[FUPQ-02] Defend democratic and civil institutions
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by Pfenix Quinn
The Free University of Phoenix Quinn is a service of the Socialist Freedom Party, an open and welcoming internationalist anarko-syndicalist collective and mutual aid society based in e-USA
This is Lecture Number 2 of a 20-part series on Combating Tyranny. It's loosely based on Timothy Snyder's book ON TYRANNY, adapted to the New World context. The lecturer is R.F. Williams, a minor nobody from nowhere who claims to be the curator of the notebooks of that long-gone and dubiously-qualified e-philosopher, Phoenix Quinn.
Defend democratic and civil institutions.
The institutions of a civil society need to be defended against autocrats, dictators and fascists.
Constitutional rights, the press, free associations of players, and the very tradition of fair play -- all these things will fall one after another if not defended. Pick one. Defend it with all your heart.
Reasonable players expect others to act in a reasonable way. The mistake is to assume that rulers who come into power using the institutions of fair play cannot change or destroy them.
Sometimes they announce their intentions in advance. Sometimes these vital institutions are starved of their vitality and function, turned into a simulacrum devoted solely to supporting the new order.
Declaring loyalty to individual leaders is generally a vain hope.
At the conclusion of the lecture series, honorary certificates and degrees will be issued by Professor Williams based on responses provided in the comment sections of each lecture. Participation counts. Indicate "attendance" by leaving a brief comment below or endorsing the article. Higher degrees will be awarded in alignment with the degree of critical thinking, mindfulness and humor exhibited by responders.
It is the duty of every patriot and citizen to make sure that the party of corruption, the party of crooks and thieves, is destroyed.
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At the conclusion of the lecture series, honorary certificates and degrees will be issued by Professor Williams based on responses provided in the comment sections of each lecture. Participation counts. Indicate "attendance" by leaving a brief comment below or endorsing the article. Higher degrees will be awarded in alignment with the degree of critical thinking, mindfulness and humor exhibited by responders.
Preach it to our party president!
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This is an easy lesson. I do hope nobody does forget it when going to vote.
The fight against tyranny is pretty much the same as fight against Asteria. Autocracy and authoritarianism are the cultural features of eastern and eastern-European nations that are mostly concentrated in the Asteria. There is little or no understanding of constitutional rights, the press, free associations of players, etc work as the game don't allow these to be restricted, and the massive use of scripts and the year long deletion of weaker countries are anything but fair.
Indeed. +1
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I have always supported such programs as MoW, AARP and AA, what I don't support is endlessly handing a government I don't agree with and who have millions stashed in private accounts $400K every few days...
What do you think pays for MoW, AARP and AA?
Sure, they don’t cost a million a week. Sometimes the optics are deterrent enough. Potential invaders can see what’s being stored for a rainy (sun)day and decide to try their luck elsewhere. Even if that money isn’t actually available, because it’s been misappropriated.
As a civil institution, the CBO needs to be defended. Not attacked and destroyed. Improvements are always possible, but let’s not throw the baby out with the bath water.
I am all for the CBO and if our Reserve was in the CBO org I would have no complaint. However, when several 10s of millions of dollars are hidden away from public view in private accounts that is where I have a problem.
I feel the day they eliminated all but gov't orgs from the game was a grave mistake.
It is when a group stands together to reach a common goal that comradery flourishes. When one man leads he carries with him the weight of everyone else under his command. eWorkers of the world unite!
It is in the nature of many humans to crave direction, which they may find in authoritarian leaders. While we should indeed resist the loss of our freedoms, we ought to be mindful of the possibility that a resistance trying to impose its will on others may also be seen as authoritarian.
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