Ajay Bruno Banned? Who Cares?

Day 698, 16:03 • Published in Indonesia Pakistan • by Longbaugh

One of the oddest developments over the last few months here in eRepublik is the cult surrounding Ajay Bruno, the American who had recently traveled to South Africa to try and PTO the conservative agenda after failing to do so in the United States.

What I find more interesting, though slightly appalling, is the fact that he was the center of such a cult of fascination throughout the countries he'd lived in.

There isn't much to the story of Ajay Bruno. He was born in late April of 2009 and was banned today. In between all he ever really accomplished was getting picked by the "esteemed" Mattoze5 to be the Assistant Vice President of the Conservative Party as well as Ambassador to Canada by scrabman. These appointments allowed Bruno to present the mirage of accountability that allowed him, and many others as well, to nearly succeed at taking over a top 5 party and, when failing, travel to South Africa where he also nearly succeeded.

He's been elected to congress more than me. That means that the infamous Ajay has had twice the real opportunities to affect real policy changes that I have had. Friends and foes alike... the problem was never Ajay Bruno, the problem is and always will be the political culture that gave Ajay the keys to such (near) destruction. Ajay Bruno was given such power by Mattoze5, someone who has relentlessly referred to me as a traitor ever since I exercised my right to travel freely between borders.

Essentially, I'm wondering out loud about how horribly misdirected the American culture seems to still be. Nevermind the South Africans. Most of them are American e😜ats who only moved there to stop Ajay Bruno. It's the Americans that are shouting, writing numerous articles, and paying for advertisements about Ajay's death. I have no doubt that somewhere Ajay is using a backup account and perusing the media of two different nations, reveling in his near-dominance of two national press cycles even though he never really did anything. I've managed to avoid contact with Ajay for the entirety of his eRepublik career. How have I managed to avoid him, you might ask? Well...

First of all, I don't cream for Reagan. And, ultimately Bruno was an ineffective polemicist who had only three Hard Worker awards in 5 1/2 months, two Congress awards, barely two Super Soldier awards, and a decidedly-piddly 1,628 XP at level 19. He barely had 10k damage points at a pathetic Colonel ranking. He was the anti darkplayer82. Yet, he has gotten infinitely more press than darkplayer82 got when he willingly relinquished his account.

I will continue to not be fascinated by Ajay Bruno; the same way I have not been fascinated with him since I first heard his name. I will, however, continue to always be fascinated by sheepish cultures who spend all their time and energy bashing a guy like Ajay Bruno but never bother to wonder who, or what, put him where he was.

My never-ending honesty has never brought me anything... especially power. Who knows? Maybe if I was the dishonest, petty, traitorous runt that so many Americans think I am, I'd have been given those very same keys long ago. That's how it's done in certain self-serving, self-gratifying, self-worshiping nations in the New World.

There's another younger Ajay somewhere in the States who is being touted as an "American Patriot" who will undoubtedly prove to the lesser lemmings that they were backing the wrong horse the entire time. Then, they'll rally to run him out instead of the backers who spread the word that he was an "American Patriot" in the first place.