Will the Real Pizza the Hut Please Stand Up?
Socialist Freedom Org
First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out --
Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out --
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out --
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me -- and there was no one left to speak for me.
-- Martin Niemöller
Will the Real Pizza the Hut Please Stand Up?
A campaign of fear and harassment.
Inviting historical enemies of the USA to join your party.
Using hackneyed anti-communist rhetoric straight out the 1950's.
Adopting the language of irrational right-wing idolatry and even fascist rhetoric to crush dissent.
Who does that sounds like?
It has come to our attention that certain sectors of the USA's ruling class have decided to out-Pizza the Pizza.
A few facts for your consideration...
* The Socialist Freedom Party is the longest-standing 6th party in the USA. Since the SFP was formed, it has never changed its name or suffered through a crisis of leadership. It is far and away the most successful 6th party in terms of a group of players getting together to have fun by playing the game the way they want to play it.
* The Socialist Freedom Party stands for exactly what its name implies: Socialism, meaning social solidarity and a worker-oriented economy, and Freedom, meaning the right to express your views freely, to decide how you want to play the game, and respect for the opinions and choices of others.
* The Socialist Freedom Party is a multi-tendency party that welcomes players with a diverse set of viewpoints. Our basis of unity is the Party Program and the Party Constitution.
* The Socialist Freedom Party is a proud member of the Internationale, an organization that groups together leftist parties from around the world who share similar goals. This organization is unique within eRepublik for refusing to go along with the EDEN vs. Phoenix super-alliance paradigm, bringing together players across those divides to promote critical thinking, alternative economic policies, and international community.
* When the USA was threatened with annihilation in the summer of 2009, the Socialist Freedom Party did everything in its power to defend the homeland.
* It was the Socialist Freedom Party, in the person of former Senator Robert Bayer, who launched the most devastating criticisms of Ajay Bruno, before he became Pizza the Hut. To characterize Pizza the Hut as a "liberal" or a "leftist" is ridiculous. It is an attempt to malign leftists -- and especially the SFP -- by sowing confusion and lies.
* The eUS Government does a disservice to all of its citizens by attacking the Socialist Freedom Party.
-- The Revolutionary Committee of the Socialist Freedom Party
October Surprise!
by Osmany Ramon
Our readers may be familiar with the phenomenon of the October surprise in real life American campaign politics.
The idea is that a scandal or other news items breaks in October just a week or two before the election that either makes one candidate look good or one candidate look bad. Often the candidate that benefits from the breaking news is accused of sitting on the information until it can be strategically leaked at the right time to have the most positive impact on their election.
One of the most famous instances of the October surprise is when Ronald Reagan allegedly made a deal with the Iran hostage takers to not release the hostages while Carter was president which made Carter look weak and may have cost him re-election.
It would seem that our own rulers have studied the phenomenon well and have recreated it here to great effect. Anyone else notice the congressional election pattern over the last year and a half? Instead of an October surprise, we have the 23rd surprise when on the 23rd of each month, the eUS faces the largest PTO threat we have ever faced and drastic measures are taken to stop those efforts. Anti-democratic efforts, even.
This month, the Federal Election Commission took it upon itself to tell the eAmerican people who the real candidates for Congress are.
No surprise, they are mostly incumbents, friends of the FEC, those in bed with Administration and generally those who are obsessed with maintaining their power or rather the benefits of that power: your tax dollars. Those that didn’t make the cut included smaller 6th party candidates and anyone who represents a challenge to the power structure we have suffered under since practically the beginning of this nation.
These efforts are not new.
Since I started playing nearly a year and half ago, I have seen calls for taking Congressional elections out of game in so-called primaries over and over again. When these efforts don’t flat out fail as they did recently in the presidential election, these efforts have largely been defeated over and over again but only because those who are for them lose interest. They refuse to hear arguments about the sacredness of the vote in a democracy, holes in their plans to ensure the vote is both accessible to all eAmericans and safe from tampering. Now, it seems, we will just forgo the semblance of democratic process and have some group of Administration officials declare who is and who is not a real candidate. And all because of the constant and pervasive threat of PTO.
The detractors of democracy will argue that critics like me are just bitter because our candidates were snubbed and we are more concerned with partisanship than protecting the country from our enemies abroad. Well I say, if we undermine democracy at the drop of a hat and in doing so continue to let these scoundrels rob the eAmerican people blind, then why should I care if this country is PTO’d or not? Either way, it’s not my country if I have no voice.
These 23rd Surprises have got to stop and efforts to take our voting to out-of-game venues must end. At best, those who are behind them think that eAmericans are too stupid to figure out who the PTO candidates are in a congressional election. At worst, they’re just figuring out ways to keep their hands in our cookie jar.
Comments
Do not discard brain. Oppose attacks on the SFP.
tl;dr something about pizza in a cookie jar is what I got from reading the title and last line \o/
You got it. Pizza is in the cookie jar!
Hating Ajay is probably the most enduring thing I have in common with my old country.
Ajay pretended to help US, but hes a danger to us.
And we should expose those in the government who behave exactly like him.
s.e.e.s. criticized Pizza the Hut while at the same time running glados for congress...glados is the man who launched WWIII against America...for me glados is worse than Pizza the Hut...I think there should be a limit to the number of time you may hold office...1 time for President and 2 times for Congress...
Ajay Bruno is a Sean Hannity wannabe, you see it in the rhetoric of all his alter egos, and you hear it on his BTR show. He presses the same buttons every conservative egotist presses, calling his enemies traitors, and the farther to the left they are, the more likely he'll condemn them for being Stalinist. As for the SFP, they were the first band of brothers I had in this world, and they're still in my heart, no matter where I do. While other American political parties rise and fall, the SFP has remained consistent, remained stable, and remained active, from their communes to the Bear Cavalry (Ursa Fi, do or die!). They do more than just try to get people elected. The SFP is a family, and the people who wrote this article have been my brothers for a long, long time.
Voted and agreed. A choice that is not a choice is not a choice.
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SFP for Life Essay 😛
seriously, enough with the fear based politics
we get enough of that in the "real world"
since this is a game, we should be able to do it better
you could call it good sportsmanship, or non-doucheness, same difference
The article by Osmany Ramon conveniently failed to mention that the extraordinary ATO efforts were immediately canceled as soon as the Admin team removed the Republican party's candidates.
It talks about manipulation and distortion, then manipulates and distorts.
No effort like this has ever been taken before, to my awareness. Can you provide other examples of this 23rd of the Month Surprise phenomena that you've claimed?
It was also claimed that the candidates picked were friends of the administration and otherwise in-bed with the establishment, but as I recall SFP's great patron CivilAnarchy was among those listed. Am I to believe that he did not represent SFP in anyway or is it being implied that he is somehow just another corrupt political figure out for only himself?
I find this argument falls entirely flat.
Civil Anarchy is not affiliated with the SFP anymore, so no he did not represent us
So, he's just another corrupt political figure that's in bed with the establishment? 😉
All I said is he is no longer with the SFP