Wooky Jack for Country President: No Dictatorships for America
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For my TL
😉R viewers: No dictatorship. Elect me as Country President and I will make it so.
For everyone else who enjoys the media module as much as I do, I thank you for your attention:
Yes, you read that right. If I win the Country Presidency I will disolve the dictatorship. And as a favor to our government, who I know will be worried about the finances of such an endeavor, I will lead and fund the Civil War to restore Democracy to its people. And, yes, again, I will finance as much of the defense of our nation as I can with what I have left. I also have numerous friends that would be willing to throw me a bone too if that became a reality. But in my mind, wouldn’t that be fun to start fighting again? I know Plato would be happy hearing that *ca-ching, ca-ching*!
Our meta government has worked very well to figure out a way to ensure the safety of our country, but in the end its only to protect the money. It is not designed to protect the players. And as far as I’m concerned it's tucked away nice and neat in a few accounts that hold safe keeping. For those who are worried that a lone tank can come in and do to us in what happened to eSpain, I welcome the challenge. (I also laughed my ass off seeing sweet Dio justice come to those disgustings!) I welcome the challenge because I will show them how f***ing stupid they are to try and topple our government. I have a king’s ransom myself that I am ready to set for CO’s for the defense of this nation if necessary.
Initially I was going to address a concern I had with the current state of the USAF because the entire state of the MU is dwindling. But then i realized if we did not have a dictatorship over our country, then the USAF might have more of a reason to exist and have something to fight for, be a watchful eye and always put America first. This leads into why I am against a democratic dictatorship.
I’m concerned with the dictatorship model overall. The invention of this was cruel and demoralizing to the game’s active populations, not just in eUSA, but eWorld-wide. Plato appears to have unknowingly absconded away with the beating heart of this game and dwindle it down to energy bars and gold. Bravo, sir, bravo. What is the ‘Community Manager’ you hired last summer trying to do to save face? More weapon stashes and power packs? Do I hear whales swooning? I think we need to save the whales from themselves! PLATO HAS SWIPED THEIR CARDS AGAIN WHILE THEY’RE FAPPING AWAY AT USELESS BH MEDALS.
Look. eRepublik’s streets are bustling in an impoverished, run down neighborhood!
For the past year I have heard so many players talk about how ONE and TWO raped eUSA. I’ve heard for so long how ‘THREE’ could be an imminent threat. ‘THREE’ was going to hit us at any time and wipe eUSA again. (WMD’s in Iraq, amirite? lol) For the past year our Country Presidents and politicians have worked OUTSIDE the game to prevent this from happening, and I applaud their efforts. They’ve done well at protecting the nation from being wiped and from being stripped of its monies.
So what has changed? A faceless government is telling its soldiers what to do.
Presently, they’ve done a great job at telling you to go out and fight for a freedom most players no longer have: the freedom to be a Democratic government. We’ve become so hyper focused on meta-gaming in the eUSA forums that we’ve left an important part of the population behind us. New players that visit our community are obligated to join us in meta gaming because ‘that’s the right thing to do.’ Well, its not anymore! The minute they realize their strength is crap and they have to join ANOTHER forum just to say hi makes them turn tail and run!
A majority of players in our community abstain from participating in the meta politics that run our nation, and for good reason! You see a quite of few of them in the top two MUs of our country. However, the eUSA forums has an immovable, criticizing and demoralizing group of negative nancys that REFUSE to give this game love anymore. Why the hell do new players and the rest of us want to participate in that? If I wanted to go somewhere to be berated by forum trolls and told false hopes about ‘moving up and doing something great’ I could just go to 4chan and reddit for that type of circle jerk-fest. erepublik community is lost in the eUSA forums. Its a shadow of its former self. And if you ever took the time to read past Country President’s articles (2009, 2010) you know what I’m talking about. The elife then has now faded into obscurity.
I want to change that perspective of our community. And what I have observed over the past few days is rather comical, but breathes a bit of hope that I know Trekker, by himself, has tried to do. Its not his fault he was
But I have noticed how panicked and frantic Trekker and his team have been working to preserve his incumbency of Dictatorship. The pressure to not f*** it up in a re-election against a person like me could be a catastrophic failure to those who put him in charge. All of a sudden orgs are springing to life in their media battle against the Writer’s Guild, and other players who have sought to endorse me as his competitor. I’m sure Trekker’s ‘friends’ are shaking in their space boots as they look down on the rest of us, seeing a wave of apathy-stricken players encroaching their level. Have you seen this much in game activity in the last 20-30 days prior to my announcement for the Country Presidency? Have you seen this much activity in game since Deepchill attacked eSpain?
Nope. Its been near half a year now. I’m bored as f*** folks!
Uncle Sam has been feeding on our population and the corpses are still piling up. And Uncle Sam still feeds on corpses after they’ve already been fed on! New players search and search and search for relevancy, but there is no room at the top of the food chain. Am I wrong? Is there room up there? If there is its a boring job!
A while ago I aptly titled my newspaper ‘Hoods on Peregrine.’ eUSA players, WE ARE THE PEREGRINE. Our meta ‘democratic government’ has hoods over our heads and we come when called, and serve at the hands of our masters in the eUSA Forums. The job of the Country President is to place his/her faith in that of the American people to lead this country, not the other way around.
Look at our citizen welcome message, dated 4 months ago.
http://www.erepublik.com/en/main/law/USA/153779
Oh look!
http://eusaforums.com/forum/index.php/board,15.0.html
Our meta congress working hard at preserving the Dictatorship so hard that it forgot about its NEW PLAYERS being sent off into no man’s land. Sounds like real life USA!
Most of the links send a new user to outdated content!!! I’M GOING F***ING MAD AS I WRITE THIS ARTICLE AT HOW LAZY AND UN-HELPFUL THE UNITED STATES IS TO OUR NEW PLAYERS!
Yup, I used this image above, but its only because nothing has changed.
We’ve become complacent. We’ve become irrelevant. Those who hold the keys to our abilities to go anywhere in this game are held hostage themselves by this same game that will only force them to quit when the servers come down. That sounds like a prison sentence. That does not sound like fun at all.
What happens if by some magical credit card that our government is toppled by a foreign dictator? Well, the government orgs are very well managed and can be safely secured as we have already seen: http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/-doe-the-congressional-budget-office-2501997/1/20 (This was an article I wrote because I value education for new players. And a topic like this had not been covered in the Education newspaper for YEARS.)
You might be thinking now: “Ok, Wooky, you have my attention. You’re just going to throw away everything then?”
No. If elected I will serve the United States as the Commander in Chief of the United States Armed Forces. I will not ascend a dictatorship throne. I will pay the money, supply the food and arm its citizens myself to overthrow my mentor, THE TYRANT LIZARD! And, when the dust settles, he will hand over the USAF and the keys to this country so its citizens can manage it for themselves.
The top 5 parties will become alive again, put their arms around new players, and work to place Congressional candidates in office to manage our country for us. Those 60ish Congress members will earn 5 gold dammit, (suck it Plato!!!) and I hope they donate it to government programs once again. I hope those we elect to office will use what is given to them to defend our sovereignty as American citizens.
The government is supposed to spend tax money on defense, let its citizens play the game and manage the politics in their own hands and should the day come when our Freedom is tested, the government will save democracy and open its purse to defend our Freedoms. If the government is still going to be stingy our brothers and sisters in the IDA have made it their mission to remove unwanted dictatorships: http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/-ida-framew0rk-2505422/1/20
And they’ve done splendidly too.
And maybe, just maybe, new players may just appear out of nowhere again like they always have. Because I want to be there to support them.
Wooky Jack for Country President. I don’t need no stinkin dictatorship.
I HAVE AMERICANS.
PS If I win the Country President elections I will be setting up a charitable donation for any monies to go to the efforts of liberating our nation from Dictatorship. Now lets just make sure I win on May 5th, 2015; erepublik day 2,723.
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Freedom mother******, CAN YOU SMELL IT?
Vote for me on MAY 5th!!!
YEAH, WOOKY JACK FOR CP!
o7
lol. you're trying so hard (and not in the good way). good luck i guess.
He's gonna fix broken mechanics. lel
Enjoying your prison sentence?
(Henry has lost all love for this game. )
Pfeiffer has NEVER loved anything but himself.
Regularly.
So you plan to be a rogue POTUS? The Dictatorship law was passed by Congress and you can't just simply not do it because you don't like it.
I have the freedom to write what I think needs to change in America. For all we know the meta congress passed a law ushered by a rogue SoH who was NOT elected SoH after-the-fact.
I want to help the USAF grow again like I made SHIELD relevant when the Federalist Party told me to make it great again. I believe I am the person who can assist the USAF in recruiting new players while being supplied with relevant tools.
"I want to help the USAF grow"
good luck with that
Well, actually he can. That's the reason behind the "start liberation" button. As if he should, this is another question.
@Sweetheart; If writing laws was rouge, that ship has sailed.
Besides, didn't you say that this game sucks and we should get new hobbies?
He's enjoying his life sentence with the rest of the pfriends.
Oh the butt hurt. What to address first... Cooky the whole rogue SoH and decision on what kind of vote it was is just sad to argue.
Tom Joad, I did and I still stand by it.
Why are you here then
Because I am. I've also invested quite a bit of time into the game that I don't see the point of leaving.
Contradictory to say the least, but why rationalize ruining the fun for others I guess.
Contradictory? I suggested others to stop playing. I do the same when others ask if they should play. Is it not true that the game is bad? Do the admins constantly not do shit about all that is wrong with the game?
I'm just saying if your not happy you should just quit if it's based on your investment of time. Why wouldn't you invest time in finding something you enjoy. I will not argue admins idiotic changes, but the only one making you endure them is you. We the people can only dictate how we play and the level enjoyment we get out of it regardless of the admin.
I enjoy the media module, but you had me at, "No Dictator."
GL
This is an inspiring message in a dying game (at least that is how I see it).
Trying to reach what seems impossible is a good try when prepared well.
Good luck!
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So...
1) You've stated your opposition to the dictator law.
2) You've pointed out several problems in this game and the wider eUS community.
3) You've made a connection between those problems and the current dictatorship model.
4) You've said that if elected,
a) you would not support the dictatorship
b) You would take your election as the mandate of the people to overthrow the dictatorship.
5) Finally, you've left us with the idea that electing you and ending the dictatorship will do much to alleviate the issues covered in #2
Does that cover everything?
Assuming that I have this down right, hmm... Yeah, I reject this argument because I consider the connections made in #3 to be tenuous at best. Even if I meet you halfway and agree that all the game and communal problems you point out in #2 are valid, the reality is that all of these issues have persisted for months and months before the dictator module. To make a blanket argument that chucking the dictatorship will fix all that is just a scapegoat. At best, it's misdirection, and at worst, it's outright disingenuous
Yes, this game has issues. Yes, this community has issues. Yeah, the dictatorship module (and likely the way it was implemented by our community) didn't do anything to help those issues, but in the long run, the dictatorship module is not the root of all our problems.
If anything, the root of our problems is player apathy and the reluctance of a lot of players to stop drowning in their own nostalgia. The solution is for people to learn to adapt to change and start working to make this game into something they want to play in and others would want to be a part of. If some folks believe this game is so bad it clearly can't be saved, those people either need to ditch their nostalgia for the good 'ole days and adapt their expectations to the present or they need to accept that this game is no longer what they once enjoyed, hang it up, and stop dragging everyone else down in their pity parties.
^Coincidentally, I'm still trying to figure out how ending the dictatorship is the magic bullet for any of that...
But anyway, I find this whole line of thought and your reasons for framing the election in this light to be interesting. If you want, drop me a PM, and I will make a point to meet up with you on IRC at some point. I'm tired for tonight (this morning), and I feel like an IRC chat will make for a much better discussion than comment posts ad nauseam.
A huge chunk of the community is against the Dicktaker Law - a law that was rammed in by a corrupt Congressional leadership in the first place.
THAT is how #2 and #3 are connected and also how #5 is true.
@Jude:
Huge? I don't know... It's definitely a sizable chunk. How big though? I'm not sure. I'd actually like to find out, so we could have some numbers backing this thing up, and I don't think I'd be bothered if Wooky MMed the entire country in the next couple days to frame this election as a referendum on the dictator issue, because, you know, it's hard to quantify the "silent majority" when they're silent.
Also, man, I think you're cherry-picking my post a bit. I'm not arguing that the dictatorship isn't exacerbating our community issues (I basically said the opposite). I'm just saying that nothing I've seen leads me to believe that ditching the dictatorship is going be a silver bullet to fix all these issues that predate the module itself, and that feels like the idea this article is trying to get across.
I mean, if you want to say that overturning the dictatorship might be the first step in a change of mindset that could start to alleviate the issues mentioned in this article, then I'd say, "Sure, maybe..." but no matter how you slice it, it's going to take a lot more than what this article lets on.
@Racoon; Huge chunk is over 40% Probably more, since the poll was on eUS forum.
The Wooky's plan won't make the game any better, but it will increase activity. It's already started to do that.
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/i-ll-have-some-of-what-he-s-having--2504798/1/20
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I appreciate that you want to discuss and not just troll best comment I have seen on any article in a long time
I have yet to see a comment from RaccoonGoon that isn't thoughtful and reasonable.
Freedom! Freeeeeee-dom! Freedom, Freedom, Freedom.
For whom the bell trolls
No. And you know why? Not because of the dictatorship thing. But because of this : "I want to help the USAF grow again like I made SHIELD relevant when the Federalist Party told me to make it great again. I believe I am the person who can assist the USAF in recruiting new players while being supplied with relevant tools" Why can't you do that without being a president? Why not ask to join the ranks of the MU and help them out? Once you will be president you will have maybe no spare time to concentrate on this. Without being a president this would be your main role.
It's easy to say that you will do it IF you are president....but why not do it now that you are not president?
And I am not saying that you have to be the MU commander to help them grow so please do not use this as an argument.
Yeah I remember my first beer
makes no sense but thank you for your interest!
For almost all of my eLife I have been a PMU kinda guy. If some of my supporters believe I can help our national MU they should consider electing me as CP. The incumbent sure is not making an effort to publicly recruit new USAF members and ensure the new citizen message is up to date about informing new players to join USAF because its a conflict of interest since he is technically 2nd commander of Easy Company. He's just a babysitter in the USAF. If the USAF and others trust me to make the MU my number one priority like I say I will, then you can take that to the bank.
Fair answer, but still a political one. My opinion on the USAF is that it needs a complete revamp and a fresh start and this needs to be done on a non-political basis. However you blaming Trekker for not being true to the USAF and still looking after Easy Company is uncalled for. Lets not transform this race in a dirty one!
Now coming to the Dictator aspect: you are willing to waste all that money and resources and also disregard what the cost was to install the dictator? Is that really called for? Can we afford that? can we not use those resources to do something more fun for the eAmericans..like going crazy and air strike everyone? or arm everyone and erase eSerbia(or at least try) ? Will this not be more fun for everyone?
That will be for Congress to decide if we should attack. I'm not close minded about what funds should be used for, but since I'm here might as well break up the dictatorship with congress if I can.
I'm not trying to disrespect Trekker's position in Easy and being USAF Commander, its just a conflict of interest and he's no advocate for building up the USAF numbers. The military unit needs someone who will dedicate their full weight to it. I can offer this because that is what this country needs in a National MU. Its held accountable to the nation and should be an exemplary leader at the same time.
FREEDOM o/
\o/
I wasn't in love with the process used to pass the amendment that morphed into a law. All of that said I'd respect your position a bit more if you'd campaigned on it from the start. A majority vote would also be needed to repeal said law. It was close though. If nothing else this should be interesting.
It shall be interesting and I am glad you're still around to watch. 🙂
We might need a getaway driver.
It didn't 'morph', but I'm sure you were tracking Congress really closely at the time so you're the expert.
Let's see Speaker says ammendment. It doesn't meet that threshold then somehow it was just a law. Like I said I didn't love the process. Does that mean I'll run around screaming anarchy, conspiracy, and/or power grab? No. I understand why it was done. I just disagree with the how.
It never was an amendment, the Speaker doesn't get to dictate what proposals do or do not say. That's not complicated.
A very inspirational piece. To those who disagree with Wooky, you need an alternative! Keeping the status quo isn't an answer to a system that isn't working the first place. I agree, I'd like to see a poll to convey public opinion about the dictatorship. I think some of you would be surprised with the results. It's difficult to see the new, active people from your high. meta-thrones. WJ4CP.
Those 60ish Congress members will earn 5 gold dammit, (suck it Plato!!!)
You had me here 😛 Yay! Gold!