mirror network || encrypted, anonymous - backtimed to early morning

[nastygram]

[The below posts to the mirror network around 3am on the morning of November 26th, the election of the Heropa ambassador.]

Greetings, fellow imPorts.

As you turn out to vote today for our ambassador of Heropa, our single sole voice of representation in this great nation, we urge you to ask yourselves: who is your neighbor?

Your vote is a empty gesture. A gesture designed to help keep us complacent, to make us feel that we have a part in a body, in a nation, that has nothing to do with us. These elections are coordinated by a government who does not care about you. These elections put into place the newest figurehead, in a series of figureheads, whose power is rendered meaningless by the very fact that we who live here have no rights. No control. We are brought here and we are taken out again.

So trust your neighbor, imPorts. They are the closest you have to a constant.

But we suggest that you trust your neighbor only if you know your neighbor.

Your candidates show one face. We show you now, LIVE, FROM HEROPA, some OTHER faces of 3 of the finest, to teach you, imPOrts, to be wary, and beware. Be wary of the rich who give from guilt, the men of means who claim to care. Beware the criminals who got off easy and now ask YOU to behave. Be wary of the cronies, the vote-buyers, the campaigners who seek not to enrich your lives but to profit, to increase their means and their research, to increase their bottom line off your backs. Beware the institutions, Big Med and Big Industry and Big Brother. Beware those who would see us as tools. Beware the socialists who would join the democratic machine. To enter into that game is to succumb to it.

To the candidates: we urge you to LISTEN TO YOURSELVES. Heed your own words and take your own advice. If you must participate in this dog and pony show that the government has constructed as a distracton, then participate by our rules, the rules of the imPorts. You should tear this fabric. You should not worry about playing the corrupt game. You should worry for your fellow imPOrts, and worry about us. We have the power.

And remember: it is in our hands to decide. Not just today, fellow imPorts, but every day. IT IS IN ALL OF OUR HANDS. You must pay attention. Don't make us pay attention for you.


[Following the text is a series of links and soundbytes, reposting the above for emphasis.]

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heneversaidno
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Comments

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[rathercommon]

[ Kitty frowns a bit as she reads this over, tapping her chin. Is this a hatchet job, she wonders, by the other candidates? Or is it someone generally trying to spread information? - Of course, this is maybe not the kindest question to ask, since Miles got away scot-free and it'd be an unkind thing to bring trouble to someone she's terribly fond of, but... ]

And what about the others? Squeaky clean, are they?

[nastygram]

Get to know your neighbor and tell us.

But if you are asking then you already know.

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[devoutish]

[Alfie doesn't see this until the morning because he isn't usually nocturnal, but when he does, damn.]

Hear, hear.

[He admittedly doesn't care a lot because he doesn't feel attached to this world in any way, but still. A+ callouts, A+ truths.]

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[nastygram]

Adding your voice?

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[fayzedandconfused]

HAHAHA OMG

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[nastygram]

Your approval has been noted.

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[slightlyoffchilt]

[He has to comment, he literally cannot help himself. He. Loves. Gossip.

Even when his close contacts are involved.]

You are dedicated.

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[nastygram]

A cause worth the dedication.

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[viced]

Why do you feel that they are figureheads? Do you think they can't do anything for us as imports?

Or do you think they CHOOSE not to?

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[nastygram]

Fishing for campaign blurbs, Mr. Hundred? For shame.

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[jacksonian]

[ Mark's pissed off at the invasion of privacy - no doubt about that - but even more than that he's pissed about the fact that A BUSINESS-OWNER OF HIS is getting SLANDERED. He'd prefer a Miles victory to a Sam Merlotte victory, sure, but he doesn't want someone who works for him getting smeared in a way that could cut into profits. (And maybe he likes Sam? Whatever.) ]

Try for reading comprehension. He did say no.

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[nastygram]

If you've come to protect your investment from us, you're too late.

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[aggressiveapathy]

is it wrong i'm really hurt i wasn't included on here?
*jeff* gets quoted and not me?

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[nastygram]

Old Billy was right: lawyers are the worst.

But the night is young.

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[shifting]

[Sam is a private man. He values that privacy, values being able to choose when he opens up to someone and to who. He sure as shit doesn't value some little bitch-ass computer hacker picking through his personal conversations and throwing out labels like they know him. Like they know a goddamn thing.]

Well aren't you just so fuckin' edgy and enlightened. [Sam stares hard into the camera, not bothering to hide himself or his anger; he's not ashamed of either.] "Don't vote 'cause your vote doesn't matter". Think I've seen that one expressed before - might've been about middle school.

[he leans forward, a muscle in his jaw twitching, licking his teeth behind tightly closed lips. It's an effort to keep his voice as low and level as he does.]

And if you had a face to show, I'd say you hold a mirror to it for callin' people criminals after you hack into their shit. Shit you didn't even read right. You want to throw labels around, I've got a few for you. Coward, for a start.

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[rathercommon]

[ With her voice as calm and as level as she can make it: ]

Better, I think, to opt out of labeling. Don't you think so, too?

[instars]

Do you think this will accomplish much?

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[nastygram]

We must all start somewhere.

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[curada]

[How can he describe his emotions at this defamation? Their silence disquiets him, and he barely manages to arrange his thoughts as a distraction.]

You accuse me calmly, and even peacefully of being beholden to private interests. Yet whom am I supposed to represent, exactly? I fear the detail of my motivation has been deliberately withheld; and I feel you are judging others according to the whims of your own experiences.

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[nastygram]

If elected, you will be representing imPorts. People like us. Those advantaged few who you would deliver to the rest of society.

If you have been withholding detail, now is the time to spill it.

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[112ounces]

gonna do this every election btw?

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[nastygram]

That would be telling.

And predictable.

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[flowerette]

[ STILL ASSUMING THIS IS DAISY. ]

Is that out of your system now? Or can we expect a whole new series of things like this?

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[nastygram]

[wow no]

Is this an inconvenience?

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[ofgoldenfoil]

[ That's a lot of information to cover. Aurican never thought to doubt the government in the first place, but now he wonders. ]

And is this for Heropa?

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[nastygram]

For Heropa, that great shining shithole of a city.

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[cantwalkwithoutit]

With petty politics like these, why should I ever wish to return home?

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[nastygram]

With politics like these, who needs elections?
With petty friends like these, who needs enemies?
With politicians like these, who needs enemies?

Are you amused?

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[brushoff]

Boooooooring. [ and here, Dorian rolls his eyes. ] Whatever happened to scandal! I expected affairs, juicy details, an intimate look at who's fucking who but instead, one of our candidates is a socialist and another owns a bar.

Newsflash Kitty, they're politicians. And, even worse than that, they're only human.

[ because this hissy bitchfit about politics has GOT to be Kitty Jones, right? Right! ]

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[nastygram]

[ew no are you for real]

Some of them are. Some of them aren't. But they are all on the same leashes.

For sex scandals and juicy intimates, see: Rumblr, Bwitter, Youporn, the gossip magazines, and the latest Majority Report. For an honest series of questions and answers with consequences to follow: stay tuned.

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[socialactivillain]

[ Well, isn't this rude and annoying? ]

First of all, trying to change things from within isn't succumbing to anything.
Secondly, I've never kept any of my background or my beliefs private, so just what point do you think you're making with all this?

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[nastygram]

You, Mr. Rathaway, work better independently, where you don't have to worry too much about procedure and can focus more on direct results.

We suggest you stick to what you know.

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[infomodder]

Is that the royal "we"?

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[nastygram]

There is no such thing as royalty.

We are more than one. A plural, a collective. Deliberately opaque, deliberately coordinated, nameless for the time being. Not a figurehead but a figure to undercut the figureheads.

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[wizzardly]

This might have been useful for the last election, you know. Were you working another post at the time?

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[nastygram]

Fear not, we are here now. For this election and for every election and major event to come.

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[textualhealing]

Oh nooooo some people said some things you didn't like.
Go back to rumblr.

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[nastygram]

Don't worry, Mr. Winger, we crosspost.

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[glowsferatu]

All your talk of cronyism and getting criminals off easy without a word about Vorkosigan? Sounds to me like this message was itself bought and paid for.

You didn't even get the city right.

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[nastygram]

And yet you are the only one who has noticed, commented, and cared.