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Having been chatting on Discord, and occasionally throwing in my two cents on the Board from these comfortable seats in the peanut gallery, I've decided that comfortable seats aren't really my style.
This being the case, I'd like to take a step forward, and write about my own little corner(s) of PPC HQ.

I'd ramble on a bit further, but I think I ought to let the prompts speak for themselves.

As such, please allow me to introduce my prospective agents, the Detective and Jack Riggs.

And, in their first prompt, very in character for the man concerned, One Agent Steals Something from Another.

Followed after some unspecified amount of time by the Agents Receiving a Mission.

So please- read, and even enjoy if you like. Thanks.

I just don't know what other people are still looking at.
Anyway: I'd volunteer, but right now I have a cold that basically killed my throat, so.

Basically, the UN should be "let's all work together toward making the world a better place for everyone", right? Except it's so full of politics it doesn't do that. The Arabs use it as a tool to bully Israel, the stronger states (Russia, US, China, etc) veto stuff they don't like, and so on and so forth. "United Nations" is a misnomer. "World Council of Arguing" fits better.

Your Political Compass

Economic Left/Right: -5.13
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.77

I'm now -7.25 Economic, -3.59 Social. Apparently learning more about politics and stuff has pushed me far left on economics, while barely budging me on social issues.

I cannot find my score from last year, but I charted in as the second most conservative, this year I'm a -2.5 Economic and -3.18 Social. Social is about the same but the biggest change was economics. I think I was like 2.51 last year, so going down to -2.5 is a non-minor change.

Yep... a sort of "press conference" happened today, and Rowling stated the Fantastic Beasts franchise will get FIVE movies...

I thought people were keen on reading parts. Cat-on-the-Keyboard, I'm looking at you.

Maybe no one is looking this far down-Board anymore?

~Neshomeh

I wouldn't mind co-writing with you because of a variety of reasons, but shouldn't you first read the concrit that's been given for your previous things and at least acknowledge its existence?

and knows very little about anything in particular: what would you say are the big issues with the UN? All the bollocks they get wrong? All that peacekeeping they do a bad job of, and whatnot.

Working on a reply.

I’m back at -5.88 (like 2014) on the economic scale after last year’s -5.63, and I settled on -4.92 on the social scale (between 2014’s -3.95 and 2015’s -5.18).

HG

So we'll all be able to sail to Aman. Same chances of success, in my humble opinion.

I think I needed a bit of extra punctuation: I want a strong-UN peacekeeping force. That is, I want us to make the UN an actual force for positive change that can make decisions and make them stick.

And then I want to give it all the soldiers.

hS

Your last two stories, you were given concrit which you either ignored or didn't see. I suggest you address the issues brought up next time you write something.

As for this story in particular.... I think I'll let someone else handle the issues with it, since I don't trust myself to remain impartial.

"Protectionism" is "setting up tariffs and whatnot in order to protect local producers from cheap competition from abroad"?

I think that giving the UN the keys to a proper strong peacekeeping force is a bad idea. Their peacekeeping forces around here — UNIFIL and UNDOF — have done a shockingly bad job of keeping the peace. Further, I wouldn't trust the UN with a lemonade stand, much less an army, since it seems to have all the worst qualities of governments without any of the redeeming features.

In 2014, I was -4.00 economic, -3.75 social; in 2015, -4.25 economic, -3.08 social; and now I got -3.38 economic, -2.77 social.
Once again the test shows a definite American political bias — while it shows a rightward drift (which I've been experiencing in my opinions recently, putting me at the centre instead of centre-left), it puts me to the left of where I should be.

Beats the FN in my opinion. And probably most of the candidates.