Well, it depends. Is this inside joke popular in the western half of the country? Or is it primarily a coastal city thing. Because since it is a decently important region within the country, it might actually be more well travelled.
It's an everywhere thing, with some regional variations. I think even the acrean government joked around with it at some point. By the way, Acre is actuallty one of those weird places where everything supernatural seems to happen. Case and point, Bruno Borges: https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2020/07/a-room-full-of-crazy-and-the-weird-vanishing-of-bruno-borges/ Not only did the stuff on this article actually happen, Bruno Borges eventually returned home with a life-sized statue of himself, "a lot of new information" and a promise to illuminate humanity onto another level of counsciousness.
Oh don't worry, this is a fascinating question and it's been on my mind a lot.
Today I learned a word called "pasokification". It's a description of how centre-left parties across Europe have utterly crashed in the past decade. The namesake was the pasok party in Greece, which in 2000 achieved 44% of the vote, yet in 2015 in it's last ever contested election won less than 5% of the vote.
A similar trend is visible in the Netherlands, France, Germany, Sweden, the UK.... you get the picture.
At the moment, the big discussion in Britain is about how the Labour party has lost a lot of ground despite being in opposition for 11 years (it lost over 200 councillors on Thursday's local elections). But while the discussion of how to reverse the damage to the party has been dominant, I've been thinking a lot about what is coming next. What politics would Labour have to adopt to be electable- or what party would replace it.
The Greens seem an obvious answer, but as you highlight, it's really not so straightforward. Especially in Britain, where tribal loyalties play a huge role in politics, the question of the greens is not so obvious as it may be in say, Germany.
Leaving apart the distortions of the FTPT electoral system (which is putting Labour on life support at this point anyway), it seems pretty clear that generally green parties and conservatives in actuality have a lot more in common than either would care to admit. Their demographics for a start- green voters tend to be much richer than the national average, and while recent years have somewhat confused the picture, the same is/was true of conservatives in Europe. Their stated interests are not as wildly divergent as it would appear at first glance. They collaborate on many campaigns on the local level, most commonly in opposition to new developments.
Don't forget that David Cameron in the UK initially ran in 2010 as the green candidate, going to arctic and spreading an environmental message. That's no accident, nor has it been an isolated occurrence. It's something that I've noticed Americans have a hard time wrapping their heads around, but Conservatives across Europe idolise the countryside (and have done for literal centuries), praise the life of small villages and purposely destroying the environment is anathema to many a conservative voter. Traditionally, it has been left of centre parties like Labour that have proposed plans like building up industry or housing, which is good for other areas of human activities but undeniably has a toll on the environment.
So it's one of those times where the traditional left-right spectrum falls apart, and why I am never super surprised by these coalitions. I mean, we already have "Greencon" governments in Austria, Ireland and (it imminently looks like) Germany.
Besides, it makes sense just from a purely practical perspective too. The greens want to be in power so that they can protect the environment. Conservatives want to be in power for power's sake for their beliefs, and a little bargaining soon sorts out a good enough deal for both parties.
And that's not even going into mentioning how green issues have been steadily growing as issues in the minds of voters across the political spectrum as the weather gradually starts to screw up more and more on the continent and consciousness about the environment is gradually getting itself felt.
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If this is how the region feels, I will actually stop and take these SC and WA votes seriously. I must admit, there is some truth to this.
No, eco-socialist (essentially DemSoc but very environmentalist)
I always wish that the US Greens were a bit more moderate, like Social Democrats or Sanderists as opposed to actual Democratic Socialists. More like New Zealand’s Greens. Not anti-capitalist, but still opposed to the current method of capitalism in the US. Welfare Statists, not full-blown socialists.
But anyways it won’t make a difference, as with FPTP voting they have no chance. If only we could adopt IRV and Proportional Representation
Coming from someone who is...kind of? A member of the party (its complicated), not, it is not.
As Middle Barael said, they are an eco-socialist party that is against the ideas of capitalism and believes that the only way to protect the environment and save the Earth is to abolish the system in favour of an eco-friendly version of socialism. Personally, I find it a refreshing alternative to the traditional Democratic Party, as they are much more regulatory and environmentalist. But, sadly, unless an alternative voting system is used they will probably never crack above 1% in Presidential elections or get close to winning a seat in Congress.
Congratulations to Verdant Haven! As the most popular of the flag contest designs, with 25 eligible votes to 11 eligible votes for Mount Seymour's design, their submission will go head-to-head with the updated regional flag (another Mount Seymour(TM) creation) in a final round. The winner of this round will become our new regional flag, so please take the time to appreciate both of the incredible designs in full - they're both presented side-by-side in the dispatch below for your convenience.
With that, the final poll of the Flag Contest has begun. Voter eligibility remains the same as both other polls (see the official Flag Contest dispatch). As always, best of luck to the creators of both designs!
Oh thank god. For a second there, I thought that you were being serious.
1 & 2. We don't really have any regions, states, or provinces of the like, but we are mainly divided up into several divisions of which we focus different work on. The "regions" of our nation includes our Climate Division, our Food Division, our Forests Division, our Freshwater Division, our Oceans Division, and our Wildlife Division.
3. Some stereotypes of our nation as a whole could include things as being progressive, very diverse, pretty secular, feminist, environmentalist, and being woke.
there are only and exactly three "cities" in cameroi. one is the capitol, one is the space port and one is the university. which is not to say we have only one of each of these, but rather that only one of each is surrounded by or adjacent to, anything resembling a city. and even then, these cities are more like a village of villages, each neighborhood enjoying a relatively high degree of soverign indipendence.
movies movies, basically pretty much everyone makes their own. that's what our idea of an internet is all about. no corporate social media, but a not for profit internet, or internet equivalent, on which nearly all content is user provided. of course, yes, some get a lot more followers then others, but no matter what you upload, there will be at least some who like it and some who don't. celebrity isn't really a thing though, and most creators choose to remain mostly anonymous.
and the most popular don't tell emotional or dramatic stories, but are interesting imaginary worlds others can cybernetically walk around in as the choose, much like that lynden thing, only there's no cost to upload and no need to be publicly present as an avatar ether, unless wishing to meet someone there. one way non-participatory entertainment isn't very much of a thing. people have their own ideas and visually share them. not that eveyone has to be any kind of a visual artists, but i would estimate a very large majority of cameroi have at least so talent and ability to do so.
regions are, well every nine, more or less villages, form a district, and similarly districts form counties and the counties form shires and the shires form bio-regions, and these form states and these form bio-provences and these form cameroi. as for having names, well villages like adult cameroi, name themselves as they will, preferably an original concatenation of phonemes. camoroi aren't big on the naming this after that or whom. names of natural features sometimes, or prominent species combined with them, like pesky deer road, or cougar gap, that sort of thing.
for stereotypes, you'd have to ask school kids, and every school has their own, and kids are always making up new ones. once they've graduated, entered adulthood, passed through pujzush, the concept is one they tend to leave behind as immature.
1) Very glad this is this week's question, just finished a rough outline of Satka's provinces (https://i.imgur.com/1GYmr9a.png). There are 233 of them, divided between 10 regions: Saklotha, the Keos Prairie, Healia, the Tochakwīje Plateau, the Coastlands, Teashje, Kolh, Sehiesi and Hiashan, Jomalalet, and the Fai Islands. (Forgive me for not coming up with 233 province names.) "Province" might be a misnomer, though, some of them would be better translated as prefectures, republics, metropoles, okrugs, or national parks.
3) Saklotha is temperate rainforests and the ivory tower liberal capital, Keos is the down-to-earth prairie people, Healia is exactly 4 shepherds, Tochakwīje is full of polyandrous barbarians high in the mountains, the Coastlands is rolling hills and cult country, Teashje has gorgeous landscapes and not much else, Kolh is full of polygynous barbarians from the tundra, Sehiesi and Hiashan are fishermen who only care about sports, Jomalalet doesn't exist, and the Fai Islands are tropical rainforests, chocolate and spices, and lots and lots of monkeys. This is still a pretty new project, so that's about all the stereotypes I have right now, to be honest.
🎉 If we finally get independence a LOT of people will switch from voting SNP to greens.
all my siblings and my own peers (age range 16 to 25) mainly supported SNP so we can have independence and enough power that a green government could actually make a difference in Scotland without being dragged behind by the [expletive] tories.
I'd like to ask anyone familiar with the GA rules etc. There's this proposal that reached quorum titled "Freedom of Dress". Given that Prudism is a policy one might have, is it against the game mechanic (or whatever term that describes it well)?
Generally, I don't watch movies often due to their standalone nature (and I usually don't have time for it). The last movie I watched was Palm Springs (2020), I'd give it a solid 8.5.
If you happened to be a Star Wars fan, I'd recommend Rogue One (2016) in case you haven't watched it. A straight up 9 in my opinion..
Freedom of Dress does look as if it might conflict with the Prudism policy. I think the main motivation behind it was to prevent sexist dress codes at work, but I'm planning to vote against any resolution that protects the "right" to wear a swastika T-shirt to a synagogue.
In terms of the rules, GA resolutions can and do prohibit some answers to in-game issues. The GA bans slavery and ritual sacrifice while requiring that abortion be legal and available. Nothing prevents a WA nation from answering issues in a way that breaks GA law. NationStates comprises a number of minigames that don't fully align.
GA law sets out penalties for non-compliance in the form of fines and economic sanctions depending on the severity of the breach. These measures are 100% roleplay - they won't affect a nation's stats at all. Conversely, when a resolution passes it has a small effect on the stats of every WA nation even if they're actually not compliant.
Here's an explanation from Separatist Peoples of the GA Secretariat.
I don't know anything about the US Green Party in particular, but I often suspect that people who wish greens were more moderate are effectively wishing that what needs to be done was less drastic and more palatable, or that the kind of empty greenwash represented by the 2010 UK posturing Chan island mentioned was enough (Cameron got himself photographed cycling to work with his limo driving along behind him; any policy changes in his 6 years in power did functionally nothing to avert the climate crisis). Capitalism is destroying the environment and recognising that isn't extremist, it's just honest.
I've probably shared it before, but totally this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ir-XjQhOyNQ
We're talking zero economic growth - in fact we're talking economic shrinking in terms of GDP. Denying that to appease voters for mainstream political parties is going nowhere as a strategy.
No, the updated regional flag is the design on the right of this dispatch. In Mount Seymour's own words:
When I created our current flag back in 2016, I didn't have any downloaded graphics software. As I recall, I made the flag in a vector-editor web tool that may not even exist anymore. The tool didn't have snapping or alignment functions, so I basically just eyeballed everything. As a result, if you look very closely, you may notice that some corners don't exactly meet up and some elements aren't quite centered. I wanted to fix these errors in a renovated design.
I also wanted to incorporate the style of the new Forest logo that I had recently created for an update of the regional dispatches and forum (you can see it in action at the top of the Flag Contest dispatch, as a matter of fact). It's based on the current flag -- for example, the trees are the same dimensions and proportions -- but everything is a little more rounded and smooth, less "chunky". I think it looks both a bit more elegant and a bit more friendly.
Thus, the updated regional flag is a modernised version of the existing regional flag. In contrast, Verdant Haven's design is their own original creation that is inspired by our existing regional flag.
Emm, quick question. What would happen to our flag in the event of a tie? Would we cycle flags every tertile? Would we be stuck in a purgatory? Would Chan island's lackeys got buried again after rising?
First of all, fear suddenly grips Terrabod's heart.
Secondly, I think it would make sense for me to then cast a vote for the status quo - which, as we've just discussed, isn't the status quo at all, but you know what I mean. I'm definitely open to suggestions, though. Including me being fired by his lordship for failing to provide a clear-cut resolution to the Flag Contest which would undoubtedly be a grievous offence (if his lordship thought it was a grievous offence).
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