Re: Office of PSOL—Beginning of the Institute of Atlasian Progression

[OBD]

I'd be willing to participate in a theoretical debate.

[PSOL]

I'd be willing to participate in a theoretical debate.

Excellent, I hope the other 3 candidates participate as well if this project is happening.

[thumb21]

Thanks for the kind words!

On the idea of a debate, its a good idea and I wish there were more regional debates (or debates in general at this point). I offer to host unless someone else wants to do it.

[PSOL]

Thanks for the kind words!

On the idea of a debate, its a good idea and I wish there were more regional debates (or debates in general at this point). I offer to host unless someone else wants to do it.

Currently, I asked Muaddib of Come In Spinner and Dwarven Dragon’s DNN to co-host. I’d love for you to be one of the panelists though.

[PSOL]

In an agreement between tedbessel, ASV, and myself; we agreed that thumb21 should be the sole moderator of this debate and that it should occur a week before the elections. House Speaker thumb21, please confirm if you wish and are able to conduct yourself as a moderator in this debate.

Anyway, there is currently 6 candidates running for Fremont parliament, 4 of which agreed to participate in the hypothetical upcoming debate. They are myself*,parliamentarian ASV*, tedbessel*, parliamentarian Oregon Blue Dog*, Tirnam, and parliamentary Speaker KoopaDaQuick

*=willing to attend debate so far

Edit: Muaddib, Dwarven Dragon, and Lumine are willing to moderate in a co-hosted event between DNN and CIS. We are currently working out the needed protocols and truehosters of said debate.

[PSOL]

Officially, thumb21 has been chosen to moderate solely for this debate.

[PSOL]

The new Southern Chamber under the control of the Federalist Party has once again worked to strip all the progress done in the South. Now they’re hellbent on repealing several grand Executive Orders, some dealing with ending the appraising of the Confederacy. I urge Governor MB to act with due diligence and veto the bill if it gets too out of hand.

In many ways, a huge section my entire presence in the game has been dealing in the Federalists using the South as a vehicle for their own ends. I’ve been a staunch defender of centralized government and regional pressure to show them who’s boss; what with my time in the Lincoln chamber and the creation of the LDF, or my tenure as union chair opposing iconography of slavery and elitism, my statements on the West_Midlander governorship, and my current time defending the territorial integrity of Fremont. All the way through this, I have been adamant that what I’m doing is for the good of all Atlasians, not just for the leadership of the Southern Federalists. If elected to Fremont Parliament, I will have a stronger voice in combatting such transgressions.

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

Currently, I asked Muaddib of Come In Spinner and Dwarven Dragon’s DNN to co-host. I’d love for you to be one of the panelists though.

This is like if the Babylon Bee and Wolf Blitzer's eyebrows somehow agreed to moderate a debate together IRL.

[Deep Dixieland Senator, Muad'dib (OSR MSR)]

PSOL can't you just stick to issues in your own jurisdiction?

[PSOL]

If elected, I would work to ban circumcision on minors, period. There is no good rationale to do the procedure anymore given technological and biological advancement and understanding, given that topical cream can deal with phimosis or that sexual education and contraception can deal with STD’s like HIV, and religion‘s demanding that can’t be pushed onto coerced minors. Keeping it for cultural reasons is just as stupid.

My number one priority as a public figure and/or politician is to improve the human condition, and circumcision greatly has chances of complications and robs future men of their ability to feel the nerves and experiences of sexual activity with a foreskin.


I would never promote the false promises of ethanol in Fremont. It’s only being pushed as a way to get a profit of excessive corn stock, another issue that must be dealt with. Not only is it bad for the consumer as ethanol additives damage the engine of cars, but it’s resources that could be spent on electric cars or other renewable solutions.


The businesses getting 1,000,000+ in revenue should be paying 50-70% in taxes, not a measly 39% as proposed by OSR. We’re fighting a war currently against a pandemic, and we need to start treating it like how it was in WWII.

[PSOL]

Recently, parliamentarian ASV said openly that he’d be directing preferences in the upcoming race against me. I’ll say this once folks, a vote for me is a vote to trigger ASV. #PSOL2020  #A••hatSurelyVents

[AustralianSwingVoter]

Recently, parliamentarian ASV said openly that he’d be directing preferences in the upcoming race against me. I’ll say this once folks, a vote for me is a vote to trigger ASV. #PSOL2020  #A••hatSurelyVents

Who knows if I have any actual power over what happens, who knows what my chaotic opinions will result in on election day, and why would you possibly expect the preferences of the "right-wing" candidate to flow to you, the avowed socialist/wacky leftist.

[PSOL]

Just yesterday, our current parliamentary speaker KoopaDaQuick resigned from her speakership and dropped out of the Fremont parliament race. Unlike what she has said, she has done a great job as speaker and as a parliamentarian. Whatever her reasons, she will be surely missed. I do hope that one day she decides to be apart of Atlasian politics in her same office or another political role.

[PSOL]

So I’m once again going another round of this series in which I talk about the various levels of response of this pandemic by the government. Mainly, I’m going to be looking at the bill in Congress and the official response by the executive office as stated by President Pericles.

I agree in its entirety of what the federal response has been so far. The president is right that we are not in any way ready to open up or lift protocol. I’m glad that we’re moving forward with the contact tracing app that is much better in maintaining privacy then what is implemented in France. I do think that we should be very careful with privacy in this time and use the data responsively. More importantly, I’m glad that the president values life over the stock market through this response. By sticking to this time-specific, modified gameplan the curve will be flat enough for now in this first wave. What I’m worried about is more about of the second wave.

The bill in Congress also is something I support, but more in spirit. My main concern is with the global economy and chains of economic connectiveness coming off, is $2 Billion really enough? I know this isn’t exactly the same as the stimulus bill in its purpose, but maybe we should focus more on another stimulus bill.

There’s also the issues raised up on the A.C.L.O. bill that haven’t made it in congress yet. I know that many are angered at the mistakes of a lack of consensus or organizational preparation that made the strike unsuccessful in regards, but these are major issues. The lack of housing And safety to test the marginalized, lack of payment to consuming non-recipients—naturalized residents, guests workers grounded here for the time being, DACA recipients, various other undocumented residents, and dependents that are old or children currently not at work that encompasses the “adult Atlasian Citizens”—and abuse of the current debacle to do wage theft or abuse the stimulus plan are rife. I urge proactive action instead of us reacting to when things are already bad.


Let me say, I do miss eating out once in a while. We all miss it, but we can’t congregate near each other, so being in a compact enclosed space where we can’t always be ~6 feet apart is a pain. I think we should all embrace times are changing, and different modes of consumption must be met. Food trucks then are an option in this time. The only problem is that current regulations prevent food trucks from parking so far from a resturaunt in public property. To fix such a debacle, I will work to fight unfair zoning restrictions if I am elected to office.


If elected, I will ensure that Frémonters become euphoric by hitting back against spiritism and other abberations apart of the occult. Other then providing the means to see no need by improving the human condition through my policies, I will pwn the mystics through legal and/or direct means. Hippies and plastic shamans will not escape the institution of facts and logic in Frémont. We will usher not the new age, the following cosmic cycle, or the end of history nonsense but of the long fight for enlightenment and euphoria to all people in this never ending conflict.

See you for the next PSOL talk in my rolling viral campaign


Let it be known that I never will be ashamed of fighting for what is both factual and logical to ensure that to all.

[tmthforu94]

Hopefully PSOL will be elected to the Fremont Parliament this weekend. While we disagree on many items, he is an independent voice and has proven to be very active. He is dedicated to improving this game.

[PSOL]

Hopefully PSOL will be elected to the Fremont Parliament this weekend. While we disagree on many items, he is an independent voice and has proven to be very active. He is dedicated to improving this game.

Why thank you former President Tmth.

A reminder that there is still two days left to vote in the Fremont election. I urge any undecided voters to look at my campaign posts and the debate thread for more information. We’ve come far as to get 3 votes, let’s try for three more!


I will be posting an open discussion thread on the recent update by GM Lumine by 5pm EST.

No matter what, I will still be a political commentator and activist, and boy is there a lot to say and do. If elected or not, I will ensure that there be no empty competition to offices in Fremont. I may very well challenge YE for Senate. Who knows? But I can tell you what is certain.

So the main news that will be happening is the upcoming presidential election. This race, however, is dulled by structural problems on the foundation of Atlasian culture. Firstly, the race will be a noncompetitive footnote. President Pericles is again running for re-election on a pretty safe platform on the backdrop of the party itself now sporting a fairly left-liberal, not even remotely social democratic platform that excites no one. Under his administration, while the executive branch has handled the pandemic well, there are obvious faults in . Pericles has put out fairly few executive executive orders that, while more then his predecessor, still are very few and far in between. Most work seems to follow through in the more foreign policy side so far, itself very scant due to the GM only being recently active but still. Personally, it feels like we are still in the low period of former President Griffin’s administration, with most of the publicized work in the political arena being done either federally or locally. Either due to an inactive and/or preoccupied Executive Branch made up of Pericles inner circle, the Domestic and Foreign policy councils, and the Vice President Peanut who has notoriously dragged breaking ties in congress without any reason as to why or notification of him being busy.

The opposition is even in worse condition. While I don’t particularly care about the condition of the Federalists, the fact that they’re still shy about announcing a candidate much less a peep out of them is kind of pathetic, as expected. More sadly is the fact that there is no real opposition from the Left of Labor, just meme write-ins and controlled campaigns propping up the meme satellite LJP party, running an individual who has voted for Labor always at the last minute, even for his own campaigns.

I’m worried that one, people are getting terminally bored of Atlasia. Even from the few new users of Atlas than expected, a paltry amount of them joined the game. This could be due to the fact that the only real activity is from campaigns held once every few months, but it also speaks words to the lack of things in the meantime. Even pet projects like the newspapers The Crusader, Come In Spinner, and the Atlasian post are no more. Then we have a more sinister byproduct, the rise of the Federalists. I say this because politics is more about direction, personality, and energy than political proposals or achievements. Currently the Labor party has little energy flowing and it shows. Perhaps the last case of galvanization was the Southern Governor race led by cult icon MB. Even so, he is currently preoccupied with the governorship in the South for who knows how long. Normally this isn’t a problem given that the registration advantage is with Labor, but turnout and cross-connections do matter.

What I’m trying to say is that it is concerning when someone as ambitious and likable as the former President Tmth is more visible then the President of Atlasia. Former President Tmth, who has recently commented an awful lot about the state of the Southern Council, and is always willing to be involved with politics as he is in the de facto inner circle of the current president. Tmth, who has shown himself to be adept at GOTVING from his presidential election to the oft-hypothesized helping of Poirot. Hmmm..........🧐

[PSOL]

The amendments released today have been much better and in a more social democratic bent, but are still vague and don’t go far enough in many aspects. Still, the Labor party at least now has a platform, even a weak one as it is.

The platform does say what we all know; Labor is undeniably a big tent, but some factions outweigh the others in terms of membership proportions and political power in the upper hierarchy. It is a party stratified in order of the overlapping categories of technocrats(Pericles, HSTruman, Sestak when he works his GOTV magic), social democrats(Griffin,gracile, YE, Peebs), Left Liberals(Koopa), Rockefeller Republicans(OBD, tack50 in the margins tbh, and a sizable proportion of Labor members against Affirmative Action), left-wing populists(Scott, MB), democratic socialists(Pyro, Elcaspar), and workerists(Jimmy7812). Something must be said of how well the party has maintained stability of such groups after all this time. Even still, now they have to argue on a platform now and the direction of the party at least de jure, and it will be interesting to see drama arise and be resolved from here on out.

[Sestak]

[PSOL]

You have the outline, now you have got to plot posters on there from Labor.

[S019]

I made a test to go with your compass: https://www.gotoquiz.com/atlas_political_ideology_test

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

Your Result: Workerist
90%
You are a conservative, who favors worker's rights. You tend to be more moderate on environmental issues, due to their impacts on workers. You are a strong supporter of unions, but on non-worker issues, you strike a moderate tone.

74%Technocrat
47%Left-Wing Populist
30%Rockefeller Republicans
23%Democratic Socialist

[PSOL]

Thanks to all my voters for the support in this election. We gave it our best shot, but some things cannot just be done overnight.

The autopsy of my failure to get elected rests in three simple components. One, my lack of machine support from Labor put me at an immediate disadvantage due to social relations being extended to most voters in Fremont. To put it simply, I was too new and unknown as a figure to stand on my two feet. Secondly, in my time in Atlasia and the forum at large, I do not stick out as a personality all to myself. I relied on a machine my past electoral successes and did not adequately form cross-connections for friendship votes, as votes on ideology only accounted for one vote out of five. In many ways, I’m just too shrill I guess to stand on my two feet in this game. Yes, I’m big enough as a person to admit that about myself. Thirdly, in me being both ideologically consistent both in what I support and how I act, I wasn’t exactly keen on loyalty to anyone nor what I deem as unacceptable compromises on action and rhetoric.

My campaign was doomed to fail, but that doesn’t mean that it was bad. In running, I got to do what I love best about politics, complaining about the state of said politics and expressing myself in my own way. Plus, I paved the way for learning. Standing as an independent with no gravitas, and an ideologue with no backup that is more camera-friendly so to speak, I view this as what future candidates should and shouldn’t do. You should reach out to the voters, you should ask for help based on your merit, and you should start small. The last one is vital, as local politics is the starting point to change and takes the least amount of time. What you shouldn’t do is rely on empty promises, not ask for help, nor expect grand results in the very beginning. The material conditions for success just aren’t there. Another positive was that I got 5 votes, one vote more then my initial run in Fremont, and basically surpassed what was my floor of 4 as well. Given that several of the people I PMed put me in 2nd or 3rd place, it wasn’t all bad to me given the circumstances.

I’ll still be here complaining about local, regional, and national politics for all of y’all. Outside of far less serious runs in the Senate and perhaps another stint in parliament, that’s all I’ll be doing for now.

[OBD]

Props for a well-run, energetic campaign. If you'd like to pursue your legislative initiatives still, I'd be happy to consider sponsoring or supporting them.

[PSOL]

Props for a well-run, energetic campaign. If you'd like to pursue your legislative initiatives still, I'd be happy to consider sponsoring or supporting them.

I’ll see what I can cook up in time.

[AustralianSwingVoter]

This is all you need to understand why you lost.