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Region: The Confederacy of Free Nations
Post self-deleted by Andromitus.
Exactly, down with central-minorities authority
Why don't you go the Ædenist way, Major enterprise is controlled by the state, but the state is a direct transparent democracy. That way there is no superior upper and ruling class. Then add a swift sprinkle of socialist Universal Basic Income, High-standard Public housing and Urban vertical farming and that means that food and housing is accounted for and with the afformentioned political system, you can maintain a near communist utopia and everyone isn't controlled by an overarching authority. all that AND you still get to trade freely with the global economy.
And everythings great! Well except for the several insurgency caused by pre-war imperial fanatics and the many that still want to reign above the rest; d@mn aristocratic terrorist. Oh and the heavily limited military (no military only limited task force) because pacifism is a cornerstone of your society and violence is a social stigma...BUT THATS WHY YOU HAVE FRIENDLY ALLIES
A nice byproduct of Communism eh? Now all you need is liberty (^^^^^)
Traitor
Penguania And Antarctica, United Yugoslav States
I am not a traitoe. I am simply allowing some freedom (Mostly so my citizens dont kill me)
Penguania And Antarctica
Again, go the Ædenist route, communist paradise with liberty still available
Penguania And Antarctica, United Yugoslav States
hmmm...seems like a good idea! I will have to do this!
I did it! IS BEAUTIFUL!!! (;.D
Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica
The parties in the government are changing a bit. Democratic and communist Parties are closely the same and they are gaining support for democracy!
http://www.strawpoll.me/12752007/r
Not possible.
Jaslandia, Aghrabia, Continental Commonwealths, Magnatronia
I agree... this does seem to be a contradictory statement.
Continental Commonwealths, Magnatronia
It is though. You ave the freedom to say what you want. Communism is just the government controlling the economy instead of the people in the country.
Aghrabia
Anyone who hasnt voted gets to vote now on the Referendum. Communist Party is ahead by quite a bit.
http://www.strawpoll.me/12752007/r
Me is feeling lonely. :(
Jaslandia, The Vidnoye, Yukona, Percyton
Hi
Jaslandia, Baxten, Aghrabia, The Vidnoye, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona, Magnatronia, Percyton
Except it rarely works out that way- Human nature gets in the way of any type of "ideal" society.
Jaslandia
Hey Humph. Good to see you again.
How have you been?
Percyton
But its possible, which is my point.
I mean, Andy's form could work until someone gathered a cult of personality around themselves, whereupon it could fall apart >.>
This is wholly theory and conjecture, though, since Andromitious is also a massive data-share who doesn't have to worry about vulnerabilities in computers which kinda makes this whole line a bit useless.
Hey, Humph.
You'll have to forgive me if I seem a bit reserved, that flag kinda weirds me out.
Mind signing on to Discord, just so I'm sure it's you?
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
I mean, TBH a lot is possible.
A battleship could close to gun fighting range with an Aircraft carrier under extraneous circumstances...doesn't mean it will >.>
Aghrabia
It definitely is humph if you would check the nations activity log.
Jaslandia, Percyton
This...is true.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Hello
Penguania And Antarctica
Doctor Who has returned and all is right with the world.
Penguania And Antarctica
You caught me Kal. I tortured the real Humph to give me his password and now the old and dead nation is all MiNE!
Jaslandia, Aghrabia, Penguania And Antarctica
So uh why did Ruclax come here (or at least to the discord)?
He dropped by to try to weasel his way in.
I promptly saw that a guy named "Alexander" had entered, checked my old PMs and said "no" before slamming the door on him since -as I figured- he was an enemy of the state and also because he wasn't a citizen.
Needless to say, I don't actually feel that bad about it.
Now I ain't saying it's true
Jaslandia
Welcome newcomer, I'm the cool guy around here and your mentor. If you do anything ask me first because I run this region, also I want your IP address to confirm you're not a puppet. Your flag can only be a variation of the Minneapolis city flag. Don't get involved in regional government or RP, it's not for folks like you. -enjoy :<)
Jaslandia, Aghrabia, Penguania And Antarctica
Golly thanks for the advice Mister!
Jaslandia, Yukona, Percyton
It's okay son, just remember - if you ignore the problems of the region, they don't exist!
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Hello, Humph! Good to see you again.
Penguania And Antarctica, Humpheria Major, Percyton
Welcome back Mr. President. [nation=short]Humpheria Major[/nation]
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Humpheria Major, Yukona, Percyton
By whole line a bit useless I assume you mean because I'm not hiding anything, my people literally ARE me (Harmony talks in first person, cool design right?), and the Cult Personality, while a definitive threat, is difficult due to the constant sharing of data and information it's hard for my system to fall correct? Just wanna be sure because in all honesty I didn't fully understand your last line (:-\
And I also recognize that while it is possible for several threats to break down my system, especially because its still so young. But that's the beauty of it all, even if it does have major flaws now, its natural direct democracy from an educated populace ensures that it can evolve even more easily than a representative government.
Hey Humph. Been a long time since you've been here. Lots of changes to the map; you should claim a spot. Whoever runs those maps must be a really smart, awesome guy. Probably the best guy in this entire region.
Jaslandia, Aghrabia, Continental Commonwealths, Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica, Humpheria Major, Yukona, Percyton
if we're letting past presidents keep the title then that means we gotta call lat 'Mr President'
also humph you sh!t you left us high and dry with a broken constitution
still luv u tho
Jaslandia, Continental Commonwealths, Andromitus, Oelesa, Penguania And Antarctica, Humpheria Major, Yukona, Percyton
It moreover meant that, because your system is so far off anything thus far tried in human history, it's like trying to call the flaws out in Percyton.
You can try, but you'll get half-way through the sentance and say "What even am I writing?"
Jaslandia, Andromitus, Percyton
Hello, Mr. President Humph! I'm not sure if we interacted much the last time you were here. I'm Percy, King of Percyton and the #6 engine on the Island of Sodor.
Jaslandia, Oelesa, Penguania And Antarctica, Humpheria Major
Someone needs to free me from Dark Souls.
They've taken my nation and they're pulling me back in; it's terrible.
Penguania And Antarctica, United Yugoslav States
Who is they?
Dark Souls. Kal freed himself, but it's taking him back in to it's dark, cold grasp. Oh the Humanity!
Jaslandia
I'm going
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:^]
Jaslandia, Baxten, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, United Yugoslav States
WHAT CAN I DO!?!? poor you... ;C
Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Eh, nothing really to do except for me to wait, kill whichever lord(s)I left behind (Could be Yhorm "I left the only weapon that could kill me next to my- Aw man I told you that in confidence :C" or Aldritich "I'm a goshdarn puke snake now let me gobble you up" or the final boss, Soul of Cinder...AKA...mister hotpants.
From there I gotta get lucky and kill him, though I might get super lucky and get people to break his shins again.
I missed you like a Clinton missed the minority vote, Jas.
Good to be back, Mr. Vice President.
I called Lat Mr. President when I sent him a message earlier.
Love you as always Unf.
Bax no one matches your cartography skills.
Hello Percy. I think we had the opportunity to speak once or twice. Good to hear from you.
Jaslandia, Oelesa, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Kal! Come back! Don't go toward the light! *Driver whispers to Percy* Oh, so that's not what it means?
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
I'll take that as a compliment.
Oelesa, Penguania And Antarctica, Humpheria Major
As you should.
So, my fellow Confederates, what have I missed? Who wishes to fill the George Washington of the CoFN on recent happenings?
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica
Mother
Of
God
You have literally no idea.
Jaslandia, Aghrabia, Penguania And Antarctica
Nothing too unusual. RP is picking up, the legislature has been fairly quiet, and there have been some arguments and debates.
Penguania And Antarctica
Traitor
Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota
So if your George Washington...what does that make me?
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
John Jay or John Marshall
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
What about me?
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
You know what? I can dig John Jay.
Penguania And Antarctica
Since Humph is the George Washington of the CoFN, and I long pre-date the CoFN, what would that make me? The Benjamin Franklin, perhaps? Or, since I've been here so long, maybe I'm more like William Penn if he somehow lived to the Revolutionary era.
Penguania And Antarctica
Yea, that would make me someone a bit older than Jefferson.
Silver was Columbus, I can tell you that.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Im in the middle of nowhere so no posts until tomorrow!
Penguania And Antarctica
You're still my President sir. Don't you worry
Penguania And Antarctica
Greetings, my peoples.
Penguania And Antarctica
Bonjour, mon ami. Comment-alle tu?
Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
I don't speak queer.
Aghrabia, Penguania And Antarctica, United Yugoslav States
And what of me?
Humph called me Hamilton, but Humph's Vice would have been Burr during his time...and Humph's vice was Sul.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, United Yugoslav States
Since I came not long after Silver founded the first NGA (about a month after), that might make me more like John Cabot or Vasco da Gama.
I'm not sure I follow. Jefferson was the one who had Burr as VIP, and Humph said he's George Washington. If Humph is George Washington, and Washington's VP was John Adams, then Sul would be John Adams. You could then be Thomas Pinckney, who was Adams' vice presidential candidate in the election of 1796 (although that was difficult to arrange, since back then, the VP position went to whoever placed second in the Electoral College).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Pinckney
Penguania And Antarctica
Monarchist Party gained two new votes!
http://www.strawpoll.me/12752007/r
Penguania And Antarctica
Yay! People are liking post! Too bad if I go further communist I might have to suppress it! Hahah...no? No? ok...
Aghrabia, Continental Commonwealths, Penguania And Antarctica
Se tu dall'altipiano guardi il mare,
Moretta che sei schiava fra gli schiavi,
Vedrai come in un sogno tante navi,
E un tricolore sventolar per te,
Happy Easter everyone !! :)
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Aghrabia, Tserra, Minnesota Dakota, Yukona
Happy Easter, Peng and everyone else.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota, Yukona
I am sick and dying.
Someone help, I think the Jesus in this holiday is too damn high for me!
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Reading about a lifelong Conservative voter who has cancer. His party's policies will now negatively affect him and his children.
Ah, there we have it. Now that his party's policies have finally hurt him, now it matters. Typical right-winger. Beforehand it was only "other" people who suffered.
Too bad, there ain't no vaccine for Easter Fever!
Jaslandia, Aghrabia
Happy Easter, all.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Happy Easter buddy! :)
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Iloiada
Happy Easter, everyone!
Penguania And Antarctica
Happy Easter
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Happy Easter, everyone! I hope you all have lots of fun looking for the Easter Bunny's eggs, and I hope he also leaves you some goodies and treats.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Same to you, Percy! Do engines do Easter egg hunts too?
Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Post self-deleted by Percyton.
Sometimes. Once every couple of years, Sir Topham Hatt and Gordon will have workmen put eggs along my route, and the routes of any other engines who are interested in participating (though I'm usually one of the few who participate). Then me, my Driver, and my Fireman will search for the eggs as we go about our usual work. Lucky for me, this is one of those years! I already found most of the eggs, but I'm still missing a couple.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
If there is a place where I would live and die this place would be Sodor.
Jaslandia, Percyton
I'm really glad to hear that, Peng! Our visa and immigration requirements can be a bit strict, but I might be able to work something out if you're really interested.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Hello everyone.
[spoiler=Today is April 16 and today are:]
Today is April 16 and today are:
- Birthday of José de Diego (Puerto Rico, United States)
- Birthday of Queen Margrethe II (Denmark)
- Day of the Mushroom
- Easter Sunday (Christianity)
- Emancipation Day (Washington, D.C., United States)
- Foursquare Day
- Lao New Year (Lao)
- Memorial Day for the Victims of the Holocaust (Hungary)
- National Bean Counter Day (United States)
- National Eggs Benedict Day (United States)
- National Healthcare Decisions Day (United States)
- National Orchid Day (United States)
- National Wear Your Pajamas to Work Day (United States)
- Plum Pudding Day
- Remembrance of Chemical Attack on Balisan and Sheikh Wasan (Iraqi Kurdistan)
- Save the Elephant Day
- World Voice Day
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 1457 BC Likely date of the Battle of Megiddo between Thutmose III and a large Canaanite coalition under the King of Kadesh, the first battle to have been recorded in what is accepted as relatively reliable detail.
- AD 73 Masada, a Jewish fortress, falls to the Romans after several months of siege, ending the Great Jewish Revolt.
- 1346 Duan the Mighty is proclaimed Emperor, with the Serbian Empire occupying much of the Balkans.
- 1520 The Revolt of the Comuneros begins in Spain against the rule of Charles V.
- 1582 Spanish conquistador Hernando de Lerma founds the settlement of Salta, Argentina.
- 1746 The Battle of Culloden is fought between the French-supported Jacobites and the British Hanoverian forces commanded by William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, in Scotland. After the battle many highland traditions were banned and the Highlands of Scotland were cleared of inhabitants.
- 1780 The University of Münster in Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany is founded.
- 1799 Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Mount Tabor: Napoleon drives Ottoman Turks across the River Jordan near Acre.
- 1818 The United States Senate ratifies the RushBagot Treaty, establishing the border with Canada.
- 1847 The accidental shooting of a Māori by an English sailor results in the opening of the Wanganui Campaign of the New Zealand land wars.
- 1853 The first passenger rail opens in India, from Bori Bunder, Bombay to Thane.
- 1858 The Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is wound up.
- 1862 American Civil War: Battle at Lee's Mills in Virginia.
- 1862 American Civil War: The District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act, a bill ending slavery in the District of Columbia, becomes law.
- 1863 American Civil War: During the Siege of Vicksburg, gunboats commanded by Acting Rear Admiral David Dixon Porter run downriver past Confederate artillery batteries at Vicksburg.
- 1879 The Tarnovo Constitution the first Bulgarian constitution was voted and adopted by the Constituent National Assembly held in Veliko Tarnovo as part of the establishment of the Principality of Bulgaria.
- 1881 In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle.
- 1894 Manchester City F.C. was formed from Ardwick A.F.C..
- 1908 Natural Bridges National Monument is established in Utah.
- 1910 The oldest existing indoor ice hockey arena still used for the sport in the 21st century, Boston Arena, opens for the first time.
- 1912 Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
- 1917 Vladimir Lenin returns to Petrograd, Russia from exile in Switzerland.
- 1919 Mohandas Gandhi organizes a day of "prayer and fasting" in response to the killing of Indian protesters in the Jallianwala Bagh massacre by the British colonial troops three days earlier.
- 1919 PolishSoviet War: The Polish army launches the Vilna offensive to capture Vilnius in modern Lithuania.
- 1922 The Treaty of Rapallo, pursuant to which Germany and the Soviet Union re-establish diplomatic relations, is signed.
- 1925 During the Communist St Nedelya Church assault in Sofia, Bulgaria, 150 are killed and 500 are wounded.
- 1941 World War II: The Italian-German Tarigo convoy is attacked and destroyed by British ships.
- 1941 World War II: The Nazi-affiliated Ustae is put in charge of the Independent State of Croatia by the Axis powers after Operation 25 is effected.
- 1943 Albert Hofmann accidentally discovers the hallucinogenic effects of the research drug LSD. He intentionally takes the drug three days later on April 19.
- 1944 World War II: Allied forces start bombing Belgrade, killing about 1,100 people. This bombing fell on the Orthodox Christian Easter.
- 1945 World War II: The Red Army begins the final assault on German forces around Berlin, with nearly one million troops fighting in the Battle of the Seelow Heights.
- 1945 The United States Army liberates Nazi Sonderlager (high security) prisoner-of-war camp Oflag IV-C (better known as Colditz).
- 1945 More than 7,000 die when the German refugee ship Goya is sunk by a Soviet submarine.
- 1947 Texas City disaster: An explosion on board a freighter in port causes the city of Texas City, Texas, to catch fire, killing almost 600.
- 1947 Bernard Baruch first applies the term "Cold War" to describe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union.
- 1961 In a nationally broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro declares that he is a MarxistLeninist and that Cuba is going to adopt Communism.
- 1963 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. pens his Letter from Birmingham Jail while incarcerated in Birmingham, Alabama for protesting against segregation.
- 1972 Apollo program: The launch of Apollo 16 from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
- 1990 "Doctor Death", Jack Kevorkian, participates in his first assisted suicide.
- 1992 The Katina P runs aground off of Maputo, Mozambique and 60,000 tons of crude oil spill into the ocean.
- 2001 India and Bangladesh begin a five-day border conflict, but are unable to resolve the disputes about their border.
- 2003 The Treaty of Accession is signed in Athens admitting ten new member states to the European Union.
- 2007 Virginia Tech shooting: Seung-Hui Cho guns down 32 people and injures 17 before committing suicide.
- 2012 The trial for Anders Behring Breivik, the perpetrator of the 2011 Norway attacks, begins in Oslo, Norway.
- 2012 The Pulitzer Prize winners were announced, it was the first time since 1977 that no book won the Fiction Prize.
- 2013 A 7.8-magnitude earthquake strikes Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran, killing at least 35 people and injuring 117 others.
- 2014 The South Korean ferry[1] MV Sewol capsizes and sinks near Jindo Island, killing 304 passengers and crew and leading to widespread criticism of the South Korean government, media, and shipping authorities.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 1844 Anatole France, French journalist, novelist, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1867 Wilbur Wright, American inventor
- 1886 Ernst Thälmann, German politician, leader of the KPD
- 1889 Charlie Chaplin, English actor, director, producer, screenwriter, and composer
- 1896 Tristan Tzara, Romanian-French poet and critic
- 1917 Barry Nelson, American actor
- 1918 Spike Milligan, Irish actor, singer, screenwriter, and author
- 1921 Peter Ustinov, English actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1921 Wolfgang Leonhard, German historian and author
- 1924 Henry Mancini, American composer and conductor
- 1927 Pope Benedict XVI
- 1927 Rolf Schult, German actor
- 1939 Dusty Springfield, English singer and record producer
- 1947 Gerry Rafferty, Scottish singer-songwriter
- 1947 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, American basketball player and coach
- 1960 Pierre Littbarski, German footballer and manager
- 1965 Jon Cryer, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
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Quote of the day
God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
- Saint Augustine -
Note: Penguania_And_Antarctica assumes no responsibility or guarantee for correctness of any given information. Any recourse to courts of law is excluded.
Jaslandia, Aghrabia, Continental Commonwealths, Tserra, Percyton
Happy Easter to all that celebrate; and on this auspicious day of mutant rabbits laying the eggs birds, about love for some reason, I'm going to do the kindest thinking I can.
So if you didn't get it from the obvious statement above, I'm going to be writing a couple sketches for actions within the Americas, Africa and the island of Japan during our regions Great War!
TG me if you wanna see what I already have in mind (its not much, only a vague timeline and fancy names.)
Jaslandia, Aghrabia, Penguania And Antarctica, Magnatronia
I would go to the same process like everyone else if you aren't successful. I think it's a privilege to be a resident of Sodor.
Jaslandia, Percyton
This must be a big day for Ashima and Rajiv; they're two Indian engines I met at the Great Railway Show. Perhaps I can should them a little message to wish them well?
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
REGIONAL SONG OF THE DAY
Day 47: Stevie Wonder- "Happy Birthday" (Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inS9gAgSENE)
Happy Birthday to [nation=short]Adaptive Aesthetics[/nation]
Thank you for reading, papa bless
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona, Magnatronia
When you realise he hasn't been online for 44 days
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SY0z-BKhefY
Jaslandia, Aghrabia, Penguania And Antarctica
Man, Minnesota Dakota, if Capitalist don't get represetation in the Parliament, they could just take over with how much they're gonna outnumber Socialist
http://www.strawpoll.me/12752406/r
Penguania And Antarctica
They will get some but not as much as they have right now.
???
This seems more like an oligarchy if having more than twice the number of votes as your opponents grants you less power...
Penguania And Antarctica
Its like the vote for president you can lose by having more votes.
No, not how it works. You can lose even if you have more votes for President, that's because of the electoral college. It has nothing to do with ideology or actual political beliefs and just the way it's set up.
Your system blatantly puts down voices of the opposition.
Oelesa, Kalaron
But for real though, it seems like it's really just an attempt to justify not giving capitalists the win.
Oelesa, Yukona
Right, why have the option if they just lose?
It actually doesn't. We have districts and the Capitalists won with almost 100% of the votes in those districts.
I say we just invade. Y'know, for old times sake.
Aghrabia
Good Luck getting past my fleet. And, if he wanted to, Kalaron couldn't invade without breaking a treaty.
So you have a flawed electoral system in place?
Where depopulated zones are given equal votes, or more votes, than highly populated zones?
I'm confused, why would you implement one of the most highly criticized systems and why are you inventing YSL to explain it?
Like, again, this seems like trying to avoid giving capitalists the win, no offense.
I don't?
When have I suggested military force?
Why are you picking me out as the one who would?
Am I going to have spy planes over my nation again? /S
The last time the Capitalists had a majority they brought with them a war that could not be won and surrendered tainting their reputation as a powerful force.
You are just the one I have a treaty with.
This explanation doesn't explain why their support is literally being snubbed, considering most of the country seems to support them.
That is a district vote not a popular one.
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