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What taxes do you support? (Courtesy of the Jamesian Republic)

Land/Property Tax
23
15%
Sales Tax
18
12%
Income Tax
16
10%
No Taxes at All!
8
5%
Tax Transparency (Choose where tax money goes)
17
11%
Reverse Tax (Government Pays You!)
13
8%
Business Tax
23
15%
Flat Tax
7
5%
Progressive Tax
24
16%
Other (Comment Below)
5
3%
 
Total votes : 154

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Hispida
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Postby Hispida » Sun Jun 26, 2022 7:26 pm

hot take: if you play fire emblem: awakening and ship chrom with anybody besides femrobin and vice versa then buddy i have a gulag for you
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Northern Seleucia
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Postby Northern Seleucia » Sun Jun 26, 2022 7:27 pm

Crusader Kings III is worth the price.
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Umeria
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Left-wing Utopia

Postby Umeria » Sun Jun 26, 2022 7:30 pm

Northern Seleucia wrote:
Free Ravensburg wrote:Y?

Hindenburg 2: Electric Boogaloo

We have nuclear power even though Chernobyl happened
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Northern Seleucia
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Postby Northern Seleucia » Sun Jun 26, 2022 7:40 pm

Umeria wrote:
Northern Seleucia wrote:Hindenburg 2: Electric Boogaloo

We have nuclear power even though Chernobyl happened

Chernobyl happened from a screwed up safety test on Reactor Four.

Fukushima was caused by an earthquake. Three Mile Island was caused by the plant operators who missed a sign that stuff was going down. We can train the crews to not screw that up anymore, and Fukishima...well, what genius built that on a fault line?

Meanwhile, the Hindenburg caught on fire while docking and even today there's not a consensus on how that fire started. Regardless, airship travel (mostly) ended. Also, why the HELL would they fill it up with hydrogen, as combustible as it is?
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Sordhau
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Ex-Nation

Postby Sordhau » Sun Jun 26, 2022 7:43 pm

Hispida wrote:hot take: if you play fire emblem: awakening and ship chrom with anybody besides femrobin and vice versa then buddy i have a gulag for you


I have never played this game but I just want to clarify that I never ship a female character with anyone other than another female character.

Yes I am biased don't @ me.
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Umeria
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Left-wing Utopia

Postby Umeria » Sun Jun 26, 2022 7:48 pm

Northern Seleucia wrote:
Umeria wrote:We have nuclear power even though Chernobyl happened

Chernobyl happened from a screwed up safety test on Reactor Four.

Fukushima was caused by an earthquake. Three Mile Island was caused by the plant operators who missed a sign that stuff was going down. We can train the crews to not screw that up anymore, and Fukishima...well, what genius built that on a fault line?

Meanwhile, the Hindenburg caught on fire while docking and even today there's not a consensus on how that fire started. Regardless, airship travel (mostly) ended. Also, why the HELL would they fill it up with hydrogen, as combustible as it is?

I say that if better records were kept then the cause would be known and it would be something like that safety test thing
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Red Lake Circle
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Postby Red Lake Circle » Sun Jun 26, 2022 7:49 pm

Hispida wrote:hot take: if you play fire emblem: awakening and ship chrom with anybody besides femrobin and vice versa then buddy i have a gulag for you

My guy it is a mere video game, you can ship whoever you want with whoever else you want

As long as its not Nowi

I don't care if she's a thousand-year-old dragon, that is a goddamn six-year-old
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Port Caverton
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Democratic Socialists

Postby Port Caverton » Sun Jun 26, 2022 7:52 pm

Red Lake Circle wrote:
Hispida wrote:hot take: if you play fire emblem: awakening and ship chrom with anybody besides femrobin and vice versa then buddy i have a gulag for you

My guy it is a mere video game, you can ship whoever you want with whoever else you want

As long as its not Nowi

I don't care if she's a thousand-year-old dragon, that is a goddamn six-year-old

That's not gonna stop people lol
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Red Lake Circle
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Postby Red Lake Circle » Sun Jun 26, 2022 7:54 pm

Port Caverton wrote:
Red Lake Circle wrote:My guy it is a mere video game, you can ship whoever you want with whoever else you want

As long as its not Nowi

I don't care if she's a thousand-year-old dragon, that is a goddamn six-year-old

That's not gonna stop people lol

The world would be a much better place if it did
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Northern Seleucia
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Postby Northern Seleucia » Sun Jun 26, 2022 7:54 pm

Umeria wrote:
Northern Seleucia wrote:Chernobyl happened from a screwed up safety test on Reactor Four.

Fukushima was caused by an earthquake. Three Mile Island was caused by the plant operators who missed a sign that stuff was going down. We can train the crews to not screw that up anymore, and Fukishima...well, what genius built that on a fault line?

Meanwhile, the Hindenburg caught on fire while docking and even today there's not a consensus on how that fire started. Regardless, airship travel (mostly) ended. Also, why the HELL would they fill it up with hydrogen, as combustible as it is?

I say that if better records were kept then the cause would be known and it would be something like that safety test thing

Perhaps.There's a sabotage theory too.
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Port Caverton
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Postby Port Caverton » Sun Jun 26, 2022 7:54 pm

Red Lake Circle wrote:
Port Caverton wrote:That's not gonna stop people lol

The world would be a much better place if it did

how would that be stopped though
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Luziyca
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Founded: Nov 13, 2011
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Postby Luziyca » Sun Jun 26, 2022 7:55 pm

Northern Seleucia wrote:Meanwhile, the Hindenburg caught on fire while docking and even today there's not a consensus on how that fire started. Regardless, airship travel (mostly) ended. Also, why the HELL would they fill it up with hydrogen, as combustible as it is?

(snipping the rest of your statement)

I read somewhere that that was partially because hydrogen is lighter than helium meaning you can lift a bit more with hydrogen, and partially because the United States banned the sale of helium to Germany. I don't speak highly of the United States very often, but in this case, I will speak incredibly highly of that decision.
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Red Lake Circle
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Postby Red Lake Circle » Sun Jun 26, 2022 7:55 pm

Port Caverton wrote:
Red Lake Circle wrote:The world would be a much better place if it did

how would that be stopped though

You look whoever's doing it in the eye and say, "Hey, man... that's fucked up"

If that doesn't stop 'em, ditch 'em
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Northern Seleucia
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Postby Northern Seleucia » Sun Jun 26, 2022 7:56 pm

Luziyca wrote:
Northern Seleucia wrote:Meanwhile, the Hindenburg caught on fire while docking and even today there's not a consensus on how that fire started. Regardless, airship travel (mostly) ended. Also, why the HELL would they fill it up with hydrogen, as combustible as it is?

(snipping the rest of your statement)

I read somewhere that that was partially because hydrogen is lighter than helium meaning you can lift a bit more with hydrogen, and partially because the United States banned the sale of helium to Germany. I don't speak highly of the United States very often, but in this case, I will speak incredibly highly of that decision.

No one speaks highly of us, I'm used to it.

Makes sense, as during this time the Nazis were in power.
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Port Caverton
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Postby Port Caverton » Sun Jun 26, 2022 7:56 pm

Red Lake Circle wrote:
Port Caverton wrote:how would that be stopped though

You look whoever's doing it in the eye and say, "Hey, man... that's fucked up"

If that doesn't stop 'em, ditch 'em

How does that stop them from shipping a loli with another character?
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Northern Seleucia
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Postby Northern Seleucia » Sun Jun 26, 2022 7:57 pm

Red Lake Circle wrote:
Port Caverton wrote:how would that be stopped though

You look whoever's doing it in the eye and say, "Hey, man... that's fucked up"

If that doesn't stop 'em, ditch 'em

That person is incredibly suspect and needs to be kept away from kids, man.
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Red Lake Circle
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Civil Rights Lovefest

Postby Red Lake Circle » Sun Jun 26, 2022 8:12 pm

Northern Seleucia wrote:
Red Lake Circle wrote:You look whoever's doing it in the eye and say, "Hey, man... that's fucked up"

If that doesn't stop 'em, ditch 'em

That person is incredibly suspect and needs to be kept away from kids, man.

True, but I don't think you can get that to show up in a background check, unfortunately...
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Fidimouni
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Founded: May 30, 2022
Ex-Nation

Postby Fidimouni » Sun Jun 26, 2022 8:13 pm

Hot take: Grammarly sucks.
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"Anyway, like I was sayin', shrimp is the fruit of the sea. You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, saute it. There's uh, shrimp-kabobs, shrimp creole, shrimp gumbo. Pan fried, deep fried, stir-fried. There's pineapple shrimp, lemon shrimp, coconut shrimp, pepper shrimp, shrimp soup, shrimp stew, shrimp salad, shrimp and potatoes, shrimp burger, shrimp sandwich. That..that's about it."

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Port Caverton
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Postby Port Caverton » Sun Jun 26, 2022 8:13 pm

Fidimouni wrote:Hot take: Grammarly sucks.

anything that appears on youtube ads sucks
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The Jamesian Republic
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Founded: Apr 28, 2020
Civil Rights Lovefest

Postby The Jamesian Republic » Sun Jun 26, 2022 8:15 pm

Hot Take: Robert M. La Follette was based

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Fidimouni
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Ex-Nation

Postby Fidimouni » Sun Jun 26, 2022 8:15 pm

Port Caverton wrote:
Fidimouni wrote:Hot take: Grammarly sucks.

anything that appears on youtube ads sucks

So true my frie-
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Call me Fiddle if you want. It's a cool name I think.

"Anyway, like I was sayin', shrimp is the fruit of the sea. You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, saute it. There's uh, shrimp-kabobs, shrimp creole, shrimp gumbo. Pan fried, deep fried, stir-fried. There's pineapple shrimp, lemon shrimp, coconut shrimp, pepper shrimp, shrimp soup, shrimp stew, shrimp salad, shrimp and potatoes, shrimp burger, shrimp sandwich. That..that's about it."

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Port Caverton
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Postby Port Caverton » Sun Jun 26, 2022 8:23 pm

The Jamesian Republic wrote:Hot Take: Robert M. La Follette was based

agrarianism is cringe
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The Jamesian Republic
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Civil Rights Lovefest

Postby The Jamesian Republic » Sun Jun 26, 2022 8:45 pm

Port Caverton wrote:
The Jamesian Republic wrote:Hot Take: Robert M. La Follette was based

agrarianism is cringe


But Social Democracy… Progressivism…

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Port Caverton
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Founded: Oct 01, 2021
Democratic Socialists

Postby Port Caverton » Sun Jun 26, 2022 8:46 pm

The Jamesian Republic wrote:
Port Caverton wrote:agrarianism is cringe


But Social Democracy… Progressivism…

does not save the ideology
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Meadowfields
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Founded: Jun 16, 2021
Left-wing Utopia

Postby Meadowfields » Sun Jun 26, 2022 8:46 pm

The Jamesian Republic wrote:
Port Caverton wrote:agrarianism is cringe


But Social Democracy… Progressivism…

he was a socdem?
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