Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on February 22, 2022, 07:55:31 PM
I wholeheartedly agree.

For once, I agree with AD completely on something.  ;-)

Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on February 14, 2022, 08:58:33 PM
There's 425 total threads, but the vast majority are in areas not open to the general public.  Are they archived or backed-up anywhere?

The Modrads will need to coordinate with those better-versed than I in such things as to archiving their forums.  Were those forums entirely public, they are sparse enough to warrant an easy brute-force backup.

GV, RArchivist

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GV, Fiova

Quote from: Mic'haglh Autófil on February 03, 2022, 10:03:01 AM
Are there any specific associations of colors with ideologies in Talossan politics? Like, purple with peculiarism, for example.

Good question and one no-one has ever really addressed before...

Talossan politics does not represent a single social, political, or societal continuity.  To be all-too-brief, the demise of the Conservative Loyalist Party in the Kingdom ca. late 2005 or in 2006 is the demise of the old continuity going back to Talossa's beginnings.

In Talossan political terms, that event represents a complete break in Talossan political history. And with that, we have two separate epochs in Talossan political history: 1979-2005 and 2005-present.  The old CLP was the old order, and the RUMP's filling the power and cultural vacuum at that time represents the beginning of the new order which persists to this day.

I mention all of this because an overt color-association with Talossan political ideologies was never really thought about in completely overt terms in the old or new orders, even to today. 

The Progressive Conservative Party (PC) existed from 1985 through ca. 2005 when JJ, its last member, finally dissolved it for good.  The PC was for many years the Party of Ben, JJ, Eiffler, Kane, etc. (incl. yours truly).  It also, at least in Ben's and JJ's minds, mimiced to an extent the ethos of the British Conservative Party, whose overt color continues to be blue. 

PC/blue is the one overt color association in Talossan politics of the old order, though combinations of red and green exist in many parties throughout both political orders.  The ZPT's colors were red, white, and green (JP can confirm this).  The third Liberal Party (dissolved ca. 2001 after the Second Mass Exodus) used the colors yellow and black.

Thus, old-order Talossan politics had blue as the color of conservatism, but in other parties, red was a time or two used as the color of 'challenge to the status quo', but I would need to do more research.

A stark change to this pattern was the revival of the Talossan Black Hand Party in autum 2002, Ben Madison's arch-conservative foil to the PC, which used the colors black-and-white.

In new-order Talossan politics (2005-present), there is no clear association between party colors and ideology save one: green and red being used almost ubiquitously to represent Talossan patriotism.

Hope this helps,

GV

My votes are incoming, but I thought I'd at least get the thread started.

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Quote from: King John on January 22, 2022, 05:57:01 PM
Hear, hear!  <sound of light clapping>  If I can be of any assistance here, I'd be glad to ... although there are those the quality of whose Talossan has passed mine by a long shot.  I always treated the language from the angle of a linguistics geek, rather than actually learning to speak it very well.  <hangs head in shame>

Maybe Lord Hooligan could be lured back to take part in an effort like this one ...

-- John R

I'd love to see the whole Woolley-Hand bunch get back to activity.  Talossa needs everyone on board, including myself.

And to be clear re myself, I'm doing a lot of work on old Clark archives.  More about that soon(TM).

Quote from: Miestră Schivă, UrN on January 19, 2022, 09:07:45 PM
I hope to look at AD's draft during the weekend

I've made a few edits, already.  Nice work so far, Alexandreu!

Quote from: Miestră Schivă, UrN on January 16, 2022, 02:00:22 PM
Not impressed with what GV wrote which is almost identical to what KR1 wrote 20 years ago. I think we should try to do better than that.

Look, basically I tried to write the Packet all by myself (from Francal's) notes, earlier this year, and it utterly burned me out. If this is going to be done I need volunteers to help. Anyone interested is free to make suggestions.

I figured adapting Ben's verbiage (with appropriate credit to him) was the way to go.

I am a Christian, a patriot, and am in full agreement with our esteemed PM.  Get the vaccine.  And do what I did on Tuesday and get the booster.

Healing vibes to you, Txoteu...

Feliz anno nouvelle, Max!

Quote from: xpb on January 09, 2022, 12:34:58 PM

Quote from: GV on January 09, 2022, 06:35:02 AM

Quote from: xpb on January 07, 2022, 01:58:13 PM

Quote from: GV on January 07, 2022, 07:29:40 AM
I will never, ever have time to do the deep-dives necessary to bring the histories of individual provinces to life, not even for Fiova and Maricopa.

I would love for one or more people in each province to step up and do this historical research on their own.

There's a bit in the Cézembre Administrative Guide but I will endeavor to assemble more.

Thank you for that, but what about the date-scheme I cited at the top of this thread?

If you are referencing when l'Etats meets then:
Article 10. L'Etats shall have power to pass any bill into law by a simple majority vote of its Voting Members. Le Sénéchal s hall send out a notification of voting period, of at least seven days. Each member shall have a prescribed amount of time in which to cast his vote (by email, telephone or forum post) before voting closes.
I have typically extended this to at least a fortnight.

If you mean a general history I will delve into that as well.

I refer exclusively to national elections and Clarks.  I literally do not care right now about provincial history, but I can make you a deputy Royal Archivist for getting your province's stuff in order.  More jobs for the Jobs Board, I guess...  lol

Thanks so much for your interest!

Quote from: xpb on January 07, 2022, 01:58:13 PM

Quote from: GV on January 07, 2022, 07:29:40 AM
I will never, ever have time to do the deep-dives necessary to bring the histories of individual provinces to life, not even for Fiova and Maricopa.

I would love for one or more people in each province to step up and do this historical research on their own.

There's a bit in the Cézembre Administrative Guide but I will endeavor to assemble more.

Thank you for that, but what about the date-scheme I cited at the top of this thread?

I will never, ever have time to do the deep-dives necessary to bring the histories of individual provinces to life, not even for Fiova and Maricopa.

I would love for one or more people in each province to step up and do this historical research on their own.

From time to time, I may post 'research questions' to Witt for Talossans to answer.  This is one of those times and the first of same.  Many thanks for your help in advance!

1. The Clark has always been voted on the 1st through the 21st of the month so specified.
2. Cosa Elections for many years were voted on the 15th of one month, ending on the 14th of the month following.  A few years ago, legislation changed that voting window to the 1st through 14th of a single month. 

Are these things correct, and if 2. is correct, what legislation was it that made that change?

Many thanks!

GV, RArchivist