Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on Yesterday at 12:10:31 PMI'm trying to find someone reliable who feels comfortable in the legislature, and unfortunately have not found anyone.  We've grown so fast as a party that we're outstripping our legislative bench.

Surely more accurate to say "our vote has grown faster than our active membership"?

Which is precisely why the party list system is so important - to ensure parties are teams of active citizens rather than a "brand" behind a "leader".

This guy does this for other classic prog bands too. He recently put up an entire version of "Supper's Ready" with his daughter (who looks about 9) on vocals. Cute, but actually dressing her up like Peter Gabriel in 1972 may have been over the top.

(Warning: if you're going into this looking for "Jesus He Knows Me" or similar, you'll be disappointed, this is good Genesis)

Quote from: Mic'haglh Autófil, O.Be on February 01, 2026, 10:01:32 PMUpper House Reform: The "Upper House of Review Amendment", which despite some disinformation to the contrary, does not establish unicameralism, actually removes the ability of the Senate to perpetually block standard legislation.

Push forward with this.

QuoteVoting Method Reform: Sir Marcel has suggested Proportional Approval Voting before. For my part, I prefer panachage, but I'm interested in further discussion at any rate.

I suggest we just have a plank for personalised proportional representation - any system that combines proportional representation for parties with effective control by voters over who, actually, gets Cosa seats. So that might be any of the above plus that old favourite, STV.

QuotePublic Ballot Reform: Do we want to address the possibility of removing the public ballot? I think a more moderate position could be found where votes using the thread are only publicized after polling closes, but that's just my two bence, and depends on Witt's technical abilities.

Very much in favour of the second. Still, I can imagine a "protest vote" situation where reactionaries insist on voting on a public Witt thread and challenge the SoS not to count it.

QuoteParty List Reform: I have an act drafted (coming soon to a Hopper near you) that would make it so off-list citizens can only receive seats if no listed candidates are eligible to receive them. Are we in favor of something like that?

Yes.

QuoteParty List Reform 2: Should we propose legislation requiring citizens to consent to appearing on a party list?

Hell yes.

QuoteRoyal Veto Reform: Miestra has proposed some changes to the royal veto, including possibly eliminating it for Organic amendments in favor of the referendum as the "people's veto". It would also include an analogous procedure to the "Irish advisory opinion" she has described elsewhere. Thoughts?

Thinking about it more, perhaps I would still be in favour of a "suspensory veto"; the King can still veto a bill, to give the Ziu a "are you REALLY sure about this" speech, but the veto can be overridden by a simple majority. Combined with the "take this to the CpI to see if it's Organic" option which can be used after or instead of the first one.

Quote from: Marcel Eðo Pairescu Tafial, UrGP on February 23, 2026, 12:21:46 PMDue to recent events, here is what the 62nd Cosă could've looked like had the Pseudo-Real Cosă Act already been in effect last election:

The main difference is that the PA would have had to, from the outset, co-operate with the URL to form a government, which would have saved us a lot of drama

The most recent agreement with the Progressive Alliance government has won us one major part of our Agenda; the reduction in Cosa seats to a non-fictional amount. Of course, this could possibly be repealed by the 63rd Cosa before it comes into effect; so the agenda will have to be to defend this.

Quote from: Mximo Malt on February 22, 2026, 08:17:24 AM

Quote from: Miestră Schivă, UrN-GC on February 22, 2026, 01:41:37 AMPlease add my son Rôibeard Ben Schivă Sală

Hmm...that's an interesting name! ;)

It is! He's named after his great-great-grandfather and his grandfather! My wife chose the name and I didn't realise the Talossan implications until someone here pointed it out!

Please add my son Rôibeard Ben Schivă Sală

Quote from: King Txec on February 17, 2026, 02:26:58 PMAh, thanks. I think the word "party" threw me off.

That was written to exclude the 1 seat which we've been giving to new immigrants.

Quote from: xpb on February 08, 2026, 05:34:15 PMYes, as in many instances in life there are logical adjustments made.

This is not so much an adjustment as an admission that the PA Government does not take the concept of the cultural boycott of sex pests with as much seriousness as we would hope.

Quote from: Marcel Eðo Pairescu Tafial, UrGP on February 08, 2026, 05:55:30 PM

Quote from: Marcel Eðo Pairescu Tafial, UrGP on February 08, 2026, 05:23:08 PMThe scheduling has hit a bit of a snag since there is no time window in which everyone is available, so something needs to give.

If I were to arbitrarily schedule it for, say, Saturday, 21 February 2026, 11 AM Central, would that be okay?

@Sir Lüc @Béneditsch Ardpresteir @Baron Alexandreu Davinescu @Françal I. Lux @Mximo Malt @Mic'haglh Autófil, O.Be @Miestră Schivă, UrN-GC @Breneir Tzaracomprada

That's 6 in the morning my time. Sadly unlikely.

Excuse me, your Majesty, but can the Government explain how the appointment of the Information Liaison for Asgardia conforms to this policy statement?

Also, given the absolute shambles and fiasco in Florencia, I think we need to get back to the idea of provincial reform. Like, the shambles in that province is not just due to constitutional loopholes - it could have been avoided if there were not just two (2) politically active citizens in that province, and if those two men didn't hate each other. (The URL's stand of Literally Anyone Else in the last Senäts race is proven right, again.)

This gets solved by having bigger and therefore fewer provinces. The Seneschal's fantasy that we fix this by doubling the population isn't going to happen.

Quote from: Mic'haglh Autófil, O.Be on February 01, 2026, 10:01:32 PMVoting Method Reform: Sir Marcel has suggested Proportional Approval Voting before. For my part, I prefer panachage, but I'm interested in further discussion at any rate.

I'm still sticking out for the simplest version, Kosovo-style personalised party list voting - you vote for a list and a candidate on that list, and the candidates with the most votes get in. That's the closest to our current system.

But whichever way we slice if, some kind of candidate-based voting for the Cosă which preserves proportionality but reduces the power of party leaders seems an excellent Item 1 for the Democracy Agenda, which might get broad support.

Quote from: Barclamïu da Miéletz on February 04, 2026, 02:49:48 PMPoland.

Runners up: Indonesia and Monaco

Breneir won't stop when asked nicely to? Sounds familiar

Quote from: Mic'haglh Autófil, O.Be on February 01, 2026, 10:01:32 PMa more moderate position could be found where votes using the thread are only publicized after polling closes

Hey, I never thought of that, sounds like a great compromise. Actually, isn't that how it already works when you vote publicly on the database?

Quote from: xpb on January 30, 2026, 10:19:53 AMwhether the delightfully unique structure of the Kingdom should be adjusted

This is sheer conservatism with no justification. The status quo is Talossan, therefore it must be preserved.  But conversely - whatever we change it to will also be Talossan.

Both XPB and the Baron have said plainly that they think that *any* change is tantamount to a revolutionary change and thus must be resisted.  But the world didn't end when we abolished the hereditary monarchy - nor when we changed monarchs, despite XPB's strenuous efforts to argue that that would be a catastrophe.

There will continue to be "a voice" for provincial representation; just no longer a final veto.

Quote from: xpb on January 28, 2026, 11:47:16 PMThe Kingdom -- which has the addition of a quite well applied federalist structure

No it doesn't. Talossa is not federal and has never been federal. It has "devolved" government at best.

Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on January 27, 2026, 07:20:14 AMCould you give an example of legislation that's truly vital that we've been unable to pass thanks to the Senäts?

The most recent example was the Public Process Act Mark 1!

A few years ago, a Free Democrat Senäts majority simply refused to pass *any* TNC government legislation for a time. Regardless of the wisdom of that political tactic*, there was no talk at the time of needing to get the majority of provincial representatives onside. The talk at the time was that this was an illegitimate use of power. Are we to infer that the Senäts' power to thwart the Cosa's will is good only when the Baron considers it for good ends?

I am familiar with the "any attempt to moderate the Senäts is step 1 to abolition, and must be opposed" rhetoric, from when it was "any attempt to moderate Royal powers is step 1 to Republicanism, and must be opposed". But cxhn. Autófil's argument that the best way to depoliticize the Senäts, to make it more of a non-partisan chamber of sober second thought, is to clearly give final say to the more democratic/more political chamber of the Ziu.

(* For the historical record, I warned party leadership of the time not to start a fight unless they were prepared to finish it.)

KR1 for a time bore the title "Head of the Unorthodox Church", which was never a real thing. I'm sure you know for the greater part of his reign he was a Latter-Day Saint.