Newsletter Ranting: Honesty, Delivered Brutally [Mad Marokai!]

[Marokai Backbeat]

Newsletter Ranting

Telling it like it is. Angrily.

Occasionally I see something that irritates me. Okay, more than occasionally, but you get the point. From time to time people need an injection of brutal honesty and scathing frankness, and something needs to be exposed for all to see. It's not here to attack people, start fights, or to harass others, simply to tell the truth about an issue as I see it, fairly and in detail.

No bullshit, no pussyfooting, no hand-holding here, just my infrequent editorializing on any Atlasian current events, in the hopes that people see the truth for what it is; Ugly.

Table of Contents

Rants:

Rant #1: Southeast Region continues anarcho-capitalist insanity!
August 26th, 2009

Rant #2: Regional Protection Party engages in hollow change.
August 28th, 2009

Rant #3: The Democratic Alliance, Main course or side dish?
September 7th, 2009

Rant #4: AndrewCT, Turncoat!
September 14th, 2009

Rant #5: Alexander Shamilton!
October 19th, 2009

Rant #6: "Reform" does not mean pointless change.
October 27th, 2009

Rant #7: Is it too soon to say 'I told you so'?
November 9th, 2009

Rant #8: The Regionalist.
November 14th, 2009

Rant #9: The Anti-Region Regionalists!
December 2nd, 2009

Rant #10: A Deal With the Devil.
December 15th, 2009

Rant #11: Fact-checking the Legacy Polisher. (Part 2)
January 14th, 2010

Rant #12: The Candidate of Nothing.
February 12th, 2010

Rant #13: Your only substance is Saline.
July 6th, 2010

Rant #14: Senator Pretender.
November 29th, 2010


Interviews:

Interview #1: Frequently Asked Questions w/ Xahar
November 11th, 2009

Interview #2: Frequently Asked Questions w/ NiK
November 21st, 2009

Interview #3: Frequently Asked Questions w/ Hashemite (Part 2)
December 5th, 2009

Interview #4: Frequently Asked Questions w/ RowanBrandon
December 7th, 2009

Interview #5: Frequently Asked Questions w/ Barnes
December 16th, 2009


Blasts From the Past:

Past Blast #1: Earl's Blast From the Past
December 9th, 2009

Past Blast #2: The Budget's Blast From the Past
February 23rd: 2010

Past Blast #3: Libertas, Sewer Socialist, & Marokai's Blast From the Past
November 29th, 2010

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Alert the Okrana, there is a another radical paper to shut down, smash the presses, and mangle the conspirators.

[Vepres]

Yeah! We finally get our Keith Olberman

Seriously though, good luck with this.

[Psychic Octopus]

Good Luck Marokai!

[Хahar 🤔]

Waiting...

[Alexander Hamilton]

Waiting, mostly because I want to see how this combination of ranting and anger is different from that which is seen throughout your other posts.

[Marokai Backbeat]

Waiting, mostly because I want to see how this combination of ranting and anger is different from that which is seen throughout your other posts.

LOL

Don't worry, something will be posted before I sleep.

[Alexander Hamilton]

Waiting, mostly because I want to see how this combination of ranting and anger is different from that which is seen throughout your other posts.

LOL

Don't worry, something will be posted before I sleep.

Ok.

[Хahar 🤔]

Waiting, mostly because I want to see how this combination of ranting and anger is different from that which is seen throughout your other posts.

LOL

Don't worry, something will be posted before I sleep.

Mind posting something before I sleep?

[Alexander Hamilton]

Waiting, mostly because I want to see how this combination of ranting and anger is different from that which is seen throughout your other posts.

LOL

Don't worry, something will be posted before I sleep.

Mind posting something before I sleep?

And his time zone is a lot later than ours too. Nocturnal freak!

[Associate Justice PiT]

Waiting, mostly because I want to see how this combination of ranting and anger is different from that which is seen throughout your other posts.

LOL

Don't worry, something will be posted before I sleep.

Mind posting something before I sleep?

And his time zone is a lot later than ours too. Nocturnal freak!

     Hey, don't knock being nocturnal until you try it.

[Alexander Hamilton]

Waiting, mostly because I want to see how this combination of ranting and anger is different from that which is seen throughout your other posts.

LOL

Don't worry, something will be posted before I sleep.

Mind posting something before I sleep?

And his time zone is a lot later than ours too. Nocturnal freak!

     Hey, don't knock being nocturnal until you try it.

Hey it was a joke. Check my posting stats.

[Associate Justice PiT]

Waiting, mostly because I want to see how this combination of ranting and anger is different from that which is seen throughout your other posts.

LOL

Don't worry, something will be posted before I sleep.

Mind posting something before I sleep?

And his time zone is a lot later than ours too. Nocturnal freak!

     Hey, don't knock being nocturnal until you try it.

Hey it was a joke. Check my posting stats.

     I was joking too. I remember being on late at night & seeing you on too.

[Хahar 🤔]

Waiting, mostly because I want to see how this combination of ranting and anger is different from that which is seen throughout your other posts.

LOL

Don't worry, something will be posted before I sleep.

Mind posting something before I sleep?

And his time zone is a lot later than ours too. Nocturnal freak!

     Hey, don't knock being nocturnal until you try it.

Hey it was a joke. Check my posting stats.

     I was joking too. I remember being on late at night & seeing you on too.

I remember seeing both of you, but I have school at 7:35.

[Alexander Hamilton]

Waiting, mostly because I want to see how this combination of ranting and anger is different from that which is seen throughout your other posts.

LOL

Don't worry, something will be posted before I sleep.

Mind posting something before I sleep?

And his time zone is a lot later than ours too. Nocturnal freak!

     Hey, don't knock being nocturnal until you try it.

Hey it was a joke. Check my posting stats.

     I was joking too. I remember being on late at night & seeing you on too.

I remember seeing both of you, but I have school at 7:35.

Don't go?

[Хahar 🤔]

Waiting, mostly because I want to see how this combination of ranting and anger is different from that which is seen throughout your other posts.

LOL

Don't worry, something will be posted before I sleep.

Mind posting something before I sleep?

And his time zone is a lot later than ours too. Nocturnal freak!

     Hey, don't knock being nocturnal until you try it.

Hey it was a joke. Check my posting stats.

     I was joking too. I remember being on late at night & seeing you on too.

I remember seeing both of you, but I have school at 7:35.

Don't go?

Don't have that option.

[Marokai Backbeat]

Listening to me bitch is not exactly a thrilling event, Xahar.

[Хahar 🤔]

Listening to me bitch is not exactly a thrilling event, Xahar.

Hah, my priorities are all screwed up.

[Marokai Backbeat]

Newsletter Ranting

Telling it like it is. Angrily.

Southeast Region continues anarcho-capitalist insanity:
August 26th, 2009

I'm not quite sure what's wrong with many Southern leaders, there must just be something in the water down there. Yet again, Southeast leaders are pressing anarchist policies seemingly designed to throw a cog in the machine and obstruct the economy all in the name of their ideology.

After an initiative (somehow) narrowly failed in their initiatives election a few days ago to reject much needed stimulus funds, everyone's favorite libertarian kook (who's economic hero is apparently Pinochet) introduced another initiative to take the funds, but destroy them once they're received.

Killing Two Birds With One Stone Act
Section 1: All money given to the Dirty South in the 2009 Atlasian Recovery & Relief Act shall be burned in a public ceromony.
Section 2: Tickets shall be sold for seats at the event, which will be used to raise money for the Dirty South while still maintaining a low tax burden.

I can't even begin to describe how incredibly f**king stupid it is to do such a thing. (Also, if this is what constitutes entertainment for Southeast citizens, get help.) Government intervention in times of recession is the right idea, as direct spending has been proven time and time again (by a wide variety of economists, left and right) to be more stimulative than, say, tax cuts or something doing nothing at all, but apparently few of the leaders in the Southeast give a damn.

Further economic incompetence follows:

End to Fractional Reserve Banking Act
All banks operating in the Dirty South shall be required to have 100% reserves for all demand deposits


End to Income Taxation Act
Section 1: All personal income taxes in the Dirty South are repealed.
Section 2: All corporate income taxes in the Dirty South are repealed.


Road Management Act
Section 1: Regional roads in the Dirty South shall be auctioned off to the highest bidder.
Section 2: All money collected from roads sold shall be refuned to taxpayers.
Section 3: Taxes for road maintenance and construction shall be lowered in proportioned with the percent of roads sold.

Incredibly smart, SPC. Privatize most roads, abolish all regional taxes, and destroy the banking system. That'll show those crazy socialists in the Senate! (So sorry you couldn't get elected. Wouldn't have any clue why.) As badger pointed out, banks don't keep 100% (or anywhere near that) of deposits on site, which is why we have banking institutions like the Federal Reserve or the FDIC to back them up, so such a requirement would crush the banking system of the Southeast.

Additionally, the initiative to privatize the roads is designed to interfere in the stimulus funds directed towards massive infrastructure programs. This is almost not even libertarianism, it's childishness, an immature "you're not the boss of me" to the federal government, without regard for the benefits.

What's more is that, according to GM Purple State, the Southeast is currently running a deficit because of their backward economic policies. (Among other things, like stupid policies crippling their manufacturing and agricultural industries.) Due to this, Purple State recommended a tax increase to care for the deficit, continue social services, and to spend stimulus money on keeping damaged industries from going under any futher.

What SPC has proposed is the precise opposite of what was recommended. Don't let that stop them, though! Others in the South backed SPC's lunacy up, including the Governor.

I sign and heartily endorse SPC's proposals.
X Gov. Daniel Adams

I'll sign them all as well

The Southeast seems, as I mentioned before, intent on following it's ideology all the way to the third world.

Such stupidity and economic obstructionism from the Southeast isn't news. They've opposed minimum wage laws in the past and illegally attempted to print their own currency, (which I took them to court over, and won) so people shouldn't be surprised that such things continue.

What does depress me, however, is the stunning lack of an understanding of even basic macroeconomics and our economic history. If this wasn't a game, and thank God that it is, the people in the Southeast would've probably killed hundreds of thousands of people all in the name of adhering to libertarianism. The South has a historic tendency to be more unemployed than the rest of the country, and much more poor than the rest of the country, and the addition of Puerto Rico (in comparison to the United States in real life) doesn't help the overall stats of the region, and the policies that the Southeast government continues to engage in keep hurting the people of the Southeast more and more. Does anyone care? Nope.

It's "segregation libertarianism now, segregation libertarianism tomorrow, segregation libertarianism forever." Consequences be damned.

Like I said, there's gotta be something in the water down there.

I call upon the people of the Southeast to stand up and think for once, and do something to help the people of your region instead of obsessively adhering to the doctrine of economic obstructionism.

[Lief 🗽]

If I may take off my President's pants for a moment and pull my private citizen stocking over my head, sometimes I kind of wish the Southeast would actually pass these insane bills, so PS could write a couple of fun news stories about the rioting and breakdown of social order and severe unemployment and heavy casualties as vigilante mobs roam the countryside. Of course, they'd probably react by cutting taxes, so.

[Badger]

If I may take off my President's pants for a moment and pull my private citizen stocking over my head, sometimes I kind of wish the Southeast would actually pass these insane bills, so PS could write a couple of fun news stories about the rioting and breakdown of social order and severe unemployment and heavy casualties as vigilante mobs roam the countryside. Of course, they'd probably react by cutting taxes, so.

I thought it, you said it, Pres.

[Sam Spade]

You do realize that continued complaints about SPC's proposals (which are barely in English, as far as I can tell) might actually lead to some of them being passed, considering the Southeast's history of doing the opposite of what everyone else wants it to do.

[Ebowed]

considering the Southeast's history of doing the opposite of what everyone else wants it to do.

A tendency of theirs which is based only in logic and intellect.

[Purple State]

As was said earlier, finally our very own Keith Olbermann. I did enjoy your first story.

[minionofmidas]

*hughughug*