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Region: The Confederacy of Free Nations
I hope they are able to hold their drinks. Penguania has some really traditional tough stuff. But I'm sure they will love the Penguanian cuisine.
Maybe a little scandal during the balls ? ;)
I'm sure the people will love it.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia
Archduke Valerian could get off with a diplomat or aristocrat. ;) And Archduke Alexander would love the strong booze.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
We will see. :)
I should mention that Crown Prince Felix is attracted to the male gender. ;)
Nuremgard, Jaslandia
Valerian will definitely spend time with him. ;)
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
#NuremPeng
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Awesome. Felix is keen to get to know him.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia
I won't mind that. :)
Nuremgard, Jaslandia
Hope Felix likes pretty boys.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Oh geez.
I can....agree with this.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
Very much so. Tho he's a bit shy. So it can take a bit more time until he opens to new people. But when he opened he is a really social guy. :)
Nuremgard
Valerian is naturally confident so they'll get on like a house on fire.
Penguania And Antarctica
That's good. And I'm sure some drinks will help too. :)
Nuremgard
Which may lead to some midnight fumbling in the palace.
Penguania And Antarctica
Oh yeah. The palace has enough rooms and places to get to know each other better. ;)
Nuremgard
The two young men will forge strong ties between our two nations. ;)
Penguania And Antarctica
Hopefully. Partners on the world stage are important. And good relations are a blessing for both sides.
Nuremgard
You only need allies if you can't blitzkrieg through the world >:D
Nah, just kidding, everyone needs a few friends at least.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
So how about a Penguanian-Kalaronian cultural exchange program then ?
Jaslandia
I mean, sure, but fair warning, we're very focused on weapons.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Intelligentpeople
*increases custom controls for Kalaronians, especiall for weapons*
Well, we are pacifist nation, mostly. So don't even try to sell your weapons to the people. Altough we like your ships. :)
Jaslandia, Intelligentpeople
Sadness and happiness all at once.
I'll make a few ships maybe ;P
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Intelligentpeople
I go to bed now. Was nice to talk with you all, especially with [nation=short]Nuremgard[/nation]. :)
I look forward to more of those conversations.
I wish you all a nice remaining day and sweet dreams tonigh. Love you all. <3
Goodnight. zZ zZ zZ
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Vista Major, Oelesa, Intelligentpeople
Night buddy.
Vista Major, Oelesa, Penguania And Antarctica
Goodnight, Peng. Lots of love.
Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica
I'm so happy this exists :D
Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica
I liked it. I liked blowing it in his ear so I could imagine blowing out his hearing. I know, call me sadistic.
Oh. Really sorry to hear that. I hope he gets better, and I hope he gets the transplant!
https://youtu.be/N4vf8N6GpdM
As did I.
Goodnight, Peng!
Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona, Intelligentpeople
Hopefully I don't abandon Saor Scotland. I am so fickle. Founding and abandoning, re-founding and re-abandoning.
Jaslandia, Yukona, Intelligentpeople
I love you all :D
Also whales. I love whales too.
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, The Cross And Davids Star, Intelligentpeople
Saor Scotland takes a pro-business decision in relation to fishing. The poor's income increases but unemployment increases in a couple of other industries.
Whaa...?
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Intelligentpeople
People left their other jobs just to fish, gaining more money through it than the four other jobs they held at the same time.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Intelligentpeople
Dude, Sul is literally the best.
I love him.
Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica
#KalaSulRising
Kalaron, Penguania And Antarctica
I can really get behind this ;P
Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, The United Providences Of Perland, Magnatronia
Something else is also rising :p
Penguania And Antarctica, The United Providences Of Perland, Magnatronia
Yeah I used to do that until I founded Yukona, I occasionally do it with puppets but eventually can't be arsed to anymore
Nuremgard
I don't get how furniture restoration can be a significant part of your economy like are you serious? We're talking about billions of dollars here not a dad in his garage making a chair out of a signpost and a plank.
Everestopia, Nuremgard, The Royal Republic Of Kumania, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Magnatronia
Hahaha! Now this made me laugh!
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
Well, everyone has to start somewhere! :P
Bearlong, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Ah cool, how's that going?
Fair enough, that's what weekends are for right? :P
I just chilled with my boyfriend, went into town to do some shopping.
Penguania And Antarctica
Hello friends. Wish you all a nice day. :)
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[spoiler=Today are:]
Today are:
- Amartithi (Meherabad, India, followers of Meher Baba)
- Appreciate Your Social Security Check Day
- Brandy Alexander Day
- Gorilla Suit Day
- Independence Day (Nauru)
- National Backward Day
- National Inspire Your Heart With Art Day
- Street Children's Day (Austria)
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 314 Pope Sylvester I succeeds Pope Miltiades.
- 1504 France cedes Naples to Aragon.
- 1606 Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes is executed for plotting against Parliament and King James.
- 1747 The first venereal diseases clinic opens at London Lock Hospital.
- 1801 John Marshall is appointed the Chief Justice of the United States.
- 1814 Gervasio Antonio de Posadas becomes Supreme Director of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata (present-day Argentina).
- 1846 After the Milwaukee Bridge War, Juneautown and Kilbourntown unify as the City of Milwaukee.
- 1848 John C. Frémont is court-martialed for mutiny and disobeying orders.
- 1849 Corn Laws are abolished in the United Kingdom pursuant to legislation in 1846.
- 1862 Alvan Graham Clark discovers the white dwarf star Sirius B, a companion of Sirius, through an 18.5-inch (47 cm) telescope now located at Northwestern University.
- 1865 American Civil War: The United States Congress passes the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, abolishing slavery and submits it to the states for ratification.
- 1865 American Civil War: Confederate General Robert E. Lee becomes general-in-chief.
- 1891 History of Portugal: The first attempt at a Portuguese republican revolution breaks out in the northern city of Porto.
- 1897 Czechoslav Trade Union Association is founded in Prague.
- 1915 World War I: Germany is the first to make large-scale use of poison gas in warfare in the Battle of Bolimów against Russia.
- 1917 World War I: Germany announces that its U-boats will resume unrestricted submarine warfare after a two-year hiatus.
- 1918 A series of accidental collisions on a misty Scottish night leads to the loss of two Royal Navy submarines with over a hundred lives, and damage to another five British warships.
- 1919 The Battle of George Square takes place in Glasgow, Scotland.
- 1929 The Soviet Union exiles Leon Trotsky.
- 1930 3M begins marketing Scotch Tape.
- 1942 World War II: Allied forces are defeated by the Japanese at the Battle of Malaya and retreat to the island of Singapore.
- 1943 World War II: German Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus surrenders to the Soviets at Stalingrad, followed 2 days later by the remainder of his Sixth Army, ending one of the war's fiercest battles.
- 1945 US Army private Eddie Slovik is executed for desertion, the first such execution of an American soldier since the Civil War.
- 1945 World War II: About 3,000 inmates from the Stutthof concentration camp are forcibly marched into the Baltic Sea at Palmnicken (now Yantarny, Russia) and executed.
- 1946 Yugoslavia's new constitution, modeling that of the Soviet Union, establishes six constituent republics (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia)
- 1946 The Democratic Republic of Vietnam introduces the đồng to replace the French Indochinese piastre at par.
- 1949 These Are My Children, the first television daytime soap opera is broadcast by the NBC station in Chicago.
- 1950 United States President Harry S. Truman announces a program to develop the hydrogen bomb.
- 1953 A North Sea flood causes over 1,800 deaths in the Netherlands and over 300 in the United Kingdom
- 1958 The first successful American satellite detects the Van Allen radiation belt.
- 1961 Project Mercury: Mercury-Redstone 2: Ham the Chimp travels into outer space.
- 1966 The Soviet Union launches the unmanned Luna 9 spacecraft as part of the Luna program.
- 1968 Vietnam War: Viet Cong guerrillas attack the United States embassy in Saigon, and other attacks, in the early morning hours, later grouped together as the Tet Offensive.
- 1968 Nauru gains independence from Australia.
- 1971 Apollo program: Apollo 14: Astronauts Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa, and Edgar Mitchell, aboard a Saturn V, lift off for a mission to the Fra Mauro Highlands on the Moon.
- 1996 An explosives-filled truck rams into the gates of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka in Colombo, killing at least 86 people and injuring 1,400.
- 2000 Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crash: An MD-83, experiencing horizontal stabilizer problems, crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Point Mugu, California, killing all 88 aboard.
- 2001 In the Netherlands, a Scottish court convicts Libyan Abdelbaset al-Megrahi and acquits another Libyan citizen for their part in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988.
- 2003 The Waterfall rail accident occurs near Waterfall, New South Wales, Australia.
- 2007 Suspects are arrested in Birmingham in the UK, accused of plotting the kidnap, holding and eventual beheading of a serving Muslim British soldier in Iraq.
- 2009 In Kenya, at least 113 people are killed and over 200 injured following an oil spillage ignition in Molo, days after a massive fire at a Nakumatt supermarket in Nairobi killed at least 25 people.
- 2010 Avatar becomes the first film to gross over $2 billion worldwide.
- 2011 A winter storm hits North America for the second time in the same month, causing $1.8 billion in damage across the United States and Canada and killing 24 people.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 1512 Henry, King of Portugal
- 1797 Franz Schubert, Austrian pianist and composer
- 1835 Lunalilo, King of Hawaii
- 1865 Henri Desgrange, French cyclist and journalist
- 1868 Theodore William Richards, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1873 Melitta Bentz, German entrepreneur, invented the coffee filter
- 1881 Irving Langmuir, American chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1884 Theodor Heuss, German journalist and politician, 1st President of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 1902 Alva Myrdal, Swedish sociologist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1919 Jackie Robinson, American baseball player and sportscaster
- 1923 Norman Mailer, American journalist and author
- 1929 Rudolf Mössbauer, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1935 Kenzaburō Ōe, Japanese author and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1937 Philip Glass, American composer
- 1938 Beatrix of the Netherlands
- 1981 Justin Timberlake, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor
- 1982 Helena Paparizou, Greek-Swedish singer
- 1990 Cro, German rapper, singer, producer and designer
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Quote of the day
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
- Oscar Wilde -
Note: Penguania_And_Antarctica assumes no responsibility or guarantee for correctness of any given information. Any recourse to courts of law is excluded.
Jaslandia, Tserra, The United Providences Of Perland
Well, I got it late yesterday, so I haven't exactly read a ton.
Still helpful to consider, especially for my designs.
For fear of Moderator Interception, I can't agree with this...but really I agree very much ;P
Penguania And Antarctica, The United Providences Of Perland, Pirate Kingdoms
According to my emails, it is your birthday today. So happy birthday!
Nuremgard has a big furniture restoration industry too.
Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
Good god, I know suffering.
It's being a moderate surrounded by super liberals.
I thought this was only a problem that Liberals and Conservatives had with each other.
Pirate Kingdoms
Liberals that don't know anything and berate you, even though you consider yourself liberal is the worst
They're making stereotypes about other races now.
They just complimented Obama for his foreign policy and insulted Trump for not condemning the Saudi's.
Why are they like this.
Yukona
Post self-deleted by Kalaron.
Oh... ohhhh... ooooohhhhhhhhhhhhh....
I love you too
Kalaron, Penguania And Antarctica, Pirate Kingdoms, Yukona
Hehe < 3
Penguania And Antarctica
>Subsidize Agriculture
>Foreign Aid falls
But...but...That's not how agriculture works though.
Penguania And Antarctica, Magnatronia
Do you mean subsidizing the agriculture of a foreign country?
Nope.
Subsidized the Agriculture of my nation, watched as my outgoing aid dropped.
My farmers must be rioting, Unf would be so pleased.
My birthday is tomorrow, but thank you anyway!
Nuremgard
Oh, well Yukona's foreign policy is to subsidise with striclty material aid only, like tractors, solar panels, etc. Most money just gets funneled away to the few corrupt and encourages them to keep their backwards status-quo. That's what I woulda thought NS meant anyway, now that....that I can't explain. I had an issue about an ethnic minority student being accepted into school but he didn't have the grades, well he's not accepted he didn't get the grades and all of a sudden I refuse all ethnic minorities from my education system I was like wat
Hey mate, you could neuter your police force with the BLM issue.
I just made all higher education free.
Some of us like having prestigious institutions, thank you very much ;P
Nuremgard, Yukona, Intelligentpeople
Some of us prefer having equality, thank you very much. :P
Prestigious is just another word for expensive. A place full of inbred rich kids with silver spoons up their arses.
Kalaron
Free and quality education for all!
Nuremgard
Lol.
I mean, I don't agree with that inbred statement, and what a way to ruin silver, but I agree with the expensive bit.
Nuremgard, Yukona, Intelligentpeople
The clenching makes the spoons into rods. You could guess what to do after that :p
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica, Intelligentpeople
How come NS doesn't recognize "Giant Oceanic Manta Ray" as an aquatic animal?
Penguania And Antarctica, Intelligentpeople
maybe try Giant Saltwater Manta Ray, that should help.
Nope :D
-_- interesting, how about the Majestic Manta Ray?
It doesn't recognise Manta Ray at all :/
Christ, what muscles.
Nuremgard, Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica, Pirate Kingdoms
[spoiler]A Nude Day, A Nude Awakening...
The Issue
Internet news sites and online communities are abuzz over supposed leaked nude images of you that surfaced online this morning. Amateur photo-manipulation experts have concluded that the images are fakes, but the files have already spread across the internet like wildfire. As the victim of this internet trolling campaign, it may be time for you to address the problem of faked images of this sort.
The Debate
Here we have thieves and perverts, stealing your likeness and creating obscenity, declares Dixie Cruz, a country singer of dubious talent who claims there have been more downloads of fake nudes of her than downloads of her music. Every time I go online I see these filthy pictures. Its humiliating, degrading, and feels like a violation of my privacy and a kind of sexual assault. I guess now you know how it feels too! I know this is hard to police, but you should at least establish the principle that photo-manipulation is illegal, with fines applicable to those who break this law or who distribute these images.
Accept
Kirby Streisand agrees, but Kirby Streisand thinks that we should go further, agrees the notorious Kirby Streisand, a staunch censorship advocate who once tried to remove all references to his name on the internet. If it were up to Kirby Streisand, any unauthorized image, name usage, or even a likeness of a person without their permission should automatically be taken down whether its on the internet, the news, or any random video.
Accept
Either everything is okay, or nothing is, refutes satirist and online columnist François Pong, whilst using a clever piece of software to make a mildly angry photo of you on a bad hair day look like you are a positively psychotic murderer on the verge of going on a killing spree. Are you going to censor the Moaning Lisa because she was painted without her knowledge? Are you going to ban a schoolboy from drawing a moustache on a newspaper photo of your face? You have no right to censor art, and photo-manipulation is art. Quite frankly, celebrities and politicians should give up their expectations of privacy. If you dont want people drawing you nude, you shouldnt have chosen a career that makes you famous.
Accept
Face it, you cant stop people putting things on the internet, suggests your tech-savvy nephew, who moonlights as notorious internet troll politichunt42. But you can affect an images notability, by changing its context. Say we fake a few hundred nudes of a dozen other world leaders, and maybe some politicians and public figures you dont like: we could make it so that your faked nudes are old news, and have everyone laughing at your rivals and opponents instead. Wouldnt it be fun to watch them flail around like a Leopard with its head chopped off? Is it immoral? Sure, if somebody hadnt obviously already done this to you. Can you say hackers-sponsored-by-Blackacre?
Accept[/spoiler]
Can't decided betwen the South Park expy and the KIRBY DELAUTER expy. Also, KIRBY DELAUTER does not appreciate KIRBY DELAUTER being used as a reference to a KIRBY DELAUTER meme.
Penguania And Antarctica
That's what I do in my main nation.
We have student loans.
Nuremgard
NationStates at it's finest i guess.
Ew, student loans.
Truth be told, I actually take Nurem's resolution to the issue when not giving the middle finger to the issue-makers bias :P
Nuremgard
all of my schools are religious and government-funded so... -^(`-`)^-
The student loans seemed like the best option to me. Otherwise only the rich would have access to collage or if I made it free my tax rate would/should be incredible high.
Higher education is incredibly costly, you'd have to fund the universities themselves to provide a range of courses otherwise you'd have many more people taking even broader/more common degrees simply reducing the specialization of your labour force and altogether not doing as good of a job as they could. I think the current student grant/loan system in the UK is alright, I have no worries about loans, the payments are minuscule, you only pay it when you earn enough and they get written off after a number of years.
Super ew.
I'm already at 96%
A few more won't hurt.
Yukona, Intelligentpeople
apart from the government funding, yup, super ew
Intelligentpeople
ew
Jaslandia, Intelligentpeople
Yeah, Gov Funding is fine and all, but that first part is just gross ;P
What? We feed 'em, we house 'em we give them guns for free.
It takes a lot of money dontcha know?
Intelligentpeople
I can only imagine what your real life economy would be like
Intelligentpeople
The free education in Scotland is great. Without it, I would never have been able to get the opportunity to go to uni.
I'm talking about the 96% income tax rate
Intelligentpeople
Ouch.
Intelligentpeople
*puts on tortoise shell spectacles* it's to to go...free market
*gags*
Nah, free markets are fine. They just need to be counterbalanced.
counterbalanced with low taxation, I get you :^)))))))))))))))))))))
Nuremgard, Intelligentpeople
More like counterbalanced with regulation, taxes and state-owned industry. ;)
ew
Intelligentpeople
Here is an excellent article from the Atlantic about the possible dangers of the Trump Presidency to our Republic and how can we slide into authoritarianism without people noticing. Before any conservatives get into a hissy fit about the Atlantic being liberal, it was written by David Frum, a speechwriter for President George W. Bush, a Republican. Please take a look!
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/513872/
It is our duty as citizens of Our Republic to uphold and support the institutions that guard against tyranny and the degradation that leads to it, such as Presidentialism. We cannot allow the slow erosion of republican values to occur and must remember that Congress, the people's branch, must hold power over the executive branch, not the other way around. In addition, we cannot forget that radicalism and reactionary politics are no way to achieve liberty. As Alexander Hamilton once said, "True Liberty is neithet found in Despotism, nor in the extremes of Democracy, but in Moderate Government". And, if we wish to keep Our Republic that our forefathers had given us, we must heed Franklin's words and not trade our liberties for momentary gains in security. Lastly, let us remember who we are by knowing the end stanza of The New Colossus (poem inscripted on The Statue of Liberty):
"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona, Intelligentpeople
Being a fascist I didn't take you to have libertarian anti-authoritarian views like mine. Besides that, New Colossus is my all time favourite poem.
Aldaur, Penguania And Antarctica
I'm not a Fascist anymore. Though I still have a certain fondness for it, I don't agree with all aspects of it. In addition, I will still defend the intellectualism or Fascism, as I still believe it is very misunderstood. For example, Trump is not a Fascist. He does not have the prerequisite ideological or intellectual rigor and to say he is one, gives him far more credit. Rather, I see him as am authoritarian kleptocrat as described in the article. At least under a Fascist dictatorship, there is totalitarianism, which seeks to benefit the nation rather than rabid greed.
Intelligentpeople
I find it incredibly interesting and 'cool', for want of a better word. I recognise its atrocities and failures, but much like Sovieboos I think it has neat elements in a socio-cultural sense. I hate using fascist as a default word of people you don't agree with, it irritates me and just exhibits a "I read Das Kapital at Starbucks"-mentality.
Aldaur, Intelligentpeople
I think Mussolini would recognise that many western nations have elements of fascism such as the merging of corporate and political interests.
Indeed. It takes away from the power of that word. People use words like Communist, Racist, Bigot, Oppression in the same way with no real understanding of what those mean.
Anyway, now that I am no longer a Fascist, I am struggling with what to call myself and am trying to define exactly what I believe. Also, I am renouncing my Fascist title, not because I hate or even dislike Fascism, I just don't agree with all aspects of it anymore, so I deemed it inappropriate to continue calling myself that. I am still completely open to teaching people about it if they want to learn though.
Yukona
How is that a fascist element? Corporations need to be factored in to many economic decisions a government makes, if they weren't the economy would be a shambles. Are you somehow suggesting a parallel between capitalism and corporatism, because I strongly recommend you read Gentile's Doctrine of Fascism if that is so? The Tripartie system is nothing close to corporate lobbying in America, for example.
Aldaur, Intelligentpeople
A pragmatist. Realpolitik.
Aldaur, Yukona, Intelligentpeople
Regardless, corporations are the new aristocracy.
Corporations are not people, I don't see how they can be aristocracy? You can tax a corporation but ultimately you are taxing people and withdrawing cash out of the economy as the burden of said tax will just fall on the most un-fixed factor of production, labour. By no means am I advocating for a zero tax rate, but still, how you can consider them an aristocracy is ridiculous. Business men and women as aristocracy? Well unless they inherited the fortunes, a lot have been worked for (regardless of what you think of the actual firm). They are not a ruling class, ultimately they serve the consumer and the consumer masters them, it is when the government gives political power (I'm not talking consideration, I'm talking direct influence) to these corporations that they can possibly exploit the system to their benefit. Therefore I would argue it is Whitehall that are the aristocrats, not the business men and women.
Intelligentpeople
Aw man, the SC will be so angry when they hear of this :O
Aldaur, Intelligentpeople
They are an aristocracy in the sense that their lobbying and power influences how government forms policies. Low taxation, deregulation etc. Furthermore, many of them do in fact inherit their fortunes and run the companies that their families ran. Moreover, they serve themselves. Their own enrichment is their goal. Profit before people is the corporate motto.
Aldaur
Legalism certainly has a place in my beliefs, but I also have certain principles I believe in too. I like the idea of ordered liberty. I also want a strong, active and balanced government that isn't gigantic and bloated. Essentially I want a good government that manages public goods but doesn't control society in the way most governments do now. It is hard to explain, but I'd rather have the government influence, teach and guide people to do positive things rather than forcing them to.
Popular rhetoric, but completely untrue. Either way though, the premise of private interests having undue influence in politics is something that really undermines good government.
Yukona
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