[TED] Wipe of eBelgium: My Opinion
Jofroi
Today in the first time for years I will not be elected in the eBelgian congress which will give the opportunity to Kravenn to steal my second place in number of congress medal of eRepublik (yeah, that’s a shame). Being the eRepublik player with the most congress medals is my main target in the game.
However, despite of that I agreed recently, along with several eBelgian people, to let eBelgium be wiped for a long duration. We have been facing for a while a growing political take over threat that were initiated by some eBelgians but fastly grown out of their hands and is currently controlled by greedy foreigners. Recent attempts to make them move away such as the removal of the state money from the state account or seizing the power of the different political parties of eBelgium has been shown to not be efficient and we were forced to move to the worst but latest possible measure: complete wipe.
Thanks to the strength of Poland, we are certain that no resistance war will be able to succeed, and even in the case that a resistance war would get close to success, I am confident in the fact that several strong eBelgian fighters would stand up to keep us wiped as long as the threat will remain. It will probably take several months before we can consider ourselves as safe, but it will be worth it on the long term and safety has no price.
I have nothing against foreigners joining Belgium (the current CP isn’t Belgian RL)as several of them already ruled our country with more or less success (same can be said from the Belgians 😉
) but until now, none of them has ever wanted to act for his sole personal benefit and always acted for the greater good of the country. We have never seen any major stealing of the treasury until now and we have to keep it that way. The current wipe and the emptying of the treasury through donations to all citizens and bank managers will make sure that the only citizens who will remain will be the ones who will really cherish eBelgium and will be the ones who really wants to play eRepublik as eBelgian.
Even if some people will still consider this approach as too extreme and will complain, I will back up the wipe as long as it will be necessary and I would like to thanks Poland who accepted to help us during those hard times as well as MaryamQ who got the balls (if I may say) to do what had to be done (and I’d also like to thanks JdlF who created the Bank Manager, which was something that should have been done earlier).
Some people will criticize the fact that things are decided “in private” and that the general population is not aware of the decisions taken. A political take over is not something that has to be taken lightly and they can make use of information to counter appropriate measures through propaganda or simply voting against laws (only 1/3rd of NO in a NE law would have made our wipe attempt void, which would have surely happened if the plan had been released prior to the actual attack). I know that full transparency is an ideal that some people would like to have but this can only be possible in a world where everyone is nice, which is not the case. I have been following the politics for a while and almost every months there are decisions/things done in secret (either by the government/congress/opposition or whatever) that are not revealed to the public because it would cause more harm to reveal it than to keep it secret. And I therefore believe that not everything has to be told.
I wish good luck to the current and future presidents to be able to keep our country strong, keeping us wiped until the threat is over.
Jofroi
Concerned eBelgian Citizen
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As I've sai😛 I don't beleive the threat level was that high. Still I can't really complain about such a move.
But I believe it won't change lots of things unless we decide that eBE has to remain wiped forever.
Let me explain my reasoning: I don't believe the PTO threat is high right now. And I believe anyone with a solid guild/clan can PTO eBelgium. Therefore, when we'll come back we still will be at the mercy of such groups. So nothing much would change.
We'll see the outcoming but I'm not sure about the necessity to do it right now. It's our joker card. And I think it has been used too soon.
Nevertheless, let's hope it works \o/.
😮 I'm transforming into Jofroi, I was to lazy to read the entire article O.O
Good boy, now you just need to go furtively to the Voters Club and order 50 votes with each article you publish 😃
Alea jacta est. Let's be patient then. 😁
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The Dictator is dead, long live the Eternal Second Dictator, ME!
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Well you'll still need to prove the threat was high enough to justify such a decision.
And also, if you donate money to citizens don't you also donate money to those PTO'ers who could decide to stay just for that? Where's the logic? 😛
No money for the PTOers .. heeeh 😛
good luck to ebelgium
Jofroi, about your last paragraph (the one interesting me the most), the Natural Ennemy vote has been voted 9 days ago. Nine days ago. 9 - 9 - 9... Why not saying anything right after the vote was secure ? Because eBelgium could have won the battles ? Come on... I'm not convinced at all by your argumentations. The government should have enlightened the situation a long time ago.
Then... the wipe is supposed to last several months... until the President of eBelgium asks the President of ePoland to liberate it ? Several months ? So which presidents are we talking about ? How do we know the ePolish President of Januray 2015 will agree liberating us ? What will happen if the next eBelgian President wants the liberation of eBelgium as soon as he's elected, against the opinions of this actual government : will the ePolishs President follow the Maryam's will or the new President's will ?
But anyway, such a huge decision impacting on everyday citizen's economy, politics,... couldn't have been taken without the consent of the population.
You know the worst thing about all this ? I would have agreed with your whole wipe idea if we were informed about it and the population could have said its opinion before. I'm sure I would even have defended your wiping views. But the way it has been handled, no. Maybe you controlled the PTO's moves during the situation, but you completely lost the confidence of citizens as I am, who are returning their opinions against you instead of being on your side as they would have been. Don't know what's the worst.
We already had such an open debates a couple of months ago which ended with several troubles.
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As a "new foreigner" and former congressman ... we all now that Poland is gonna wipe us ... but this NE is more that just a Law .. its a safe keeper of PTO threat .. (Maybe is not high right now .. but still remains and that i supported you Jofroi) And most importantly (i think) ... It's a proof .. a proof that Belgium is there when you need it ...
Maybe we are not the strongest ones
Maybe we are not the biggest ones
But for sure .. we are the FEARLESS ONES !!!
HAIL BELGIUM
HAIL COT
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My thanks to Jofroi for being there for eBelgium. The fact that he is sacrificing a personal goal to support this move should be an indicator of how seriously he takes this threat. I'm sorry that some people feel betrayed, but as Jofroi indicated, telling too much too soon would have caused more harm than good. Do you think PTOers walk into a country and say "We are going to PTO you" and reveal their every move in public? Of course not. As has been stated repeatedly, we have no effective means of stopping the snowball effect caused by allowing a PTO group into our Congress, where they continuously bring in more of their friends, who are also allowed in Congress. I can and will show a chain of illegal immigrants dating back to May, and this network has grown until we have reason to believe that it is out of the control even of those who originally supported it from within eBelgium. Do not deceive yourselves. This group does not play nicely, and does not care about eBelgium. To refuse to acknowledge this is to state that you would rather give up your eCountry to anybody who comes along than to fight for what people have built, in game and on external sites, over the last 4 years.
If there wasn't need of total WIPE, we wouldnt do it.
Also, you will be avaiable to read everything about PTO soon.
Some people will criticize the fact that things are decided “in private” and that the general population is not aware of the decisions taken.
==> You're absolutly right, and I do.
I think people just don't know eBelgium doesn't belong to the congress or the president: it belongs to eBelgians. By sacrifing the whole eBelgium, those ones penalize the eBelgian people... But maybe should I have to highlight the fact that congress and president are here thanks to the eBelgian people?
Does having the country out of the map penalize the citizens that much? Besides congress and production boost, it actually doesn't impact us much.
No, in fact I was thinking of a permanent wipe during my term. But that's something for people to decide. Anyway it's not the wipe the problem, it's the communication.
Do and tell. That's the easiest way. And if you need to lie: lie, do, tell the truth.
At the end of the day citizens need to know, even if you don't ask their opinion.
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