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Region: The Confederacy of Free Nations
https://youtu.be/vsQrKZcYtqg
Nuremgard, Yukona
It would have been better if they were never there in the first place.
You could say that about any/every empire.
For what it's worth, I think Cyprus should be returned to the Greeks. My Gran's brother was killed by Greek nationalists there back in the 50s.
Yukona, Cesorion, United Continental States
Of course, never said that - I just have a particular hate for the Ottoman Empire. To quote William Gladstone:
"Upon the whole, from the black day when they first entered Europe, the one great anti-human specimen of humanity. Wherever they went, a broad line of blood marked the track behind them; and as far as their dominion reached, civilisation disappeared from view. They represented everywhere government by force, as opposed to government by law. For the guide of this life they had a relentless fatalism: for its reward hereafter, a sensual paradise."
Neo-Icelandic Commonwealth
Fair enough. I don't know enough about the Ottomans to really comment on how brutal they were.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_Genocide
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_genocide
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assyrian_genocide
Ah. That's a lot of genocides.
Axeldonia, Yukona
Just a few
Sigh. When will people learn that partition never works. Cyprus, India and Pakistan, Northern Ireland etc.
It's was a good idea to keep the Muslims and Hinduists seperated. Otherwise you would be risking civil war
It was a no-win situation. The Muslims wanted a separate state because they didn't want to be ruled by the Hindu majority and the Hindus wanted a united India because they knew they'd rule the roost.
#MakeByzantiumGreatAgain
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Yukona, Neo-Icelandic Commonwealth
Just got elected Class President at my school. But gonna have some stuff rolling out from your Speaker pretty soon.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, Cesorion, South Hyder, Neo-Icelandic Commonwealth
Congrats, Oel!
Interesting. I imagine quite a few Percytonians would be interested in that. I'll have my Minister of Transportation Toby coordinate with Sodor's airlines and two airports (Vicarstown Airport and Sodor Airport in Maron) to increase the number of flights to Russkov Soviet. And even though train fare isn't covered under this deal, I'll work with railways on the Mainland and in Europe to offer special trains from Percyton to Stalliongrad and St. Petersburg.
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Well..... I do believe I can throw in train fare as well. You are a friend.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Jaslandia, Oelesa, Percyton
Really? Thanks, Russ! You didn't need to do that. I'm glad our nations can be such good friends! To celebrate what I hope to be the begining of a strong tourism program between our nations, I'm sending Prime Minister Sir Topham Hatt and his family, the Duke and Duchess of Boxford, the Earl of Sodor, and other important dignitaries to Stalliongrad to take in the sights and see the country like a tourist would. They'll be arriving aboard Hugo, who is pretty excited about returning to Russkov Soviet for the first time since he was sent there on the engine exchange program.
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia
Henry: Indeed. May the Reverend Awdry bless President Oel with the magic powers of Rule 55!
Gordon: Henry, I don't think that's how it's work, and that's not actually what Rule 55 --
Henry: Shut up, Gordon! I can do what I want.
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Oelesa, Penguania And Antarctica
Hugo's returning? Well...Blow me down! I shall put the word out regarding the impending visit.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Considering how strong Hugo's propeller is, you better hope he doesn't literally blow you down! :)
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Alright Venizelos. Calm down.
Jaslandia, Yukona
Jaslandia, Oelesa, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Good. Cesorian Ministry of Transportation shall issue an announcement for tourists!
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Percyton
New poll is up! What is your favourite Australian state and why?
Penguania And Antarctica
Post self-deleted by Cesorion.
Would [nation=short]Sulania[/nation] please count citizens' valid votes?
https://www.nationstates.net/page=poll/p=98686
Vista Major
Mum has been listening to Elvis all day. It's his death anniversary tomorrow.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xA142IsjQiE
I feel like this song could never be more appropriate. My mum's an absolutely huge Elvis fan, we went to Graceland (his mansion) for her 40th and stayed in the Heartbreak Hotel on Elvis Presley Ave. She's even got flowers from his grave and, during Christmas, they light up his house in blue lights for his song "Blue Christmas - she has a few of the lightbulbs as the groundskeeper gifted them to her when she turned up at like 5am early to his grave in order to get there before anybody was around. Not to mention the fact she has original posters and the original receipt for his thousand dollar suit. He truly was a fantastic musician and entertainer, it's a shame the industry can do that to a man, but he'll forever be the King.
Nuremgard, Percyton
That is so cool that she has the bulbs, receipt, flowers and posters. And it's also cool she's been to Graceland. I've always said to my mum that if I had the money, I'd take her there.
Jaslandia, Percyton
It's definitely worth a visit, as you in the gates they play "Welcome to My World" and you'll never meet bigger Elvis fans. There's people that have devoted their life to that man, whether they be super fans, impersonates or whatever else. It was sad, as there were many people there who were on their last trip, we met a couple where the husband had terminal cancer and this was his last big trip. Regardless, the impact he had as a musician is immeasurable and he stands as one of the greatest American artists of not just his generation but full-stop. I strongly recommend it, but obviously money doesn't grow on trees :/
Nuremgard, Percyton
Aww, man, that's sad. :( I wouldn't call myself a super fan or even a fan. But I do like a lot of his music and I appreciate the massive impact he had on people's lives. There'll never be another performer like him.
Jaslandia, Yukona, Percyton
[spoiler=Today August 15 and today are:]
Today is August 15 and today are:
- Armed Forces Day (Poland)
- Assumption of Mary (Christianity)
- Awa Dance Festival (Tokushima Prefecture, Japan)
- Bon Festival (Japan)
- Check The Chip Day
- Constitution Day (Equatorial Guinea)
- Dormition of the Theotokos (Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches)
- End-of-war Memorial Day (Japan)
- Ferragosto (Italy)
- First day of Flooding of the Nile or Wafaa El-Nil (Egypt and Coptic Church)
- Founding of Asunción (Paraguay)
- Gwangbokjeol or Independence Day (South Korea)
- Independence Day (India)
- Independence Day (Republic of the Congo)
- Jogukhaebangui nal or Fatherland Liberation Day (North Korea)
- Lady's Day (Ireland)
- Māras (Latvia)
- Mother's Day (Antwerp in Netherlands, and Costa Rica)
- National Acadian Day (Acadians)
- National Day (Liechtenstein)
- National Lemon Meringue Pie Day (United States)
- National Mourning Day (Bangladesh)
- National Relaxation Day (United States)
- Navy Day (Romania)
- Pythagorean Theorem Day (8² + 15² = 17²)
- Victory over Japan Day (United Kingdom)
- Virgin of Candelaria (Tenerife, Spain)
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 636 ArabByzantine wars: The Battle of Yarmouk between Byzantine Empire and Rashidun Caliphate begins.
- 717 ArabByzantine wars: Maslama ibn Abd al-Malik begins the Second Arab Siege of Constantinople, which will last for nearly a year.
- 718 ArabByzantine wars: Raising of the Second Arab Siege of Constantinople.
- 747 Carloman, mayor of the palace of Austrasia, renounces his position as majordomo and retires to a monastery near Rome. His brother Pepin the Short becomes the sole ruler (de facto) of the Frankish Kingdom.
- 778 The Battle of Roncevaux Pass, at which Roland is killed.
- 805 Noble Erchana of Dahauua grants the Bavarian town of Dachau to the Diocese of Freising
- 927 The Saracens conquer and destroy Taranto.
- 982 Holy Roman Emperor Otto II is defeated by the Saracens in the Battle of Capo Colonna, in Calabria
- 1018 Byzantine general Eustathios Daphnomeles blinds and captures Ibatzes of Bulgaria by a ruse, thereby ending Bulgarian resistance against Emperor Basil II's conquest of Bulgaria.
- 1038 King Stephen I, the first king of Hungary, dies; his nephew, Peter Orseolo, succeeds him.
- 1057 King Macbeth is killed at the Battle of Lumphanan by the forces of Máel Coluim mac Donnchada.
- 1070 The Pavian-born Benedictine Lanfranc is appointed as the new Archbishop of Canterbury in England.
- 1185 The cave city of Vardzia is consecrated by Queen Tamar of Georgia.
- 1237 The Battle of the Puig takes place in the context of the Spanish Reconquista pitting the forces of the Taifa of Valencia against the Kingdom of Aragon. The battle resulted in an Aragonese victory.
- 1248 The foundation stone of Cologne Cathedral, built to house the relics of the Three Wise Men, is laid. (Construction is eventually completed in 1880.)
- 1261 Michael VIII Palaiologos is crowned Byzantine emperor in Constantinople.
- 1281 Mongol invasion of Japan: The Mongolian fleet of Kublai Khan is destroyed by a "divine wind" for the second time in the Battle of Kōan.
- 1309 The city of Rhodes surrenders to the forces of the Knights of St. John, completing their conquest of Rhodes. The knights establish their headquarters on the island and rename themselves the Knights of Rhodes.
- 1430 Francesco Sforza, lord of Milan, conquers Lucca.
- 1461 The Empire of Trebizond surrenders to the forces of Sultan Mehmed II. This is regarded by some historians as the real end of the Byzantine Empire. Emperor David is exiled and later murdered.
- 1483 Pope Sixtus IV consecrates the Sistine Chapel.
- 1511 Afonso de Albuquerque of Portugal conquers Malacca, the capital of the Malacca Sultanate.
- 1517 Seven Portuguese armed vessels led by Fernão Pires de Andrade meet Chinese officials at the Pearl River estuary.
- 1519 Panama City, Panama is founded.
- 1534 Ignatius of Loyola and six classmates take initial vows, leading to the creation of the Society of Jesus in September 1540.
- 1537 Asunción, Paraguay is founded.
- 1540 Arequipa, Peru is founded.
- 1549 Jesuit priest Francis Xavier comes ashore at Kagoshima (Traditional Japanese date: 22 July 1549).
- 1599 Nine Years' War: Battle of Curlew Pass: Irish forces led by Hugh Roe O'Donnell successfully ambush English forces, led by Sir Conyers Clifford, sent to relieve Collooney Castle.
- 1695 French forces end the bombardment of Brussels.
- 1760 Seven Years' War: Battle of Liegnitz: Frederick the Great's victory over the Austrians under Ernst Gideon von Laudon.
- 1824 The Marquis de Lafayette, the last surviving French general of the American Revolutionary War, arrives in New York and begins a tour of 24 states.
- 1843 The Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace in Honolulu, Hawaii is dedicated. Now the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu, it is the oldest Roman Catholic cathedral in continuous use in the United States.
- 1843 Tivoli Gardens, one of the oldest still intact amusement parks in the world, opens in Copenhagen, Denmark.
- 1863 The Anglo-Satsuma War begins between the Satsuma Domain of Japan and the United Kingdom (Traditional Japanese date: July 2, 1863).
- 1869 The Meiji government in Japan establishes six new ministries, including one for Shinto.
- 1893 Ibadan area becomes a British Protectorate after a treaty signed by Fijabi, the Baale of Ibadan with the British acting Governor of Lagos, George C. Denton.
- 1907 Ordination in Constantinople of Fr. Raphael Morgan, the first African-American Orthodox priest, "Priest-Apostolic" to America and the West Indies.
- 1914 A servant of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright murders seven people and sets fire to the living quarters of Wright's Wisconsin home, Taliesin.
- 1914 The Panama Canal opens to traffic with the transit of the cargo ship SS Ancon.
- 1914 World War I: The First Russian Army, led by Paul von Rennenkampf, enters East Prussia.
- 1914 World War I: Beginning of the Battle of Cer, the first Allied victory of World War I.
- 1915 A story in New York World newspaper reveals that the Imperial German government had purchased excess phenol from Thomas Edison that could be used to make explosives for the war effort and diverted it to Bayer for aspirin production.
- 1920 PolishSoviet War: Battle of Warsaw, so-called Miracle at the Vistula.
- 1935 Will Rogers and Wiley Post are killed after their aircraft develops engine problems during takeoff in Barrow, Alaska.
- 1939 Thirteen Stukas dive into the ground during a disastrous air-practice at Neuhammer. There are no survivors.
- 1939 The Wizard of Oz premieres at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Los Angeles, California.
- 1940 An Italian submarine torpedoes and sinks the Greek cruiser Elli at Tinos harbor during peacetime, marking the most serious Italian provocation prior to the outbreak of the Greco-Italian War in October.
- 1941 Corporal Josef Jakobs is executed by firing squad at the Tower of London at 07:12, making him the last person to be executed at the Tower for espionage.
- 1942 World War II: Operation Pedestal: The SS Ohio reaches the island of Malta barely afloat carrying vital fuel supplies for the island's defenses.
- 1943 World War II: Battle of Trahili: Superior German forces surround Cretan partisans, who manage to escape against all odds.
- 1944 World War II: Operation Dragoon: Allied forces land in southern France.
- 1945 Jewel Voice Broadcast by the Emperor Showa following effective surrender of Japan in the World War II, Korea gains Independence from the Empire of Japan.
- 1947 India gains Independence from British rule after near 190 years of Crown rule and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.
- 1947 Founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah is sworn in as first Governor-General of Pakistan in Karachi.
- 1948 The Republic of Korea is established south of the 38th parallel north.
- 1952 A flash flood drenches the town of Lynmouth, England, killing 34 people.
- 1954 Alfredo Stroessner begins his dictatorship in Paraguay.
- 1960 Republic of the Congo (Brazzaville) becomes independent from France.
- 1961 Border guard Conrad Schumann flees from East Germany while on duty guarding the construction of the Berlin Wall.
- 1962 James Joseph Dresnok defects to North Korea after running across the Korean Demilitarized Zone. Dresnok still resides in the capital, Pyongyang.
- 1963 Execution of Henry John Burnett, the last man to be hanged in Scotland.
- 1963 President Fulbert Youlou is overthrown in the Republic of the Congo, after a three-day uprising in the capital.
- 1965 The Beatles play to nearly 60,000 fans at Shea Stadium in New York City, an event later regarded as the birth of stadium rock.
- 1969 The Woodstock Music & Art Fair opens in upstate New York, featuring some of the top rock musicians of the era.
- 1970 Patricia Palinkas becomes the first woman to play professionally in an American football game.
- 1971 President Richard Nixon completes the break from the gold standard by ending convertibility of the United States dollar into gold by foreign investors.
- 1971 Bahrain gains independence from the United Kingdom.
- 1973 Vietnam War: The United States bombing of Cambodia ends.
- 1974 Yuk Young-soo, First Lady of South Korea, is killed during an apparent assassination attempt upon President, Park Chung-hee.
- 1975 Bangladeshi leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is killed along with most members of his family during a military coup.
- 1975 Takeo Miki makes the first official pilgrimage to Yasukuni Shrine by an incumbent prime minister on the anniversary of the end of World War II.
- 1977 The Big Ear, a radio telescope operated by Ohio State University as part of the SETI project, receives a radio signal from deep space; the event is named the "Wow! signal" from the notation made by a volunteer on the project.
- 1984 The Kurdistan Workers' Party in Turkey starts a campaign of armed attacks upon the Turkish military with an attack on police and gendarmerie bases in Şemdinli and Eruh
- 1995 In South Carolina, Shannon Faulkner becomes the first female cadet matriculated at The Citadel (she drops out less than a week later).
- 1998 Northern Ireland: Omagh bombing takes place; 29 people (including a woman pregnant with twins) killed and some 220 others injured.
- 1999 Beni Ounif massacre in Algeria: Some 29 people are killed at a false roadblock near the Moroccan border, leading to temporary tensions with Morocco.
- 2005 Israel's unilateral disengagement plan to evict all Israelis from the Gaza Strip and from four settlements in the northern West Bank begins.
- 2005 The Helsinki Agreement between the Free Aceh Movement and the Government of Indonesia was signed, ending almost three decades of fighting.
- 2007 An 8.0-magnitude earthquake off the Pacific coast devastates Ica and various regions of Peru killing 514 and injuring 1,090.
- 2013 At least 27 people are killed and 226 injured in an explosion in southern Beirut near a complex used by Lebanon's militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon. A previously unknown Syrian Sunni group claims responsibility in an online video.
- 2013 The Smithsonian announces the discovery of the olinguito, the first new carnivorous species found in the Americas in 35 years.
- 2015 North Korea moves its clock back half an hour to introduce Pyongyang Time, 8½ hours ahead of UTC.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 1740 Matthias Claudius, German poet and author
- 1769 Napoléon Bonaparte, French general and emperor
- 1771 Walter Scott, Scottish novelist, playwright, and poet
- 1857 Albert Ballin, German businessman
- 1872 Sri Aurobindo, Indian guru, poet, and philosopher
- 1892 Louis de Broglie, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1896 Gerty Cori, Czech-American biochemist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1912 Julia Child, American chef and author
- 1917 Óscar Romero, Salvadoran archbishop
- 1924 Robert Bolt, English playwright and screenwriter
- 1931 Richard F. Heck, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1954 Stieg Larsson, Swedish journalist and author
- 1955 Roger Willemsen, German author, essayist and TV presenter
- 1963 Alejandro González Iñárritu, Mexican director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1968 Debra Messing, American actress
- 1972 Ben Affleck, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1978 Adel Tawil, German singer, songwriter and producer
- 1990 Jennifer Lawrence, American actress
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Quote of the day
If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
- Winston Churchill -
Note: Penguania_And_Antarctica assumes no responsibility or guarantee for correctness of any given information. Any recourse to courts of law is excluded.
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Andromitus, Kalaron, Yukona, Percyton, Neo-Icelandic Commonwealth
He'll always and forever be the King of Rock and Roll.
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
ARE YOU SAYING THAT IN YOUR CAPaCITY aS CONsTAnBLE???!
Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica
Just got my new phone and already loving it
Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica
What kind?
Gotta love that new tech smell
OnePlus 5
Moldegaard
Everyday I see stories in the paper of the UK's supposed "demands" and "negotiation strategies" being torn down by the EU. A beautiful sight to see. I love seeing arrogant Westminster politicians being put in their place on the international stage.
Did you hear from David Davis that "the Brexit process so far has gone "incredibly well". He said the lack of clarity over what the government plan is intentional, calling it "constructive ambiguity"...
Jesus Uppercutting Christ, I need to go lie down...
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Axeldonia
Updated the Ronald Reagan Super Factbook - nation=pevvania/detail=factbook/id=151078
I have reexamined the statistics and come to the same conclusion that I did 3 years ago: Reagan outperformed Obama economically in almost every single measure. On growth, employment, incomes, federal spending and deficits and poverty, Reaganomics has a better record. Obama outperforms Reagan on one indicator, the stock market, which I'd venture to guess as being a result of quantitative easing and historically low interest rates.
Check out the factbook and scroll to the bottom to see the cool table I made.
Reagan's economic program was of large across-the-board tax cuts, reduced domestic spending, reduced regulation and disinflationary monetary policy.
Obama has a mixed but significantly worse record on spending and taxes, failing to reduce either on net, an inflationary record on monetary policy and an absurdly bureaucratic regulatory policy.
The results are clear: supply-side and monetarist economics trump neo-Keynesian economics. Reagan succeeded, Obama largely failed. The numbers are incontrovertible.
Miencraft, Pevvania, Neo-Icelandic Commonwealth
https://i.imgur.com/B7fsUij.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/B7fsUij.jpg
Pevvania, Neo-Icelandic Commonwealth
"constructive ambiguity" is Brexitese for "we don't know what the f*ck we are doing. We have no plan."
I wonder when the penny will drop that the EU is calling the shots in these "negotiations."
Lex Caledonia
Post self-deleted by Nuevo Pevvania.
I've heard. Donald and Douglas are big Elvis fans, and they've been singing Elvis songs as they work all day. Some of the other engines are a bit annoyed by it, but others also like Elvis and are willing to go along with it. A few of them (Molly, Hank, and Sam in particular) even sing along when they see the Scottish Twins.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Donald: Whit can we say? Elvis makes some bonnie guid music, an' he was a true innovatur in th' arts.
Douglas: "Ye ainae nothin' but a hound dug, cryin' aw th' time. Ye ainae nothin' but a hound dug, cryin' aw th' time."
Donald: "Weel, ye ainae ne'er caught a rabbit --"
Donald and Douglas: "An' ye ainae nae friend of mine!"
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Huh. So that's what Elvis would sound like if sung be a person with a very thick Scottish accent.
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/GD6qtc2_AQA/maxresdefault.jpg
Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Six.
hahahahahahahhahahahahahahah
Oh good God a Reaganist
Nuremgard, Axeldonia, Nuevo Pevvania, Neo-Icelandic Commonwealth
Always.
Neo-Icelandic Commonwealth
That moment when you realize the old ITF military factbook used a photo of the batshít insane Scientology leader David Miscavige
Jaslandia, Axeldonia
Not... Just don't
Post self-deleted by Neo-Icelandic Commonwealth.
Why do Americans like electing actors? Reagan, Arnold.
Then again they did elect an Oompa Loompa so I'm not really surprised.
Neo-Icelandic Commonwealth
Yeah hahaha friggin actors what do they know about politics?
Omg did you hear what George Clooney said about Trump? Clooney 4 president!!!1
United Continental States, Neo-Icelandic Commonwealth
Regardless, in terms of both economic and foreign policy Reagan is very clearly one of the best presidents. This is increasingly recognised by historians, too, who are mostly left-leaning.
United Continental States, Neo-Icelandic Commonwealth
Actors usually know about as much as everybody else when it comes to politics.
The square root of f*ck all.
Kalaron
But I agree on Arnold. Love the guy but he was a bad governor.
You've clearly never heard of HistoryWoman on Twitter if you think most historians are left-leaning.
I've not got a well enough informed opinion on Reagan but aw here see that Thatcher.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7a/Thatcher_is_dead.gif
Nuremgard
When I heard she'd died, I thought to myself, "mind and stake the corpse and spray it with holy water just to be certain."
Axeldonia
Also, I love how Scotland is the most enthusiastic in that gif.
Absolutely loved the faux outrage of the right wingers that day. I could practically hear the lips trembling as I read the raging comments. It's like, "how dare you not show reverential respect to a woman who destroyed entire communities! Evil lefties!"
I remember my dad and mum dancing at the news.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmmomV-ax-s
Nuremgard, Axeldonia
Ding Dong the Witch is Dead reached top of the charts that day. The BBC refused to play it. F*cking hilarious.
A state funeral for that old cow? Couldn't believe it. Typical Tories though, eh?
Lex Caledonia
Probably one last hurrah, try to make her look better. Didn't work out though, most of pop culture now sees her as being reprehensible and for good reason.
Nuremgard
She hated the state. Why give her a state funeral? Should have outsourced it to a bunch of foreign corporations.
But like all good Tories, she was good at taking public cash for herself and her cronies while denying it to others.
Axeldonia, Lex Caledonia
I hear you man.
Nuremgard
Here, you. Want a word with you lol. What you doing being a member of the Centrist and Libertarian Party? :P
Because its the closest party in the CoFN to my real life political leanings my duder :L
Neo-Icelandic Commonwealth
You're libertarian/small government?
A little bit, not massively though, I think Libertarianism if utilised in small amounts at a governmental level would benefit a country practically. I'm centre-left but on the verge of breaking full left.
Nuremgard
Hmm. That is more acceptable. :P
You not a big fan of Libetarianism?
No way. I absolutely believe in the state. Plus, most libertarians I have talked to are just Conservatives on steroids, i.e. selfish arseholes.
...but surely you realise that Tories represent the absolute worst the state has to offer? The state is what got us into this mess with Brexit in the first place, Tories fighting amongst themselves as to secure the state and get in bed with as many corporations as possible?
Good point. Brexit has been fueled by British nationalism but nobody wants to admit that.
Misguided nationalism at that, used by self-interested demagogues to get their way. Which happened to be leaving the EU and bum fumbling the UK economy so badly that there are now comparisons to Greece. Greece.
Nuremgard
Well now they know how Scotland felt constantly being called "Greece without the sunshine" had we voted Yes.
I really don't get it though, why do you want to be in the EU?
God, we would've been celebrating our independence day on the 24th of March 2016. Now we're gonna probably have to wait another 2-4 years.
Nuremgard, Axeldonia
It's better for trade, offers many benefits, you are an equal and valued member (unlike in the UK in which you must do as you're told by Westminster.)
Axeldonia
Could be waiting another 100 years if you ask me. Scots don't have the stomach for independence. And there's also the issue of half a million English residents, most of whom would never vote to remove Scotland from control of the motherland.
I like being able to travel everywhere, I like people coming to my country and experiencing our fine universities and making good friends. The EU is also one of Scotland's biggest trading partners and allows us access to the single market and free trade area which the Scottish Economy strives on. We're an export heavy country and we flourish in the EU.
Nuremgard, Axeldonia
A commenter on the Guardian gave an excellent list of over 20 reasons why the EU benefits its member-states. I wish I still had it.
Axeldonia
What's most humorous to me about this all is that it leaves Britain as what will likely be the only country in the world to operate a rifled tank gun on their primary Tank in the future unless they go German...which is funny as hell because they maybe kinda could have gotten a better deal in Pre-Brexit times? I love how they won't be able to innovate and are probably going to hit Romania Levels of tech at some point if they stay the path.
Really, it's more likely that the defense sector will actually just stagnate in the future due to the EU's current negotiating strategy.
Lex Caledonia
Och, don't worry, its nowhere near that bad :L Plenty of Scots have the appetite, you'd be surprised how much the English voters for Yes are growing, especially after Brexit. Its alright to have a moan but don't lose hope Nurem, we got this.
Nuremgard
I've always wanted to live in Canberra, but Adelaide is a close 2nd.
The whole of the UK is gonna stagnate at this rate, its certainly interesting times.
I wish I had your optimism. :P
The only thing that might save it is reform. And that will -never- happen.
More of a cheery realist now, been reading up and getting a better understanding of the mess we're in :L
Nuremgard
Reform will happen when you find me saying that "Aw here, see that Edward Longshanks? He was awrite."
Nuremgard
Did you hear about the Scottish Government refusing to publish lobbying letters written to them by Prince Charles?
:D Brilliant.
Mind you, a unionist Scot would probably say that. ;)
Nope, whats the deal?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C2qvcExXUAAMS89.jpg
Nuremgard
True, I'm just saddened to hear that Britain's ability to defend itself -or really even produce vehicles to defend itself- is tanking and sliding over to Germany.
The current Challenger II is -IMO- useless as a weapon against other MBT's without a numbers advantage, and even that is being cut down from an already meager number. Y'all got out-teched and now out-numbered too.
He has written to Scottish ministers lobbying on behalf of some kind of teaching charity he is patron of. He is such a twat. He thinks he still lives in the time of the divine right of kings.
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