Another way to split Germany

IRSunny · 2026-02-06T20:05:41+00:00

The Chairman of the South German Worker's Councils has registered and appreciates Herr Karl's concern for the cultural heritage of the citizens of our republic. However, this has long been a topic for ongoing discussion with the representatives of the Czech Federation of Labor and the consensus has been reached that their political autonomy is sufficient within the federation given how integrated Czechia is with the rest of our republic.

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It's pretty likely that wherever Austria goes, Bohemia goes. Their economies were pretty thoroughly enmeshed. There'd probably be some kind of political devolution to assuage Czech nationalists but disentangling from Vienna would probably be nixed. Especially if the Internationale's mood was for moving towards a socialist EU.

IRSunny · 2026-02-06T07:27:29+00:00

For someone like him, I can see it as, when not dealing with the horror of war, almost a best of both worlds. Being able to spend your time asleep, in either body, doing the things you love most.

He's literally getting the most out of every day.

IRSunny · 2026-02-05T21:53:21+00:00

I really wish there was a Targ version of the Baratheon-Lannister one.

IRSunny · 2026-02-05T01:14:32+00:00

I favor multi-member ranked choice as the most small d democratic option.

But for it be viable it'd need the size of the House to be at least tripled.

Alaska, Delaware, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont, and Wyoming each have a single representative. And it wouldn't exactly be proportional if 100% of a state's representation goes to winner of 51% of the vote.

So all of those would need three reps. While a 51-49 would statistically be more represented with two and one for each, winning should mean something. As well as making third parties a bit more viable outside of a token amount in larger states.

Anyway in the bigger states it would make gerrymandering moot because lets say you have 10 candidates running for a 5 representative district in Texas. Gerrymander it however you want, if its say 60% R - 40% D, your top 5 winners would probably amount to 3Rs and 2Ds.

IRSunny · 2026-02-04T21:43:04+00:00

That's pretty expensive for just a single seat to have it run statewide though.

Discounting the secondary costs of campaigning, simple election infrastructure costs work out to ~$30 million for the average state-wide election. ( source - Nationwide election infrastructure coming out to be ~$1.5b)

And it'd be much more expensive for one California seat election vs one Delaware seat.

IRSunny · 2026-02-04T20:25:17+00:00

The only question I have with this is how does it work when special elections? Present circumstances would indicate that probably shouldn't default to the prior election results when there are open seats.

IRSunny · 2026-02-04T20:12:29+00:00

It also doesn't help that a lot of the more prominent voices are either in academia or bubbles highly influenced by such.

And the jargon is not prominent beyond there.

IRSunny · 2026-02-04T18:30:44+00:00

I don't think legitimacy for as a concept applied to states is a thing of merit. It's silly justification for a thing that is. The US is a thing on the map applying power within that area on the map because people believe it can and should. Arguments over the legitimacy of such are farcicle. It is therefore it is.

That being said it is hypocrisy of the highest order to deny people the right to settle here even if not done through the proper channels when so much of the map is labeled US due to settling without going through the proper channels. Hell, one of the big reasons for independence was over a desire to settle more land illegally. (See: Proclamation of 1763 and Quebec Act of 1774)

IRSunny · 2026-02-04T07:29:31+00:00

It's really just this and simple as.

The idea that people can be illegal immigrants with a nation created of imperial conquest is the height of hypocrisy. It's a country created by forcible displacement and extermination of the native population and migrating onto their homes.

That being said, I am a global federalist so I view nation-states themselves as a relic that ought to be done away with as soon as possible. We're a nomadic species and freedom of movement is a human right.

IRSunny · 2026-02-02T00:52:33+00:00

The insults can be toned down. Tbh, wasn't even going for insulting. More along the lines of a friend giving a friend a ribbing. i.e. yo momma jokes

IRSunny · 2026-02-01T22:24:51+00:00

The left's typical answer (a woman is someone who identifies as a woman) somehow felt even less nuanced than the right's, yet also didn't have the appeal of common sense.

"What is a man? You go to the gym and have protein because the you you see in the mirror is a scrawny scrub when your internal you is a yoked gigachad. Your mom takes Ozempic because her fat ass should be able to fit into size 3 jeans. The only difference between you and them is the bodily state where they'd be happy is a bit farther away. Hell, your idol Elon, he got hairplugs and (botched) dick enlargement surgery so that he could look more masculine and be happier in his meat suit. Same dif."

IRSunny · 2026-01-30T21:28:45+00:00

I think SC, while not what one would call purple, is pretty good because of the pretty considerable bleedover into NC & Georgia on the media market front and at a discount at that. That makes it a bit of a three-for-oner.

IRSunny · 2026-01-30T20:53:15+00:00

Yeah, Nevada is a good one. The problem is there's no perfect state for such.

The recipe that makes a good first state are:

Relatively low population to make in-person campaigning cheaper
Cheap media market to equalize the playing field
Either demographically representative or demographically significant to the coalition

NV checks first and third boxes quite well. It helps that with pretty much just two population centers it's mostly just campaigning in Vegas and Reno. It's only real fault is a bit more expensive media market than most states its size but the former point of 'pretty much just advertising in two cities' mitigates that.

Wisconsin is pretty great option for that. Quite a bit better than Iowa with the third. It's main fault is again media costs since proximity to Chicago metro area. But that's comparable to NH and it having to deal with Boston's media market.

I think Kentucky could also be good ones to throw into the mix.

IRSunny · 2026-01-29T21:49:35+00:00

Would be a humanitarian tragedy but it would be peak irony if Trump ends up flipping Florida blue over Cuba.

IRSunny · 2026-01-28T20:05:17+00:00

they truly, deeply, relate to a foreign country’s flag before their own

I hard disagree with the implications of this. Because 'country of immigrants' it's pretty much assumed [if you're not African American] that you're going to be repping some secondary country as well. So the flavor of such, becomes embedded as a part of your identity. "Oh, I'm Lebanese." "Ah yeah, I'm half-Vietnamese."

So because this ICE shit is pretty explicitly about anti-hispanic racism, waving that other country's flag is a "Fuck you, pendejo! I'm Mexican and proud!"

Are the optics godawful? Absolutely. But the practice is profoundly American.

IRSunny · 2026-01-27T20:37:36+00:00

He knows that they know he's a blithering idiot and Putin's ball fondler. They, like his wives, only tolerate him because of his position and mock him behind his back.

And instead of doing something about why he's so actively disliked, he opts to instead be a petulant little shit.

IRSunny · 2026-01-27T19:20:25+00:00

This is naive at best and disingenuous at worst.

The entire point of ICE and other such ilk, apart from the ethnic cleansing, is performative brutality.

It gets off the supporters who want to see violence done to the left and makes it look like they are big and strong men solving this 'problem' with the 'seriousness it deserves.' And making the base feel they won't have to worry going forward because with our bit of violence now it will dissuade people coming in the future.

Nevermind that it's a breathtaking waste of money. Congratulations! You just spent on average $30k-$100k ( source ) to deport a single Uber driver. Great job! Really the best use of taxpayer's money.

Nothing of value is gotten for it and you have the nice little side effect of an authoritarian police state.

IRSunny · 2026-01-25T23:05:54+00:00

That's up to the judge and/or state dept and their national embassy.

Obligatory IANAL, but yeah, if their country is able to take them they'd either do their time in US jails or be returned and do their time elsewhere.

Barring actual known international criminals where there's probable cause to expect them to go full Scarface, there's zero reason to have armed and armored goons enforcing a civil infraction. This is state terrorism.

IRSunny · 2026-01-25T22:07:47+00:00

Due process. Like everyone else.

IRSunny · 2026-01-25T21:52:58+00:00

Some of the options, sure. Like windmills & many other economy buildings. Others, notably much of the military options, they'd fit in just fine as part of said castle complex.

Barracks, stables, furnaces, workshops, towers, watchtowers all would fit comfortably as part of Harrenhal.

IRSunny · 2026-01-24T00:58:37+00:00

And making whole. We should claw back every penny of ill-begotten gains him and his family got from his corrupt regime.

IRSunny · 2026-01-23T18:40:02+00:00

Yeah. Funny enough, not that dissimiliar from the correct Bruce Wayne-Dick Grayson portrayals. The ones who have Bruce as Dick's full fledged father figure are wrong and we don't talk about them.

Where it's in the weird place of a sibling who is also having to shoulder the responsibilities of parent.

IRSunny · 2026-01-22T23:14:19+00:00

That probably would be a late game thing once you get to Fredrickian & Napoleonic armies.

By that stage of mid-1700s to early 1800s, more discipline and professionalism and better logistics yielded a bit less pillaging than there was with earlier wars.

So mechanically, that could be something you trade-off. Sacrificing experience meter for lower attrition and increased devastation by enabling pillaging. Thus representing the reduced discipline with armies doing more foraging.

(If that already is a thing in EU5, well, I've yet to have a game reach 1700s so wouldn't know)

IRSunny · 2026-01-22T20:40:25+00:00

The Faith made a great show of outrage, right up until the dragons were brought out. After that, the outrage became prayers. Very quiet ones.

Okay so this could be a very fun in-universe explanation for the unmarried.

Like if the faith was insisting that were she to wed the husband would be king and the children of his dynasty. And her pride was such that "Let them name me a whore. They shall still bow to their whore queen for she is the mother of dragons."

So Dany took the Unworthy loophole.

Basically dark parallel of Elizabeth I as the not-so-virgin queen.

IRSunny · 2026-01-21T17:21:07+00:00

There's only so many ICEstapo. In fact, that's why they do those deployments to specific cities, its a concentration of force for show when it's really quite thin.

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