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

[Purple State]

I want one!

[Marokai Backbeat]

I want one!

$19.95

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

I want one!

$19.95

WAit a minute are we engaging in some captialism, free market crap here. I say we create a Gov't run public option that could sell it for $12.95 Then of course we will tax you the equivalent of $10 more at the end of the year to support it.

[HappyWarrior]

I want one!

As do I.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Okay, gosh, this is so very overwhelming.

Most of you will be getting a question sheet at some point in some order. NiK did ask first, so I'll send him some questions, though I don't exactly know what to ask him. BK and Hash will be next in line in some order, the RB and/or DWTL. This will certainly take some time.

Will I come next ?

Seems like I'm the only one having been totally ignored for 4 days... Please just say "no" if you aren't interested.

[Marokai Backbeat]

Okay, gosh, this is so very overwhelming.

Most of you will be getting a question sheet at some point in some order. NiK did ask first, so I'll send him some questions, though I don't exactly know what to ask him. BK and Hash will be next in line in some order, the RB and/or DWTL. This will certainly take some time.

Will I come next ?

Seems like I'm the only one having been totally ignored for 4 days... Please just say "no" if you aren't interested.

Of course you can have one as well if you like. I've just been buffeted with requests and it seems my distaste for PMing people has put me behind a little.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Okay, gosh, this is so very overwhelming.

Most of you will be getting a question sheet at some point in some order. NiK did ask first, so I'll send him some questions, though I don't exactly know what to ask him. BK and Hash will be next in line in some order, the RB and/or DWTL. This will certainly take some time.

Will I come next ?

Seems like I'm the only one having been totally ignored for 4 days... Please just say "no" if you aren't interested.

Of course you can have one as well if you like. I've just been buffeted with requests and it seems my distaste for PMing people has put me behind a little.

Don't worry, if you tell me something compromising I won't publish it.

Thank you anyways.

[Marokai Backbeat]

Just as a note, I'll be out for pretty much the entire day, so if anyone expects a PM, don't.

[k-onmmunist]

I hereby award Marokai 20 fail points for the last article.

[k-onmmunist]

I hereby award Sewer Socialist an automatic 20 fail points everytime he makes a new post.

[k-onmmunist]

I hereby award Disraeli Sewer Socialist an automatic 80 ∞ fail points everytime he makes a new post.

Game over.

[k-onmmunist]

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.

HI IM MAROKAI AND I CAN'T POST PROPERLY SO I JUST SPEND MOST OF MY TIME RAVING CLUELESSLY ABOUT LIBERTARIANS LOL.

[Antonio the Sixth]

I hereby award Disraeli 20000 fail points for the last post.

Fixed.

[k-onmmunist]

I hereby award Disraeli 20000 fail points for the last post.

Fixed.

Oh how surprising! A self admitted fanatical hater of freedom doesn't like me! How I'll cry! How I'll weep! Honestly, once you stop pressing for the state to interfere and ruin people's lives, I might end the intense disliking I have for you and your 'progressive' (anything but, in reality) friends.

[Antonio the Sixth]

I hereby award Disraeli 20000 fail points for the last post.

Fixed.

Oh how surprising! A self admitted fanatical hater of freedom doesn't like me! How I'll cry! How I'll weep! Honestly, once you stop pressing for the state to interfere and ruin people's lives, I might end the intense disliking I have for you and your 'progressive' (anything but, in reality) friends.

Being hated by an ideological hack is a pleasure for me.

[k-onmmunist]

I hereby award Disraeli 20000 fail points for the last post.

Fixed.

Oh how surprising! A self admitted fanatical hater of freedom doesn't like me! How I'll cry! How I'll weep! Honestly, once you stop pressing for the state to interfere and ruin people's lives, I might end the intense disliking I have for you and your 'progressive' (anything but, in reality) friends.

Being hated by an ideological hack is a pleasure for me.

You should know about ideological hackery, seeing as you are one.

[Purple State]

I hereby award Disraeli 20000 fail points for the last post.

Fixed.

Oh how surprising! A self admitted fanatical hater of freedom doesn't like me! How I'll cry! How I'll weep! Honestly, once you stop pressing for the state to interfere and ruin people's lives, I might end the intense disliking I have for you and your 'progressive' (anything but, in reality) friends.

Being hated by an ideological hack is a pleasure for me.

You should know about ideological hackery, seeing as you are one.

You are seriously getting annoying now. I am unsure why you post here if it is simply to be an asshole. Actually contribute to the game in a meaningful way or cut the crap and get out.

[afleitch]

I hereby award Disraeli 20000 fail points for the last post.

Fixed.

Oh how surprising! A self admitted fanatical hater of freedom doesn't like me! How I'll cry! How I'll weep! Honestly, once you stop pressing for the state to interfere and ruin people's lives, I might end the intense disliking I have for you and your 'progressive' (anything but, in reality) friends.

Being hated by an ideological hack is a pleasure for me.

You should know about ideological hackery, seeing as you are one.

You are seriously getting annoying now. I am unsure why you post here if it is simply to be an asshole. Actually contribute to the game in a meaningful way or cut the crap and get out.

I have to agree. I've no idea what the you're doing Winston but if you're just here to do the whole troll-lite thing probably best you take five.

[DownWithTheLeft]

Winston is a Hamilton pawn, nothing less than behavior similar to the grand-troll himself should be expected

[Purple State]

Winston is a Hamilton pawn, nothing less than behavior similar to the grand-troll himself should be expected

Look, so long as Hamilton refrains from trolling and tries to contribute, I'll tolerate things. But I think everyone needs to start standing up to blatant trolling, no matter who it is or what party they belong to.

[DownWithTheLeft]

Winston is a Hamilton pawn, nothing less than behavior similar to the grand-troll himself should be expected

Look, so long as Hamilton refrains from trolling and tries to contribute, I'll tolerate things. But I think everyone needs to start standing up to blatant trolling, no matter who it is or what party they belong to.

Anyone who believes that Hamilton is now not a troll and trustworthy seriously has some deep issues.  C'mon PS, you're usually smarter than that

[Purple State]

Winston is a Hamilton pawn, nothing less than behavior similar to the grand-troll himself should be expected

Look, so long as Hamilton refrains from trolling and tries to contribute, I'll tolerate things. But I think everyone needs to start standing up to blatant trolling, no matter who it is or what party they belong to.

Anyone who believes that Hamilton is now not a troll and trustworthy seriously has some deep issues.  C'mon PS, you're usually smarter than that

I disagree with him on the current reform, sure, but at the moment he is not the most annoying Atlasian and I see no need to expend energy dealing with something that isn't currently apparent. If it reappears, I'll be on it. Until it does, I will be calling out personal attacks and worthless posts for what they are.

Think of me as the new troll-hunter:

[k-onmmunist]

I hereby award Disraeli 20000 fail points for the last post.

Fixed.

Oh how surprising! A self admitted fanatical hater of freedom doesn't like me! How I'll cry! How I'll weep! Honestly, once you stop pressing for the state to interfere and ruin people's lives, I might end the intense disliking I have for you and your 'progressive' (anything but, in reality) friends.

Being hated by an ideological hack is a pleasure for me.

You should know about ideological hackery, seeing as you are one.

You are seriously getting annoying now. I am unsure why you post here if it is simply to be an asshole. Actually contribute to the game in a meaningful way or cut the crap and get out.

I have to agree. I've no idea what the you're doing Winston but if you're just here to do the whole troll-lite thing probably best you take five.

Whatever, but you seem to be ignoring the crap Antonio and DWTL have posted at us.

[DownWithTheLeft]

Great job answering back with another Hamilton talking point

[k-onmmunist]

Great job answering back with another Hamilton talking point

I'm standing for myself, DWTL. So are Einzige, Mint, Mechaman, all our other candidates. Hamilton is the founder of the party, yes, but he does not control us.