Another perspective on recent events and future prospects
Seanan
Citizens,
I have seen more "Opinion pieces"/"Celebrity endorsements" in the last two months than the rl American Presidential elections. Sickening. However, I'd like to add my own thoughts on this last month and next month's potential CPs.
Cry of The Banshee's Term
Key events I thought were memorable this month include:
• Training War with Canada
• Scrapping of Airstrike Plan
• Appelman retiring, Loouman stepping up
This has been a solid term for Cry of The Banshee; The handling of the Training War with Canada went smoothly (well... Banshee developed a few grey hairs, I'm sure!). It all started quickly, most of the potential problems were ironed out early on and even taught ReleaseTheKrakken a lesson in game mechanics. Wonderful.
A transition of Governors/MoF is worthy of mentioning. Loouman has been involved with Appleman and Sweet Drinker in our country's finances for as long as I remember, so that wasn't major. What caught my eye was that Cry of The Banshee quite calmly maintained Ireland's high security status quo. I know Banshee's unity agenda might have succumbed to pressure from the Fox-News Brothers to publicly display our books, but her approach was respectable (even if the Brother's trust doesn't work both ways).
The decision to scrap plans for the Airstrike spoke volumes of Banshee's competence as Taoiseach. It was definitely the most tense part of the term! Rumours of impeachment were floating about, overly critical comments (politicians...) were hitting their target. Cry of The Banshee is military focused, and much of her ambition has been to drive fun warfare. When presented with an option to begin an Airstrike Campaign with no tangible benefit to Ireland, she choose to scrap the proposal rather than waste resources on a short-lived glory run. That is the mark of someone who is more concerned for their countrymen than their own portfolio.
In the end, all political factions seemed to respect the contribution made this term - a step in the right direction in any unity agenda. There was an unfair amount of criticism at the start. Banshee was new to Government, and nothing particularly pressing was happening to warrant pressurizing her.
Raven Anarcho made a relevant comment during the term that the over-the-top criticism was unjustly being motivated by political bias and the bitching behind close doors wasn't contributing anything positive (paraphrased). Certainly, I know that sort of conceited bias happens. I endured an impeachment started for supposedly not reporting my/Minister's activity. Those who reasoned that before have not attempted an impeachment of their preferred candidate Banshee despite similar or less reporting. Instead that ball fell to those who preferred An Sluagh. This term, it never materialized, but I don't believe its an unique problem to any one party (apart from mine, Eire Aonair liked both candidates! ENDORSEMENTTTT).
Going forward with an unity agenda, our active political-types need to recognize a good candidate can come from any party. Which leads onto...
Future Prospects
There are two candidates who might potentially become Taoiseach; Kordak from Eire Aoniar and Nyx Lynx from The Labour Party.
After working with both of them in Government, I'd say they both have considerable experience in Foreign Affairs. Nyx Lynx is more an international celebrity, but Kordak is more familiar with government roles. Both of them arrived in the country near enough at the same time, and both got actively involved from the off.
Manifesto-wise. I suspect Kordak to be more involved with getting our ship in order, and Nyx Lynx to be more focused on finding a crusade. All of that is circumstantial, and to be honest, those focuses will change as the term goes on with opportunities opening or closing. We're in limbo after the failed Chilean Airstrike, our true focus next month is making Ireland attractive to immigrants and improving our strength. Both candidates will have to deal with that.
We need renewed activity. You can start a war, but unless there is a national sense of purpose.. It will not make people login. You can publish all the updates you like, but it won't make citizen's care. Between us, we have to find a common goal to work towards and gun for it. That is my challenge to the next Taoiseach.
So my personal choice? Unsurprisingly, I did vote for Kordak. Already said manifesto's are bit circumstantial so that did not sway me... the fact he is in the same party did not either (our election history shows that party membership is no guarantee of EA's vote). He's got a level-head, demonstrated his quiet confidence before and, despite being new to Ireland, has a good feel of our community. Nyx Lynx is very active, highly vocal and better-connected, but her campaign gave me the impression of someone who thinks of themselves as proven on unblooded ground (leading with an impression of bravado and sense of worth never works out for anyone in Ireland). And the eJapanese like her... a nation of Hentai lovers and lost Americans. Sinful. Both running a good campaign, both worthy of consideration. That is my impression of the candidates based on what they have written... the only way a candidate should be judged if we want to have any chance in finding a common goal in these limbo months.
Thanks for reading,
~Seanan
Comments
Going to pub because it's Friday. Debate here those who aren't as spontaneous and fun as me.
o/
one gets gay pubs?
Are you hitting on Seanan, Krakken deary?
Great synopsis!
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No it doesn't thats a reflection on the picture creating an illusion, which in your mind is a exposed boob, looks like you made a boobie!! yourself
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I edited the picture. Not only crop it, but changed the lighting. You can tell as you don't see no nip!
very pertinent...i would have wrote, this article...very pertinent.
you saw what i felt this month about ireland. thank you for this.
my vote
what did vik said congrats on being a soulless politician like the rest of the orcs. and now get out of my face you have been a massive dissapointment
Spontaneous and fun.
"Another -perceptive- on recent events and future prospects"
Sure you hadn't already been to the pub when you wrote this? Granted, it takes a very perspective reader to catch little things like that.
Great article. This month cast things in a new and interesting light - it's been fascinating to watch, and a real pleasure to be a part of.
I'm dyslexic 😛 always seem to miss something. Back now... two beers (1 hour to get served, rubbish).
You're welcome.
When you or IBB are involved, Irish CPs might aswell go home 😛
Canada ❤s Ireland :3
Seanan as a two clicker that has no political interest I thought it was a bad term. I read newspapers to get my information. There were two wrote articles from CP this month. He would of been impeached in the past for that. The standard of what to expect from a CP as lowwered over the years. Patton used to write articles daily. I wrote 14 per month the two times I was CP. Now two articles is considered a good term. The amount of articles also represents the activity that goes on a month. Nice guy I guess, good he stepped forward and did not rob the country but our standards on what to expect from a CP are slipping.
I personally agree with Moo here. A CP who doesn't interact with his/her citizens is regarded as failure of communication. I don't expect a full report but just small things to give an idea of what's going on behind the scenes without releasing sensitive information.
In fairness to Seanan he had unexpected circumstances under his term which was out his control so I can't blame him.
@Moo there wasn't many updates from him personally, but our "standards"/expectations of governments have shifted to Ministers. It's overkill for the CP to repeat a Minister's report - DoD orders were out (more so than some months), he was very vocal on shouts and Congress was in the loop.
I didn't say it was perfect, but impeachable? No. He was a new CP, never been in government before. Our standards way in the past didn't revolve around number of updates either, so I dispute that - some of our more glorious term saw 3-4 articles from the CP themselves. Look at Padraig's terms.
Trying in @Ian I released a few more updates and my MoFA team gave great detail in a few more, but I only mentioned my rl circumstances to say why I wasn't going to achieving all of my goals... not an excuse for lacking updates, just a reason. At best, I would release an update once every week (if nothing major going on) or when something major happened. The rest of the every-day communication come from Ministers.
you just see my articles but we were a cabinet and all government articles was "my" articles as the articles of all members of my cabinet.
i could make an article per day, ..but for what? jus to say," i am here, i work don't worry !"
i decided to make 4 articles, one per week. i just let a week without articles because i didn't want to explain what happened in aurora...ok sorry for this, may be it was a mistake to remain secret..but it was because last aurora plan failed because of too much transparency.
i followed the congress btw, and the congress was very very quiet..no things to share = no articles..i proposed some ideas and post in congress thread but the reaction was quiet, it was august. lot of irish wasn't here.
and any pm i received, and was a LOT, i all anwsered.
and you're chilean and i bet my golds on the fact chilean CP was by far more inactive...
moo, the main reason we see so few articles from Presidents these days is because there is seldom anything happening to merit the writing of an article. If there is nothing to report then writing an article about what's going on is impossible lol.
It was easy for you to write articles during your terms because interesting and controversial things were actually happening. You writing articles didn't mean you were a good CP. The game as a whole was much better back then and there was always more going on all over the world.
The game has been dumbed down so much that anyone can be CP. What innovation can a CP bring to the table now? Doing an AS is about the only thing we can do these days that could be considered even remotely exciting. Other than that we could elect anyone as President next term, you, me, anyone else and there would not be one bit of difference. Blame the game for being crap, don't blame the poor fool that runs for CP thinking he can do anything to change it.
sadly true. Though I'd argue that a babyboom would solidify any president in the eIrish history books, but I just don't feel at this point that a short-term efficient babyboom is possible. Long term recruitment over multiple terms is the only option.
think tank
I have no relevance :'(
why is that? Serious question... I never really understood
Of course you have relevance, RA! At time of writing, there was no possible way of you winning due to votes cast (it was between Kordak and Nyx). Although your manifesto to take over the treasury and bring in a new era of military dictatorship sounds wonderful, if not popular 😛
sorry seanan load of crap haha
I thought you especially knew better because you did get a little glimpse in your term about what we do with our "connections"
And you glimpsed me neutering the UK with own, Nyx. I wasn't one of those saying you were "running before your time" or said you should be kissing anyone's ass...
>I was saying your position was -weak- because no one of caliber was opposing you. One horse-race, etc.
>hence you've got a challenge to convince the nation you're more than a lone horse (i.e. don't take winning for granted).
Said that because 1) we've had foot-soldiers become SG of alliances, your notion of worth rings hollow until you actually live up to it, and 2) winning CP has never entitled anyone to support from Irish public, you still have to work for it after the event. If you were unclear about that, then Labour shouldn't have set you up to fail - and I am aware that some know that.
Further articles from you just seemed like you were naive about your position (you asked for constructive criticism... that's exactly the impression you left with me and a number of others). The pissing contest with RTK was also just embarrassing and unprofessional for a potential CP... it's election time, international citizens look at candidate articles.
I can only offer honestly, and that's more than you can expect from most.
sure lol hey u did get someone of caliber up there 😃 and the previous term was so brilliant, what can I say ... well played 😃
Kordak would have lost if Labour put forward a well-known/proven Irishman (like An Sluagh, and he'd probably got EA's vote aswell), so not unique to yourself. And my previous term wasn't brilliant, many friends here understood but still disappointed myself... in future I will correct that when rl circumstances allows (that is written).
I understand you may be upset over the result, but this article was purposely delay for when the results were pretty much done as I know my analysis are taken seriously - like with EDEN. You asked for criticism, and I've been fair with it.
lol I don't think so for reasons I will probably write about in my article.
Seanan's work during his CP term....
1. Being online 3 times for 4 minutes
2. Invented an imaginary friend and then made him dead to excuse he being a totally useless CP
And we talk about Seanan who as MoD was so incompetent he could not get back an irish region that brits were giving back to as.
A reason, not an excuse.. Vik. Nor one I'd apologize for, it still is a shit time for me and this game can go suck for it when rl is at stake. In the future, if I get time, I'll try again and likely see you baw'ing about it again.
That said, I still managed to make the UK look like fools. Usually you'd approve... ;__;
I think we must feel blessed that Seanan was so inactive as he is a total disaster when active.
Voted
no me, no vote :3
joke, nice one 😛
Useless Cp who published 2 and 2 excuse articles applauds your 3 article run As always talks as if she is talking for whole of Ireland. A country that applauds mediocrity?
mof suddenly brings out article stating in first line no full reports. 2 to 3 defense of crap term articles.
in our country we have some of the most corrupt politicians when faced with a scandal it is the accepted idea that it must be hidden and swept under the carpet(according to rl mp's that was caught) as they will always cover for their own.
Tell me seanan ,ian e coleman why do you encourage corruption in an eGovernment . Luckily Kordak and me had a chat at the start and he had basically same ideas as me so I think you losers are in for a bit of a surprise.