Topic: Why did I leave, and why am I permamently leaving?
Well here it is. I have been putting this off, but I felt like doing my final history to IC.
I did not leave because my last family was being gutted, or that Nolio was a bad leader, or any other in game crap.
I left because a thread to honor Veterans was worse than spammed, it was hijacked, and turned into a thing of nightmare. My one thing where I had no politics in something, where I tried to be neutral and understanding, where I was mostly giving a chance to people to talk of their own familys fallen soldiers, regardless of history behind their falling. All who have fallen in duty deserve to be remembered, and if their actions within military traditions without issue, then honored to boot.
It was the mods utter disrespect of that thread, their inactivity, their prejudices against me that made the leaving a permanent thing. They should have slapped that man with a 3 month no forum before it got out of hand, deleted the posts, left it in politics, and done the right thing, but their personal prejudices against all things Flint (Like liberals are against all things Bush, without even having inspected him and found he was moderately liberal in social policies) made them unwilling to do the ethical thing.
Their abuses and controlmongering is what is making the leaving permanent.
I have to many emotions tied into this game, it's not safe for me, like it was when I was depressed. When I suffered my depression IC was a way out of the world, now that I am a part of the world I need to stay away from IC because it brings back emotions which should not return, on the lightest of issues sometimes.
My current bio: Truck driver, made 45k last year, will make 70k (I think, according to plan) this year. I lost my chance for running for office which was a big plan, I got very built up for it, residency in advance, bought websites, started getting facebook, myspace, twitter circles built, started getting contact information for party people, and one last step prior to putting my name on the line was needed. I needed to get a lease on my own semi-truck. I was going to hire a co-driver, at 40 cents a mile, to drive with me, the lease and co-driver were to be my job security in a time of great economic turmoil in this nation. Without it I was not, am not, will not, run for office. I had staked out the person I was running against, knew her well. But I fear murphy most of all, and will not run without job security.
What happened? A fleet manager decided he wanted me to be a perfect driver. This involved running against the rules of DOT every so often, turning in electronic paper work perfectly timed, and sending back trip papers instantly (even if thursday is cut-off day to get them in for posting to pay next pay day, turn it in Friday was his mentality). He did not tell me what he wrote in my file, which was 'do not give him a lease truck' essentially. If he had told me, I would have left this company in a heart beat, or gotten a new fleet manager asap. But thats ok, I now have a chance to save a lot of money up for a real run in 2012, where I can make a serious effort beyond my small scope.
I enjoy politics, and I find that common people listen to me when I speak in person about politics. I get liberals even to side with me. I am a natural in person, ugly as I am, and once again over-weight even. I am not bothered about my weight now, I can live with the foibles of life. But IC just brings back that haunted, hunted, fearful person I was under depression, so I am leaving.
I plan a blitz in politics, it is quite clear those newbs know NOTHING ABOUT POLITICS. They care not for issues, or for causes, they know nothing of what they post even. Hell I even had to kick Chris_Ballz for not posting enough stuff!
I will return only one time, if I do get elected, to offer two people positions in my staff. One already knows the offer, the other... I will let him guess, and probably correctly on my choice for him.
Remember, information is power, information overload is anarchy, and slavery is not looking and learning for yourself the truth.
Kemp currently not being responded to until he makes CONCISE posts.
Avogardo and Noir ignored by me for life so people know why I do not respond to them. (Informational)