QuoteThat is your story, yes, as told in an election campaign.

From the statement: "In a country like Talossa, where more than half the active population are political figures, it is far too easy to politicise basic requests for human decency."

I'm also reminded of a scene from Roddy Doyle's novel _The Van_, where a father confronts his daughters after having caught them in a terrible act:

"You've got no proof!"
"But I saw you."
"You've got no witnesses."
"... but I *saw* you!"

Hmmm. I am distressed to see that the Progressive Alliance are attempting to take the leadership of both houses of the Ziu. I was leaning towards the Baron on the grounds that he's proved his competence to work in the CRL, but the best response to this kind of political aggression is to vote for Dien.

In any case, AD will be effective "leader of the opposition" in the Cosa this term, and best to disentangle that from Túischac'h.

This statement has been approved by the leaders of both the ¡Avant! Coalition and the Progressive Alliance.

When antisocial behaviour is tolerated, the victims of antisocial behavior are effectively excluded. If our patriotic goal is a large and vibrant Talossa, behaviour which drives other people out of participation (or out of citizenship) is unpatriotic. This goes for all forms of harassment, sexually-tinged or otherwise.

Creating a hostile environment in Talossa, where not only the target of the behaviour but others watching it feel icky and alienated, must be sanctioned. The threshold for criminal harassment (El Lexhatx A.7.1.2) is high and should remain high. However, there must be a ladder of escalation. There should be informal, or social, sanctions for such behaviour before it escalates to the criminal level. This is a call for serious enforcement of Wittiquette rule 8: "Don't be a troll or otherwise post in a way that is intended solely to annoy people or infuriate them." (https://wittenberg.talossa.com/index.php?topic=125.0)

In previous years, effective moderation of Wittenberg was hampered when the targets of moderation made a claim to either "free speech" or "political bias". In a country like Talossa, where more than half the active population are political figures, it is far too easy to politicise basic requests for human decency. This is why a cross-party political agreement of forces representing a supermajority of Talossans is necessary so that this does not happen again.

Therefore:

1) we support strong moderation of Wittenberg to enforce Wittiquette Rule 8 when it comes to sexual harassment, even when it doesn't rise to a criminal level; we have confidence in the Chancery and its appointed agents to do so fairly, and we will back their decisions.

2) we pledge non-cooperation with and informal boycotts of serial harassers whose behaviour does not (yet) rise to the level of criminal activity; to end when such offenders convincingly change their ways.

3) we will likewise support similar measures following such behaviour on the part of any signatories of this declaration, or any members of their parties or their allies.

4) we will open a broader debate on how to deal with trolling, cruelty, and creating a toxic environment in Talossa.

Following the successful election campaign of the ¡AVANT! coalition and our formation of a Government, the leaderships of the Free Democrats and el Parti da Reformaziun have recognized that Talossa has entered a new era with the accession of King Txec. Our two parties have historically supported reforms to our constitutional and legal structure, but we realise that, in the new era and under a new King, we need new thinking about exactly what this means, and of a long-term vision for a free and democratic Talossa.

The party leaderships are therefore announcing the beginning of discussions on greater cooperation between the two parties, up to and including the possibility of merger, during the term of this Cosa. This will not impact our cooperation with the third partner in our coalition, COFFEE, who has been invited to participate in these discussions but has declined with thanks.

Any other Talossan of good will who is interested in what this might lead to is warmly encouraged to get in touch with either myself (as Free Democrat president) or @Mic'haglh Autófil, O.Be (as PdR Director-General).

On this evidence, memos labeled "Vuode" and "Someileir", it is obvious that @Eðo Grischun and @Antaglha Xhenerös Somelieir have both paid their fees and I request that the SoS seat them.

Quote from: Antaglha Xhenerös Somelieir on April 23, 2025, 02:23:38 AMThe payment is shown as pending until 30th April, but I have submitted the fee through PayPal today

I'm informed by Senator-elect @Eðo Grischun that his payment is also listed as "pending". Can the Burgermeister explain what's going on here?

Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on April 10, 2025, 07:50:23 AMFair enough :)  Consider it an informal terpelaziun -- it has no legal power to enforce an answer, but boy does it need one.

I note that this topic has been raised again elsewhere. I have reminded the Minister of STUFF that a response to this valid question would be appreciated.

The Hopper is free for all to make comments on legislation, and Lüc is doing someone a favour here who has done nothing to deserve it.

Quote from: Sir Lüc on April 17, 2025, 04:14:43 PM

Quote from: Miestră Schivă, UrN-GC on April 17, 2025, 03:44:23 PMHow many seats would that be?

9 seats for Avant.

All 9 to @Antaglha Xhenerös Somelieir plz thx.

If we don't have a Túischac'h and Mençéi before 1 May, does that mean none of the legislation in the Hopper will be able to go on the First Clark? With the exception of the nomination of a CpI Judge (El Lexhatx H.2.1.2.4)

Have @Munditenens Tresplet or the Progs got anything to say about this? Either in principle or in detail?

How many seats would that be?

Quote from: Sir Lüc on April 16, 2025, 04:10:58 AMI thought I'd also point out that, as of this month, it's been exactly 40 years since the first democratic elections (to the First Cosă). We've sure come a long way!

Those election results in full:

Democratic Dandipratic Party 2
Talossan Communist Party 1
Progressive Conservative Party 4
Nationalist Party of America 2
non-voters 3

Quote from: King Txec on April 15, 2025, 01:31:47 PMsubjects and predicates are reversed (or at least seem to be reversed)

I *think* what you're saying is that you struggle with the subject being identified by a suffix to the verb rather than by pronoun alone? But this is only an expansion of what happens in every English verb with "I go, he goes"