Over on A Voice for Men, a Man Going His Own Way named Frank Worley has unveiled a most immodest proposal: turning Puerto Rico, or at least a giant chunk of it, into a MGTOW nation. Yes, he’s serious. Also, an idiot.
As Worley sees it,
Women have used democracy to pressure our gutless politicians into surrendering our constitution, personal liberty and any semblance of due process. … Nothing male is sacred or protected.
Instead of trying to organize politically to fight the evil dispossession of men — who control only 80% of congressional seats in the United States — Worley wants to rip it up and start again.
The entrenched forces of Marxist Feminism and the cowardly politicians who cater to them, have taken all that is worthwhile from these once great and free nations. So what is left for those of us who seek only to be treated as equals under the law? …
The only immediate and complete solution to this problem is to concentrate our forces to create a majority in a single location so that WE become the state.
The “it” that will be ripped up? Puerto Rico, or at least its eastern third. Worley hopes to turn at least this portion of Puerto Rico into some sort of alimony-free libertarian island paradise for the MGTOWs of the world. Well, the MGTOWs of America. They have to have American citizenship for Worley’s, er, ingenious plan to work.
One of my early proposals was the establishment of a micro-independent state on the eastern third of Puerto Rico. The idea was to ask people who supported independence to move to one of several municipalities … and then vote for Mayors and council members who supported our program and then call a referendum. If the petition for independence was denied by Congress then simply declare independence recognizing what that might imply.
Never mind that most of the supporters of Puerto Rican independence today are lefty types who aren’t likely to be big fans of either the MGTOW or the “libertarian paradise” aspects of Worley’s proposal. All he needs is to get a few American MGTOWs to move to the eastern third of Puerto Rico. Like, say 25,000 of them.
To accomplish this micro independence I would need upwards of 25 thousand MGTOW’s to relocated to the specific areas and register to vote. … Any American citizen can move to Puerto Rico and vote and run for office and vote for independence.
Then, hey presto, a MGTOW nation in which “we write and enforce the laws without having to cow tow to the feminists.”
I’m sure the current residents of Puerto Rico will be thrilled to have tens of thousands of lady-hating white dudes show up overnight in an attempt to take over the government and declare themselves a MGTOW nation.
Also, the word is “kowtow.” “Cow towing” looks like this:
Worley, evidently taking inspiration from Starship Troopers, also declares that in this new nation, SERVICE GUARANTEES CITIZENSHIP.
The definition of being equal under the law in this proposal is service. Military or civilian part time service is required for all citizens and immigrants both to deny entry to those who would seek only benefits of the new country and also to eliminate all other constantly changing definitions of who is a ‘protected class.’ Complete your service and you are equal under the law; fail to complete and you are not.
Yes, I’m sure libertarians will flock to a country where they will be forced into government service if they want full citizenship.
Oh, and did I mention that Worley, by his own admission, doesn’t even speak Spanish very well?
On A Voice for Men, Worley’s proposal met with, well, let’s charitably call it a mixed reaction. While many were sympathetic, they weren’t exactly sure this was a very practical plan. Dean Esmay even felt the need to stick up a little note at the start of the post declaring that “AVfM neither endorses nor rejects this proposal.”
Hey, I can’t blame them. Given that AVFM is the most “activist” of all Men’s Rights organizations, and it just cancelled its much ballyhooed conference this year because organizing is just too darn hard, it is a little difficult to imagine MRAs or MGTOWs becoming organized enough to plan a picnic in the park much less take over a third of Puerto Rico, a US territory with 3.5 million inhabitants, a great number of whom live on the island’s eastern third.
And that’s not even taking into account the sabotage a would-be MGTOW nation would face from evil feminists.
Wow. The imaginary planet on which these guys live is a lot more entertaining than the planet Earth I live on.
I can’t help but think of the episode of The Simpsons in which Bart and his friends are stranded on a desert island, and Bart spells out his absurd vision of the paradise their island can become if they all work together:
Bart Simpson: And every night the monkey butlers will regale us with jungle stories.
Nelson: How many monkey butlers will there be?
Bart Simpson: One at first, but he’ll train others.
Good luck, fellas! Send a monkey butler over to let us know how this turns out.
EDIT: Also, if Puerto Rico doesn’t work out for you, why not try one of these lovely islands?
@EJ: I lol’d.
@Falconer
It was the one where Steven, Sadie and Lars got stuck in that other realm and Sadie and Lars~~~~ *teehee*.
So did they actually move that relationship forward, or what? ‘Cause it looked like maybe she was going to start seeing Renaldo later.
@Falconer
Pretty sure spoilers
she and Lars are an item now.
Noooooo! Cookie Clicker fucking reset my whole game on me! I had almost eight months of time in that thiiiiiiiiiiing!
8(
@Falconer
I guess it could be worst than almost getting all the achievements and then have it magically resetting for some reason. Maybe it got updated or there was a glitch. At least the Grandmas aren’t calling me “filthy” and hating me anymore.
Yeah but when Caesar’s Legion talks, it’s either “Everyone else but us are weak heathens who need to be put under the heel of our jackboots!”, or “Wimmens are weak and should be in the kitchen or in my bed making babies!”
I tried playing the Legion once to see what it would be like, and I instantly regretted it when my Courier went to meet the Legionaries at the docks upon Caesar’s invitation when their leader pulled that shit.
“Oh? I wasn’t expecting you to be a woman. Women are weak.”
Caesar was surprisingly less sexist to my face, but I don’t doubt that he instilled that shit in ’em. Took everything I had to reason with myself to not to crack open the console and kill every last one of ’em. My next Courier is going to take over New Vegas and Caesar’s going to have a special seat reserved in hell, just for him.
They’re pretty much MRAs, except they actually, y’know, do shit.
@Paradoxical
There’s more achievements for killing Caesar than anyone else in the game. That tells you something.
Why don’t these mra bozos go to battleship island in nakajima because it is uninhibited at the moment though they may need to plan accordingly since access to he island is limited each year.
When I say I’m going to do something, I do it. Here’s the first few bits, detailing the construction of the fortress of Udosfigul. It’s tumblr, so it starts from the bottom and goes upwards.
http://udosfigul.tumblr.com/
(“Udosfigul” is the game’s translation of “Man Glands” into Dwarven. Its dictionary doesn’t have “boobz”, so that’s the next best thing.)
@EJ
Jesus Christ that was fast. O.o
Whoa, Dwarf Fortress has changed graphics. Is that a mod or…?
It’s a graphics mod. I also have a 3D one but haven’t tweaked it to work yet. I’ll get some screenies with it when I have something to show off.
@EJ
Amazing.
You all’s game seems quite fun. Crossing fingers for more galena.
I’m evil like that.
The next set of updates is up. Spoilers: Falconer is lazy as hell, Miss Anthropist finds a use for the fucking galena, and we go to great depths in the search for metal.
🙂
Dwarf Falconer is hilarious, Dwarf Lea is exceptional, and we got a fuchsia monster. Where’s this game been all my life?
Dwarf!Falconer’s party is taking months. He’s probably running an RPG campaign where the party of doughty dwarven heroes are venturing far from their comfortable mines, and exploring the abandoned forest city of the elves.
It’s probably equal measures terrifying and exciting.
The entire fortress shut down during that party. Seriously, if a forgotten beast had turned up then it could have waltzed right in and nobody would have tried to stop it. I’d have been like “Quick everyone! Brick up the cavern gate!” and they would have been like “Sure thing boss, we will get right on that this very second… hey Jackie, pass the wine, would you?”
My favourite bit was when Dwarf!David left the party while the elven traders had been waiting patiently at the trade depot for over a week, ate an entire stack of cheese, paused to think of what to do next, then went right back to the party as though he had nothing else to do.
I went into this game with the stated aim of making Dwarf!Falconer happy. He is making me choke on my words. This little procedurally-generated bunch of pixels is winning the game against me even though he’s a character in it.
That’s the thing about us (we?) Falconers. We’re not half clever.
Is your icon Dwarf!Falconer getting his party on?
🙂
Icon on your Tumblr.
I’m going to have to start another fortress, ain’t I? Prolly see if “Alpha Cock Carousel” translates. Maybe I’ll have to substitute “Horse Tornado” for “carousel.”
That’s David Futrelle getting his party on. Falconer’s a miner, so he uses the miner sprite. By now he’s managed to get his skill to legendary levels too, so he’s a blue-flashing miner sprite.
Lea’s been intensively training up the two new miners, Koopiepatra and sn0rkmaiden. Falconer has been helping. Now that we’ve actually got the forges running the miners are going back to all the previously-discovered veins of ore and actually working them. It’s testing the pathfinding algorithm to its limits.