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Onocarcass wrote:Brazzaville, or Kinshasa?

San Jose, or Managua?

Asuncion, or Montevideo?

Podgorica, or Skopje?

Bishkek, or Dushanbe?

Palikir, or Koror?

and this is for?

Peoples Liberation Republic wrote:and this is for?

Does it need a purpose?

Vista Major

Onocarcass wrote:Does it need a purpose?

Why wouldn't it?

Brazzaville

Managua

Asuncion

Skopje

Dushanbe

Koror

Onocarcass wrote:Does it need a purpose?

You made a public statement, which has a purpose. So yes.

Peoples Liberation Republic wrote:You made a public statement, which has a purpose. So yes.

I just say random things sometimes, because I'm bad at starting conversations.

Onocarcass wrote:I just say random things sometimes, because I'm bad at starting conversations.

Join the club

Onocarcass, United Continental States

Neo-Icelandic Commonwealth wrote:Lol I din't know that. But I guess he's like North Korea or something

I act hostile as a deterrent against would-be attackers, but I am a very peaceful nation.

Peoples Liberation Republic

The Empire Of Handland wrote:Neither. Leopoldville.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gt1V61SPI_w

Jaslandia

If you were to describe the PLR as a government institution and country as any current real life country, which one would it be?

Russkov Soviet wrote:I act hostile as a deterrent against would-be attackers, but I am a very peaceful nation.

Lemme also put it this way...

I may neigh and whinny a lot, but when I finally kick...

You...are...DEAD

Got another submitted issue accepted. I am now the proud author of 7 issues.

Onocarcass, Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Andromitus, Percyton, Solla Ultima

Hey Baxten are you going to update the map anymore or will the next update be done by your successor?

Nuremgard wrote:Got another submitted issue accepted. I am now the proud author of 7 issues.

Teach me your ways.

Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Percyton

Nuremgard wrote:Got another submitted issue accepted. I am now the proud author of 7 issues.

I tried one once, alas it was too similar to one in circulation.

Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Vista Major, Percyton, South Hyder

Poll's been tied for a day now

Vista Major wrote:Poll's been tied for a day now

Nah, two people on the yes side aren't citizens.

Kalaron wrote:Nah, two people on the yes side aren't citizens.

Tis true

Kalaron wrote:Nah, two people on the yes side aren't citizens.

Onocarcass wrote:Tis true

I haven't resubmitted my "yes" vote since I moved bubbagump to TNI's new region so it ain't me

Talkative Friedensriech wrote:I haven't resubmitted my "yes" vote since I moved bubbagump to TNI's new region so it ain't me

I'm 1 half of that. I'll just remove that vote real quick.

Onocarcass wrote:I'm 1 half of that. I'll just remove that vote real quick.

I was also the only 10 to 20 billion population vote :p

Percyton

I'm terribly sorry for the lateness of this post. I'm currently have a lot of stuff to do and therefore are a bit short of time.

[spoiler=Today is August 9 and today are:]

Today is August 9 and today are:

- Battle of Gangut Day (Russia)

- International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples (United Nations)

- National Book Lovers Day (United States)

- National Day (Singapore)

- National Rice Pudding Day (United States)

- National Veep Day (United States)

- National Women's Day (South Africa)

- Remembrance for Radbod, King of the Frisians (The Troth)

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[spoiler=This day in history:]

This day in history:

- 48 BC – Caesar's Civil War: Battle of Pharsalus: Julius Caesar decisively defeats Pompey at Pharsalus and Pompey flees to Egypt.

- 378 – Gothic War: Battle of Adrianople: A large Roman army led by Emperor Valens is defeated by the Visigoths. Valens is killed along with over half of his army.

- 1173 – Construction of the campanile of the Cathedral of Pisa (now known as the Leaning Tower of Pisa) begins; it will take two centuries to complete.

- 1329 – Quilon, the first Indian Christian Diocese, is erected by Pope John XXII; the French-born Jordanus is appointed the first Bishop.

- 1500 – Ottoman–Venetian War (1499–1503): The Ottomans capture Methoni, Messenia.

- 1610 – The First Anglo-Powhatan War begins in colonial Virginia.

- 1810 – Napoleon annexes Westphalia as part of the First French Empire.

- 1814 – Indian Wars: The Creek sign the Treaty of Fort Jackson, giving up huge parts of Alabama and Georgia.

- 1830 – Louis Philippe becomes the king of the French following abdication of Charles X.

- 1842 – The Webster–Ashburton Treaty is signed, establishing the United States–Canada border east of the Rocky Mountains.

- 1854 – Henry David Thoreau publishes Walden.

- 1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Cedar Mountain: At Cedar Mountain, Virginia, Confederate General Stonewall Jackson narrowly defeats Union forces under General John Pope.

- 1877 – Indian Wars: Battle of the Big Hole: A small band of Nez Percé Indians clash with the United States Army

- 1892 – Thomas Edison receives a patent for a two-way telegraph.

- 1896 – Glider pioneer Otto Lilienthal dies in a fatal crash.

- 1902 – Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

- 1907 – The first Boy Scout encampment concludes at Brownsea Island in southern England.

- 1914 – Start of the Battle of Mulhouse, part of a French attempt to recover the province of Alsace and the first French offensive of World War I.

- 1925 – A train robbery takes place in Kakori, near Lucknow, India

- 1930 – Betty Boop makes her cartoon debut in Dizzy Dishes.

- 1936 – Summer Olympic Games: Games of the XI Olympiad: Jesse Owens wins his fourth gold medal at the games.

- 1942 – World War II: Battle of Savo Island: Allied naval forces protecting their amphibious forces during the initial stages of the Battle of Guadalcanal are surprised and defeated by an Imperial Japanese Navy cruiser force.

- 1944 – The United States Forest Service and the Wartime Advertising Council release posters featuring Smokey Bear for the first time.

- 1944 – Continuation War: The Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive, the largest offensive launched by Soviet Union against Finland during the Second World War, ends to a strategic stalemate. Both Finnish and Soviet troops at the Finnish front dug to defensive positions, and the front remains stable until the end of the war.

- 1945 – World War II: Nagasaki is devastated when an atomic bomb, Fat Man, is dropped by the United States B-29 Bockscar. Thirty-five thousand people are killed outright, including 23,200-28,200 Japanese war workers, 2,000 Korean forced workers, and 150 Japanese soldiers.

- 1945 – The Red Army invades Japanese-occupied Manchuria.

- 1960 – South Kasai secedes from the Congo.

- 1965 – Singapore is expelled from Malaysia and becomes the only country to date to gain independence unwillingly.

- 1969 – Followers of Charles Manson murder pregnant actress Sharon Tate (wife of Roman Polanski), coffee heiress Abigail Folger, Polish actor Wojciech Frykowski, men's hairstylist Jay Sebring and recent high-school graduate Steven Parent.

- 1971 – The Troubles: The British Army in Northern Ireland launches Operation Demetrius. Hundreds of people are arrested and interned, thousands are displaced, and twenty are killed in the violence that followed.

- 1974 – As a direct result of the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon becomes the first President of the United States to resign from office. His Vice President, Gerald Ford, becomes president.

- 1991 – The Italian prosecuting magistrate Antonino Scopelliti is murdered by the 'Ndrangheta on behalf of the Sicilian Mafia while preparing the government’s case in the final appeal of the Maxi Trial.

- 1993 – The Liberal Democratic Party of Japan loses a 38-year hold on national leadership.

- 1999 – Russian President Boris Yeltsin fires his Prime Minister, Sergei Stepashin, and for the fourth time fires his entire cabinet.

- 2006 – At least 21 suspected terrorists were arrested in the 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot that happened in the United Kingdom. The arrests were made in London, Birmingham, and High Wycombe in an overnight operation.

- 2013 – Gunmen open fire at a Sunni mosque in the city of Quetta killing at least ten people and injuring 30.

- 2014 – Michael Brown, an 18-year-old African American male in Ferguson, Missouri, was shot and killed by a Ferguson police officer after reportedly assaulting the officer and attempting to steal his weapon, sparking protests and unrest in the city.

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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]

Famous Birthdays:

- 1537 – Francesco Barozzi, Italian mathematician and astronomer

- 1544 – Bogislaw XIII, Duke of Pomerania

- 1896 – Jean Piaget, Swiss psychologist and philosopher

- 1899 – P. L. Travers, Australian-English author and actress

- 1922 – Philip Larkin, English poet and novelist

- 1931 – Mário Zagallo, Brazilian footballer and coach

- 1938 – Otto Rehhagel, German footballer, coach, and manager

- 1938 – Rod Laver, Australian tennis player and coach

- 1947 – Roy Hodgson, English footballer and manager

- 1953 – Jean Tirole, French economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

- 1959 – Michael Kors, American fashion designer

- 1963 – Whitney Houston, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress

- 1976 – Audrey Tautou, French model and actress

- 1981 – Li Jiawei, Singaporean table tennis player

- 1985 – Anna Kendrick, American actress and singer

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Quote of the day

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

- Leo Tolstoy -

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, Moldegaard

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:

- Remembrance for Radbod, King of the Frisians (The Troth)

No offense to the Troth, but 'Radbod' sounds less like a name, and more like what a surfer would say to someone who has nice abs. Like this: "Whoa, that is a rad bod, dude!"

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:

- 48 BC – Caesar's Civil War: Battle of Pharsalus: Julius Caesar decisively defeats Pompey at Pharsalus and Pompey flees to Egypt.

https://youtu.be/VGF4UF2mwN8

Nuremgard wrote:Got another submitted issue accepted. I am now the proud author of 7 issues.

Congrats, Nurem!

Nuremgard, Vista Major, Andromitus, Percyton

Do we have an ammendment that limits the powers of Vice-Chancellor?

Last Clause, Arcticle 5, Section 2 of the Constitution:

[B]All officer rights are given to the Vice-Chancellor.

Border Control and Embassies have not been given to him.

Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, South Hyder

PARLIAMENT REMINDER

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Don't forget to view the PASSED LAWS.

Only two MP's have voted on the nearly introduced bill, Perland's bill leaves voting today.

Reminder to new people. If you are a citizen you are also a Member of Parliament, all you have to do is sign up on the forums. Put in your email and make a name, easy to do.

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-Oel

Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica

Cesorion wrote:Do we have an ammendment that limits the powers of Vice-Chancellor?

Last Clause, Arcticle 5, Section 2 of the Constitution:

[B]All officer rights are given to the Vice-Chancellor.

Border Control and Embassies have not been given to him.

No Amendment has been made to reduce the VC's power. Most likely a mistake on the Founders part.

Vista Major, Yukona

Cesorion wrote:Do we have an ammendment that limits the powers of Vice-Chancellor?

Last Clause, Arcticle 5, Section 2 of the Constitution:

[B]All officer rights are given to the Vice-Chancellor.

Border Control and Embassies have not been given to him.

Someone pls give me my perms !!!!111

Vista Major, Cesorion

Post by Cofnlibtard suppressed by Magnatronia.

Cofnlibtard

Oelesa wrote:PARLIAMENT REMINDER

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Don't forget to view the PASSED LAWS.

Only two MP's have voted on the nearly introduced bill, Perland's bill leaves voting today.

Reminder to new people. If you are a citizen you are also a Member of Parliament, all you have to do is sign up on the forums. Put in your email and make a name, easy to do.

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-Oel

lmao I don't think there are any new people. You guys have been declining in members for month LOL

Sorry I haven't been active. I had a problem with my computer's charger. Here are the two latest RP posts on the Figurines one and Light Up The Night, respectively. Make your move.

http://thecoffincofn.boards.net/thread/8/figurines-sovereign-roleplay-ic?page=5

http://thecoffincofn.boards.net/thread/32/light-night-ic?page=1&scrollTo=290

Vista Major

Also, I'm pretty sure that was Mau^ trolling us. I hope he got banned *again*. Suppressed it anyways.

Kalaron

hi

Jaslandia, Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

Ecteral wrote:hi

Welcome to the region, Ecteral! I'm Percy, King of Percyton and the #6 green engine on the Island of Sodor. I hope you like it here in the CFN!

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona

Solla Ultima wrote:Hey Baxten are you going to update the map anymore or will the next update be done by your successor?

My successor.

Jaslandia, Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona, Solla Ultima

Ecteral wrote:hi

Welcome to the CoFN Ecteral! I'm Andy, Mentor and MoJ; If you have any questions feel free to TG me or contact me on our Region's discord :D

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica

Post self-deleted by Solla Ultima.

Baxten wrote:My successor.

do you have any idea who that may be?

Penguania And Antarctica

Magnatronia wrote:Sorry I haven't been active. I had a problem with my computer's charger. Here are the two latest RP posts on the Figurines one and Light Up The Night, respectively. Make your move.

http://thecoffincofn.boards.net/thread/8/figurines-sovereign-roleplay-ic?page=5

http://thecoffincofn.boards.net/thread/32/light-night-ic?page=1&scrollTo=290

Oi, the world would know about the conflict between your government and the """"communists"""", right?

Magnatronia

Talkative Friedensriech wrote:Oi, the world would know about the conflict between your government and the """"communists"""", right?

Tru, tru.

The Cross And Davids Star wrote:Tru, tru.

My question is how can you be such a "Free Nation" with your government so controlled by religion and corruption?

Talkative Friedensriech

The Cross And Davids Star wrote:Tru, tru.

Writing International Workingmen's Association announcement, please hold....

Vista Major

Solla Ultima wrote:My question is how can you be such a "Free Nation" with your government so controlled by religion and corruption?

I just can.

Magnatronia wrote:Also, I'm pretty sure that was Mau^ trolling us. I hope he got banned *again*. Suppressed it anyways.

Creative name, though.

Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona

Talkative Friedensriech wrote:Oi, the world would know about the conflict between your government and the """"communists"""", right?

Did you read the foreword? Yeah dude?

Magnatronia wrote:Did you read the foreword? Yeah dude?

Just wanted confirmation?

Magnatronia wrote:Did you read the foreword? Yeah dude?

Communists! Communists! Communists! Communists! Communists!

Talkative Friedensriech

Post self-deleted by Neo-Icelandic Commonwealth.

Trump is such a narcissist. Is it true that he faked fvucking phone calles to make himself look better?

Jaslandia, Cesorion

Neo-Icelandic Commonwealth wrote:Trump is such a narcissist. Is it true that he faked fvucking phone calles to make himself look better?

Would. Not. Surprise. Me.

The guy has such a weak self-esteem that Mike Pence has probably opened thousands of fake Twitter accounts to retweet and like his idiotic tweets.

Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona, Neo-Icelandic Commonwealth

Neo-Icelandic Commonwealth wrote:Trump is such a narcissist. Is it true that he faked fvucking phone calles to make himself look better?

Trump is the humblest. The US has never had a President as humble as him. He's so humble, we're crying out, "oh no, we can't handle this much humbleness!" Some people think other people are more humble than Trump, but these people are WRONG. Sad!

Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Oelesa, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona, United Continental States, South Hyder, Neo-Icelandic Commonwealth

Neo-Icelandic Commonwealth wrote:Trump is such a narcissist. Is it true that he faked fvucking phone calles to make himself look better?

You mean this? Because if so, then it looks like that's what happened.

http://www.salon.com/2017/08/03/the-white-house-admits-trump-fabricated-phone-call-from-boy-scout-leaders-mexico-president/

Penguania And Antarctica, Neo-Icelandic Commonwealth

Jaslandia wrote:You mean this? Because if so, then it looks like that's what happened.

http://www.salon.com/2017/08/03/the-white-house-admits-trump-fabricated-phone-call-from-boy-scout-leaders-mexico-president/

Jow the hell did Americans make this happen? Trump is a joke president

Penguania And Antarctica, Talkative Friedensriech, Yukona, Cesorion

Neo-Icelandic Commonwealth wrote:Jow the hell did Americans make this happen? Trump is a joke president

How*

You got mail!

http://thecoffincofn.boards.net/post/293/thread

Penguania And Antarctica

Neo-Icelandic Commonwealth wrote:Jow the hell did Americans make this happen? Trump is a joke president

Careful, you don't want to trigger any lingering TrumpBots here. The last thing we need is a half cocked lecture on "teh librul media"!

Jaslandia, Axeldonia

Talkative Friedensriech wrote:Careful, you don't want to trigger any lingering TrumpBots here. The last thing we need is a half cocked lecture on "teh librul media"!

Well, the media is liberal and I can show you evidence, but yeah, some Trump supporters are just like SJWs which is a bit ironic don't you think?

Neo-Icelandic Commonwealth wrote:Jow the hell did Americans make this happen? Trump is a joke president

The Electoral College :p

Jaslandia, Yukona, Neo-Icelandic Commonwealth

Neo-Icelandic Commonwealth wrote:How the hell did Americans make this happen? Trump is a joke president

By Republicans making Obama and the Democrats the enemy. So those trump voters, the uneducated or the ones looking to get re elected backed Trump, and Trump's bluntness some how looked Presidential to people. The Democrats also picked the painted bad corrupted Hillary over the nice old guy. So swing voters voted Trump cause they thought he was the lesser of two evils. And more crap, on top of crap and crap and crap. Crap=Trump which = worst than Nixon. Nixon would probably have been a pretty good President if it wasn't for Watergate.

Anyone who isn't concerned about Trump or can't at least recognize that he might be a little out of control needs to wake up. And i'm not gonna debate it because i don't feel like it. Everyone here debates too much, but now you know my opinion.

I also think everything Trump has done and the failures of a Republican Congress is going to help the Democrats in 2018.

Jaslandia, Vista Major, Yukona, United Continental States, Neo-Icelandic Commonwealth

Oelesa wrote:By Republicans making Obama and the Democrats the enemy. So those trump voters, the uneducated or the ones looking to get re elected backed Trump, and Trump's bluntness some how looked Presidential to people. The Democrats also picked the painted bad corrupted Hillary over the nice old guy. So swing voters voted Trump cause they thought he was the lesser of two evils. And more crap, on top of crap and crap and crap. Crap=Trump which = worst than Nixon. Nixon would probably have been a pretty good President if it wasn't for Watergate.

Anyone who isn't concerned about Trump or can't at least recognize that he might be a little out of control needs to wake up. And i'm not gonna debate it because i don't feel like it. Everyone here debates too much, but now you know my opinion.

I also think everything Trump has done and the failures of a Republican Congress is going to help the Democrats in 2018.

The two party system that America has is so bad

Oelesa

Neo-Icelandic Commonwealth wrote:The two party system that America has is so bad

Muh Freedom! Duh Enemy Pahrty!

Neo-Icelandic Commonwealth

Neo-Icelandic Commonwealth wrote:Well, the media is liberal and I can show you evidence, but yeah, some Trump supporters are just like SJWs which is a bit ironic don't you think?

Alas, you cannot blame the media outlets for releasing their opinions, let alone some biased news coverage. It is up to you if you believe the "information" they present, not them. Instead, the blame rests on the vast majority of American voters being politically illiterate and uncritical to information presented to them.

You know, I have never actually used the word "triggered" until I started debating with some Trump supporters. It's really ironic, because the former free speech advocates are the same ones that are now calling for the executions of people like Stephen Colbert for criticizing and making fun of the president. The SJW haters are now SJWs! Gotta love American politics, man.

Neo-Icelandic Commonwealth

Neo-Icelandic Commonwealth wrote:The two party system that America has is so bad

Problem with trying to rectify the two-part system is that if multiple parties form and take hold in Congress, the Governors', and state legislatures, all the factions within both former parties (Blue Dog Democrats, Christian Fundamentalists, Rockefeller Republican, etc.) would branch off and consider their former ideological allies as sellouts (take the more liberal Democrats similar to Bernie denouncing those in the moderate faction such as Obama and Clinton, or Christian Republicans would believe the more moderate/corporate allies to be faithless or not as focused on Christianity).

Pirate Kingdoms wrote:Problem with trying to rectify the two-part system is that if multiple parties form and take hold in Congress, the Governors', and state legislatures, all the factions within both former parties (Blue Dog Democrats, Christian Fundamentalists, Rockefeller Republican, etc.) would branch off and consider their former ideological allies as sellouts (take the more liberal Democrats similar to Bernie denouncing those in the moderate faction such as Obama and Clinton, or Christian Republicans would believe the more moderate/corporate allies to be faithless or not as focused on Christianity).

I love the RINOs. They're the reason I used to consider myself a supporter of the GOP.

Pirate Kingdoms

Talkative Friedensriech wrote:I love the RINOs. They're the reason I used to consider myself a supporter of the GOP.

At least moderation exists: otherwise it would be a sh*tshow on both ends

Jaslandia

Post self-deleted by Talkative Friedensriech.

Pirate Kingdoms wrote:At least moderation exists: otherwise it would be a sh*tshow on both ends

Obviously Congress needs more extremists like Socialists and Fascists! I want to watch a good brawl :P

Pirate Kingdoms

Talkative Friedensriech wrote:Obviously Congress needs more extremists like Socialists and Fascists! I want to watch a good brawl :P

Just like Mexico, Ukraine, and Taiwan

Also got approached by Jehovah's Witnesses again, only I got called señor :p

Pirate Kingdoms wrote:Just like Mexico, Ukraine, and Taiwan

Also got approached by Jehovah's Witnesses again, only I got called señor :p

"Hola senor, would you like to hear the word of your savior?"

Thank goodness I don't have to worry about those guys. My neighborhood banned door to door solicitors years ago.

Pirate Kingdoms

Talkative Friedensriech wrote:"Hola senor, would you like to hear the word of your savior?"

Thank goodness I don't have to worry about those guys. My neighborhood banned door to door solicitors years ago.

Both Spanish-speaking Hispanics

We usually ignore them but the windows for our door is a little too high for me so it's a game of chance

Neo-Icelandic Commonwealth wrote:Jow the hell did Americans make this happen? Trump is a joke president

I'm a Democrat who at the very was a Trump-Over-Clinton Dem for a small section of time, as well as came from a Republican family, so I can give you my anecdotal stuff.

My mother was a staunch supporter of the wall, was very much in favor of the Arab/Muslim-Travel Ban, and is very much in favor of Trump's America First language.

My father was staunchly against Obama and the rising radical left, not to mention saw Clinton as corrupt, and thus supported Trump as the counterbalance to Clinton. Both of his parents went the same route for pretty much the same reasons.

My grandfather was a Bernie supporter, and wrote-in Bernie during the election, but was pro-Trump in that he saw Trump as anti-establishment and viewed him as the Bernie-of-the-Republicans.

I myself supported Trump, albeit briefly, because of his opposition to the TPP, his more protectionist trade policies, his support for an alternative to Obamacare (Though this is definitely turning out bad, as I have come to expect), as well as his seeming opposition to the political establishment in Washington during the election, on top of that his kind of more "I don't care" attitude towards the LGBT stuff for a brief period in contrary to his Republican contemporaries. My support faded before the election came, though I still went the route of idealistically supporting Jill Stein over Clinton.

Jaslandia, Kalaron

Talkative Friedensriech wrote:You got mail!

http://thecoffincofn.boards.net/post/293/thread

Erm, Perlands a member of HOPE, and therefore won't go into conflicts like this except for humanitarian aid.

Jaslandia

The Cross And Davids Star wrote:Erm, Perlands a member of HOPE, and therefore won't go into conflicts like this except for humanitarian aid.

Mmk

https://www.nationstates.net/nation=the_united_confederacy_of_texas/detail=factbook/id=867175

Old draft on the Republic's legislature (made this close to two years ago and based it on Mark's factbook on the Federal Assembly), basically U.S. Congress mixed with China's National People's Congress and including some other leadership positions

Jaslandia

Talkative Friedensriech wrote:Alas, you cannot blame the media outlets for releasing their opinions, let alone some biased news coverage. It is up to you if you believe the "information" they present, not them. Instead, the blame rests on the vast majority of American voters being politically illiterate and uncritical to information presented to them.

You know, I have never actually used the word "triggered" until I started debating with some Trump supporters. It's really ironic, because the former free speech advocates are the same ones that are now calling for the executions of people like Stephen Colbert for criticizing and making fun of the president. The SJW haters are now SJWs! Gotta love American politics, man.

Look, I find it okay that media outlets publish biased information but I think that the media outlets who do that should admit that they do. That's the difference between FOX, The Guardian and English tabloids and CNN, ABC, NBC, MSNBC, BBC and so forth. But it is true that American voters are politically illitirate if the vast majority of votes go to an orange, narcissistic business tycoon or a corrupt granny that pretends to be a liberal when she is in fact a horrible neocon and a neoliberal. And I don't get this 'lesser of two evils' bullshít, there were plenty of othet candidates that the people didn't even know about. Americans need to get their head out of their ass and research the fvcking candidates before voting for them. A vote for Hillary is a vote for greedy corporations that see you as a tool to make them richer. A vote for Trump is a vote for greedy corporations that see you as a tool to make them richer. He even used to be one of those disgusting CEOs, ruining the world by taking our wealth and using the government to do it for them. The only way for this to stop is if people educate themselves and rise up against the establishment and corporations. Billionaires already know it's coming. "Reform" won't do shít, what we need is a revolution, and the quicker the better. Everyone knows that income inequality has been growing a lot since Reagan and Thatcher ruled there respectful countries. These fake crony capitalists that call themselves "neoliberals" have fallen into the trap and the only thing that neoliberalism does is take our wealth and give it to the billionaires. This is disgusting, and it has to stop now! It won't do it if the people remain dumb and uneducated and vote for the same establishment. People think Trump is anti-establishment. They are wrong. The only reason he's in politics is because of business, like 99% of politicians. I am sick and tired of this!

Pirate Kingdoms wrote:Problem with trying to rectify the two-part system is that if multiple parties form and take hold in Congress, the Governors', and state legislatures, all the factions within both former parties (Blue Dog Democrats, Christian Fundamentalists, Rockefeller Republican, etc.) would branch off and consider their former ideological allies as sellouts (take the more liberal Democrats similar to Bernie denouncing those in the moderate faction such as Obama and Clinton, or Christian Republicans would believe the more moderate/corporate allies to be faithless or not as focused on Christianity).

However have us parliamentary countries managed :P

Pirate Kingdoms, Yukona

Pirate Kingdoms wrote:Just like Mexico, Ukraine, and Taiwan

Also got approached by Jehovah's Witnesses again, only I got called señor :p

¡Hola señor! ¿Tienes un momento para hablar de Jesús?

Andromitus, Pirate Kingdoms, Percyton

Jaslandia wrote:¡Hola señor! ¿Tienes un momento para hablar de Jesús?

I somehow understood that even though I don't speak Spanish

Jaslandia, Percyton

Pirate Kingdoms wrote:Both Spanish-speaking Hispanics

We usually ignore them but the windows for our door is a little too high for me so it's a game of chance

See, I'm too nice. So when they come a knocking, I always answer, and just kind of play into what they're saying until they leave. Take whatever pamphlets, smile and nod, move on. I do the same thing when the occasional Mormon comes around. Only lost my sh!t once, and that was because one of them made my sister cry. Was not happy about that.

Step grandmother is a Jehovah's Witness, which has been a point of friction between our family and her. Seeing as how she doesn't talk to us at all anymore, things have calmed down.

Jaslandia, Kalaron, Pirate Kingdoms

Pirate Kingdoms wrote:Both Spanish-speaking Hispanics

wHY dO yOU rEJECT mY pEOPLE

Pirate Kingdoms, Percyton

Talkative Friedensriech wrote:Just wanted confirmation?

Dude, nice post btw?? I love it honestly. But you should apply to the OOC first just so I know what I'm going up against!

Percyton

Oelesa wrote:By Republicans making Obama and the Democrats the enemy. So those trump voters, the uneducated or the ones looking to get re elected backed Trump, and Trump's bluntness some how looked Presidential to people. The Democrats also picked the painted bad corrupted Hillary over the nice old guy. So swing voters voted Trump cause they thought he was the lesser of two evils. And more crap, on top of crap and crap and crap. Crap=Trump which = worst than Nixon. Nixon would probably have been a pretty good President if it wasn't for Watergate.

Anyone who isn't concerned about Trump or can't at least recognize that he might be a little out of control needs to wake up. And i'm not gonna debate it because i don't feel like it. Everyone here debates too much, but now you know my opinion.

I also think everything Trump has done and the failures of a Republican Congress is going to help the Democrats in 2018.

No thanks. I have decided to not wake up today, I am just too uneducated to know I need to do that. Yep, just an uneducated voter here, please forgive me for voting wrong.

Oelesa

Continental Commonwealths wrote:However have us parliamentary countries managed :P

Y'all have mostly stable political figures that aren't completely obsessed with things such as Christianity, legalization of marijuana, gun ownership, torture enhanced interrogation techniques, and marriage of people. Also, polarization isn't as bad in most countries as it is here, and the parties similar to Republicans and Democrats are mostly fringe groups. In a first-past-the-post political system that encourages party loyalty and is an executive-based government, that isn't as possible (though I still prefer an executive presidency over a parliamentary republican system).

Jaslandia wrote:¡Hola señor! ¿Tienes un momento para hablar de Jesús?

*In Brandon Rogers's Grandpa voice* "Do you wanna see Jesus?!"

Jaslandia, Yukona, Percyton

Sulania wrote:See, I'm too nice. So when they come a knocking, I always answer, and just kind of play into what they're saying until they leave. Take whatever pamphlets, smile and nod, move on. I do the same thing when the occasional Mormon comes around. Only lost my sh!t once, and that was because one of them made my sister cry. Was not happy about that.

Step grandmother is a Jehovah's Witness, which has been a point of friction between our family and her. Seeing as how she doesn't talk to us at all anymore, things have calmed down.

I just nod and store the pamphlets in my room :p

Magnatronia wrote:wHY dO yOU rEJECT mY pEOPLE

*blinks*

But I'm Mexican, señor

Magnatronia

Pirate Kingdoms wrote:I just nod and store the pamphlets in my room :p

*blinks*

But I'm Mexican, señor

I always try to convert them. I have pamphlets of my own, when they offer me theirs, I give them some of mine. A straight swap.

Jaslandia, Andromitus, Pirate Kingdoms

Tserra wrote:I always try to convert them. I have pamphlets of my own, when they offer me theirs, I give them some of mine. A straight swap.

*snaps fingers*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I04OIfbBrTg

Jaslandia, Tserra

Pirate Kingdoms wrote:

*In Brandon Rogers's Grandpa voice* "Do you wanna see Jesus?!"

¿Me estás amenazando, señor?

Pirate Kingdoms, Percyton

Jaslandia wrote:¿Me estás amenazando, señor?

Jaslandia, Percyton

Pirate Kingdoms wrote:

Preferiría que no me amenaces, señor. No es lo que Jesús hubiera querido.

Pirate Kingdoms, Percyton

PK, you need to find a phahmacist!

(Huge Brandon Rogers fan btw)

Jaslandia, Pirate Kingdoms

Oelesa wrote:

By Republicans making Obama and the Democrats the enemy. So those trump voters, the uneducated or the ones looking to get re elected backed Trump, and Trump's bluntness some how looked Presidential to people. The Democrats also picked the painted bad corrupted Hillary over the nice old guy. So swing voters voted Trump cause they thought he was the lesser of two evils. And more crap, on top of crap and crap and crap. Crap=Trump which = worst than Nixon. Nixon would probably have been a pretty good President if it wasn't for Watergate.

Anyone who isn't concerned about Trump or can't at least recognize that he might be a little out of control needs to wake up. And i'm not gonna debate it because i don't feel like it. Everyone here debates too much, but now you know my opinion.

I also think everything Trump has done and the failures of a Republican Congress is going to help the Democrats in 2018.

As much as I generally agree with this statement, I find "wake up" to be an extremely condescending phrase that should be abandoned posthaste, lest we all end up looking like haughty fools

Jaslandia, Oelesa

Jaslandia wrote:¡Hola señor! ¿Tienes un momento para hablar de Jesús?

Pirate Kingdoms wrote:

Jaslandia wrote:Preferiría que no me amenaces, señor. No es lo que Jesús hubiera querido.

Toby: Warum sprichst du zwei spanisch? Das ist ein sehr seltsames Gespräch.

Percy: Toby, since when did you know German?

Toby: It's been a little while, so I might be a bit rusty, but I learned it on my old railway. One of the workmen who I was friends with was German, and he taught me a lot of the German language. The workman ended up being fired in 1943; it turned out he was a German spy, and he was caught trying to blow up a section of the track. But I least he taught me German before he went turncoat.

Jaslandia, Pirate Kingdoms

Jaslandia wrote:Preferiría que no me amenaces, señor. No es lo que Jesús hubiera querido.

The power of Christ compels you, infidel :p

Talkative Friedensriech wrote:PK, you need to find a phahmacist!

(Huge Brandon Rogers fan btw)

"I drank some bleach all the way down to the blue, and now I'm startin' to feel like Harry Potters."

"Sir, you're not supposed to drink bleach."

"Well, it tasted like candy to me."

Jaslandia, Vista Major, Talkative Friedensriech, Percyton

I will post in the magna RP tomorrow

Pirate Kingdoms wrote:Y'all have mostly stable political figures that aren't completely obsessed with things such as Christianity, legalization of marijuana, gun ownership, torture enhanced interrogation techniques, and marriage of people. Also, polarization isn't as bad in most countries as it is here, and the parties similar to Republicans and Democrats are mostly fringe groups. In a first-past-the-post political system that encourages party loyalty and is an executive-based government, that isn't as possible (though I still prefer an executive presidency over a parliamentary republican system).

I dunno. We have a very polarized society with plenty of religious zealots here in Canada. There's also plenty of people who oppose marijuana, hope to promote further militarization, seek to revisit abortion rights and same sex marriage.

One could argue that our parliamentary system contributes to mitigating the influence of the radical left or right players given our multi-party system and the possibility for coalition government.

And we still have a first past the post system, and possibly even more party loyalty. This is why radical right (or left) wing people are able to be reigned in. For instance, if they're kicked out of the leading right wing party because they've grown too radical, they lose all possibility of participating in either government or official opposition.

Pirate Kingdoms

I want to announce that when the embassy with the Free Market Federation is completed, the number of embassies will have increased by ten. It is my goal to advance our Diplomatic Relations, and I think I am doing well!

Jaslandia, Magnatronia, Percyton

Neo-Icelandic Commonwealth wrote:Jow the hell did Americans make this happen? Trump is a joke president

He was a joke of a candidate and he is a colossal joke of a President. Even Stein would have done better.

Cesorion wrote:He was a joke of a candidate and he is a colossal joke of a President. Even Stein would have done better.

Not so sure.

Trump might be an idiot but at least he wasn't miss "Nuclear Reactors are WMDs waiting to happen" or "Wi-Fi fries children's brains"

Jaslandia, The Empire Of Handland, Neo-Icelandic Commonwealth

My nation is developing so nicely! Didn't know there was an 'Excessive' status for Political Freedom

Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Vista Major, Yukona, Percyton, Cesorion

Moldegaard wrote:My nation is developing so nicely! Didn't know there was an 'Excessive' status for Political Freedom

Shirley has surely blessed you

Jaslandia, Percyton, Moldegaard

Tserra wrote:I always try to convert them. I have pamphlets of my own, when they offer me theirs, I give them some of mine. A straight swap.

That is actually genius...

Jaslandia

Le sigh. Not my year for political wins. First, Maxime Bernier falls just short of winning the federal Conservative leadership, and now Brad Wall has resigned after ten years as Premier of Saskatchewan. :(

Jaslandia, Clemodecralia, Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona

Continental Commonwealths wrote:Le sigh. Not my year for political wins. First, Maxime Bernier falls just short of winning the federal Conservative leadership, and now Brad Wall has resigned after ten years as Premier of Saskatchewan. :(

Good, good.... Everything is proceeding as I have foreseen...

Jaslandia

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