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The forum destruction was one of the best things to ever happen to the Pacific Senate. I've retold that story elsewhere on this forum before, but here is a condensed version. It created a gigantic rift between the RLA and the ADN akin to the Sino-Soviet Split. The Pacific was the first force to condemn it unequivocally. Having seized the (moral) high ground, we were able to frame the discussion to our benefit: "The Pacific was the first to expose and villify them for it. Having set the moral terms of the conversation, the rest of the world was forced to make a moral stand "with" us and against anyone who defended them. The significance of this for us at that time cannot be overstated. The RLA was weakened, it was split from the ADN, and one of our most prolific enemies (EuroSoviets) was crushed. And we were the world's juggernaut with clean hands. The bitterness between the RLA and ADN was comparable to the Sino-Soviet Split from the real world, and eventually we were able to engage each group against each other. Of course, we had our own dirty laundry. So did the ADN. There developed a strange unspoken agreement between us that our acrimony would only go to a point, that there were some things we wouldn't expose the other for (to a point), but that we could, at any time, if tensions escalated to that point. Almost like a Mutually Assured Destruction."

Took me a minute, but I remember that emoticon. I thought it was a bit crass but not something to get upset over. But I've spent enough time in darker, worser corners of the internet. But that was M.O. for a lot of people in the game back then, wasn't it? Whoever gets most offended the fastest "wins". Remember the Tabloid Tribune article about PopeHope being a strumpet? Talk about a shit show. Ah that's right. I was thinking of a different group, different crisis for the emoticon. I enjoyed Chainik Hocker's company. He and I disagreed on everything, in-game and out, but he could hold a conversation. F&P on the other hand, I liked him only because I enjoyed debating with him made me feel smart. He was still a psycho.

I was later Prime Minister of The North Pacific (and earlier a delegate) and twice almost Consul of The Meritocracy. Surely that's just as foreign and nefarious?

Can't argue with any of that.

I think the Administrator does a wonderful job and is a great Canadian. Thank you for your service.

150 years ago on Thursday, 9 April, forces of the Army of Northern Virginia, led by General Robert E. Lee, surrendered to the Army of the Potamac, led by Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant. This effectively ended the American Civil War. This Tuesday, 150 years ago, will mark the night Abahram Lincoln attended the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theater with his wife Mary Todd, Major Henry Rathbone, his wife Clara Harris. Shortly before the most famous line of the play, the famous actor John Wilkes Boothe crept into the viewing box and fired his Philadelphia deringer pistol. The President would die during the night, immortalized with the words of his Secretary of War Edwin Stanton "Now he belongs to the ages."

No love for Pacificanism? This was Comrade Mammothistan (of The Pacific) 's "revolution in one region" philosophy. It was a purposeful contrast to what he called Atlanticism, which was named after the Atlantic Central Command or Atlantic Alliance, the first military alliance in Nationstates and which had conquered most of the feeder regions. Although groups like the ADN were different, Mammothistan saw them as part of the same mold: imperialist dogs and their lackeys. It also contrasted with the "perpetual revolution" of Unlimited and other peers in the Pacific Senate. The most well-known doctrine related to that was called Francosim, which Unlimited developed. It shared the same root as Mammothistan's doctrine, it had different answers for different questions, and employed terms like Feederites and Userites. Comrade Mammothistan criticised it as a degenerative and reactionary work. However, Unlimited had the last laugh: Comrade Mammothistan was expelled in a bloody coup, and lived the rest of his days in his mountain bungalow in Wysteria. Eventually, agents of Unlimited discovered and murdered him with an icepick to the skull.

This was the original flag of The West Pacific. Just after its birth in April 2003, forces from the Atlantic Central Command, the military wing of what was then the first and preeminent military alliance of Nationstates, stormed the region. After a brief but bitter fight, the Atlantic prevailed. There was a struggle between the two commanders of that invasion -Reubenlucy and the Federation of Commercial Affairs- which bled over into The East Pacific, founded later. My memories of that are hazy now, though.

I don't know who any of these people are. Therefore I nominate myself.

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When I was Prime Minister of The North Pacific (this is OOC), I tried to craft a law requiring all legislation to include the word "fun" somewhere in it. Sadly, it never got very far because the Speaker was an insufferable sourpuss. Also I had never read the constitution so I didn't know how laws worked there. We had a good administration.

Yous guys are gross if you're slothering your guinea pigs in ALL of those sauces at once.

One man's beloved pet guinea pig is another man's tender meat on a skewer.