Intergalactic Summit

Only in the first person, as in 'my excellent network of friends', in the second or third person, it's corruption.

Who would you have the VA give there money to?

Why is it there job to give away money?

Why is calling for the constitutional rights of Gallente citizens wrong?

What is the appropriate manner for a group of Gallente citizens to try and help?

When would you prefer to see press releases from the Villore Assembly?

Where would this vast sum of ISK go to?

How should a group of citizens make there wants known to the greater cluster?

Thus far...

You have made assumptions on multiple points (the activities of VA members and observers beyond the immediately available resolution, as well as the subtext of the resolution itself), presented expertise with flawed credentials (one doctor is not as good as another in all circumstances), expertise with no credentials (politics, against the word of those who have experience), unverifiable third party testimony (Eves), repeated avoidance of queries (Mine, when there is no logical answer on your end, I've not failed to note), repeated changes of position and posture in avoidance of said queries (Patient or politics?), unverified claims of contributions (There are no available records for your charities and political contributions), demands without supporting reasoning beyond the standard of living in one local area (Basic supplies versus AIMED's and other such high end, expensive, equipment), and statements regarding information for which sources have not been presented (The economic and social states of Delta and Gamma cities, where established information disagrees with your assertions)...

Honestly, at this point, I'm no longer taking this seriously. It's a diversion for me.

I'm mostly just curious about one point, after which I'll leave you to your own devices... Why the focus on the VA alone?

So just going to respond to your answers to my questions.

You want the VA to look to individual candidates. While I see the merit in this thinking, it seems like a very small way to address a problem seen by a group of capsuleers, we have the ability to drop the supplies from orbit if that was our goal.

Words without action is meaningless. Do you understand what happens when capsuleers take action? Local markets collapse, free goods flood markets, and good intentions lead to lazy development. Look at the constant work of Xun Yu, that is the kind of thing that needs to be done because of capsuleer action.

It is not wrong. Glad we agree there.

We are fantastically wealthy capsuleers. I would say see above, but as a restatement if a capsuleer infuses wealth into a deteriorated situation it creates a bubble of good which then bursts leaving a crater behind them. As a doctor I understand you are not an economist, but you should consult one as I am sure they can show you the folly of this thinking.

You would like to see the VA supporting individual candidates. Again I can see the merit in this thinking, but the VA has decided instead of doing that which they see as adding corruption to a perfectly working system they will call for the system to make changes.

Vast sums of ISK are worth more then the entire GDP of worlds. Giving such a thing to a single person or in support of a single person invites corruption.

The VA are capsuleers but they are also citizens they have just as much a right to yell at the government as anyone else.

As a capsuleer I have enough power that public policy has no effect on me, using the kind of power I hold to affect it is literally destroying an ant hill with hot lead. As a Citizen I have as much ability as any other. The VA is trying to use the power of there citizenship to see real change. Some to protect the ant hill, some to stop pouring hot lead on it.

Sure! I'd love to.



On the Federal level, to keep third parties out of the election process, member states and private organizations (corporations, what have you) are forbidden from contributing financially. With that in reference, and with the fact you're a senator's daughter, it makes it a little worrisome you seem so insistent on the fact you can just solve political issues with money. If it were that easy, you'd expect a little (read: a lot) more Capsuleer influence on the Federation as a whole, yet at the same time, not really - and here's why.





This is something I wouldn't have expected to hear from someone who so ardently sticks up for the Feds. Member-states don't adhere to some blanket conventional elective process for their politicians. At all. Period. What about direct democracies? How are you going to bribe an entire population? What about demarchy? Are you going to manipulate the random chance and hope the guy you've manipulated snags the spot? What about a consensus? Elective feudalism? There's so many more. This leads into my next point, too! (How wonderfully concise, no?)





Duh. That'd be stupid. You don't wrote to a senator. You write to the representative of your member-state if you're in a representative democracy. You talk to your fellow man in a direct democracy. Sheesh, come on.





Senators are legally required to meet with their district parliament at least once a week. Like, this is already a thing.

Continued below, because I love a good argument.

I'm not sure if your father ever told you about the Progressors, but the senate has historically shown a desire not to legislate on this matter any further than they already have. As previously mentioned, the Progressors - the folks since the Fifth Union - are pretty philosophically opposed to the idea.





lol.

Member-states have to adjust and vary the policies suited to their cultural and economic realities.




tl;dr the Federation is not a union of states, it is a union of nation-states, and for those who live planetside, the Federal Government is really a distant reality to their normal living lives.

Literally so many things it would be difficult to list them all, but here's a few.

They can be regulated by entirely different bodies.

They can pay different taxes (A charity pays some, a Government institution might not at all.)

They can be legally allowed to operate on different scales

They can be legally allowed to operate across borders

A capsuleer charity is trans-governmental and can operate across nations

etc,

etc,

etc.

That's totally not true. There are plenty of instances of Charity hospital withholding medical treatment, unless for example that person converted to a particular faith.

A government mandated hospital can do no such thing.

Simply put, you are wrong.

What kind of a ****** ass doctor would withhold treatment?

Is that what you think I am doing? Pissing in pudding? This is a lesson plan in how to accomplish one's goals. This is the political equivalent of me saying 'suck that and curl your fingers a little bit more' or 'if you vary your form with that flogger, the sensations will be better.' If you prefer something more clinical: 'If you actually want to lose weight, stop eating three pounds of chocolate each week!'