Oceania Self Determination Act [VOTE: Motion to Table]

[Marokai Backbeat]

The Pacific Region will not give up Oceania, and our consent is required. The Senate can't just decide this. Besides, I don't think anyone is even registered there in the first place. What, is someone going to move there just to steal it?

Basically the GM wrote some wildly inaccurate stories, ignored the fact that the Pacific Region passed a law right away incorporating the new state into our region while granting the state a great deal of self-government, and is now trying to move the state to his region. Lame.

I motion to table!

The GM determines reality and you respect it whether you like it or not, frankly. I have hated many stories in the past that Purple State and Badger wrote, and I do not always like Shua's determinations either. But we cannot just dismiss whatever they say.

The law you wrote was a pitiful excuse for an incorporation bill that did nothing to assuage any of their concerns. You wrote nothing about their language, their culture, their self governance, etc.

What you didn't like was any negative story being written about the Pacific region, and when asked to do anything, you dug in your heels and stubbornly refused to do so on purpose, letting the situation get worse because the GM would obviously have no choice but to taken into account your inaction, so you could turn around and cry about it. If you would've knocked it off and just wrote something about their goddamn language, this issue would've been resolved a long time ago. You prefer letting it be some silly personal issue instead.


Nay on the motion to table. You and Me Too need to knock those off as well.

[Marokai Backbeat]

I can understand the Pacific, but why the Midwest?

The Midwest Region cares about their culture. The Pacific does not.

[Marokai Backbeat]

I'll change my vote from Nay to Aye on the motion to table. Bgwah is right, and I have bigger fish to fry with my other bills anyway.

I have already lost confidence in Mary's PPT abilities. It is clear the troll cannot take any job more seriously than he would in his other flame wars all over the forum.

I don't need to try and convince you with my words, Napoleon. I'm doing the job that I know how to do pretty well, and that's all that matters as far as you're concerned. I hold this position to a very reasonable standard. Whatever my opinion on things is has nothing to do with my responsibilities as PPT, because unlike what you've proposed over and over again, the two things are separate in my mind.

If you have a problem with the job I am doing, then point out flaws in the job I am doing. I doubt you'll get very far in being upset by my "tone."

All of that being said, I do find it ironic that you're so upset with me having an opinion in this position. You yourself have proposed, numerous times, making the position of PPT an institutionally more partisan position. If you had your way, you'd be giving the Senate que positions only to your party and making more and more decisions based on partisanship rather than what is best for Senate business. This isn't even my opinion, this is what you repeatedly argue in favor of.

I loathe the idea of making the PPT a partisan post. So if you want me out of this job, I suggest you come up with something more meaty than feigned outrage. Thanks.

I always assumed it was insult directed at his sexuality, because it was constantly used in IM chats by Hamilton and Libertas and I assumed they had originated it.

If it's ever been meant as an insult, I've never actually considered it one. Bgwah was probably the person who came up with it first, but he never seemed like he meant for it to insult me. So I don't really mind it either way. If it is meant as an insult, though, they certainly need to come up with something better.

[Marokai Backbeat]

The motion to table has lasted for over 48 hours, and the vote is 6 - 1.

The Oceania Self Determination Act is hereby tabled.

Moving on!