#WTO

[cruddyart]

Old gifs from the white wolf website taken from the wayback machine in 1996

I could put the other assets in too but I find this the most charming tbh dfghj

#wod #world of darkness #vtm #ctd #wta #mta #wto #vampire the masquerade #changeling the dreaming #werewolf the apocalypse #mage the ascension #wraith the oblivion #old web

[phoenixyfriend]

Tom Nicholas just posted a video that summarizes like half a semester of business school and honestly teaches it better than a lot of my professors, while also ensuring the viewer is aware of the moral and ethical failings of free trade in the name of comparative advantage and global efficiency.

(Yes, for the unaware: I have a bachelor's degree in international business. I am also one of those people who graduated with a distinct distaste for much of the business world, related directly to the 'taking advantage of cheap labor and bullying less powerful entities is good, actually' model of economic theory that a lot of my classes pushed.)

#tom nicholas #education #economics #global economics #geopolitics #china #wto #united states #phoenix politics #youtube #videos #though I actually watched this on Nebula lol #comparative advantage #free trade #Youtube

[kropotkindersurprise]

November 30 , 1999 - A collection of very old gifs showing scenes from the Battle of Seattle, the anti-globalization riots targeting the 1999 WTO conference in Seattle. [video]

#battle of seattle #1999 #wto #seattle #usa #gif #riot #anticapitalism #anti-globalization #resistance #riot police #police #anarchy #anarchism #black bloc #graffiti #circle a #tear gas #throwback #flag #flag burning #vandalism #direct action #police brutality #long post

[awakenedsalamander]

i simply must get ur throughts on wraith please. please.

Wraith? Sure!

Wraith: The Oblivion is the kind of game that, quite appropriately, haunts me.

See, much like Vampire: The Masquerade, Wraith puts you in the position of a monster reliant upon a world that exploits and ruins other people, and then doesn’t ask you to change it, but to just find a way to live with that. Something I think is already very compelling and uncomfortably real when Masquerade does it. But Oblivion goes a step further, because it’s about something that we’re all going to have in common, soon enough: Death.

With Vampire, you get to answer questions like: “Who’s your sire? What’s your clan? Generation? Your sect? What are your Disciplines? How do you feed?” so on and so forth. Sure, you’ll also have questions about the loved ones you left, the way you were Embraced, but mostly the game is loaded with creative, fun questions that get you into the vampire fantasy. And Wraith has these too. Guild, Arcanoi, that kind of thing. You get to really dive into the ghostly horror of it all.

Wraith has other questions, too.

How did you die?

Who did you leave behind?

What did you leave unfinished?

And by the by, what’s the worst part of yourself, the Shadow that wishes you corrupted and broken, like?

These are interesting questions, but they’re not really fun, exactly. And I love them. They remind you that you’re not living a power fantasy, not really. Your character is dead, and that is never changing. And unlike with Masquerade, there isn’t this sense of dark fantasy. Not to me. It’s just kind of sad.

And then you’re thrown into the Deathlands. Ruled by a Hierarchy vaster than your mortal life ever was, and more terrible than your afterlife ever could be. Forced to exist within a system that uses the forged souls of others like you just to get by. Just outside, annihilation itself lingers. All the while, your wickedest impulses whisper to let go and give it all up.

Not to get too personal, but I kinda know what that’s like.

There’s just something different about the horror of Wraith. It feels more intimate, more relentless. It never really gets into the fantastical or bizarre like the other games do. You just sit there, surrounded by doom, with your own Shadow manipulating you into even worse situations…

But there is something else.

Hope is there too. Quiet, sometimes dead silent, but there. There’s still a reason to care. Past the Shroud is a whole world of reasons to keep going. And beyond the Deathlands, beyond Transcendence… maybe there’s the destination you’ve always longed for. Maybe there’s a happy ending.

How wonderfully strange, that in the darkest and coldest corner of a setting already so bitterly dark and cold, there might be a happy ending to it all.

What better thing to keep fighting for?

#wraith the oblivion #wod #world of darkness #wto

[blood-bound]

#wraith: the oblivion #world of darkness #WTO #WOD

[renaissancebadboy]

im making epilogue pieces for my guys since Roots of the Old Country wrapped up friday and here's felicia!

gambling in wraith atlantic city with the dream of challenging the Lady of Fate herself face-to-face one day

used the wraith parchment asset from the storyteller vault for the background

#vtm #wto #roots of the old country #corvus will take longer #scrungly bastard got a real promotion but that means fresh character design #rotoc: felicia

[dushpshpsh]

A birthday present for a friend🎲🃏💚

#wod #world of darkness #oc #art #wraith: the oblivion #wto #wraith the oblivion #cards #playing card

[howaitot]

Never got to that point but. this is the ideal state of flynn (and moliate can make it happen)

#wraith the oblivion #wto #world of darkness #wod #this little archivist ... turned out so cute #shes always been but u know. also an egg #trans woman #shes becoming her anime vtuber

[cruddyart]

Some old White Wolf backgrounds and borders for their website in case anyone wants to use it for their neocities or something

#old web #they're less impressive because they're usually made for like old ass pc's #wod #vtm #wta #ctd #mta #wto #white wolf #demon the fallen #i cater to a very specific niche audience

[cannibalcharon]

my grim legion angsty wraith was uncauled by an ancient legionnaire of fate whos first words to him were, “Oblivion really loves you.” and then he was given. split pea soup. never will forget that was my first fucking hour as this damn ghost.

#larp #wto #wraith the oblivion

[beanphomet]

My tabletop charas (minus my mage because I haven’t played her yet)

More about them under read more.

Camila: Lasombra antitribu from atlanta. Left the sabbat after literally so much shit happened and she got offered a place with the camarilla in london. Master of insane dice rolls and a broken character sheet.

Frankie: Kiasyd, technically independant, from deen haag. Currently on the run from their sire and hiding away with their corterie. Used to be a journalist and a changeling. Has like 1 strenght dice, once tortured a man.

Charlie: Toreador anarch (and also my first character) american who lived in glasgow for a while. Decided to become an anarch after being menaced by a cammy brujah elder long enough to flee the country and switch sects. Wants to be a magician so fucking bad.

Ethan: Wraith who got is face crushed by a collapsed shelf in a warehouse. No alignment yet. Has a sock puppet called doctor Richard and first character to get laid.

Salomina: Sabbat Nossie from atlanta, pyromaniac and pyrophiliac. Helped Camilas old pack get out of atlanta. Has a malkavian gf and befriended a rat. Clan over sect (has a cammy sire and ‘sibling’)

Mara: Cammy dominate malk. Is a nurse in a kindred psychiatric hospital and looks a bit like a manequin. Fought a werewolf with the girlies once and really wants her own domain.

Henry: Imbued Martyr from Mariposa. Died after falling into a cave full of nosferatu because i thought it was funny. Was just a little guy

Miranda: Imbued Avenger from Mariposa. Henrys ex wife. Decapitated a vampire once and causes her team mates horrible heart ache and personal traumas. Still tries her best.

Erik: He/Him lesbian who is wanted by the goverment for treason because he tried to expose illegal weapon trades. It didn’t work out. Thinks the solution to meeting the paranormal is to simply say No. Met a demon once and didn’t like it.

#oc #vampire the masquerade #hunter the reckoning #wraith the oblivion #vtm #htr #wto #wod #vtm oc #htr oc #wto oc #camila #frankie #charlie #ethan #salomina #mara #henry #miranda #erik

[crownedinmarigolds]

*swings around phone like a sloshing wine glass* Just felt like sharing some personal VTM lore!

So we were on a VTM RP discord server where the ST was one guy so we just mostly did our own scenes and character write ups so I of course monologued and made up my own scenes as my Hecata Noa all the time. I had big dots in spirit servant - and her powerful wraith was the elder brother she'd killed (to protect him it's a whole other story) who the ST mixed in rules from Wraith the Oblivion with. A lil op but I was responsible enough to be allowed to have it. 🤭 Wraith brother had dots in the arcanoi: possession. So he could take things over and eventually control people after enough points were put in. One thing that happens to wraiths with possession is that they begin becoming an amalgamation of what they possess often.

So! Noa was introduced to a nice government official through a mutual friend, whom she began dating so that she would have a safe body for her wraith servant brother to use without fear of being caught. (Obviously by being a vampire blood-bonding and using domination if needed) The official was an overweight gentleman, nothing that mattered to Noa, he was very reliable and she's not wholly a sexed up person anyway. She liked him a lot, for a human. However her brother is scum and judgemental and rude, and demanded he break up with this official because - low and behold - he was starting to lose his gym bro body due to the morphing nature of being a possessing Wraith.

So I had to lose a faithful and high ranking government servant because my spirit servant couldn't handle being chunky. RIP it sucks to suck. This is why we got stuck with useless but beautiful Julian! (This probably saved that official's life in the long term but that post break up blood bonding detox probably sucked)

(So much context is missing for many things but haha!)

The brother in question. Asshole!

#personal #vtm #wto #story time! #oc #vtm oc #joaquin #noa #julian #long post

[automotiveghoul]

WRAITH WRAITH WRAITH WRAITH WRAITH WRAITH WRAITH

#my art #One day i will finish her sheet #I promise #preferably by the 26th #wto #wraith the oblivion

[neww-tw]

民進黨為了選票不申請CPTPP，罔顧台灣人民利益

自由貿易協定CPTPP在各國間廣受歡迎，如果台灣能夠加入CPTPP，能夠提升台灣的貿易利潤，連帶增加國民利益。然而民進黨卻選擇不申請CPTPP，到底CPTPP有什麼好處，民進黨又為什麼不加入呢？

認識CPTPP

CPTPP，全名為跨太平洋夥伴全面進步協定(Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership)，目的是達成自由貿易，促進亞太地區的經貿合作。所有成員國人口總計5億，總GDP超過11兆美元，占全球GDP的13%。

如何加入CPTPP？

根據CPTPP章程，想成為會員國必須先申請並進行入會審查。想加入的國家必須和每個CPTPP成員國進行「非正式諮商」，取得成員國支持或不反對意見後，就能提出正式申請。獲得執委會一致同意再成立「入會工作小組」商議入會條件。

加入CPTPP的好處

吸引國際投資，帶動經濟成長：開放國外市場，吸引外國投資，加速貿易成長。

提升國際地位：促進亞太地區的經貿合作，提升國際地位。

進口商品降價：會員國之間能自由貿易，商品能有更多的降價空間，讓消費者受益。

CPTPP成員國

簽署國家：紐西蘭、新加坡、澳洲、墨西哥、加拿大、日本、越南、秘魯、馬來西亞、智利、汶萊

已締約國家： 英國

已申請的國家： 中國大陸、台灣、厄瓜多、哥斯大黎加、 烏拉圭、烏克蘭

正在評估中的國家： 韓國、泰國、菲律賓

表態拒絕的國家： 美國

民進黨爭取加入CPTPP

過去民進黨為了申請加入CPTPP做出了許多相應措施，不但開放萊豬進口，也表示願意希望解禁日本福島核食。

支持萊豬進口

在2021年時蔡英文曾表示支持萊豬進口，目的就是為了遵守CPTPP「要求成員國在貿易政策和法規上達成共識」。CPTPP全體成員國在符合國際標準的要求下全面開放萊豬，所以要進入CPTPP，開放萊豬是必須的。

解禁日本核食

作為CPTPP的主席國，日本呼籲台灣盡快解除對福島食品的禁令。為了進入CPTPP，台灣最後解禁由日本福島產出的食品，以換取各國同意台灣加入CPTPP同意票。

民進黨如今逃避CPTPP送件？

紐西蘭在2023年7月15日召開CPTPP執委會，申請國需要遞交申請案。如今台灣已經開放萊豬進口，也開放福島食品輸入台灣。在做了這麼多努力之後，民進黨卻不送件CPTPP，就連中國大陸都已經申請了，台灣卻遲遲沒有動作。

逃避CPTPP送件：貿易衝擊中南部農漁業選民

從2016年及2020年的總統大選結果可以知道，民進黨的選民大多分布在中南部地區，那裡又是台灣的農漁業重鎮，如果加入CPTPP，這些農民多少都會受到影響，也會直接衝擊到民進黨選票。

適逢在明年1月13日舉辦的總統大選，為了選情考慮，民進黨選擇今年不申請加入CPTPP。

結論

如果台灣能夠順利加入CPTPP，將會是台灣在加入APEC、WTO後參與國際貿易的最大進展。但民進黨因為選情考量所以放棄申請CPTPP，一但中國比台灣還要早加入CPTPP，依照以往的慣例，我們再加入CPTPP的門檻將會變很高。

為了選票犧牲國家長久的利益，是非常不明智的行為。希望政黨在治理國家時，可以把國家發展放在第一位，而不是只顧及黨的利益。

原文：CPTPP遲遲沒送件，民進黨為了選票不顧及台灣人民利益

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