Osoyoos (political faction): Difference between revisions

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}}'''Osoyoos''', also known as the '''Osoyoos movement''', the '''Hivemind''', or the '''Osoyoos Grand Fleet,''' were a hyper-accelerationist political faction and movement in [[Cascadia]] that existed between August 9 and October 22, 2023, dying out when most of the faction seceded following the results of the October 2025 presidential election. Their ideology followed nationalism, imperialism, jingoism, accelerationism, hivemind collectivism, and have often been compared to fascism. The faction started from the friend group that settled under the town of the same name, however grew quickly, eventually encompassing around a third of Cascadia's active population, quickly obtaining political prominence in Cascadian politics, acting as a third position challenging the traditional two factions of the Cascadian Populist Era, namely the Social Democrats and the Populists. In the August 2023 presidential election, Osoyoos-aligned [[PhantomXYZ]] from the town of Sierra-Vista, won the most first-preference votes, although lost to the incumbent center-left president EmpressCorgo. The Osoyoos political machine reached their height in October of 2023, where in that month's elections their presidential candidate, [[Flatvent_One]], tied with incumbent [[EmpressCorgo]], with exactly 40 votes each according to final preference votes. Due to the tied election, the result was to be decided by a contingent election in the House of Representatives, however before the contingent election was to be held, a majority of Osoyoos's figures left the nation, and unclaimed their towns for gold, deleting them, and admitted their plan to plunder the national treasury if elected to power and secede as they did. Osoyoos left a legacy of causing Cascadia to go into a short but chaotic era in which the nation was extremely politically unstable and toxic, particularly concerning their feuds with the Frontier, another political faction within Cascadia at the time. After their secession, they would go on to form the nation of [[Chad]], who would eventually start the [[Wagner War]] just two months later, and some members such as Karn4 would even go on to fight in the [[Great American War]] under North_Paso's Texas.

Osoyoos was originally a town owned between a group of friends, founded on July 3, 2023. They had a whole discord of around 40-50 members to bring with them, although not all of them would join EarthMC. They were not politically active for their first month of activity, mostly due to having other priorities such as building up their town and colonies. Eventually, they would branch out and form what they'd refer to as "colonies", being towns formed by Osoyans, still connected to the main friend group. These include the towns of, but are not limited to Baroque Works, founded by Flatvent_One, Grande_Furry, founded by Nephi_UwU_oWo, and Mt. Constantinople, founded by Thither138(Now CookiesWithGeorge). They had additionally formed town alliances in the south with YoOscars Sierra-Vista, which was one of the largest towns in Cascadia around this time.  

Early in their political history, there was a scandal that started surrounding their discord server they brung along with them when they joined EarthMC, named "Town of Morioh" at the time. The server had a few NSFW channels inside. The real issue outsiders took with this, however, was the insufficient security surrounding them. The only security to keep possible minors from viewing the content inside, according to Osoyan officials themselves was Discord's official protection, which only verifies that the user had set their account's age to over 18, alongside a "minor" role that the leaders would place on anyone they had suspicion of was a minor. The problem with both of these is that they did not prevent someone from lying about their age whatsoever, and as a result other Cascadians took issue. This culminated in a group chat argument between Osoyans and members of the Corgo Administration, who were asking that they either put up better security or just delete said channels. While Osoyans defended the security levels behind the NSFW channels, they eventually surrendered and deleted the NSFW channels later that night, particularly because only one person in their discord had actively been using it. Regardless, this scandal would follow them throughout the rest of their time in Cascadia and even after their secession, particularly with Frontiersmen who had used this to claim Osoyoos was deliberately showing NSFW content to minors, even though this was a case of negligence and not legitimate malice.  

After this, Osoyoos would make their entrance to Cascadian politics in the August 2023 Elections. This election cycle was very unique, as in a total of eight candidates ran for president, the most ever, a record not met until the July 2025 elections. What made this election cycle unique for Osoyoos however is that not a single one of them had been in Cascadia long enough to run for President, including the oldest member, Karn4. As a result, they chose to back candidate [[PhantomXYZ]] from the town of Sierra-Vista, who would then go on to become a front-runner in the election and get the most first-preference votes, however was beat out by incumbent Social Democrat EmpressCorgo. This was extremely unexpected to the rest of Cascadia, as it was predicted that PhantomXYZ would actually be one of the worst performing candidates in the election, due to being considered by many to be inactive.  

Throughout the August 2023 term, Osoyoos would focus on the Rocky Mountain Brotherhood, as well as growing their faction outside of the original friend group. It was during this time that they gained extra members, including xHydre, Rodekeel, Orbit2510, YoOscar, Aurivia, GreshamBTW and others. They also grew closer with the Frontier faction, often spending time together in voice chats on the Frontier discord. Much of the term was marked by tensions with the RMB, the unpopular Treaty of Walterston, and Project Nation Shop. As a result, the rest of the August term was relatively uneventful and quiet, however political stability still had declined since before the botched RMF buyout.  

Immediately after the September elections, Osoyoos publicly scorned the Frontier as political enemies, accusing them of betrayal. They claimed that the Frontier violated a pact they made, that they would put each other's presidential candidates, Flatvent_One and Beamz30 in second-preference, which would boost both factions electorally above the Social Democrat faction of Cascadia. Frontier-supporting voters did not do this, mainly putting EmpressCorgo as their second preference vote instead of Flatvent. The Frontier denied such a pact ever being agreed to, and as it would have it, no evidence for such a deal has come up since. Regardless, Osoyoos supporters and leaders immediately started to spar with Frontier ones, in arguments in Cascadia's international general chat that would last thousands of messages over a couple days.

 

 

Most of those within Cascadia were jubilant in response to Osoyoos's secession, believing them to have been a major threat to the nation's democracy and even security, as Flatvent had admitted they were planning to steal the entirety of the nation's bank if he had won, as they were seceding. Cascadia's population and activity experienced a significant dip, with Cascadia's population experiencing a low of 178 from 280~, not experienced since the foundation of the nation itself. The fact that Osoyoos not only seceded, but left the region entirely, was seen as a major positive to Cascadia, as it prevented Cascadia from going into civil war and losing territory, such as with the RMF's secession. The secession was said to be the second best possible outcome for Cascadia concerning Osoyoos, behind them quitting the server entirely. However, these views were not expressed by the government publicly as to avoid foreigners from viewing the events as government repression. Osoyoo's short but storied existence is often considered to be Cascadian Democracy's greatest test yet, one which Cascadia narrowly passed.

Though the nation kept growing after the secession, activity was lower and as a result, the October term was relatively uneventful excluding the merger of Jefferson into Cascadia and the fallout from the [[Hanse Library Robbery]]. This would actually lead to Chad, who were made up of the seceded Osoyans, surpassing Cascadia in population for a very short period in December. However, by the time of the [[Wagner War]] Cascadia's population and activity increased back to pre-secession levels, and would continue to grow after that.  

Many of the towns within Chad followed similar naming practices to their towns in Cascadia, with a capital called Osoyoos, Flatvent_One founding a town named Baroque Works again, and the same so for Thither138 and his Mt. Constantinople. The majority of Osoyoos who founded Chad would later seek revenge on Cascadia, accusing Sayerleft of having rigged the election results in favor of EmpressCorgo, albeit unfounded. This resulted in them starting the [[Wagner War]], eventually leading to multiple other nations such as Texas joining in. Chad would permanently decline in activity during the later stages of the Wagner War, eventually disbanding some time in spring of 2024. After this, they would resettle in [[Aurora:Germany|Germany]], eventually scattering or quitting the server throughout the rest of 2024. Two Wagner members, Flatvent and Karn, would later join Texas and fight against Cascadia during the Great American War. Karn especially was greatly trusted in Texas, and as a result, had access to their fortunes. However, Karn grew gradually more annoyed with North_Paso, eventually deciding to take much of Texas's fortunes and leaving, while also selling a town he had sniped from Cascadia back to the nation for four dollars and a grilled cheese.

Osoyoos was very collectivist, and as a result, tended to be more organized than the two other major political factions at the time. They voted in a very unified manner, employing heavy vote whipping from the discord they brought along with them when they originally came to Cascadia, even requiring some members to screen share themselves voting to leadership in order to make sure they voted correctly. As a result, SayerQT remarked about it during revealing the October election results, saying "Shout out to Osoyoos for all voting the same though, made it faster to calculate,". This vote whipping gave them a boost over the Social Democrat and Frontier factions in first preference votes, who did not do this, or at the very least not at nearly the same scale Osoyoos did. This is also what led to Osoyoos performing so comparatively poorly in final preference votes, never gaining more than two votes ever by then. Generally, Karn4 and Flatvent_One were the two main leaders of the faction, however Flatvent would be the one to run in Presidential elections. Outside of this, other lower, but still important leaders within the party included Alucart, Orbit2510 and Thither171(CookiesWithGeorge) earlier on.

In combination with imperialism, Osoyoos was very nationalistic, not just for Cascadia, but for their in-group as well. They, as a result, would put those not within their group down, including Frontiersmen, and occasionally Social Democrats. They also disliked those who did not use microphones in voice chats, believing it to be harmful to the activity of Cascadia. This was one of their main criticisms of EmpressCorgo, the President throughout their existence and prominent Social Democrat, who refused to use microphones in voice chats, opting for [[Milgorn123]] to act as her voice at debates. They also had a distrust toward those they would refer to as "Discadians", Cascadians who were mainly active on discord instead of ingame, whether perceived or real. This was particularly levied at people such as EstiQT and [[SayerQT]], who fit the term's description. The term, which was invented by them, would later become part of the political lingo of Cascadia in 2025, introduced by [[Explosivefirewk]].

<nowiki>*</nowiki>All six representatives resigned by leaving the nation during the election's results, most almost immediately.