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InfernoMole

InfernoMole

Rafshan Rafshan (born July 18, 2164) is a singer-songwriter, marketer, DJ, TV presenter, showman and producer of Tajik descent, and one of the newest "black stars" to gain popularity among the post-Soviet sphere and Eastern Europe, much to the chagrin of most of its people and especially older Tajiks. It is not very surprising, considering that the singer shares a name with a Tajik character from a Russian comedy show who is notoriously despised in Dushanbe.

A man who previously performed in numerous clubs of questionable legality in Tyumen, Kurgan and Novosibirsk, Rafshan very suddenly became a rising star after participating in the final season of Comedy Stars, being invited there accidentally by an aging "hereditary superstar" Ramzan Yunusov. After taking over Ramzan Yunusov's band, the Brigade, Rafshan was allegedly attacked by the enraged entrepreneur before the latter died from ether poisoning caused by the toxins in the large amount of tattoos that he made while a young man. Rafshan Rafshan went on to participate in a duo alongside natively Tajik entrepreneur Rustam Fruhar (known under the name "Rafshan i Dzhumshut") before leaving due to Rustam's drug abuse and alleged ties to the Uzbek mafia, and then became a member of the famous group "Wheel of Fortune" before being thrown out after some quarrels with the other members.

The very first world release of Rafshan's first English-language album, "Boss", took place in July of 2199, and was bought by over 41,5 million people. A month later, Rafshan Rafshan was declared a persona non grata in Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Mongolia, Alberta, Utah and Pennsylvania.

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shiftygiant

shiftygiant

Gone Fishin'
Golfman76 said:
What is so bad about electoral calculus?
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It's a system that relies on a uniform swing, and doesn't take into account any of the variations of that swing that would be present in an actual election. In the context of predicting the outcome of the 2017 election, it's shithouse because it bases the predicted results off of the 2015 election's results, voter distribution, voter transfer, and the turnout, things that will have changed dramatically over the course of a Parliament and changes that system is unable to take into account. It's fine for the vaguest of indications, or just to crapshoot something, but for anything deeper or more serious you're better off cracking out the spreadsheets because it's not terribly useful.
 
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Steve Brinson

Steve Brinson

I'm rebooting Divided Against Itself:

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While the Big Blue Machine is often thought of as the end-all and be-all of unionism in America, that is not, strictly speaking, true. In fact, there are seven parties in the Unionist Coalition. The second largest of them (and the only one other than National Union to have federal representatives) is the National Labor Party.
Of course, there are those who say that National Labor is a sockpuppet of its larger coalition party. There's a reason for that - in many ways, it is. They caucus together and stand in separate seats, resolving disputes between them in internal primaries. In National Union administrations, they or a candidate they endorse always takes the position of Secretary of Industry. In states like Michigan and Washington, where it has disproportionate representation, it is often more independent from the Feds - for example, National Labor allied with Cascadia Now! to elect Bob Hasegawa Mayor of Tacoma in 2012 over National Union candidate Dow Constantine.
While the NLP formerly received broad support from unions, these days it is essentially limited to the IWW. Unions such as the Dockworkers and Warehousers of America disaffiliated from it to curry favor with anti-union regionalist governments, like Allan Shivers' in Texas. At the same time, state governments and regionalists set up their own competing unions, like the Independent Miners' Association, to compete with IWW affiliates like the UMW. While the federal government put its thumb on the scale in favor of their unions, state governments did the same with theirs.
One example of that is the Texas Teamster Wars. When the Unionist National Brotherhood of Teamsters refused to strike alongside the Texas Organization of Transport Workers, a months-long battle between the unions, their benefactors (the Federal government and the Texas government, including its secret police), and various organized crime groups began. In the end, Governor Charlie Schreiner was able to get NBT local head Clyde Martin on a one-way trip to Huntsville, whereas President McNamara couldn't do the same for any TOTW members, all of whom were acquitted by local juries.
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Another wave of disaffiliation has come more recently, with the "National Alternative" candidacy of Tom Steyer. Unions like the Allied Educators and the United States Service Employees' Union saw more to like in Alternative advocacy for smaller class sizes and a higher minimum wage than in Fed support for charter schools and gig economy deregulation.
It's unclear what the future holds for the NLP. In the modern era of declining and splintering unions, its natural constituency is rapidly disappearing, and some have proposed that it de jure merge into National Union. Others have advocated the opposite - that it break away entirely, so as to avoid "compromising away its soul". But, all told, the status quo continuing seems to be the most likely option.
 
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Militarist Buddhism, also known as Militant Buddhism and Military Buddhism, is... uh... I wish I had some sort of TL idea to go along with this, but I really don't.
 
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InfernoMole said:
>Anti-capitalism
>State capitalism

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It is entirely possible for ideologies to be self-contradictory, or for them to say they have an idea without really having it. My thought process for that was basically "We hate those dirty capitalists, but we hate those filthy communists even more. We don't want to let the people run wild with their money but saying we're taking control of the economy will make us like the commies, so let's call it state capitalism and be done with it."

I suppose I could replace Anti-capitalism with Anti-consumerism or Anti-materialism or something to that effect...
 
Wallet

Wallet

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LouisTheGreyFox said:
Guns of Yucatan​

An obsessed Mesoamerican historian buys a strange laptop in 2017, but he also was a gun owner who owned 4 AK-47's that he legally purchased back in 2012 with a gun permit of from the state of so called "Texas". He realizes that his new laptop is in matter of fact is a time machine and thus he being a obsessed historian who loves Mesoamerican and Pre-Columbian history, he decides to first travel to the future in the year of 2400 AD, where he goes shopping for the cheapest language translator software he could find that he can install onto his laptop by USB (which surprised him to find out that humanity was still using USB ports in the year of 2400 AD).

Finding the cheapest one he was able to find, he was glad to have the software have included ancient extinct languages such as Sumerian, Babylonian, and of course Classic and Post-Classic Mayan language too. He also bought along with him from present medical items such as painkillers and cough syrup.

After that he goes back to the year of 1000 AD, where he set onto his laptop time setting and he selected the Mayan historic city of Tikal as his place he be teleported to. Arriving in the city center of Tikal, he was well aware the way he came was alarming to many of the Mayans in the city of Tikal, but he told everyone with the help of his futuristic translator, that he was the Mayan god of Kulkulkan and that he was here to to save the Mayan people from a fate that would one day away them.

He explained the Mayans of Tikal that they will one they be conquered by advanced strange tall men from across the ocean in the future. And that in order to prevent it from happening the Mesoamerican historian gave the city elders his 5 AK-47's which he nicknamed "Roaring Swords" to make it sound easier for the Mayans to understand. Over the next three weeks he was able to train many of the people of Tikal on how to load, reload, aim, and fire the AK-47's as well and then two months he helped teach the Mayans how to make more of them as well.

Within just two years the people of Tikal became the most advance in military technology in the whole world, if not the New World itself. As a result the historian has now become a well respected man by the people of Tikal, however when the elders asked him to be their leader he declined the offer.

"It is not my job to be the one leading you into a great golden age. It is up to you and the Mayan people to do so."

"But I will help and give much advice to you if you ever need any questions."

As a result they asked the historian/god on what the people of Tikal should do then. He said that either you can invade and conquer the other Mayan city-states or you can not use war and instead use diplomacy and unify all Mayans under one united powerful empire.

As a result they unify the city-states and make the Grand Mayan Empire. And by 1021 AD, he helped the Mayans able to create a sea-going empire by colonizing the Caribbean and Florida, and also helped the Mayans conquer more territory in Central America especially places like northern Panama which the Mayans never even had conquered in reality. Three years go by and now the Grand Mayan Empire is now very still advanced using sailing ships, medicine to combat against disease like the flu and use of painkillers to combat against aches and pain, and also the development of easier childbirth for women as well. Slavery was now frown upon, but human sacrifices was still practiced but cannibalism was however banned since the historian told them that disease will spread by practice of cannibalism.

But the day was now to come, the historian was beginning to slowly die from cancer of the stomach, which he unfortunately did not brought anything from present or future to help himself combat against. Though he was dying, he said to the Mayans that he will always be watching them from the skies at night and guide them in the bright future. The Mayans asked him the final question under his dying breathe on what they should do.

"Use your ships to cross the ocean. There is in fact land up north beyond the ocean and it is a place called Europe."

"Y-You must conquer it!"

As a result the Mayans did what he last demanded. He was buried and mourned, however three years before he gotten ill from cancer of the stomach, the historian destroyed his laptop so that the Mayans would never be able to know the truth of what he really was.

The Mayans are now a powerful empire the world never seen before, the rest of the civilization of Mesoamerica fear them to the point that they are to not be messed with. As a result the Mayans sail across the Atlantic Ocean to their first destination and invasion. The Invasion of Tangiers.

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Fascinating. I could see muslims and Christians united against the pagan threat.

Why didn't the historian travel to the future for a cancer cure
 
Don Quijote

Don Quijote

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Aeroplane did a good article on the Heston Phoenix back in April 2015. It was a lovely little aircraft, and deserved a production run of more than six, so I've given it a new lease of life. Unfortunately there are not actually any surviving Phoenixes, the last one crashed in France in 1952.
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InfernoMole

InfernoMole

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The Krasnodar Krai gubernatorial elections of 2080 were, to say the least, tumultous. Coinciding with the 2080 presidential elections, in which Mariya Sukharina of the Progressive Front (specifically of the more "liberal" faction) won, the gubernatoral elections ended in the victory of Valeriy Donchenko, a pro-Patriots of Russia nationalist writer and politician turned independent nationalist politician, who succeeded previous president Dmitry Chaban. Other major candidates in the election were Vadim Agafonov, leader of the People's Party of Krasnodar who is normally recognized for being more moderate and leftier; Valentin Gokmen, a well-known geographer, traveler and blogger of Meskhetian Turkish descent; and Gennadiy Golovchenko, a local oligarch and philanthrope who is the candidate for the Union Party of Russia, a self-proclaimed remnant of the United Russia normally derided for appealing to Northern Caucasians.

These particular elections have been marred with numerous controversies, such as:
  • the "Chabangate" that led to the ruling Social Democratic Party's total destruction;
  • Valeriy Donchenko's alleged and not-so-alleged prejudice against homosexuals, Circassians and Meskhetian Turks;
  • the implications by numerous Twitter accounts that people only voted for Valentin Gokmen either because he was physically appealing or was a supporter of LGBT rights;
  • Vadim Agafonov's alcoholism and allegations of a previous conviction, as well as subsequent parallels to Boris Yeltsin and Petro Poroshenko;
  • Gennadiy Golovchenko's alleged Jewish descent, with his birth surname speculated to be "Natanson";
  • Sukharina and Donchenko's continuous criticism of each other;
  • the parallels between Donchenko and Trump;
  • and, most notoriously, the allegations of liberals that the election was rigged by Ukrainian hackers in favor of Donchenko, as Valeriy Donchenko is infamously on good terms with the ruling Hetman of Ukraine, Orest Khomenko.
 
LouisTheGreyFox

LouisTheGreyFox

Battle of Granada

Since the Invasion of Tangiers was a great success to the Mayans, they would soon make their way into Europe through the Strait of Gibraltar by large fleet of ships. There they would launch a small invasion into the Iberian peninsula sweeping through towns and cities. Numerous battles were fought and won by the powerful gun-welding Mayans.
The then Muslim city of Seville was taken over in only eight hours by the Mayans and once taken over many neighboring cities and towns soon surrendered so they could be spared by the destruction that would of been given to them by the Mayans had they not of surrendered.

Cadiz also was a easy victory for the Mayans as well. However it wasn't until the Battle of Granada when the Mayans really began to see their plans and goals on dominating the continent of Europe. And it was also a major point where the European and Islamic nations realized that doom would only come by the Mayans unless they figure out something to stop there expanding path of chaos or to work together to stop these strange demonic warmongers.

The Battle of Granada was massive and bloody battle fought by the Mayans and the armed troops of the city of Granada. The people were unable to defend the city from the invaders due to the fact of their strange deadly weapons that they mostly all used against them.

Christians and Muslims never seen such odd weapons of war before ever, they thought the weapons the Mayans used were weapons of the Devil. However the Muslims and Christians did realize that the Mayans had no idea what horses were used for, which made many assume that wherever the Mayans and came from they probably did not have horses.

However even though the Mayans were confused as what horses were in battle they didn't have much trouble in killing them in the Battle of Granada. They won regardless, however it was a good discovery for the Muslims and Christians that the Mayans had no clue as to what horses were, so they managed to find out a weakness from the Mayans.

But it wouldn't be a matter of time until soon the Mayans learned how to use and ride horses eventually and when the Mayans learn how to master the way of horseback riding, they became more faster in their attempted conquest against Europe.

During the aftermath of the battle, the city of Granada would be renamed to a Mayan name instead and just like the inhabitants of Tangiers, they were forced be ruled by Mayan military officials and prisoners of war were forced to demolish mosques and churches to create new Mayan temples and captured enemy military officials were sacrificed by the Mayans as well.
But the overall outcome and conclusion of the Battle of Granada resulted in a shot that was heard all across Europe. The shot of the AK-47.

History of Europe and if not the entire world will change forever.

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