Læknir Scrat wrote:your middleman nimh (or "wimph", as I now think of him) has been wavering.
Wavering?
You f*cking threw me out! I was aghast, no, devastated! You stabbed me in the effing back!
Lets recap, shall we? Here I come into the revolution, at
Tue May 10, 2005 8:07 pm Hungarian time, joining it with flourish, flair and lots of clever little references. Out with Kicky! In with the real choice of the people, Sozobe! Power to the people! Soz joins within an hour. Dag welcomes me.
But then, exactly 24 hours later, Eva finally decides to join the revolution too, but
comes in with a demand first - my head:
Eva wrote:I cannot believe you are still serious about recruiting this guy. He's still playing Don Quixote, saddling up his tired old mule to tilt at windmills. He doesn't even realize the "election" is over and refuses to accept the reality that his side lost. <Sigh> At best, he would only be a loose cannon on our side should he decide to join us.
Note: she wants us to concede we lost - to
Kicky, the very tyrant she purports to be revolting against! It doesnt even make any sense! Any chance to pile on me, I suppose. But what'cha do?
You sell me out, without a doubt - within minutes!
Læknir Scrat wrote:Eva, good for you. And for us!
As for nimh, I am sorry to admit you were right. I stated on another thread:
Læknir Scrat wrote:Oh, nimh, you wimp! You dissapoint me!
The whole election process was rotten.
The supposed landslide of Kickycan was only the cherry on top of the rotten cake.
A coalition government must be built after the overthrow. Sozobe would and will be an important part of it.
Now I know I really can't trust blue-haired intellectuals!
Now I know why panicky campaign managers can ruin a good candidate!
I know Sozobe is gutsy, willing to fight and will discard the anchor that precludes her from sailing into the fields of the Vikings (the open sea of justice and victory).
Geez. Not having seen that yet, here I was even trying to constructively think along about how to tackle the post-Kickyist era. What I had in mind was a coalition government with the election's runner up, Sozobe, as PM and Laeknir and the election result's number three, Frank Apisa, as deputy PMs - the only task of which should be the organisation of clean, new elections.
Reasonable enough, no? I mean, Soz and Frank
are actually the ones who got the most votes and stuff.
But no, I dig into the revolution thread and see you've already cussed me out, threw me out of the very revolution I just joined! Worse, you sold out on me purely so as to appease Eva, so she would join - yes, Eva-who-got-in-fourth, but had kindly demanded my head as the price for her participation (and went to piss on my long-wrought post of clever little revolutionary references for good measure).
Nice.
And now you gonna moan behind my back here about how
I've been wavering?
Laeknir, I gotta say I too much enjoyed this game of virtual politics. Better than Risk, like Fbaezer said. Lots of devious creativity - and actually a bit of an instructive test lab, in terms of seeing how the dynamics just kinda push themselves. Plus, I got to look up trivia *my own and yours).
But frankly, you were an ass - and at the worst possible moment. Like Kicky, I had really come to start taking things personally - Eva's nimh-bashing was actually getting to me. But I thought, at least Laeknir's smart - he handles it all deftly. Not.
A curse on your nuts.
