Turning Point
Stormin EwokJedi
My fellow eCitizens,
I’ve held off writing articles on anything of late because I hoped the current issues would go away like most petty drama and we could move past this, but it’s too apparent that the failings in our real society have stained this community as well. This is a long one, so for those of you with short attention spans, I’m sorry. I, for one, am growing very tired of it. I am speaking as myself, not as the Fed Party President here. We in the Fed Party try our darndest to keep Country over Party over Self. We fail at times but we strive for that core value. This article is MY small and humble attempt to try to help the country.
I'm Tired
I’m tired of the two top tier drama figures in our current climate fighting each other over nonsense.
I’m tired of the Groot vs 50 other people nonsense.
I’m tired of the constant mean language directed at each other and long for political discussions without hateful rhetoric that brings us all down and leaves those good minded people wondering why they should remain.
I’m tired of seeing DMJ have to lose his mind to keep people decent and follow simple instructions in Congress.
I’m tired of seeing our handful of infamous trolls constantly bringing negative and mean spirited action into our community.
I’m tired of the old veterans not truly listening to the younger and returning lower level players who offer VALID complaints, that if we as a community truly cared, we could change with congressional votes and PP leadership to their members.
I’m tired of the concept that this is how it’s always been done so that’s how it will be.
I’m tired of seeing the same people like/endorse articles only on “their side” even when the articles are truly great.
I’m tired of the mindset that if you like a comment on someone’s article that is against your side, they become your enemy.
I’m tired of the rampant partisanship that exists in our real world spilling into the game to force sides.
I’m tired of many older players sharing their misery and hatred of the game which spreads to all around, most importantly to the 1-2 new players a month and the returning players.
I’m tired of the in-game Congress threads where it’s always the same people saying the same things every term, fighting the same worthless fights over and over not listening to each other at all. I’ve reported it as spam and don’t see them anymore.
And most importantly, I’m just tired of logging on the game and looking to see what person was mean to another person who they’ve never met, don’t really know, and could add pain/misery to their day.
What I See Now
When I returned 8 months ago or so I was approached by the Feds who brought me in. They have welcomed me and allowed me to use my time and effort to help the party and have proudly served as their PP for these past two terms. I’ve even faced accusations of being a multi because the Feds would never let an “outsider” come in and be their PP. You clearly don’t know the Feds if you feel this way. I’ve also learned throughout all of history to never hold onto “power” too long so I’m stepping down as PP to allow another to take up the mantle and keep working.
When I returned and joined the Feds, I found that my position with other parties had been in many ways predetermined :
They have relationships with SFP so they welcomed me in as a friend when I first returned and have been nothing but that since.
They had struggles with BSP so I was seen as a multi/bot by HWF and the like for many months. I have become friendly with a few of their members but truly wish their party wasn’t as negative as they are and got more involved in actually doing the work that needs to be done.
They have a feud with WTP so I was seen as an enemy and per Dom (a Gnil multi/bot).
They have a unique and positive relationship with USWP but so do I as their long time ago PP.
I found people treating me differently and making vast assumptions about my game play/style/goals/etc because I was in their party. This partisanship must stop. There are a few “power players” in each top party. Many of them spend most of their time attacking others instead of building a positive community which attracts people. This needs to stop.
So what can be done?
We now enter the ideas section of the article and these are just ideas...so leave your trolling to yelling at your mother for meatloaf from your basement.
We need more “national” institutions to bring people together.
A highlight of mine was starting an MU (which was wrongly assumed to be a Fed MU) and bringing in people from many parties including WTP, SFP, FED, USWP, AMP, etc.
This showed me how people can lose their party identities and meet other people, work together, and have fun. This could be the program Max wrote about. Why not try, no harm in trying.
We could bring back a Joint Chiefs of Staff type group that doesn’t leave ALL of our foreign policy and military decisions to the same handful of people. We need to have leaders of all parties WORKING TOGETHER instead of flipping from one side to the next. We are too small of a community for this elitism/isolation.
Commanders of top 10 or so MU’s working with CP and appropriate Cabinet members in a discord room.
We need to make sure no future CP has a “ban” on people from a party helping the executive branch. Many have been guilty of this. This drives a wedge and creates division. It also hurts the transition of job responsibilities and makes the learning curve higher.
All future cabinets should have at least one member from each major party (we have 6 right now whether you like it or not).
Let’s have a Supreme Court law pass through Congress for fun. We can take the BS drama situations and actually turn it into something funny and interesting with a court.
To all of you who say there is no game mechanic for this...there is no game mechanic for Telegram/Discord/Forum/SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE/etc. either. We’ve added those into the game.
Let’s make sure all future CP elections have a true debate article and a media push across the board. Most of us look at the articles posted when we log on to the game and I for one and excited when I see multiple pieces. This should be a job of MU Commanders, PP’s, CP’s, WHPR, and more. Let’s make the game more entertaining and the media module has ALWAYS been a great way to do that. This is a small attempt to stir up that part of the game.
National Raffles. Some of you are loaded...use those funds to create fun for the community. When I had little to no funds I still ran a National Food Drop for many weeks. I consider a “Secretary of Fun” cabinet position to be essential and needed.
These aren’t grand ideas and some have been done, but that shouldn’t stop us from trying again and changing things up. I encourage you to try out your ideas and have congress members in your party propose it. Give congress actual work to do. This game has shrunk considerably but we are still here and why not make the most of it. I will work to accomplish that and I hope many of you will join me in that.
Top Goal: More National Unity
Look to examples in our community of members who aren’t offensive, don’t pick fights, and just do work. Follow this lead, join them, work with them, and build our nation into a place of decency, kindness, respect, and a level of unity in common goals.
Thee Dude from WTP is a shining example of this.
Herr Vootsman from the Feds is a shining example of this.
These two are from “enemy parties” according to many but they both just do work, support the eUS, and are an inspiration of what we should be like as citizens working together.
Every Party has dedicated members who support the eUS before their personal goals.
zRTx from SFP isn’t about party politics. He’s about the business of the eUS even if his statements are as blunt as can be.
Arrden from BSP has reached out to the community many times and will engage anyone 1 on 1 in detailed policy discussions.
Carlos from USWP and now 506 has been a staple of the country doing work for all without picking fights.
These people work for you, the citizens, without looking for attention for themselves. This is what we need.
The following is my favorite speech of all time (look up the context first of the “Great Dictator” to fully understand and enjoy). I find it inspirational and relevant at so many times in history and even this small little game.
I wish nothing but success for us in this game, happiness in making new acquaintances, the ability to heal old wounds from others by the power of forgiveness, and a new age in the eUSA where decency, team work, unity, and kindness actually exist.
If you think this a dream, I ask a simple question. Do you want that though? If you do, fight for it. If you think this is a joke and you would rather be cruel, drop insults on each other, and be a negative influence in the game, I just don’t have time for you and won’t respond to such things and I encourage all of the rest of you to do the same.
Sincerely,
Stormin EwokJedi
Comments
nice article - love chaplin pics
FIST
MA! MEATLOAF! NOW!
"Let’s have a Supreme Court law pass through Congress for fun."
agree but not under the meta sphere
why? seriously no joke.. what is your thought?
what a disrespectful way to ask a question - seriously with all due respect
but to answer because I have never not been serious when playing this silly game.
*the only advantage (and a good one) the meta offers is attentive mods (but likely bias Trump's advantage)
*only structures allowed in game are org papers and CP appointed positions
going further is a wasted exercise without the disclosure of the multi bot scheme*. the political structure is a friend-mocracy that has allowed a multie/bot-mocracy faction the potential to troll further.
*DMJ has implied he knows who has which multis, if congress cannot get this list, could a supreme e-court?
not sure how that was disrespectful. but thanks for the answer
1st question only has one reasonable answer - why not?
why would I think you are joking, when generally you are dismissive of me ...
final question, doesn't have any thought to it, it is asking me to build an impossible argument (see question you do not answer in original response)
not sure your sure you are being disrespectful still ...
I wasn't joking I asked a question. I thought you seriously had a new way to look at it.
I see two question marks '?' surrounding 'seriously no joke' originally
now it is one 'a' question and still not joking, yet and an added accusation I am not serious about offering up new ideas, while ignoring both that I engaged in a discussion of possibilities which ended in a question (being the other thing you ignored)
That other thing now being ignored twice; DMJ has implied he knows who has which multis, if congress cannot get this list, could a supreme e-court? Can you ignore it now for a third time?
#respect the question
okay wow. You have completely misunderstood me or assumed something I did not mean. I'll stop the bleeding. forget I asked. It was obviously stupid of me to ask.
you wanted to know what my thoughts are on a e-surpreme court...
what is the point of the exercise if you do not understand simple concepts such as respect
*DMJ has implied he knows who has which multis, if congress cannot get this list, could a supreme e-court?
what is so difficult about that question irregardless how much respect was surrounding your comment about not joking and your present bleeding (which frankly I do not understand)
for future legal proceedings; you are one calling your self stupid (hopefully that fact can be respected)
Just, like, for the record; I read, "why? seriously no joke.. what is your thought?" (specifically "seriously no joke") to tacitly recognize 'I realize we have history but I am legitimately curious and not trying to mess with you'. Where, I think, you read it to mean "are you kidding? that's stupid".
Y'all don't need an eSupreme Court.
Need a eNational Marriage Councilor.
exactly Dio
Dio exactly, what might be your interest in counseling my new e-marriage?
o . O
I remember Melissa from back in the day, you seem nice and it frustrates me to see y'all cannibalizing like this.
be nice to dio. he is pretty awesome.
They've already been pretty nice to me.
They already read my >yet another
I appreciate the thought, but you really don't need to tell people to be nice to me.
Plus, when people aren't, then we all get the fun of watching me be worse.
And uh.. also, she.
I am the Trans Femme.
When we spoke all you cared about was getting an endorsement for CP from BSP which I nor Arrden can give.
I asked you direct if you were another player previously before purchasing your new account. I see no wrong in that after the whole gnilkraips situation. I found it very odd that a player that just started playing again could become FED PP so easily just as Krapis became CP so easily as a "new" player.
All I have ever done is help new players. I don't abuse anyone. I did not pick a fight. All I did is call it how I see it and ask questions to find out the truth directly from the player as I did with you Stormin. I guess being direct and asking questions makes me a bad guy.
I think you are mischaracterizing that conversation, but mostly " I found it very odd that a player that just started playing again could become FED PP so easily" I think you fundamentally misunderstand our party and purposefully apply the worst possible lens, which does not lead to productive conversation. 🙂
The bad habit of "putting the worst construction" on everyone that isn't one's own tribe has so badly killed off the culture of eUSA that I fear it is unredeemable. We've descended into: "everyone sucks but us".
All you and stormin kept asking Arrden and I was if we could get you support for CP in return you would work with us lol. You didn't seem to care about much else. That is why that convo ended.
If you really wanted to work with us you wouldn't be asking for anything just offering help when we needed it like WTP did. That is how real friends work you help when needed without wanting something in return.
Gnil you are the main reason for my personal distrust for players in this game. Whenever you don't get your way you will try to go over whoever you need to just to get your way. Then other players will try to justify it. If I or Arrden did half the things you did we would be blacklisted and lables PTO long ago.
the fact that you believe that is what we were talking about is why that particular convo ended
we were trying to create a foundation for future discussion which I thought was going fine. You demanded our party attack others. I will not go further on what you asked of us because, while nothing discussed was secret, trying to use private correspondence to score political points is gauche and not how my party likes to conduct itself 🙂
Please say exactly what was said. I have nothing to hide nor am trying to score any points. All I did was suggest Stormin write an article calling out the bot party 506/MANDO/EZC which I am pretty sure was his idea. Not a hard way to prove you were with us and not with the party trying to knock BSP or USWP out of T5 because certain players have to have their way.
I do not want to accuse you of lying so I will not.
I do not wish to quote from private correspondence, so I will not.
It was, however, not the Feds who demanded the blacklisting of an entire parties as "a start" to any coöperation. And given your knowledge of our relationship with USWP, to accuse us of not supporting them is nothing short of doublespeak.
So when you accuse us of making demands instead of treating party relations as friendship, it is hard to not view it as opportunism and a betrayal of our good faith.
You do realize you party was the party that screwed us over a few times when we kept to our end everytime? Why would we trust your party? Yes I wanted your parties support to blacklist a cheating player (gnilraps). Just like the times your party and other blacklisted our members for much less.
Again all you cared about was CP endorsement. You can accuse me of lying I will not take offense. In fact I would like to know what I lied about?
I am an open book.
You are being purposefully obtuse. we were trying to start a conversation in good faith. We supported BSP initiatives with no expectation of gain, and yet you still view us as having cheated you. If you're saying you refuse to trust us regardless of our actions, that was my point originally. So, I am glad we agree.
You accuse us of demanding outcomes while in much more explicit terms you demanded actions from us as a pre-requisite to discussion. Which is why the discussion died. Because you told us explicitly the discussion was conditional on blacklisting the entire 506 party, which is RIDICULOUS.
If you are going to make me say it, the truth value of this statement: " All I did was suggest Stormin write an article calling out the bot party 506/MANDO/EZC which I am pretty sure was his idea." is false.
I am done with this discussion. If you are an open book, it is one with a very narrow view.
I remember now. I did ask him to write an article to show his support toward us and against 506. What was so wrong about that? I asked you how you/stormin could prove you weren't like your predecessors \that screwed us some of which are still in control of your party in ways.
You had no way to do this and kept asking us for CP support lol. You can post the convo I could carless, again I have nothing to hide.
You know what I am tired of people who talk the talk but don't walk the walk.
@HWF...you wanted one party to come out against another party BEFORE you would even consider working with the first party. That is not unifying, that is divisive and elitist. Just like your party thinking it has a right to a Top 5 position, there is nothing more elitist than that. Yet you claim everyone else is elitist.
Holy fuck, all these gripes.
what is this game without pointless bickering
as soon as that stopped, we'd all leave xd
For what it's worth HWF, I joined the Feds in April of 2013. I was our Political Director and in charge of directing Fed Congress by June of 2013. I was Party President by I believe August of 2013 this during a time when we had more than 800 members. I am but one of numerous similar examples. Stormin becoming PP so soon is quite simply in keeping with who we (the Feds) are as a Party. Just putting that out there old friend.
Hey Tyler! How have you been man?
If anyone wants to call me a jackas*s for questioning Stormin for using a purchased account and could be anyone from the past that is cool. I did apologize for any accusations made which is more than any other player in this game does when they are wrong. If it wasn't for Gnilraps acting like a new player named krapis I would never have questioned him from the start. I see nothing wrong in asking the player directly who they really are.
or were*
hey HWF! I'm good brother. Not calling you a jackass. I know you better than that. No need to explain it to me. As I said I know you too well to think you were being a troll. Hope all is well with you and yours. I was just explaining putting new players up into leadership is very much in keeping with Fed tradition. Take care my friend.
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We have already worked with "the party" (Feds) and I never said we had a right to top 5 lmao. As usual FS you don't know what you are talking about. People are right best to ignore you.
groot is a jackass
party politics are kill
whining dead weight are worthless of any attention.
and yes, i indeed am an elitist piece of shit.
And proud to be a jackass 🙂
What's that smell?
I didn't figure you for a liberal.
Just kidding, of course I did.
maybe if we show groot more love he will be nicer, he is kinda grumpy
okay, are you this delusional?
@Melissa - hear me out, Groot has never been rude to me. I have seen him be rude to others. I dont disagree that he can be a jerk. I just think we should kill him with kindness. I try to do the same thing with others like Shiloh13, etc. When I take this approach I get better results
well honestly he isn't rude to me either but I've seen people be nice to him and he just seems to be more of an ass not less.
Maybe people's experience of 'Groot being nice' has to do with >IDENTITY POLITICS
ALL WE ARE SAYING...
IDIOTS WILL ALWAYS BE IDIOTS!
There's no cure, love can't help;
Sorry to bring you idiots bad news.
Bye.... till next time.
NOW TAKE A BREAK &
LISTEN TO SOME REAL DEEP DISCO$HIT!
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I find it funny some of the players that are complaining about Groot being an as*hole when they have been no better in the past. Many of them do/have treated others just as bad as groot does. I call a spade a spade and groot is an as*hole I don't think any amount of niceness would fix it because he seems to like to act this way.