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Post by ambitiousace on Mar 24, 2020 14:16:26 GMT
I believe most of the members here are experiencing lockdown in their respective countries so at the nick of time,I had this idea in my mind...So feel free to give your piece of mind  |
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Post by Jeanne d'Arc on Mar 24, 2020 15:45:43 GMT
In my nation, gun sales are higher than ever. *tbh you may already know that*
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2020 21:59:42 GMT
Hockey isn't on. So whole country is sad
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Post by Risviltsov on Mar 25, 2020 6:41:07 GMT
Western Washington, Washington, United States of America
(We're the state in the northwest corner of the USA)
We've got a lot of trees, a lot of rain (excluding the humid summers here), a lot of technology, a lot of coffee and a lot of fish.
King (Seattle) & Pierce (Tacoma) County stuff:
Food: Pacific Ocean stuffs, Chinese sphere of influence stuff, Filipino stuff
Ethnicity: does it matter? The categories make me cringe. Plurality are American and American-combined. Large minority are Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Indian, Vietnamese, Hawaiian, and Filipino. Small minorities are Mexican and Native American.
Music: Grunge.
Attitude: Depends. In rural suburbs, it's all about Jesus and guns. In affluent suburban areas, it's libertarian as ****. In developed suburbs, it's a very political activist attitude (especially Renton, Kent, and Tukwila). Seattle itself is a socially friendly area as of right now, but we won't reach our hands out to welcome you. The youth here are awful (and shamefully I'm classified with them even though I don't follow normal teen stuff) and either self-absorbed or extremely community-ist.
Just my two cents. Not gonna go heavy into politics here.
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Post by ambitiousace on Mar 25, 2020 10:57:03 GMT
In my country,we won't give up a fight if someone says it's not top notch delicious than what's out thereš¬Everyone are sorta united when it comes to this issue
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Post by ambitiousace on Mar 25, 2020 10:57:44 GMT
Western Washington, Washington, United States of America (We're the state in the northwest corner of the USA) We've got a lot of trees, a lot of rain (excluding the humid summers here), a lot of technology, a lot of coffee and a lot of fish. King (Seattle) & Pierce (Tacoma) County stuff: Food: Pacific Ocean stuffs, Chinese sphere of influence stuff, Filipino stuff Ethnicity: does it matter? The categories make me cringe. Plurality are American and American-combined. Large minority are Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Indian, Vietnamese, Hawaiian, and Filipino. Small minorities are Mexican and Native American. Music: Grunge. Attitude: Depends. In rural suburbs, it's all about Jesus and guns. In affluent suburban areas, it's libertarian as ****. In developed suburbs, it's a very political activist attitude (especially Renton, Kent, and Tukwila). Seattle itself is a socially friendly area as of right now, but we won't reach our hands out to welcome you. The youth here are awful (and shamefully I'm classified with them even though I don't follow normal teen stuff) and either self-absorbed or extremely community-ist. Just my two cents. Not gonna go heavy into politics here. Ahh I like how explicit this is |
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Post by Naveen Hanza on Apr 5, 2020 16:29:21 GMT
People are nice and patriotic. We are country of multi ethnicity and religion. Media and people are highly patriotic which improves morale and mood of our countrymen in difficult situations like the Covid 19 pandemic, 2019 Easter bombing, 2004 tsunami etc. Food is mainly rice, also rice and wheat products. We have got tropical climate. Government provides free education and health services even though Private services exist ( Which cost money, better facilities ). We were a colony of the Crown but became independent in 1948. Our best export products are Tea, rubber, gems. Coffee to a limit( originally carried out by British but due to a funhus, most crops got destroyed). We are famously known as Pearl of Indian Ocean.
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Post by Jeanne d'Arc on Apr 5, 2020 16:39:49 GMT
People are nice and patriotic. We are country of multi ethnicity and religion. Media and people are highly patriotic which improves morale and mood of our countrymen in difficult situations like the Covid 19 pandemic, 2019 Easter bombing, 2004 tsunami etc. Food is mainly rice, also rice and wheat products. We have got tropical climate. Government provides free education and health services even though Private services exist ( Which cost money, better facilities ). We were a colony of the Crown but became independent in 1948. Our best export products are Tea, rubber, gems. Coffee to a limit( originally carried out by British but due to a funhus, most crops got destroyed). We are famously known as Pearl of Indian Ocean. You live in India, I presume. |
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Post by Risviltsov on Apr 6, 2020 3:30:40 GMT
People are nice and patriotic. We are country of multi ethnicity and religion. Media and people are highly patriotic which improves morale and mood of our countrymen in difficult situations like the Covid 19 pandemic, 2019 Easter bombing, 2004 tsunami etc. Food is mainly rice, also rice and wheat products. We have got tropical climate. Government provides free education and health services even though Private services exist ( Which cost money, better facilities ). We were a colony of the Crown but became independent in 1948. Our best export products are Tea, rubber, gems. Coffee to a limit( originally carried out by British but due to a funhus, most crops got destroyed). We are famously known as Pearl of Indian Ocean. Sri Lanka? and how does your mixed economy work? I'm interested in the potential implementation of such a system on the federal level of the US. |
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Post by Naveen Hanza on Apr 6, 2020 10:54:29 GMT
People are nice and patriotic. We are country of multi ethnicity and religion. Media and people are highly patriotic which improves morale and mood of our countrymen in difficult situations like the Covid 19 pandemic, 2019 Easter bombing, 2004 tsunami etc. Food is mainly rice, also rice and wheat products. We have got tropical climate. Government provides free education and health services even though Private services exist ( Which cost money, better facilities ). We were a colony of the Crown but became independent in 1948. Our best export products are Tea, rubber, gems. Coffee to a limit( originally carried out by British but due to a funhus, most crops got destroyed). We are famously known as Pearl of Indian Ocean. Sri Lanka? and how does your mixed economy work? I'm interested in the potential implementation of such a system on the federal level of the US. Yes I am Sri Lankan. What did you mean by mixed economy. I need to mention this also. We had a such a great rise in all sides. Our country was developing so fast but everything got ruined after policy of Importing goods. It had its own pros and cons. It allowed our country to get latest goods and services from other countries but it made our people lazy. Our food, clothes, many things were imported. Previously everything was manufactured in the country itself. Now the situation is getting better overtime. Hope we will get to the production level back in 1950s, 1960s. |
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Post by Seger on Apr 6, 2020 12:05:31 GMT
My country is famous for marijuana although this is actually not legal. In the Netherlands we have a tolerance policy, but there are some conditions to one of the conditions is, for example, that selling weed to people who are not Dutch is illegal. We also like to say how tolerant the Netherlands is, even though xenophobic parties are unfortunately also emerging in the Netherlands (the Dutch are not particularly racist, but the extreme right is emerging throughout Europe due to huge groups of Syrian refugees). oh and if we are talking about politics, although patriotism or nationalism is seen as a good thing in much of the world, it is not so in Holland. Nationalist will sometimes even be seen as an insult.
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Post by Risviltsov on Apr 6, 2020 23:21:31 GMT
My country is famous for marijuana although this is actually not legal. In the Netherlands we have a tolerance policy, but there are some conditions to one of the conditions is, for example, that selling weed to people who are not Dutch is illegal. We also like to say how tolerant the Netherlands is, even though xenophobic parties are unfortunately also emerging in the Netherlands (the Dutch are not particularly racist, but the extreme right is emerging throughout Europe due to huge groups of Syrian refugees). oh and if we are talking about politics, although patriotism or nationalism is seen as a good thing in much of the world, it is not so in Holland. Nationalist will sometimes even be seen as an insult. US State Nationalism is seing a resurgence in modern times thanks to having many domestically inept presidents over the years (the most notorious examples being Reagan, Dubya Bush, and Trump; Carter was insignificant and Obama and Clinton were quite good at domestic policy). I personally side with my state. About a quarter of all Washingtonians feel like seceding from the Union (an extreme measure). A majority of Eastern Washingtonians want to secede from the West (because they're being politically dominated by the West) but the West seem block every attempt at doing so. (I'm a Western Washingtonian who wants to divide the state b/c societies are completely different; many Western Washingtonians want to keep the East in because of more national political power; we're politically insignificant on the national level no matter what, though, which pisses all of us off) There's also increased radicalization as the 80s evangelical movement and the neo-conservative movement created a Christian nationalist plurality coalition in national politics -- the Republican Study Committee, which holds a majority of Republican Party seats (The moderate Main Street Republican counter-coalition is dying out and allying with the New Democrat Coalition, a large minority coalition in the Democratic Party), and as a retaliatory effect, the left-wing was established (SJWs, culturally conservative socially progressive-authoritarian [or socially conservative progressivism; social anti-individualism progressivism I'M NOT SURE WHAT TO CALL THEM AT THIS POINT {they're super conflicted; on one hand they'll repeal individual freedoms and on the other they have collective freedoms granted}) which is killing the culturally liberal socially liberal/moderate wing (who are joining the New Democrat movement or the Libertarian Party's left-leaning wing) One thing you should know is that the US is an extremely conservative, traditional nation founded on "pure Christianity", a stubborn religion that grew tired of the Anglican-Protestant faith 'wars' in England. We're still way behind culturally. It's really messy and much of it is has its roots in religion, which is where I've traced it back to (I might be wrong; it's subjective-objective thinking, aka interpretation and assumption) Let's just say, I expect the US to lose its global power very quickly if the political system, which enables this BS to happen, does not adapt to new ways of thinking. And the US is historically not good at the highest level at adapting to new trains of thought. I'm thinking that the poor handling of the pandemic will 1. unseat many incumbents, 2. if handled even worse, create the necessary sociopolitical climate required to either reform the political system or inspire a wave of secessionist ideology throughout the United States, which, if not dealt with rationally, leads to A. puppet states being formed by international political enemies (see: Chinese influence in Australian politics, Russian influence in CIS states, US influence in Sudamerica) after a wave of terror, or B. a loose confederation of allied states aligned in thought -- I.E. New England, Old South, Cascadia, etc. This will almost definitely bring about a climate that favors increased state autonomy, though (which I am all for!). Of course, a lot of this is just the vocal minority. However, my concern is that that vocal minority are effective populists. Trump was arguably the first modern populist President (key word: modern) as his promises he made during his campaign were left unfulfilled and had no thought behind them (I assume this because he's been rather disorganized as a US President). They're growing in numbers, although Biden's current lead in the 2020 Democratic Party primaries is reassuring (1,217 delegates to Sanders's 914; Biden is a New Democrat, while Sanders is a modern T. Roosevelt-like Progressive; the only reason I say this is because Sanders would not win against Donald Trump's Republican Study Committee backing; also, Sanders alienates New Democrats with his economic policy and his anti-private sector efforts) Yeah, the United States will be 1. unable to pay for its military expenses causing all of this national debt and 2. not leading the world by the time Germany and China take the reigns as the global superpowers while the US and Russia decline (Russia because of its generational population issue; US because of all the politics) We're going to die to populism, led by the charismatic. Didn't Dune warn us about charismatic politicians? And Fahrenheit 451 warn us about populist legislature? |
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Post by Seger on Apr 7, 2020 6:59:42 GMT
My country is famous for marijuana although this is actually not legal. In the Netherlands we have a tolerance policy, but there are some conditions to one of the conditions is, for example, that selling weed to people who are not Dutch is illegal. We also like to say how tolerant the Netherlands is, even though xenophobic parties are unfortunately also emerging in the Netherlands (the Dutch are not particularly racist, but the extreme right is emerging throughout Europe due to huge groups of Syrian refugees). oh and if we are talking about politics, although patriotism or nationalism is seen as a good thing in much of the world, it is not so in Holland. Nationalist will sometimes even be seen as an insult. US State Nationalism is seing a resurgence in modern times thanks to having many domestically inept presidents over the years (the most notorious examples being Reagan, Dubya Bush, and Trump; Carter was insignificant and Obama and Clinton were quite good at domestic policy). I personally side with my state. About a quarter of all Washingtonians feel like seceding from the Union (an extreme measure). A majority of Eastern Washingtonians want to secede from the West (because they're being politically dominated by the West) but the West seem block every attempt at doing so. (I'm a Western Washingtonian who wants to divide the state b/c societies are completely different; many Western Washingtonians want to keep the East in because of more national political power; we're politically insignificant on the national level no matter what, though, which pisses all of us off) There's also increased radicalization as the 80s evangelical movement and the neo-conservative movement created a Christian nationalist plurality coalition in national politics -- the Republican Study Committee, which holds a majority of Republican Party seats (The moderate Main Street Republican counter-coalition is dying out and allying with the New Democrat Coalition, a large minority coalition in the Democratic Party), and as a retaliatory effect, the left-wing was established (SJWs, culturally conservative socially progressive-authoritarian [or socially conservative progressivism; social anti-individualism progressivism I'M NOT SURE WHAT TO CALL THEM AT THIS POINT {they're super conflicted; on one hand they'll repeal individual freedoms and on the other they have collective freedoms granted}) which is killing the culturally liberal socially liberal/moderate wing (who are joining the New Democrat movement or the Libertarian Party's left-leaning wing) One thing you should know is that the US is an extremely conservative, traditional nation founded on "pure Christianity", a stubborn religion that grew tired of the Anglican-Protestant faith 'wars' in England. We're still way behind culturally. It's really messy and much of it is has its roots in religion, which is where I've traced it back to (I might be wrong; it's subjective-objective thinking, aka interpretation and assumption) Let's just say, I expect the US to lose its global power very quickly if the political system, which enables this BS to happen, does not adapt to new ways of thinking. And the US is historically not good at the highest level at adapting to new trains of thought. I'm thinking that the poor handling of the pandemic will 1. unseat many incumbents, 2. if handled even worse, create the necessary sociopolitical climate required to either reform the political system or inspire a wave of secessionist ideology throughout the United States, which, if not dealt with rationally, leads toĀ A. puppet states being formed by international political enemies (see: Chinese influence in Australian politics, Russian influence in CIS states, US influence in Sudamerica) after a wave of terror, or B. a loose confederation of allied states aligned in thought -- I.E. New England, Old South, Cascadia, etc. This will almost definitely bring about a climate that favors increased state autonomy, though (which I am all for!). Of course, a lot of this is just the vocal minority. However, my concern is that that vocal minority are effective populists. Trump was arguably the first modern populist President (key word: modern) as his promises he made during his campaign were left unfulfilled and had no thought behind them (I assume this because he's been rather disorganized as a US President). They're growing in numbers, although Biden's current lead in the 2020 Democratic Party primaries is reassuring (1,217 delegates to Sanders's 914; Biden is a New Democrat, while Sanders is a modern T. Roosevelt-like Progressive; the only reason I say this is because Sanders would not win against Donald Trump's Republican Study Committee backing; also, Sanders alienates New Democrats with his economic policy and his anti-private sector efforts) Yeah, the United States will be 1. unable to pay for its military expenses causing all of this national debt and 2. not leading the world by the time Germany and China take the reigns as the global superpowers while the US and Russia decline (Russia because of its generational population issue; US because of all the politics) We're going to die to populism, led by the charismatic. Didn't Dune warn us about charismatic politicians? And Fahrenheit 451 warn us about populist legislature? Germany also has problems, the EU is far from united. A United Europe could be the new leader of the western world but Germany alone is too small. The EU is struggling with many disagreements between the member states west vs east and south against north are the the main problems. The east is very conservative, very religious and economically significantly less developed. The west on the other hand is social democratic and secular. This causes huge tension, for example the problems with Ć³rban ( the leader of Hungary). Ćrban is in the west viewed as a dictator for replacing the judges and chancing the voting districts so that he won 2/3 of the seats with 40% of the votes. In the east heās viewed as a hero protecting Europe from the Syrian immigrants by building a fence on the Hungarian border. Then youāve south against north, the trouble between north and south is more a economic matter. The south is not as rich as north Europe but isnāt poor either ( I donāt mean to insult anyone this is just how it is) this makes the south a very important part of the European economy. With the east there are less problems about national debt and government spendings then between the north and the south this is because large parts of Eastern Europe arenāt part of the eurozone and because theyāre small economies they couldnāt destroy the entire European economy by having bad government spendings. The south absolutely could destroy the Euro this causes lots of tensions and the Corona virus is making it worse, because of the corona virus Italy wants to borrow lots of money to simulate the economy but Italy canāt borrow it themselves because the intrest rates they need to pay are high because high national debt damages their credibility. So they want to create Eurobonds, a loan with all the eurozone countries, the intrest rates would be better because the north has high credibility because of low national debts. The problem is the north doesnāt want those loans because they donāt trust the south, Italy has a history of electing populist who will try to bribe the voters by giving them all kinds off presents this is very bad for their economy because their debts grow because of the high spendings. Last week things escalated between Italy and the Netherlands, Italy felt betrayed because their friend didnāt help them when they needed it the most but the Netherlands kept saying no because we really donāt want to have a loan together. There is also a euro fund to help countries who really need it but you need to make serious cuts in your government spendings to receive this money and Italy doesnāt want to do that. This explanation could be a bit biased since Iām from a northwestern part of Europe |
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Post by Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby Jr on Apr 7, 2020 11:14:40 GMT
Flashbacks of populism to... the glorious Gilded Age  |
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Post by Gone on Apr 12, 2020 15:13:18 GMT
The girls and women of my country are known for their attractive butts.
Of course I have seen them personally during school trips because 99% of the time it includes a swimming pool or similar activities.
However Iām not attracted to any of my classmates.
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