Presidential Debate

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I agree and also volunteer to moderate the debate.

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alright, the first question is from Tweed.  Tweed writes: do you feel it necessary to attempt to re-involve 'classic' Atlas members in the game: Al, BRTD, Keystone Phil, Naso, and so forth -- and if so, how would you do it?  and if not, why not?

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I am confident that uselectionatlas.org has nothing to do with Syria and never will have anything to do with Syria.

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I am confident that uselectionatlas.org has nothing to do with Syria and never will have anything to do with Syria.

Doesn't have to do much with taxes either and regions and offices here mean nothing... but isn't the point here to "play doctor" and be in the Fantasy land where what we type on an internet board actually matters?

that's your deal.  Tweedist Atlasia won't delude itself.

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I support the right of every internet user to migrate to uselectionatlas.org.

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this question is from the Right Honourable Young Tweed.  he asks: how do you envision the role and power of the ever-dormant Supreme Court going forward?

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most of my platform, insofar as it exists, can be found in my HQ thread.  the first video the most important.

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=149595.0


I'll try to summarize some crucial points.


-"anti-meritocratic": a game about personalities rather than "getting things done is what we do".  uselectionatlas.org is not the real world, nor should it try to be.  in fact it thrives as an escape from the real world, a safe little world-within-a-world for young middle-class, mostly white males with similar interests to dick around and rise to the top of a social structure.

-try to set the rules to force a return to the two-party system.  end preferential voting.  any soldier who was around in 2004 will tell you that it was better.

-cut the among of 'public sector jobs' ie offices.  way too crazy with regions having like 8 offices now.  so stupid.  an office should be a treasure, not a low-hanging, overly-ripe fruit.

-commission a sort of 'Atlasia State University' to study the history and culture of the website.  the wiki is a nice idea but is out of date

-here's a good little thing https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=149595.msg3244223#msg3244223



more to the point of your question, we have a whole message board devoted to the debate of 'real' issues.  no need to bleed that in to feed delusions of grandeur in which we're real-world politicians

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Here's a question for Tweed, if he'll take it.

Is Atlasia really the best setting for the project that you describe? And why must pursuing your project involve abandoning aspects of the game that other participants enjoy?

it is certainly the best setting within the website, as it is the community's own organized structure.  as for the latter part, that's up to them.

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I have a Question for the candidates, Do you Support a Balanced Budget Amendment and  what Spending will you cut or what taxes will you raise to balance the budget

I support current membership prices and pay-for-click advertisements on the website.  I do not support an audit of Dave Leip's finances.

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I have a question for Tweed.

You have been consistent in your criticism of Atlasians who take real policy issues way too seriously. That's a fair point since nothing we debate here has an impact on anyone's life. So what is your motivation to become President? What would you do as President if you don't want to focus on policy issues?

oh and my main motivation is glorification of my massive ego.

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-try to set the rules to force a return to the two-party system.  end preferential voting.  any soldier who was around in 2004 will tell you that it was better.

Tweed, I find this position a little confusing, given that your running mate was the driving force behind the demolition of the two-party system we had in place some months ago.  How do you reconcile this?

I am totally ignorant of nearly all post-2004 Atlasian history.  once I commission my University this will no longer be the case.