The contempt you have for the intelligence of voters is astounding.

Quote from: Miestră Schivă, UrN-GC on Yesterday at 05:36:30 PMSo are we confirming that "work with anyone" means anyone except the Sex Pest?

Don't even need to ask about Green Party voters, the contradiction is even more obvious. "Work with anyone" and "refuse to work with the Green Party" are mutually exclusive promises, which means one of the two overrides the other.

Not sure I've ever seen anyone break a campaign promise before the election ends, but there's a first time for everything I suppose.

I'll pass with a brief snort over the PA leader complaining about "dishonesty" and "creativity with the truth".

So are we confirming that "work with anyone" means anyone except the Sex Pest? The problem is that, as the Baron previously argued in his arguments against party lists, when Talossans vote for a party they are really voting for a leader. Do people who've associated themselves with the Green Party have to disassociate themselves from the Sex Pest to be candidates for cooperation?

The Independent Greens are a different party, led by Garth Spencer.  We remain open to working with anyone from the Green party that we can, with the obvious exception of their leader.  Everyone knows I take the whole thing with Breneir about as seriously as anyone... look at the names on the bottoms of the First Step Towards Decency and the Consequences Act.  Look at the thread for where they were developed.  It is dishonest to pretend I do not take this seriously.

It would be nice for a day to go by without an angry URL denunciation of one kind or another.  Everything's a sign, everything's an outrage, everything is so serious that it merits a little creativity with the truth.

Vote Progressive if you're ready for a change from... well, all of this.

Sad to see the Progressive Alliance is withdrawing from this agreement! Their more recent pledge to "work with anyone" appears to be taking precedence over their previous, more principled stand.

The pursuit of power at any cost is not a good look on them.

Anyone remember this classic meme from three elections back?



It seems we're doing it again. The voters for the party associated with Talossa's infamous sex pest - never seen outside of election time! - are literally copy-pasting their votes.

The public ballot encourages this "Attack of the Clones" stuff, which degrades democracy. But the conservative tradition in Talossa has never really rated democracy so highly. They like things like the public ballot - and oppose things like party lists - because it's easier and more "fun" to take short-cuts around rigorous democratic practice.

Remember - before the ancestors of the URL came into the Kingdom and established democratic reforms like the secret ballot and the party list - these people ran Talossa for nine terms of absolute majority government, because these anti-democratic features favour the incumbent. They yearn to get back to those days.

We've got two parties coming out of the RUMP tradition that democracy doesn't matter because it's not "quirky and fun" enough; one anarchist party; and one absolute monarchist party. The URL are the only party in this election which rigorously supports democracy.

If I have seats in the next Ziu, I will campaign vigorously for universal secret ballot. We probably even need to bring back discussion of the Real Cosa and the unicameral Ziu again. As we've seen in the monarchy debate, you can't reach a compromise with the "democracy-optional" post-RUMP tendency. You have to defeat them fair and square.

Finally a victory!  Tric'hard, your advice really helped, thank you.  I guess in theory I should have known that a goalkeeper is an important position to fill on my team.

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Undefeated