The Needs of the Many
Jude Connors
Greetings and Salutations, My Fellow Americans and
Another Congress election day has past and another month of no Congress due to the wipe. With nations on both sides of the Asteria/anti-Asteria block occupying our home lands, there doesn't seem to be an end in sight to the wipe. It seems that the one thing both sides can agree on is that they don't like eUSA. We are a defeated nation.
What eAmerican Doesn't Feel Helpless With All This?
So basically, we're screwed, eAmerica. Without every eUSA Player opening up their wallets to spend thousands of RL dollars, there is no freaking way we are going to be able to fight our way out of this wipe. It requires a metric crap-ton of diplomacy, but American doesn't use the metric system and we fall short on that. In the end, no one really trusts the eUSA anymore, due to our history of screwing people over. I don't envy Feynmann, a man put in the impossible role of eUSA Minister of Foreign Affairs. There's literally nothing he can do about this. It'll take much longer than a few terms as MoFA to get over the years of crap foreign affairs policy for which eUSA is known.
Accurate Depiction of MoFA Feynmann
But Jude... the eUSA is a Top Ten Air Battle country... that's something, right?!?! No. No it isn't. Don't fool yourself. This Big Sky Theory only works if eUSA can win D4 Ground Rounds AND Air Rounds. Otherwise, we don't get to the third or fourth air rounds. We simply cannot win a campaign with air battles alone.
Our Air Force Just Isn't Enough
So what do we do? First thing we need to do is figure out the root of our problems? Now this will take a deep, hard look at ourselves and ask ourselves as a community: What are we going wrong? This will be unpleasant, since people hate to take an inventory of themselves. But think about it... What is the eUSA's biggest problem? If you can't come to an answer, maybe check out this amazing article by an equally amazing player, PigInZen.
Join... Or Die!
When we quit fighting ourselves and stop the stupidity, we might have an actual chance of being a community and nation again. This would be the restart we need in order to become a better community and get from under the wipe.
Common Ideals = Unity = COMMUNITY
We have been speaking about this very thing basically all day. WE are the reason we are wiped. WE did this to ourselves. WE continue to do it even under complete occupation. A lot of us talk smack and blame Pfeiffer and say that he got us to this. Although there is some truth to that... in the long run, he is not the only one to blame. We ALL did was the same crap that Pf did, instead of unifying the community, we helped divide it. We created and moved our lil cliques closer to us and helped the divide expand until we had multiple little groups fighting among each other. We justified it by saying it was a reaction to Pfeiffer's moves, but where has that justification brought us?
I think Mazzy Cat said it best today in Discor
😛This nation is now a nation we, as a nation, would have talked serious shit about.
That's some raw truth for us all to take in. I don't know about you, but that's a hard pill to swallow.
Ain't it, though?
So can we do it? Can we get over ourselves and once again put the whole community over ourselves? Can we truly be USA>Party>Self? I sure a hell hope we can. Like PiZ sai
😛We need to Join or Die.
...Or the One
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I admit my screw-up and am ready to fix them.
The Needs of the Many Outweigh the Needs of the Few... or the One.
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That was very inspirational.
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Sup Jude.
Sup?
oh you know.
no. tell me. im not really following the conversation.
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Interesante 🙂
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Jijiji not, really is a great article, and very inspirational for eUSA ppl, i like it! 🙂 Time to work
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"Although there is some truth to that... in the long run, he is not the only one to blame. We ALL did was the same crap that Pf did, instead of unifying the community, we helped divide it."
No ... NO! ...
In this game, like in the real life, someone (or a group of people) do shitty things for their personal gain. AND when everything get screwed up in a big scale ... there are always voices that "we all do that". That's not the truth ... and never will be.
People that are guilty are still in their parties ... in their military units. I'm pretty sure that these people will be elected in congress (when there is option for that). So in the ex-friends and enemies eyes what will be changed. Nothing!
How then you can claim that we are changed ... that we can be trusted ally? You can't!
So ... "we ALL did that" is pointless ATM.
They could be elected again, so true, cause in eRepublik we miss this:
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Good read.
Hate him or like him... I'd like to point out that Phil/Rosa gave us plenty of warning that this was coming. He/she just did it in a OVERLY-dramatic way. Our elite ignored him/her, arrogantly quoting a lot of the stuff that is in this article of why it couldn't happen... including "air superiority." Not many took the time to really communicate with with him/her.
No one paid attention, nor took it as a warning sign when the various RL Foreigners loudly left the eUS en masse, other than to say "good riddance." No one took the clue as to what was happening when we had a corpse in office for two terms and monies were being siphoned away for eWhales... other than to slap the report button at those that blasted that information because their little snowflake feelings/machinations were hurt.
The sad thing is that while in e-congress I watched the elite b*tch-slap at others, and saw the abuse as they refused to answer simple questions. (HEY MAAAANDY!) With this info and watching what was happening, I prepared for the upcoming wipe, and thus I am still pulling a tiny profit. Not many other players prepped. Hmmmn... I guess Farm-Bots and multis aren't sustainable and couldn't keep the e-US alive. Not that Rosa/Phil also said that a new captcha was coming which would eliminate electronic shadow muppets... oh, wait.
We need a new plan, and an enema of our in-fighting e-congress. During the wipe our e-congress is still acting like kids... really... a discussion thread to define a word? In my experiences, RL politicians have done similar to hide embezzling. In short, to echo this article, most of us DID make our own coffin, now we're all laying in them.
I've endorsed this article.
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Of course you are right about such poor leaders... but i presume your endorsement says that you DO endorse this good CHEER: "USA>PARTY>SELF"!
... maybe soon to be, simply, "UPS"!
I'm not sure UPS is a good idea... United Parcel Service's slogan might come into play... do we want to be known as "The Big Brown Package?" Just a thought.
Yes, I'll endorse any positive changes... that go beyond a catch phrase.
Do you believe "catch phrases" are self destructive in and of themselves?
... Subscription to them is mind numbing, dumb down?
Maybe they do TEND to be that for SOME, but for others, just a simple (subtle?) suggestion that the base premise is something that SHOULD be a BASE upon which we judge ideas and ideals in a game like this.
USA>PARTY>SELF... suggesting players align their game loyalty in that order... or can say loudly otherwise.
I wholeheartedly agree with uniting ourselves and focusing on country before party and self. I never thought I'd spend rl money in any game especially not a browser game, but here I am now and I've been buying packs and some for others. I've ignored the petty fights and forum grief going on to focus on the important issue such as fighting.
However, there is no way I can sit here and agree with the statement that it's all of our fault we're in this mess. There are plenty of people who have constantly disagreed with the poor decision making that had been going on for months, possibly even before I joined the game. All of it primarily committed by ego centric power mongers and those who prop them up. Bobcat is right and for some this was a forseeable future. For the ohers that had the ability to stop it, I hope it's been a slap in the face that you should either work to better the ecountry first or leave.
Nice article though, Jude. Voted and going to endorse, but just chill with the arguements with chicken, it's getting tiring. You can't talk about uniting and working together if you're just going to go right ahead and pick a fight with other eAmericans.
I quit arguing with him days ago, in the spirit of this article.
Actually, i' suspect that chickenguys, in his own way, may have been trying to get THIS same message across for a very long time. He merely chooses to ARTICULATE in strange ways.
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good luck!
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You guys are just so stupid and can't even do maths. You belong to an alliance that is divided in pro asteria and anti asteria which means in principle it doesn't work. Pro asterians don't help against asterian attacks and this is why you have no grounds.
Have you ever thought if various countries that are neutral joined an anti asterian group, what would happen?
Some fireworks and fun that's for sure but then you would see that people would actually respect you as opposed to despite you and there would be a good chance of winning as Asteria holds so many territories that make gradually more enemies.
Of course because you are not a united front no one can trust you at all. Maybe if you started supporting one front and actually contributed some damage then people would be able to see that there is some future.
You have tried to be asteria pet for too long and that has never worked. So apologise to Croats for attacking them with no good reason and Rally up your allies to help them clear their territory. then They might leave eUSA and help you clear it too.
Asteria is just smart and you have proved that you are not 😃 I would say shame for eUSA but our allies enjoy your bonuses so I will not.
Basically and literally in the same paragraph. I thought you were better than this.
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