things you're secretly kinda fascisty about

^^ pretty much

- ban A Prairie Home Companion
- regardless of parents tastes, children must dress age appropriate until college, illegal for department stores to sell children's thongs, midriff tops, bikinis, etc
- anyone with a memorial emblazoned on their car must be forced to carry the corpse within the car at all times
- food network channel fined a bajillion dollars for every day they fail to cook anything resembling actual food on their programs
- all superfluous self-congratulatory award shows are banned. The public votes once a year for their favorite whatevers, award cermony held on Superbowl Sunday eve

ok here's a more genuine fascisty thing: i think education in this country ought to be a lot more tracked, tiered and restricted.

it'd only really work if you also made it possible for ppl to make a living w/o a 4-yr degree tho

can you say more about what you mean?

NO!

haha. it's tracked and tiered in Europe, right? i have only the vaguest sense of how it works.

lol, just being fascist

idk either tbh. or if it's better. but my fascist impulse is that not everyone is really cut out for 'higher learning' and so it's a big waste to try to jam everyone through it.

you'd need a really serious moon-shot national effort to overhaul elementary ed, and to really track kids into and out of the right places. educational privilege must be broken, but that does mean a lot of kids not going to arizona state anymore etc

there's a libertarian side to that too

what w/ student loan programs etc.

yeah i can see how that makes sense but the actual practice of tracking is kind of hairy.

idk you don't have to call it tracking, you can call it '4 year degrees not necessary for all americans'

right that might be more achievable, anyway

also de facto tracking happens anyway :(

anyway anyway anyway

what about student POGROMS

I mean, this is the fascist thread after all

/sorry

haha

Okay, I might be wrong, but what I think you mean by 'tracking and tiering' isn't the answer to too many people going to university. It's a method of filtering, sure, but it's mostly a terrible method that is already biased from class perspectives.

yes but if i were dictator it would work out great

Okay, I might be wrong, but what I think you mean by 'tracking and tiering' isn't the answer to too many people going to university. It's a method of filtering, sure, but it's mostly a terrible method that is already biased from class perspectives.

― emil.y, Tuesday, February 14, 2012 12:01 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah this is basically the problem. race perspectives too.

well we have enough college educated white people so i would put the kibosh on that for a while

the prob is even worse when you're funneling poor people into for-profit degree programs and people are defending it for equality of opportunity reasons even if large amounts of debt might be a pretty bad way to go about equality

you're definitely right about that

conversations about fixing education always have to become conversations about fixing everything else

but that reminds me, in my fascist regime, the university of phoenix & c. are going down

i guess that's not challopsy enough

i thought i was going to be so good at this thread

lift ur game, horseshoe

cap executive compensation for any company receiving any sort of aid, subsidy, grant or tax break. companies may be eligible for such things, but only if they cap salaries at (say) 1M/year, all bonuses, benefits and perks included. which might sound like a lot, but relative to what many CEOs and top execs make nowadays, it's a pretty drastic cut.

companies who do not cap income have to pay a flat rate of like 40% on gross earnings, no loopholes or deductions for anything.

contents: one proposal (modest)

Compulsory voting

all humans should be eliminated

I held back on making this cause secret libertarian fantasies are a lot more shameful than secret fascist fantasies

― iatee, Monday, February 13, 2012 6:10 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol i feel the opposite and i feel like this is a mutually revealing thing somehow

like my secret shameful fascist fantasy is that everyone should receive the kind of education that lets them debate submerged state policies on really wonky details by the watercooler

I'll admit I'm way more stunned by things people are saying on this thread than on the libertarian thread, mostly because I didn't think ILXors would be serious about killing and sterilizing people.

'how was happy hour last night'
'oh it was cool until we got into it over the limits on the earned income tax credit again'
'bobby's never gonna fucking get it, is he'

like my secret shameful fascist fantasy is that everyone should receive the kind of education that lets them debate submerged state policies on really wonky details by the watercooler

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, February 14, 2012 8:17 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the reason this is shameful for me btw is because its privileging one kind of blah blah yada over you know the deal

Getting back to my "flags" thing, I remembered that I'm pretty nostalgic for the marches of my boy scout youth. I wish there were more civilian opportunities for marching and if elected your fascist dictator, would make them mandatory for Sunday mornings. I would exempt the differently-abled, which I realize is not very fascisty of me, but what the heck.

Oh, and I don't want to minimize the importance of fascisty uniforms! All women would have to wear either IDF uniforms or labcoats. I don't know about the men.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_P7lsU6JzU3o/S8Jriley3iI/AAAAAAAAAGM/8wcDlkCm5Vg/s1600/idf-women.jpg

http://image.shutterstock.com/display_pic_with_logo/256486/256486,1295976450,6/stock-photo-isolated-scientist-woman-in-lab-coat-with-chemical-glassware-69766885.jpg

I propose to ban amplified busking.

I have also been thinking it would be great if we all had to wear uniforms at work.

what if it were a really shitty uniform though

I'll admit I'm way more stunned by things people are saying on this thread than on the libertarian thread, mostly because I didn't think ILXors would be serious about killing and sterilizing people.

― plee help i am lookin for (crüt), Tuesday, February 14, 2012 3:18 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I don't think they are being serious crut. I wasn't and I thought I clarified that.

I assumed others weren't as well.

This thread is a weird mix of jokey and not jokey imo which makes it hard to read what people mean correctly.

Not jokey but OTT and exaggerated.

and an internet thread

right, that too

i think i should be able to kill aggressive drivers