Compromise and Community
Butjam
Good evening ladies and gents, this is your Queen with a lovely bit of self-indulgent self-promotion to remind you all of how lovely I am and to make you all vote how I’m going to be voting and to make us all rediscover our sense of community. I debated calling this article “Compromise and Unity”, but I did want to dodge the post-modern fashion show connotations of this thing...
Talon was shocked at how poorly the new designs, “Unity, by Keers” went down
Though the title has changed and is a compromise (see what I did there?) the message remains the same as it has been for a long time: The eUK is a team. Obligatory football joke about how we need to be better than the English team. Obligatory follow up joke apologising to the eScottish, eWelsh and eNorthernIrish with a shocking twist that shows I wasn’t apologising for lumping them with England, but because they have even worse teams. I am such a cad. Anyway, yes, the eUK seems to be very good at forgetting that at the end of the day our success relies very much on being able to work together. I mentioned on MaryamQ’s article, the big problem we have with false dichotomy around here, and I’m about to swell my head tenfold by quoting myself:
False dichotomy is the biggest problem in the eUK, somewhere along the line it feels like we've either allowed ourselves to simply see every situation as binary or, just as bad, we've allowed people who believe/use them to become the vocal minority. Maybe it's a mixture of both, or none, but we see it all the time.
"ARE YOU TUP OR VENDETTA? ARE YOU PTO OR ATO?" Is obviously the big one we've seen dominate us for ages but it's not the only one. "ARE YOU SERBIA OR POLAND?" is a common one, as we cannot be cordial with one without being full of hatred for the other. As I said on the forums, it's perfectly feasible to remain friendly with a country whilst recognising that we have different aims and goals.
Speaking of the forums, we also find "FORUMS ARE THE WORST, THEY ARE THE NEST OF THE ELITE, FULL OF BIAS AND HATRED FOR US!" or "FORUMS ARE THE ONLY WAY TO COMMUNICATE PROPERLY, WE HAVE TO USE FORUMS BECAUSE THEY ARE THE BEST". I don't think either of those are true, obviously, but I know that even I'm guilty of hopping on with the bandwagon for the latter sometimes. Hopefully people will come to their senses soon and accept that, as a team and a country, the best option is to find the right compromises between all of these.-Butjam
Artist’s representation of my swollen ego
I could bang on about all three of those points until the cows came home but you don’t need to listen to that at the moment, it’s not important. What is important is that we recognise the changing face of the UK and try to avoid our past mistakes. Propagating the split between us all isn’t healthy and more than any wipes, any lost bonuses, any alliance fallouts, will kill our community. Professor Moriarty made an excellent point in his recent interview with Sir Roman...
Well, the game itself means nothing. The community means something. It is the community why many players are still here, not the game. And because of the community, then we have to have a Government. A Government is less part of the game, more part of the Community.-Prof. J Moriarty
...and we’d do well to pay attention. Erepublik is just a game. Our players are people. We often find ourselves lashing out with venom and neglecting this sometimes, we get so drawn into a game that we forget what matters. We get so stubbornly stuck to our points that we lambast people without warrant and escalate a situation and lose all sight of the middle ground, there’s no conspiracy breeding the dichotomy, we all contribute.
Speaks for itself...
So what do I suggest? A number of things actually...
Look elsewhere politically. Maybe that’s considering a party full of excellent candidates or even just demanding your Party President runs people that aren’t older members who dominate the rankings month after month. Talk to people about something that isn’t Erepublik. Chat to BigAnt about football, ask Wayne if he’ll build you a chair, get Leo to tell you how cute his kids are, anything to break away from being tossers to each other for five minutes. Get involved with ‘The Community’ outside of elections and the battlefield by having a gander at fantasy football leagues organised on the forums or by hopping onto IRC during the footie. Be silly and love the powerless Monarchy and choose people who deserve to be recognised by being given them silly fake titles. I got to be Queen of the whole Kingdom simply by having unparalleled beauty... it’s not a fussy court!
With all of this in mind, I want to once again encourage you to look up The United Kingdom Reform Party, come join in our fun and embrace a third way. It’s not easy when you’re the oldest party around but I think we’re leading a fresh approach to encouraging compromise in eUK politics and those who join us will be welcomed with a friendly atmosphere. Speaking of compromise, I’d also like to suggest that you support Prof J. Moriarty in the July election and not just because he called me handsome. We have a big month coming up, I believe, and a Silly Spamican See-P is the only way to have enough fun to approach the future together. That said, consider this an open application from myself to any and all cabinets. I could rattle off what I’ve done, but it should be sufficient to say I scuffled through a Minister of Foreign Affairs role under BigAnt... I am prepared for whatever you could possibly throw at me.
Long live the eUK, her silly titles and her silly players, her extremely good looking Monarchy (Wills and Kate have got nothing on #TeamWolJam) and bollocks to this daft cesspit we’ve dug ourselves.
Lots of love, wet kisses and cheeky winks
Queen Butjam of the eUK (and also possibly the eCommonwealth if those pesky ‘Canadians’ settle down a bit)
xxx
Comments
Uhhh
UKRP is the orginal founder of the "TUP Side" of the UK. I fail to see how you guys have been anything but firmly in the TUP camp for years.
We have a lot of shared policies, we differ in our approach. The people that you're angry at barely have anything to do with the party, or even the game, any more so I'd think you're being a little petty by still refusing to work with an entire party
UKRP were aggressive while TUP stayed mostly out of it except the last year where those roles were reversed. New Era/Vendetta originally was against UKRP's legislation/facism/misrule.
I appreciate that you are posting very reasonably atm and have reformed the forums to be safe so I'll support you personally, but for UKRP as a party I think we need to see some action first instead of words.
A lot of our big members have long since left, nowadays we've taken up idling around and just quietly chugging away. Nobody was more surprised than the party 'elite' (rather, just the people that are quite IRC and forum active so they look like they have a bigger say) to find ourselves in a strong third position.
We want to reform the country, but it's necessary to look to ourselves first. A rather shady ulterior motive from all of this was that maybe more of our members will be persuaded into writing articles and giving us a media presence
How do you want to reform the country?
UKRP has been the party of the status quo / no reform since Summer 2009 when you kicked out your reforming players.
More transparent Government communications on the forums, for starters. More information to the ordinary citizens about alliance wheeling and dealings. Meaningful opposition to stupid policies unlike the reactionary stuff we've been stuck with the past year and a bit.
I'm sure that what happened in 2009 makes a massive deal of difference to all our players who weren't even eBorn then /s
In recent history (as in, the stuff that our current members have actually done) I see us as having acted as a party that attracts people who agree with TUP on a lot of issues, but disagrees with the Unity concept and the manner in which they implement their policy. That's the reason I joined the party,
Quiet you, I'm in the middle of trading you to Canada to preserve the throne
lol
You're doing this just because he called you handsome.
Political promoting aside, good article, with great points. eUK-ans, unite! 🙂
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You need a WAR CP, next month.
You have the very best running 😃
Moriarty is the best WAR CP? Must be true if you say so.
but the furry one, Wookieo hasn't stated that he's running
Not really, all you need is good MoFA's and excellent MoD's- the CP just needs to give them the money to do their job
You keep saying this, you say it every time you run but you never actually tell us why. We have wars at our doorstep, we're not exactly having to hunt for them. The fact that even you consider your only positive point to be your ability to create war is why I won't be voting for you. I don't think we need you in the CP seat and I wouldn't be confident having you there anyway.
Obviously this is all my own opinion, but I don't think it's an illfounded one
Let's discuss football
Suarez number one!!!!!!!
....Any football but that football <_<
Was doing well with the whole 'love thy neighbour' message then you went all political and shizz turning it into a rather large recruiting message.
I could go all out jamesw moralfag or outright recruitment... call this a compromise! Look on the bright side, it only takes one article to turn people against me this way, rather than two!
Besides, you gotta' sell your soul sometime otherwise it just decreases in value...
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Great stuff
Gonna get me a jar of woljam tonight
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O Canada...❤
Queen Butjam ❤
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What does the reform bit stand for?