Townhall meeting this weekend!

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To even view "politically neutral ground" as desirable is to support a false equivalency between the values of the right and the left. To give equal credibility to both the ideology that seeks to eliminate the rights and freedoms of entire groups of people for just being different and the one that seeks to protect those rights is tremendously misguided at best and morally abhorrent at worst.

Even if you decided to create "politically neutral ground" by forbidding any political discussion, you would be inherently taking a political stance in favor of the status quo.

The same status quo that values profit over the lives of employees and sees prisoners as tools to be exploited rather than people to be reformed

The same status quo that genuinely oppresses a large portion, perhaps even a majority, of our player base.

The members of our community deserve to feel safe and welcome in our digital family, regardless of their rank.

That includes our admins, coders, and other staff.

I don't really see how agreeing to keep our politics to ourselves favors the oppression of certain groups, or the exploitation of prisoners. In fact, I think the point of it is to keep completely irrelevant opinions out of a 2D farting spaceman game. I agree with you that people deserve to feel safe and welcome, but I don't see how that will all change if Goon were made a politically neutral ground, unless you believe that its impossible to be civil or respecting of others without getting political. While I agree discussing politics is important, I think the town-hall will probably be a better time for it. This thread is meant for questions we have about the meeting, and what we can expect from it, as well as some less pressing questions about recent events, so we actually have a clue whats going on. Not to make things even worse by arguing about it, which will just escalate, until thats all the thread becomes. So I recommend arguing either goes to DMs or stops, and that Azungar is invited to the town-hall, because I honestly feel that the opinion of an ex-admin who left due to recent events would be extremely valuable, not only because it'll increase transparency, but also because it'll help prevent things like this happening in the future. I'll shut up now.