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Post by Sir Alexandreu Davinescu on Feb 27, 2015 9:34:46 GMT -6
Beric'ht Talossan is hiring! We are looking to fill four positions:Podcaster - Beric'ht Auscultaval has been a big success, and we are very proud! But it's a hard job, and many hands make light work. Do you have a good voice and a microphone, and an interest in Talossan news and events? This might be the job for you! You will work with Assistant Editor for Audio, Riley Miller, and you would be responsible for recording audio versions of each issue, reading the stories in an intelligible and pleasant way. You may also be called upon to do interviews of Talossan newsmakers of the day! Reliability is the most important quality for any applicant! We want someone who will be able to get this done every two weeks! Social Media Manager - Do you check Witt every day, and see the news as it happens? Then you might be perfect to join our team as a social media manager! The @berichttalossan Twitter account is taking off, and we're interested in taking on someone who will work to tweet once or twice a day about the events happening in Talossa! At a 144 characters a pop, it's the easiest writing job you'll ever get! It's easy and fun! Apply today! Reporter - We are looking for reporters interested in informing their fellow Talossans about the news. Your opportunities range from short pieces giving the facts to our wide audience, to long dives into Talossan history and politics. An ability to think critically and good writing skills are important, but reliability is paramount. You can always turn in something short, but you need to turn in something every time. Opinion Columnist - Do you have a particular view on modern Talossan life? Do you have strong political beliefs, and the ability to express them well? Then we're looking to bring you on as an opinion columnist, to tell it like it is! You can make yourself heard like never before to all of our subscribers. All parties are welcome - give your views on legislation, important figures in the news, and most anything else you please! Good writing ability and strong opinions are important, but reliability is paramount. Join the most exciting team in today's Talossa and be the newest member of our crack team of twelve contributors! This is your opportunity to write the first draft of history - seize it! Interested applicants should PM me or send an email to BerichtTalossan@gmail.com. Apply today!Beric'ht Talossan is an equal opportunity employer. Beric'ht Talossan is a registered corporation under Talossan law and an official Supporter of Talossa. Copyright © 2015 Beric'ht Talossan, All rights reserved.
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Miestrâ Schivâ, UrN
Seneschal
the new Jim Hacker
Posts: 6,635
Talossan Since: 6-25-2004
Dame Since: 9-8-2012
Motto: Expulseascâ, reveneascâ
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Duke Since: Feudal titles are for gimps
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Post by Miestrâ Schivâ, UrN on Feb 27, 2015 15:12:28 GMT -6
Spittle-Flecked Foamer - Have you been a Talossan citizen for less than ten minutes but have already decided you "hate" a certain political party and that Talossa would be better if they were eliminated? Berich't has a job for you! Whether it's personal insults, religious bigotry, accusations of terrorism or just plain slanting the news to make those bastards look bad! Defend the Monarchy (by dumping on anyone who criticises the King or his buddies)! Impress your new friends! Get to bully someone yourself to make up for all those wedgies you get in study hall! Successful applicants will probably get a Peerage of the Realm or something.
Satire is protected speech under the Covenant of Rights and Freedoms.
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Marcel Eðo Pairescu Tafial
Batetz las maes, perf. —— Freelance glheþineir (I only accept Worthless Internet Points™ as payment)
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Post by Marcel Eðo Pairescu Tafial on Feb 27, 2015 15:29:38 GMT -6
Street Cleaner: be the poor neutral guy who cleans the streets after both sides argumented each other and the Nation as a whole into the dust.
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Tráveç Dun
Citizen of Talossa
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Post by Tráveç Dun on Feb 27, 2015 16:06:20 GMT -6
The Distain makes the fine point that there's no seniority required to be a contributor. If you're new, it's a fun way to get a sense of Talossa and to reach out to people for the first time. I'd encourage anyone interested to apply, no matter when you immigrated!
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Post by Sir Alexandreu Davinescu on Feb 27, 2015 16:25:57 GMT -6
The social media position would also be a great entry-level job, if you're not sure how much time you'll have. If you're already reading Witt, it just requires spending a couple of minutes tweeting what you see and hear!
And honestly, could there be a better way to get to know Talossans and Talossa than by reporting on the news and interviewing those who make it? Plus, you get to be one of the only people in the country who is speaking the actual language!
Plus, as a reporter, podcaster, or social media manager you'd get to be a part of the only media organization in the country willing to engage in critical reporting on the Government. In the past months, we've done in-depth dives into activity levels on Wittenberg, the rate and sources of immigration, the rough relations behind the scenes in the halls of power, and so much more. Don't worry, though, we're open to opinions from all over the political spectrum - if you are a strong supporter of the current coalition government or one of its parties, you are definitely welcome! Beric'ht Talossan does not accept any racist, sexist, slanderous, or otherwise overtly unacceptable contributions, and will continue to reject them, but otherwise we do not adhere to any political view... we're a platform for Talossans of every stripe to be creative and "do Talossa!"
Please only apply if you're seriously interested, though. You have to reliable and come through every time, and you have to be willing to endure the occasional abuse and a lot of pressure from above. But your words will be the records for the future, and the paper gets read by nearly half the country. What you do will matter in Talossa.
Join Beric'ht Talossan... and help write the first draft of history!
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Miestrâ Schivâ, UrN
Seneschal
the new Jim Hacker
Posts: 6,635
Talossan Since: 6-25-2004
Dame Since: 9-8-2012
Motto: Expulseascâ, reveneascâ
Baron Since: Feudal titles are for gimps
Duke Since: Feudal titles are for gimps
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Post by Miestrâ Schivâ, UrN on Feb 27, 2015 23:02:27 GMT -6
Cartoon: BT offices. Miestrâ is outside, walking up and down the streets with a one-woman-band apparatus playing La Marseillaise. Inside, AD hides under his desk with his fingers in his ears.
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Post by Sir Alexandreu Davinescu on Feb 28, 2015 8:11:42 GMT -6
S:da Distain, you have really made your point that you dislike some of the cartoons in Beric'ht Talossan, and that you personally hate me. I think everyone understands that. But it is really unpleasant for you to follow me around on Witt and constantly say rude things. You can't harass me into changing my mind about paper policy so that I only publish opinions with which I agree. Please stop following me around and trying to bully me. I don't know if you're acting alone or if the Government endorses it, but please stop. This is from the past two months alone. In every thread about the paper or my party, I think, even if you aren't mentioned anywhere in any cartoon or article. Spittle-Flecked Foamer - Have you been a Talossan citizen for less than ten minutes but have already decided you "hate" a certain political party and that Talossa would be better if they were eliminated? Berich't has a job for you! Whether it's personal insults, religious bigotry, accusations of terrorism or just plain slanting the news to make those bastards look bad! Defend the Monarchy (by dumping on anyone who criticises the King or his buddies)! Impress your new friends! Get to bully someone yourself to make up for all those wedgies you get in study hall! Successful applicants will probably get a Peerage of the Realm or something. Satire is protected speech under the Covenant of Rights and Freedoms. In the name of God, the compassionate and the merciful, Elo Cutor's cartoons just get more inexplicable.  And it's kind of rich that the ZRT are called the No Fun Party at the same time as being Muslim terrorists who are behind everything wrong with Talossa. It's like how Barry Obama is treated by the US hard right: he's an atheist communist and a Muslim, a steely-eyed dictator and a lazy empty suit. I'd say that the real No Fun party are the people who think that personal abuse is appropriate in Talossa. As usual, all RUMP arguments reduce to special pleading in favour of the existing system simply because it's the existing system. If we were starting from scratch, no way would even the most rusted-on Tory promote a "LARP-Cosâ" like the one we've had since 2003! The "terrorist" jibe in this issue, added to the "Muslim" jibe from last week, really seems to add up to a theme, and that theme is "subtly but clearly throw the worst personal abuse we can at Miestrâ". It's increasingly plain that Sir Alex is Mildew himself. I was loath to come to that conclusion because it seemed paranoid. But here are two additional bits of information: a) the way he stormed out of his guest speech to the ZRT convention when I made a "mildew" joke; b) Alex himself can't tell the difference between a Sufi and an orthodox Muslim, as he revealed in a Witt thread a while ago. Thus, all Sir Alex's fine statements above are just window-dressing. The purpose of the anonymity of ESM is, and let's emphasise this: so Sir Alexandreu Davinescu can throw the nastiest personal (not political) abuse he can at Miestrâ Schivâ, and yet keep his squeaky-clean polite public image.
Anonymity is in a noble cause when one is afraid of persecution for free speech. It is just shitty bullying when it's a front for one man to carry out a personal crusade while pleading innocence. If I'm wrong, and AD is not ESM, that just means there are two Talossans who personally despise me and are too, and I will use the vernacular here, chickenshit to say it to my (virtual) face. I'd like to add that I would agree that those cartoons aren't libelous. They would have to damage my reputation in a lying way to do that, which would mean someone apart from AD and his hard-core RUMP buddies would have to take what they say seriously, which I could not find evidence for which would convince a judge. Subtle this time, as the coward Mildew accuses ZRT leaders of terrorism. o.O No, I don´t think the verb "terrorise" was chosen by accident. Oh now, stay, please, I'm intrigued to hear what you have to say. Maybe it will be an apology and an announcement of a new vacancy for a cartoonist? withdrawn as being slightly paranoid To be frank, my only real problem is the putrid bile that you publish and call "cartoons". Most of your content is safely anodyne. But it's not a coincidence that said bile has driven away two pro-Government figures. "Applications from knee-jerk conservatives, particularly those with issues with Muslims and women, are positively encouraged." Of course I'd pay the cost of postage, although who will pay the cost of my airfare to stuff said physical copy down the cartoonist's throats? Let me guess. ESM thinks that the fact that I think he's a talentless partisan hack is just the same as if I walked into his office and shot him in the face. That's two months. It's been almost a year of this, not to mention the other uncountable abuses. You get personal and you get cruel, and it never seems to stop. It's just bullying. Regardless of whether or not you hate one of the cartoonists I publish, disagree with my editorial policy, or personally hate me, you're trying to harass me. It's not protest or criticism, since it's such unrelenting personal abuse as well, and you don't stop even when the cartoonists don't mention you, and you seize the chance to say something nasty even if there's nothing specific about myself or the paper to attack. I think you're trying to drive me off of Wittenberg entirely. I have tried not to engage with you, but you won't let me, since it just makes me a punching bag for you. I'm not hitting back, so you keep on attacking. Please stop bullying me. I like to run the paper. It's fun. I think it's good for Talossa, since we're the only paper. I don't think it would work if I only published opinions with which I agreed, even though I know you disagree. But it's getting to the point where I'm not even sure I want to keep it up, or be on Witt very much. Please stop bullying me. |
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Lüc da Schir
Senator for Benito
If Italy wins a Six Nations match I will join the Zouaves
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Post by Lüc da Schir on Feb 28, 2015 12:00:16 GMT -6
I don't know if you're acting alone or if the Government endorses it, but please stop. The Government has not endorsed this in any way. It's sad - yet understandable - that you think that I've ordered this or that the Government is behind this "bullying" as you call it. However, I respect the fact that my Distain is expressing her opinions publicly, yet your cartoonists are not. We in the Cabinet receive the same ration of bullying from your paper, from even more time, and it gets personal and cruel as well. Plus, it's understandable that we - and S:da Schiva - think that there's the RUMP behind all the bullying. While I would prefer Dame Miestra to avoid "crossing the line" so much and so often, and I don't endorse what she did, I can understand her feelings towards you and your paper when she is receiving the same treatment all the time, justified with it being a defence of the freedom of opinion. True. You seem to be so lucky to have other people - anonymous people - hitting back on her on your behalf from the pages of Beric'ht. |
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Post by Sir Alexandreu Davinescu on Feb 28, 2015 12:20:41 GMT -6
I don't know if you're acting alone or if the Government endorses it, but please stop. The Government has not endorsed this in any way. It's sad - yet understandable - that you think that I've ordered this or that the Government is behind this "bullying" as you call it. I said that "I don't know," because I don't know. I'm glad to hear it's not true that the Government is behind this bullying, and that it's just your Distain. However, I respect the fact that my Distain is expressing her opinions publicly, yet your cartoonists are not. We in the Cabinet receive the same ration of bullying from your paper, from even more time, and it gets personal and cruel as well. Plus, it's understandable that we - and S:da Schiva - think that there's the RUMP behind all the bullying. While I would prefer Dame Miestra to avoid "crossing the line" so much and so often, and I don't endorse what she did, I can understand her feelings towards you and your paper when she is receiving the same treatment all the time, justified with it being a defence of the freedom of opinion. Of course we can all understand her feelings... reporting and cartoons at Beric'ht Talossan have criticized the Government repeatedly, and her own choices on occasion, as well. You may also think that some of the cartoons published about her in prior issues were unfair in some ways, although I don't feel free to condemn anything specifically (otherwise "free platform for all ideas" is kind of a farce). But she is following me from thread to thread, even ones like this one that are just attempts to keep a media organization active, and just pouring bile and nastiness on me whenever possible. It's way beyond criticism or response or politics... she is bullying me. If Beric'ht Talossan publishes a piece saying that the Government is not effectively vetting its appointees, that's a news report or opinion piece. You can choose not to read it. I don't mail the paper to anyone who doesn't want it, and don't even post the articles on Witt. If you think the criticism is wrong or unfair, you can ignore it. Or you can respond, freely and openly. You have in the past, S:reu Seneschal. But I can't escape Dama Miestra. Even when I'm not publishing anything or saying anything about her, or anything else, she is following me to that thread and posting something nasty. I think the intended effect is to try to harass me, just to make me feel bad or to drive me off of Witt or to make me shut down the paper. It's bullying, and I wish that the Seneschal of my country, the Kingdom of Talossa, which for years sanctioned just this sort of behavior on behalf of another figure in power, wouldn't condone it. I can't stop people from being critical of her, or saying things about her, especially when she's the leader of a major political party and noted for being controversial and intemperate. I'm not going to have a blanket ban on criticizing the Distain of the country. I'm not going to police ideas submitted to the paper, or only print things that I agree with and that adhere to the RUMP party line. We have reporters from a bunch of parties, and that would kill the paper in short order - like every other paper. I just want her to leave me, personally, alone, and stop following me around everywhere and bullying me. |
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Miestrâ Schivâ, UrN
Seneschal
the new Jim Hacker
Posts: 6,635
Talossan Since: 6-25-2004
Dame Since: 9-8-2012
Motto: Expulseascâ, reveneascâ
Baron Since: Feudal titles are for gimps
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Post by Miestrâ Schivâ, UrN on Feb 28, 2015 12:22:12 GMT -6
Firstly, Sir Alexandreu: I spoke to you very plainly via PM explaining my continuing animus towards you, but you simply ignored the issue of some of the nastier things you've done which have caused myself and others to consider you one of the people who makes Talossa less fun for most of us. But that's by-the-by and should be dealt with further in private, if at all. I follow you around because you refuse to deal with the issues. You refuse to accept editorial responsibility for the bile that goes out in your paper. I do not believe for a second that you really think you have no right not to publish an ESM cartoon if it contains personal abuse or religious bigotry. I think you just like being able to publish abuse of me and wash your hands of responsibility. Deal with the issues and this all ends. To "make it stop", Sir Alexandreu, if you refer to the attacks on BT, I only require the following: apologise for publishing the nastier ESM cartoons with personalised abuse of myself including religious bigotry, and undertake that no further such cartoons will be published. I'm not requiring you fire ESM, their last cartoon was even-handed satire which proves it is possible. As the Seneschál says, you really appear to be able to dish it out (through proxies, keeping "plausible deniability" and your mask of politeness) but not to take it. As to the attacks on the RUMP, well, that's politics. You do not seem to understand that the RUMP stinks in the nostrils of many Talossans - including some of your own former members, even leaders - because of your smarmy, cliquish triumphalism, your born to rule attitude, and your total reluctance to even engage with your critics on these issues, backed up by your friendship with the King which means you think you can get away with anything (cf: Case 14-06). The fact that BT acts as a "recruiter" for the RUMP makes it a legitimate political target in this regard, as well. The attacks will continue until you change your ways as a party. This is what the British call " rough music". The person who had BETRAYED STOLEN KEPT in his signature for five or more years and thus played a vital role in keeping the National Schism between Kingdom and Republic going has no right to talk to anyone else about bullying. We reap what we sow. |
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Post by Sir Alexandreu Davinescu on Feb 28, 2015 12:28:32 GMT -6
Firstly, Sir Alexandreu: I spoke to you very plainly via PM explaining my continuing animus towards you, but you simply ignored the issue of some of the nastier things you've done which have caused myself and others to consider you one of the people who makes Talossa less fun for most of us. But that's by-the-by and should be dealt with further in private, if at all. To "make it stop", Sir Alexandreu, if you refer to the attacks on BT, I only require the following: apologise for publishing the nastier ESM cartoons with personalised abuse of myself including religious bigotry, and undertake that no further such cartoons will be published. I'm not requiring you fire ESM, their last cartoon was even-handed satire which proves it is possible. As the Seneschál says, you really appear to be able to dish it out (through proxies, keeping "plausible deniability" and your mask of politeness) but not to take it. As to the attacks on the RUMP, well, that's politics. You do not seem to understand that the RUMP stinks in the nostrils of many Talossans - including some of your own former members, even leaders - because of your smarmy, cliquish triumphalism, your born to rule attitude, and your total reluctance to even engage with your critics on these issues, backed up by your friendship with the King which means you think you can get away with anything (cf: Case 14-06). The attacks will continue until you change your ways as a party. The paper already has and will continue to refuse to publish anything overtly racist, sexist, misogynist, or slanderous! You can't make me do what you want by promising to harass me and bully me until I agree! That's not how a civil society works... you can't follow someone around and be nasty to them all the time until they do what you want. It's the very definition of cyber-bullying! |
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Post by Sir Alexandreu Davinescu on Feb 28, 2015 12:30:13 GMT -6
Rough music?!
"Noisy, masked processions were held outside the home of the supposed wrongdoer, involving the cacophonous rattling of bones and cleavers, the ringing of bells, hooting, blowing bull's horns, the banging of frying pans, saucepans, kettles, or other kitchen or barn implements with the intention of creating long-lasting embarrassment to the alleged perpetrator.[4] During a rough music performance, the victim could be displayed upon a pole or donkey (in person or as an effigy), their "crimes" becoming the subject of mime, theatrical performances or recitatives, along with a litany of obscenities and insults."
There's a REASON why you're not allowed to go to someone's house any more and harass them constantly until they agree with you!
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Miestrâ Schivâ, UrN
Seneschal
the new Jim Hacker
Posts: 6,635
Talossan Since: 6-25-2004
Dame Since: 9-8-2012
Motto: Expulseascâ, reveneascâ
Baron Since: Feudal titles are for gimps
Duke Since: Feudal titles are for gimps
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Post by Miestrâ Schivâ, UrN on Feb 28, 2015 12:31:55 GMT -6
Probably not, but I can make sure you don't get away scot-free. There are consequences for actions. There are also consequences for refusing to accept that there are consequences for actions. You are responsible as Editor for the content of BT.
It's the very definition of politics. You want all the fun of being a major political figure in Talossa - even the alternative Seneschál, should you lead a coalition after the next election - with none of the responsibility for the personal damage you cause. You had BETRAYED STOLEN KEPT in your signature for five years. That wasn't just bullying, that was a lie, and a lie meant to inflame political hatred against me and mine.
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Post by Sir Alexandreu Davinescu on Feb 28, 2015 12:39:11 GMT -6
Probably not, but I can make sure you don't get away scot-free. There are consequences for actions. There are also consequences for refusing to accept that there are consequences for actions. You are responsible as Editor for the content of BT. It's the very definition of politics. You want all the fun of being a major political figure in Talossa - even the alternative Seneschál, should you lead a coalition after the next election - with none of the responsibility for the personal damage you cause. You had BETRAYED STOLEN KEPT in your signature for five years. That wasn't just bullying, that was a lie, and a lie meant to inflame political hatred against me and mine. It's not politics to follow someone around and harass them, no matter what they're talking about! Yes, I have political positions with which you disagree, and you lead a different political party, but that doesn't give you license to just follow me from thread to thread, saying something nasty or cruel or rude just to try to make me miserable as some sort of punishment for daring to disagree with you. I have never and will never bullied you - making a public statement that you don't like is not the same as working as hard as you can to make someone miserable! It's not politics, it's bullying. No matter what I'm talking about on this general Witt board, you make sure to come on and say something nasty and to harass me. When you post about language stuff, or when you announce some ZRT thing, or when you talk about yourself, I don't follow you from thread to thread to try to be cruel and harass you because I disagree with you. That is not politics! Stop bullying me, please! |
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Post by E.S. Bornatfiglheu on Feb 28, 2015 12:54:45 GMT -6
Rough music?! "Noisy, masked processions were held outside the home of the supposed wrongdoer, involving the cacophonous rattling of bones and cleavers, the ringing of bells, hooting, blowing bull's horns, the banging of frying pans, saucepans, kettles, or other kitchen or barn implements with the intention of creating long-lasting embarrassment to the alleged perpetrator.[4] During a rough music performance, the victim could be displayed upon a pole or donkey (in person or as an effigy), their "crimes" becoming the subject of mime, theatrical performances or recitatives, along with a litany of obscenities and insults." There's a REASON why you're not allowed to go to someone's house any more and harass them constantly until they agree with you! There was an interesting article about punitive shaming that I read recently. If I can find it, I will post it here. But part of the tetchy thing here is that not only is Beric'ht media, but the majority of out Talossan interactions are mediated (ie, text based) as well. So we see it printed, then we print the arguments about the things we saw printed, etc. At pain of infinite regress, I am afraid. We are our fingerprints, so to speak. |
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