As I wake up early and look upon the DoR, all I can say is this:

There aren’t enough true Conservatives here. A true Conservative doesn’t care about your gender, religion, race, creed. We all know that the true measure of your worth is how anti Liberal you are.

Communists (borsch liberals) and leftists (spicy liberals) all want the same thing. To be true Conservatives. They wish they hated themselves as much as we at CHUD hate liberals.

Soon, I will release the biggliest and best bills to have ever grace the DoR. I will conserve our great culture of unfettered capitalism and freemen. The State should not own your livelihood. They should not hold violence over your heads based on your views and beliefs. This is why I, the head CHUD was elected. To protect the people from the tyranny of liberals.

No idea this even existed.

Don't vote for me.

Let's see if the Russian bots try to take ts down

Here are some questions that definitely real, not made up, voters have asked me on the campaign trail that I will answer for the public today:

"Have you read the constitution?"

not enough pictures

"What would you demand of the current administration?"

sell me this pen

"What are your intentions with my legislature?"

birthing more seats

"How do you intend to bring down the current establishment?"

a 3.4 million dollar grant from my trust fund family

"What will you attempt to introduce into the assembly?"

tricknology

Vote me into the legislature and I promise to work with no one and demand impossible change.

You need grassroots centrism, and grassroots centrism needs you.

Vote Despoetato in your upcoming legislative election.

I have made the manifesto into a booklet including more explanation.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ge1FQcfKTNlcxiAiKgkU_e07kemfJ-pE/view?usp=sharing

We got kind of lost due to SOMEONE using a liberal device called a GPS and we got sent to a Five Seasons Hotel. SOME members of our ENTIRELY peaceful protest took it upon themselves to enter the building and then GOVERNMENT INSTIGATORS started attacking the hotel security guards!!! Truly disgusting and shameful behavior by the DoR government!!!!

I think a lot of people have open-ended questions about what kind of game this is supposed to be, whether it should even be a game, what mechanics should be added, where the economy is going, and so on. I see users coming back to debate, this place being its vibrant self again.

But I think we've gotten lost in the weeds. And how do we not repeat past mistakes.

Underneath all the mechanics, the legislation, the economics, and the LARP, this is fundamentally an election simulator built around a subreddit.

And I don't mean a bunch of friends sectioned off into separate Discord servers, each running their own little corner of the game. I mean a place where we post our silly little political tests, share funny memes, debate politics, and interact with one another, much like any other subreddit.

The difference is that an elected government runs the subreddit, holds regular elections, and is accountable to the community.

Yes, we can LARP. We can pass bills, make posters, establish a justice system, build economic models, and introduce all sorts of interesting mechanics. I'm not arguing that we should get rid of those things. They're part of what makes this community unique.

But I think last time, we reached a point where we treated the mechanics as the purpose of the community, rather than as tools to make it a hangout spot for fringe or radical views.

We should be able to share memes without everything becoming political drama. We should be able to debate ideas without every disagreement turning into a struggle over who gets to wield power. We should be able to participate casually without feeling like we need to dedicate hours every day to legislation, economic policy, and party politics to remain relevant.

And most importantly, we shouldn't feel like every election is an existential battle over the future of the subreddit.

Because at the end of the day, this is still a subreddit. The government is here to administer it, the elections are here to determine who gets to administer it, and the game mechanics are here to give us something fun to do along the way.

The government should exist to serve the subreddit, not the subreddit to serve the government.

Before we spend months arguing over economic systems, constitutional reforms, or whatever new mechanic someone wants to introduce, I think we need to ask ourselves a much simpler question:

What do we actually want this place to be?

Because if we lose the community in our attempt to perfect the simulation, then what exactly are we simulating?

What could go wrong?

...we must push for democracy twice as hard. With candidates calling for revolution, we must call for civic participation. I advise any democratic socialist, social democrat, liberal, progressive, environmentalist, syndicalist, feminist, libertarian, and ask yourself, are the differences between your ideologies enough to warrant risking the democracy of our country? We must be United under a common banner. Doing so will make sure that we are strong as Iron and will come out in front. Join the United Iron Front to turn the tide, defeat authoritarianism and reclaim the promise of a true democracy!

My school decided to have Basically has a humanities and GAS (General Academic Strand) or just call it Civitas, and I'm going to decide to try to be an IRL Policy advocate so yeah... going to try and get into politics irl because of school and such so what do y'all think?