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Georgepatton

Georgepatton

Georgepatton said:
Pres. Wicklund promises 'free, orderly' election, appoints non-partisan democracy commissioner

Unprecedented 14 candidates to seek presidency in November election, with Republicans holding wide lead in early polls

Wicklund, Bunker spar in Stillwater face-off, Lamplighters trailing badly after failing to make debate threshold

Polls remain steady, but experts point to under-sampled Arrowhead region for potential upset

BREAKING: Pres. candidate Trenton Bunker found unresponsive at Assembly office, no details at this time

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Lamplighters to see second round; Republicans 'confident of victory'
-Stillwater Times

Wicklund: de Trobriand 'menace to democracy,' 'unfit to lead'
-Republican Gazette

Labor convention closes in disarray, no endorsement of Republicans, allegations on all sides of 'Hebraic influences'
-Hammer and Pen

#LetThereBeLight #FuckTheVote #SnipHerWick
-Key phrases trending on InTouch, Nov. 20, 2014

Hundreds arrested in pro-recount demonstrations; Pres. Trobriand orders mobilization of Self-Defense Force to restore order
-Republican Gazette (last edition)

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Georgepatton

Georgepatton

Deloria said:
Cool.

Also, judging from other boxes in the series, I'm gonna assume that Rainbow's Progress is not a gay rights party? :p
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In conventional terms, the rainbow symbolizes a number of things, one of which is God's enduring promise to remember and care for His Creation.

To the partisans of Rainbow's Progress, it is a symbol of the covenant between man and God, but with the emphasis on man to keep up his end of the bargain, and the implicit threat of what will happen if we don't. If you want to go on seeing rainbows, you need to keep the peace, maintain a godly lifestyle, obey your elders, and tithe appropriately.

The thing with this particular set is not just some of the, ah, dangers of making unfounded assumptions in electoral democracy, but also the implication, which perhaps I did not impart well enough, that Stellapolaris is somewhat new to this 'liberal democracy' thing, and established politics have fractured in some unexpected ways that no one was adequately prepared for.
 
Georgepatton

Georgepatton

Deloria said:
Well, seems like a pretty hopeless situation. But de Trobiand can't be all that bad if my county (shire?) voted for her.
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Yeah but look what happened to turnout - she was probably elected by your least-favorite neighbors while everyone else tried to be edgy by writing swears on the ballot.
 
Gryphon

Gryphon

Angry_scottsman_1989 said:
....ummmmm?
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You're not missing anything.

All of these things are connected. Some of them just make more sense than others.

(I'm basically just doing these for fun, and sometimes my fun is pretty serious, and other times it's pretty absurdist. These last couple boxes in that set have fit more with the latter category than the former. As for how they all fit together, I'm not entirely sure they will, but I'm trying to keep them connected, if not entirely coherent. It's more fun to try to imagine how someone else would piece together all these things than actually trying to piece them together myself.)
 
TwisterAce

TwisterAce

BlackentheBorg said:
More from the Punchiverse;

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Climate Change, and the conflict on whether or not it was 'real', was the biggest issue of the Trump presidency, and nowhere was a conflict more apparent than California. Governor Jerry Brown was extremely opposed to the Administration's handling of global warming (which seemed to be simply removing any trace of it from government websites) and insisted if the President made moves to dismantling monitoring services for the EPA, "California would launch it's own goddamn satellite." Towards the end of Trump's term, which did just that, Brown's promise had materialized.

The first Californian Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, nicknamed Ide (after pioneer William B. Ide) had been constructed by SpaceX on a contract set by the Californian House of Representatives (after much debating), and was set to be the first of a set of five. Things had looked good for launch day; the autumn winds had abated and previous tests had yielded satisfactory results. Ide was launched on live television, meant as a direct message to the Commander in Chief that not all Americans would comply with his backwards policies. However, hours later, in the dead of night, there was a bright light in the sky, and all communications with the satellite were lost.

Was it a technical error? Collision with space junk? As it turned out, a leak from hacker groups revealed that the USS Lake Eire had been brought covertly ordered to the California coast on the day of the launch, with exclusive commands from the White House to shoot down the satellite, which thankfully landed in an empty field. As the President declined to comment, the media, accordingly, erupted. Many questioned if the military was actually allowed to shoot down it's own tech, Governor Brown angrily pointed out how the satellite could've landed on civilian housing. Trump, over his Twitter, said how he'd ordered the satellite not be launched in the first place (which he didn't. The project was actually ultimately ignored by the government), and "whatever happened @JerryBrownGov had it coming". This wasn't the most tact of responses, as the GOP found out. Trump took one final and tragic tumble in the approval polls (which he repeatedly decried as rigged), and the incident was brought up repeatedly during the 2020 presidential debates. While no more SpaceX satellites were ordered, the company found a nice lot of contracts with the next Democratic administration.
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You said the satellite was launched into geosynchronous orbit. If it's that high above the Earth's surface (high enough that its orbit matches the rotation of the Earth, or 22,236 miles), then not only would it take a very long time for any debris to land on Earth (thousands of years, at least), but it's also far outside the 1,350 mile range of the SM-3 Block IIA missiles that the USS Lake Erie and other U.S. Navy cruisers and destroyers are armed with that can shoot down satellites (they can only target objects in low-Earth orbit). It would be impossible to destroy a satellite in geosynchronous orbit without a weapon that has a long enough range to hit it.
 
machinekng

machinekng

Georgepatton said:
Pres. Wicklund promises 'free, orderly' election, appoints non-partisan democracy commissioner

Unprecedented 14 candidates to seek presidency in November election, with Republicans holding wide lead in early polls

Wicklund, Bunker spar in Stillwater face-off, Lamplighters trailing badly after failing to make debate threshold

Polls remain steady, but experts point to under-sampled Arrowhead region for potential upset

BREAKING: Pres. candidate Trenton Bunker found unresponsive at Assembly office, no details at this time

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Cool boxes! Is there a previous entry with more detail on the parties?
 

Nofix

Georgepatton said:
Lamplighters to see second round; Republicans 'confident of victory'
-Stillwater Times

Wicklund: de Trobriand 'menace to democracy,' 'unfit to lead'
-Republican Gazette

Labor convention closes in disarray, no endorsement of Republicans, allegations on all sides of 'Hebraic influences'
-Hammer and Pen

#LetThereBeLight #FuckTheVote #SnipHerWick
-Key phrases trending on InTouch, Nov. 20, 2014

Hundreds arrested in pro-recount demonstrations; Pres. Trobriand orders mobilization of Self-Defense Force to restore order
-Republican Gazette (last edition)

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I just noticed that drop in turnout between rounds. Damn son.
 
BlackentheBorg

BlackentheBorg

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TwisterAce said:
You said the satellite was launched into geosynchronous orbit. If it's that high above the Earth's surface (high enough that its orbit matches the rotation of the Earth, or 22,236 miles), then not only would it take a very long time for any debris to land on Earth (thousands of years, at least), but it's also far outside the 1,350 mile range of the SM-3 Block IIA missiles that the USS Lake Erie and other U.S. Navy cruisers and destroyers are armed with that can shoot down satellites (they can only target objects in low-Earth orbit). It would be impossible to destroy a satellite in geosynchronous orbit without a weapon that has a long enough range to hit it.
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Check out the brains on this guy!*
Lets just assume that, because this is the future, they've gotten some much better missile-type things installed on battleships now.
And that the satellite was closer to Earth, because it was in some sort of 'stasis' mode while it was powering up using solar cells.
And that I totally knew all of this and I'm not trying to make myself look stupid.

*not sarcasm, actual praise.
 
HawkAussie

HawkAussie

The 1950 FIFA World Cup was the only tournament to feature 20 teams competing in the competition. This was done by FIFA thinking needing to expand to 20 teams after the Second World War devasted the world. During this tournament, it saw the debuts of Korea [1], Jamaica and Costa Rica with all of them struggling to get on the score sheet and despite the lopsided results which did include an 11-0 result [2], it saw Sweden take out their first title after they defeated newcomers Great Britain which for this tournament didn't have Scotland as they would come in 1954. The big shock was the Netherlands and Italy not making it out of the group stage as they were in a good chance of making it through the group as they were the top two teams in the world.

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[1] - Instead of Korea being split into two countries, it was Japan that split.
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1938 FIFA World Cup
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Bhangbhangduc

Bhangbhangduc

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All Japanese dress uniforms include two swords - a ceremonial longsword called a Type 120 Gunto and a dagger locally called a Tanto. The longsword is usually dull and worn only for official ceremonies. The dagger is kept sharp and worn at all times.
-Dick Steve's Guide to the Empire of Japan, 1988

You would hardly have known that Japan in 1949 was in the middle of a civil war. You could have toured the empire, from Satsuma to Hokkaido, and even gone to Korea or Manchuko to see the tourist sights there and not noticed the deadly conflict simmering under the surface. Never friends, the Japanese Army and Navy began to diverge in the early 40s, originally over expansionism (the Army wanted a more aggressive support for the German-backed Qing Empire while the Navy wanted to maintain their policy of soft cooperation with the US-backed Republic of China) but real disputes began in 1943 when the Naval Minister convinced the Emperor to fire the Army Minister. The Army retaliated by closing the ports in Korea that they (technically) controlled to the Navy. In 1947, the Imperial Japanese Army Marine Force launched its first aircraft carrier, the Iwao

In 1948, on exercises the Iwao collided with the IJN Yamato off of Korea, killing twelve and sinking the Yamato. Though the Army claimed it was a mistake, they responded by claiming a 100 mile "Exclusion Zone" around the Korean peninsula in which only Army watercraft could operate. In the Navy, this was widely considered to be part of a conspiracy on the part of the Army to gain more power, and on June 21st, Admiral Seiichi Ito (who's son had died on the Yamato) and a group of friends ambushed and murdered an Army general at a party in Tokyo.

This set off a series of assassinations and street fights between the IJA and the IJN, as well as naval games of "chicken" around the exclusion zone that lasted for three years.

The conflict ended when Crown Prince Akihito attempted to fly to Korea to negotiate a settlement between the feuding military branches. Unfortunately, his plane was mistaken for a fighter and he was shot down and killed. The ensuing collapse of the Imperial Japanese Army and their rule over Korea is widely seen as the beginning of the downfall of the Japanese colonial empire.
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Archangel Michael

Archangel Michael

Bhangbhangduc said:
You would hardly have known that Japan in 1949 was in the middle of a civil war. You could have toured the empire, from Satsuma to Hokkaido, and even gone to Korea or Manchuko to see the tourist sights there and not noticed the deadly conflict simmering under the surface. Never friends, the Japanese Army and Navy began to diverge in the early 40s, originally over expansionism (the Army wanted a more aggressive support for the German-backed Qing Empire while the Navy wanted to maintain their policy of soft cooperation with the US-backed Republic of China) but real disputes began in 1943 when the Naval Minister convinced the Emperor to fire the Army Minister. The Army retaliated by closing the ports in Korea that they (technically) controlled to the Navy. In 1947, the Imperial Japanese Army Marine Force launched its first aircraft carrier, the Iwao.
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Almost as great as the People's Liberation Army Naval Air Force
 
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