The Federalist Party of Atlasia: February 2014 Convention

[Adam Griffin]

[1] All of these choices are great

[Adam Griffin]

Can someone please give me a [4] on their ballot, just to see if they get expelled in the aftermath?

[Adam Griffin]

Can someone please give me a [4] on their ballot, just to see if they get expelled in the aftermath?

Why do you want a 4? Why not ask for a 1? Be bold! After all, you were bold to even run for this office instead of taking it like a good boy and becoming my GM.

Even I know my limitations, despite having a penchant for running in February special at-large Senate elections where I'm likely to lose. It'd be nice to have some cross-party support, but unfortunately, the places next to my name on the Federalist ballots cast this far are remarkably similar to the Federalists' platform and public agenda: completely devoid of substance.

[Adam Griffin]

I am fairly certain the current crop of leaders in Labor are perfectly capable of surviving me chairing a Party.

This is the first time that I can recall the two major parties' officer elections occurring within the same week or so of one another. Do you guys just elect someone and allow them to serve until they no longer want to, or are there regularly scheduled elections? If the latter, you should sync up with us.

[Adam Griffin]

Another interesting observation I just made is that you never denied that I was right in saying that the Federalist vision for game reform is to disrupt efforts at reform instead of offering its own vision.

That has been painfully obvious for some time. I'm wholly convinced that they don't even care about winning anymore, so long as they stop what I can only imagine from their perspective is an "unstoppable threat" to the game. Otherwise, I wouldn't still be going about discussing the utter lack of ideas or vision of said entity; apparently fresh ideas can't change the trajectory in their eyes and they've just given up.

[Adam Griffin]

Another interesting observation I just made is that you never denied that I was right in saying that the Federalist vision for game reform is to disrupt efforts at reform instead of offering its own vision.

That has been painfully obvious for some time. I'm wholly convinced that they don't even care about winning anymore, so long as they stop what I can only imagine from their perspective is an "unstoppable threat" to the game. Otherwise, I wouldn't still be going about discussing the utter lack of ideas or vision of said entity; apparently fresh ideas can't change the trajectory in their eyes and they've just given up.

Or Perhaps it is that Labor has run the well dry and is increasingly relying on pushing some rather far left ideas and then covering that fact when they are thus rejected with references and vague cannotions seeking to fan the flames of built up real life political resentments in order to attain the support of people who would be very unlikely to support such proposals directly.

Maybe that is the real problem. Sooner or later you run out of proposals or problems to fix at the Federal Level and soon you have a boring game where there is nothing left to be fought over, particuarly at the lower levels. So we contract and abolish them I suppose, having them been so undermined either intentionally or not, no? And then when the same thing spreads to the Federal level, then what, restart time?

Your syntax often throws me off, but are you really suggesting that the Federalist Party hasn't given us enough to be upset about with its own combination of policy-related inactions and spiteful actions, and that instead we're pulling real-life axes to grind into the game? That the left has or will be so successful that we'll run out of things to do? Do you believe we've reached that point, and that's the reason we now have so many "rather far left ideas"?

I think X was primarily being facetious at first, and you're getting too riled up at the moment. The real stresses of being a Chair haven't even begun to kick in yet, Yankee, so relax.

[Adam Griffin]

     Settle down, folks. I've been working on some proposals, but I have been feign to put them forth because I know that Labor will certainly reject them. If Federalist game reform is that important to all y'all, maybe I'll write my Senator.

I think I speak for all Laborites when I say I'd love to finally hear some Federalist game reform proposals

     I should caution that any proposals are my own and I am not actually qualified to speak for the Federalist Party. I am just a member, with ideas of my own.

At least we'll finally be able to debate the merits of two actual visions (I hope ). 

     Let me just say that there is a certain bill of yours that I like, for reasons altogether different from the ones that I'm guessing led you to propose it.

Thanks  Best not say that too loudly though, wouldn't want it getting out that you're sympathetic to the Radical Gay Communist Laborite Revolutionary Agenda

     People know that I am a little out there. As long as I don't go full nutter butter too often, there are no problems.

I have to say that you were always relatively reasonable and willing to compromise on a wide range of regional issues, especially considering that I nearly overthrew the region.

[Adam Griffin]

You're sperging too much here, Yankee - save your energy. I'll just address this:

The stresses of chairing a party, oh no, what ever will I do? I am so in over my head I have made such a grave mistake. It not like I...had to lead a Party all thoguht dead to a revival, staved off an insurgent Party seeking to supplant us first under the leadership of a certain someone from California and then someone from Texas (whose plan wasn't that different from yours actually regarding the IDS and the fact that it is called such is a testament to his success partially), attract the membership of a bunch of centrists who just the year prior the party had angered to no end (with no direct attempts to woo them even either at least not by me), deal with a bitter personal divide within the Party that nearly ripped us apart just as we had regained our footing, contend with a Presidential scandal, and watch as it all got ripped apart because some people got board with the duopoly and all that before you even joined this game...oh wait...

Yes, I'm familiar with all of that through various accounts, which is why I said what I said.