If You Were A President!

[Shida12]

If I were president id work directly with Disney on world domination THEY OWN EVERYTHING

[BestFly]

1. Do something about Wallmart, target, and the like and their terrible jobs.
2. Make a "Speak English" law.
3. On that note, changed over to the Metric System
4. Force all schools, businesses, ect to close on the day after the superbowl.
5. Reinforce what free speech is.
6. Encore if you don't like what free speech is get out.
7. Enforce if you don't like what free speech is and you're some sort of political, religious, minority, etc group then you can move somewhere else.
8. Enforce if you don't like what free speech is and you're another country. Just stay away.
9. Employ an anti-idiot clause in laws which makes it impossible to have lawsuits for falling off ladders, cutting yourself on glass, or burning yourself on coffee and so on.

10. Marry Selena Gomez

more later

[Eris]

5. Reinforce what free speech is.
6. Encore if you don't like what free speech is get out.

Aren't these two contradicting, though? If you have free speech, people have the right to complain about the existence of free speech.

2. Make a "Speak English" law.
5. Reinforce what free speech is.
6. Encore if you don't like what free speech is get out.

Clearly, freedom of speech also entails freedom of language. This clearly implies that you dislike free speech, and under your own rules should go into exile.

8. Enforce if you don't like what free speech is and you're another country. Just stay away.

Eh? Countries are pretty much rooted to the ground. They can't go anywhere.

[BestFly]

1. 6 is to stop ppl from complaining about being talked about, not actually about the concept of free speech itself.

2. Freedom of speech as freedom of political, religious, etc speech. As long as it does not break one of the existing rules on speech (such as shouting fire in theater, causing a call to action where the results end up being illegal, slander/libel etc)

3. >.<

[Eris]

1. 6 is to stop ppl from complaining about being talked about, not actually about the concept of free speech itself.

But being allowed to complain is very much protected under free speech. Free speech is not just limited to politics and religion.

2. Freedom of speech as freedom of political, religious, etc speech. As long as it does not break one of the existing rules on speech (such as shouting fire in theater, causing a call to action where the results end up being illegal, slander/libel etc)

This is a problematic definition of free speech, as if you are not allowed to speak in any language you want, it's possible to erode free speech and thought by changing language itself. See Newspeak for a study in how that works.

[BestFly]

1. Revision: You may only retaliate speech with speech. The rule was originally supposed to stop radicals from being like "FOR THE REPUBLIC" because someone said something

2. They are allowed to speak any language they want within their own home, immediate circle, etc. However, in society, they must speak English, or have a translator.

[Cobra Commander]

You can't win.

I'd equip the red light cameras with hellfire missiles. Run a red light, eat a missile. Once or twice, and there'd be no more of this GTA-style driving I've been seeing lately.

[Aizmov]

I agree with Eris, you control thought by controlling language, because we all think in language and the quality of our thoughts can only be as good as the quality of our language.
That's why American English is loaded with euphemisms to try and conceal the truth.

[Eris]

1. Revision: You may only retaliate speech with speech. The rule was originally supposed to stop radicals from being like "FOR THE REPUBLIC" because someone said something

Is there any reason regular anti-violence laws can't deal with these instances?

2. They are allowed to speak any language they want within their own home, immediate circle, etc. However, in society, they must speak English, or have a translator.

For these purposes, how would you define "English?"

If you are not careful, you risk stifling it's development by making it impossible to add new words to the language. Example: Clearly, the word "podcast" was not an English word 20 years ago.

[Aizmov]

For a country to have a de facto language that's OK, but for it to be de jure that's just evil.
And as Eris said how would you define English?

Is this English?

Cnut cyning gret his arcebiscopas and his leod-biscopas and Þurcyl eorl and ealle his eorlas and ealne his þeodscype, twelfhynde and twyhynde, gehadode and læwede, on Englalande freondlice.

[=Risa Harada=]

If I were a President I would have Made a Painkiller for headache *real good one that I'll never get one again*

HUH? That's good...

[Gero50]

I don't really know what I would do if I was a president. I guess sense I believe strongly in the fact that technology is importent in everyone's life. I would get a federal law passed saying that all U.S schools needed to have more technology classes of all kinds. I would also include in this law that before graduating a student must have taken a predetermined amount of tech credits.

[Bugsiee]

If i were a president i would abolish the law that says you can only vote from 18 and over, in my opinion teenagers and even youg children have great ideas on how to improve a country or peoples lives, we know exactly what we need and want in our lives and i think we have done a good job keeping ourselves alive an well so far, it would be nice if we could do that for every person out in a country or even the world if we work hard enough.

[Shinn Kamiyra]

My first, last, and only act as your President would be to see that "House" is taken off the air once and for all. I'd grasp it by its proverbial neck, stomp on its face and choke the life out of it 'till it's dead and buried and it can't hurt anyone anymore with its never-ending succession of stories of a man who thinks that life just sucks and there's nothing anyone can do about it.

...Or maybe he has and I just haven't cared enough to watch and find out. I doubt it.

[rikumi]

Manipulate the congressmen to obey and hail me, then I will gradually take over the world. Exception on the fact that I can't predict whether the Mayans spoke the truth about 26/12/12 being the last day earthlings survive. But, still, I like it my way.

[=Risa Harada=]

If i were a president i would abolish the law that says you can only vote from 18 and over, in my opinion teenagers and even youg children have great ideas on how to improve a country or peoples lives, we know exactly what we need and want in our lives and i think we have done a good job keeping ourselves alive an well so far, it would be nice if we could do that for every person out in a country or even the world if we work hard enough.

Wow that was great, we all know that all of us should have rights to do such things.

[Bugsiee]

Wow that was great, we all know that all of us should have rights to do such things.

AWWWWWW! Your too sweet thanks so much and i'm glad you agree.

[Cobra Commander]

I would abolish the great tool of oppression known as "formal wear". As dictator, I would conduct national business wearing ripped jeans and a Judas Priest t-shirt. And people who complained about not being allowed to wear a suit and tie would be hung from a ceiling fan by that tie until they learned the error of their ways.

[kimi no kioku]

I would abolish the great tool of oppression known as "formal wear". As dictator, I would conduct national business wearing ripped jeans and a Judas Priest t-shirt. And people who complained about not being allowed to wear a suit and tie would be hung from a ceiling fan by that tie until they learned the error of their ways.

Cora Commander for president!!!!
Lol, jk.
I'd change the public school system.
As dictator, I'd make it illegal to have a mullet.

[Aizmov]

My first, last, and only act as your President would be to see that "House" is taken off the air once and for all. I'd grasp it by its proverbial neck, stomp on its face and choke the life out of it 'till it's dead and buried and it can't hurt anyone anymore with its never-ending succession of stories of a man who thinks that life just sucks and there's nothing anyone can do about it.

...Or maybe he has and I just haven't cared enough to watch and find out. I doubt it.

Or just change the station?

Some of us do like House

[Shinn Kamiyra]

Or just change the station?

Some of us do like House

Hrm... logically and reasonably speaking, that certainly does sound like the right thing to do. You've got me there. But then that also deprives me of the fun of laying out a path of chaos and destruction on something I no longer find all that appealing. We'll meet it halfway, and I'll revise my earlier decision to making so that the current season is the last season and the show ends once and for all.

[-P.N.-]

Lol, as president I would.....
* Make Pot legal..... and tax the Hell out of it.
* Make a ban of 3/4 of the stuff in cigarettes.
* All high school girls would need to wear tiny mini skirts while in school.

LOL sound like general Roy Mustang in FMA XD
I would vote for u!!! just cuz of these policy!!

~P.N.~

[Hakuto_washi]

Because of my independentness, here goes it:

1- Abortion is illegal. No if's, and's, or but's.
2- Cigarettes are illegal.
3- Drinking is legal at age of 18.
4- Pot is legal. As long as you pay 110% tax.
5- The richer people pay more tax, the poorer pay less.
6- SPEAK ENGLISH!!!!!!
7- You can yell "fire!" in a movie theater.
8- NASA will get more funding.
8a. NASA's funding will be the money taken from abortionists.
8b. Schools will have a more space-funded program.
9- You get life if convicted of murder in any degree.
10- Rap music will be illegal.

[Eris]

Because of my independentness, here goes it:

1- Abortion is illegal. No if's, and's, or but's.
2- Cigarettes are illegal.
3- Drinking is legal at age of 18.
4- Pot is legal. As long as you pay 110% tax.
5- The richer people pay more tax, the poorer pay less.
6- SPEAK ENGLISH!!!!!!
7- You can yell "fire!" in a movie theater.
8- NASA will get more funding.
8a. NASA's funding will be the money taken from abortionists.
8b. Schools will have a more space-funded program.
9- You get life if convicted of murder in any degree.
10- Rap music will be illegal.

1- Abortion is illegal. No if's, and's, or but's.
Rape victims? Medical conditions where the mother and child will with 100% certainty die a horrible and gruesome death if the pregnancy is continued?

1- Abortion is illegal. No if's, and's, or but's.
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8a. NASA's funding will be the money taken from abortionists.

How are these compatible? If abortion is illegal, how do you expect to get any money out of it?

8- NASA will get more funding.
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8b. Schools will have a more space-funded program.
Wouldn't this remove funds from NASA? Make up your mind.



5- The richer people pay more tax, the poorer pay less.

That's generally why taxes are in percentage of your income.

[Miss Moonlight]

Hakuto_washi
1- Abortion is illegal. No if's, and's, or but's.
2- Cigarettes are illegal.
3- Drinking is legal at age of 18.
4- Pot is legal. As long as you pay 110% tax.
5- The richer people pay more tax, the poorer pay less.
6- SPEAK ENGLISH!!!!!!
7- You can yell "fire!" in a movie theater.
8- NASA will get more funding.
8a. NASA's funding will be the money taken from abortionists.
8b. Schools will have a more space-funded program.
9- You get life if convicted of murder in any degree.
10- Rap music will be illegal.

1 - So, you'd force many women to perform abortions on themselves, or get ones from "underground" abortion clinics (not to mention putting more stigma on women, so that anyone who has one or had one is instantly seen as "bad"), and then still end up with the pretty much the same thing. Progressive.

2 - People have other ways of getting (or doing) what's illegal. Making it illegal doesn't really solve the problem itself, or prevent others from doing it, it just gives a warning to those that attempt it, that they will pay for it. Making cigarettes illegal would just force more people to get cigarettes anywhere else they could. So I don't see the point of that.

6 - Would they be speaking lowercase english OR UPPERCASE ENGLISH?

8a - Wut? why would NASA want to take money from abortionists?

9. Not -everyone- who is convicted of murder (at least not in the US justice system currently) is actually the person who committed the crime. You'd probably end up putting a lot more innocent people in jail.

As for me, I really don't know. I suck at politics in general.