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Should the US Capital be Relocated?

No, we should leave it where it is
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Yes, we should move it to another preexisting city
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Yes, but we should build an entirely new city
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Yes, let's fly it to the moon
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Meh, I don't give a flipping trout
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Postby Ar-Eris » Mon Mar 13, 2023 12:19 pm

Change it every two years, the new capital gets selected via a national lottery. Just move the White House with some heli's
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Postby The Orwell Society » Mon Mar 13, 2023 12:21 pm

No.
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Postby Portzania » Mon Mar 13, 2023 12:27 pm

Why don't we pick it up, and MOVE IT SOMEWHERE ELSE!?
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Postby Floofybit » Mon Mar 13, 2023 12:28 pm

Ar-Eris wrote:Change it every two years, the new capital gets selected via a national lottery. Just move the White House with some heli's

If the WA can do it with our nations, the White House can
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Postby Duncaq » Mon Mar 13, 2023 12:36 pm

Richmond, Virginia?
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Postby Rary » Mon Mar 13, 2023 12:39 pm

Ar-Eris wrote:Change it every two years, the new capital gets selected via a national lottery. Just move the White House with some heli's

No no we simply house the president in a caravan behind a vw golf. Put the rest of the government in a camper van as well.
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Postby The Rio Grande River Basin » Mon Mar 13, 2023 12:41 pm

As a proud Englishman, I agree, the Capital should be relocated to London.
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Postby Ar-Eris » Mon Mar 13, 2023 1:07 pm

Rary wrote:
Ar-Eris wrote:Change it every two years, the new capital gets selected via a national lottery. Just move the White House with some heli's

No no we simply house the president in a caravan behind a vw golf. Put the rest of the government in a camper van as well.

Every president from now on also has to tour the country until their term is over, no Air Force One either. If something is happening in the country they're coming with the van
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Postby Senkaku » Mon Mar 13, 2023 1:12 pm

Ar-Eris wrote:Change it every two years, the new capital gets selected via a national lottery. Just move the White House with some heli's

Why not just make government a sort of traveling festival, like a circus, or the Olympics, or Eurovision? Every few years a new, purpose-built destination, breathlessly covered from every angle by all the world’s media for a few months, and then onto something new! Why perhaps we could get the actual Bradley Cooper to be our little circus act’s own full-time geek
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Postby The Blaatschapen » Mon Mar 13, 2023 1:12 pm

The Grand Fifth Imperium wrote:
Floofybit wrote:Move it to Greenland


at that rate it might as well be moved to Copenhagen... Greenland is owned by the Danes
[insert Shakespeare reference here]


Ugh. Time to suspend the schengen agreement with Denmark.
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Postby Kubra » Mon Mar 13, 2023 2:39 pm

The Grand Fifth Imperium wrote:
Floofybit wrote:Move it to Greenland


at that rate it might as well be moved to Copenhagen... Greenland is owned by the Danes
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Postby -Astoria- » Mon Mar 13, 2023 2:44 pm

The Blaatschapen wrote:
The Grand Fifth Imperium wrote:
at that rate it might as well be moved to Copenhagen... Greenland is owned by the Danes
[insert Shakespeare reference here]


Ugh. Time to suspend the schengen agreement with Denmark.

I'd have thought Greenland was very autonomous in most regards, including border protection.
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Postby The Grand Fifth Imperium » Mon Mar 13, 2023 6:47 pm

you guys were supposed to say "There's something rotten in Denmark"
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Postby Adamede » Mon Mar 13, 2023 6:47 pm

No. Costs would outweigh the benefits.
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Postby Adamede » Mon Mar 13, 2023 6:48 pm

ImperialRussia wrote:It should be moved to Colorado for more security in the center of the nation

Colorado isn't nuke proof last I checked.
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Postby Cachard Calia » Mon Mar 13, 2023 6:54 pm

I agree that we should send them to the big farm with no phones.
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Postby Tvembov » Mon Mar 13, 2023 7:49 pm

Have all the states fight a giant battle royale to decide which state capital will become the new national capital
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Postby The Grand Fifth Imperium » Tue Mar 14, 2023 5:30 pm

Cachard Calia wrote:I agree that we should send them to the big farm with no phones.

sorry if im stupid, but that reference keeps going over my head
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Postby The Blaatschapen » Tue Mar 14, 2023 5:36 pm

-Astoria- wrote:
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Ugh. Time to suspend the schengen agreement with Denmark.

I'd have thought Greenland was very autonomous in most regards, including border protection.


They were already talking about moving it to Copenhagen, which is not Greenland, but Denmark proper.

And then I most definitely want to get more border protection, if the US capital is there.
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Postby IdIoTs InC » Tue Mar 14, 2023 5:40 pm

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Postby New Audalusia » Tue Mar 14, 2023 5:45 pm

No. It holds FAR too much political value, and is much more likely to go from a nice political discussion to something that will see both sides bitching and crying over the location. Also, China exists. Moving the capital will tie up resources, especially right where we need them. So, no. We should not move it, just like 90% of the thread is shoving down your left nostril.
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Postby Neanderthaland » Tue Mar 14, 2023 6:02 pm

New Audalusia wrote:
No. It holds FAR too much political value, and is much more likely to go from a nice political discussion to something that will see both sides bitching and crying over the location. Also, China exists. Moving the capital will tie up resources, especially right where we need them. So, no. We should not move it, just like 90% of the thread is shoving down your left nostril.

Using that color was a worse idea than moving the capital.
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Postby Floofybit » Tue Mar 14, 2023 6:47 pm

Give it to me. I'll move it.
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Postby Xmara » Tue Mar 14, 2023 6:49 pm

The Grand Fifth Imperium wrote:you guys were supposed to say "There's something rotten in Denmark"

Which reminds me: let's move the US capital to Copenhagen!
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Postby Cachard Calia » Tue Mar 14, 2023 8:24 pm

The Grand Fifth Imperium wrote:
Cachard Calia wrote:I agree that we should send them to the big farm with no phones.

sorry if im stupid, but that reference keeps going over my head
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