Why eCanada's CP proposed to NE eIreland

Day 1,587, 04:18 • Published in USA Canada • by Rigour6

This most recent event has caused many loyal supporters of TEDEN, both here and abroad, to go "wtf"?
Combined with earlier proposals to embargo Bulgaria, in these last few days eCanada has taken a number of hits to its international reputation - and well-deserved hits they are, as Canada's actions have been at best a distraction and at worse the sort of immature temper tantrums that are corrosive to group unity.

Why is this happening and why, of all people, does eCanada's CP have his fingers all over it?

Those of us who called eCanada home for years can only apologize to our long-time allies.
You know how sometimes in delirium people say things they don't really mean, and we say some version of "Don't pay that any mind - that's the illness speaking, not the patient"? Well, that's the best I can do to try to explain this.

As earlier editions of N by NE detail, eCanada has and is undergoing a crisis of integrity.
Many of us who want to play for a country that stands for something (even if we are prepared to debate about what that something is) have given up and, with regret, emigrated. Some have left and taken up arms against their former homeland in an attempt to make them see the true costs of its present folly. Still others (so-called Loyalists) are fighting a rearguard action within to return eCanada to safer, more principled, shores.

If I know the man currently occupying the CP job in eCanada, and if his personal messages to me can be believed to be more than cynical role play (and I believe they can), this has taken a personal rl toll on him.
He erased a series of articles at one point, he disappeared at another, he lashes out at now-perceived enemies domestic and foreign if they are critical. In short, he gives me every indication of a man who has been pushed too far and no longer gives a crap. These last few days are like last days of Pompei, Othello, and the madness of King George all rolled into one. The political centre of gravity in eCanada has shifted and the current CP, who has no intention of reoffering, has decided to "dance with the lady what brung him". Foreign policy is now set with the same underlying principles which pardoned the nation's greatest thief, and applauded by the cackles of the same hyenas.

So as eCanada continues to turn itself inside-out, with the attendant lasting damage to its international reputation. Expect the same banal braying for the perpetrators of this nonsense: "It's only pixels, y'all."

Yes, yes it is. So why, given that it costs nothing to do the right thing, would people choose to play like douches?

I have given some possible explanations (a la John Gabriel's Greater Internet Dickwad Theory) but it is sad to watch nonetheless. I feel a bit like Charlton Heston at the end of Planet of the Apes.

eCanada, as a reflection of its rl counterpart and the players who made up its community, once collectively stood for something. Something other than being an immature child, I mean.

To our many allies, who had quite properly come to expect better, my apologies on behalf of my former team.
If it helps, what you're witnessing from eCanada now is the illness speaking - not the patient.


Volume 4, Number 2