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Region: The Confederacy of Free Nations
Given that every other day in the United States has been "National Cherry Pie Day" or "National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day" or something to that effect, I'm not sure "National Dessert Day" is necessary.
National Refrain From Dessert Day, maybe. Or National For The Love of God Not Everyone Should Have Diabetes Day.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Senatus Popolusque Mercunovus
Hey, as far as I'm concerned, it's National Eat Sh!t Day.
Yes
Aetosia
Are we indicating the location of our capital, or is this just for naming purposes?
New Estaris
I'm back!
Jaslandia, New Estaris
Just names. I maybe change that, but for now I'll wait to do capitals
Remember my capital is now Tehran, Bax.
So Nurem, is Nurem your main nation or you favourite and how come you dont really use your otherones?
Nuremgard, Yukona
Nuremgard is my main nation that I use to communicate with others on here. My other nations are just ones I've made so I can rule them differently. Nuremgard is how I'd ideally run a country minus the monarchy.
Yukona
I...
I don't remember you?
Yukona
Largest IT industry in the region! Huzzah! Huzzah!
#JaslandiaIsNumber1
Nuremgard, Vista Major, Continental Commonwealths, Penguania And Antarctica, Senatus Popolusque Mercunovus
Continental Commonwealths is LAST in the region for business subsidization! Our business subsidization index (somehow) runs into the negative! Take that, corporate welfare!
#ContinentalCommonwealthsIsNumber78
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Senatus Popolusque Mercunovus, Yukona
Nobody is allowed to stop the local daycare from reading Nietzsche to pre-schoolers
And yet we lack notable psychologists in the Commonwealth ;-;
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Yeah but you're gonna be at least in the top 10 for lowest tax rates #taxiscrime #keepyourhandsoffmymoney #ronpaul #funtimes
Senatus Popolusque Mercunovus
Top two! Damn orange Tang is always keeping me reaching.
Senatus Popolusque Mercunovus, Yukona
I heard capital
Senatus Popolusque Mercunovus
Flynnvakia is Best Information
Senatus Popolusque Mercunovus
Goddamn, this song (http://www.hebrewsongs.com/?song=bashanahabaah) is great.
Like, I'm serious, this song is literally my favorite over all other songs I've ever sung -including Dies Irae-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWgiquOXe0w
Senatus Popolusque Mercunovus
So I was just having one of those what if moments. What if I had lived in Germany before WW2, would I have been taken in by Hitler's propaganda?
Senatus Popolusque Mercunovus
Depends.
Are we talking you,with all of your opinions from the modern day?
Senatus Popolusque Mercunovus
Well no. I am imagining being an ordinary German back then. So I wonder with all the economic depression and humiliation of the defeat in WW1, would I have been swayed? I'm not sure.
Senatus Popolusque Mercunovus
Well, that too depends.
If you are an ordinary citizen, then you might have been hit with the outright refusal of the War-Guilt, alongside the "Stab In The Back" belief.
However, how can you consider that person to be you, then, if they share none of your views?
I don't believe we can make a statement regarding imaginary people, without having seen their life.
Senatus Popolusque Mercunovus
I just found it interesting.
Senatus Popolusque Mercunovus
I think it's basically a thought experiment regarding how much of your personality is formed along the born that way/made that way dichotomy.
Senatus Popolusque Mercunovus
Eh, I'd consider personality to be entirely what you experience in life :P
Yeah, it is interesting, I'll admit.
Senatus Popolusque Mercunovus
Separated twin studies suggest otherwise.
Senatus Popolusque Mercunovus
I'm curious. You said your commonwealths have a lot of autonomy. If this is so, how is foreign policy decided? Does a federal government decide or do the commonwealths all get a say?
Senatus Popolusque Mercunovus
Having looked it up, I believe that it may have a impact, but I would still believe that the way one grows would have a far heavier impact.
Senatus Popolusque Mercunovus
Oh, I absolutely agree. But, that was kind of the basis of Nurem's thought experiment- to what extent would my actions be influenced based on me simply being my genetic self?
That said, some of the similarities that arise from separated identical twins is eerie. As with a lot having to do with psychology, there's much that we don't know.
Nuremgard, Vista Major, Senatus Popolusque Mercunovus
Too many variables remain; outcome unknown.
Vista Major, Senatus Popolusque Mercunovus
Pretty much yeah.
Vista Major, Senatus Popolusque Mercunovus
Well, the federal government is a unicameral legislature with equal representation from each Commonwealth that is restrained to passing legislation that has equal influence on the Commonwealths collectively. The Constitution leaves all undefined powers to the jurisdiction of the Commonwealths which, by and large, grants them considerable authority to deal with foreign powers individually.
The federal government reserves the right to declare war and regulate the economy with relation to foreign powers, but nothing is explicitly barring the Commonwealths from doing these things independently as well. So, technically, one Commonwealth could be at war with a foreign entity while the others are at peace, and vice versa.
Vista Major, Senatus Popolusque Mercunovus
I wish that answer would have sufficed during the political philosophy classes I had to take.
Vista Major, Senatus Popolusque Mercunovus
We can debate the outcomes, but all outcomes, as long as they exist in the realm of predictable logic, are equally valid considering that it is a "What if?" scenario.
The only true solution to this statement is the conclusion that upon this situation, we know that we know nothing.
Vista Major, Senatus Popolusque Mercunovus
To that I just want to respond with the exact statement that you quoted. :P
Vista Major, Senatus Popolusque Mercunovus
Well that just seems messy lol
Vista Major, Senatus Popolusque Mercunovus
We're like the UN, but far fewer nations and everyone gets a veto. Predictably, we're just as effective :P
Meeting the bf's mom tonight. So nervous!
Nuremgard, Vista Major, Senatus Popolusque Mercunovus
Curse you, Flynn! I'm no longer #1!
Killdash, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Senatus Popolusque Mercunovus
Good luck! I'm sure she'll love you.
Tserra, Senatus Popolusque Mercunovus
Just wrote an essay and it's 2:30am.
2 down, 1 to go!
Aldaur, Penguania And Antarctica, Senatus Popolusque Mercunovus
When are we doing an rp?
Aldaur would like to make some investments in other countries to build up their infrastructure. We are interested in [nation=short]Unfallious[/nation], [nation=short]Aldwood[/nation], New Estaris, [nation=short]Jaslandia[/nation], [nation=short]Lavan Tiri[/nation], [nation=short]Continental Commonwealths[/nation] and [nation=short]Baxten[/nation]. I will be telegraming you shortly on the specifics.
Killdash, Penguania And Antarctica, Senatus Popolusque Mercunovus
You got this buddy!
Nuremgard
Joh. Offense taken.
Aldaur, Penguania And Antarctica, Senatus Popolusque Mercunovus
Aldaur is investing in nations near by. However, we would like to give scholarships to students in other nations that learn Aldauri (the language).
Killdash, Penguania And Antarctica, Senatus Popolusque Mercunovus
How do you speak it?
Aldaur, Senatus Popolusque Mercunovus
Hello friends and foes.
Today are:
- Breast Health Day (Europe)
- Bridge Day (Fayetteville, Fayette County, West Virginia, United States)
- Evacuation Day (Tunisia)
- Global Handwashing Day
- International Day of Rural Women
- King Father's Commemoration Day (Cambodia)
- Kojagrat Purnima (Nepal)
- National Aesthetician Day (United States)
- National Cheese Curd Day (United States)
- National Grouch Day (United States)
- National I Love Lucy Day (United States)
- National Latino AIDS Awareness Day (United States)
- National Sweetest Day (United States)
- National White Cane Safety Day (United States)
- Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day (Canada, Italy, New South Wales, United Kingdom, United States, Western Australia)
- Spirit Day (International)
- Teachers' Day (Brazil)
- Vap Full Moon Poya Day (Sri Lanka)
- World Students' Day
This day in history:
- 1066 - Edgar the Ætheling is proclaimed King of England, but is never crowned. He reigns until 10 December 1066.
- 1529 - The Siege of Vienna ends as the Austrians rout the invading Turks, turning the tide against almost a century of unchecked conquest throughout eastern and central Europe by the Ottoman Empire.
- 1783 - The Montgolfier brothers' hot air balloon (tethered) makes the first human ascent, piloted by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier.
- 1793 - Queen Marie Antoinette of France is tried and convicted in a swift, pre-determined trial in the Palais de Justice, Paris, and condemned to death the following day.
- 1815 - Napoleon I of France begins his exile on Saint Helena in the Atlantic Ocean.
- 1863 - American Civil War: The H. L. Hunley, the first submarine to sink a ship, sinks during a test, killing its inventor, Horace L. Hunley.
- 1878 - The Edison Electric Light Company begins operation.
- 1888 - The "From Hell" letter allegedly sent by Jack the Ripper is received by investigators.
- 1894 - The Dreyfus affair: Alfred Dreyfus is arrested for spying.
- 1910 - Airship America is launched from New Jersey in the first attempt to cross the Atlantic by a powered aircraft.
- 1917 - World War I: At Vincennes outside Paris, Dutch dancer Mata Hari is executed by firing squad for spying for the German Empire.
- 1923 - The German Rentenmark is introduced in Germany to counter hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic.
- 1928 - The airship, Graf Zeppelin completes its first trans-Atlantic flight, landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States.
- 1934 - The Soviet Republic of China collapses when Chiang Kai-shek's National Revolutionary Army successfully encircles Ruijin, forcing the fleeing Communists to begin the Long March.
- 1940 - The President of Catalonia, LluÃs Companys, is executed by the Spanish dictatorship of Francisco Franco, making him the only European president to have been executed.
- 1944 - The Arrow Cross Party (very similar to Hitler's NSDAP (Nazi party)) takes power in Hungary.
- 1945 - World War II: The former premier of Vichy France Pierre Laval is shot by a firing squad for treason.
- 1951 - The first episode of I Love Lucy, an American television sitcom starring Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance, and William Frawley, airs on the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS).
- 1953 - British nuclear test Totem 1 is detonated at Emu Field, South Australia.
- 1965 - Vietnam War: The Catholic Worker Movement stages an anti-war rally in Manhattan including a public burning of a draft card; the first such act to result in arrest under a new amendment to the Selective Service Act.
- 1966 - The Black Panther Party is created by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale.
- 1970 - Thirty-five construction workers are killed when a section of the new West Gate Bridge in Melbourne collapses.
- 1971 - The start of the 2,500 year celebration of the Persian Empire in Iran.
- 1989 - Wayne Gretzky becomes the all-time leading points scorer in the NHL.
- 1990 - Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to lessen Cold War tensions and open up his nation.
- 1995 - Marco Campos is killed in an accident in an International Formula 3000 race at the Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours circuit, making him the only driver ever killed in the International Formula 3000 series.
- 1997 - The Cassini probe launches from Cape Canaveral on its way to Saturn.
- 2001 - NASA's Galileo spacecraft passes within 112 miles of Jupiter's moon Io.
- 2003 - China launches Shenzhou 5, its first manned space mission.
- 2007 - Seventeen activists in New Zealand are arrested in the country's first post-9/11 anti-terrorism raids.
- 2008 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes down 733.08 points, or 7.87%, the second worst day in the Dow's history based on a percentage drop.
Famous Birthdays:
- 70 BC - Virgil, Roman poet
- 1608 - Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist and mathematician
- 1795 - Frederick William IV of Prussia, King of Prussia from 1840 to 1861
- 1829 - Asaph Hall, American astronomer and academic
- 1831 - Isabella Bird, English explorer, writer, photographer, and naturalist
- 1844 - Friedrich Nietzsche, German composer, poet, and philosopher
- 1858 - John L. Sullivan, American boxer, actor, and journalist
- 1881 - P. G. Wodehouse, English-American author and playwright
- 1893 - Carol II of Romania
- 1920 - Mario Puzo, American author and screenwriter
- 1921 - Angelica Rozeanu, Romanian-Israeli table tennis player
- 1926 - Michel Foucault, French historian and philosopher
- 1931 - A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, Indian engineer, academic, and politician, 11th President of India
- 1940 - Peter C. Doherty, Australian surgeon and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1942 - Chris Andrews, English singer-songwriter
- 1944 - David Trimble, Northern Irish lawyer and politician, 3rd First Minister of Northern Ireland, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1948 - Chris de Burgh, Argentinian-born British-Irish singer-songwriter and pianist
- 1988 - Mesut Özil, German footballer
Quote of the day
Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. ThatÂ’s why itÂ’s called the present.
- Bil Keane -
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Jaslandia, Vista Major, Tserra, Senatus Popolusque Mercunovus
Ay up, im going on a trip to Tuscany tomorrow so i wont be on much in the next week so like if somone is going to go full retard, or psycho or have a huge fight then please wait a week to do so. Thanks :)
Jaslandia, Killdash, Penguania And Antarctica, Senatus Popolusque Mercunovus
Have a nice holiday. Wish I was going away somewhere nice like Tuscany. :(
Penguania And Antarctica, Aetosia
Can't promise that, :).
Penguania And Antarctica, Aetosia
I want to make one soon. But I'll need to make a poll so we can vote one which RP we want.
EDIT: Here's the poll
http://www.strawpoll.me/11433273
Aldaur
With great difficulty.
You shouldn't be offended. He wants to build up their infrastructure. By wanting to invest in that, he is inferring that those countries are too poor to or are incapable of building their own infrastructure. He is an imperialist pigdog and cannot be trusted.
Only kidding, Ald. Love ya.
Jaslandia, Aldaur, Penguania And Antarctica
Cool. Hope you enjoy your trip!
Penguania And Antarctica, Aetosia
It would be nice for everyone to be able to get away somewhere nice, if we stayed in Europe we could have done some kind of scheme thing maybe.
Danke!
Jaslandia
There is big storm headed my way. 64 km winds at least. Won't have power.
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica
Oh nein....
Jaslandia, Aldaur
Sorry to hear that. Hope you'll be okay!
Hope everyone is doing alright.
Fascists trying to bring capitalism to Unfallious. The shame of it.
I thought communism was anti-imperialist? You have colonies.
Aldaur
The Global Revolution, мой друг
The workers have nothing to lose but their chains!
And their lives. Considering the bourgeois control the military industrial complex. Marx forgot to mention that.
Aldaur
House of Delegates meeting is in forty minutes, guys.
social imperialism smh
Hard Brexit means second indyref. Fingers crossed it's a Yes this time.
How very British. :P
Aldaur
It's been moved to thirty one minutes from now.
Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica
My apologies for having to push the time. I had a commitment that ended later than expected.
Penguania And Antarctica
We move again ?? :P jk
We're nomads.
Penguania And Antarctica
Always hunting for those dank memes
Continental Commonwealths, Penguania And Antarctica
Well how about you nomad yourself to Parliament, which is in like 3 minutes.
Vista Major, Continental Commonwealths, Penguania And Antarctica
You are right. Here are no mads :P
([nation=short]Kalaron[/nation]: Do you like my pun ?)
I like the new flag. Noble looking
And with that, Parliament begins!
How about naw.
"Keizer Nathan Beck's peyote-induced "let's all just be friends" speech is trending world-wide."
I think this is the best issue result I've gotten from 3 years of answering.
Jaslandia
Aldauri is mainly based on French, but we also use a lot of Latin words and is written like Greek. Obviously I can't write in Greek on here (idk how), but we will take Latin words like Imperator and make them sound French, so it is now Imperateur.
Or you know....want to foster better trade relations with our neighbors. Aldaur wants nothing but harmony in the region.
Penguania And Antarctica
I wonder if get tracked by a German intelligence agency every time I type 'NS'.
Aldaur
Good times, wasn't it?
Too bad everything changes after a while.
Crato, if you're gonna stay, stay. I'm not angry or upset or anything, but I don't understand the point of your messages.
Oh, you know. Just commenting on the fact that every person that has some major power in your regions go bad and make you people make some petty exodus.
tsk tsk, valturus, ruclax?
Valt was sorta different. People left voluntarily for that one. We weren't forced to find a new home.
Ru has a history. That one I can say was on us (we forgave/trusted him, but he did his thing again).
Still, it's kinda, for a lack of a better word, inefficient to come back and forth to post a message. If you want to move a puppet and talk like that, we'd definitely be welcome to it.
Aldaur
Not petty, but K.
Anyways, i will stay here permanently. However, my posts will be slower when she finds out.
Oh, and that CFN guy that went inactive. Forgot his name, but it's insignificant now.
Silver? Yea, he'd been in power for 2 and a half years. Also, his reasons weren't actually ridiculous, but his actions were the real breaking point.
I think his nation ceased to exist again...
Wonderful.
*Sips clorox bleach*
I like the scilence, it's so... peaceful.
That's because everyone uses Discord. It's quicker.
Also, you'd be wrong about his nation
Vista Major
*Le gasp*
the guy is in montaris?
wow
Well Ru's trying to rebuild it, so it's not really surprising. But I'm sure he'll come back eventually. Don't know why "wow" was in order, but if that's what you think about it.
#VistaForPresident
Greater Banitia
well like every fallen leedur he will fail
i mean, once you go dark, you cant go back
We'all have to see. Maybe he'll rebuild and try to form a new relationship with us. But you're probably right that he'll fail.
If Aldauri were a mix of Polynesians, Indonesians, Filipinos, Malaysians, Chinese, Aboriginals, Indians and Arabs, and light skin was praised as being more attractive and attributed to the upper class like in most cultures, of those nationalities, whichndo you think they would like the most?
In my opinion, I am thinking Indian, but I want a second opinion.
Vista Major
yeah, he will get more denied than harambes life
thats a ded meme
As long as you can recognize that the meme's dead, then you've already got a leg up from most people.
yeah, its pretty ded
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