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29 Dec 2009, 9:31 am

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@Henriksson, I didn't mean to be creepy, I just wanted to tell what I would do if I where a dictator, if there was no other choice in the world, my visions say that they only want the best for the people, if I were a dictator, I would resign if it made the people unhappy, but if my way of ruling would make the people HAPPY, then why not? Then again, I wouldn't end up like Hitler or any other of the dictator during WWII, I would be a "nice?" dictator, kind fo like the way Hitler provided jobs and other stuff for Germany's people, before he and the other dictator began to slaughter people, I would NEVER want to cause war.


You don't get an economy moving, assemble a well run society, see to it that the poor and deprived are well taken care of, work out a sensible affordable health system, protect the ecology and be properly prepared for disasters, arrange that everybody capable of being educated to the optimum extent of their abilities because you are nice and people like you. You manage all that because you know what you are doing and have the proper resources and people behind you to see to it that it happens. You have a lot to learn and you should be aware of that.



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29 Dec 2009, 4:39 pm

The following is a very sick joke.

I would use the power given to me to commit every conceivable form of atrocity with impunity. The military and police have this luxury as well. I would kidnap children to use as my slaves, and occasionally, as stars in "special" films for the ruling party, occasionally selling them to the wealthy and using the profits to finance my international cocaine cartel. If any of my wives try to leave me, they're going in front of the firing squad. I would have executions recorded in high definition so that I could watch them over. And over. And over.


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29 Dec 2009, 7:51 pm

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The following is a very sick joke.

I would use the power given to me to commit every conceivable form of atrocity with impunity. The military and police have this luxury as well. I would kidnap children to use as my slaves, and occasionally, as stars in "special" films for the ruling party, occasionally selling them to the wealthy and using the profits to finance my international cocaine cartel. If any of my wives try to leave me, they're going in front of the firing squad. I would have executions recorded in high definition so that I could watch them over. And over. And over.


But it's not funny so it's not a joke. It's what dictators do, whatever their propaganda about being beneficent.



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30 Dec 2009, 2:05 am

The first thing i would do is round up all the bigots. all the racists, sexists, homophobes, and anyone that thinks there religion is the only one that's right and have them shot so that they cannot pass on there way of thinking to future generations. The only thing im intolerant of is the intolerant. Next to do would be all the degenerate perverts by that i mean any kind of sex offender. after that all the other criminals would have to work 10 hour days 7 days a week in factories or farms so that all the basic necessities for sustaining the population would be free to everyone. Next i would stop trying to legislate morality and make gay marriage and all psychoactive substances legal and free all drug offenders currently incarcerated because i myself have family members who are doing time just for being addicts essentially. basically the law of the land would be if your hurting no one at all or no one but yourself no one can tell you cant do it. those words would be on stone tablets in front of ALL courthouses instead of the ten commandments. Next i would ban Fox News and everyone on it from ever being seen on television or heard on the radio ever again for the good of everyone's collective intelligence. oh And i would disband both major political parties because all they do is create division in our society. then i would set up a new government that is TRULY bound by a constitution that ensures personal freedom's and change the structure of government so that the executive branch is not ran by a single man. then i would set a date for elections and resign.



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30 Dec 2009, 2:21 am

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The first thing i would do is round up all the bigots. all the racists, sexists, homophobes, and anyone that thinks there religion is the only one that's right and have them shot so that they cannot pass on there way of thinking to future generations. The only thing im intolerant of is the intolerant. Next to do would be all the degenerate perverts by that i mean any kind of sex offender. after that all the other criminals would have to work 10 hour days 7 days a week in factories or farms so that all the basic necessities for sustaining the population would be free to everyone. Next i would stop trying to legislate morality and make gay marriage and all psychoactive substances legal and free all drug offenders currently incarcerated because i myself have family members who are doing time just for being addicts essentially. basically the law of the land would be if your hurting no one at all or no one but yourself no one can tell you cant do it. those words would be on stone tablets in front of ALL courthouses instead of the ten commandments. Next i would ban Fox News and everyone on it from ever being seen on television or heard on the radio ever again for the good of everyone's collective intelligence. oh And i would disband both major political parties because all they do is create division in our society. then i would set up a new government that is TRULY bound by a constitution that ensures personal freedom's and change the structure of government so that the executive branch is not ran by a single man. then i would set a date for elections and resign.


Aside from grammar, I find it interesting that you would "stop trying to legislate morality and make gay marriage and all psychoactive substances legal...". In effect, you would be legislating your own brand of morality, and like you would have done to Fox News with banning the opposition from having a voice, you would basically just be replacing one thing with another.



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30 Dec 2009, 3:54 am

Ive never really cared about grammar. i understand what you mean though. But Ive always associated the word morality with the religious right's perverted view of morality. Yes i would be replacing one thing with another but better to replace what is wrong with what is right. and Fox news is not the voice of the other side they are a consortium of fools who use misinformation to keep a dieing world view that should hurry up and die alive.



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30 Dec 2009, 3:58 am

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Ive never really cared about grammar. i understand what you mean though. But Ive always associated the word morality with the religious right's perverted view of morality. Yes i would be replacing one thing with another but better to replace what is wrong with what is right. and Fox news is not the voice of the other side they are a consortium of fools who use misinformation to keep a dieing world view that should hurry up and die alive.


How do you know what is wrong and what is right? How do you know who is providing misinformation?

Better question still, who is Miss Information?



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30 Dec 2009, 5:51 am

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Industrialize space and create a lot of construction, factory, refinery, and other useful jobs. Forget the "lowest bidder" crap, lets build for redundant safety and not for frugality when human lives are at stake. Eliminate tax on businesses, since every extra expenditure they have reduces their ability to function. Eliminate tariffs on trade between countries; open up the markets. Get rid of affirmative action, enough with the "punishing the children for the sins of the fathers" crap. Help Israel with the mass production of Talon defense systems and give them a few hundred ABL aerial defense platforms. Throw more money into the research and development of better propulsion systems for space travel. Give South Korea a shipload of ABLs and Talon defenses as well. Destroy Wally World.


I Guess this is a little dictating that needs doing.

This mentality will possibly be a driving factor in our eventual extinction. If even after all the environmental policy's that Country's can implement, Burning Big Holes in our stratosphere with massive rockets I suspect is extreemly dangourous and likely harm full. Even Tesla didn't completely understand what our environment is capable of. I know that there has never been a limit to discoveries taking it to the next level. I sure Hope That Our next big discovery isn't that We Killed our planet, while we running away from our ruined home to go meet the Martians.

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01 Jan 2010, 9:26 pm

Lots of things:
Outlaw abortion but I would also have lots of shelters for unwed mothers and they could give up their baby for adoption if they didn't want it once it was born. I would outlaw animal testing and their would be harsher penelaties for animal abuse than there are in most conturies.


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01 Jan 2010, 9:48 pm

Make PE optional only in all schools, make filesharing legal, free Gary McKinnon, lower taxes to a flat rate of 30%, make weed legal (it's logical because it's less harmful than cigarettes, but I wouldn't make the cigarettes illegal because they make a lot of tax money), make the age of consent 15 (guess what age I am? :P), make pre-natal testing illegal, blow up the Autism Speaks HQ, cut down on all the damn CCTV and speed cameras, increase the speed limit to 400mph and give free car tax to anyone who buys a Bugatti to help the system work (yes I stole that from Jeremy Clarkson :P), and... That's all I can think of for now! :P



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02 Jan 2010, 12:32 am

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Lots of things:
Outlaw abortion but I would also have lots of shelters for unwed mothers and they could give up their baby for adoption if they didn't want it once it was born.
Why unwed mothers, why put them into a shelter, why ban abortion do you think that your shelter idea will stop illegal abortions.


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02 Jan 2010, 12:36 am

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The first thing i would do is round up all the bigots. all the racists, sexists, homophobes, and anyone that thinks there religion is the only one that's right and have them shot so that they cannot pass on there way of thinking to future generations. The only thing im intolerant of is the intolerant. Next to do would be all the degenerate perverts by that i mean any kind of sex offender. after that all the other criminals would have to work 10 hour days 7 days a week in factories or farms so that all the basic necessities for sustaining the population would be free to everyone. Next i would stop trying to legislate morality and make gay marriage and all psychoactive substances legal and free all drug offenders currently incarcerated because i myself have family members who are doing time just for being addicts essentially. basically the law of the land would be if your hurting no one at all or no one but yourself no one can tell you cant do it. those words would be on stone tablets in front of ALL courthouses instead of the ten commandments. Next i would ban Fox News and everyone on it from ever being seen on television or heard on the radio ever again for the good of everyone's collective intelligence. oh And i would disband both major political parties because all they do is create division in our society. then i would set up a new government that is TRULY bound by a constitution that ensures personal freedom's and change the structure of government so that the executive branch is not ran by a single man. then i would set a date for elections and resign.


Heck of a lot of banning going on here, and yet you want a constitution that ensures personal freedoms.


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02 Jan 2010, 1:06 am

I'd rather be the advisor to a dictator. I'm not into power. Maybe it's because I'm female though, so I'm not judging it as bad.


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02 Jan 2010, 2:22 am

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The first thing i would do is round up all the bigots. all the racists, sexists, homophobes, and anyone that thinks there religion is the only one that's right and have them shot so that they cannot pass on there way of thinking to future generations. The only thing im intolerant of is the intolerant. Next to do would be all the degenerate perverts by that i mean any kind of sex offender. after that all the other criminals would have to work 10 hour days 7 days a week in factories or farms so that all the basic necessities for sustaining the population would be free to everyone. Next i would stop trying to legislate morality and make gay marriage and all psychoactive substances legal and free all drug offenders currently incarcerated because i myself have family members who are doing time just for being addicts essentially. basically the law of the land would be if your hurting no one at all or no one but yourself no one can tell you cant do it. those words would be on stone tablets in front of ALL courthouses instead of the ten commandments. Next i would ban Fox News and everyone on it from ever being seen on television or heard on the radio ever again for the good of everyone's collective intelligence. oh And i would disband both major political parties because all they do is create division in our society. then i would set up a new government that is TRULY bound by a constitution that ensures personal freedom's and change the structure of government so that the executive branch is not ran by a single man. then i would set a date for elections and resign.


And then go into hiding to protect your life?



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02 Jan 2010, 9:45 am

When it comes down to it, one thing is certain, I would have zero tolerance for interracial romance, it's too risky and may damage our future.
I think Scandinavia is really bad when it comes to interracial romance, there are so many of them who marry outlandish women who have a different skin, it just angers me, what will happen if this goes to far?

That thing has just been popular for the last 10 years or maybe somehow longer, but Scandinavians and Europeans have never been known for marrying people of different races, we have managed to survive solely on reproducing with our own respective races, I know people's minds work in a very onedimensional way, like thinking interracial reproduction is acceptable, but I would make sure it wouldn't be.



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When it comes down to it, one thing is certain, I would have zero tolerance for interracial romance, it's too risky and may damage our future.
I think Scandinavia is really bad when it comes to interracial romance, there are so many of them who marry outlandish women who have a different skin, it just angers me, what will happen if this goes to far?

That thing has just been popular for the last 10 years or maybe somehow longer, but Scandinavians and Europeans have never been known for marrying people of different races, we have managed to survive solely on reproducing with our own respective races, I know people's minds work in a very onedimensional way, like thinking interracial reproduction is acceptable, but I would make sure it wouldn't be.


I have known many wonderful people of various skin colors and your opinion, to get very illegally personal indicates you either have had very little contact with other races and therefore are totally unqualified to say anything about racial relations or are merely one of the dumbest as*holes I have ever come across. If this bans me from the site, so be it. This is something worth saying.