AWWA-Yesterday, Today, and Forever(OOC-Closed)

by **Unicario** » Sat Jan 23, 2016 7:32 pm

Ruridova wrote:It's almost kind of a shame that we've skipped past most of the big Gilded Age strikes. Given that there were some sympathy strikes on California's rail lines, the Pullman Strike would have possibly become an international incident.

You could still have crippling labour strikes through the teens and twenties!

by **Ruridova** » Sun Jan 24, 2016 2:57 pm

TIL Langston Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri, which means he's mine even though he's associated with the Harlem Renaissance.

After learning that W.E.B. duBois was born in Massachusetts, I was honestly getting kind of worried that Canada would wind up with all the major influential black thinkers and authors of this period.

Unicario wrote:
Ruridova wrote:It's almost kind of a shame that we've skipped past most of the big Gilded Age strikes. Given that there were some sympathy strikes on California's rail lines, the Pullman Strike would have possibly become an international incident.

You could still have crippling labour strikes through the teens and twenties!

But most Confederate strikes would be sympathy strikes in support of Canadians. The CSA isn't really an industrial country; much of the Confederacy still relies on farming, mining, herding, drilling, fishing, etc.

by **Ruridova** » Sun Jan 24, 2016 3:20 pm

the CONFEDERATE STATES of AMERICA
los ESTADOS CONFEDERADOS de AMÉRICA

Capital: Washington
Largest City: Los Angeles
Demonym: American
Motto: E pluribus unum (Out of many, one)
Deo Vindice (Under God, Our Vindicator)
Anthem: In Dixie's Land
President: Loretta Lynch
Vice President: Elizabeth Warren
Senate Majority Leader: Mitch McConnell
Speaker of the House: Dan Webster
Chief Justice: Anthony Kennedy

The States of the Confederacy

The Confederate States of America is subdivided into twenty-seven federal subdivisions, generally known as "states". Officially, three states are called commonwealths, one a republic, and one a district, with one having no preceding word at all and the remaining twenty-one known officially as states; however, the differences are purely cosmetic and in common parlance all twenty-seven are referred to as states.

by **Unicario** » Tue Jan 26, 2016 12:04 pm

I should do a thingy for Korea.

by **Unicario** » Tue Jan 26, 2016 12:12 pm

The Empire of Japan and the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
Dai Nippon Teikoku no Dai-tō-a Kyōeiken
大日本帝國と大東亞共榮圏

Commonly known as "Japan"

Capital: Tokyo
Government: Constitutional Absolutism┼
National Language: English, Japanese, Cantonese

National Religion: State Shinto (Meiji Cult)

Sovereign Monarchs

Meiji Empress / Empress Akiko

Born: May 9, 1754 | Death: August 15, 1837 (died of old age)
Reign: February 11, 1774 to August 15, 1837 (63 years, 6 months, 4 days)
Full name: Akiko Sakura Yamato

Emperor Junkyou / Emperor George I

Born: June 22, 1783 | Death: December 24, 1837 (assassinated by Black Samurai)
Reign: August 15, 1837 to December 24, 1837 (4 months, 9 days)
Full name: George Augustus Yamato

Nikkou Emperor / Emperor Alexander

Born: May 24, 1819 | Death: February 26, 1898 (died of hypothermia)
Reign: December 24, 1837 to February 26, 1898 (60 years, 2 months, 2 days)
Full name: Alexander George Yamato

Tsuki Empress / Empress Elizabeth

Born: mid 1844 | Death: May 6, 1909 (died of Canadian Flu)
Reign: February 26, 1898 to May 6, 1909 (11 years, 2 months, 10 days)
Full name: Elizabeth Alexandra Augusta Yamato

Rikugun Empress / Empress Masako

Born: January 16, 1909 | Death: September 4, 2001 (died of old age)
Reign: May 6, 1909 to May 9, 1969 (abdicated; 60 years, 3 days)
Full name: Masako Catherine Yoshiko Yamato

Empress Akane

Born: May 9, 1952
Reign: May 9, 1969 to August 3, 2008 (abdicated; 39 years, 2 months, 25 days)
Full name: Akane Yoshiko Megumi Yamato

Empress Elizabeth II

Born: July 31, 1991
Reign: August 3, 2008 - present day (currently: 7 years, 6 months, 5 days and counting)
Full name: Elizabeth Rika Yamato

Chancellors

Thomas Jefferson (1789-1807) - National Conservative Party - Amerikanjin
John Adams (1807-1825) - National Conservative Party - Amerikanjin
John Quincy Adams (1825-1837) - National Conservative Party - Amerikanjin
Iemochi Tokugawa (1837-1855) - Imperial Liberal Party
Kasumi Nakano (1855-1873) - Imperial Liberal Party
Ichirou Jefferson (1873-1879) - National Conservative Party
Syngman Rhee (1879-1892) - National Conservative Party - Removed from office due to vote of no confidence after Kyushu Raid, 1892
Michiko Adams (1892-1900) - Imperial Liberal Party
Avina Kamakura (1900-1909) - Social Democratic Labour Party
Nicholas Romanov (1909-1914) - Social Democratic Labour Party
James Sun (1914-1920) - Nationalist Party - Resigned after armistice.
Nicholas Romanov (1920-1921) - Social Democratic Party - Resigned to become King of Manchuria
James Sun (1921-1933) - Nationalist Party
Adm. Isaac Yamamoto (1933-1939) - Nationalist Party
William Jiang (1939-1945) - Nationalist Party
Nguyen Sinh Con (1945-1950) - People's Social Federation - Resigned from office, 1950
Sakura Kamakura (1950-1975) - Socialist Party
Alexander Satō (1975) - Imperial Liberal Party - Resigned from office, 1975
Masayoshi Ōhira (1975-1980) - Imperial Liberal Party
Provisional Government (1980-1981)
Bernard Sanders (1981-1990) - United Front
Sarah Adams (1990-1999) - Nationalist Party - Descendant of John Adams
John MacLeod (1999-2002) - Social Democrat Party
Princess Ranko Yamato (2002-2004) - Imperial Society
Yuki Satsuma (2004-2008) - Christian Democratic
Julia Noragami (2008-2014) - Social Democrat Party
John A. Adams (2014-) - Nationalist Party - Son of Sarah Adams

"Anthems" of Japan
Official anthems are Furusato and Kimigayo

by **Shrillland** » Tue Jan 26, 2016 2:08 pm

Unicario wrote:I should do a thingy for Korea.

I should for the rest of the Empire myself....but i can't because it can't determine image sizes at the moment because Wiki's on the fritz as usual.

About me · by **Luziyca** » Tue Jan 26, 2016 3:19 pm

Gah. I should really work on the Chinese Empire.

Sorry for the inactivity.

by **Bojikami** » Tue Jan 26, 2016 5:49 pm

I should do something on Chad.

by **Bojikami** » Tue Jan 26, 2016 6:49 pm

Eurasia plans Nuclear Rocket for Deep Space Exploration

Yevcosmos, the Eurasian Federal Space Agency, recently presented its ten-year development plan to the Eurasian government -- the 2016-2025 Federal Space Program.

While the plan seemingly eliminates previously announced manned lunar exploration plans, it included somthing completely new ...

The construction of a prototype nuclear rocket engine that uses a reactor to propel it into deep space.

In a statement to Izvestiya, Andrey Ivanov, a spokesman for Yevatom, Eurasia's State Atomic Energy Corporation, said:

"All the work on the construction of the atomic engine is ongoing, in accordance with planned timescales. We can say with a large amount of certainty that the work will be completed within the provided timescale."

Andrey Ionin of Eurasia's Tsiolkovskiy Cosmonautical Academy told Izvestiya that the program envisions a wider plan for space exploration, which will guide the direction of the engine's construction. As he said:

"It is clear that an atomic engine is necessary only for exploration of distant space. Projects like the creation of an atomic engine have to take place in the context of a larger project, in order to precisely understand what exactly we are making such a powerful energy source for."

In fact, some aspects of the engine's construction are already underway, as Rosatom announced Monday. According to Andrey Ivanov:

"Two important stages of the project have recently been carried out. Testing of the reactor's casing has been successfully completed. This testing subjected the casing to excessive pressure and took 3D measurements of the metal, welding and conical intersection."

Efforts have also been proceeding on the development of the fuel elements as well. As Ivanov added:

"A unique fuel element has been constructed which allows the engine to work in high temperatures, in large temperature gradients, and high doses of radiation.
Nuclear rocket engines are not new. The Confederate States worked on the concept for over two decades in the 1950's and '60's as part of the NERVA (Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Application) program."

NERVA Nuclear rocket engine

NERVA was a nuclear thermal rocket engine development program that was a joint effort of the C.S. Atomic Energy and NASA that was managed by the Space Nuclear Propulsion Office (SNPO) until the program, and the office, ended in 1972.

But that wasn't the end of nuclear energy for space vehicles.

Since the 1960s, long-term, unmanned, space missions have used Radioisotope Thermal Generators (RTG) for power where solar cells are not practical.

Essentially, RTG power systems are atomic batteries. They produce electricity from the natural decay of plutonium-238 -- a non-weapons-grade form of plutonium. Heat given off by the natural decay of this isotope is converted into electricity, providing constant power.

Space probes such as NASA's Voyager and Pioneer, as well as the Curiosity rover, all use Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators (RTG) as their power source

When it was launched in 1977 Voyager 1's three RTG's produced about 470 watts of electric power, with the power output degrading over time.

by **Shrillland** » Fri Jan 29, 2016 4:38 pm

It was going to be a co-op post, but Uni's busy and I'm busy, so it'll have to be done the old-fashioned way.

by **Shrillland** » Mon Feb 01, 2016 11:30 pm

The DOMINION of CANADA

Capital: Albany
Largest City: New York
Demonym: Canadian
Motto: A Mare Usqui Ad Mare (From Sea to Sea)
Anthem: O, Canada
Royal Anthem: God Save the Queen
Governor-General: David Johnston
Prime Minister John Kerry
Speaker of the Senate: George Furey
Speaker of the House: Geoff Regan
Chief Justice: Beverley McLachlin

The Regions of Canada

The dominion of Canada is divided into 31 first-level districts, or provinces, and four second-level districts, or territories. The main difference is that provinces have their powers derived in the Canadian constitution while territories have their powers granted by the Federal Government. The District of Carteria is considered a territory but has slightly more power than the other three.

by **Ruridova** » Tue Feb 02, 2016 7:25 am

Confederate elections 2018 update-

With former Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley reportedly preparing to suspend his candidacy due to low poll numbers, and any independent run by former Virginia Senator Jim Webb failing to materialize, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has effectively seized the Republican Party nomination by default before the first party primaries- which would have been South Carolina and Nevada in late February. While her campaign touts this as a symbol of unity, some worry the lack of a strong challenger may have left her unprepared for what might be a brutal general election.

Meanwhile, the Democratic nominating battle has devolved into a battle between Cuba Senator Rafael Cruz, who holds a slight lead and more appeal to hard rightists and evangelicals, and Florida Senator Marco Rubio, who holds more appeal with moderates and minority demographics the Democrats have struggled to take in recent elections. California businesswoman Carly Fiorina has continued to struggle in spite of high polls early in the campaign; former Arkansas Mike Huckabee looks set to join South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham on the list of those who have dropped from the race.

Several other smaller parties are also contending, though they are unlikely to win. The Green Party is having a primary between California activist Kent Mesplay and South Carolina unionist Theresa el-Amin; the Libertarians, between Alabama programmer John McAfee and Missouri activist Austin Wade Petersen; the Reform Party seems likely to nominate Virginia's Robert David Steele; the Socialist Party seems likely to nominate New Mexico's Gloria la Riva. California transhumanist Zoltan Istvan and Florida social media personality Dan Bilzerian are running independent campaigns.

by **Ruridova** » Thu Feb 04, 2016 4:56 pm

"...the Venezuelans are very good at this sort of thing. I'm speaking to you from behind a pair of fake Ray-Bans, wearing a fake Armani jacket, carrying a fake Louis Vuitton bag, in which we find a fake iPad and a fake iPhone. And if we consult my fake Omega watch, we see that it's 2:35, probably, which means that it's time to pop into the fake Starbucks over there for a cup of fake coffee. It seems, then, that the expression 'copyright infringement' doesn't translate very well into Venezuelan Spanish."
- Jeremy Clarkson, former host of the British TV show Top Gear

"If we were to have a war between the German Empire and Canada, I think France would probably win."
- Takeshi Kitano on Comedy Hour during the 2014 Czechoslovak War

"Yesterday, December Seventh, 1891, a date which will live in infamy, the Empire of Japan was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Confederate States of America. We will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us Meiji..."
- Emperor Alexander I addressing an emergency meeting of the Japanese Senate on December 8, 1891.

"I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve."
- Incorrectly attributed to Joseph Blackburn, President of the CSA on December 8, 1891, real source unknown.

"You cannot invade the Japanese mainland. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass."
- Unknown Confederate military commander on Okinawa, 1892

"Liberty secured by submission to foreign will is not liberty at all."
- Kim Il-sung, 1964

"We welcome change and brotherhood, for we believe that freedom and brotherhood go together, that the advance of world peace can only strengthen the cause of human liberty. There is one sign the German government can make that would be unmistakable, that would advance dramatically the cause of freedom and peace. Chancellor Kohl, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Holy Roman Empire and its allies of Hungary and Denmark, if you seek reconciliation, come here to this gate. Chancellor Kohl, open this gate. Chancellor Kohl, tear down this wall!

As I looked out a moment ago from the town hall, looking towards Bratislava just across the Iron Curtain, I noticed words crudely spray-painted upon the wall, perhaps by a young German. It said, 'This wall will fall. Beliefs become reality.' Yes, across Central Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand fraternity; it cannot withstand truth. This wall cannot withstand freedom."
- Ronald Reagan, 1987, speaking in the German town of Kittsee, near the Czechoslovak border

"We the People of the Empire of Japan, hold these truths to be self-evident, that all humans, of all creeds, races, colors and faiths are equal, and are invested by their creator with the capacity to great good, and great evil, and the capacity to know right from wrong, therefore their sovereign right to personal liberties shall never be infringed upon..."
- Preface to the Japanese Constitution, ratified 1789

"We, the People, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and ensure the blessings of liberty unto ourselves and our posterity do ordain and establish this Constitution for the Confederate States of America."
- Preamble to the CS Constitution, ratified 1834

"The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it."
-Oleksandr Kostiuk, 1903

"Death solves all problems. No man, no problem."

"Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed."
-Stanislav Pavlenko

"The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament."
-Grigori Petrovsky, on western governments

"It is about time this "Axis of Evil" is dealt a good blow and is put back into their place."
-Horatius Agrioli, 1894

"The truth is that men are tired of liberty."

"Every anarchist is a baffled dictator."
-Benito Mussolini, 1901

"The socialist movement in Venezuela and the feeling of Pan-Latin-Americanism are inseparable."
-Che Guevara

"The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end."
-Antoni Belinsky, to Stanislav Pavlenko on the Balkan Wars.

"Saying you do not believe in the use of force is like saying you do not believe in gravity."
-Antoni Belinsky, 1891

"It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them of human dignity, to reduce them to objects of pity. This has never been clearer than in the view of Africa from the American media, in which we are shown poverty and conflicts without any context."

"I am the hero of Africa."
-His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Amadi Nkruma, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the Roman Empire in Africa in General and Chad in Particular

"The final solution to the infidel question is extermination. I shall rid the world of all others but Indonesian Muslims. Every nation shall burn under the mighty boots of Indonesia, and we shall rid the world of Japan, of China, of Britain, of Germany and of the Confederacy, the Islamic World shall be enlightened under one house!"
- Admiral Wahyu of Indonesia, 1958

"Today is truly a day of victory. A victory for not only the Russian people but a victory in the name of peace at last. I only wish Trotsky and Belinsky had lived to see this."
-Vladimir Lenin giving a speech in Moscow after the overthrow of the Republic by the communists, 1991.

"There is no such thing as the nation. There is only humanity. And if we do not come to understand this soon, then there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity."
- Confederate President Adlai Stevenson I, in 1906

"Whatever our beliefs, we must cherish three things above all: cooperation, tolerance, and righteousness. For these three values, there is no substitute."
- Hayim ben Tziyon, the Zionist Papers

"I want there to be two mottoes on this coat of arms you have given to me: above the shield, the words veritas vos liberabit, the truth will set you free, and below the shield, the words calamus gladio fortior, the pen is mightier than the sword. These are the words that I have lived by, and I hope those who come after me shall live by them as well."
- Georg von Licht, after being told that the Emperor of Germany was allowing the von Licht family a coat of arms, 1837

Revere the Empress, Expel The Barbarians!
- Rallying cry of the Juche rebels, 1979

"I have graduated from the Georg von Licht School of Book-Writing."
- Rumite author Ludwig Eichemann, following the success of his book Along the Ehre

"The French Republic was not evil, nor was it a mistake, nor was it decadent or corrupt. It was ran by incompetence, and it will never return, for it has never worked for the French people."
- Ferdinand Foch, 1898

"Before us is none but Brennus, enemy of Rome, and destroyer of civilization. It is this brute and others like him that sought to drive this world back into the dark ages of eternal war. I make no further statement today other than 'Non auro, sed ferro, recuperanda est patria'."
-Benito Mussolini, at the execution of Gaius leFevre

"Jefferson told us of the door of liberty; Washington set out to find it; Scott showed us to it; Lee unlocked it; Blackburn opened it; Kennedy led us through."
- Confederate President Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness; that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness."
- excerpt from the 1st Declaration of Independence, written by Thomas Jefferson

"Peace, Land and Bread is our absolute goal, for every man, woman and child in France."
- Ferdinand Foch, December 25, 1897

"But life has a way of reminding you of big things through small incidents. Once, back before the Reconciliation, and during my time as Foreign Minister in the 1940s, I attended a summit in Washington D.C. I decided to break off from the entourage one afternoon to visit the shops near the Mall, where the great statues to the Martyred and Victorious Fathers stand.

Even though our visit was a surprise, every American there immediately recognized us, and called out my name and reached for my hand. I was just about swept away by the warmth - you could almost feel the possibilities in all that joy. But within seconds, an FBI detail pushed their way toward me and began pushing and shoving the people in the crowd. It was an interesting moment. It reminded me that while the man on the street in the Confederate States had yearned for peace and brotherhood, the Government was still - and those who run it were still reluctant to reach out their hand - and that means we and they view such issues as freedom and human rights very differently, and that still has not changed now, in 1975. 'Keep Up Our Guard', is something we must practice."
- Sakura Kamakura's final address to Japan as PM, 1975

"Stop sending people to kill me! We've already captured five of them, one of them with a bomb and another with a rifle... If you don't stop sending killers, I'll go down to Moscow myself and make you feel regret for even being born."
-Antoni Belinsky to Alexander Kerensky, 1954

"I do not do things part-way. I finish every job handed before me, and believe me, I shall do my job well."
- Empress Kyasarin of Japan to her Geisha trainer, 1925

"The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win... hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Her Majesty proved that a monarch must be responsible to it's people, and must sacrifice their own luxuries and lavish life so that democracy may not perish."
- Unknown soldier in the Imperial Japanese Army, c. 1963

"I believe our old enemy, Joseph Blackburn, said it best. I paraphrase. Only through sacrifice and dedication can we ensure that any nation dedicated to democracy may long endure, that democracy shall never perish from this earth."
- Empress Catherine, 1964

"I remember a poetic moment. After we took the ruins of Batavia, I remember Empress Catherine hoisting the flag of Japan over the parliamentary house. The sight was magnanimous, if I may say so. The photo of the sun behind her was what I saw, and it was even stronger in person, than it was on a photograph. The crowd swelled into choruses of Umi Yukaba, but she silenced them and said, 'This is your victory, my soldiers. This was your triumph.'... all of us were floored at that. She was a hero, but she did not accept such honors, she gave that to her soldiers."
- Lt. Junichi Smith, recalling the Fall of Batavia in his memoirs.

"If I die for the Empire, it will not be a regret to me, for I know that I have died so that my daughters may be free, and my ancestor's spirits may rest peacefully. I do not fear death -- I shall conquer it."
- Empress Catherine on the eve of the Battle of Batavia

"It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small."
- Neil Armstrong, Canadian astronaut and first man on the moon

"You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, 'Look at that, you son of a bitch.'"
- Edgar Mitchell, Confederate astronaut

"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there- on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known."
- Japanese astronomer Carl Sagan, referencing a photograph taken by the CSA's Voyager 1 probe

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"We must always remember that William Walker and George Wallace were Confederates. But we must never forget that Cesar Chavez and Martin Luther King were Confederates too."
- Confederate President Loretta Lynch, 2011

"I attended a funeral once in Pickens County in my state of Georgia. This funeral was peculiarly sad... They buried him in the midst of a marble quarry and cut through solid marble to make his grave, and yet the little tombstone they put above him was from Vermont. They buried him in the heart of a pine forest, and yet the pine coffin was imported from Cincinnati. They buried him within touch of an iron mine, and yet the nails in his coffin and the iron in the shovel that dug his grave were imported from Pittsburgh. They buried him by the side of the best sheep-grazing country on the earth, and yet the wool in the coffin bands and the coffin bands themselves were brought from Cleveland. The Confederacy didn’t furnish a thing on earth for that funeral but the corpse and the hole in the ground. There they put him away and the clods rattled down on his coffin, and they buried him in a New York coat and a Boston pair of shoes and a pair of breeches from Chicago and a shirt from Philadelphia, leaving him nothing to carry into the next world with him to remind him of the country in which he lived, and for which he once fought for, but the chill of blood in his veins and the marrow in his bones."
- Confederate journalist Henry W. Grady, 1889

"I am the poor white, fooled and pushed apart,
I am the black man bearing slavery’s scars.
I am the red man driven from the land,
I am the immigrant clutching the hope I seek-
And finding only the same old stupid plan
Of dog eat dog, of mighty crush the weak.

....

I am the farmer, bondsman to the soil.
I am the worker sold to the machine.
I am the black man, servant to you all.
I am the people, humble, hungry, mean
Hungry yet today despite the dream.
Beaten yet today- O, Pioneers!
I am the man who never got ahead,
The poorest worker bartered through the years.

Yet I’m the one who dreamt our basic dream
In the Old World while still a serf of kings,
Who dreamt a dream so strong, so brave, so true,
That even yet its mighty daring sings
In every brick and stone, in every furrow turned
That’s made America the land it has become.
O, I’m the man who sailed those early seas
In search of what I meant to be my home-
For I’m the one who left dark Ireland’s shore,
And Poland’s plain, and England’s grassy lea,
And torn from Black Africa’s strand I came
To build a 'homeland of the free'.

The free?
Who said the free? Not me?
Surely not me? The millions on relief today?
The millions shot down when we strike?
The millions who have nothing for our pay?
For all the dreams we’ve dreamed
And all the songs we’ve sung
And all the hopes we’ve held
And all the flags we’ve hung,
The millions who have nothing for our pay-
Except the dream that’s almost dead today.

O, let America be America again-
The land that never has been yet-
And yet must be- the land where every man is free.
The land that’s mine- the poor man’s, Indian’s, Negro’s, ME-
Who made America,
Whose sweat and blood, whose faith and pain,
Whose hand at the foundry, whose plow in the rain,
Must bring back our mighty dream again.

Sure, call me any ugly name you choose-
The steel of freedom does not stain.
From those who live like leeches on the people’s lives,
We must take back our land again,
America!"
- Confederate poet Langston Hughes, excerpted from Let America be America Again, 1936

by **Unicario** » Sat Feb 06, 2016 5:45 pm

Ruridova wrote:Confederate elections 2018 update-

...former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has effectively seized the Republican Party nomination by default before the first party primaries- which would have been South Carolina and Nevada in late February. While her campaign touts this as a symbol of unity, some worry the lack of a strong challenger may have left her unprepared for what might be a brutal general election.

[ SCREAMS ]

About me · by **Luziyca** » Sat Feb 06, 2016 5:47 pm

Unicario wrote:
Ruridova wrote:Confederate elections 2018 update-

...former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has effectively seized the Republican Party nomination by default before the first party primaries- which would have been South Carolina and Nevada in late February. While her campaign touts this as a symbol of unity, some worry the lack of a strong challenger may have left her unprepared for what might be a brutal general election.

[ SCREAMS ]

Is it because of how Hillary Clinton is a republican, or is it because the Confederate electoral campaign lasts three fucking years?

by **Shrillland** » Sat Feb 06, 2016 7:23 pm

Luziyca wrote:
Unicario wrote:
[ SCREAMS ]

Is it because of how Hillary Clinton is a republican, or is it because the Confederate electoral campaign lasts three fucking years?

It doesn't last three years. We just have to go ahead because of the way the Confederacy schedules elections...I hope.

by **Shrillland** » Sat Feb 06, 2016 7:46 pm

And now, the Western half of the New Rome has a new king.

by **Ruridova** » Sat Feb 06, 2016 9:48 pm

Shrillland wrote:
Luziyca wrote:Is it because of how Hillary Clinton is a republican, or is it because the Confederate electoral campaign lasts three fucking years?

It doesn't last three years. We just have to go ahead because of the way the Confederacy schedules elections...I hope.

Yeah.

Technically that "update" would be canon in February 2018, since Confederate elections are two years off from IRL American ones.

Luziyca wrote:
Unicario wrote:
[ SCREAMS ]

Is it because of how Hillary Clinton is a republican, or is it because the Confederate electoral campaign lasts three fucking years?

Clinton is a Republican because originally the Republicans were the progressive party and the Democrats the conservative party in the United States, with the party affiliations switching during a period roughly marked on one end by the exit of Teddy Roosevelt from the Republican Party in the 1910s and on the other end by Nixon's ability to win the once-solidly Democratic South in the 1970s.

Unicario wrote:
Ruridova wrote:Confederate elections 2018 update-

...former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has effectively seized the Republican Party nomination by default before the first party primaries- which would have been South Carolina and Nevada in late February. While her campaign touts this as a symbol of unity, some worry the lack of a strong challenger may have left her unprepared for what might be a brutal general election.

[ SCREAMS ]

I'm sorry, but the only opposition to Clinton ATL was Martin O'Malley and Jim Webb, neither of whom gained traction. Since Sanders- the only candidate giving Clinton a run for her money- isn't Confederate ATL, there's really nobody standing in her way.

by **Unicario** » Sun Feb 07, 2016 9:47 pm

Ruridova wrote:I'm sorry, but the only opposition to Clinton ATL was Martin O'Malley and Jim Webb, neither of whom gained traction. Since Sanders- the only candidate giving Clinton a run for her money- isn't Confederate ATL, there's really nobody standing in her way.

Nah, it's okay. RIP CSA

by **Unicario** » Mon Feb 08, 2016 10:11 am

Empress Elizabeth intends to spend little time being diplomatic on her way to London, but intends to do a full diplomatic tour of Europe on her way back to Japan, by visiting all the nations she can.

by **Shrillland** » Mon Feb 08, 2016 4:09 pm

And once things go back to normal and the tour begins, that's when I'll turn Ireland over to Luz.

About me · by **Luziyca** » Mon Feb 08, 2016 4:32 pm

Shrillland wrote:And once things go back to normal and the tour begins, that's when I'll turn Ireland over to Luz.

Excellent.

Irish will very well be like Hebrew IRL.

by **Unicario** » Mon Feb 08, 2016 10:42 pm

By measurement, our non-cultural technology should be somewhere around the late Interwar; 1929 or so; by the outbreak of the Second Great War in 1914, we should be at about 1937-1938 technology. As a result, trains in Japan go about 30-35 mph.

Culturally, we're chill as is; we should be rapidly approaching early modern film innovation (silent age film, b&w), but it should rapidly accelerate from there.

by **Shrillland** » Tue Feb 09, 2016 12:23 am

Unicario wrote:By measurement, our non-cultural technology should be somewhere around the late Interwar; 1929 or so; by the outbreak of the Second Great War in 1914, we should be at about 1937-1938 technology. As a result, trains in Japan go about 30-35 mph.

Culturally, we're chill as is; we should be rapidly approaching early modern film innovation (silent age film, b&w), but it should rapidly accelerate from there.

That's what I'm thinking, the first major motion picture from Canada(a film version of Blessed Are The Persecuted) will be released in 1903, the first sound film in 1909, and so on.

by **Unicario** » Tue Feb 09, 2016 3:35 am

Shrillland wrote:
Unicario wrote:By measurement, our non-cultural technology should be somewhere around the late Interwar; 1929 or so; by the outbreak of the Second Great War in 1914, we should be at about 1937-1938 technology. As a result, trains in Japan go about 30-35 mph.

Culturally, we're chill as is; we should be rapidly approaching early modern film innovation (silent age film, b&w), but it should rapidly accelerate from there.

That's what I'm thinking, the first major motion picture from Canada(a film version of Blessed Are The Persecuted) will be released in 1903, the first sound film in 1909, and so on.

Boji has told me that Triumph of the Will will appear sometime around 1910-1914; which is fine.

As for Japanese films, Japan might start making a slew of films.

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