What are We?
J.A. Lake
Hello Comrades,
While pondering the status of the average eAmerican player and the condition of our society, I came to an interesting question.
Is our society fascist?
To answer this question, we must examine the noxious ideology of fascism and its core tenets, and compare them to our situation.
1) Nationalism: the exhortation of the virtue of a single state or people over all others. This sounds very familiar. Everything you are instructed to do by the government is for the eUSA, or eAmerican security, or to keep other people out unless they are cleared by the government. Everything we do is for a predetermined notion of what an “eAmerican” is.
2) Totalitarianism: the state holds total authority over all matters public and (whenever possible) private. This one is a dead-ringer for the eUSA. What do we do that isn’t state-sanctioned? If you approve a citizenship request they don’t mull over, you are blacklisted. If you say something in Congress that they don’t like, you are censured. If you do something in-game deemed against the desires of the state, you are censured and blacklisted. The state controls all, and that which it doesn’t control is excluded from the operation of the state.
3) Single-Party State: only one party has the right to form the government. This is harder to prove either way. On one hand, you see clearly that there are tens of political parties in the eUSA. That would seem to automatically disprove this tenet of fascism. However, individuals have gone on record in the past as saying that the eUS Government is composed of specific agents from specific parties: the USWP makes up the head of the executive branch, the Federalists run the bureaucracy, and the other parties "don’t matter." That shows that the USWP and Feds are really part of the same organization (a singular party?) that works to dominate the country.
4) Cult of Personality: the use of media and communications to build the image of a heroic, selfless, and/or omnipotent leader. This one is also hard to prove in any conclusive fashion. The eAmerican cult of personality doesn’t follow any one individual, but a group of them that form an exclusive revolving-door cast of leaders.
5) Dictatorship: political authority is monopolized by an individual or political party, and opposition is oppressed. This goes hand-in hand with totalitarianism, however barring breaking the game true dictatorship is impossible, as democracy is always a possibility. At the worst, a dictatorship would involve a collusion of Congress and the President and last a month before voters tossed most of them out.
6) Militarism: the belief that a strong military must be maintained and used to promote national interest. This is one of those things that is extolled as a virtue of the eUSA: we have a well-organized government military, according to the leadership. It is sworn to do the bidding of the government unquestioningly (as their predecessors have been excoriated for disobeying an immoral order, the current military is likely firmly lashed to the executive). It is also used to batter countries for “national security reasons” and to harvest resources from weaker neighbors.
7) Imperialism: seizure of lands and resources from other peoples, in an effort to raise and support an empire. Canada. Cuba. Japan. France. The eUSA actively seeks out and destroys nations that cannot stand up to her might for their resources. The endgame is to establish an Empire, gaining more resources for that nation at the expense of many other peoples.
It would seem to this author that our country's form of government is fascist in nature, though not totally so. Some elements of fascism are impossible to achieve due to the game's mechanics. The best name for it may be a pseudo-fascist oligarchy/plutocracy.
Given our analysis of the tenets of fascism, what do you think? Is the eUnited States a fascist society? If not, what is it?
Until next time,
Comrade J.A. Lake
Join the struggle, comrades!
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"the USWP makes up the head of the executive branch, the Federalists run the bureaucracy, and the other parties 'don’t matter.'"
Hi, WTP CP checking in.
They aren't exception-less rules 😃 That's almost a direct quote I was given while in the USWP though.
More than 50% of people in the Top 5 parties are in either the Feds or USWP. It's hard to fight numbers like that, especially because they also have the highest numbers of active political players.
With those kind of numbers, it's not surprising to hear a member of one of those parties say that they "control" something purely by nature of their size and influence.
No mere member but a leading light of the party-- an old timer in fact-- said it with conviction. There's got to be something to that
Dear DMJ, but in the Cabinets, the pseudo Congressional bodies, the pseudo agencies, you see a handful of people - always the same names.
One thing is funny: no T5 party votes as a block - you said it yourself, they are at liberty to chose how to vote in Congress at least.
But funny how they're all united when voting for Potuses or PPs - no liberty there!!! Amazing!!!
Dear VT:
In the cabinets, in the the pseudo congressional bodies, in the pseudo agencies, formed by the pseudo congressional bodies, pseudo elected by the pseudo players running fake accounts all run by Pfieffer, what names have "always" remained the same? Are there players who have played this game for years? Have they been at this so much longer than you that they have gained "GASP" experience?!? Is the dastardly crime, truly, that they started first and refused to quit when your divine presence revealed itself? I must agree with your views here oh great and Valiant Thor. You are truly named, no player that started years before your majesty revealed itself could ever accrue more eminence nor more renown than your own divine presence.
Please my lord, post your address so your faithful can find you more easily.
FHTAGN!!!
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So if I play this game longer then another, that gives me more rights in the meta realm??? And Publius, Evry and Kemal have a "card blanche" to administer our tax monies gained during these years. And of course, it is forbidden to ask how much our nation has on the accounts, because it's a matter of "national security" - better the evil PTOers don't know the amount, might drive them crazy to do sh*t and try to steal it!!!
And your a Dead person, your name says so, so why-da-fuq am I talking to a dead person?????
You talk to the dead for the same reason I talk to the brain dead, boredom. FYI, carte blanche is a blank cheque. Why would someone be given unlimited access to funds they already had in total? If they are in charge then yes,... they get all the blanchee cards the demon dealer can give out....
Also, yes. If you play this game and build a strong reputation over the course of years and also help to build an off site structure to support the entire nation all the while spending real life money on worthless in-game-gold or to support the eUS forums then-it is like I said. Yes. Yes such a person doing these things would be better than a shitbag that did nothing but complain. Yes an actual financial supporter of the community is better than you are. They are better in every way, morally, philosophically, politically, sexually, chemically....take your pick of insecurities and yes, they are better.
Kill yourself now, q1 are cheap. Just put the pistol to your head and it will all be alright. You can show those a-holes who is boss. I am sure we will all be sorry when you teach us how much we really needed you. Once you end it all we are all going to be really sorry. Without you we will all be doomed seeing as math is a national secret. If the Serbian neckbeards ever learn math the entire world will implode!!!!!
Carte blanche also means "Full Powers" a$$hat. But I see that the miracles of Google-searching the internet didn't reveal to your sh*t-4-brainz, dumbo. I also did not know that it all come down to "RL money" supporting an pseudo-meta-junkyard of a forum, but hey - one does learn new things every day LMAO
It is so comforting to see new tools arising in our community, future marionettes of those before mentioned meta-creeps. And with such an discriminating attitude towards an ethnicity, you will probably soon become a rising star among the establishment; I'm sure the elitist mobsters will draft you to the "darkside"! Anyways, before I put you on #ignore - yes you made it - I have only one more thing to say to you:
You really are fumb as duck - !!!!!!
& I'll repeat it, cuz you slow-thinker, need to read sentence twice:
You really are fumb as duck - !!!!!!
And for safety reasons, just one more time - hope you got it by then:
You really are fumb as duck - !!!!!!
This "bureaucrat" supported the WTP CP
That "bureaucrat" got a cabinet seat for his support!
Good game, buddy 😉
This lazy a$$hole supported this WTP presdent also. Just too lazy to write an article.
VT=VD
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We have the ability to take a road less traveled or beat their own path. I'm not willing to put eUS into a category. All of the America are Tom Joad Junior and Misses. Doing so would put me into the same category. They had the same struggle and triumph as us.
I don't think he means all of America - just the ruling elite.
A couple of other markers of fascism would include declaring all forms of dissent to be treason, seeking to control all press channels, harassing of civilian groups / organizations of a civil society, and developing a thug caste. While there are occasional flare-ups along those lines in eUSA, my point of view is that there are enough anarchist-minded free-thinkers and players with a basic sense of fair play to prevent, almost without even trying to, the worst excesses. The worst thing for a fascist is to have young people laughing at him behind his back. I'd say we have plenty of that, if perhaps not quite enough laughing outright in The Leader's face.
And I'm witnessing that these numbers of free-spirited & open-minded people are rising - there is hope Murrica!!!
"pseudo-fascist oligarchy/plutocracy". - short: PFOP
You nailed it, pal, you nailed it!
Great analysis - would love to vote more then once 😉
The leader of your party is a former sees member and proud of it...My article tomorrow THE FUZZY FEWER, will speak of that dark time
And what would be the problem with SEES? A lot of the best the eUSA had to offer came from SEES. Also the game was much more entertaining when When SEES lived.
S.E.E.S is dead; Long live S.E.E.S
that you are so f...ing stupid, that you can't see how well you make my piont is laughable. sees was nothing but an elitest party bent on worshipping the death of the game. they ptoed every party, this was good?
Firstly, you calling anyone stupid is laughable considering you lack the ability and intelligence to even properly put together a sentence that makes sense. The game is horrible. Although the potential is there for it to be great, it's effectively been wasted. So why not have fun with that fact. Finally, Americans winning elections in American parties with Americans voting them in is not PTO. So strap your helmet back on so you don't bump your head while your care giver feeds you and try not to be late for your special ed class.
Aren't they S.A.W.S now? You know, casue they are dead, so like past tense?
a hey f...ing stupid, I know how bad my english is, and you think that grammer matters in your great game?
No, grammar doesn't really matter. It's not your grammar I find funny. It's the fact that you can't manage to spell words that my kid easily mastered correctly. Tell me, in your "special" case was it fetal alcohol syndrome, retardation, autism, or did you just eat a lot of lead paint chips as a kid.
Somebody will have to define SEES for me xD
SEES: Specialized Elite Execution Squad
It used to be a top 5 party
SEES was the troll party back in the old days.
"Attack the enemy in the media as well as the wall"....blah blah
For all the hate they get now I heard they won the war though. US down to just Florida and the tide turned.
So were they bad enough to warrant the era of their existence being referred to as a "dark time"?
Not really. They were just really loud. They didn'd commit every evil but they talked about it publicly and laughed at others offence. I think that was the point.
Curious, would that time be considered darker if we had been wiped out by invaders?
Go ask Rainy, I think she was in SEES. Maybe PearlSwine still plays.....
time line all wrong, raiiny's polllotics are as foul as they come, she can jump about parties run for pp at a whim and then jion another for a congress run, utterly elitest, I do the same and I would be considered the next Ajay.....
I was never in SEES. Loosen your tin foil hat, Pumpkinette, you are making CHS look too normal!
If I recall you were USWP weren't you. This guy seems to have as much of a hard on for S.E.E.S. a long dead movement as CHS has for Pfeiffer. Hell, most of S.E.E.S. went to the Holy Sands long ago.
I was USWP PP then and ran SEES candidates before the party became a T5 party.
I used to hang out with alot of SEES folks, since trolls like the company of other trolls. But SEES was just another group of people I hung out with and they helped me to perfect my trolling, just like other trool/goon groups in other games I play/communities I frequent.
Pumpkinette is just Pumpkinette. He has always been this way and will always be that way.
oh so dismissive, thanks for the love and both friend request, I only answered one, so my alerts, letmeknow your true feelings....
Great article JA. I was literally saying this exact thing four years ago! Things don't change.
I know right!
I ate taco bell four years ago and I still have the shits!
Shit never changes, POOT!
Taco Bell... bad call. Mickey D's is where it's at.
Your both wrong Burger King, simply for the Zesty Sauce.
The new McD's habanero ranch is really good.
I don't know about everyone else, but I'm a giraffe.
What are the alternatives and how could they be reasonably implemented?
I figure militarism is a bit of a given in this game with public and private militaries, all with different motivations. Or as is the case with jude and the bear cavalry, little ideological affiliation with specific countries or alliances (not that it's a bad thing it's just the most well known example I could think of) but in my severely uninformed opinion, having either only unaffiliated militias wouldn't help defend the country and its allies as efficiently as it otherwise could, and on the other end, having a single government controlled militia might be more direct, but at the cost of individual choice.
Neither is a particularly good idea and the system we currently have, while it has its faults, isn't decidedly one way or the other with regards to militias, the recent tournament showed that our independent militias are just as powerful, if not more so than the state funded one.
also as far as totalitarianism and blacklisting goes [If you approve a citizenship request they don’t mull over, you are blacklisted.] pretty sure that's to try and prevent repeating past mistakes.
I think the government is fascist insofar as the game mechanics require.
I agree with your point about the militarism, to an extent. The Bear Cav is, to my knowledge, the only MU with an ideology that isn't nationalist in nature. I think that an ideology-based MU is a good alternative, definitely an internationalist one. I know that's kind of a conundrum-- an internationalist MU based in a nation-- but the way I'm thinking of it is an MU that follows the will of the people rather than the will of the government.
Take Canada for example. Public opinion turned against the war after a point, and at that point it should've ended... but it drug on beyond that point. This MU would have stopped operations in Canada at that point in time.
As far as fascism goes, I don't think it's required at all, really. I think that as a society we can put our heads together to come up with something better, and it's my goal through the Red Gazette to spark conversations that will lead to that goal.
Game mechanic require a fascist government - great opportunity to become a fascist?!
Let us all be fascists!!!!!!
HAIL
HAIL
HAIL
/me facepalms
The game mechanics will not only allow totalitarianism to get out of hand. But, Fascism is totally plausible. (I'm don't promote it.)
But, wealthy citizens that are not elected are the proprietors of many of our nation's assets.
#2-5: Everything written here is about (almost) any other eCountry. Because every country has a very short number of players which are ready to do something useful. Not once, but every day. That's why everyone has its own elites.
USWP controls everything. We are the masters of the country. Bow to our power.
I bow with my ass turned towards your nose!
Feel free to explore with all your senses xD