Major Infrastructure

by on May 23, 2021 at 12:01 am
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Seriously guys, we have an issue here. Certain politicians are calling certain things major infrastructure since they want to spend money on them. But let’s be real here. Roads and bridges? That’s some pretty critical infrastructure. Water treatment and major waste removal? That’s critical infrastructure to maintain our civilization right there. Power grid and gas and oil pipelines? Pretty major infrastructure there as well. Telecommunications? Broadband Internet? Social networks? I’d even go out on a limb and call those major infrastructure. But infant care? Look, I know that can sometimes seem like a major waste removal project, but that’s what the sewers are for. And the clean water treatments. And don’t get me started on court packing being an infrastructure project. Let’s just be serious here, people. I know that can seem hard to do at times, but we really just not to be serious here, or people will never believe a word you say… Oh… wait… Yeah, I think we are already past that point…

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The Confederation of Dixie

by on May 22, 2021 at 12:01 am
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The Confederation of Dixie did not form a permanent army to protect them during their formation. Each State supplied a force to act as part of a combined army that would represent each State for Confederation-wide deployment. It was just such a Confederation force that supported Australia when it came time to stand against Chinese expansion, and that helped deal with the final Rogue AI nest in Singapore. This practice has remained true for centuries. There is still no permanent Confederation army, but a rotating sequence of State units continue to work under the Confederation flag throughout their lands on Earth and their various colonies in the stars. This results in each Confederation force being uniquely different from all others, and foes rarely know what exactly to expect when facing one. This can be a weakness and a strength, and sometimes both at the same time.

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The Confederation of Dixie

by on May 21, 2021 at 12:01 am
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The Confederation of Dixie’s choice of Governor Freemon to act as President started a tradition that became stronger than mere law. He chose his hometown of Lexington to act as his capital, and the next President moved the capital to his hometown. Every President since has picked a new capital, and it has almost always their own hometown. The two rules are that it cannot be a State capital, and it cannot have been a Confederation capital in the past. The Confederation has no intention of allowing a massive bureaucratic state to grow up around a permanent capital and poison it to all rationality and reason as happened to Washington D.C. in the past. There are obvious drawbacks to the practice, but the Confederation of Dixie has managed to prosper and grow despite them. And it has kept the small government it wants.

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The Confederation of Dixie

by on May 20, 2021 at 12:01 am
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The early Confederation lacked any kind of central Federal structure. The member States did not want to replace the former Federal government with a new version of the same thing, so they selected one of the State Governors to act as President of the Confederation. They chose Governor John Jefferson Freemon of Virginia, and the Virginia Defense Force became the closest thing they had to a Confederation army in the years that followed. Just as Lexington became the effective capital. He retired in time, and the Governor of Florida became the new Confederation President. Florida provided the core of the Confederation army, and a new temporary capital. By the time that Governor retired, each Member State of the Confederation was expected to provide a single regiment to fill out the Confederation Army, and a new town to govern from when their time came.

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The Confederation of Dixie

by on May 19, 2021 at 12:01 am
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The Confederation of Dixie’s formation was not quick or seamless. It was not planned, and had no central authority bringing it together. Representatives of States all over the American South East simply visited Lexington and talked to whoever showed up there. And one by one, they began to advocate for joining forces against Federal oppression. West Virginia was first to announce they were partnering with Virginia in such a venture, and others signed up on their own in the following months. Some waited years to join. Florida was actually the last of the original States to join, nearly ten years after the Second Great Depression ended. And they did not even adopt the Confederation of Dixie name until three years after that. It was a very slow and spastic growth to becoming one of the major American State alliances.

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