Jita Park Speakers Corner

It is obvious that the Mittani (or however you spell his name) is a better politician. And TBH it seems to me that riverini thinks that the CSM is a place to try to push for your own personal pet projects. Yeah, bounties need to be fixed - but this isn't the CSMs place to fix it. The Mittani has the right idea with the CSM being a sounding board for CCP and a shield to protect the players from boneheaded ideas about space pants.

That being said, I agree with riverini's ideas - I just don't think he'll make the best CSM chair. The Mittani is aggressive, cunning - and above all else - dangerously competent.

Thanks - its a great listen. What did you make of the interview?

Every one of these stupid elections people run on a truther-level stupid platform of the changes THEY want to make in Eve. That's why Mittani won CSM6, it's why he'll have CSM7 in the bag: he runs on a platform of "I want them to listen to us" instead of "I want them to listen to me". It makes him the best bet for the money as a good guy on the CSM, and even better as a chair.

Stop stupid campaigns. Vote The Mittani for Chairman.

I'm a native english speaker and I have absolutely no clue what he's trying to say. What chance do a bunch of kindly icelandic folk have in understanding a word of it?

Literally everyone who runs for CSM does so to inflate their ego, the only difference is to which ones will have positive effects on Eve in the process and which ones will just ham-fistedly try to shove their terrible ideas onto CCP's drawing board because they don't understand how influence or persuasion works.

I don't think he brings factionalism to the CSM, but I think most of the people who dislike him do so out of their own factionalism. However, if you can't bring yourself to vote for The Mittani, you should vote for someone who can work with him, because he's definitely going to have the numbers to get on the CSM again and will probably be chairman.

I think CSM6 was a good team and most of them deserve a return ticket, and also Mittens has gone out of his way to mention Hans Jagerblitzen as someone who has made a positive contribution to CSM6 without even being on it.

But you really want to cast a vote for Mittens, you just haven't admitted it to yourself yet. It's okay, you won't have to tell anyone who you really voted for.

I think that Riverini's inability to communicate his ideas makes him a poor choice for the CSM, let alone chairman. I'm not advocating discriminating due to someone not speaking English fluently, but in this venue, politics, communication is the job, and he doesn't have the basic skills required.

You wouldn't call it discrimination if the bus company refused to hire blind drivers, would you? Of course not, they lack the tools to perform the job. Same deal here. Politics means communication, and in this particular venue it means communicating in English. This is something that riverini is not truly capable of. The nail in the coffin is that he believes he is capable, as this debate was his own idea. This creates a huge gap between what riverini thinks he's saying and has said, and what's actually gotten to the ears of CCP, or in last nights case the other debater, Mittani. Who, obviously a fairly competent individual, was constantly at a loss as to the content of riverini's answers.

This is about first impressions though. By the time the newbie has played a few hours to get into their next upgrade ship from the rookie frig, they're much more likely to have decided on whether they like the game and want to continue or not and will overlook the fact that there are other ugly ships later on. Plus, you don't get to choose your rookie ship, so if you're a Minmatar newbie you're getting the hideous Reaper model rubbed in your face whether you like it or not, but if you think the Rifter looks horrible compared to the Vigil or the Breacher you can pick between the T1 frigates on the market for the prettiest option - and when you're a newbie who doesn't know any better, whether you like the look of the model is likely to be one of the things that actually matters. ALL the ship models are going to get overhauled and prettified at some point, but rookie frigs are an option that would almost certainly have been overlooked in favour of sexier options if it hadn't have been bought up by the CSM.

Riverini for CSM7
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