unnamednewbie13
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So, you are Ultimate Dictator for a day.
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Kill the mutant. Burn the witch. Purge the heretic.

AVE IMPERATOR!
Mitch
16 more years
+877|6959|South Florida
I would clear out all of North America and turn it into a truely free land.
Like what America was supposed to be, only i'll learn from the holes the gov have found today, and patch them before they're exploited.

Then, while im Ultimate Dictator i would make myself the first president of this new country untill my term expires, so i then have more time to make a nice place.
15 more years! 15 more years!
GunSlinger OIF II
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Mitch wrote:

I would clear out all of North America and turn it into a truely free land.
whats that supposed to mean?
Mitch
16 more years
+877|6959|South Florida

GunSlinger OIF II wrote:

Mitch wrote:

I would clear out all of North America and turn it into a truely free land.
whats that supposed to mean?
oh come on. admit it. america isnt what it was meant to be. the crime, the government control, the bills that say the FBI can listen to my conversations and monitor my internet for 'catching terrorists'
15 more years! 15 more years!
Mitch
16 more years
+877|6959|South Florida

GunSlinger OIF II wrote:

Mitch wrote:

I would clear out all of North America and turn it into a truely free land.
whats that supposed to mean?
actually no.

i take that back.

i would clear out like australia and turn that into the new america. that way some can watch as America is no longer the freest country in the world
15 more years! 15 more years!
NantanCochise
Member
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AutralianChainsaw wrote:

Dersmikner wrote:

Foregoing magic, time travel, shenanigans, and other bullshit, what do you really think the horrible problems on our planet are, and how the hell would you fix them?

Would you kill off all the African dictators and have general elections?

Would you carve up Israel and create a Palestinian state, get rid of Israel entirely, or tell the Palestinians to go fuck themselves?

Would you change the U.S. electoral system?

Let's narrow it:

Address the following as World Uber-Dictator:

1. Israel / Palestine

2. Africa (I'm talking poverty, malnutrition, death squads and AIDS all in one)

3. The World Economy as it relates to distribution of wealth (Haves and Havenots and how you'd fix it if you think there's a problem at all)

4. Terrorism (feel free to interpret as you wish, even by saying the U.S. and Europe are the real problem)

5. The oil situation (meaning either the oil companies, our dependence on foreign oil, or the use of the shit at all)

6. Personal rights (gay marriage, abortion, smoking, et al)

7. The environment (is global warming bullshit, is everything fine, if it's not fine what the hell are you going to do to fix it?)

I'm just interested in knowing how the hell all of us know-it-alls would really fix all these issues, given unlimited power. After I see some responses I'll make one but I hate to start first and just end up getting things derailed because of my Ultra-Capitalist Libertarian attitudes.
Nice thread!

1- Remove Israel and relocate it in the US.  pals will be happy and Israelis will be safe.

2- Leave it alone.

3- Leave it like this.

4- Terrorism will dissapear when we will remove the motivation of the terrorists (Israel, US presence in the middle east)

5- Develop an electric car

6- people have the right to do whatever they want as long as it doesnt hurt other people physically or economically.

7- see #5, electric car will reduce emmisions a lot.. give huge penalities to polluter
No, no, no...

1. Why move Isreal to the US, England started the whole process in the creation of the Isreali State, move it there. What about the rights of the Isreali people. Did you forget about them.
2. Leave Africa alone, are you nuts or really dont care for these people.
3. What, leave the world economy in this state, nuts...
4.You think Isreal and the US to be the sole motivation for terrorism, I suggest you grow a brain. Really!!!
5. Been done, the best electric car will not solve the oil crysis. Government and Oil companys have too much power to let an electric car change our dependence on oil.
6. While I agree with this point, what about phycological damage. ...and economically, theres nothing wrong with some good competition.
7. Good point.

...and in conclusion, I do not have too many bright ideas on how to solve the problems in the world, I suppose this forum will change all that. Im surrounded by geniuses!!!
Dilbert_X
The X stands for
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1. Israel / Palestine - Give the Palestinians their country back, relocate the Israelis to Texas.  The Texans - f%ck them - they can go live in, oh I don't know, Mexico? If any Texans object shoot their kids and bulldoze their new Mexican houses.
The Israelis will be free to grab/bomb whichever bits of Mexico, New Mexico, Louisiana etc they want depending on how they feel.

2. Africa - Stop them fighting, outlaw tribal history, put them all through Marine Corps brainwashing or something - you're all Africans now, STFU and start farming.

3. The World Economy as it relates to distribution of wealth - Tax excess income above $1m/yr at 99%. Same for inheritance tax. Give it to charity or lose it.

4. Terrorism - Maximise border security, stop meddling in foreign countries, waterboard Dick Cheney until he tells us where Bin Laden is - I bet he knows, if he drowns too bad.

5. The oil situation - Halve the Pentagon budget, spend it on clean(er) nuclear and fusion research, put a sensible tax on petrol and jet fuel($10/gallon?) and spend that on the above and a super duper broadband system so no-one needs to travel anywhere.

6. Personal rights - People can do what they want, but gays don't get the tax breaks intended for funding children. Smoking - fine, don't expect to join the front of the health queue. Recreational drugs - fine - but you're not allowed to drive a car, own a firearm etc.
Abortion - A necessary evil unfortunately.

7. The environment - Global warming is very real, tax oil so driving and flying become uneconomic, same for coal power, invest in clean power projects and further research, nuclear, fusion, solar etc.
CUT THE WORLD POPULATION - If your IQ is below average you're not allowed to breed + Start a war with India and China.
Fuck Israel
CameronPoe
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twiistaaa wrote:

CameronPoe wrote:

2. Africa (I'm talking poverty, malnutrition, death squads and AIDS all in one)

Fuck em. Learn some responsibility. If a drought or some such catastrophe befalls them throw them a few tonnes of rice and medicine.
yeah how about we throw you in the middle of the congo and see how your superior learned responsibility gets you out of it.
Do I have a responsibility for African peace and harmoniousness? No. They have a lot of political turmoil to sort out before they can begin prospering, given the ridiculous borders western powers imposed on them imagining that western norms of govrenance would suit those who had never experienced political power before.
tthf
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My first act would be to declare myself dictator/emperor for life.

Only then can serious reform be made.
Spark
liquid fluoride thorium reactor
+874|7109|Canberra, AUS
Firstly, this will not be a 'I would do this-that' because I don't know what I would do if I had such power. So I'm just listing my general thoughts on the issues named.

Dersmikner wrote:

Foregoing magic, time travel, shenanigans, and other bullshit, what do you really think the horrible problems on our planet are, and how the hell would you fix them?

Would you kill off all the African dictators and have general elections?
No. That kind of policy has been tried, tested... and failed. Many times. Democracy takes years and years to build properly, as we've seen, well, everywhere.

Would you carve up Israel and create a Palestinian state, get rid of Israel entirely, or tell the Palestinians to go fuck themselves?
Well, as global dictator, I would give both sides sole access to some commodity the other needs. This means that they basically HAVE to sort their problems out to stay alive.

These are off the bat suggestions btw. Don't expect anything too detailed here.


Would you change the U.S. electoral system?
Nah. It's worked for over two centuries, no need to change it now.

Let's narrow it:

Address the following as World Uber-Dictator:

1. Israel / Palestine
^^Above

2. Africa (I'm talking poverty, malnutrition, death squads and AIDS all in one)
AIDS... education. Education. Education. More of it. Much more.

The rest... I would try to encourage trade. Nothing brings stability to man like money.


3. The World Economy as it relates to distribution of wealth (Haves and Havenots and how you'd fix it if you think there's a problem at all)
Firstly... Wealth distribution is a stupid idea. You shouldn't punish people for their hard work. Unless of course, they DIDN'T work for their riches (Paris Hilton etc.) in which case, redistribute away.

A comment on this point: My goal would be a meritocracy.


4. Terrorism (feel free to interpret as you wish, even by saying the U.S. and Europe are the real problem)
Terrorism is a tactic. You cannot defeat tactics, just as you can't stop people from using B-52 bombers because it's not fair. It's the IDEAS behind that matter, and pertaining paticular to the ME situation:

A lot of the Islamist rise in the ME is due to secular reasons. People are pissed off in general, and they direct their anger at the standing regiemes, and at the US who appears to be supporting several of those regiemes (a bit too obviously) and, face it, the US actions in there have not been of the highest quality (the Carter administration's policy to Iran, when I first read it, raised eyebrows). In many (all) of these countries, the only true opposition comes from... surprise, Islamist parties and fundamentalists.

The US needs to acknowledge this. Getting out in a big way would do a bit, but probably would leave the economies of both regions (US is interchangable with a region here) in bad shape. A better way would be to make the terrorists irrelevant, by not intefering in the POLITICS, but going to a grassroots level.

What I'm thinking is mostly based around providing massive monetary and material... 'aid' for want of a better word (are phones and TV's counted as aid?). For consumer goods, obiviously don't give it to them, but sell at a reduced price so it's affordable. But any hint of support for terrorist groups is met with a nice fat 'piss off'.


5. The oil situation (meaning either the oil companies, our dependence on foreign oil, or the use of the shit at all)
Reduce its use. Bigtime. The peak is coming, and that will be like a cannon of shit aimed right at the fan if we don't act smart.

6. Personal rights (gay marriage, abortion, smoking, et al)
Let them do what they please (as long as it doesn't intefere with others). That's what freedom is about, right? Smoking, by the way, should NOT be in indoor public places (passive smoking = bad)

7. The environment (is global warming bullshit, is everything fine, if it's not fine what the hell are you going to do to fix it?)
Fix it. Now. I have no sympathy for those who foster what Philip Gold named was a 'culture of complaint' - and oppose and whinge about every tiny little thing to make the planet a little healthier to live in for us and for the rest of animalia. Never mind that the changes would SAVE them money (far from costing too much) in the short AND long term. This goes beyond just global warming - habitat lost including deforestation, poaching, pollution including the truly staggering amounts of particulate matter (i.e. crap) thrown into the air by bushfires, and poaching. This will need much more than a few devoted efforts from small environmental groups. The best way to fix the environment (thinking mostly about pollution here, as that's the most obvious and the most harmful to humans) is to foster better development, better technology and tell the whingers to shut the fuck up and go home.

I'm just interested in knowing how the hell all of us know-it-alls would really fix all these issues, given unlimited power.
I deeply hope I - nor anyone else - never gets put in such a position of power.
The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling what reality ought to be.
~ Richard Feynman
FEOS
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Dersmikner wrote:

1. Israel / Palestine
Not an issue, as the world is one giant country. Ethnic infighting would be dealt with so severely that the participants would realize it's better to put those things aside.

Dersmikner wrote:

2. Africa (I'm talking poverty, malnutrition, death squads and AIDS all in one)
Take portions of the surplus from various sub-economies and institute sustainable farming methodologies. Introduce industry, teaching children a trade to practice as adults. As for the tribal bullshit that keeps much of that continent centuries behind the rest of the world...see #1. As their economies begin to improve, many of the other problems will go away.

Dersmikner wrote:

3. The World Economy as it relates to distribution of wealth (Haves and Havenots and how you'd fix it if you think there's a problem at all)
Fair taxes to sustain reasonable social programs. Not punishing the successful for being successful. Not punishing families with multiple taxations of the same money just because someone dies.

Dersmikner wrote:

4. Terrorism (feel free to interpret as you wish, even by saying the U.S. and Europe are the real problem)
If it still exists after dealing with the ethnic infighting...nuke Waziristan. Repeatedly.

OK...seriously. I'm world dictator. Have a summit bringing Jews, Arabs, Christians, capitalists, and communists together. Lay the issues out on the table. If anyone gets out of hand, they lose their seat at the table and any option of helping their people. They work together and realize their differences are ridiculously petty and they will never get their ultimate goal (I am the ultimate dictator, after all). Keep them in said summit until a common agreement is reached. If groups try to rebel against the agreements made by their factions' leaders, then we take out those individuals inciting those groups. So...see #1.

Dersmikner wrote:

5. The oil situation (meaning either the oil companies, our dependence on foreign oil, or the use of the shit at all)
A single gasoline blend for the entire planet, resulting in refining efficiencies. Roll the majority of fuel profits (as opposed to plastics and other oil-based, non-fuel products) into R&D for non-fossil fuel alternatives. Consumption would fund the replacement for gasoline, diesel, etc.

Dersmikner wrote:

6. Personal rights (gay marriage, abortion, smoking, et al)
In general, no limitations on personal rights, so long as the exercise thereof does not negatively impact anyone else's rights or ability to exercise them.

Gay marriage: Marriage is a religious ceremony. Individual churches can decide on their own if they want to endorse homosexuality in that manner. Domestic partnerships will be available to everyone as an option, regardless of sexual orientation. The rights and responsibilities of partners will be the same as for married couples now.

Abortion: Not illegal, but not allowed as a form of birth control. Institute government program that funds pre-natal care for mothers who do not wish to care for the baby (regardless of reason). That baby is then given up for adoption, matched to a family elsewhere that is unable to have children of their own. Full family medical history for the child goes with the adoption. Otherwise, abortion is only available as a medically necessary procedure to save the mother's life, terminate pregnancies where the child will suffer horribly after birth, or rape (incest is included under rape).

Smoking: Do it in your own home. Tax the hell out of it to pay for cancer research.

Dersmikner wrote:

7. The environment (is global warming bullshit, is everything fine, if it's not fine what the hell are you going to do to fix it?)
Find a way to make environmentalism profitable, then let the market take care of things.
“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
― Albert Einstein

Doing the popular thing is not always right. Doing the right thing is not always popular
Spark
liquid fluoride thorium reactor
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4- Terrorism will dissapear when we will remove the motivation of the terrorists (Israel, US presence in the middle east)
Are you insane? A maniac will be a maniac whether you piss him off or not. No, make them irrelevant so they get no support and shrivel into obscurity.

Find a way to make environmentalism profitable, then let the market take care of things.
Environmentalism IS profitable.

It's just that some people don't want to spend $50 dollars now... even if they get their money back (and then some) slightly later.

Perhaps it's not a culture of complaint, but rather a 'oppose-the-opposition-even-if-they-say-the-sky-is-blue' mentality.

Last edited by Spark (2008-01-15 02:18:22)

The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling what reality ought to be.
~ Richard Feynman
FEOS
Bellicose Yankee Air Pirate
+1,182|6845|'Murka

Spark wrote:

Environmentalism IS profitable.

It's just that some people don't want to spend $50 dollars now... even if they get their money back (and then some) slightly later.

Perhaps it's not a culture of complaint, but rather a 'oppose-the-opposition-even-if-they-say-the-sky-is-blue' mentality.
If it is profitable, then let the market take care of it. If the CBA and profit margins are there, solutions will be developed. However, I would think that if that were the case (as you state), it would already be occurring...but it's not. That leads me to believe that environmentalism is not profitable right now.
“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
― Albert Einstein

Doing the popular thing is not always right. Doing the right thing is not always popular
Spark
liquid fluoride thorium reactor
+874|7109|Canberra, AUS

FEOS wrote:

Spark wrote:

Environmentalism IS profitable.

It's just that some people don't want to spend $50 dollars now... even if they get their money back (and then some) slightly later.

Perhaps it's not a culture of complaint, but rather a 'oppose-the-opposition-even-if-they-say-the-sky-is-blue' mentality.
If it is profitable, then let the market take care of it. If the CBA and profit margins are there, solutions will be developed. However, I would think that if that were the case (as you state), it would already be occurring...but it's not. That leads me to believe that environmentalism is not profitable right now.
The market IS taking care of it.

But several politicians and many more powerbrokers are trying to hinder the market.
The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling what reality ought to be.
~ Richard Feynman
artofsurvival
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Dersmikner wrote:

Foregoing magic, time travel, shenanigans, and other bullshit, what do you really think the horrible problems on our planet are, and how the hell would you fix them?

Would you kill off all the African dictators and have general elections?

Would you carve up Israel and create a Palestinian state, get rid of Israel entirely, or tell the Palestinians to go fuck themselves?

Would you change the U.S. electoral system?

Let's narrow it:

Address the following as World Uber-Dictator:

1. Israel / Palestine

I honestly doubt it if this could be fixed in a day, but a simple answer would be to ban all know and unknow religions. I think this would also solve a lot of other problems as well.

2. Africa (I'm talking poverty, malnutrition, death squads and AIDS all in one)

Clear there world debt and let them start from stratch, if they then continue the way they are going so be it! Sorry but I have no time for people that cannot and will not help themselves, why should I help them kill each other?

3. The World Economy as it relates to distribution of wealth (Haves and Havenots and how you'd fix it if you think there's a problem at all)

Don't think this is a problem, if you want something, get of your ass and go out and get it. Regardless of how you go about it?

4. Terrorism (feel free to interpret as you wish, even by saying the U.S. and Europe are the real problem)

As in 1 ban religion of all kind.

5. The oil situation (meaning either the oil companies, our dependence on foreign oil, or the use of the shit at all)

Nuclear Power, for a start, but use in third world countries and see what happens, if a terrorist blows it up then they are ruining they're own chances and People.

6. Personal rights (gay marriage, abortion, smoking, et al)
MMMMMMMMMMM, no real problems here.

7. The environment (is global warming bullshit, is everything fine, if it's not fine what the hell are you going to do to fix it?)

I am sure that the enviroment is capable of adapting, I mean the earth has been here for thousands, billions etc of years, do you not think that we could be going through a "Hot" period at all, even that we have started the reverse process, where we are going backwards towards the point of another big bang?

I'm just interested in knowing how the hell all of us know-it-alls would really fix all these issues, given unlimited power. After I see some responses I'll make one but I hate to start first and just end up getting things derailed because of my Ultra-Capitalist Libertarian attitudes.
B.Schuss
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it's not the issues, it's the people. and people are shit. Look at africa. Even with peace-keeping forces, the WFP, and all that money we have been handing to them for decades, the continent is still a shithole. Just look at Kenya, and the turmoil after the recent elections. That country was supposed to be a shining example of a working democracy in africa....

and there are many more. The balcans, the middle east, asia....

it's not the issues. People are shit. We act on impulses, give in to emotions, and often lack the mental capability to judge rationally. We are selfish, hateful bastards. Not all of us, of course, but enough to spoil it for the rest of us.

So, whatever laws you pass, or systems of governments you create, people will still be the same, and do their very best to ruin it all.

Sorry to break it to you, really.
lowing
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B.Schuss wrote:

it's not the issues, it's the people. and people are shit. Look at africa. Even with peace-keeping forces, the WFP, and all that money we have been handing to them for decades, the continent is still a shithole. Just look at Kenya, and the turmoil after the recent elections. That country was supposed to be a shining example of a working democracy in africa....

and there are many more. The balcans, the middle east, asia....

it's not the issues. People are shit. We act on impulses, give in to emotions, and often lack the mental capability to judge rationally. We are selfish, hateful bastards. Not all of us, of course, but enough to spoil it for the rest of us.

So, whatever laws you pass, or systems of governments you create, people will still be the same, and do their very best to ruin it all.

Sorry to break it to you, really.
I agree 100%, so why do I get so much shit on this forum, "racist", "Nazi", "war-monger", "heartless" etc..... because I advocate NOT catering to the people you describe? I want a better world as well, but first you need to take it back from those that ruin it, ( yeah that means FIGHT for it, sorry) and you can not do so with appeasement.
Dilbert_X
The X stands for
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it's not the issues. People are shit. We act on impulses, give in to emotions, and often lack the mental capability to judge rationally. We are selfish, hateful bastards. Not all of us, of course, but enough to spoil it for the rest of us.
So, whatever laws you pass, or systems of governments you create, people will still be the same, and do their very best to ruin it all.
Society has made some progress over the years, not a lot maybe.
If it hadn't we would still be in caves throwing rocks at each other, instead of cooperating to make our own lives easier.

I would ask how Switzerland has achieved 900 years of peace, and the cheese fondue, while the rest of the world is so screwed up.
Its not all doom and gloom, there are possibilities.

We are all selfish, hateful bastards. Try to come up with a solution which 'leverages' that.
I guess its capitalism, although its a bit out of control right now.
Fuck Israel
B.Schuss
I'm back, baby... ( sort of )
+664|7275|Cologne, Germany

Dilbert_X wrote:

it's not the issues. People are shit. We act on impulses, give in to emotions, and often lack the mental capability to judge rationally. We are selfish, hateful bastards. Not all of us, of course, but enough to spoil it for the rest of us.
So, whatever laws you pass, or systems of governments you create, people will still be the same, and do their very best to ruin it all.
Society has made some progress over the years, not a lot maybe.
If it hadn't we would still be in caves throwing rocks at each other, instead of cooperating to make our own lives easier.

I would ask how Switzerland has achieved 900 years of peace, and the cheese fondue, while the rest of the world is so screwed up.
Its not all doom and gloom, there are possibilities.

We are all selfish, hateful bastards. Try to come up with a solution which 'leverages' that.
I guess its capitalism, although its a bit out of control right now.
maybe we have advanced technologically, and a little bit on the cultural side, but basically we are still those rock-throwing cavemen that sit around a fire and fight each other for selfish reasons. With bigger sticks, that's all. I mean, one would think that the values of peace, tolerance and freedom have been around long enough to filter down to the last of us, but the history of mankind would indicate the opposite.

And about the Swiss....well, they kept out of all major conflicts in the last couple of decades, and apart from banks and cheese, they got nothing that anyone else would want. Lucky them I say.
B.Schuss
I'm back, baby... ( sort of )
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lowing wrote:

B.Schuss wrote:

it's not the issues, it's the people. and people are shit. Look at africa. Even with peace-keeping forces, the WFP, and all that money we have been handing to them for decades, the continent is still a shithole. Just look at Kenya, and the turmoil after the recent elections. That country was supposed to be a shining example of a working democracy in africa....

and there are many more. The balcans, the middle east, asia....

it's not the issues. People are shit. We act on impulses, give in to emotions, and often lack the mental capability to judge rationally. We are selfish, hateful bastards. Not all of us, of course, but enough to spoil it for the rest of us.

So, whatever laws you pass, or systems of governments you create, people will still be the same, and do their very best to ruin it all.

Sorry to break it to you, really.
I agree 100%, so why do I get so much shit on this forum, "racist", "Nazi", "war-monger", "heartless" etc..... because I advocate NOT catering to the people you describe? I want a better world as well, but first you need to take it back from those that ruin it, ( yeah that means FIGHT for it, sorry) and you can not do so with appeasement.
why do I get the feeling that  - once again - you are trying to bring terrorism and how we europeans supposedly appease it into this ?
FatherTed
xD
+3,936|6934|so randum

B.Schuss wrote:

Dilbert_X wrote:

it's not the issues. People are shit. We act on impulses, give in to emotions, and often lack the mental capability to judge rationally. We are selfish, hateful bastards. Not all of us, of course, but enough to spoil it for the rest of us.
So, whatever laws you pass, or systems of governments you create, people will still be the same, and do their very best to ruin it all.
Society has made some progress over the years, not a lot maybe.
If it hadn't we would still be in caves throwing rocks at each other, instead of cooperating to make our own lives easier.

I would ask how Switzerland has achieved 900 years of peace, and the cheese fondue, while the rest of the world is so screwed up.
Its not all doom and gloom, there are possibilities.

We are all selfish, hateful bastards. Try to come up with a solution which 'leverages' that.
I guess its capitalism, although its a bit out of control right now.
maybe we have advanced technologically, and a little bit on the cultural side, but basically we are still those rock-throwing cavemen that sit around a fire and fight each other for selfish reasons. With bigger sticks, that's all. I mean, one would think that the values of peace, tolerance and freedom have been around long enough to filter down to the last of us, but the history of mankind would indicate the opposite.

And about the Swiss....well, they kept out of all major conflicts in the last couple of decades, and apart from banks and cheese, they got nothing that anyone else would want. Lucky them I say.
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Dragonclaw
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Dersmikner wrote:

Foregoing magic, time travel, shenanigans, and other bullshit, what do you really think the horrible problems on our planet are, and how the hell would you fix them?

Would you kill off all the African dictators and have general elections?

Would you carve up Israel and create a Palestinian state, get rid of Israel entirely, or tell the Palestinians to go fuck themselves?

Would you change the U.S. electoral system?

Let's narrow it:

Address the following as World Uber-Dictator:

1. Israel / Palestine

2. Africa (I'm talking poverty, malnutrition, death squads and AIDS all in one)

3. The World Economy as it relates to distribution of wealth (Haves and Havenots and how you'd fix it if you think there's a problem at all)

4. Terrorism (feel free to interpret as you wish, even by saying the U.S. and Europe are the real problem)

5. The oil situation (meaning either the oil companies, our dependence on foreign oil, or the use of the shit at all)

6. Personal rights (gay marriage, abortion, smoking, et al)

7. The environment (is global warming bullshit, is everything fine, if it's not fine what the hell are you going to do to fix it?)

I'm just interested in knowing how the hell all of us know-it-alls would really fix all these issues, given unlimited power. After I see some responses I'll make one but I hate to start first and just end up getting things derailed because of my Ultra-Capitalist Libertarian attitudes.
1. Get rid of palestine, they never even existed in history and it was Israels land before they started saying it was theirs.

2. Build modern cities in africa and move all the africans into them. Castrate everyone with aids (only solution or they will keep spreading it).

3. I see no problem here.

4. Sweep the world, throw all muslim extremists in a city surrounded by a 50,000 volt fence, tripmines, mile high stone wall, and weekly air drops of supplies.

5. Steal all the Iraqi oil.

6. Leave the stupid fags alone. Make abortion illegal, who the fuck cares about smoking, if people are too stupid to smoke they deserve to die of cancer.

7. Make sure Al Gore is tortured more than anyone in the history of the universe. Ban all mention of global warming.

8. Declare myself dictator forever.
CameronPoe
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Dragonclaw wrote:

1. Get rid of palestine, they never even existed in history and it was Israels land before they started saying it was theirs.
lol. It actually belonged to Egypt before either of them, perhaps we should give it to them.
Dersmikner
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Now, maybe this was obvious from the get-go, but here's my point to this thread:

I have some respect for the intelligence of most of the people on this forum. By default you have to have some interest in world affairs and the goings-on of your fellow human beings or you wouldn't be here in the first place. As to whether or not I agree with your slant on these issues I won't say. What I will say is that there are clearly good people of conscience who have given at the very least enough thought to these issues to forumulate a response to them in a damned internet forum.

That having been said, look at the wild variety of answers to some of these questions.

Irrespective of the issue, whether it's Israel, or the serfs versus the feudal lords, or labor unions versus the robber barons, or NASA trying to get funding that someone else has earmarked for Head Start, we're always going to have this shit. There will always be conflict, philosophical, religious, economic, etc., and that may be the only constant.

Either way, how fucking cool is it that we live in a world wherein I can have gone from work to a bar, had a few drinks, come home to my sweet house, listen to my iPod attached to my stereo, changed out of my suit and played on the internet, in the brief interlude before changing into my pimp clothes and hitting the town?

And for the record:

1. Establish a Palestinian state next to Israel and if either one or the other violates the border, blow it off the map.

2. Fuck the better part of Africa. I'd probably sink money into a pseudo-government corporation that built infrastructure (roads, etc.) and so forth, that trained and employed locals (part of their jobs would be to build their own housing) and I'd provide condoms and AIDS education and if they continued to fuck up and transmit AIDS and destroy everything they have I'd pull out and let everyone die from famine, war or AIDS. Give them one shot at learning some responsibility and give them a real chance to achieve success and if they can't do it, fuck em.

3. Fuck the Havenots. I was a Havenot, my Dad was a Havenot, and we're both Haves now through the hard work of nobody other than ourselves. I don't care who you are or where you are, if you want it enough you can have it, whatever it is.

4. Hmmm... well I've expounded on this before. Guy goes into a market and blows himself and 30 innocent people to shit, you scrape up his remains, DNA test him, find out who he was, and you anally rape his daughter, his mother, his wife, and you kill everyone even remotely related to him. Makes the next asshole think twice before he flips the switch.

5. Alternative fuels, FTW. I'm 100% against the nationalization of corporate interests, and I despise socialism, but I could almost live with it as it relates to gasoline. I guess the answer is that we all have to quit buying gas guzzlers, SLASH demand to 20% of what it is now, and then, if demand drops like a rock and they raise prices to keep profits up simply because they have oligopolic power to do so, we blow the whole damned thing up...

6. Your right to swing your fist ends where the other man's nose begins.

7. I'm somewhere between "don't drill in the pristine environment of Africa" and "we should all ride bicycles and move to California" thing. I think we can find reasonable protections but the truth is that there's probably not much we could do to fuck this planet up short of all-out nuclear war, even if we tried. I'm okay with keeping the Japanese from whaling, and not drilling in ANWAR, but a lot of this CO2 rhetoric is just plain bullshit. Let's find a reasonable answer and get that done instead of posturing and getting nothing done.

Fuck it. I'm going out...
Dilbert_X
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Hmmm... well I've expounded on this before. Guy goes into a market and blows himself and 30 innocent people to shit, you scrape up his remains, DNA test him, find out who he was, and you anally rape his daughter, his mother, his wife, and you kill everyone even remotely related to him. Makes the next asshole think twice before he flips the switch.
So why didn't you go and do that to all Timothy McVeigh's relatives?
Big hat no cattle eh?

Edit: I just checked, Oklahoma is right next door to Texas, do it now! You know you want to

Last edited by Dilbert_X (2008-01-19 06:21:07)

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