The Three Things Killing eCanada
Xander Kross
I've been away for a while, and I'm sure all of you hippies have cherished the silence. It allows you to more fully appreciate the pointless guitar noodling of your Grateful Dead and the whiny nasal protest poetry of your Bob Dylan.
Well, flower children, maybe it's time I came back. Because when I left, it was because my job was done. We had a lovely, stable military dictatorship taking care of things with a token President lapdog to soak up all the pointless liberal whining.
But you drooling cretins couldn't leave well enough alone. The military dictatorship was overthrown, and now it's back to the old "democracy" that has so failed us in the past. You've reinstated the three very worst, most divisive things that have ever plagued my beloved eCanada.
1) DEMOCRACY.
Some stupid hippie once said, "Democracy is the dictatorship of the majority." I don't know who it was, nor do I care - whoever said it phrased it as though it were a good thing.
A person - the individual - is capable of good, noble and clever things. People, which is to say "groups of persons," operate at a much lower level of mental competence. People are herd animals and must be led. By a person. When the herd tries to make up its mind how to get things done, by taking polls or votes or whatever, the herd gets bogged down in indecision, partisan thinking and general "herd mentality."
This is the core of democracy - herd mentality. You go where most of the other sheep wish to go, or you get trampled. And occasionally, you end up with a stampede charging towards the edge of a cliff.
You people need a shepherd.
2) CONGRESS.
Now, let's say you dimwitted sheep finally do manage to drift out of your psychedelic haze for a few minutes to find yourselves a good shepherd. Ideally, that shepherd waves his crook and barks out an order, and the herd goes where it is directed. This system works, and has worked for thousands of years.
Instead, you people find a shepherd, but give his crook to a group of quarrelsome monkeys, and somehow expect these monkeys to be able to help the shepherd do anything of value. The shepherd points and barks out an order, and the monkeys argue about the color of the crook, and which end should be used for what purpose. So the sheep wander off the edge of the proverbial cliff.
The dictatorship mechanic fixed all of this. And you people had it good for a while. But then the quaaludes kicked in, and you all decided to go back to the thing that should never have been allowed to happen, ever again.
3) McVICKER.
I can only assume Dictator Rylde was several bottles into a serious bender when he allowed this thing to return from the Land of the Rising Tentacle-Rape. We all know Rylde does crazy things from time to time, and we generally forgive him for his mistakes. What we almost never do is elect his mistakes as Country President.
But that's exactly what you mushroom-eating cretins did. You chemically-lobotomized tree-huggers keep re-electing this egregious waste of dick-skin and propping him up on his rainbow pedestal of drama and self-aggrandizement, and this continues to baffle and repulse me. Do you all hate yourselves this much? Have you that little self-respect? Honestly, is there not one other person better suited to the job of leading us than this self-worshiping, drama-whoring dung beetle?
The next time he "rage quits" and moves somewhere else, let him stay there and annoy them for the remaining life of this game. Seriously, people, it's only a few weeks away. Again.
Re-instate the Dictator. Rylde 4 Dictator 4 Life.
MDP: EVER FORWARD!
Comments
Complete agreement
Things have changed a bit lately IRL and in game. I'm busy just having a new little one and int he middle of buying a home.
I have also but my eRep time into rebuilding Cordis and putting them back on track to once again being a powerful supplying MU.
If you've noticed there is also a new party in the top 5 and already one of the most active in congress. Plus if we get sick of congress take a little peak inside Cordis Die's Coffers.
If IBB doesn't pick up the slack and start dictating, I may come a-knocking on the Whorehouse door. I fear MDP may be going soft in my absence.
Are you actually back?
If so, get in here and join in the uprising.
I remember when Rylde also raged quit to another country, we forgave him didn't we?
I missed you too, lover. Hopefully our secret love affair never comes out. 😉
I'd cut my hog off and eat it before I ever became your "lover."
Yeah, me too. 😉
A good dictator has to fulfill one requirement that our soon to be former CP was not able to do effectively...Be a real leader and work for the betterment of eCanada and not be short sighted. The current tax scheme is not sustainable. And the last few days of numbers are really showing how people are working around paying the tax.
McVicker pretends to be a fascist, not a dictator, but he is a populist at heart so he sucks at being a fascist also. Rylde was the dictator. He did that quite well, as I recall, because he does not give a damn what the public wants unless they are willing to pay the bill for it.
The difference being with Rylde....he was very straight forward with what was going on. And had advisers that he worked with. At least that was what I saw in his last dictatorship. The current CP isn't willing to listen to anyone and doesn't tell anyone what's happening. That's why that TW lasted so long with Ireland. At least Rylde communicated with the people. If he didn't do you think I would have joined him? Rylde has changed some since before he was a dictator. I think he really cares what happens here in eCanada and he supports those who work with him. The current CP, he doesn't care at all what he does to eCanada as long as he can extract as much taxes out of us as he can.
So we agree: McVicker is a waste of dick-skin.
"But then the quaaludes kicked in, and you all decided to go back to the thing that should never have been allowed to happen, ever again."
I wouldn't characterize the referendum as Woodstock 2015 but perhaps that barrel of monkeys analogy is not far off. Here's a link to that fateful moment in eCan history you most drea😛
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/-cp-to-be-or-not-to-be-referendum--2525688/1/20
btw, some actual war goals were finally accomplished in June thanks to our elected CP Xichael and his hardworking team. Would the results have been different if Xicheal had been a dictator instead? probably not, because he would have been working with the same people
Presidents work "with" people. That is why democracy is trash and should be discarded as such.
Dictators work alone, and have people work "for" them - that is why things get done in a timely fashion.
xander, we need more like you in eUSA. We've got a bunch of sentimentalist hippies here who think that because RL America is (supposedly) a "Democracy" (which is in itself a massive joke), that eUSA should be RAH RAH DEMOCRACY too.
Dictatorship is the only game mechanic that works well in eRep.
Acting alone is for sure more expedient. And perhaps that successful airstrike would have happened sooner in June if Xichael had been a dictator. Or maybe good results also happen when we don't rush into things.
But babbling about hypothetical situations is better left for the monkeys. Instead, I'll wait to see how the next Dictator of eCanada demonstrates your point.
The US is a republic. The people in the US who think it is a democracy are ignorant, but then, so are people who argue the merits of this piece of shit game. When will you folks get it? Most in this game do not care whether it fails or succeeds. Why? Because we have nothing vested. A few clicks a day. Big deal. Fake money, fake wars, fake people. Fake you!
IMO, I biggest problem with congress is you don't really get to elect people to it anymore. You elect a faction to be in power. Remember when congress worked and you knew who you were electing...There were fewer tools getting elected.
Where can I get a pair of those rose-tinted rear view mirrors you're looking through? Congress has always been a place to store tools. Back in the "good" old days you only need a few friends to come out to PEI, for example, to vote someone in over a good Congressman.
Yeah, but the election process back then weeded out a lot of the tools...this new process encourages factions to install tools into congress to do their bidding.
I think the problem is two-fol😛
1) Our population is too small. There aren't enough good candidates so that PPs actually have to choose between the best in order to run them. We once had that in the long history of this game.
2) Voters don't hold parties to account.
Here's how they relate. I wouldn't be happy if my parties PP wasn't getting the best elected. If he or she wasn't doing his job, I'd see that our PP got replaced with someone who would.
Likewise because voters don't support parties that run a good slate of Congressmen, there is no reason for parties to change.
This is beginning to hurt our country. We no longer have full slates of candidates pushing loser candidates below the election threshold. Right now you could run for Congress under most parties and be all but assured of a Congress medal, even if you were placed near the bottom of the list.
I remember the good 'ol days of fighting Rylde for the seat in Nunavut. I think I won once, or maybe he just didn't run that month 😛
You don't take Cyanide to cure Salmonella. We may be better off with a dictator, but that dictator cannot be McVicker. Or Rylde.
Cyanide is the perfect cure for whatever ails McVicker.
If I want to become Dictator I won't be asking people's permission.
I'm the head moose nowadays and we seem to be doing alright.
I am embarrassed, insulted and ashamed for you. I can only imagine that you committed some terrible sin while vacationing in eNL, and this is how you feel you must pay your penance.
Please reconsider, my friend. You do not have to do this to yourself. There is always flogging or crucifixion. You do not have to live this way.
Being in the lead and leading aren't necessarily the same thing. The CPFs lack of blockers is a little worrying. It looks like there were a couple of extra people - not just me - who got into Congress just by signing up to run with the CPF.
If doing alright is being in charge of a sack of inactive congressmen.
I missed you Xander.
Elitists are killing eCanada, and the sheeps who vote for them.
Dictatorship isn't the solution... the problem is very few ppl give a f*ck anymore, and the few that do can't agree on how to run the country.
About congress, there should be less congressmen. Plato should change the rules. It shouldn't be about how many regions a country has but how many citizens. Then you would be able to filter out better and more active congressmen that might give a sh*t and actually get something done.
That mechanic might work for us, but would cause large nations to cave in on themselves I think.
The hippies will unite and over throw the man.......like tomorrow......maybe. Want to smoke a dube, man and think about it?
Only if we can get some redvines and doritos on the way.
lol why not 🙂
I got to this part...
"Ideally, that shepherd waves his crook..."
misread it and damn near fell out of my chair laughing.
Thank you Xander, this game has not made me laugh like that for a long time. 🙂
50 Shades of Black Sheep?
50 Shades of Colourful Cocks?
Well, that IS the Rylde method of dictating, though I wasn't referring to him specifically.
I'm just going to leave this here.
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/-dmv4cp-four-more-weeks-2541901/1/20
Like hell you are, REPORTED.
Yay! Your hate is what keep me going Xander. I was just a couple of days away from my next ragequit and you came back to me.
... shit. 🙁
By the way... This is what's "killing" eCanada. This article. Those stupid pictures. Stupidity is killing eCanada. People are sick of reading articles insulting them for not caring about something so trivial as eRepublik. Of course we don't care. We have lives. We don't all live in our mom's basements or spend their hard earned money on buying eRep currency. I mean, how lame is that? Spending money on this game? That is pathetic, Almost as pathetic as posting stupid pictures that essentially call all eCanadians sheep, monkeys, or gay chickens - all but you, of course.
In short, if you or Rylde think you're making things better, you're not. If, however, your goal is to further destroy eRepublik, I take everything back and commend you. Is that your goal? Destroy the last threads of enjoyment? Because, if so, keep it up. But, like your boyfriend Rylde, you're interests are to be "important" on eRepublik.
You keep going on about how you have this wonderful life outside the game and don't care about partisan politics, etc. But... you do it a lot. Obsessively, almost.
Keep at it, Simulare.