Strength Through Peace: Commentaries from the Peace Movement

[Mechavada]

Good day fellow Atlasians.

It is with great privilege that I have the honor to announce that after 8-9 (can't remember) years of retirement that I have decided to start up a new editorial thread.  I have not been one for elected office (too much work) so I figure starting this up again and offering my own unofficial commentary thread that discusses the goings on and events of Atlasia from a "Peace" perspective.  I do not strive to make this a propaganda arm of the Peace Party (thought admittedly it may turn into that from time to time) but aim for a feel good, positive thinking, forward looking political commentary thread based out off anti-war, political reform, environmentalist, state skepticism, and generally left libertarian leaning philosophies in general.  Admittedly I will be making the case for voting for Peace candidates, I am a Peace party member and I believe in the platform for Peace.  Even this name is partisan "Strength Through Peace", but I believe in the cause more so than I do electoral scheming.  You dear reader will NEVER see me pm someone asking them to vote for people (not that I have anything against folks who do, that's just not what I feel inclined to do).  Any stumping or campaigning that I do for the party will be done out here in the open, whether in this thread or in other threads.

In the short term though the main intent of this paper is to educate Atlasian citizens on issues from the Mecha perspective.  More often than not I expect my take on an issue will agree with the majority of Peace Party members.  Sometimes though there will be stances that I take on here that even the majority of Peace Party members disagree with.  Really I guess the best way to say this is this is commentaries from Mechaman/Mechalord's perspective.  I do not intend to turn this into an attack rag on certain politicians, as tempting as it may be to do.  The main focus for me is to focus on the subjects that affect us all.

Well my time is running out this morning (work ugh) but I do plan on writing an article tonight about the recent Judicial Amendment.  Spoiler Alert: I voted Aye on it and I will explain why I voted the way I did and why a Judicial Amendment that creates a review process for judicial retainment and term limits is a good idea.  I will not attack the guys I've known for ages who are in these positions, they are far from perfect, but I believe that this amendment would benefit even them.

Anyway that's all for now.  STay tuned.

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

We haven't had an active party rag for a while. I believe the most recent one was Griff's "Laborynth?" But I'm glad to see you active in the game again and look forward to seeing where this takes off.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

Nice to see you, Mechaman.

[Mechavada]

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Running late on this.  Family stuff going on.  I might have the Judicial article up soon.  It'll take a bit of work but it'll be worth it.

[Mechavada]

We haven't had an active party rag for a while. I believe the most recent one was Griff's "Laborynth?" But I'm glad to see you active in the game again and look forward to seeing where this takes off.

And of course I'll welcome guest commentaries, just in case someone wants to use this thread to vent or what have you.

[Joseph Cao]

Watching with keen interest.

[Mechavada]

Alright a bit of a delay, and admittedly I'm doing this a bit off the cuff.  I appreciate everyone's patience.  Life is just crazy right now:

Judicial Reform: The Mecha Case

Fellow Atlasians,

One of the many reforms that have been pushed for lately are reforms for the judiciary.  I have not had much experience with the debate myself, I have heard bits and pieces of it from folks and I did read the legislation when I voted for it.  Overall I think it's a good start and honestly just a reflection of the realities of the judiciary.  We also have to bear in mind that the state of Atlasia is always changing and that an occasional review can help prevent things such as the dictatorship of the judiciary and cut down on career politicians among other things.  All too often when folks are at a job for way too long, no matter what they might tell people, they start to lose passion and even care about the quality of their work.  They get disillusioned.  They get cynical.  They start losing their wits.
This is the nature of life and while yes in theory one can work their entire life behind a desk that does not mean that is in any way an ideal.

There is also the risk that a justice just drops out.  I guess there is a contingency for that but it feels like further reform would have at least a check-in after 4 years, which I'm told is about the equivalent of 48 years in real life.  While we can maintain some suspension of reality we must also face that if this was real life some of our justices would be worm food!

I know there are the naysayers out there.  To which I would say go on speak up let your thoughts known on this because there are definitely areas folks could come to agreement on this issue.  The game is a great game.  We Atlasians pride ourselves on our ability to game the system, to find ways to win, get voters out to win elections, I'm not going to bullshit any of the readers here.  I do believe that in our attempts to replicate a nation's government that inevitably there is going to be political shenanigans, electoral manuevering, sly wheeling dealing, and all of that stuff.

At the same time though since I've come back I've felt as though this game could use a bit of reform and rework.  So yeah like actual politics like healthcare, welfare, all those things those are great things to debate and discuss.  But this game has been going on for awhile and I believe that it could use a nice good shake up.  Like we've been playing SNES for like a decade and a half man, let's try PS3, you dig?

Anyway subscribe to our patreon, our facebook, our youtube, our instagram, our onlyfans page, redtube, you name it we're everywhere even porn sites.  Because that's how we roll.  All access.  All the time.  You bring the issues we'll bring The Rock, I mean The Game.  Let's all get together, bring our heads in, and EVOLVE THE GAME.

This is Mechaman.  Peace out.

[Mechavada]

The Editor would also like to extend his sympathies to Senator NCYankee who has been dealing with the medical system.  Mechaman himself has also been dealing with asshole doctors who think the problem is everyone drinks to much coca-cola but won't tell you jumping jack flash shiit about what's actually wrong with you.  Bro I went to like 20 different of these quacks in these medical networks it was such a joke like I finally f***ing found out what was wrong with me like five months ago after like three colonoscopies somehow didn't find any of this shit before.

Anyway I wish you the best man.  Look forward to debating stuff again, fighting over petty meaningless issues, and what not.  Sorry folks are giving you a hard time.

[Mechavada]

The Ideal Voting System

What kind of voting system does the team at Mecha prefer?

Easy.  We like it simple.  Why have all of these rules?  All of these arbitrary guidelines?  Since when has sockpuppetry been a real threat outside of the minds of some paranoid moderators?

That's why we say under the ideal system any Atlasian with a profile in the Leipiverse over the age of 13 should have automatic registration in Atlasia and be able to vote and participate in Atlasia as soon as the account is active.

It really is as simple as that.  If you show the willingness to participate, to get involved, if you have the calling you can and you should have the right to vote.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

The Ideal Voting System

What kind of voting system does the team at Mecha prefer?

Easy.  We like it simple.  Why have all of these rules?  All of these arbitrary guidelines?  Since when has sockpuppetry been a real threat outside of the minds of some paranoid moderators?

That's why we say under the ideal system any Atlasian with a profile in the Leipiverse over the age of 13 should have automatic registration in Atlasia and be able to vote and participate in Atlasia as soon as the account is active.

It really is as simple as that.  If you show the willingness to participate, to get involved, if you have the calling you can and you should have the right to vote.

It used to be a mock government for all of Atlas. One of the biggest reasons why we don't do that is the legions of ex-players who do not want to be involved. They would not be thrilled with being automatically registered into a game that largely despise.

[Mechavada]

The Ideal Voting System

What kind of voting system does the team at Mecha prefer?

Easy.  We like it simple.  Why have all of these rules?  All of these arbitrary guidelines?  Since when has sockpuppetry been a real threat outside of the minds of some paranoid moderators?

That's why we say under the ideal system any Atlasian with a profile in the Leipiverse over the age of 13 should have automatic registration in Atlasia and be able to vote and participate in Atlasia as soon as the account is active.

It really is as simple as that.  If you show the willingness to participate, to get involved, if you have the calling you can and you should have the right to vote.

It used to be a mock government for all of Atlas. One of the biggest reasons why we don't do that is the legions of ex-players who do not want to be involved. They would not be thrilled with being automatically registered into a game that largely despise.

Isn't there a way around that, like reading a pm from an Atlasian and telling them "thanks but no thanks I don't want to play Atlasia"?  Like I get tons of unsolicited mail like nearly every day and I ended up on I think it was the change.org list because one time a long time ago I signed something saying being mean to gay people was bad.  If I wasn't lazy I'd simply unenroll from these email lists or something like that.

I mean I have been on and off again on this game for ages.  I have been an "ex player" more times than I can count.  Getting unsolicited pms from posters in the game seems to be par the course and just something I expect out of this website.  I've never viewed it as offensive or triggering in any way because I simply have ignored these pms unless I am participating in the game.  If I ever felt like I couldn't stand getting these pms I'd simply tell whoever pm'd me to please stop pming me about Atlasia.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

The Ideal Voting System

What kind of voting system does the team at Mecha prefer?

Easy.  We like it simple.  Why have all of these rules?  All of these arbitrary guidelines?  Since when has sockpuppetry been a real threat outside of the minds of some paranoid moderators?

That's why we say under the ideal system any Atlasian with a profile in the Leipiverse over the age of 13 should have automatic registration in Atlasia and be able to vote and participate in Atlasia as soon as the account is active.

It really is as simple as that.  If you show the willingness to participate, to get involved, if you have the calling you can and you should have the right to vote.

It used to be a mock government for all of Atlas. One of the biggest reasons why we don't do that is the legions of ex-players who do not want to be involved. They would not be thrilled with being automatically registered into a game that largely despise.

Isn't there a way around that, like reading a pm from an Atlasian and telling them "thanks but no thanks I don't want to play Atlasia"?  Like I get tons of unsolicited mail like nearly every day and I ended up on I think it was the change.org list because one time a long time ago I signed something saying being mean to gay people was bad.  If I wasn't lazy I'd simply unenroll from these email lists or something like that.

I mean I have been on and off again on this game for ages.  I have been an "ex player" more times than I can count.  Getting unsolicited pms from posters in the game seems to be par the course and just something I expect out of this website.  I've never viewed it as offensive or triggering in any way because I simply have ignored these pms unless I am participating in the game.  If I ever felt like I couldn't stand getting these pms I'd simply tell whoever pm'd me to please stop pming me about Atlasia.

One of the biggest reasons why deregistration was re-allowed was because people viewed the Do Not PM lists as a ineffective since nobody paid attention to them.

As you might recall from about 2008 until 2013 deregistration did not exist and the only way to leave was to fall off the rolls.

[Mechavada]

Alright I dropped out a bit but I have to say something about the recent crisis.  The recent secession that has taken place.

No Peace With Secession: A Plea

In what can only be described as an attempt at infamy, legislators and others in the Southern region have declared secession from the Atlasian nation.  Regardless of the pleas these actors might make about "liberty" or "freedom" the ways they have gone about this have threatened the liberty and freedom that the rest of us have.  No nation can remain truly free or independent when factions in it resort to extreme measures that bring about the possibility of civil war and division.  Every nation in history that has welcomed such widespread division, sectarianism and open defiance to the process has met with an untimely end.  We must oppose this at all costs and dedicate ourselves to restoring the Atlasian nation, whether that be through peaceful negotiations or self-defense.

I would encourage the advocates of this unwise path to reconsider their actions.  I am far from one who advocates violence against those who I disagree with.  I think in Atlasia there is room for different viewpoints on how to govern society and that there are rights instilled in our laws that make it possible for people to air their disagreements and even to change things by taking the initiative in the democratic process.  You can run.  You can win.  If you don't win, if your views are not in currency that's too bad just try again next year.  That's how a proper society runs.

And even right now there is still a chance for Peace.  You folks can stop this.  You can stop what you are doing.  You can call your militias down and get back to life as normal.  You do not have to engage in this act of self-destruction.  You can stop this.  The government doesn't have to come in there and teach you a lesson.  We all know that if a conflict were to happen you would lose.  So please or the love of everything just stop now before you get rekt.

[Mechavada]

Belayed Congratulations to Pyro for winning election to the Lincoln General Court

I, the head editor at Mecha Press, would like to extend a congratulations to my opponent Pyro on winning the tightly contested race between us.  Surely it was a heated contest the parties got their dogs out to political warfare but he proved himself to be the better man at the end of the day.  I believe that the region of Lincoln will benefit from his enthusiasm and his passion for the legislative process.  We at Mecha Press also 100% endorse his opinions on the current crisis and would encourage not just our fellow Lincoln residents but all members of the Peace, Labor, Federalist and other parties to stand behind leaders like Pyro who support the stability and sanctity of the Union in this current conflict.

-Mechaman, May 17th 2023