Jita Park Speakers Corner

…as demonstrated by the fact that the “outrage” came, not when he made his controversial statements, but when he was re-elected chairman.
The timing of the whole thing tells a slightly different story, though…

That may be relevant to you, however, such excuses, or attempts at mitigation don't usually fly when put before a judge.

if you want to rally behind someone who claims THE CSM and ccp are out to get him because his lowsec towers got owned I guess.

If the same scenario happened under the same circumstances with Jade instead of the Mittens I have no doubt that there would a certain element of the game that would go after him. My issue was never that people targeted Mittens for what he said nor did I say that there shouldn't be a punishment of some sort. My issue was that a significant amount of people that went after him were doing so by feigning interest in the the welfare of an ice miner

instead of just admitting that it was politically calculated move.

Would certain goons go after Jade? In all likelihood, yes. Would they use a pubbie ice miner to masquerade our agenda?

Given that I've had to cope with suicidal acquaintances, yes, I was genuinely concerned for the welfare of a human being whom Mittens encouraged people to drive to suicide. I've also seen substantial evidence that it wasn't a careless drunken outburst. Personally I don't hold much sympathy for ice mining or mining in general as a profession (I don't, for example, get upset about Hulkageddon. I just encourage all my miner friends to do something else for a month), but I think you underestimate the level of genuine human sympathy present among players of this game.

That said, I don't deny that a lot of people were just crying crocodile tears and rallying behind The Wis to get at Mittani. But that's the thing, see - Mittens has intentionally constructed this persona of Internet Spaceships Douchebag Supervillain, daring people to get as angry and hateful at him as they can possibly manage. He's basically the Goon of Goons - daring people to get as furious at him as they possibly can, and laughing madly when they do.

Well guess what? He deserves hearty congratulations, because it worked. People hate Goons. People hate Mittens. People get angry at the mere thought of your existence, and the existence of your leader. You are the scourge and unstoppable rage-generating shitmachine that you guys always wanted to be. There's no denying that. But you can't expect to do that and then also expect the very same people you've so deeply enraged to treat you objectively. You can pick one, or the other, but not both. Mittens put himself in a position where he couldn't afford to make the mistake he made, made it anyway, and then Goons acted surprised that things turned out the way they did.

[redacted] was a convenient weapon for the people Mittens angered to use against him, and the Goons can't really complain that they did. You kind of made your own bed here.

Yeah, I think some of you would, and you damn well know you would, too. Oh, of course, you'd do it with even less sincerity than the crowd that went after Mittens, but please let's not be disingenuous - you know there's some Goons who would feign sympathy for an ice miner if it served their agenda (which in this hypothetical scenario would be "getting Jade Constantine banned for lulz"). That's just how politics works.

Goons don't really do the whole "pet" thing. They really aren't into the whole "padding their space with people they don't like" thing, either.

Goons tend to shoot people they don't like. Hell, Goons tend to shoot people they DO like, for fun. All these people that you refer to as "pets", likely because you think they have no voice or something (idk, really). They are all friends of Goons. They like Goons, and Goons like them.

Goons don't abandon their friends, like certain alliances did with their "pets". If Raiden. or whoever decides to try and take a swipe at an ally, and that ally looks like they might not handle it, Goons will come and help out if asked. Not for any cost, or payment or anything. Just to help out a friend in need.

So you can take your little "pets" business and turn around and go back to whatever corner of space that you call home and enjoy your little ideas on your own time.