We the Revolution
Daenerys Stormborn Targaryen
Firstly I will thank all the party members who voted for me, and the random new players still yet to make their appearance in our forums or even in the shout box who clicked the run for PP button, my nerves really didn't need a potential party pto but at least it added a little excitement to a rather dull election. Please guys, get involved, use the shout box, hell I'll even give you a cookie.
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Anyway, given the past week I have delayed in writing this, with Cabinet screaming at Senate, and Senate screaming at Cabinet, a CP who seems to be mute and Speakers with delusions of self importance, there was enough random chaos going on that anything I released would have been lost among the carnage.
Now that has died down I have decided its time to move our party onwards and releasing something pretty much unseen in political circles for years, an actual party platform.
Wait, a platform? No way that's crazy Larni, its like you expect senators and members of your party to actually be working to achieve a common goal.
Its true, I do expect that. The ARP will not be like other parties where each member is not held accountable for their actions. WE represent the people, and we WILL answer to them. This Revolution is not some half assed powergrab, this is about empowering the new players to make a difference. When other parties seek to silence them, We will give them a platform to speak.
Already you can see our influence in the media as new players speak out and older players develop their voice, examples of these can be found in articles from Mickskitz: A serious letter to eChile from a eAustralian Citizen, Louise Brooks: A Damsel with a Dulcimer , both long time silent eAus players, Vyrin, the n00b spammer: Signs of Hope in eAUS?
🙂as well as the old wizard Xavier Griffith: Chile, Australia, CoT who's article promoted an official response from Chile.
There are others preparing, some seeking their first senate seat, some lining up for potential cabinet positions in the next government. Those who have been abused and ridiculed by TPTB (the powers that be) and have come under my wings. In truth it is THEIR Revolution and I am merely a guiding light.
While our platform is till being developed I have decided to release a sneek peek so that any wishing to join the party and provide imput from their own experience, will be able to see the direction we are coming from and most importantly where we are going.
Senate:
*Forum Senate protocols will be based upon ingame dynamics.
*Speaker and dSpeaker positions will be removed to the point where their jobs is simply locking votes and tallying up results. Individual senators must take ownership of their own proposals, and ensure they have the backing needed. The present system allows half assed things to go to vote... and as the recent Chile Aus treaty debacle proved, most of the time these are just not ready but pushed to vote because of the laws governing the system.
International Relations:
The ARP will be pro CoT and do everything in our power to lead our nation there. Those of us who remember the EDEN deception will be aware that we were simply tricked into joining EDEN and for all the years since have been forced to suffer as a small nation surrounded by neighbours in an enemy alliance, be it Phoenix, One, CoT whatever. Truth is that 5 people made the decision for us to join EDEN. Its time we as a nation openly took the other road.
Military:
In conjunction with the ADF Marshal we will be looking at moving the military to a complete MU funding system and locking it in stone. This was briefly attempted a month ago and to be honest the MoD and the Marshal were both on different wavelengths and it turned into a cluster&^$%%. We firmly believe it is the best method of utilizing our military, and we also believe that any implementation of this system MUST be done by the Marshal and his team, not with Government interference.
New Players:
Are our future, its time for the old players to take a back seat. I am sorry but if you have been a senator more than 3 times in a row, then you need to take long service leave to get fresh senators in. To keep new players going, we need to offer them rewards and treat them as people, not as simple numbers used to bolster up political parties while we use the same handful in senate. This WILL NOT happen in the ARP. While we will need an experienced head or two as guide new players they will simply be mentor roles, not dictators.
Join me today and be part of the change:
ARP
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Daenerys Stormborn Targaryen
(Formerly Larni)
Comments
Lets start a new anthem "Glory to (insert name here)"
"Glory to le Noobs" el oh el ex oh ex oh lelelelelelele
In 4 soup
"Glory to Glory Holes!" 😛
I have some issues on your goals for Senate reform:
Remove Senate moderators. Right. Nothing as much fun as a forum of very opinionated people without rules or moderation. If anything, it will make the place worse.
So a Senator can lock their own thread -- no problem that. Who starts votes? Who tallies it? Who updates the policies section in parliament for laws passed? The Speaker is a moderator. The law even says so. You think they are biased, start a motion of no-confidence. So what is the problem? Somebody has to do the work. Perhaps appoint a Speaker team who are not Senators if you are so concerned about bias. Mull that one over for a revolution.
So an abstention is the same as a yes or a no vote? Or is it simply refusal to vote but, ironically, a way to note this? The entire point of an abstention is to show you were there, but refused to make a choice. As pointless as this seems, it has value sometimes and allows you to distinguish between absent Senators and those who simply refuse to weigh in. Arithmetic says that if you allocate an abstention as a yes or no, then it is actually becomes a yes or no and not an abstention. Be the dude and do the math.
Nothing can make Senate worse than it is, all you need to do is have the Speaker or dSpeaker in your pocket and you get away with everything. Standard forum rules will apply, something offensive gets posted, it gets reported and the gmods deal with it.
When the Senator believes they have enough backing they take it to vote themself. Maybe there will be a guideline that the same act cannot be passed within a week of failing to prevent people simply spamming votes endlessly but it should be up to the person who's 'vision' the act was to be responsible for delivering it.
Refusing to make a choice to vote should be classed as a refusal to vote. It is not a yes, it is not a no but it is still a number that needs to be looked at in the final tally. 50% + 1 should be of entire tally not just people who said yes or no. The yes:5/no:3/abstain:4 is a perfect example of something that should not have been passed. So it goes back to the drawing board for a week while it gets fine tuned. If 4 people out of 12 abstain, there is something wrong.
"The ARP will be pro CoT and do everything in our power to lead our nation there."
One word. YEAH!!!!!!
"Speaker and dSpeaker positions will be removed"
Cut that red tape to shreds Larni!! U should go further but that's a good start.
"* the 50% + 1 majority to pass a vote will count "Abstaining" as actual votes.... yes:5/no:3/abstain:4 will not be enough to pass a law."
LMAO
voted.
"Standard forum rules will apply, something offensive gets posted, it gets reported and the gmods deal with it."
For crying out loud - the reason we have an elected moderator in Parliament is because Senate kept complaining how forum admin interfered in government affairs! How is an unelected moderator ever going to be better than someone appointed by consensus? Think about it really, really hard.
CrusaderCarl, Aus is going nowhere near CoT if Chile keep avoiding the Aus issue and ducking making a commitment to our liberation. Frankly, I am surprised NZ isn't still pissed off at Chile for stealing kiwi resources by crashing the Aus-NZ land-swop.
Why would eChile care if u have regions or not??
Now they might give a shit if u made a move towards CoT.
Spamming noob want the cookie you offered! 🙂
I spam because I love.
@Majester: So check the results of the current system. When things start to work well, you will have a point. It's results that matter and changes CANT MAKE IT WORSE. Please.
An eAustralian political party developing policy? Fark me dead! Been a while.
It is the coming revolution - it will be a change for the better
That didn't even make sense Vyrin.
It was a bit too subtle for you Callumh ?
Dumb your post down about for him please Vyrin 😃
Subtle? just because you grew a vocabulary and learned how to propaganda does not make you the queen intellectual. What I meant was that he is proposing that we remove something that isn't broken, to something that may or may not fail. Or something else that he has not mentioned.
your just jealous cause you ain't got a volkabulery wot like i got.
Besides, its not broken, it just doesn't work
I like i like.
Mad jelly
It has been working for the last 5 years and it still is, why change it?
'Cause Larni said so? ^
Lany = Larni's evil twin