Dr ac wrote:Few pointers:
1) the dispatch, much like all other media coming from CCD makes it clear you, and your region fails to make any distinction between OOC and RP resulting in a mess of conflicting messages which can generously be described as a hot mess
2) the repeal will not pass this year, this much is certain, trust is easily lost, harder to build it up
3) the repeal is also best described as self aggrandizing and for some reason includes yourself and one of your puppets, and clearly is in dire need of a draft thread next year
I appreciate you taking the time to voice your concerns, but please don't forget there's been months of work leading up to and crafting my statement.
1) I took great care writing an OOC message into an IC context. If you engage with the text, the distinction can quite easily be made. The text also links the (very clearly) OOC dispatches of Shrewllamaland that were written months ago. Furthermore, my hope is that by presenting an apology in this way, NationStates will realise that RP has and always will be the focus of CCD. There are metaphoric and personal connotations to what I've written, and I hope I can be allowed to hold onto them. I have also made no IC attempt to disseminate the text to this forum.
2) No one is suggesting that it will even be submitted to the World Assembly this year. It will be submitted to the forums in exactly three months time.
3) I suppose you could interpret it like that. It's very difficult to clearly assign transgressions to an entity if you're not willing to name the entity; rather, I need to say that (a) I/me/Jocospor was wrong. As I lead CCD - and in many ways am CCD - the most genuine apology that can be offered should come from me. On the point of the puppet (that being Confederation State Broadcasting), it's a shared account, and multiple people have put money into it, including some people who the repeal does not specifically list. That's very difficult to clarify in an IC resolution, as I'm sure you can imagine.
Given that you've just criticised me in 1) for being unclear, and now in 3) I am too clear, I am not exactly sure what you'd have me do. Your individual opinion, as someone who has been a longstanding and arguably-biased critic of myself and my region, holds less weight than it otherwise might.