NationStates

Prussia-Steinbach wrote:

Rumostan wrote:
You didn't. I joined originally and you just said 'Do you want to join the Mafia?'

After which I probably said "You realise you might be arrested or killed or something, right?"

Rumostan wrote:

Prussia-Steinbach wrote:After which I probably said "You realise you might be arrested or killed or something, right?"

Um no I asked if anyone else was joining and you said that you couldn't tell me. I then talked to another senator who I shall not name and he said that we could join together. I said yes and you said ok and gave me a link to the offsite chat room and then the next chat room and then the present offsite forum.

Prussia-Steinbach wrote:

Rumostan wrote:
Um no I asked if anyone else was joining and you said that you couldn't tell me. I then talked to another senator who I shall not name and he said that we could join together. I said yes and you said ok and gave me a link to the offsite chat room and then the next chat room and then the present offsite forum.

Still having a hard time believing I never said something to that effect, ever.

And there are posts on the forum saying you'll be clipped if you betray us.

Jetan wrote:

Sol Nascente wrote:

António Oliveira Salazar - Independent

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Account Name: Sol Nascente
Occupation: Senator
Party Position(s):None
Positions in Government: None
Constituency:N/A
Political Ideology: Traditionalist , Conservative and Nationalist
Family: No Wife or Children .
Background: Salazar was born in Vimieiro, near Santa Comba Dão (Viseu District), to a family of modest income. His father, a small landowner, had started as an agricultural labourer and became the manager for a distinguished family of rural landowners of the region of Santa Comba Dão, the Perestrelos, who possessed lands and other assets scattered between Viseu and Coimbra. He had four older sisters, and was the only male child of two fifth cousins, António de Oliveira (17 January 1839 to 28 September 1932) and wife Maria do Resgate Salazar (23 October 1845 to 17 November 1926), whose paternal grandfather was a landowner and a nobleman. Despite the knowledge of his ancestry, Salazar always preferred to claim humble origins. His older sisters were Maria do Resgate Salazar de Oliveira, an elementary school teacher; Elisa Salazar de Oliveira; Maria Leopoldina Salazar de Oliveira; and Laura Salazar de Oliveira, who in 1887 married Abel Pais de Sousa, whose brother Mário Pais de Sousa was Salazar's Interior Minister, sons of a family of Santa Comba Dão.
Salazar studied at the Viseu Seminary from 1900 to 1908 and considered becoming a priest, but changed his mind. He went to Coimbra in 1910 in order to study law at the University of Coimbra, during the first years of the republican government. During his student years in Coimbra he developed a particular interest for finance.

Faith: Catholicism
Likes:Traditionalism , Authoritarianism, Conservatism , Aurentian People .
Dislikes: Commies , Socialists , Lolbertarians .
Any Questions from the Public to be answered?

• Are you good at Economics : - Yes

So he's 130+ years old then?

The Prince Of Shadows wrote:In short every senator we have killed/tried to is because they were informing on us. We don't wish to have to go round killing senators but those who try and inform on us leave no other option. Secondly when in RL would a mafia hitman ask the target for permission to kill them?

I have an over and under at home with buck shot and if i so chose could drive round to the local Starbucks walk up a random person and unload both barrels into their head*. It can be done so its not a godmod in the circumstances we have here. In other words Rum your dead. Deal with it, Nobody betrays the family and lives. It is in all the operations you were part of all the thread OP's and the forum. You could not fail to see it.


*This is of course hypothetical.

Mishmahig wrote:

Jetan wrote:The setup was originally crafted to be as close to reality as possible with as little changes to the existing world as possible.

Yeah, and that went out the window right quick.

Prussia-Steinbach wrote:Differ all you like. This is supposed to be a modern European nation in the real world as we currently know it. Not one where people can both meet Caligula and vote on joining the European Union in their lifetime.

Yeah, and I suspect that idea disappeared right around...mmmm....the third mafia explosion/bombing thing, or around the time when we legalized gay marriage before establishing a tax structure.

Prussia-Steinbach wrote:OoC:

Mishmahig wrote:No, clearly the mafia has never done anything along those lines.

...you serious right now? We haven't. Please link me to one bombing. A single one.

Mishmahig wrote:Also, yes, the order of bills matters a great deal. If we're a "modern European nation in the real world as we currently know it", there's no way in h-e-double-toothpicks we'd legalize gay marriage before figuring out a tax structure.

So, no concessions for this being ON AN INTERNET FORUM are allowed? If we order bills wrong, everyone can now be a wizard and live thousands of years? What the fuck?

Unicario wrote:

Living Freedom Land wrote:It sort of ruins the spirit of the RP. We're here, trying to suspend disbelief and act like we're important people in a fake realistic-ish country, and then suddenly there's a wizard or a talking pony or something. I can understand where he's coming from.

Except my Senator has no supernatural powers outside being alive for several decades longer than the average person. She can't wave a wand, or ride a dragon, what's the harm?

If people have these powers, then yes, that's godmodding, but I don't see how being 155 and still looking young is godmodding.

Alexandre Ruisseau Mitonesia - New Democratic Party

Account Name: Mitonesia
Occupation: Senator / Writer / Researcher
Party Position(s):

Member

Positions in Government:

Senator

Constituency: Weilënze (constituency 169)
Political Ideology: N/A
Family:Anne Miller/Violet Miller Mitonesia
Background: Alexandre Ruisseau Mitonesia was born in Nantes in May 1975. Son of Lucas Ruisseau Mitonesia, well-known researcher in Biology and Medicine, and Nicole Argent Mitonesia, political chronicler, he lived in France until he was 14. Living his childhood and adolescence sorrounded by politics books and analysis, medicine volumes and biology encyclopedias he developed a critic personality and an interest for politics, sociology and science in general. In 1990 he moved to Belveel in Aurentina where he finished his studies. At age 18 he went to England where he endorsed in the Oxford University where he concluded a Master of Physics and a Doctorate in Political science. In its stayed in England he met Anne at age 25 and started dating her in that same year. He married her in 2003. Later on, Alexandre got a proposal of a joob as a researcher in the main research center of Aurentina. By that time Anne was already pregnant of Violet and she found the opportunity of continuing her carrier in Medicine in a major Hospital of Aurentina. Her job as a surgeon supported her husband's while he worked as a collumnist in The Independent. He continued his political carrier by writing a book with the name of "Politics and Political Science". After jobs supporting space research and critisizing the current government and many of the policies about the environment, education and other themes such as security and gun control in the newly formed country of Aurentina have earned him an invitation for the Totally Rad Party and consequent entry in the Progress Coalition in 2013. He bought a home in its birth city where he goes in holidays and where he visits his parents and an apartment in the urban center of Weilënze. He now has a place in the government as a member of the New Democratic Party, which resulted of the fusion of the LD and TR parties, being the latter one his former party. He represents the constituecy of Weilënze and is part of the Coalition Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination. He still visits the research center in a regular basis.
Faith: Agnostic
Likes: Having a drink with his friends, spending a weekend in France with his family, democracy, dolphins, french and british cultures, NDP policy, Red-Greens policy, political science, sociology, science, phisics, environmentalism, safety of each and every individual and gun control (which leads to a more peaceful society).
Dislikes: Political extremism, stupidity and extremism in general, descrimination of individuals.
Any Questions from the Public to be answered?
*Open to questions*

Unicario wrote:Senator von Hohenzollern announces she has abandoned her Christian faith for Old Norse paganism.

((OOC: I retconned her being from the 19th century. Too... godmoddy.))

Grand Longueville wrote:

Unicario wrote:Senator von Hohenzollern announces she has abandoned her Christian faith for Old Norse paganism.

((OOC: I retconned her being from the 19th century. Too... godmoddy.))

Senator, how has transferring from one erroneous belief to another affected your political life?

Unicario wrote:

Grand Longueville wrote:
Senator, how has transferring from one erroneous belief to another affected your political life?

Because I have come to the determination that the Allfather wills that Odin and Thor be my deities, not Jesus Christ. Besides that, no reason. Just felt like sayin' it.

Grand Longueville wrote:

Unicario wrote:
Because I have come to the determination that the Allfather wills that Odin and Thor be my deities, not Jesus Christ. Besides that, no reason. Just felt like sayin' it.

I asked how it affected your political life.

Unicario wrote:

Grand Longueville wrote:
I asked how it affected your political life.

No reason, really.

Grand Longueville wrote:

Unicario wrote:
No reason, really.

I'm not asking for a reason, I am asking if it affects your POLITICAL LIFE. As in, your senatorial career.

Unicario wrote:

Grand Longueville wrote:
I'm not asking for a reason, I am asking if it affects your POLITICAL LIFE. As in, your senatorial career.

It didn't. I'm the same Senator. I just have a new belief, 'cause I don't let religion interfere in my politics.

Byzantium Imperial wrote:

Unicario wrote:
It didn't. I'm the same Senator. I just have a new belief, 'cause I don't let religion interfere in my politics.

Will you support my "Rape, Pillage, and Pirating helps stop global warming" Bill?

Gothmogs wrote:

Rumostan wrote:
You didn't. I joined originally and you just said 'Do you want to join the Mafia?'

OOC: Same. I was never notified.

Zhuge Liang - TOTALLY RAD PARTY

Account Name: Namor
Occupation: Military Advisor
Party Position(s):

Party member

Positions in Government:

Was supposed to be Liu Bei's second-hand man, but whatever, guess he landed in Aurentina.

Constituency: Unknown
Political Ideology: Progressive centre-leftist social democrat/democratic socialist
Family:
Background: Zhuge Liang was born the son of a Chinese immigrant family in 1979. He studied geography, warfare, feng shui and literature and was a military advisor for the Aurentine Army and joined the National Centre Party, but then left for the Totally Rad Party, which he believed suited his personal views.
Faith: Atheist
Likes: Democratic socialism, left-wing libertarianism, mixed economy, social democracy, LGBT(Q) rights, social liberalism, anything-not-conservative, non-interventionism, socialism (to an extent), hoagies, computers, secularism
Dislikes: Social conservatism, fascism, Nazism, racism, xenophobia, Islamic/Christian religious fundamentalism, theocracy, authoritarianism
Any Questions from the Public to be answered?

• Were you that same guy who burned down all the ships at Red Cliff (赤壁)? - Maybe, maybe not. But I can tell you, burning ships is terrorism.
• What should the government control (and not control?) - The government should control the heat/air conditioning, education, construction of infrastructure, the maintaining and protection of environmental beauty, anything that makes sure everybody lives a proper standard of living. Everything else is pickings for the private sector.
• What do you think about the Democrats? - Idiots.
• Republicans? - (see above answer)
• Can you tell whether a typhoon or earthquake is gonna happen in the next 24 hours? - Hell yeah.
• What's gonna happen when you die? - A shooting star will appear, trust me.

Jetan wrote:Senator Bates is available for questions.

Potenco wrote:

Jetan wrote:Senator Bates is available for questions.

What is your opinion of the recent controversey regarding Bleckonias PM nomination?