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The Sixth Clark Living Cosa made a non-binding recommendation that the First Clark of the next Cosa also be a Living Cosa, combined with a live Speech from the Throne.

GV would also be pleased to note that MPF, the Senator from Atatürk, also attended the last Living Cosa in 2003 (by phone, in his capacity as then-Secretary of State). So there's a connection of living history.

Quote from: Breneir Tzaracomprada on December 04, 2022, 08:34:40 PM@luc @Sir Txec dal Nordselvă

Tonight, I started preparations to complete the rest of the statutory law updates for the 57th Cosa. Unfortunately, as you will see in the attached image, I do not yet have the permissions to do so. Luc or Sir dal Nordselva, would either of you be able to grant me the necessary permissions so that I can complete this task?

My username is btzara



Breneir

I've given you the rights

Well, of course, I had something in mind more like this

You know, I have not yet decided if I personally will be part of Cabinet next time (even if offered a job), or even if I'll take Cosa seats. If the TNC are planning on "get Miestră out of Government" as a selling point, they might be pushing at an open door.

I understand that I offer a much easier target than the incumbent and highly competent Seneschál, who has been out of Government as often as he's been in it - which may be another factor encouraging me to step aside. All I can say that I'll be supporting the FreeDem campaign led by him and Party President Somelieir, no matter if there's any post-election role for me.

If you want to talk Disney movies, let's do so elsewhere.

All I can say is that I'm about 500% happier to defend the 57th Cosă government's record than the 56th Cosă. For example, we spent ages talking about the immigration crisis, and the good Baron spent so much bandwidth talking about how this was because of (unspecified) FreeDem failures. Now, given the massive tidal wave of immigration (17 new prospectives in the past week or two!), if he were politically honest, he'd be congratulating us.

But - just as the problems in the past weren't all due to FreeDem fecklessness or wickedness - our current rosy success isn't all to our credit. If I were the Minister of STUFF, I'd be peeved that el Partì dal Reformaziun isn't getting respect. The FreeDems have never had a majority government (got very close once) and have only led five governments, though we've participated in eight. Recent Talossan political history has had a much wider variety of characters and political tendencies through the Government than in the previous era of nine consecutive majority governments.

"Time for a change" is a powerful argument. All I argue is that "change" to a rat-tag group of forces whose common denominator seems to be personal resentment of one or two FreeDem members won't be an improvement. The TNC made the fatal error last time that anyone not in the FreeDems would despise the FreeDems as much as they did - and were blindsided when the current coalition was formed. I predict that - even if they are once again the biggest party, even if they do better than last time - they won't form Government unless they have a platform more positive than being the "No Miestrăs Club".

Just checking whether the TNC back their new allies' wild accusations that: a) Free Democrats made sure he wouldn't hear about about the Living Cosa; (b) we apparently "destroyed past discussion forum archives" (you mean these ones?)

The TNC have shown a pattern that they will make alliances with literally anyone and take on their howsoever wild policy proposals if they think it'll get them 1 more vote.  Who knows, the utter shamelessness of trying to build a party behind formerly intransigent Republican activists AND the most hardcore Monarchists might win elections in the short term. But at what cost to the possibility of coherent government afterwards?

The game is afoot, as they say. The Free Democrats have set out an unambiguous Unique Selling Point for the upcoming election. Other parties will have to either defend the current Monarch's record (challenge: impossible) or jump on the bandwagon.

If the TNC's belief was that "respectful campaigning" mean that they would get to make alliances with some of the more bizarre and controversial figures in Talossan history - and then cry crocodile tears about "disrespect" when called out on this by their opponents - then get used to disappointment.

Colonel Carbonèl's record of political inconsistency and controversial statements is absolutely a fair point to raise if the TNC think an alliance with him is something that will attract, rather than repel, votes.

Guess it's full circle for "Mad Max" Carbonel:

2003: Intransigent monarchist and even at that stage, inveterate party-jumper. See G. Valcádac'h, A Nation Sundered, pp. 42 onwards. Bonus quote: "THE KING SHOULD REMOVE YOUR HEAD OFF THE TOP OF YOUR BODY"

2013: Intransigent Republican. Quits the then-ZRT because we weren't Republican enough (actually because we got tired of his unreliability on Cosă votes and
his continuous demands)

2022: Back to the GOD SAVE THE KING camp???

In accordance with the Constitution of Fiova s.3 and Standing Orders of the General Assembly s.7, I am very pleased to nominate myself to succeed Gödafrieu Valcádac'h as Túischac'h (president or chair of the General Assembly) of the Free Province of Fiova, in charge of organising votes.

You have seven days to vote PER, CONTRA or AUSTÁNEU on this.

Any chance of a "light mode" in the LWT theme?

Er... according to my information the CZ Senäts seat isn't open this time?!? It's BE, VD and KA electing new Senators?

Quote from: xpb on November 19, 2022, 03:42:42 PMThere is not a Senäts election required at this time,

So currently Talossa's social media presence (such as it is) includes Facebook, Twitter and Instagram accounts. All these social media outlets are problematic, for reasons of data privacy and/or being run by reactionary billionaire tyrants who can't be trusted.

So, should Talossa set up a presence on the open-source social media network Mastodon?

The interesting thing is that, given Mastodon's decentralised structure, we would be able to turn our Wordpress setup on talossa.com into a Mastodon "instance" (server).

The Tech PermSec assures me that all this is possible... if we can be bothered.

Comments? Questions?