Now you want Elu to stay as delegate because he's more likely to meet the finer points of whatever agenda you have now.
Why? What situation was changed in "my" favor, other than the cabinet has less defenders, the region is more divisive on the issue of R and D and you've been removed from the cabinet by the public's choice (the only incumbent to lose his seat this election).
So you do something wrong and then get caught. You then resign (because lets be honest you knew you couldn't dig your way out of that hole) so that you don't have to deal with the allegations.
I was friend of McM's, I talked a lot about some of my personal problems, stuff like feeling unpopular and being treated like a non-TNP citizen. When it became apparent we were politically opposed, he started using personal knowledge like that against me. A month of quiet jabs at the legitimacy and integrity of my TNP citizenry built up, I only blew up when he was cooperating with 10000 Islands and A Mean Old Man to cause political fire around me -- yet there was only one here who was circumventing the Security Council's vote to release this information, talking in quiet deals with A Mean Old Man to coup the region (a longtime enemy of mine who has already admitted to supporting one coup of the North Pacific) by playing 10000 Islands, masquerading as the beloved crusader while he was deep in exploring a personal grudge against his political opponent.
Now you come in during the run up to an election, simply to try and ruin McMasterdonia's chances.
I very much doubt people will actually listen to a dude rambling negatively about a candidate. I think his chances at delegate are pretty good regardless if he loses this election, he's a dark horse candidate who has come out of practically nowhere when he landed on the scene here a year ago and quickly developed a following and picked up a sweet NPA MoD position randomly from the sly Blue Wolf and a seat in the Security Council, quicker than someone can say "W-H-O--A-R-E--Y-O-U-?"7
People love dark horse candidates, since they're the devils they don't even know to be devils. It's ultimately only going to be the people who had to serve in cabinet and oppose him who are going to know the real truth about Mcmasterdonia before he is elected delegate.
*We* were in election-mode? Unibot if I recall correctly you said that you were quote "playing it like a politician" or some such.
Do I look like I'm acting like a politician? A politician withholds aggressive responses to people's candidacy like this, because it inspires defensiveness among the target's supporters or sympathetic bystanders. In other words, withholding negativity is a strategic political game, I'm choosing not to play.
Mostly because I feel playing the political game or not playing it, is futile and I want to say it now.
I don't know about you but I've always been up front about my politics, as has McMasterdonia.
In some senses, you are completely correct. You are up front, you would want us to conduct our meetings in the most public places possible (a stage even), so you can continue the meeting as a election-mode robot, without saying anything outside a platform or a premeditated script. We got nothing done in our meetings till we closed the doors and ironically, you usually just remained silent for most of the closed meetings because you didn't care about getting things done, you cared about looking good in the public records.
You attack him now simply because you know that it would be unwise for him to fight back.
No, it's not so much that it would be unwise for him to fight back as it is, wise for him to not fight back. In the sense that by choosing not to play the political game and shouting here, I'm discrediting myself to a sympathizing crowd without comment from him.
You know the massive irony of the whole thing though? You pretty much just described Eluvatar. Don't get me wrong, I love Elu - he's been a brilliant delegate and he's a good friend. But he is very careful to not take sides. The perfect example being the R/D issue. He's UDL and defender as far as I know. I doubt most of the region is actually aware of that though.
This is exact the sort of slights at one's regional integrity that I've been opposing .. suddenly being the Minister of Intelligence and Lt. in the UDL for over a year now implies a "silent agenda" that he's been keeping from the region. On the contrary, Eluvatar is just someone who tried to remain as impartial in the debate as he could, so both sides of the debate could trust and respect him and he wouldn't alienate either. That's a positive at the end of the day and something we needed.
Yea Unibot, you're just being a sore loser because things did not go your way. Deal with it and get over it please.
Good god, Gov is telling me to get over something. The guy who messaged me everyday for weeks after I banned him from the UDL. Yeah.. okay.. I should get over "it" and leave the elections be.
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