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All,
I stand before you today to announce my resignation as your Delegate, as a Security Councillor, and all other IC positions I hold in the North Pacific. I will be taking some time away from The North Pacific in general, but will still be contactable via DM for urgent business (will still be in the NPO and Europeia servers so you can find me there). It is obviously not a decision I make lightly, but a decision I am making for a variety of reasons I want to lay out to you all now.
First, for those of you who are familiar with the LWU statement of yesterday or Wym’s resignation statement. If you are not, I’ll spare you the details. The Government was pressured by a coalition of regions including The South Pacific, the League, and 10000 Islands on a future WA vote to vote Against it. Other elements of our foreign relations (namely Lone Wolves United and The West Pacific) wanted us to vote For it. This was, and I mean, a tremendously difficult decision. We initially thought that an Abstention, as agreed upon by the League on the 15th of March, would be good enough. It apparently was not. What followed, and you might know LWU’s side of the story but not mine, was a protracted divide between what substantially is an uneasy balance we draw—between the “good raiders” (and I believe LWU are substantially better than any other raider org besides this) and our more natural allies in the fight against the Brotherhood of Malice, defenderdom.
I will admit that the decision should not have been vacillated on as it was, but I wanted to make what I felt was the right decision knowing full well a tit-for-tat could not be avoided. I could not in good conscience commit to Abstaining on this proposal while knowing that two of our own proposals, Commend MadJack and eventual Commend Former English Colony (which, of note, is in something approaching final drafting on the HoV server), would be stomped. The math I knew suggested that sticking to my guns would lead to both proposals being sunk—this was not something I was willing to accept, hence why I chose to commit Against.
However, as always, this was not how the story ends. This very afternoon, I was approached by Jo about submission of Condemn Dream Killers (Cain). We talked for about an hour and I felt we could agree on delaying submission. As it turns out, we could not. That led to what I view as a quite unfortunate statement by Lone Wolves United. I haven’t read it, I don’t intend to ever read it, or the comments in turn. This statement, in turn, prompted Wymondham’s resignation, and subsequently my own. (Do note that I was privy to Wym’s future plans, I do not bear him any malice for what he did. I approved of it, in fact, as odd as that may sound.)
At the end of the day, I made the decisions that I did, and I make the decisions with the North Pacific in mind and what, I believe, was firmly in its best interests. Granted, those decisions don’t always lead to sunshine and rainbows. After all, here we are.
So, now let’s get into some other things I feel I need to say at this juncture.
Second, where does TNP go from here? As you all might expect, I have Opinions. Not like that ever got me into trouble before!
I think that, going forward, it probably behooves the North Pacific to keep well away from raiderdom. Our previous forays have been unsuccessful and always ended in trouble. I’ve had conversations with multiple raider leaders during my tenure in Cabinet and beyond and while I came away feeling that they cared deeply about their own regions’ successes, they couldn’t give a lick about The North Pacific’s. Going forward, while we need to be invested in our partners’ successes, we also ought to make sure they are directly interested in ours and would not attempt to undermine them. This includes all form of WA cooperation—including who we choose to work with and who we do not choose to work with.
I also think that the North Pacific should keep, more or less to the line it is on—minus cooperating with raiders. There is nothing wrong, truly, with where we are. We ought to be willing to compromise where doing so would not be an undue burden, but we should also feel as though we can stick up for ourselves. We ought to feel not only as though we can stand up for democracy, liberty, and Independence, but we also feel as though as it is our moral duty and obligation. We remain a bastion for those things along with many of our friends. We cannot stop fighting the good fight. After all, in a community of this size, someone *ought* to be good at it.
So why stick with defenders even after…all this? Put bluntly, TNP cannot operate on its own anymore. It’s not a feasible thing for us to operate as only the North Pacific Army. Additionally, while I believe firmly that the North Pacific has a bedrock of support from Europeia, Balder, Europe, and the International Democratic Union (in WALL and otherwise), I am also cognizant of the fact that all the challenges we face require more bilateral and multilateral policymaking than ever before. And it is my firm belief that while there ought to be recompense made, that with defenders, there is more that serves to be uniting forces right now that feed into cooperating than works against it. But the regions I named earlier who issued the threat, the blackmail, the ultimatum, whatever one wants to call it, ought to apologize--and the sooner the better.
Lastly, I want to thank you all for the opportunity to serve you all for the last 20 months. (It really has been that long.) Has it always been pretty? Has it always been smooth? No. But you all have been a wonderful community that has done an awful lot for me, be it opportunities or changing the law to enable me to serve you all more fully or simply being friends, VC partners, or shoulders to lean on.
The North Pacific is the greatest community and region on NationStates and regardless of how I am leaving, this one will not forget any of your kindnesses, big or small, nor do I hope you miss those I have shared with you all.
One last time as your Delegate,
~Hulldom
I stand before you today to announce my resignation as your Delegate, as a Security Councillor, and all other IC positions I hold in the North Pacific. I will be taking some time away from The North Pacific in general, but will still be contactable via DM for urgent business (will still be in the NPO and Europeia servers so you can find me there). It is obviously not a decision I make lightly, but a decision I am making for a variety of reasons I want to lay out to you all now.
First, for those of you who are familiar with the LWU statement of yesterday or Wym’s resignation statement. If you are not, I’ll spare you the details. The Government was pressured by a coalition of regions including The South Pacific, the League, and 10000 Islands on a future WA vote to vote Against it. Other elements of our foreign relations (namely Lone Wolves United and The West Pacific) wanted us to vote For it. This was, and I mean, a tremendously difficult decision. We initially thought that an Abstention, as agreed upon by the League on the 15th of March, would be good enough. It apparently was not. What followed, and you might know LWU’s side of the story but not mine, was a protracted divide between what substantially is an uneasy balance we draw—between the “good raiders” (and I believe LWU are substantially better than any other raider org besides this) and our more natural allies in the fight against the Brotherhood of Malice, defenderdom.
I will admit that the decision should not have been vacillated on as it was, but I wanted to make what I felt was the right decision knowing full well a tit-for-tat could not be avoided. I could not in good conscience commit to Abstaining on this proposal while knowing that two of our own proposals, Commend MadJack and eventual Commend Former English Colony (which, of note, is in something approaching final drafting on the HoV server), would be stomped. The math I knew suggested that sticking to my guns would lead to both proposals being sunk—this was not something I was willing to accept, hence why I chose to commit Against.
However, as always, this was not how the story ends. This very afternoon, I was approached by Jo about submission of Condemn Dream Killers (Cain). We talked for about an hour and I felt we could agree on delaying submission. As it turns out, we could not. That led to what I view as a quite unfortunate statement by Lone Wolves United. I haven’t read it, I don’t intend to ever read it, or the comments in turn. This statement, in turn, prompted Wymondham’s resignation, and subsequently my own. (Do note that I was privy to Wym’s future plans, I do not bear him any malice for what he did. I approved of it, in fact, as odd as that may sound.)
At the end of the day, I made the decisions that I did, and I make the decisions with the North Pacific in mind and what, I believe, was firmly in its best interests. Granted, those decisions don’t always lead to sunshine and rainbows. After all, here we are.
So, now let’s get into some other things I feel I need to say at this juncture.
Second, where does TNP go from here? As you all might expect, I have Opinions. Not like that ever got me into trouble before!
I think that, going forward, it probably behooves the North Pacific to keep well away from raiderdom. Our previous forays have been unsuccessful and always ended in trouble. I’ve had conversations with multiple raider leaders during my tenure in Cabinet and beyond and while I came away feeling that they cared deeply about their own regions’ successes, they couldn’t give a lick about The North Pacific’s. Going forward, while we need to be invested in our partners’ successes, we also ought to make sure they are directly interested in ours and would not attempt to undermine them. This includes all form of WA cooperation—including who we choose to work with and who we do not choose to work with.
I also think that the North Pacific should keep, more or less to the line it is on—minus cooperating with raiders. There is nothing wrong, truly, with where we are. We ought to be willing to compromise where doing so would not be an undue burden, but we should also feel as though we can stick up for ourselves. We ought to feel not only as though we can stand up for democracy, liberty, and Independence, but we also feel as though as it is our moral duty and obligation. We remain a bastion for those things along with many of our friends. We cannot stop fighting the good fight. After all, in a community of this size, someone *ought* to be good at it.
So why stick with defenders even after…all this? Put bluntly, TNP cannot operate on its own anymore. It’s not a feasible thing for us to operate as only the North Pacific Army. Additionally, while I believe firmly that the North Pacific has a bedrock of support from Europeia, Balder, Europe, and the International Democratic Union (in WALL and otherwise), I am also cognizant of the fact that all the challenges we face require more bilateral and multilateral policymaking than ever before. And it is my firm belief that while there ought to be recompense made, that with defenders, there is more that serves to be uniting forces right now that feed into cooperating than works against it. But the regions I named earlier who issued the threat, the blackmail, the ultimatum, whatever one wants to call it, ought to apologize--and the sooner the better.
Lastly, I want to thank you all for the opportunity to serve you all for the last 20 months. (It really has been that long.) Has it always been pretty? Has it always been smooth? No. But you all have been a wonderful community that has done an awful lot for me, be it opportunities or changing the law to enable me to serve you all more fully or simply being friends, VC partners, or shoulders to lean on.
The North Pacific is the greatest community and region on NationStates and regardless of how I am leaving, this one will not forget any of your kindnesses, big or small, nor do I hope you miss those I have shared with you all.
One last time as your Delegate,
~Hulldom