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The Rewilding of Ruinenlust
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Embassies: Philosophy 115, Eladen, Hippy Haven, Yggdrasil, International Democratic Union, Antarctica, Winterfell, Texas, Singapore, The Region That Has No Big Banks, Democratic Socialist Assembly, the Rejected Realms, The Bar on the corner of every region, the South Pacific, Oatland, Haiku, and 17 others.Portugal, 10000 Islands, Spiritus, Conch Kingdom, The Leftist Assembly, Europe, Wintreath, Refugia, The Union of Democratic States, Libertarian Socialist Confederation, Philosophers, Canada, Sol Aeternalis, Ridgefield, Lands End, Valaryia, and Blue Ridge.
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Regional Power: Extremely High
Forest contains 320 nations, the 112th most in the world.
Today's World Census Report
The Most Primitive in Forest
Nations were ranked by World Census officials based on the number of natural phenomena attributed to the unknowable will of animal-based spirit gods.
As a region, Forest is ranked 26,730th in the world for Most Primitive.
 | Nation | WA Category | Motto | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. |  The Queendom of Thorvel | Moralistic Democracy Narrow-Minded Backwoodsy Bigots | “In the name of God, On guard !” | |
| 2. |  The Mercurial World of Isbjorn Maerenne Bava Paerani | Iron Fist Consumerists Imperialist Pig Dog Oppressors | “How could I doubt the obvious?” | |
| 3. |  The Borderlands of Taurgur | Iron Fist Consumerists Imperialist Pig Dog Oppressors | “Minnai gwannava...” | |
| 4. |  The Royal Isles of Shalotte | Inoffensive Centrist Democracy Fascists | “For community” | |
| 5. |  The Arachnate of Forniphiliac Limbo of Inabilis | Psychotic Dictatorship Fascist Dictatorship | “*guttural screeches*” | |
| 6. | The Hotdog-craving birb of Seagull | Corporate Police State Halliburton | “Ack? Ack!” | |
| 7. |  The Dying Words of Finalanswer Archive | Iron Fist Consumerists Imperialist Pig Dog Oppressors | “I never expected to actually die.” | |
| 8. |  The United Mangrove Archipelago of Ransium | Democratic Socialists Ordinary Caring Intelligent World Citizens | “Semper Virens” | |
| 9. |  The Sacred Lands of Bisofeyr | Democratic Socialists Ordinary Caring Intelligent World Citizens | “The ether blesses us.” | |
| 10. |  The Republic of Leaf Greens | Democratic Socialists Ordinary Caring Intelligent World Citizens | “Stay Green, Stay Clean” |
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Regional Happenings
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The Federated Bailiwicks of Verdant Haven updated the World Factbook entry.
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The Festive Northern Haven of Anxious and Kevin updated the World Factbook entry.
- : Scientific humanism ceased to exist.
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The Democratic States of Vernidia arrived from Lazarus.
- : The Royal Isles of Shalotte arrived from Osiris.
- : The Festive Northern Haven of Anxious and Kevin rejected The Northern Union's request for regional embassies.
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The Holy Kaiserreich of TheGoldenEmpireGermany of the region The Northern Union proposed constructing embassies.
- : The Royal Isles of Shalotte ceased to exist.
- : The Borderlands of Difin-Per Ubelk arrived from Balder.
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The Republic of Nimros arrived from Lazarus.
Forest Regional Message Board
Loading...The sick charade that is our latest elections, and all of our politics recently, *is* democracy. Disgusting, rat-infested, ignorant democracy, but democracy none the less. People freely voting for sociopathic criminal demagogues, or refusing to vote because they think there's no difference between a boring person and a psychopath, are both manifestations of democracy at "work." To quote Churchill from that side of the pond... "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others that have been tried." The only test to be a voter here is to be 18 years old, to put your name on the list, and to show up.
As for the leading part... depends what "leading" means. In terms of industrial might, military power, or cultural hegemony... yes, probably. In terms of moral authority, I don't think we've ever been that - that's just been a lie we've yelled into the aether, while threatening everybody else into nodding their heads. Individually, there is no nation on Earth whose citizens give more to charity or volunteer more of their time. Collectively, well... that's where your question came from.
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As for the CEO, it's not just any healthcare company - it's UnitedHealthcare, the largest healthcare company in America, and primary subsidiary of the world's largest healthcare company: UnitedHealth Group. They have something like 440,000 employees, and more than 50 million customers. The killing occurred as he was walking to the company's annual investor event.
A big fat nothing-burger driven by media clickbait and the need to pretend that both sides are bad.
Bullshit. Not one iota of Trump’s plans to pardon people will change, and if Biden hadn’t done this pardon Trump would have just found or made up some other reason.
I’d buy this more if it wasn’t blatantly clear that Hunter was only being prosecuted to the extent he is because of who is dad is.
Or relatedly, if Trump’s nomination* for FBI Director hadn’t published what is essentially an enemies list or if Hunter’s “crimes” hadn’t been a MAGA talking point since 2019** or so.
*Itself a far worse norm violation than this
**Trump’s first impeachment was because he tried to get the President of Ukraine to dig up or make up dirt about Hunter’s supposed corruption, and was willing to hold up congressionally approved aid to do so.
In addition to what LD says above, all of which is accurate (Hunter Biden has been a fool, but his "crimes" are largely just that he is Joe Biden's son at a time when the right is trying to make it illegal to oppose them), it also sets a bit of a trap for Trump. It is widely anticipated that Trump plans to pardon himself, along with the people who abet him. If he now seeks to override or ignore Hunter's pardon and continue to pursue this agenda item vendetta, he will be setting the precedent that his own pardon can also be overridden.
It is disgusting that such a thing would even need to be a calculation, but Trump does not follow any form of standards, etiquette, or tradition when it comes to politics. He is thoroughly self-serving, turns on a dime, unapologetically lies about anything and everything, and is basically a travelling circus con-man who has pulled off one of the most outrageous cons in history. He's more than willing to put extremely calculating and evil people into positions of power around him, in order to maintain that con's outcome and his influence over his base.
My thoughts mainly revolve around the central point that Macron is either a moron or a far-right collaborator. After the New Popular Front (leftists) bailed out his Ensemble coalition in the recent elections, he turns around and appoints a Prime Minister seemingly to spite the left, despite them having the most seats in parliament. Again, instead of appealing to the largest and most popular group in parliament that helped make sure his party retained power against the borderline fascists, Macron decides it would be better to appease the borderline fascists.
So when this controversial Prime Minister puts forward a garbage budget that everyone hates, backed only by the party of a president with a sub-30% approval rate, it would be expected that it wouldn't pass Parliament. To get around this pesky roadblock of the public's will, it being a democracy and all, Barnier pushes the budget through in a way that can only be stopped if a vote of no confidence dissolves the government. And would you look at that, there's a vote of no confidence that dissolves the government.
I'm not a fan of political instability, so I'm not happy that Barnier caused the government to dissolve. Hopefully the will of the French people can be prioritised in the future, and they try literally anything other than austerity economics.
As for the pardon of Hunter Biden in the U.S., it's obvious nepotism, and while it's a shame to see the Biden administration sink to that level, they've done worse, and I have no doubt that the following Trump administration will do their best to outdo them.
Oh yeah, I completely forgot to ask! So 
America the Greater of the region that has no big banks hosts a little regional podcast called "yodcast" (yodle + podcast, not to be confused with the yogscast). They're hoping to have a special "episode" where folks from Forest could join the discord voicecall to talk a bit about themselves and their understanding of Forest's history, culture, etc. I know it's mainly a discord event - hence why I thought to ask there - but for some reason didn't also ask here on the RMB yet??? So uh, yeah xD Thought I'd extend the invitation here if anyone wanted to do that.
When is this? I might do that, depending on when it is.
Sounds fascinating, and I'm nothing if not interested when it comes to Forest history. Any details on what/when they'd like to do that, or should we reach out to America the Greater directly?
Hello, so glad to see so many people are interested! I'd like to just hop in and let everybody know that you're welcome to reach out to me directly, via telegram or Discord, if you're interested in joining us for this episode of the Yodcast. We'd love to have anyone on! We're hoping to get it scheduled for this month if at all possible, but timing is of course flexible, especially considering how many people may potentially want to join. I'm hoping to get a good idea of who'd like to come on board so I can workshop some basic 'interview' style questions, but further than that, anyone with interest and knowledge about Forest history is welcome!
One last thing - this podcast is hosted and recorded on the TRTHNBB Discord, so if you're not comfortable using Discord or having your voice recorded and published on Spotify, please let me know. If enough people would like a different accommodation, I'm sure we can work something out.
Verdant Haven, Jutsa, Lord Dominator, and Garbelia
One thing that I've noticed is a considerable obstacle to the environmental movement in politics is that most of the parties that tend to support environmentalism are on the left (or at least effective forms of environmentalism that aren't rooted in "more subsidies to EV companies) and are rooted in blue collar labour movements that tend to not be very keen on environmentalism. For example, environmental protestors will often confront construction workers and miners, and those workers used to be the backbone of a lot of labour focused political parties. Now that these parties have begun advocating for environmental protections, those workers feel left in the dust and have swung massively in favour of right-wing parties. Another good example is farmers, who used to be a key demographic for the populist left in America and Canada especially but now almost exclusively vote conservative. If progressive parties want to implement change at the ballot box and have a chance at being elected, they have to appeal to both of those demographics or risk getting the Trump Treatment (I am officially coining this term). That is, mass dealignment and the blue collar workers voting en masse for extreme right parties (we are seeing this phenomena occur in Europe as we speak). But how? I don't have a concrete answer, but I personally believe that there are couple of ways to achieve this. The traditional labour-based parties can reject neoliberal dogma that has ruined working class communities (Looking at you Blair and Clinton) and try to directly appeal to cost of living issues and bolster unionization. Another method at the grassroots level is for workers to participate in "green bans", which is when they strike against a project that is deemed too environmentally damaging. These began in Australia and are a fascinating thing to look into which I recommend. The traditional Green New Deal is also a bread and butter proposal that has been on the books for years, but I believe that the messaging around it needs to change to appeal directly to the workers it affects instead of policy wonks.
Also, if anyone here is into Grunge, Post-Grunge, or Alt-rock/metal, I have a lot of recommendations. Soundgarden's Superunknown, Alice in Chains' Dirt, Breaking Benjamin's Phobia, Avenged Sevenfold's Nightmare, Linkin Park's Hybrid Theory and Creed's Human Clay are some of my personal favourites. They're popular, but for a solid reason.
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