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Region: Libertatem
I'll take a break of campaigning to ask y'all a question.
My brother often turns to me for help with his English homework. I've helped (see: done entirely) to construct some brilliant pieces of writing, most notably one concerning a task in which he had to create a product or service and pitch it to the class. We came up with the CatKit, body armour made for cats, and I wrote a speech filled with enough falsified statistics, puns and funny quips ("The CatKit: because you might die, but your cat won't!") to leave his class in stitches. He got an A on that assignment.
Now, my task is to write him a speech about anything at all that he'll present over the course of three minutes. He's a real gun nut, so he wanted to base his speech on the case for bringing legalised weapons back to England. I appropriately jumped on the prospect of this, and outlined plans in my head to craft a powerful presentation suffused with statistics, indicting arguments against gun control and a philosophical case for the right to self defense.
But my brother now has some reservations. He said to me that he wants his speech to be funny; he wants "the whole class laughing", and doesn't want a 'super-serious' speech like the one I've proposed.
I still really want to do it on guns. I want the malleable minds in his class to be convinced of gun freedom. How do you guys think I can fuse humour with an intellectually weighted argument for guns?
Have you seen the video "Chuck Woolery on Assault Weapons" on Youtube. Its a humorous yet reasonable argument of the second amendment.
Humor and guns in wirting.. thats hard...
The only funny thing I can think of concerning guns I guess would be the lone ranger..
I suppose you could maybe twist the "If guns kill people, than spoons make people fat" arguement into something funny.
Take jabs at leftists who support gun control. Ridicule them and make them the butt of some jokes to show how irrational their position is. Use satire.
I considered this, but according to my brother his classmates are not very intelligent and "wouldn't get" high-brow jokes like that. I think he wants constant zingers, which would be hard to do while making a convincing speech.
Funny story: I participated in a debate on Thursday in my American History class. We were partitioned into five groups, each of which had the task of defending a US President involved in the Vietnam War and try to paint other Presidents as the ones whose fault it was for America's entry into Vietnam.
I had to defend Truman, and I whipped out so many zingers I won. One in particular: I repeated the Ron Paul quip of "Oh, I've gotta respond to that!", leaving the class in laughter.
Just created a board game.
Brits get an American history class?
I never even heard of a British history class in my old high school...
I think everything we needed to know about British history was covered in early American history, lol.
Budget cuts.
Hallo has no votes? What the hell...
conspiracy
Pev has the popularity of FDR and Reagan combined.
:0 OMG PEVV IS BUYING VOTES! Lol...
If Mr. Hallo is around, I'd like to ask him precisely what he's campaigning on and what plans he has for the region.
Better late than never, am I right?
Aye, I'm actually quite disappointed how thin and vague his campaign has been. I don't think he's come up with any new ideas.
He is not on right now.
Thus, "If Mr. Hallo is around..."
He'll more than likely scroll through the RMB to see what's happened when he does get on. Hopefully we'll get an answer.
I'd like to see a debate between Pev and Lack on internal and foreign policy. Although Lack's not running this time, I think he would do the best job of representing the non-interventionist position. Thoughts?
I like that idea. Perhaps we could do that some time next month.
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Inactivity really does kill your career.
I CTE'd last time I was a resident of Libertatem. I was Board Chairman at the time. Had the same people been around when I returned, I'd not be in the position I am today.
Exactly he is not on, Pev is on twice as long as Hallo. Another reason why he is winning.
Yay anecdotes.
To Hallo Supporters.
Why vote for Hallo? What Political Experience does he have to be able to become the Executive? Why vote for someone that is not really active? What can he offer to Libertatem and is that better then what Pev can offer?
Hallo i suggest you build up to the Presidency by getting experience in lower offices.
He is active. You are just using right now as a lousy example. He may have a emergency or something of the sort.
He can offer the destroying of bigger not smaller Statist regions, and many other things.
funny,the Bigger regions have active founders. how would hallo destroy these larger regions if their founder can just ban our Armed Forces?
I'm not Hallo, so when he comes on ask him.
We've destroyed plenty of large commie regions, and are in the process of destroying many more.
Hallo is running a single-issue campaign of "We'll destroy the big commie regions!" Maybe this would hold weight if he had a) served any significant military service, b) understood current war policy or c) had any tangible plan to destroy said regions.
But as it stands he has none of these under his belt, so his campaign has little to no credibility.
Back to politics: anarchists, what's your game plan? Would you favour an unconditional, immediate abolition of the state, or do you prefer a more gradualist approach?
If the government is to be abolished, in my opinion, it should only be done once all other tyrannies on Earth are eradicated.
I am not an anarchist, but I would prefer a gradualist approach. Unless you are an Agorist, there really is no game plan to establish AnCapism except distributing libertarian ideas and hoping people agree (hint: they won't)
funny,the Bigger regions have active founders. how would hallo destroy these larger regions if their founder can just ban our Armed Forces?
As legitimate as a question as that is, I must comment that it's wonderful to know that your CTRL+C and CTRL+V both work.
Lol: Corporatist Paradise
Alterations will be made, not only to reduce RLP power, but to mold the cabinet to be more diverse in opinions.
Sounds like affirmative action for extremists.
Today, on the 150th day of Pevvania's reign, ask yourselves. Has it been as glorious and exciting as he has made it out to be? I have been here since the beginning of his presidency, and I have seen every single aspect of the way he rules. He maintains one set of opinions in Libertatem, and whenever anyone goes against these opinions, he has his people ridicule and slander them until they can no longer reside here. The RLP has gained a large amount of power, creating a sort of dictatorship which will not allow any other party to get in positions of power. If I am elected, Libertatem will again become a multi party state with each party having a fair chance. There will be no more suppression of opinions. On the topic of the war, I will not reduce our military affairs, but I will refocus them. We will focus on espionage and information and target larger regions and their satellites.
in the forthcoming elections, I shall be a candidate as President!
Please leave us alone.
I was out with my grandparents. They are going to die soon, so best get as much time with them as possible.
Because apparently I am not republican enough.
If you wouldn't mind answering my question,
I've been on nonstop for about a week.
But... we're already a multi-party region. All the parties already have a fair chance. We already have a lack of opinion suppression.
Your campaign thus far seems to be based on strawmen and mudslinging, not actual goals for the region.
The parties do not have a fair chance.
that its because we have tons of small regions and one big one. the only way to give small partys a "Fair Chance" would be to Unite into a Large party. therefore it would be large party against large party.
They do. They just need to prove that they can offer things that are better than what just so happens to be the present majority. As it just so happens, the majority of people in Libertatem agree with the RLP anyways, which is kind of why they're here. They're here because they just so happen to have the same opinions as RLP members. I do vote and have voted for non-RLP candidates, as have other RLP members. But if the non-RLP candidate can't convince me that they're the better choice, then I'll vote for the RLP candidate because I'm more likely to agree with them. That's why the RLP is the majority.
Also, show me the opinion suppression you mentioned.
I plan on allying the smaller parties, but not completely merging them.
How did that work out for TTA?
Ah, there's the problem: the party system is privatized. You can't ally the smaller parties. Only they can do that.
Oh, and
I am already working on that.
Also, whenever anyone talks about the RLP having too much power, or TTA, and basically everything TTA ever said.
No, I mean specific examples from the RMB.
A Party is a union of people. The reason RLP is more power full then any other party is because it 1 has the same or more people then all the small parties put together and it has a large message for the people. Hallo the only way to make opposition stronger is more members in one Party.Then Spreading you ideas into the Public.
Sorry, I don't feel like digging through the RMB.
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Fine, then I'll just debunk them without examples.
If you're going to back this one up, at least, you're going to need to give specific examples as to how exactly we tried to stop people from having this opinion. Every time we've come back at this, we've done so knowing that people are entitled to have this opinion, and as a result have simply explained that the RLP is the majority party and will naturally have the most support, until another party becomes the majority.
This is beating a dead horse by now. TTA attacked Libertatemites and demonstrated military hostility to Libertatem as a whole. As a result, he was found guilty of treason and removed not for his ideas, but because he attacked Libertatem.
How about me? I was called TTA for no known reason.
TTA was a traitor and you just did something that he would do. I think TTA has become a political insult like Fascist or Socialist also.
Because you got here during the instability after TTA's banishment when he was still using puppets to try to circumvent his ban.
But please, explain how this is in any way related to oppression.
UmmmÂ… I was banned...
Yes, because you acted like TTA in a time when we were scouting for TTA alts.
http://www.nationstates.net/nation=hallo_island/detail=factbook/id=248443
Huehuehuehue
Yes, but it was wrong. I was banned for being a person I was not.
To be fair you guys were kinda a dick about it.
But you acted like him, so naturally we thought you were him. You're here now, aren't you, though?
Because TTA was banned for treason, and ban evasion is a serious problem.
Yes I am, thank god.
Very true.
The Libertarian Imperialist party at the moment is divided on who should be President, but Pevvania is the best choice. Hallo Island, your fight for tta is grand, but all you have done is harm your campaign. I urge you to drop the agenda on TTA, and focus on your election
I disagree, Prussia.
I agree with this, though.
4 days ago, by Hallo Island:
[quote]Hire based on ability, not diversity.[/quote]
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And Hallo has ability.
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Does he really? If he does, he has a really bad way of proving it. Going around throwing slander and propping up strawmen is not a very good indicator of ability.
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*sigh* *groan*
See?
The incumbent has the clear lead.
I guess you could... *puts on shades*
...say Hallo to another Pevvania term.
YEAAAAAAAAAAH
Shut the f*ck up before I break my foot off in your ass.
F***ing aye
I will kill you. Have some god damned respect.
Wow
Yeah, uh, we're with the Anti-Corporatist Party down the street, and I understand you have a dying campaign on the premises...*SLAM*
Haha oh
That was beautiful.
I actually didn't get that joke until my twelfth time through the episode.
Hey what happened to VOTERR?
I laughed so hard at this my girlfriend was questioning whether to call the mental institution or not.
Pev: I think I'll scrap the VOTERR Amendment for now. But I'd like to see the DEMOCRATIC Amendment passed.
313 days ago..
I'm guessing something to do with that.
*sigh*
*longer sigh*
Such hostilitiesÂ
G'night everybody.
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