Nathanland

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I have had very mixed experiences with rural public transportation. My favorite experience was paying $5 so I could board a 20 km/h tram in rural Shiga, being one of only four passengers and  yet still having two greeters greet me upon boarding the train. I still believe that's the best rural public transportation can get.

Honestly, it's very difficult. You are quite coy about most of your political preferences and stances.

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It's sometimes difficult to entirely separate quality-of-life concerns and economic concerns. Especially if you're like the USA and try to ruthlessly hunt down your citizens who choose to work abroad. And several very important taxes tend to be based on your nationality. Like estate taxes.

I don't personally believe the Japanese system is somehow run better than other systems. It doesn't say, perform better per mile than the US system. In fact, I think it has some problems (like terribly inefficient usage of labor, like most Japanese enterprises). It's just that Japan is physically much much smaller and needs far fewer track miles.

And I'm actually pretty satisfied with the US system, despite my dislike of driving. I can fly from DC to San Francisco for $180. About the same price of a Shinkansen ticket from Osaka to Tokyo. And I obviously vastly prefer walkable suburbs (which are growing rapidly in popularity), but I still prefer suburbs to most other environments. Cities are tolerable but pricey and I can't stand rural areas. I don't think I've had an ancestor live in the countryside since...around 1600? And public transportation can aid the creation of suburban communities. Japan and the hordes of suburbs centered around rail stations/commuter rail being the prime example.

I think it shows regardless of what I say, but I don't really consider myself culturally a New Englander. In fact, I think I may be as far from a cultural New Englander as one can get...and I do not foresee my stay here being particularly...long.

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Nothing in that really offends me. The most controversial ones, the 31st and 32nd, I would probably support.

And I love jungle primaries.

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I would probably do everything in my power to kill that though. I've already seen one country start sliding after restricting corporate donations.

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I would probably do everything in my power to kill that though. I've already seen one country start sliding after restricting corporate donations.

It says 'allows', not 'requires'. You'd be perfectly free to oppose regulation or propose deregulation as a right-leaning Nathanlandian Congressman or Senator.

I thought 'national AV system' pretty strongly implied it, but I'd like to just formally state that yes, upon ratification of the 30th Amendment the Electoral College would cease to exist. Presidential vote counting would be handled by a nonpartisan federal agency.

Fun fact: Currently, the terms of the 31st Amendment would mandate translation of the Congressional Record into Spanish, Chinese, French, and Hawaiian.

Well, we already knows allows basically means it will happen. Proposals to restrict campaign funding are uh, quite popular.

2% of Americans speak Chinese?

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Why do I get this feeling that as soon as you decided to step out of public life, I would be waiting in the rafters to push through a "reverse course"?

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I find it rather uh, amusing and uh...well...I would say quaint if it didn't have any condescending connotation, but uh well, that so much of the policies are focused on agriculture. Any inspiration from the Nokyo?

I'd say that I don't know much about agriculture. The whole being an urban family since the 1600's thing. But I've never had a problem with GMOs. Though I think all my relatives are terrified of them. Which is why I rarely tell them what they're eating. >_>

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I am quite mixed on SCAP-propelled land reform. And Nokyo. Suspicious, but not entirely hostile. But SCAP-style trustbusting on the other hand...