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Attempting to Fulfil The Plan: ISOT Edition
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[X] Sonia Sherman
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[X] Sonia Sherman
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[X] Sonia Sherman
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[X] Sonia Sherman
Rejecting our only actually qualified candidate for this job out of some misplaced sense of "political reliability" is absurd to the extreme.
What part of her job would she object to so strongly anyway? She'd be doing her job, getting paid, and visibly helping people; a rarity for qualified uptimers.
If she was some sort of fanatical counter revolutionary terrorist, what could she do without getting fired, anyway? Deliberately spill her tea over the blueprints?
Rejecting our only actually qualified candidate for this job out of some misplaced sense of "political reliability" is absurd to the extreme.
What part of her job would she object to so strongly anyway? She'd be doing her job, getting paid, and visibly helping people; a rarity for qualified uptimers.
If she was some sort of fanatical counter revolutionary terrorist, what could she do without getting fired, anyway? Deliberately spill her tea over the blueprints?
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It's also important to remember we just had the biggest victory since the Event, anyone who's here and isn't a diehard anti-Communist probably wants to be part of the winning team.
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Well yes but that's kinda worrying because the same logic would lead to assume they'd turn on us at the first defeat.
Hiring a politically unreliable candidate costs us party support, which we might want to spend elsewhere on something like democratising the party or doing actual socialism. Yes, she is the best, but if another candidate is alse 'good enough' then it's not at all "absurd to the extreme" to prefer the other option. Let's also not forget that our current department head is also a qualified civil engineer, so the deputy can learn from him on the job.
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Is she the only qualified candidate or is she merely more qualified than the others.
The issue isn't objecting to parts of her job, the issue is using her office to build support for her own politics without being egregious enough to fire her (which would be a momentary disaster but solve itself).
[X]Wilbert Cunningham
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There's a vast different between being politically unreliable and actively plotting a counter-revolution. Sonia is only here because she had to flee from Nazi Pirates, she's aware the PRM is the main reason she avoided slavery. She may not be aligned with us but she's probably grateful if nothing else.
And like, I don't think she could get far even if she tried anything. Moderates are all but locked out of power and the downtimer population is not exactly allied with them.
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I'm not talking about counter revolution, I'm talking about revisionism
The fact the downtimers never had currency is really a blessing isn't it. It's making it very hard for pro market moderates to leverage them.
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[X] Sonia Sherman
Sounds like the best person you could ask for skill wise, and hiring her despite the objections might help our government become less drunk on ideology.
Sounds like the best person you could ask for skill wise, and hiring her despite the objections might help our government become less drunk on ideology.
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Our ideology isn't even close to a majority of the government right now. Our government isn't "drunk on ideology".
They're not (they still run the army, and recent offensive had lifted them more than us) and getting her in position means that at best that doesn't change, at worst we're propping them up. It's not a no brainer, getting a still qualified but more reliable guy into this position is better imo.
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[X]Wilbert Cunningham
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No, Gordon is the top army person and he's Intensificationist.
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MLs are socdems without the democracy though
If you look at their discourse, it's basic develop the productive forces stuff. We should be very thankful there isn't an international market for them to sell out to.
At least they're not foreign policy moderates, which is good. That's also something I expect any ideologically unreliable new hire to focus on. I doubt we picked up many market zealots, but people who want us to normalize relations with the "democratic" slavers and self made despots? I think that's going to be the biggest worry from non red Americans right now.
So what you are saying is that they're Dengists?MLs are socdems without the democracy though
If you look at their discourse, it's basic develop the productive forces stuff. We should be very thankful there isn't an international market for them to sell out to.
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No, I'm saying that they could be if put in the same context. Which is our saving grace, here. Absent a dominant world market, developing the productive forces benefit more from planned economy than from dengism.
Right now, it looks like pacifism and normalizers are our biggest ideological threat. And that's exactly what I worry will come from non leftist refugees.
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[X]Wilbert Cunningham
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[X]Wilbert Cunningham