[identity profile] mahnmut.livejournal.com posting in [community profile] talkpolitics
Hellooo, dudes and dudettes! Here's our new installment of ridiculously oversimplified and impossibly polarized hypothetical situations, inspired by the [Poll #1868050]

As many of you already know, there's NO way to have an "Other" option here! Because we don't have a "None of the above" option on ballots, do we!?

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Date: 23/9/12 19:02 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] a-new-machine.livejournal.com
God I hate these. There's no middle ground for "talk to him privately and have him resign, issue a statement disavowing him, but allow the press to continue its function."

So fuck it, tax cuts for everyone.

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Date: 23/9/12 19:06 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] luzribeiro.livejournal.com
It's OK, making tough decisions of national importance is not always an easy choice! Often you have to choose the lesser between several evils - for the good of the nation!

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Date: 23/9/12 19:08 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] luzribeiro.livejournal.com
Also, myself being in the hairdresser's biz, I'm afraid we'd run ouf of business if you ban the supermarket tabloids! What would people read while waiting for their hair to dry!? War and Peace??!?

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Date: 23/9/12 19:09 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] htpcl.livejournal.com
Tax cuts are always the easiest option. Dust in the public's eyes!

I'll go with the Reverend this time. Let him rot in jail!

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Date: 23/9/12 19:22 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] abomvubuso.livejournal.com
Ban the junk press! Bannnnn!

People should be reading either Atlas Shrugged or the Communist Manifesto while waiting at the bus stop. or the Bible. And look at nude pics of Ayn Rand and Karl Marx, or why not Mary Magdalene :D

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Date: 23/9/12 20:06 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] a-new-machine.livejournal.com
Gotta give it this, it'd speed up the commute. Well, after they finished the cleanup anyway.

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Date: 24/9/12 16:38 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sophia-sadek.livejournal.com
The Bible is chock full of scandalous tabloid stories, but at least the participants are no longer alive. Let's not forget that, back in the day, it was illegal to publish the Bible in the local vernacular.

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Date: 23/9/12 19:58 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sealwhiskers.livejournal.com
I refuse to vote for that last douchebag libertarian guy!
And the other ones are impossible too.

Tax cuts are BAD. Why should we end great programs just because some politician can't keep it in his pants?

If you don't add some WOMAN claiming that we'll take the public eye of that man's crotch by declaring a tax RAISE, to help
widows/widowers/orphans/depressed singles or something, then I DECLARE this poll UNFAIR AND SKEWED!!

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Date: 23/9/12 20:22 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sealwhiskers.livejournal.com
Hey now, I have about 7 parties to choose from when I vote in the REAL system, where I am allowed to vote.

(I'm only a resident of the US, not a citizen)
Edited Date: 23/9/12 20:22 (UTC)

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Date: 23/9/12 20:38 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] airiefairie.livejournal.com
Now this is difficult.

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Date: 23/9/12 21:16 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ddstory.livejournal.com
LOL again at the name choices!

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Date: 23/9/12 22:03 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] underlankers.livejournal.com
The answer is "Why is the personal affairs of my advisors the business of anyone else? This matters only if it affects his policy. It didn't, so kindly focus on matters of substance. If the most you've got against me is that one of my advisors got a little nookie, I must be doing splendidly so thank you for the compliment to my political skills."

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Date: 24/9/12 12:54 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] underlankers.livejournal.com
Hence exactly why I'd put it this way. Kill 'em with kindness. ;)

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Date: 23/9/12 22:23 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] the-rukh.livejournal.com
These are all terrible choices, YOUR MAJESTY. : P

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Date: 23/9/12 23:04 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] the-rukh.livejournal.com

Image
You see a lost puppy trying to cross a busy intersection. How do you help the puppy?

a) Cut off its legs then shoot it in the head

b) Put it in a sack and throw it off a bridge

c) rape

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Date: 23/9/12 23:26 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] peristaltor.livejournal.com
C followed by B?

(Oh, wait, that's not cool to believe, is it. . . . I have a problem.)

Never mind.

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Date: 24/9/12 02:47 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vehemencet-t.livejournal.com
I was gonna say A followed by C...
Edited Date: 24/9/12 02:47 (UTC)

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Date: 24/9/12 16:36 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sophia-sadek.livejournal.com
That was grandma's favorite technique.

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Date: 24/9/12 00:32 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dwer.livejournal.com
wow, these are particularly bad this time... :P

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Date: 24/9/12 03:46 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mikeyxw.livejournal.com
Let me see, end the freedom of the press, criminalize adultery, or a tax cut. Is this really difficult?

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Date: 24/9/12 06:59 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mikeyxw.livejournal.com
Depends, do you share a currency with the Germans?

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Date: 24/9/12 09:00 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mikeyxw.livejournal.com
Sounds Dutch to me.

Besides, such worries are for countries where dirt is not a synonym for platinum.



























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Date: 24/9/12 05:47 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] htpcl.livejournal.com
You call that "press"? :-D

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Date: 24/9/12 07:54 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mikeyxw.livejournal.com
Nope, but if I was King and wanted to get rid of pesky reporters and their inconvenient facts, I'd write laws aimed at tabloids and then apply them across the board.

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Date: 24/9/12 08:37 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] htpcl.livejournal.com
I'd make them praise me! Pics of me hunting killer whales and saving kittens from burning houses, and also this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kq1DEu5-aWo)!

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Date: 24/9/12 08:49 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mikeyxw.livejournal.com
If this was one of the poll options, there would be no debate about the proper course of action.

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Date: 24/9/12 07:02 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] policraticus.livejournal.com
He's got to go. At the very least this could be construed as sexual harassment and a clear demonstation of catastrophically bad judgment. No jail, obviously, that is as absurd as ending freedom of the press.
Edited Date: 24/9/12 07:03 (UTC)

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Date: 24/9/12 12:14 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] policraticus.livejournal.com
You shouldn't have to. According to the OP, Mr. Lotsalovin serves at the pleasure of the God-Emperor.

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Date: 24/9/12 12:16 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] htpcl.livejournal.com
If I'm the God Emperor, that guy would be re-qualified to serve in my harem.

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Date: 24/9/12 14:53 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] policraticus.livejournal.com
That's actually kind of a problem for the OP, don't you think? If we are the absolute rulers of our imaginary country, what tabloid newspaper would dare offend the throne by exposing the indiscretions of a favorite adviser? Under an absolute tyranny, the tabloid is burned to the ground, the preacher man gets disappeared, or made a public example, either way he finishes shorter by a head and taxes don't get lowered. Why? Because fuck the people, that's why.

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Date: 24/9/12 17:25 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] htpcl.livejournal.com
Oh, but as far as I know the NS game that the OP is inspired from, provides opportunities to shape your imaginary country in all sorts of regimes: from free-for-all libertarian utopia, to socialist paradise, to father-knows-all state, etc. It's not necessarily true that you'd be the omnipotent ruler, you could actually shape the country as a viable democracy. There are all possibilities out there, and the way your country is shaped depends on the decisions on such cases like this one. Which are of course deliberately made so extreme. While they do sound extreme, the outcomes are not that extreme - unless you consistently push your country into extreme directions.

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Date: 24/9/12 17:42 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] policraticus.livejournal.com
There are all possibilities out there, and the way your country is shaped depends on the decisions on such cases like this one.

But since these decisions are made, in the game, by one person... not matter how you have shaped your regime... it is an absolute Czarist-style tyranny of one. Even a benevolent and enlightened despot is still despotic.

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Date: 24/9/12 19:01 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] htpcl.livejournal.com
Well, that's a one-man game. One user is one country.

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Date: 24/9/12 14:19 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] allhatnocattle.livejournal.com
I feel manipulated. It's like we've been forced to vote for tax cuts. Next time I'll abstain.

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Date: 24/9/12 16:34 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sophia-sadek.livejournal.com
What about Famile E. Planneur: "We need to take this opportunity to point out the advantages of using birth control methods when wandering from the straight and narrow."

Image

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Date: 24/9/12 16:55 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sandwichwarrior.livejournal.com
Given the all-or-nothing nature of the choices, I go with number 3.

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