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

by **Unicario** » Tue Feb 09, 2016 11:17 am

by **Unicario** » Wed Feb 10, 2016 5:56 am

"...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 Syndicalist 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 Rikugun (Masako) 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 Masako, 1964

"I remember a poetic moment. After we took the ruins of Batavia, I remember Her Majesty 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 Masako 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

"As I look out upon the great yonder of the stars, I often think of how petty it can all seem... war, trade disputes, conflicts, revolution. The universe is so vast and infinite, and we live on a but a needlehead."
- Ranko Yamato, first woman in space, first woman on the moon

"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

About me · by **Luziyca** » Wed Feb 10, 2016 6:23 am

I just realized that the Troubles probably can't go the way I planned them to go (Lebanon-style civil war) because Britain probably would intervene and probably set up a demilitarized zone separating the Falangists and the reformers, possibly dividing the island into three (or two).

by **Ruridova** » Fri Feb 19, 2016 12:10 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 Syndicalist 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 Rikugun (Masako) 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 Masako, 1964

"I remember a poetic moment. After we took the ruins of Batavia, I remember Her Majesty 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 Masako 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

"As I look out upon the great yonder of the stars, I often think of how petty it can all seem... war, trade disputes, conflicts, revolution. The universe is so vast and infinite, and we live on a but a needlehead."
- Ranko Yamato, first woman in space, first woman on the moon

"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

"Naw, Jem, I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks."
- Confederate author Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird

"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

About me · by **Luziyca** » Fri Feb 19, 2016 1:25 pm

One can only hope that somebody kills the Crown Prince of China...

by **Unicario** » Tue Feb 23, 2016 11:33 am

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
Mythical Name: Amaterasu

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
Mythical Name: Dragon-Emperor of the East

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
Mythical Name: The Angel of the Skies

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
Mythical Name: Divine Soldier of Heaven

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 (1892-1903) - Imperial Liberal Party
Avina Kamakura (1903-1909) - Social Democratic Labour Party
Nicholas Romanov (1909-1915) - Social Democratic Labour Party
James Sun (1915-1921) - Nationalist Party
Nicholas Romanov (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 (1945-1951) - 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 (1975-1979) - Imperial Liberal Party - Dismissed
Princess Ranko Yamato (1979-1980) - Imperial Rule Assistance Association
Bernard Sanders (1980-1993) - United Front
Sarah Adams (1993-1999) - Nationalist Party - Descendant of John Adams
John MacLeod (1999-2002) - Social Democrat Party - Resigned from office, 2002
Princess Ranko Yamato (2002-2005) - Imperial Rule Assistance Association
Yuki Satsuma (2005-2011) - Christian Democratic
Julia Noragami (2011-) - Social Democrat Party

"Anthems" of Japan
Official anthems are Furusato and Kimigayo

by **Unicario** » Tue Feb 23, 2016 11:42 am

I'm thinking about the Meiji Cult and how many historical figures could pop up in it.

by **Unicario** » Tue Feb 23, 2016 5:29 pm

So, which state is having Supreme Court drama -- the C.S. or Canada?

About me · by **Luziyca** » Tue Feb 23, 2016 5:39 pm

Unicario wrote:So, which state is having Supreme Court drama -- the C.S. or Canada?

Where was Scalia born, and where did he die?

by **Unicario** » Tue Feb 23, 2016 5:50 pm

Japanese general election, 2016

Governing Party: Social Democrat Party
Incumbent Chancellor: Julia Noragami (MP from Osaka)
Seats up for grabs: All 1,185 seats

Social Democrat Party:

Currently has 374 seats
Party leader: Julia Noragami (Osaka)

Nationalist Party:

Currently has 304 seats
Party leader: Yoshiko Matsushima (Miyagi)

Socialist Party:

Currently has 141 seats
Party leader: Katsuro Yamamoto (Niigata)

Christian Democratic:

Currently has 117 seats
Party leader: Yuki Satsuma (Kagoshima)

Syndicalist Party:

Currently has 76 seats
Party leader: Genji Hamada (Tokyo)

People's Social Federation:

Currently has 68 seats
Party leader: Henry Jaishan (Formosa)

National Conservative Party

Currently has 56 seats
Party leader: Yoshi Hatakeyama (Mutsu)

Democratic Reform Party:

Currently has 49 seats
Party leader: Miroku Yamashita (Kouchi)

by **Shrillland** » Tue Feb 23, 2016 6:09 pm

Unicario wrote:So, which state is having Supreme Court drama -- the C.S. or Canada?

Neither. Scalia was born in New Jersey, but Parliament has nothing to do with how the court is made up. Also, the Supreme Court Act requires retirement at age 75, so Scalia couldn't be a Canadian Justice by now anyway.

by **Ruridova** » Tue Feb 23, 2016 6:17 pm

Shrillland wrote:
Unicario wrote:So, which state is having Supreme Court drama -- the C.S. or Canada?

Neither. Scalia was born in New Jersey, but Parliament has nothing to do with how the court is made up. Also, the Supreme Court Act requires retirement at age 75, so Scalia couldn't be a Canadian Justice by now anyway.

And even if Scalia was somehow a Confederate justice, the next CS presidential election is in 2018, meaning the whole "we can't nominate or confirm in an election year" thing flies right out the window.

About me · by **Luziyca** » Tue Feb 23, 2016 6:31 pm

Ruridova wrote:
Shrillland wrote:
Neither. Scalia was born in New Jersey, but Parliament has nothing to do with how the court is made up. Also, the Supreme Court Act requires retirement at age 75, so Scalia couldn't be a Canadian Justice by now anyway.

And even if Scalia was somehow a Confederate justice, the next CS presidential election is in 2018, meaning the whole "we can't nominate or confirm in an election year" thing flies right out the window.

You can just postdate the situation to 2018, or maybe have Ruthenia do it.

by **Shrillland** » Tue Feb 23, 2016 6:34 pm

Luziyca wrote:
Ruridova wrote:And even if Scalia was somehow a Confederate justice, the next CS presidential election is in 2018, meaning the whole "we can't nominate or confirm in an election year" thing flies right out the window.

You can just postdate the situation to 2018, or maybe have Ruthenia do it.

Nah, we don't have to follow every single current event to the letter if the realities on the ground don't allow for it to happen.

About me · by **Luziyca** » Tue Feb 23, 2016 6:47 pm

Shrillland wrote:
Luziyca wrote:You can just postdate the situation to 2018, or maybe have Ruthenia do it.

Nah, we don't have to follow every single current event to the letter if the realities on the ground don't allow for it to happen.

Very well.

by **Unicario** » Tue Feb 23, 2016 7:40 pm

I could have Japan do it, but we don't do a system like the SCOTUS -- the Imperial High Court isn't appointed by the monarch or government, but is assembled based on the various judges in the Empire; that and the qualifications for the IHC are much more stringent -- you have to be an expert Constitutional scholar, and have a high degree in law.

About me · by **Luziyca** » Tue Feb 23, 2016 7:46 pm

Unicario wrote:I could have Japan do it, but we don't do a system like the SCOTUS -- the Imperial High Court isn't appointed by the monarch or government, but is assembled based on the various judges in the Empire; that and the qualifications for the IHC are much more stringent -- you have to be an expert Constitutional scholar, and have a high degree in law.

Damn. I like it!

by **Ruridova** » Mon Mar 07, 2016 5:25 pm

So it's looking like, when 2018 does come around, the Confederate general election will probably be Hillary Clinton versus either Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio. Probably Cruz, if present RL trends continue.

by **Shrillland** » Mon Mar 07, 2016 5:27 pm

Ruridova wrote:So it's looking like, when 2018 does come around, the Confederate general election will probably be Hillary Clinton versus either Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio. Probably Cruz, if present RL trends continue.

Unfortunately, I'm still waiting for another year, I believe, before the Tories decide who will lead them. Kasich vs. Ambrose would be an interesting match-up, but I'm still thinking about it.

About me · by **Luziyca** » Mon Mar 07, 2016 5:29 pm

Shrillland wrote:
Ruridova wrote:So it's looking like, when 2018 does come around, the Confederate general election will probably be Hillary Clinton versus either Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio. Probably Cruz, if present RL trends continue.

Unfortunately, I'm still waiting for another year, I believe, before the Tories decide who will lead them. Kasich vs. Ambrose would be an interesting match-up, but I'm still thinking about it.

You can always go with the one who is the suppository of all knowledge.

About me · by **Luziyca** » Mon Mar 07, 2016 5:31 pm

Speaking of which: there's a Trump simulator.

This game will make America great again.

by **Unicario** » Thu Mar 10, 2016 9:38 am

I adopted the flag I made for that Japanese "fuck you CSA" government.

by **Ruridova** » Thu Mar 10, 2016 6:15 pm

Unicario wrote:I adopted the flag I made for that Japanese "fuck you CSA" government.

It is a nice flag.

About me · by **Luziyca** » Thu Mar 10, 2016 6:19 pm

Ruridova wrote:
Unicario wrote:I adopted the flag I made for that Japanese "fuck you CSA" government.

It is a nice flag.

I agree.

In other news, the awkward moment when you send the very-popular Queen to ask a question at a political debate in disguise... and nobody notices her.

topkek

by **Unicario** » Thu Mar 10, 2016 7:00 pm

Luziyca wrote:In other news, the awkward moment when you send the very-popular Queen to ask a question at a political debate in disguise... and nobody notices her

??

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