I did not know that. I've just never seen it used in reference to American politicians before
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I did not know that. I've just never seen it used in reference to American politicians before
shiftygiant
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I did not know that. I've just never seen it used in reference to American politicians before
American's are a weird and strange folk.
Edmund Muskie's Wikipedia page for Secretary of State has a blank option for "prime minister="
Agreed. As a Canadian, I'm so used to seeing honourific prefixes used for Commonwealth politicians, that seeing one on an American is surprising.
To be honest, I was hoping that Dewey infobox was from a British America TL
Nope. I also don't know the GoT setting well enough to feel comfortable writing fic for it.
The infobox itself spun out of an old thread on the Spacebattles forum, where it was asked what would happen if you stranded Wonder Woman in Westeros. To me, the best story hook seemed to be playing up Diana's royalty angle. She could simply be a good soldier to a fair monarch like Steve Rogers or Superman might be, but I thought exploring Diana being a princess played to something only she offered as a character. Diana wouldn't need to lean on marriage or ancestry to claim the Iron Throne. She could win it outright through personal deeds, and then hold it thanks to being a Superman-tier demigod.
Which would put her in a tight spot for a good long while, because Diana is very much about peace and equality and truth... while Westeros is place where those things are in short supply. So, how does she live up to her own ideals? Seemed like good fodder for a story.
Yes, it seems to be. Looks interesting, although I haven't yet read the backstory.
These threads tend to have a depressing lack of Chinese Democracy info boxes.
Awesome!
Awesome!
Asami
Banned
These threads tend to have a depressing lack of Chinese Democracy info boxes.
Awesome!
I posted a bunch of infoboxes from a universe where China is a democracy, but nothing about China proper.
Sabot Cat
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The electoral system for the National Assembly delegates doesn't precisely match the description given in the background.
NA stands for Nationalist Alliance, which includes the Kuomintang and the Chinese Youth Party.
CDSP stands for China Democratic Social Party.
CDL stands for China Democratic League, and it includes the CDSP, the Taiwanese Self-Government League, Tibetan People's Party.
WPFF stands for Workers' and Peasants' Fatherland Front, and it includes the CCP, the Taiwanese Communist Party, and the Chinese Peasants' and Workers' Democratic Party.
KMT(L) is the Left Kuomintang.
PF stands for Popular Front, the coalition of the China Democratic League and the Workers' and Peasants' Fatherland Front which elected Zhang Junmai as President.
The Popular Front ran as a united ticket in 1974.
The Kuomintang completed the trend of historical revisionism in regards to Chiang Kai-shek, and ran his folksy, charismatic and conservative son as their candidate. Meanwhile, the former members of the Workers' and Peasants' Fatherland Front took over the Popular Front after the electoral collapse of the China Democratic League's parties in the last Legislative Yuan elections due to the ongoing recession. Consequently, the Popular Front renamed itself the New Democracy Front although they still ran a (nominally) CDSP candidate.
In attempt to increase their electoral viability, the Chinese Communist Party absorbed the CDSP to form the New Communist Party, which veered away from their traditional protectionist stance. Former members of the CDSP found the Socialist Party, the Labour Party and the New Civil Party, with the latter two only aligning with the New Democracy Front for the National Assembly elections. The NDF picked up some seats in places where they weren't competitive before, but failed to expand their base.
The lackluster electoral performance of the New Democracy Front encouraged new parties to emerge during the Legislative Yuan elections, including the People's Progressive Party and the Justice Party, who joined with the Labour Party and the New Civil Party to form the Unity Coalition.
The Socialist Party, the Taiwanese Self-Government League and the Tibetan People's Party join the Unity Coalition, as do various former independents.
The current political status quo coalesces around a two-way competition between the Nationalist Alliance (the Kuomintang, the Chinese Youth Party) and the Unity Coalition (the People's Progressive Party, the Justice Party, the Socialist Party, the Labour Party, the New Civil Party, the Taiwanese Self-Government League and the Tibetan People's Party).
I have two questions (which might be answered in the backstory):
1) Why does the number of Independents change so much? I mean, it seems kind of odd to have the number of Independents fluctuate wildly.
2) Why does the number of seats keep changing, and why are the numbers so seemingly random?
1) Why does the number of Independents change so much? I mean, it seems kind of odd to have the number of Independents fluctuate wildly.
2) Why does the number of seats keep changing, and why are the numbers so seemingly random?
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