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Offline sigtau

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Re: An idea that crossed my mind recently
If that were the case, I'd dump people into the 1973 recession or the 1995 economic boom--see which one they end up ****ing up first.  Last one to have a recession wins? :lol:
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That's one approach. The second one would be to have them start from today (a decent indicator of how they'd do in real life), or from the Declaration of Independence (longer gameplay, more possibilities, more time to screw up).

 

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Re: An idea that crossed my mind recently
SimCity (any) isn't a very good simulator, all things considered.  The results you get would be meaningless, esp. from a political standpoint.

Then again, it would be interesting to see how they would react to alien invasions.

They'd all be in favor of stopping them with a wall! Ba dum pish.

 

Offline NGTM-1R

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I fail to see how managing your inbox correlates with managing a virtual city. :p

Problem fix problem.

"managing your inbox" is attempting to deal with whatever crap's on your desk at the moment, which is essential gameplay, but hasn't really gotten much love as a style of government. You'd just ensure rebellions.
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Re: An idea that crossed my mind recently
Liberalism - classic liberalism - is pretty much the political center of any democracy (a lot of Republicans are actually classical liberals).
We're talking about the United States here, right? A lot of Republicans are actually neoconservatives, and they get a bad rep because of their extremist (for real!) beliefs. They're the ones that want to increase military spending and go to war with the Middle East and forcing democracy through war and protect Israel and leave the loopholes alone and ban gay marriages and broaden the tax base to tax the poors and throw apples at Black reporters and prevent women from ever getting abortion and force voter ID laws to discriminate against those without even though evidence shows that the laws would be up pointless.

Libertarians (not those Tea Party extremists and not Ron Paul) are the closest thing I see to classical liberals. I'd liken the Republicans belief to be closer to fascism than anything else.

 

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Re: An idea that crossed my mind recently
Liberalism - classic liberalism - is pretty much the political center of any democracy (a lot of Republicans are actually classical liberals).
We're talking about the United States here, right? A lot of Republicans are actually neoconservatives, and they get a bad rep because of their extremist (for real!) beliefs. They're the ones that want to
increase military spending
hmm, if necessary, but probably some shuffling of the cards would do (more money for actual needs, like maybe a new rifle already? and less for pet experiments)
and go to war with the Middle East
only if they are actually building WMD or invading their neighbors, or violating the terms of their ceasefire or something
and forcing democracy through war
counterproductive, I'd agree not the best idea, however, if there is popular support for it, then lending a hand would be the neighborly thing to do
and protect Israel
No let's leave them to fend for themselves amongst the real extremists here (yeah, the ones that vow to drive Israel into the sea and the Great Satan America next)
 and leave the loopholes alone
Nix the loopholes and do a flat tax.  You know..  like Russia successfully did a while back (14% IIRC)
and ban gay marriages
Counterproductive unless society agrees it is wrong.  You can't legislate morality.
and broaden the tax base to tax the poors
Poor don't ****ing pay taxes.  I know this cause I'm ****ing poor
and throw apples at Black reporters
wut
and prevent women from ever getting abortion
Again, you can't legislate morality
and force voter ID laws to discriminate against those without even though evidence shows that the laws would be up pointless.
Umm, I think voter ID would be a good idea.  But it should be done in between election cycles, and those without should be assisted to acquire one, and the cost should be covered.  You know, dead people voting happens every election, and it's just stupid.  If your side isn't going to win, you need to argue your point better and reach more people, not cheat.


Yes, as you can see, I'm a ****ing extremist.  Put me over in the corner with Nuke.  :nono:

Libertarians (not those Tea Party extremists and not Ron Paul) are the closest thing I see to classical liberals. I'd liken the Republicans belief to be closer to fascism than anything else.

 

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Re: An idea that crossed my mind recently
You know, dead people voting happens every election, and it's just stupid.

Erm... if by every election you mean it might as well be 0, sure...

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No let's leave them to fend for themselves amongst the real extremists here (yeah, the ones that vow to drive Israel into the sea and the Great Satan America next)

And why does the US have a love affair with Israel? They have one of the largest armies per capita in the world (both body count and spending wise) and they probably have nuclear weapons, I'm pretty sure they don't need help defending themselves. Hell, I'd be more worried about their neighbors than them, since they (Israel) seem just fine heading down the path of extremism like everybody else in the region.
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Re: An idea that crossed my mind recently
There's at least one disturbing faction of US evangelicals that sees the reconstruction of the Jewish Temple as necessary for the Apocalypse and all that related stuff to take place, so they're all about making sure Israel stays happy.

 
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Nix the loopholes and do a flat tax.  You know..  like Russia successfully did a while back (14% IIRC)

Funny thing about Russia....  The government still owns large shares of very profitable industries, such as their oil industry.  They can get away with a flat tax rate, on par with the lowest marginal rates in the United States, because whenever one of these big industries makes a buck, so too does the government, before taxes ever enter the equation.  Russia, in other words, doesn't achieve low taxes through conservatism; they achieve low taxes through their remaining vestiges of Socialism.

You, sir, deserve a slowclap for trotting out that example in defense of US neocons.