[CP-Elections] Spring Is Coming!
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NoTie112
Dear Readers,
I'm NoTie112 and I'm the running mate of Aries Prime, whom will be running for Country President. In my aspiring position as (non-symbolic) Vice-President and Minister of Foreign Affairs I wanted to publicly announce my full support for Aries Prime and perhaps convince the last doubting voters that he is the right choice at the ballot the 5th of March.
I believe that the aspiring government of Aries Prime has the needed skills to lead the Netherlands out of the dark spot it currently it is in. As I have recently read in a comment on a media article: we're not playing the game; we're being played by the game. This passivity is aware to many of us and the calls for a continuation of the ''status quo'' are in this situation misleading and damaging to the cause of our nation. Sensible changes are needed, sensible changes we can provide.
The Status Quo is easy to be clinging on, despite the lack of progress (sometimes even damaging regression that is being tolerated for the sake of consistency) as cleaning house can be frightening and unpredictable, especially when being led by ''rebels'' against the status quo. To those in awe by what might be coming I want to say ''we'' are as much capable and politically sharpened as our honourable opponents. Aries and I have successfully led the country multiple times, both as a team and as individuals. We have established political harmony in the past, but also extended our countries' borders far past what they are now. Our team will be an healthy mix of both consistency and progressive change.
Because certainly, there are many achievements our predecessors achieved are here to be kept. The excellent result of the recourse wars come to mind, for example. But we will not stand for anything. In our view there are many issues which are being left unsolved, sometimes even announced to be continuing by other candidates in the coming elections.
An Immigration Policy being dictated by political favours and arbitrariness. Our country being halved -again - after we enjoyed a few eeks of ''freedom'' when Poland was ousted after years of occupation. Our Foreign Policy being dictated by nostalgia and non-existing loyalty - prime examples being our supposed ''alliance'' with Belgium (presumably part of the old NSPP - of which UK is part of, too) while simultaneously we're freely giving an ''enemy'' access to our other allies in the United Kingdom. A potentially dictatorship looming over us - the exact thing we wanted to prevent - ,an inefficient imaginary ''democracy'' being implemented or an everlasting stalling of finding a solution to deal with the latest eRepublik updates. These are things we will change or deal with.
Vote Aries Prime for President on the 5th of March!
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Comments
Pertamaxxx
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Will enough people wake up?
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Sick to buy votes to be above the article about Mata. No vote.
Agreed 🙂
How is it less ''sick'' to shout around your article every 10 minutes in every available feed at eRepublik, while someone is being hospitalized? I defend your right to advert your campaign, however, but I don't find it very gentleman-like for you to jump at the first moment to join in an attack on my personal/ethic motives.
There is a huge difference between buying votes and shouting to get votes like both me and Aries do. Aries is just as bad with spamming his articles. Although it's frowned upon in eNL it is very common to buy votes in big(ger) countries and I do not have a problem with vote buying in general. In this case I think it is in bad taste to do so.
buying votes in general. but this time it is really bad.
You didn't care about me buying votes either when I was at the right side of the political battlefield. Don't be hypocritical. I am very willing to this cause and I decided to actively campaign. Just because I opened up my purse to make sure this message is received and read doesn't make the content less relevant, nor should it give political opponents the opportunity to suggestively denounce it.
I don't care either how my opponents get their article votes. With the eRepublik system it doesn't pay to have ''genuine votes'' as genuine voters will not notice your article at all. Basically it's either: Hoping to find an empty spot in the top 5, shouting around your article every X moment, having a large group of friends who mainly vote because they're your friends or paying a small amount of money to get some easy votes.
Can we now all focus at the very needy and relevant issues that are being talked about initially?
There is no correlation in your statement, at all. I find it disturbing that you are trying to make it look like I don't care about someone's personal health in a political article - as to make a political point or something.
And if it weren't for the fact Mata's article is soon past the 2-day mark I'd buy her 50 votes as well, just to show you how insensitive and irrational your remark is (and not mine). Sorry Weekstrom, but I am quite in awe that you are doing exactly what you are accusing me of.
You should have thought of that before buying your votes. Just out of respect.
I don't make a political statement NoTie.
And normally I don't care about you buying votes. This time however I find it disgusting. Had you bought 30 or so just to be on the front page I would have had no problem at all. But now its just sick. As if a game is more important than Mata's RL health.
And I did not even bother to read it as I just didn't care any more what you had to tell.
I'm sorry you feel this way. It was certainly not my intention to overshadow someone's personal health situation. Perhaps I should have had waited with my article.
Oh there wasn't any need to wait. ERep "life" can continue. You just shouldn't have bought this amount of votes. Or waited until the article about Mata vanished.
Then again; Buying votes, to me, always feels like self glorification. It looks like your article is considered valued by players while the majority of votes is from yourself and the article itself apparently ain't appreciated much. In this case I estimate 50 out of the current 58 votes are fake. I for one would value real votes so it's clear weather or not people really agree or value your articles.
But it's your call to do it the way you like.
Minimum of votes you can buy is 50 Weekstrom
Ok, 30 is no option then. In that case he shouldn't have bought them at all, or at least wait with buying...
I agree. Dont vote.
I don't believe the intention was to disrespect anyone. Besides, those that are friends of mata are just as able to check her article regardless of the ranking ingame. I just read it now.
I agree with you, Aries.
Those who wanted to see should have seen it, beside that I do not care even, I'm back again, that is in my opinion the most important thing, couldn't care less if someone has read my article, those who did are most important to me.
I am not someone who cares about numbers, I care about respect.
At first I thought too much text and then I thought oh god damn nasty madonna 2/10 would not bang
You're making claims you couldn't reproduce on your own though. Like extending NL borders. What are recourse wars? You couldnt change that outcome even if you wanted btw.
Just please don't muck up the carefully balanced FA course we've set out in the last months, you've both not been involved enough in it.
I agree with this
no offense, but you promised us you would be politically neutral in your role as dictator. Dont step away from that promise, this is a mutually advantageous deal we have here..
I am absolutely politically neutral, I just feel that claiming the victories in Norway as one person is in poor taste as I organized the US damage for our side that certainly contributed to our victories.
We still have to install a permanent dictator as well, there is no definite plan as of yet. If I'd get elected as permanent dictator you can be sure I would be completely unaligned.
Talking about bad taste: Using the CP tag in an article when you are not CP...
Better now? Can you now focus on the content - or is the truth too hard to swallow? 😛
Didn't know populism actually had content? 😮 Are you talking about the seven times you put one or more words between quotation marks to show your dislike of the current situation? Or are you talking about how you guys have the experience to change the situation while failing to mention how and what should be changed?
I know what I said before, but today I voted Aries prime. Why? Because we must stop these eletists and traitors from getting into the Catshuis.
Tbh, it is your party's doing as to why Fhaemita is winning the election. GPN, Hollands Glorie, and Dutch Independent are taking away votes from both of the real candidates, Fhaemita and Aries. If you look at the election page, you will see that the amount of votes received by Steve_God and Dennis Plaza are the same amount of votes that Fhaemita is leading Aries at this moment.
It's easier to point fingers to others then to take responsibility yourself 😉