Jita Park Speakers Corner

Honestly, all political :stuff: is Electorate manipulation. It's not just the Goons who do it. It's all of the CSM7 candidates. It's republicans. It's democrats. Every move a politician makes whether its for an internet spaceship discussion-board chair or for a real-world governmental doo-hickey is trying to manipulate people to vote for him, work for him, etc etc.

This isn't a ~bad~ thing, it's just how politics work, how social dynamics works.

Trying to present it in a negative light and attribute it to the Goons is kind of silly.

As long as they clearly state it's their opinion and don't state things as a fact unless they have absolute proof. Else you are very likely only slandering.

Word play is no substitute for actual definition and agreed understanding. I see voting as exercising choice.

Psychological manipulation is normally associated as "the devious management of some situation, especially for one’s own advantage". Voter education, campaign propoganda, debate and the demonstration of beliefs with respect to a candidates position whilst obviously not the most objective of methods is such a way as it has a clear defined goal in trying to win a electorates vote. This is normally an accepted part of an election process.

Vote rigging is normally associated with electoral fraud or "the illegally interfering in the counting of votes in an election". So I cannot agree that voting is rigging as an effective descriptor here.

My use of the word manipulation in this context is purely with repsect from preventing voters to exercise their rights freely in candidacy choice.

Most importantly however I would suggest re-reading my points, as I have gone out of my way to make a distinction between valid campaigning influences and dissrespecting our democratic process for which we had come to some kind of mutual understanding and agreement how this should be exercised.

(trying to avoid political theory debate)

We've been over this...

Yes we have as can be seen from a much earlier point that I made prior to all the "baiting".

Hey, how is the most people in eve history voting for the person they want as CSM chairman electoral manipulation?

Don't be daft, there's no bottom to that barrel

All this shrill goonie shitposting ITT:

It smacks of desperation to me.

What are you guys so afraid of, all of a sudden?

That goes without saying; Besides that, I mean.