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Nice try, Fed.

The voting age should be abolished

Have parents swear an oath to vote in their children's interests until the sixth grade. If we can't teach sustainable values to kids by the time they're 11 years old, our society won't last anyways.

All these replies are lame, so here we go: Capitalism is an inter dimensional demon that uses beings with sociopathic tendencies to drain and feed on the host planet.

There is a worldwide satanic cabal of murderous pedophiles that have made their way into influential positions in government and culture who intend to prolong their lives forever with pseudoscience while killing millions to sate their bloodlust and their main vehicle is a major American party

Calling them satanic gives them too much spirituality credit. Otherwise, no notes, carry on

You are hereby dismissed as cook and promoted to head chef

I don’t think they’re specifically satanist

Probably both parties idfk

Uh there’s actually a bipartisan consensus on that as stated

Democrats do not seem to have woken up to the truth

"Bipartisan" is very optimistic!

(On the existence of that cabal using a major party that is)

right, just not which one

Probably not great that all their accusations are admissions because they have some WILD ASS accusations.

Drop the “satanic” part and you’re left with a verifiable fact

Their backup vehicle is the other major party, which runs the defense for the Republicans against the Left.

They’re shit out of luck threatening and pissing off the only people who can tell them how to grow younger.

(They're Christian)

Tough but fair.

Read the Liberal Currents article on the Far Right canon and afterwards my main thought was, 'Oh, so it's just Satan.'

It's shocking how open some far right intellectuals are about hating Christianity for destroying the vicious cruelty of aristocratic paganism.

It’s not satanists, it’s “Christians“.

Sure, but it's both parties.

The 6th party Republican Party is a 5 decade conspiracy to erase 3 centuries of progress and human flourishing so they can enslave and rule us like kings forever

We're rapidly approaching the point where not only are people going to start hanging the US Flag upside-down, they're going to be doing so at half-mast.

Open borders and ban TikTok

Every single country in North and South America should join up to form their own Americas version of the European Union / trading bloc with Schengen Zone style travel / immigration w open borders. Four official languages - English, French, Spanish and Portuguese

i like this but i want a few non-colonizer official languages added in there as well

Love it

Yeah that would legit be great (and thanks to jet lag for teaching me what the Schengen Zone is)

That's a fun future to imagine, Also learned what the schengen zone is...

Market capitalism is actually fine, but all companies should be owned by their workers, and all retirements provided by the state.

no relationships between consenting adults should be recognized by or regulated by any state (e.i. absolutely anything goes and no one can do anything about it), no group of people has a right to a state, nudity should be fully normalized, and nature itself should be legally recognized as a person

also, nudity should be desexualized, sexual openness still hasnt gone far enough, something being uncomfortable disturbing or distressing doesnt give anyone a right to keep others from doing it, the concept of intellectual property should be completely abolished, and open-source everything produced

alternatively

Total lifetime contributions to trusts, gifts, bequests, donor advised funds, foundations, charities, religious organizations, and all other non-public entities should be capped at $100m. Got 2 kids? No more than $50m each. 15 kids? $6.67m. Every penny accumulated beyond $100m goes to the government

Require that any us state have a population of at least 5 million people to count as a state, you're allowed to join with other states, reevaluated every other census

Or whatever strips the Dakotas Wyoming and Montana of their state status. I'm willing to give up Vermont for this.

1.5 million or more. That wipes out 6 or 7 GOP states. Dems lose 3.

Yaaaa

Eliminate the Senate. Then every house district should have at least 3 winners, all of whom represent roughly equal amounts of people. That may mean some districts span multiple states.

If he doesn't leave in 2029, he's leaving in a bodybag and it won't be due to natural causes

i am of the opinion that mandatory service is less exploitative than voluntary service

probably half of the states need to be militarily reconstructed and denied representation until it happens.

Yes. Admit DC as a state and whichever territories want it, while also *revoking statehood* of some of the treason areas for minimum of a decade while they undergo reeducation is my most dictator-coded view

*The treason areas are not only in the South ** We could also admit the Mississippi Black Belt (for example) as its own state while revoking the rest of the state’s membership *** Tribal lands should also have their own representation at the federal level - not sure what that looks like for now

yeah when i posted i was thinking of idaho first and foremost as a state that needs this

The Dakotas too. And only admitted back as a single state * see above re: direct tribal representation

We can do Oregon too. I don't care that Portland turns us blue.

Eugene helps too, which is why it's even more stark to go half an hour out of town and see the garrison-sized Trump flags

Springfield is 10 minutes away, just saying.

No territories, no districts. Full representation or fully independent.

Agreed, didn’t have room to spell it out. All territories who wish to remain part of the US for statehood and independence with security guarantees for those who don’t

Some in the US admin concluded that climate change will drive so many refugees to its southern border that it will not cope with the volume. It has abandoned due process & will phase in more brutal policies as deterrence. This evil is compounded by racism and classism. It won’t end in our lives.

The “it won’t end in our lives” part is the part nobody wants to believe. It is all horrible but I do not see an end to it.

Retirement savings should be administered solely through the government and banned from investment in capital markets.

(Not because of downside risks--though mitigating those is a bonus--but because the continuous, nigh-mandatory flow of capital into the markets inevitably distorts and makes them irrational.)

voting should be mandatory, even if you turn in a blank ballot

Taxpayers should be held criminally liable for the actions of their governments. Nations whose taxpayers are not held liable for the actions of their governments should not exist.

All federal electeds end terms with death penalty unless pardoned by referendum.

2 billion Americans.

I guess for bsky it’s probably taxing imputed rent on primary residences or thinking that supply curves exist.

Build the cube!

What do you mean?

This country should allow a fuckton of immigrants.

I’d absolutely support that. Fully open borders.

Uncap the house and make the Supreme Court operate out of the basement of Congress but also keep it as the hall of statues

The speed limit should be 25 mph in cities and suburbs and enforced with speed governors

For some reason I read this as "the speed of light should be 25 mph" and I was really curious where you were going with that. But I like your idea, too.

Speed bumps should absolutely destroy any car driving 30mph.

The capital of the US should be in Chicago

I dont think that would work as there is simply no free space for all of the structures. Unless if you build the complex in the outskirts, but in that case why not build a new capitol on some farmland in Colorado? Like Brasilia or the Cairo project.

us should do multi capital like bolivia & s. africa. idea: pres & exec offices in washington, dc; congress relocate to st. louis; supremes relocate to salt lake city. capitol converted to exec offices (with space reserved for speaker & senate maj/min leader; say, for sotu or other pres. address).

I'm firmly on the Chicago side of the conflict with St Louis

you should support sentencing out congress critters to the lou, then.

also: there's not enough liquor in slc for kavanaugh. he'd leave the bench. (hopefully under a democrat president.)

They would run out of 2.5% beer

Crypto should be destroyed

absolutely. without question. .@shoe.bsky.social

We have finished the job during Kosovo but James Blunt stopped us

We need more GMOs

Paul Wellstone was so far away from the party he did not do the work of compromise and governing. He sidelined himself. We could sure use him now. His clear vision would be devastating to MAGA

Mandatory sex changes at least quarterly. Replace all CEOs with koalas, see what happens.

The constitution originally fixed representation in the House at 1 representative per 30k people. We ended that because of office space. We are no longer limited by office space. Gimme my 11,377-member House of Representatives. They can meet and vote virtually. Yes, NYC gets 282 members.

1/30k was reasonable at the time the Constitution was adopted. There’s an empirical rule that lots of assemblies are close to the cuberoot of the population they cover. That gives 699 for now, which is workable. (1/490k). And it gives 157 at the time of the Constitution, about 1/25k

Nobody who wants to be president should be allowed; the office should be forced on someone chosen at random out of a pool of qualified candidates. A committee of people randomly selected according to a spread of demographics would decide on who is qualified, akin to a jury selection process.

Sortition ftw! en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition

Sortition would instantly solve a lot of problems. I also think there should be a tricameral legislature, the third chamber comprising randomly sortitioned US citizens, which would serve as the tiebreaker where House and Senate do not agree. (1/2)

(2/2) Limited circumstances under which you could opt out if selected, paid well, part-time service and employers would be required to retain you at your job. Perhaps one week in DC every other month. Those selected would have to agree to never seek employment as a lobbyist in the future.

Or they have to pull a sword from a stone 😁

100 random people have to pick a briefcase and if yours has the golden ticket you’re now POTUS. Televised with Howie Mandel hosting & it rotates between networks every 4 years like the superbowl.

Yoohoo! Watery tart reporting for duty here

😂 Best reply to find in the wild.

Spoken like a proper student of Sir Thomas More.

Government run school supplies industry bsky.app/profile/bask...

Party membership should be required for voting.

It should be illegal to voice even moderate support of the Confederacy

Kathy Hochul is a top 5 2028 candidate and she's not 5

Would vote her before Newsom. And the way things are going I may end up liking her more than my own governor (Pritzker)

i would vote for her before.... a pretty damn long list of people she's got the 'protect trans kids' of Pritzker with the aggression of Newsom

Interesting. She hasn't been on my radar, but you might be right. Joe Biden is the last white man I'm voting for president. I might have to take a closer look at Hochul, especially if she does redistricting like TX and CA.

i too am done with white guys. especially since this coming crop is worse than the last. Andy Beshear? really? heads up re: redistricting, NY constitutional amendments take multiple sessions, so new maps in NY won't come until 2028 but she's vowed to do it. Stewart-Cousins and Heastie are on board

Better than newsom!

I agree, but does she even want to run for president?

i think most governors and senators consider it, but she won't tip her hand before she's reelected

Especially since she has an actually substantial primary challenge from Antonio Delgado. Which she will likely overcome, but can you imagine how much of a deal he would make out of her saying she wants to run for president?

Antonio Delgado is not in any way, shape, or form a substantial primary challenger. She was 35 points up on him in the last poll Nobody that wants to run for President is gonna tip their hand this early. People that do are complete fools

Sorry, more substantial than any other possible primary just because he's the incumbent Lieutenant Governor. Hochul has to actually fight him, even though she's gonna win pretty easily since she's stepped up a lot recently.

I think she's more worried about the general election honestly. Combine that with the threat of Trump and you get the locking in she's done this year Delgado is just like totally ancillary to this, I think 2022 Hochul probably would've beaten him. he's a windbag with no achievements to his name

This says a lot of (horrible things) about our current lineup of likely candidates

i mean yes but also no. she'd have been in the top 20% of 2020 candidates if you time-travelled her back

you know i begrudgingly voted for her once and i will again if i need to

she’s dogshit, indistinguishable from a republican aside from a few sound bites

No™️

Left-wing speech should be mostly protected/promoted, right-wing speech should be mostly censored. I wouldn't feel bad or hypocritical about doing this because our laissez-faire approach to "speech" has resulted in the exact opposite of this being the *de-facto* state in America.

All corporate income tax filings over 5 years old should be public.

Haha, nice try, fed.

Venture capital should be regulated into oblivion.

See Also: Private Equity

The most well known/influential people each year should be elected and black holed from all forms of media and offices for five years.

Get comfortable strip mining the planet. It’s for your own good.

Save the republic by reversing Citizens' United and ending primaries.

Not a political opinion: White guys need to stop trying to be rappers and start picking up guitars again.

I don't think Eminem knows how to play the guitar....

Just because he's great doesn't mean that every white kid from the suburbs needs to try to be him.

Any country with a score of less than 4.00 on the Economist Democracy Index should not be allowed participation in the UN outside of the General Assembly until they clean up their act.

every city with at least one nfl/mlb/nba/nhl/mls team should have, at minimum, a 3-line grade separated metro system. dept transpo can provide pre-engineered station designs and a universal car design to keep costs down.

1) The Texas Republican Party has done a good job of reaching out to Latinos (see attached). 2) The national Republican Party is doing a lot more damage to this than people think. 3) Blexas is becoming much more likely, along with a dummymander meltdown in 2026.

There is one future for the Democratic party that runs through Texas, Utah, and Montana

I'm curious about #1. Can you expand on this?

Texas is majority Latino. If the Texas Republican Party wasn’t able to reach out to Latinos, they would have gotten wiped out a while ago, rather than Texas continuing to be Republican statewide.

There’s no voter suppression or gerrymandering that could keep Texas Republican if a large majority (or even a small majority) of Latinos voted for democratic candidates.

there's also a massive turnout problem here, I think Beto won hispanics both times he ran - since Texas is plurality hispanic, this should mean you win, but it doesn't, because Texas turnout is horrible (partially but not wholly because they make it so difficult to vote)

I don't doubt it. What resonates with Texas Latinos when it comes to GOP messaging? Traditional family values, border security, pro-gun, etc?

Sorry, need to go pick something up, I can discuss this further when I get back.

So, what I think the answer to this question is: 1) abortion 2) border security (I'm going to expand on this) 3) economics generally 3.5) in 2024, inflation specifically I'll discuss these further in a bit, have to go get dinner.

Bump. The idea that folks should wait their turn and come “the right way”

My understanding is that the map that Texas made would be hard to make into a dummymander ... *unless* there's a big swing of Latinos back towards Dems.

Yes, the Texas Republican Party is betting that Latino polarization levels will remain around 2024 levels. I think this is a mistake.

I have said for 20 years that all the republicans needed to do was abandon racism

"Have you ever considered having a platform that didn't entirely suck and thus actually earning more votes?" --"no" said the party of hard work and personal responsibility, "lol, lmao"

Oh, there would still be plenty trouble. But this is an uncontroversial George W Bush suggestion that shows how high a bar to clear

Their coalition would fall apart if they did that.

Their coalition is going currently falling apart without having done that. The Republicans are in a rough place rough now, and every choice they’ve made over the last twenty years has placed short term returns above long term strength.

(I need to write that essay about how the Republican Party has been dead for the last twenty years.)

while anecdotally I hear of peoples' relatives who STILL think Trump is doing a swell job despite their heads clearly being on Miller's __ season poster, overall, uh yeah I think ICE's jaunts may be depressing the Latino vote (among others) just a bit, probably

We should nationalize all pharmaceutical companies.

Private universities shouldn’t exist.

200 yr period where only Black women are allowed to vote.

Great idea. I’d vote for this as a white male. It’s like RBG said about women on the Supreme Court - it was only men for the first 200 years, why wouldn’t it be fair if it was only women for the next 200?

While we are at it, one easy way to achieve a form of reparations for slavery would be to exempt the descendants of slaves from federal tax on their first 200k of income. Of course, racist resentment would make that impossible.

Nah on the tax exemption by itself. My equally radical stance on that is fuck you pay my Black ass AND you don't see a dime of it back besides what I'm throwing into my community.

Sure, I could roll with that as well. Much stronger welfare state as reparations, guaranteed income for life. But tax exemption would be meaningful and decidedly easier to actually pass legislation on.

Uhhhhh, probably either "national boundaries are fundamentally illegitimate" or "yeah meat actually is murder"

Ooooo putting "fundamentally" in there is literally making me be this GIF

Yep to both. Also, here’s one: alcohol has externalities sufficient that it should be a controlled substance.

"Society should maybe actually act as though it doesn't like it when people drive drunk" is a good one

I hate to make it about us, but it starts with enthusiasts calling this shit out vehemently

from @eschatonblog.com: "A big reason people drink and drive is we put bars in the middle of giant parking lots far away from any human habitation. I'm not sure what they expect will happen, but I think the consequences are pretty predictable." www.eschatonblog.com/2010/11/igni...

Neighborhood pubs and the ten block "sober up" walk for the win.

Mmhmm

Make bars only accessible by pedestrians & mass transit. Maybe taxis.

Santa Monica used to, until pretty recently, zone bars as requiring 2x as much parking let sq ft as a restaurant!

Genuinely psychotic

good point.

Yes but this should be controlled via car control not alcohol control.

Eh I mostly agree, but, alcohol is a poison and should be more discouraged than it is (not prohibition though)

I mean the specific comment I was replying to was "Society should maybe actually act as though it doesn't like it when people drive drunk".

Yeah I know, and in that context you're broadly correct. Just looping in James's earlier remark

Prohibition taught us that people will make dangerous alternatives to booze when they can't have it legally

Why?

I mean it’s insane that we’re way harsher in controlling THC, which basically cannot kill a person directly, than alcohol, which can kill a person quite easily, and does frequently.

Lots of data here. IIRC no one has found a single death that can be attributed to THC alone. ETOH OTOH kills thousands of people (directly and indirectly) every year

The meat one is one I don’t go on about on main but like…it’s undeniable IMO and most people would just rather not think about it.

Mmmmhmm It's why they get mad at vegetarians, our very existence reminds them of their guilt

Yes and same reason they're mad at liberal "virtue signalling." Being reminded of virtues they don't possess challenges their sense of entitlement based on moral superiority

also being veg/vegan is not something to mention on a dating app

I mean unless you want to select for others of your own kind...

true enough

I had a very depressed acquaintance for a bit who openly admitted this.

It’s a little like telling the Romans that feeding people to lions for entertainment is inhumane. People don’t often understand how culture can make something horrible seem totally fine. They’re unwilling to question it

I want us to go back to 300 years ago where at absolute most you just had to pass a health screening to get let off the boat.

That's a follow from me

Lab grown meat that's a decent substitute for the real thing can't get here soon enough, I'm not sure there's any other way to get a critical mass of people off meat

Yeah that's basically my hope for the world Though I'm not sanguine on what happens to the existing livestock population, if so...

Liberating Iraq was the right thing to do.

Also, we should still be in Afghanistan.

Burn the suburbs to the ground, and abolish private cars. Oh, and abolish capitalism on the side.

ban porn

ban social media too

You posting this on social media.

Banning porn seems like a 80-20 split among women I know, maybe even higher.

www.thearda.com/categories/a... We have the gss that asks this question. It's definitely more popular with women but well below majority

Many of the government functions we don’t think about very often but are actually really important will probably be getting really fucked up for no reason soon and we won’t even know about it until it’s too late to do anything

Economic growth is bad

Or I mean, it’s good but it can’t go forever and we kind of need to save it for later

nationalize the railroads

Nationalize ALL essential services! All of them!

Universal Basic Income and Mandatory Sterilization might be the last hand humans can play.

crypto holders should be liquidated. "oh you mean their assets?" yeah those too

I don't care how a residential or office building looks from the outside. Tell me how the residents or workers like it and then I'll form an opinion. I used to have an office in Brutalist (actually Internationalist) monstrosity. It was a pleasant office with a window. I liked the building.

Legalize, tax and regulate all drugs. As with cannabis, it would practically eliminate the illegal market, which produces dangerous and deadly mystery drugs and enriches drug cartels and terrorist cells. It would also free non-violent drug offenders who comprise nearly half of our prison population

The eastern seaboard of the United States should look like southern China. From Miami to Portland, Maine one massive megaopolis

Nationalize internet infrastructure and run fiber to every front step.

ban homeschooling federally

Lmao those are some unqualified ass teachers fr

Sufficiently corrupt politicians should be killed

💯 we have tiers for juvenile/adult sentences, there should be civilian/politician/LEO/soldier tiers. There already exists a weighty legal pressure on soldiers, but almost get-outta-jail-free laws for politician/LEO population. At a minimum, 2x all penalties & anything beyond 5 years yes death.

Bernie Sanders is not a good person, does not have good political judgement, would not have won the general election, would not have been a good President, and has not been good for political discourse.

Dude practically started the “election was stolen from me” discourse in this country. Trump points to him multiple times as proof it was stolen from him as well.

One of these, plausibly bsky.app/profile/desi...

we should build enough housing that an 18 year old can afford a “closet” on 7.25 per hour wages with no outside help of family or friends, just walk in and get the small hotel like apartment (and the minimum wage should be 3 times that, but you said singular)

everyone should be able to afford a place in our new Chungking Mansions

Total Abolishment of any and all Hierarchical Systems including Money and a State of constant revolution to make sure new ones don't ossify. Also Children should be raised together as a community not by their parents

I don't think I'm going to do this 100% correct, but I have takes. D.C., Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, The Northern Mariana Islands, and The U.S. Virgin Islands should either become states, or independent countries with Free Association alongside the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, and Palau.

Guns are cool, but dangerous. And the fact that they are dangerous is why they are cool. They're like sharks. But you wouldn't give everyone a shark, so you really shouldn't give everyone a gun. But I still think guns are cool.

We should stop using First Past The Post, and instead used Ranked-Choice voting. It gives everyone a better say in how they want the government to function, because it doesn't limit them to one choice that they have to use tactically. They can vote with their hearts, and we can avoid shit like this.

If a US House Representative represented as many people as one British MP represents, we would have over 3,000 Representatives. That seems a little too unwieldy, but I think more granular representation is needed. 425 members isn't enough.

-Balkanize the US -United global government -Execute all billionaires -Hateful speech is a crime -Abolish countries as anything more than ceremonial stuff or jurisdictions in a federalized system -Publicly funded elections ONLY—you get $2M -Ban advertising -Direct all research into gene modding

Every nation should join the EU and form some sort of world government with a common market.

National service takes many forms. I could've used a year or two after HS to test my ideas before diving in.

In an ideal situation EVERY rep no matter where they are from or who they represent would ONLY vote for or against something based on merit. Not party affiliation. Does it help people or hurt people? It's very simple. This is my perfect government scenario.

100% tax on investment gains under 1 year. Decreasing 20% each year. You're an investor? No you're invested

The instant you make over a billion dollars, we strap you to a rocket and launch you into the sun I’m fine with minced or unminced prior to launch, personally

Government mandated weekly political education, run by Democrats, of course.

HAHAHAHAHA I'd join the Republican hoes and run too.

Financial compensation for anyone who was 21 or younger when COVID hit.

Make executives personally responsible for the crimes their corporations commit. Yes, I know that is directly against what corporations are, I said what I said. Alternately, abolish corporations.

I own guns to protect myself against people obsessed with the 2nd amendment. It's a really dysfunctional situation.

Universal basic income and complete overhaul of the education system for today not 200 years ago.

bsky.app/profile/take...

Real people spend almost or as little as possible thinking about politics or policies and the more you do, the less likely you are to remotely cotton voter behaviors

This should be a popup you have to acknowledge when you open this app.

I sure hope so

Give Congress a fuckton more cash. Raise Congressional wages by 5x, give them tons of cash to spend on staff, forbid stock trading except index funds

Alaska is a tossup.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allianc... But against the American heartland.

Admit Washington DC as 127 states so that we can write the senate out of the constitution harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-13...

The crimes committed by the US against Vietnam, Angola, etc, are far worse then anything that D Trump and is vile allies have done

ban private schools and homeschooling, public school is mandatory

maybe I could move on the private schools part on the condition that every dollar spent on private school tuition is matched 1:1 with a donation to the local public school system. Homeschooling delenda est though.

Or cap private school teacher’s salaries at 80% of the lowest teacher salary in a district. One of the rotten aspects of private education is they horde teaching talent via higher salaries. A private school luxury tax like you’re describing is also a good idea.

The most private schools pay teachers less and work them more though? It's really only very elite private schools that are paying their teachers more than the local public ones, at least in union states.

I agree as long as we're keeping the same medical exemptions

New road should only be permitted to be constructed unless an equivalent length of passenger railways are constructed. Passenger railway construction should be exempted from all environmental and community review.

The ones that specifically scare the hoes are the ones related to the ideal size, scope, and capabilities of a liberal state’s security services. My ideal security services, they’re large, very large.

Reinstate every protective measure of The New Deal starting with bank and federal regulations. Immediate return to 1942 income tax levels to rates adjusted for inflation

The main source of human suffering is the aging process and the diseases it causes, and the government should spend a jaw-dropping amount of money on research to mitigate or just do away with it

funny story about the nih grant process until recently

Including cosmetically elegant sunscreens please and thank you.

Why can you not get a spray tan that’s also extremely long-lasting sunscreen

Wait this is actually genius tho. Tinted sunscreen exists after all.

They have sunscreen spray booths at some resorts.

Cause probably it would also be extremely harmful 😅

based based based based based based

say goodbye to retirement then.

I'm rooting for a highly automated future of abundance where that won't matter anyway. But I plan on continuing to write and code until I die regardless.

you’re also rooting for a much more equitable distribution of the benefits of automation…

Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Senility.

are we talking about killing old people?

no just saying that basically we’ll have to advance retirement age proportionally as we increase lifespan.

In the strange hypothetical where people just didn’t age, you could imagine all sorts of retirement-like schemes: 10 years off for 40 years in, work every other year, don’t retire at all but have a 20-hour work week, w/e

That seems like a fair tradeoff? If you're healthy and active until 120, no reason we couldn't bump up the retirement age too.

man I don’t want to work to 105 or whatever.

I don't want to die at 80!

working to 60, having a secure retirement for 20 years, and then rapidly dying at 80… doesn’t sound so bad!

well I mean, in terms of how we abolish aging and senescence.

nuke the whales

Overturn prop 13.

This one’s for you @nextdoorsv.bsky.social

High-speed rail between Brooklyn and Queens.

Agriculture is evil and we should have thousands of ongoing moonshots to get rid of it. All major tech co's which provide key internet infrastructure (google for search/youtube, Meta, AWS) should be converted into NGOs a la Wikipedia. A good bit of America's gun violence problem is cultural/moral.

Sequester SCOTUS in a monastery in the hills of West Virginia with their only contact with the outside world be the court and a one month vacation per year.

To get a reasonable social safety net, we need to raise taxes comparable to other countries with reasonable safety nets, and Americans will absolutely not stand for that unless the economy is crippled for, like, a decade. The good news is we are well on our way!

God is dead and we have killed Him

Mandatory public school attendance, no exceptions.

If your net worth is more (or becomes more) than the median citizen in your region/district, this triggers an election within 4 weeks.

bring back fairness doctrine, require social media platforms of a certain size to get broadcast licenses

We should just give everybody enough money to live on, don't worry about balancing the budget or whatever, money isn't real.

we should hunt tech billionaires for sport and livestream it to teach future generations what society actually thinks of parasitic antisocial leeches

wow a lot of opinions here do not scare the hoes. now i feel awkward

Yeah, most of these are just moderately liberal or prog positions that don't have the political will to be enacted at the moment. People got no imagination.

This is a gathering of hoe-scarers, you're in good company.

the hoes agree

I do not think this should be limited to only tech billionaires, but all billionaires. It's a fair system bc if you don't want to be hunted simply spend/donate your money

Georgist tax system

Currently it seems to be: "We don't actually have to unite behind Newsom. He's a transphobe who enjoys destroying the lives of homeless people. It is also sus that people are shrieking about this now, in 2025. We have plenty better options."

The entire federal government in terms of representation should be set up to benefit people who live in cities, and if you don't like it, move to a city. A supermajority of Americans live in urban areas. It's weird and wrong that 14 guys and a pack mule pick the president.

The United States should, without warning, execute an all out nuclear first strike on Russia. It should use the counterforce strategy and aim to fully disarm the Russian strategic nuclear forces.

I guess I scared the hoes

my hair has, at the very least, been mussed

i’m certainly surprised.

They have a ‘dead hand’ system in place. If Russia is nuked and every Russian were killed, the system fires back without human input. You’d have to hack that first.

C'mon I'm not going to say it publicly here

Double defense & science budgets Make voting mandatory like AUS Increase capital gains tax, tax secured loans > $10 M ban share buybacks, allow proxy voting by retail investors build 100x nuclear & 100x solar build total connected water & internet supply & rail & bus transit Build 100M housing

the backlash to fascism is going to make the Cultural Revolution look like a tea party

Anti-vaxxers are hostis humani generis and should be disposed with accordingly.

Only women should be able to vote.

Cool idea. You should look up women voter stats first.

Why?

Because I doubt they all vote the way you'd like.

You know, because they're not a monolith.

This isn't about partisanship. It's not because I think they'd all vote dem. It's simply out of a desire to disenfranchise men. I also support stripping men of the right to own a bank account. Us men are simply to impulsive to manage our own finances.

Oh ok. Reverse Gilead Fascism is better in a dress. I'm game. What are your race laws like?

You know it! And idk I'll leave that up to you. You'll be in charge of the race stuff ig.

I can imagine it will have to be pretty much the same as we have now. Thanks for the offer but I'm not a fascist.

Also since I'm a man I wouldn't get to have such an important job in your new Lady Regime.

You must tax the children of VHN at 95% on death/ineritance (over eg 5m threshold) if you want to avoid a landed aristocracy. Imagine how many centuries it would take to dilute the Walmart fortune at current tax rates. I count 10. So 300yrs.

Compulsory voting and the defense budget is too small

1. Trump's 2016 campaign colluded with Russia 2. Putin has some kind of blackmail over Trump 3. COVID 19 wasn't engineered & didn't leak from a lab 4. Trump raped underage girls & it started with John Casablancas, pre-Epstein 5. The media is biased in favor of conservatives

Conservatives are not capable of having beliefs, except their one belief, "I'm entitled to break rules because of my moral superiority to THEM." (THEM changes every month.) They don't really believe things like "Jan. 6 was done by Antifa" or "Jan. 6 was done by peaceful patriots." They just SAY that

Nothing short of a cataclysmic economic downturn will nudge Americans into caring enough about civil society (out of sheer self-interest) to reverse the democratic erosion of the past 50 years, and even then it's like 70/30 with the 30% being a thousand year technofascist reich or something.

Most of the internet sites we're so used to using for free should have a paywall.

White people should not vacation overseas.

No American should own a pistol and we should collect the entire existing stockpile at gunpoint

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All prohibition on sex work should be ended immediately Eliminate all preferential treatment of homeownership Might have to curtail some 1a rights of fascists Surely none of this will come back to hurt me

Ending all farm subsidies might be another one

Free university

Unilateral zero tariffs

gambling should be illegal

This and it's also my answer for "your most conservative opinion" .

gambling should have to be in person.

this is a good one

and I'm including day trading

and futures?

Complex. I actually want to allow one specific type of gambling: farming. And crop /commodity futures are a useful hedge for them.

Good one. What about investing in stock options?

The military is full of cowards, idiots, and monsters. We’ve never been the good guys, except half by accident in WWII, where we made sure to commit enough atrocities to compete with the Nazis. We are garbage, as a people.

ICE should be dismantled: a fraction of its ridiculous budget could hire lawyers, social workers, counselors, interpreters, healthcare workers, and other non-hostile professionals to expedite immigration and refugee applications, placement, and societal integration.

Decriminalizing and de-throttling immigration would benefit the US by helping immigrants build their new communities without fear, while allowing them to safely access the rights and protections guaranteed by the Constitution and agencies such as OSHA, EEOC, etc.

Seize all sports teams and give them to their municipalities

Holy shit I like this so much. Also: rename the stadiums after local famous people or folks who did good stuff.

Residents of secessionist states should get taxed at a higher rate by the feds and that money goes to HBCUs and the like.

Aren't most residents of those states already lower income on average?

If we get through this and have the opportunity for Reconstruction: The Right Way This Time I would be ALL for this. Not letting John Brown and Sherman finish the job led directly here.

Also, 0% tax on corporate profits but huge taxes on capital gains, stock buy backs, dividends etc

Counterpoint: 90% tax on corporate profits but they can avoid it entirely if they pay every employee a living wage and adjust it for real cost of living in the area every year.

Feds reading some of the QTs here

We should give Texas back to Mexico

Fuck. Yes.

people have an environmental responsibility in how they vacation, and cruises or flying to remote, low access islands are about the worst options. also, celebrities should not have their own airplanes. [they can fly first class or charter, as far as I am concerned]

not sure it is the most scary, but it is among them...

We should elect native Americans into a monarchy. Head of state and head of government duties get formally split. The wealth re-distribution to fund our new monarchy comes from seized private assets of weapon, energy, and health insurance companies.

Not a damn thing you do will secure a single byte of online comms and if you don't conduct yourself as if you can be replayed in court, you will come to regret this at some point if you live long enough. (You don't have physical layer security on any CPU installed with remote updates).

You want a security model, I want a security model, we don't own the means of production, Surveillance Crapital bought all the fabs.

Some day the Cult of Choose An App To Encrypt will look like the stupid tagging game it really is (they might even call it DISSIDENT PACKETS or something trenchant when it becomes a standard).

That the word "h**s" is a highly sexist and & misogynist. Please don't use language like that.

America is functionally and cognitively incapable of winning wars.

All election primary must use RCV.

Alcohol and tobacco products should be gradually restricted until they are banned outright

Law is arbitrary and simply used as a tool to justify power

We should get rid of nations.

Or make 100000 more.

Cut red state America off from any public money generated by blue states. Let them come beg us for it

Butlerian jihad. Any machine that imitates a human mind should be banned under international law as an abomination, like grafting a pig’s head on a man’s body. Also ban any research towards creating such abomination, i.e. genAI.

Most gun control measures that are proposed would not significantly decrease violent crime committed with guns. If you wanted to reduce violent gun crime your starting point would be a handgun ban instead of an “assault weapons” ban

Also any assault weapon ban which does not cant semi-auto is useless

I generally think assault weapons bans are performative. The vast majority of gun violence is done with handguns. If your focus is reducing gun violence you would target handgun availability. Assault weapons bans are done to make people think something is being done

I agree, but also most assault weapons used in mass shootings are semi auto. Why not both!

I would say it comes down to procedure and the courts. As someone that personally doesn’t believe in firearm restrictions I think that anyone that is arguing for gun control of any sort at the moment should focus efforts on court packing first because I don’t think anything that works gets past SC

Yeah it's pure fantasy to try. Social safety net, mental health, and food assistance programs would do more help first anyways

Exactly my view on it. Gun control can make a difference but I think a lot of people focus on gun control as an easy fix instead of looking at it as an outgrowth of crime and focusing on proven methods that reduce crime such as the things that you mentioned

Mm, I don't buy this. Basically half of gun deaths are suicides. And that's a lot easier to fix by making guns much less accessible than "solving" mental illness.

Im literally printing guns as we speak.

2A freaks be like that.

Could not agree more. And it’s so politically counterproductive! We face an authoritarian threat, so why not go all in on personal liberties and using state capacity to make people more free?

We have to actually take their guns.

my grand compromise is a national no exceptions handgun ban combined with a nationwide revitalization of the CMP with a tax credit to participate for long guns

No questions asked 1-for-1 handgun for Gucci AR trade in program

I should be able to give a gun to the Government in exchange for discharging any one debt holding account.

Currently existing gun buybacks really seem pointless. Good at taking guns likely to be stolen and not reported because someone forgot about them but does nothing to reduce guns in circulation

Stop making guns, ban all gun sales, buy them back for $10,000 each and $50 for every bullet.

This would likely reduce the suicide rate as well.

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Full handgun ban. Allow hunting rifles and shotguns.

For mass shootings: Magazines shouldn’t hold more than 7 rounds and should require tools and no less than 60 seconds to swap.

Capitalism is mostly good, but every American should vote for the most left-wing candidate in every Democratic primary Abortion is mostly bad, but should be legal everywhere under every circumstance Depending on the hoes in question some will be scared by some or all of that

universal hoe frightener

First the U.S. isn't able to withstand the upcoming hollowing out of the Ag industry as the midwest gets old and dies. Second, the U.S. will die if it maintains a purely service-based economy. Climate change will completely destroy Ag, Insurance, Health, and then Banking, probably in that order.

The problem is as simple as it is unsolvable. This is why we live in an age of necropolitics. Decisions about who will live and who will die are made every day. The only decent solution - to grow a productive economy with high profitability and increasing social returns sounds 19th century.

If you want to run for POTUS, you have to have your nose broken. Just like they do for a nose job, and it can't be fixed until you concede or leave office. Get some skin in the game.

Democracy cannot work in an age of social media. Either you get chaos, a political machine so dominant it's a de facto one party state or outright dictatorship. Therefore the Democratic party should become such a dominant political machine. This is what I mean by woke PRI.

From Counterculture to Cyberculture was very clear on this, mostly about Stewart Brand, who is an idiot

Basically the wild Silly Valley people gamble made was that undirected self-expression and direct communication that scientists and engineers had could replace liberal institutions. It turned out to be a several-generations level disaster.

Every state should have its own political party.

For here? Corporate income tax should be abolished.

no corporate income tax, full expensing, end the jones act, etc etc

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This is a real good one

May you die of Boneitis. I'm jking of course, this is a reasonable policy although it would need to involve upping capital gains or other taxes to compensate.

How do you prevent corporations being used as a personal piggy bank? This always seemed a problem in having corporate and individual tax code differ too much.

Tax unrealized gains

I used to very much feel this way, but I've come to the view that despite a lot of the insane behavior they induce, they're actually a great leveler of wealth inequality

Good take. Approve.

Capitalism is a disease.

Imagine how repellant the alternatives must be now that even a country called the People's Republic of China has Balenciaga stores.

I feel like you need a nominal corporate tax (like 5%), just to limit tax evasion of personal income taxes by small businesses

speaker's-identity-as-authority arguments offered by the speaker themselves are very often bad/abused.

The insurance industry as a whole should not exist as a private enterprise, and should just be another function of government.

we should not have rescue people deployed to those who have endangered themselves in natural disasters willingly and with multiple warnings.

Tax the rich! Corporations too. De-monomplize large media corps (break them up) Ban company mergers. Require Media, civic, and financial literacy at HS level. Tech literacy too. Love is love. No governmental entity may deny the right to a union between willing participants

Regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, etc. But ban child marriages.

I want a 50% reduction of roads and vehicles in major American cities by 2040. Gone. Donezo. No excuses. In their place, I want bike lanes, foot paths, bus stops and roads specifically for bicycles and buses. It'll save Americans upwards hundreds of millions of dollars per year. 1/3

Less roads mean fewer taxes to upkeep roads, meaning your taxes go down or can go to other things - like better public transit, education and upkeep of green spaces. Fewer cars mean fewer deaths and major injuries per year. Fewer cars mean less people paying for insurance and repairs. 2/3

Fewer cars mean less gasoline demand, which is both better for the environment and will keep gasoline prices lower for long-distance travel across the country or between major cities. More bus stops mean more places to sit safely and it's easier to exercise. It means disability-friendly cities. 3/3

Nationalize utilities and the airlines.

My most radical one: all industries should be nationalized. I’d make an exception for small one-person or immediate family businesses in which everyone is an equal owner, but that’s it.

Repeal the 17th and replace with sortition where two registered voters from each state are selected at random

Elected officials telling a demonstrable lie should spend the night in jail on first offense, two on the second, and so on.

There’s no peaceful, political solution to the current state of this country’s affairs.

Renewable 6-month entry visas to the US should be processed on demand at all ports of entry upon presentment of a valid government ID from a home country, and a U.S. residence address. A 6-month unlimited work permit should be issued along with it, upon tender of a nominal processing fee.

We revoke it and send you home if you are convicted of a crime of violence, or to property valued over $1,000, or if we discover you lied on your entry application. Naturalization should require showing you've lived continuously in the USA for 7 years without having committed a serious crime.

Oh, and while I'm at it: Single payer health care starting RIGHT FUCKING NOW, with a ten-year phased buyout of all stock in all publicly-traded healthcare providers; nonprofits, lacking shareholders, will be nationalized at the end of the ten-year period. Scared yet, hoes?

It's either marching everyone out of suburbia and into dense multifamily housing next to mass transit at gun point or implementing full employment at gun point.

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Get rid of the senate and ban guns.

bring back the draft i guess

Canadian Strategic Nuclear Weapons Program

Please, that's not a nuclear weapons program. "The Grinning Goose" was merely a peaceful nuclear detonation.

5 years ago, I would have been a huge NO on this. Today? I hope we are well on the way to our new arsenal. We needed to start yesterday.

I’d share it but I’m afraid of scaring the hoes….

That the road to success in this century is by having the most well educated populace. Fund the heck out of our public schools, and make college available to anyone who wants to go. The whole country will be better off financially and national security wise if the public is a lot smarter.

that's not your most hoe scaring opinion guy who named himself "Khashiggi's Ghost"

Unfortunately, for over 40 years Republicans have been moving the ball in the OPPOSITE direction. Their goal is to make postsecondary education once again what it used to be: a privilege reserved for the children of the rich. WHY? Here's a clue: theintercept.com/2022/08/25/s...

Not when Rapepublicans are afraid of educated citizens..

Is that a controversial take?

It's Europe .

It's designed to fail. It's demoralizing.

Direct intervention in Ukraine.

People should have UBI

Pfff, that's not scary. A scary political opinion is "We should have UBI, but just for me."

UBI for everyone but me

No person should be allowed to own more than one home, and nobody should be allowed earn more from a business than their proportional share of the work they put into it.

I’d say “ban TikTok” but we did that already? Ban all short-form video from the internet. With a “cool-ass rock band” exception.

*old man with a thousand yard stare voice* I remember the “what qualifies as a cool-ass rock band” war of 2048

1% per year wealth tax on anyone with total assets over $10million and a $25 / hour minimum wage.

Kavanaugh bringing a high school girls basketball team to his hearings should have raised a way way way bigger red flag

In hindsight, Romney should have won in 2012 for the sole reason that he recognized Russia as a threat to the Republican Party (Obama laughed it off when posed with the same question)

coronavirus made 9/11 funny

regulating alt-health industry out of existence. RFK Jr is proof that benign toleration of it has failed

Ban every "nutritional supplement" not proven by clinical trials to acually improve disease states

i want a Spanish inquisition-like FDA that will make it difficult to sell a single dodgy vitamin

You have my vote

HHS should be run by people who burn with contempt for woo. NIH staffers should each get a sword

Put Luigi Mangione in charge.

NIH should be staffed by New Atheists. There I said it

I eagerly await Alex Jones's auto-da-fé. it's a little like getting Al Capone on tax charges, but I'll take it.

alternative medicine quack bullshit is the root of every single one of my parents' neuroses, it's all downstream from that, quackery gets me pissed off more quickly than anything else and if I could make all the peddlers go homeless forever I would

Unilaterally disarm our nukes so we can do more direct interventions against other great powers

three month election cycle with no private money at all

If this is scaring the hoes you need to find better hoes and also more extreme political positions

Should only be one month tbh

i was in canada the week before their election and it was nice. "who are these people" to pm carney in like 6 weeks. ideal.

Yes. None of the voters who actually decide the election even think about it until literal election day.

I moved to Ecuador and that’s how they do it here. It’s niiice to not have years of campaigning.

If I knew what that meant I'd say.

Land as exclusive private property is an abomination that makes people insane. You can guarantee all the same constitutional protections under a trusteeship system.

Baseball should start using an automated strike zone ASAP. Yes, that's a political opinion.

Yes it is and I agree because JFC

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democratic politics should be organized so that the vast bulk of the population whose only source of income is their own labor have autonomous control over the process and profits of their own production