shall be made, the State of New Hampshire shall be entitled to chuse three, Massachusetts eight, Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations one, Connecticut five, New-York six, New Jersey four, Pennsylvania eight, Delaware one, Maryland six, Virginia ten, North Carolina five, South Carolina five, and Georgia three.[/spoiler]
It counts Native Americans as not apart of the population because they usually had their own reservations and didn't pay taxes.
Literally what I said.
Yukona
Right. So what's your point?
Blocking natives on reservations from voting is a value that you admire? Shouldn't everyone within the borders of the state have the same voting power, regardless of their socioeconomic status?
Yukona
I like the US because our military spending is both sensible for growing future military potential and also entirely inadequately governed.
INB4 Congress says "Another 2,000 M1A2SEP+++ TANKS!"
Oh also we only really fudge numbers sometimes with our military while China and Russia make radical claims that I doubt.
Rich people should have more votes. After all, they pay most of the taxes
Lol, that's real equality ain't it?
Next thing you know the government will quit caring the little guy and only care about the votes of the wealthy. After all, the got more votes, right?
Jaslandia, United Continental States
Reservations is a complicated issue, as the US technically doesn't recognize Native American Reservations as inherently US owned land. Rather, we recognize them with "Tribal Sovereignty" and so let them manage their own affairs while still operating within the United States of America. It's a complicated issue that not even I understand all that well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_reservation
Jaslandia, Auxorii, Kalaron, Solla Ultima, United Continental States
Meant to have this link as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribal_sovereignty_in_the_United_States
Jaslandia, Kalaron, United Continental States
Take the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians, the reservation run by the tribe that allowed me to go to the casino at 19.
They are allowed to vote (family friend is a member of the tribe, carries the card to it and gets discounts at the casino along with a portion of the casino's profits), despite being members of a reservation. This is due to the Voting Rights Act in 1965 and the blanket granting of US citizenship to Native Americans everywhere in the US (reservations included, as part of the Indian Citizenship Act in 1924).
Yukona
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