things you're secretly kinda fascisty about

kinda want to read this, subtitle "baseball economics and public policy" -

http://www.amazon.co.uk/May-Best-Team-Win-Economics/dp/0815797281/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1329230373&sr=1-3

xp: you don't mean to shoot all the homeless people???

I HAVE ONE I HAVE ONE

* pedestrians who think you should move or slow down for them because they got in front of you should be herded into a holding pen and not released until 10am.
* on third offense they will be banned from public spaces during rush hours, morning and evening.

No, people putting non-recycling in. We don't (I think) have redeemable recycling, so once stuff goes in the bin it stays there - if that's what you're asking about?

Ahhhh. I see.

But what is recycling vs. non-recycling varies from place to place. I can recycle stuff in my curbside bin that my parents can't one county over. I would worry about if a sniper were to transfer between jurisdictions that there might be a tragic mix-up.

laurel: sounds fair, but also...

drivers who have any problem with STOPPING because pedestrians got in front of them should lose the right to drive

Oh well I am a pedestrian without a driver's license, so I'm just talking about walking.

It is my policy - to mark every bin very clearly as regard its intended contents, with ideograms and six languages - that will sweep me to power with the full will of the people behind me.

Ah, peds that hurry to get in front of you also walking, then slow down.

If you wanted so much to walk in front, you have to walk faster than me. Or exactly the same speed, ok.

oh, gotcha laurel. i'm a non-driver pedestrian person, too, but i don't have much trouble with other pedestrians. hate bike ppl on the sidewalks tho. if you wanna be on the sidewalk, walk your bike. otherwise, heavy truncheon blows.

people should not be allowed to drive until they demonstrate that they are able to do it really, really well, and they should lose that right at the drop of a hat.

the easy way to solve this is to give bikes the road

all of it

I bumped into at least 5 people this morning because I didn't vary my pace in a straight line. YOU CAN SEE ME COMING. I HAVEN'T CHANGED THAT SINCE THREE SECONDS AGO. Fuck you fuck you FFFFF UUUUU

OMG people who don't know how to walk on a sidewalk - UP AGAINST THE WALL. Those people who walk three astride in a group, blocking everything? They are the cancer that is killing society.

steady gait in a straight line is the proper way, BTW, I wasn't referring to you Laurel but the goonwads who bumped into you.

Those people who walk three astride in a group, blocking everything? They are the cancer that is killing society.

okay, this is true. plus people who stop in the middle of an obvious thoroughfare to chat or arrange the baby or w/e. up against the wall.

also, as an american, i'm kinda fascisty about "keep right". stick to the right-hand side of the sidewalk, take the right-hand staircase or doorway. this leaves the other lane open for traffic in the other direction. most folks seem to instinctively get this, but the outliers could stand culling.

ayn rand fans should be forcibly deprogrammed. in camps.

In My Fascist Regime:

- mandatory public behavior training covering topics such as Moving to the Back of the Crowded Bus, Elevator Etiquette, and Stand Right, Walk Left.
- Taco Tuesday

Senior citizens who include you in mass e-mail forwards should be sent to a camp where they spend an entire week reading through Snopes.

more controversial opinions, fewer minor annoyances plz (goes for me too)

Yeah, this threads are kinda hard to keep on track.

I'll stand by my flags, uniforms, and marching and let you guys hash out the political mumbo jumbo.

I'm kind of small-picture about these things, I want my life to suck less on the micro level. I'm find with letting horseshoe and iatee work out the big-pic stuff.

stupid people should not be allowed to vote

- for caek

stupid people should not be allowed to vote

don't want to minimize the importance of fascisty uniforms!

Only if the members of the Anti-Sex League have to wear scarlet sashes to set off their hips.
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i feel like this thread, when not about racists or child molesters, is borderline Innocuous things that make you irrationally angry (a list thread)

Yeah it's turned into that somehow.

ilxors terrible at fascism shocker.

Well yeah, I'm not looking for monuments to my immortal genius or a new calendar year or anything, I just want my life not to suck b/c of other people and their independent idea-having.

fascisty thread: what i'd do to the world if there were no political constraints/ppl fucking annoy me
libertariany thread: the public sector does kind of blow doesn't it ps drugs and whores are ok
liberaly thread: (there was one of these right?)
socialisty thread: idk, contenderizer

hahahaha

apolitical thread has not as of yet really taken a direction.

TOTALLY feeling the car fascism. Getting a driver's license should be very difficult and entail a broad display of knowledge and prowess on the part of the potential licensee. Policing of the roadways should be ramped way the eff up. Speed limits are eliminated, but almost all other infractions (most definitely including the treatment of pedestrians as an impediment to arriving at your destination a whole five seconds sooner, you poor inconvenienced widdle wamb you) result in the lifetime revocation of your license. Cracking down to this extent would solve SO MANY PROBLEMS (severely reduced vehicular injuries and fatalities, severely reduced pollution, severely reduced reliance on oil, a sharp increase in access to and quality of public transportation, decreased sprawl, a general uptick in health and wellness, etc., etc., etc.) and seems like such a great idea that I'm certain nothing like it will ever happen in my lifetime.

Also: as an american, i'm kinda fascisty about "keep right" = SO OTFM. Enforce it with cattle prods, if necessary.

I threw out a perfectly reasonable eugenics program upthread and not one person said boo

you mean, the killing racists thing? no one got mad at me about sterilizing white people, either; it's a v tolerant thread, though tolerant seems like the wrong word.

no, I mean this:

there should be an enforced sterilization program on the bottom 5% and the top 5% of the population as ranked economically; you are in one fell swoop removing the people who cannot achieve and the people who achieve primarily via gross cheating and exploitation from the gene pool

― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Monday, February 13, 2012 1:10 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'd kind of assumed you were joking, DJP?

bottom 5% of population as ranked economically not equivalent to "people who cannot achieve" and i don't get how that's necessarily a heritable trait.

unless that was a joke in which case i feel dumb

(Re: my car fascism, I have a valid license despite not having driven in almost fifteen years or in any way proven that I could operate a motor vehicle without destroying property and killing many, many people. There's absolutely no reason that should be okay.)

"cannot achieve" should really have been "are not achieving"

also it wasn't entirely serious

djp just wants the harvard campus all to himself

basically true, but more of a happy side-effect

I like how 'people should legally be required to be good drivers before the get a license, and traffic laws should be enforced' is car fascism

and I mean in america it p much is

Sadly.