[Black Sheep Party] A review on recent events + Call To Arms
Stef40
Hello, everyone, hello eUSA community. Long have I not written an article, as I have seen that it is simply not necessary, seeing as we were living in ..very boring times I’d say, with an occasional real war here and there that was easily won, I thought it was simply not required to post a lot in the media. Well, unfortunately, all is well that ends well.. or is it?
If you are around in the meta congress on Discord, ever since the presidential elections on the 5th of this month, our beloved president started a few discussions aimed to firstly revamp and change how IES procedures work with ‘forcefully’ adding a deputy IES director, something which saw massive reactions from some of the Executives, with the IES director even publicly saying that he does not need a deputy, because the work is so small these days.
Secondly, there was a so called “Government Program Eligibility Act Reform” which banned people who voted No on Donation Laws from any government programs. You know, those donation laws which pass by a landslide all the time.
Needless to say, one of those IES acts failed in voting, the other one stalled and the Government Program Eligibility Act ‘rEfOrM’ also stalled and is inactive at the moment.
Thirdly, and the reason why I am writing this article today is a potential PTO threat. For those who don’t know, the Black Sheep Party stands as a beacon of integrity and resilience in the political landscape of eUSA. With a modest membership of just 45 individuals, each one of them human and committed to the core principles of democracy, we have remained unwavering in our dedication to keeping bots at bay.
Our party's year-long stance against the infiltration of bots reflects not only our commitment to fair play within the game but also our broader values of transparency and authenticity and while others may succumb to the allure of having many accounts in the party with only a few people playing them, we proudly reject it, knowing that our strength lies in the genuine voices and actions of real people.
Despite the prevalence of bots in the game and throughout the country, the Black Sheep Party has not only endured but thrived as an active force in Congress for many years. Our resilience is a testament to the power of human determination and our unwavering belief in the principles of democracy.
However, we as a party do not ignore the threat of a PTO. Namely, a random member that has stated his intent in a comment on a presidential article that they want to be a party president of BSP, joined and immediately started trolling the party and its long term leaders. I am not someone who understands politics much at all, but you tell me, if your intentions with a party are genuine, would you first join for a while, work and build your trust in a community and only then try to run the party and present your ideas at its members? Don’t you find it strange that this man, lady, or whatever they identify as joined out of nowhere and immediately want to become a Party President?
At the end of the day, I’d like to ask, who and why do they feel so threatened by the actions of the Black Sheep Party that they seek to undermine our democratic process by proposing such ‘reforms’? What is the main goal of these forced changes under the guise of ‘reforms’?
In the world of eRepublik, unlike the real one, you are only at a specific seat in the government for a month, and eUSA is at the best possible place right now that can ever be, I think. We have Training Wars with half of the eWorld, the enemy alliance CODE is in the slow process of dying now with members leaving left and right and, Asteria is growing with Lithuania being the latest member to join. So, the question is, why do you try to create chaos and mayhem during a short period of just one month instead of just keep the boat steady, keep working with our allies towards the goal of dismantling CODE even further and support your citizens in every way possible? Food for thought.
At the upcoming Congress elections on Monday, we will have a new face in our Congress contingent, as our beloved lady Bella Trix will be among the top candidates. So, vote for the Black Sheep Party, and let us send a clear message: democracy is not for sale, and we will not be silenced by those who seek to undermine it. Join us in the battle against the PTO threat, and together, we will prevail.
https://www.erepublik.com/en/party/the-black-sheep-party-2397/1
Now more than ever, we call each and every one of you who believe in the importance of democracy and fair play to stand with us. Help the Black Sheep Party in our fight against political corruption and manipulation, because your voice matters, and together, we can protect the integrity of our political system and ensure that genuine voices continue to be heard.
https://www.erepublik.com/en/party/the-black-sheep-party-2397/1
If you managed to read until here I thank you. And at the end of this article, I’d like to send out a message to all enemies of the Black Sheep Party. Presidents and governments are monthly, but the Black Sheep has been here for years and will continue to be long after you.
https://www.erepublik.com/en/party/the-black-sheep-party-2397/1
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[Black Sheep Party] A review on recent events + Call To Arms
https://www.erepublik.com/en/article/-black-sheep-party-a-review-on-recent-events-call-to-arms-2777686
Great article, very well written!
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Amazing article, thank you for this
Good to see you writing.
I may not have all the information that you guys have, but if you are referring to Cthulhu, i think it is just a troll all around. An individual attempt, And not even worth your time… you are giving it too much attention that it does not really deserve.
As far as i know, and i have been engaged lately, despite all the political disagreements which is something very natural for a healthy eCountry, everybody knows and considers BSP as a top 5 political party and knowns its members, and people are more civil and understanding here to do such kinda things… don’t give a thing too much importance that it doesn’t deserve.
You’ve no idea. He’ll come with his stupid Multis at last minute before the store day change and try to PTO a party
Guys like him ruin games and countries. He’s the enemy. He’s everything bad
The fact that you underestimate this full topic shows that you never played this game longer than three months
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Great article, Stef!
Thanks for the opportunity BSP is giving me to be part of the Congress next month!
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I've had some disagreements with BSP from time to time, as well as agreements. Frankly, I would love to seem some fresh leadership amongst the sheep as it would help the party to stay fresh and develop. It's the sign of a healthy part, IMO, that it encourages new members to aspire to leadership positions.
At the same time I stand 100% against PTO attempts, especially against such a venerable, long-standing part of the community. The SFP has had its fair share of such shenanigans over the years. We have defeated every attempt to remove us from the picture. I wish similar successw in resistance and resilience to the Black Sheep and offer a freedom-socialist BAAAAA! of solidarity.
shiloh basically offered his support as well, as he did what no one from the government could, which is come to our discord server and discuss like an intelligent being.
we appreciate it o7
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When you mentioned Donation laws, I expected to see more details on the BSP policy of letting Plato keep our Tax Money.
BSP voting no on Donation laws is one thing - after all its okay to do this as long as no one else does it (at least that's what I understood you to say)
But for BSP Congress members to not propose any Donation laws (at least none that I have seen) is essentially letting Plato keep more of our Tax money.
Once proposed a Donation law takes 24 hours to pass and no other donation law can be proposed until the 24 hours has passed. The fewer members of congress that are willing to propose donation laws increases the average time between donation laws, reduces the number of donation laws that pass. e.g. if average 2 hours between donation laws then in passing 30 donation laws, 60 hours are lost - which reduces by 2 or 3 the number of donation laws passed.
Since Donation laws call only recover a max of 400K of our tax revenue - each lost opportunity to have a Donation law passed is letting Plato keep an additional 400K of our tax money.
What is your point ? PTO a party than ?
Just making public the BSP position on letting Plato keep our tax money.
I think the PTO is in your mind - barring a mass influx to your party why worry about someone running for PP? Unless the worry is that BSP members would vote for someone new?
Only worry that someone with his „roommates“, „cousins and other family members“ who play of course erepublik show up
And they would be dumb enough to provide advance notice?
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1. Sounds like something that needs to be taken up with Plato limits are not BSPs fault as much you seem to want to blame us for all the problems in the game/country Lol.
2. There are enough elected congressmen without bsp to do enough donation laws for the month.
3. We have already explained our stance on the budget which is our reason for voting no not explaining this again...
Since you have already explained it - you can just copy and paste it here so everyone, versus the few who bother with congress threads on discord, can see your rational.
But since BSP has not made an article about it, you probably rather not have more people see it.
As far as your lame defense that there are enough other congress members to propose donation laws, my argument which you did not refute is that essentially the fewer congress members willing to set donation law the delay between donation laws will likely increase. Hence fewer donation laws are likely to be proposed/pass in a month.
Unless you are assuming congress members are on erep 24/7 ready to jump in and propose a new donation law the instant the 24 hour voting duration on the previous donation law ends.
I'll state this once more here so whoever cares to read can, but will not comment on this issue again here. We have an issue with the lack of use of ABS and we also found an issue with accounting which was ignored by a certain CBO when it was first mentioned creating further issues between us and other parties in congress. The program still isn't used, and it has been months now.
Again not BSPs fault if the congressmen from other parties elected do not propose laws themselves due to time, you should go accuse them for letting plato keep our tax money as well lol.
Remember many of us pay taxes each day, I myself pay around 12k and don't use gimp so I never see any of my tax money back as I'm sure many other players are in the same boat.
Once the money is sent to the CBO it just sits there too, it's not like we have any other programs other than gimp for players to see any of their tax money back in their pocket, or actual use of our tax money in any other useful way to help citizens, and gimp requires a player to fight in the air to get money which maybe not every tax paying citizen does.
Point is your complaining about tax money that barely makes it to the players paying taxes, and is just hoarded by CBO that many tax paying citizens will never get to benefit from and will likely end up quitting the game before they ever do.
You can keep blaming us, or put your mind/words to better use by create a program that actually helps players using the tax money you seem to care so much about. I'm willing to help with thinking something up instead of arguing about the same issues over and over.
When there is actual change to how our tax money is spent our votes will change.
Unless you have something to say about creating a useful program for players I will not be commenting back because I am not looking to go in circles and have stated all I can.
Is there actually a time you've not commented on something after saying you will not comment anymore. If you do not reply anymore here, it could be the first time. Of course you did just explain after saying you wouldn't.
For the record no one in congress to my knowledge objected to adding accountability. In fact a spreadsheet was created to track ABS - this was made available while the issue was being discussed and available before the proposal to suspend the ABS program was made.
Also interesting, if accountability was so important, after the vote to suspend failed, why did no one from BSP immediately start a discussion/proposal on accountability requirements? Did they think the spreadsheet covered all their concerns?
BSP, in particular Arrden, did participate in the eventual discussion on ABS law which included requiring maintaining records for accountability. At one point Arrden proposed modification of the original proposal and this became the basis for discussion going forward. After a proposal, Arrden did not like, Arrden deleted the working draft of the proposal and stopped participating. Fortunately the draft was recovered and the proposal that became law was the draft Arden agreed to with the inclusion of a reserve of AQ5s for the CP's discretion with the requirement that the CP's use of the reserve needed approval by SCI.
I think the main issue is the scope of ABS. Is the scope to only to handle one or two rounds in an important battle or is it to handle something major like multiple incoming Air Strikes on the US (which has happened before).
For the latter you would need a much larger AQ5 stockpile, since it would be hard to buy enough AQ5s when needed and given price inflation at a much higher cost. And would tend use the AQ5s less frequently so as to build up the reserve.
I think it was a great mistake that under previous ABS administrator a larger stockpile of AQ5s was not maintained. Would have been able to acquire AQ5s while they were much cheaper than they are today.
Probably does not help your cause when you questioned people's motives.
e.g. Apparently the only reason I support ABS is because I benefit the most (per you) - not sure how that squares with it not being used. Oh and apparently, again per you, I am Romanian - I didn't know that - maybe my parents kept it secret from me.
I guess, in your view, it is not possible for someone to actually think that ABS program is a benefit to the eUS. So they must have a personal motive.
In case you didn't know the GIMP program spends close to 100% of the money from Donation laws & some months more than 100% because we increase GIMP for some events
When you are concerned about increasing the money from Donation laws we can then talk about what to do with the increase. in February we only passed 26 out of the possible 29 Donation laws.
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