[JS]The Good Old Days
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by Dr. Straatman
There's been a lot of hate flying around between the Turks and non-Turks the past few days, which reminds me a lot of the days of the FUP/DAP feud. I'm not going to give a complete history of it, but back in V1, eMalaysia was essentially split in two. There was the Federal Unity Party(FUP) and the Democratic Action Party(DAP), both parties went by other names at times, but these are the two that I remember most. For the most part, the FUP was RL Malaysians and the DAP was RL foreigners that had come to live in eMalaysia, there were exceptions of course. That's not to say that RL Malaysians and RL foreigners didn't get along, in fact I believe the split was mostly because one of the leaders of the FUP had created a baby boom of RL Malaysians that naturally flocked to his party. Anyways, in those days it was hard to find an issue that the DAP and the FUP agreed on. However, both sides got along with each other for the most part. There was a healthy competition at election time and not a whole lot of violence(until the end anyways)
You would be hard pressed to find many eMalaysians that were around in the time of the FUP/DAP days, but there's a lot to be learned from the V1 era in eMalaysia. For probably close to a year, eMalaysia has been essentially united during elections. There were multiple candidates, but there weren't two defined sides vying for power like there was in the past. Now the Turks have created that second side in the country and many don't understand how to deal with that. What I'm saying in this article, is that we don't need to be opposed to each other. Personally I'm still neutral in this whole debate, I was of course part of Marcotje's cabinet and Party President of the "Resistance Party," however I changed the name because I was asked to, not because I necessarily wanted too. I've had my share of fighting in the past and I've grown tired of it, I want to go back to a time where two factions could co-exist peacefully in a nation with only minor outbreaks that were few and far between.
I've written another article as well, focusing on where I think both sides are wrong. It can be found HERE
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The other article will be up as soon as eRepublik lets me publish it.
Well, those that came here later, cooperated with eSG's TOers in the last congress election, so eSG took PM thus wiping the other party's congress candidates, leaving them with 3 congress while they have 17 congress members. Is that how coexist peacefully works? They were informed it was a TW where no region will be lost, so they trusted fully and didn't do anything to prevent this from happening.
You can see them fighting and coordinating well during the first rounds of exchanges when it is not election date yet, and all of these disappeared when it mattered most. Yes, I'm not in eMalaysia when all this happened.
They came, shouting that they want to work with people that is originally here, while doing the exact opposite on their back. Perhaps you can call that a clever political movement to gain majority in congress, while I see this as a breach of trust and backstabbing.
I'll get to all that in the next article
I agree completely. I remember it as the FUP and DPP. I may be wrong though.
The Democratic Action Party became the Democratic People's Party near the end
Turks can obtain our respect by respecting eMalaysia democracy not by impeaching the CP at first day of his term and not by creating baby .
Be sure , If they change , people will change too
@Hajariyan
We'll always do what we think good for eMalaysia... We need a dynamic CP who decides quickly. I really liked marco personally in our limited time personal chat, but i think we need some different skills in CP.
And we're changing of course, like everybody, like world. And I hope as eMalaysia we'll fight at the battles toghether. I see that some guys do not fight in the battle of eMalaysia nowadays because they want us to be unsuccessful.
"but i think we need some different skills in CP" lol lmao
Well, you might not have been aware of this, Joe, but the major difference is big. gen_tiger, the head of the FUP, made it a point to slander the DAP, "foreign" eMalaysians and essentially attempted to turn eMY's big baby boom into his private army, behind the scenes. He played a big role in exacerbating the issues that eventually made unity much harder than it needed to be, then turned Balkan Beasts' eSerbian indiscretions into a full blown PTO.
Each step down that road made the whole country that much weaker. (I believe Noveras can confirm what gen_tiger did, as he was the one that blew the whistle on it to begin with.)
Oh I remember gen_tiger well LO, I know what he did(not the part about BB though, that is interesting) I was just referring to in general, when I first came here there was a rivalry, but it was for the most part healthy. It wasn't for a couple months before it was nothing but infighting and slandering.
I can confirm what gen_tiger did. The FUP did attempt to recruit that BB into basically being their own private army, spreading as many lies about the DAP as possible.
I don't want to rekindle any old grudges here, just confirming what LO said.