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[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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[ 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?

Get to know your neighbor and tell us.

But if you are asking then you already know.

Not a bit of it. I'm asking cause I want to know what else you're sitting on and why you're sitting on it.

[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.]

HAHAHA OMG

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

Even when his close contacts are involved.]

You are dedicated.

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?

Edited 2016-11-26 18:59 (UTC)

[ 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.

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

Edited 2016-11-26 19:14 (UTC)

[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.

[ 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?

No. Not when someone's happy to hide' themselves while they're takin' my privacy, or sayin' I'm buying votes when I damn well refused to.

Right. But do you think it'll be good for your campaign?

This ain't a stump speech. This is me pissed as hell 'cause someone saw fit to smear my name, and I'm not gonna pretend I'm not. If that turns some votes away, then that's what happens.

Do you think this will accomplish much?

Sam.

I think you're upset.

[ This is probably Daisy. It reeks of Daisy's obnoxious personality. And that's about the only reason Raina responds. ]

I wouldn't worry about it, Sam. If anything this might help your campaign. To me, it reads like this person is trying to make something out of nothing. Just another misguided anti-government message taken out on the imPorts trying to make a difference.

[ Yeah, sure. She thinks ambassador is a pretty stupid position now, too. But if she hadn't already cast her vote for Bela, she would definitely be spite voting for Sam now. ]

If it was true this was all for display, some great ruse of the government to make us feel as though we 'have a place here,' then how would Mitchell Hundred be able to run for Senator? And if he wins that position, that pretty much invalidates all of this.

Edited 2016-11-26 20:25 (UTC)

There a single reason I shouldn't be?

Is she saying something true?

[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.

gonna do this every election btw?

[ STILL ASSUMING THIS IS DAISY. ]

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

[ Still with a level voice: ]

That's just politics, though, I'm afraid. These attacks happen. And the response to it is - ought to be - to be better than it.

[ 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?

Edited 2016-11-26 21:31 (UTC)

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

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