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How many of you have politically radical ideas?
One or two politically radical ideas 19%  19%  [ 10 ]
Two or more politically radical ideas 77%  77%  [ 41 ]
I don't have any radical ideas at all 4%  4%  [ 2 ]
Total votes : 53

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04 Apr 2011, 8:01 pm

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Replace all congress members with owls, every senator with horses, and make hamburgers out of the bull.


You missed the other thread where I said a parrot should be president and a tortoise vice president...both can fulfill the age requirement.


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04 Apr 2011, 8:06 pm

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iamnotaparakeet wrote:
Replace all congress members with owls, every senator with horses, and make hamburgers out of the bull.


You missed the other thread where I said a parrot should be president and a tortoise vice president...both can fulfill the age requirement.


Yes, there are even tortoises which can live for over 300 years, however I think that the oldest any type of parrot can get nowadays would be around 80 years.



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04 Apr 2011, 9:37 pm

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baker has to buy wheat. a landlord does not have to buy a new house for you each month.
(this is why you can make so much money as a landlord)


A landlord has to pay property tax, pay for maintenance of the property both in terms of everything working within the home plus maintenance outside (the yard and what not). So it isn't like as if a landlord makes a static purchase. Though, there should be some incentives for lowered rent costs.


its a question of scale and margins, in the web hey have a big arrow going in and a little arrow going out.
A good position to be in for the individual but not for the the system.
maybe I should make a agent based model to illustrate.
I am moving into a new house so give me a few days,


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05 Apr 2011, 3:50 am

iamnotaparakeet wrote:
Replace all congress members with owls, every senator with horses, and make hamburgers out of the bull.


None of that meat is kosher.



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05 Apr 2011, 4:20 am

Offer 3 percent of the world's GDP to any individual or corporation which successfully creates an extra-solar colony. Offer 5 percent if they manage to replicate this elsewhere.

Offer a stipend of twice current yearly income to anyone who successfully automates their job.

Offer an additional stipend for each job an individual successfully makes obsolete.

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05 Apr 2011, 9:40 am

JakobVirgil wrote:
skafather84 wrote:
JakobVirgil wrote:
baker has to buy wheat. a landlord does not have to buy a new house for you each month.
(this is why you can make so much money as a landlord)


A landlord has to pay property tax, pay for maintenance of the property both in terms of everything working within the home plus maintenance outside (the yard and what not). So it isn't like as if a landlord makes a static purchase. Though, there should be some incentives for lowered rent costs.


its a question of scale and margins, in the web hey have a big arrow going in and a little arrow going out.
A good position to be in for the individual but not for the the system.
maybe I should make a agent based model to illustrate.
I am moving into a new house so give me a few days,


I've been helping my parents with their move to a new house, take your time if needed. :)


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05 Apr 2011, 9:43 am

ruveyn wrote:
iamnotaparakeet wrote:
Replace all congress members with owls, every senator with horses, and make hamburgers out of the bull.


None of that meat is kosher.


Bulls are Levitically clean animals, but I suppose their byproducts certainly would not be anymore than that of any other creature?



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05 Apr 2011, 9:49 am

iamnotaparakeet wrote:
Replace all congress members with owls, every senator with horses, and make hamburgers out of the bull.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guns_and_Dope_Party


They use ostriches instead.


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05 Apr 2011, 10:06 am

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Doesn't result in a child? If incest is made legal unless you sterilize the people involved then some are bound to result in children being born.

Not if you require them to get an abortion.

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REQUIRE people to get abortions?

Are you radically libertarian, or radically anti-libertarian?

Make up your mind!



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05 Apr 2011, 10:42 am

iamnotaparakeet wrote:
ruveyn wrote:
iamnotaparakeet wrote:
Replace all congress members with owls, every senator with horses, and make hamburgers out of the bull.


None of that meat is kosher.


Bulls are Levitically clean animals, but I suppose their byproducts certainly would not be anymore than that of any other creature?


In the legislature there would be mostly the hind-quarters which are not kosher portions of even kosher animals. We would get the asses a rectums of bulls.

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06 Apr 2011, 8:07 pm

I have some highly "radical" political ideas. Some are fairly nebulous, others I've extrapolated and refined a great deal. I don't feel comfortable discussing any of them here, though.

The grandest and best one I call "The Weed Farm". Don't jump to any conclusions based on the name--it's not really what it sounds like. You'll know if it ever catches on, though. Trust me.



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07 Apr 2011, 6:27 am

I think we should hold a Constitutional Convention every thirty years. That way, people in each generation would have something to say about the basic structure of their government. If we wish to keep the current Constitution, it should be ratified by an act of the body politic in each generation.

As things stand we are governed by a morte-main, a decree issue by (now) dead people 250 years ago.

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07 Apr 2011, 4:59 pm

I want to secularise all faith schools and turn every Monday into a bank holiday.

I'm republican in the sense of being anti-monarchy.


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07 Apr 2011, 5:11 pm

I'd legalize marijuana and other such drugs if I had the choice. It would kill the street market for it, make it more sanitary and also make it easier to deal with drug addicted people.

Not two, but three birds killed with one stone.

I don't do drugs myself though. So I don't particularly care if this comes into fruition.



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09 Jan 2012, 2:24 am

ruveyn wrote:
I think we should hold a Constitutional Convention every thirty years. That way, people in each generation would have something to say about the basic structure of their government. If we wish to keep the current Constitution, it should be ratified by an act of the body politic in each generation.

As things stand we are governed by a morte-main, a decree issue by (now) dead people 250 years ago.

ruveyn


I say we recall all our troops from around the world, station them all at the borders, disband the union, and renegotiate the Constitution.



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09 Jan 2012, 2:26 am

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I want to abolish the government.


sounds like a plan. how do you propose we go about it?


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