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The legality challenge was about the repeal's numerous mistakes; the grossly offensive part (bearing in mind the author of this repeal has literally - can't make this shit up - roleplayed as Cecil Rhodes's reincarnated spirit in the WA forum and argued in favour of "civilizing backwards...

Can I ask why you immediately stacked against this resolution?

It was never submitted in the first place.

How many SC resolutions relating to Lazarus have there been now?

Agreed. :(

Maybe. Come to think of it, it's an achievement of sorts: I can't think of anyone else who's written that many resolutions and had all of them repealed. Even some of Charlotte Ryberg's survive.

(Not voting.) Why anyone would list in a commendation that a player has written four WA resolutions, all four of which have since been repealed, is rather beyond me. This is superb.

There are four regions in WALL. Will they be participating in these "talks" about an organization of which they are signatory founding members?

(not voting) I'm sure this will be a popular proposal but it really could have done with being rewritten. As it stands it is a poor law and a complete waste of the opportunity the repeal granted.

(Not voting.) Nah, this was an OK resolution.

Then your argument is with the fundamental game rules, not the resolution, because that simply cannot happen. Once the repeal passes, your nation's mandatory contribution to the WA General Fund will increase in order to fill the funding gap.

I'm not sure you understand what this repeal is saying. At present, WASP is funded through private donations. The repeal argues that is wrong, because private donors will bias scientific research. When the repeal passes, WASP will continue to exist - several other resolutions reference it, and...

The replacement planned for this proposal is quite possibly the worst piece of legislation I have ever seen. I'm also amused at the oddity of a "libertarian" supporting an argument that private agencies cannot be trusted and only government funding should be allowed!

...are you somehow arguing that imposing tariffs (for "legitiment" reasons) constitutes "free market trading"? Protectionism is absolute anathema to free trade. Nonetheless, we're happy this failed.

The official poll can be found here. The unofficial poll and further information can be found here. The poll features several resolutions written by Separatist Peoples and Sciongrad, former/current/? deputy WA ministers for TNP!

Should be interesting!

congrats+bye

I doubt that that's true, although it's difficult to tell given in those eight months no one has so much as begun drafting such a resolution. But you could draft the thing for eight years and Mouse would still vote against it. We're trying to fix that with a resolution that will specifically...

We're discussing a "repeal and replace" (as a reminder, amendments are not allowed) of WA Resolution #4, "Restrictions on Child Labour". Because this is obviously the kind of resolution where passing a replacement is very important - and support for the repeal likely contingent on the...

In fairness, it has been a long time since ICC was repealed. People who wanted an international court have had ample time to get together a proposal on the subject: almost eight months have passed! (Which admittedly still means that there's another month in which a baby conceived at the time of...

This wouldn't ban an ICJ. The court blocker only applies to "preempting a member state's claim to universal jurisdiction". The resolution requires that "the severity of the sentence assigned to an individual ... is consistent with the severity of their crime". And if a nation genuinely does...

(Not voting.) This is poorly written so I'll be voting against, but may switch to abstain depending on the arguments against the proposal.

(Not voting.) I do not believe for one second that those pushing this will help wotsisface redraft their resolution. Nonetheless, two of the repeal's three arguments do make sense given the hyperliteral tone of the WA.

(Not voting.) Non-democratic states should not be able to interfere with the electoral processes of democratic states. Given the "ideological ban" rule means WA states do not have to be democracies, trying to secure wheelchair access in states that choose to be democracies is in no way an...

Well, bear in mind this is just my opinion. There are other opinions. Some people are opposed to the whole idea. Some people completely support the proposal as written. Some people - a not insignificant number - think it should be voted down because of the author's stance on abortion. I don't...

Out of interest, you voted against the minute this hit the floor, long before any of these votes here had been cast: what's your voting philosophy/method?

We've been assured before that TNP's WA forum is a vibrant birthplace of democracy so I'm sure you'll get plenty of debate on this point, but from my point of view: The pros of this proposal are that treaties to eliminate double taxation are fairly common in international law, and a WA-wide...

(Not voting) If I thought for a second that the people on the WA forum would have helped draft this I would be opposed. As it is I'm looking forward to its passing.

Given you hold the single largest vote in the WA, what are your policy priorities for the coming term? On a scale of extremely successful to superbly outstanding, how would you rate the achievements of WALL so far?

If you are concerned about what you call the "Lemming effect", and eager to see additional debate in TNP, then why not simply wait until the final update of a vote to cast the region's vote? That way you won't contribute to "the lemming effect", and you will provide the maximum time to debate...