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MoonyTheHuman

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What would happen if bay12 ran a government
« on: July 03, 2017, 03:03:20 am »

The title says it all. random question, and isaw noquestions thread (or im blind either one).

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Re: What would happen if bay12 ran a government
« Reply #1 on: July 03, 2017, 08:53:15 am »

Rife with well-meaning incompetence and lack of clout/connections to properly get er done.
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Re: What would happen if bay12 ran a government
« Reply #2 on: July 03, 2017, 09:04:27 am »

Yellowstone would be turned from a civilization ending threat into a geothermal power plant.
Environmentalist would be catapulted into controlled forest fires using minecart tracks.
Global warming and pollution would be weaponized.
We'd have a space elevator.
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Re: What would happen if bay12 ran a government
« Reply #3 on: July 03, 2017, 09:42:00 am »

Yellowstone would be turned from a civilization ending threat into a geothermal power plant.
Environmentalist would be catapulted into controlled forest fires using minecart tracks.
Global warming and pollution would be weaponized.
We'd have a space elevator.

You've reached too high. Turns out space was filled with clowns.

For real though. It's easy to armchair politician. Maybe some good things could happen, more likely a few well meaning things would happen while the system as a whole fell apart because nobody knows how to clean out the boondoggle trap and the porkbarrel tubes overflowed and poisoned all the lobbyists, whom, you have to understand, are a protected species. The bridges to nowhere would all collapse under the weight of power and the aides and interns would be starved of love, eventually dying of loneliness..
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Re: What would happen if bay12 ran a government
« Reply #4 on: July 03, 2017, 10:21:30 am »

Time to mandate tin trumpets.
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Re: What would happen if bay12 ran a government
« Reply #5 on: July 03, 2017, 10:26:57 am »

The national anthem would be the theme of doom played in tin trumpets
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Re: What would happen if bay12 ran a government
« Reply #6 on: July 03, 2017, 01:04:22 pm »

I think we could make a forum game out of this, even.

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Re: What would happen if bay12 ran a government
« Reply #7 on: July 03, 2017, 10:49:52 pm »

Important decisions would be made via a suggestion game. Military decisions would be run likes a roll-to-dodge.
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Re: What would happen if bay12 ran a government
« Reply #8 on: July 04, 2017, 03:13:04 am »

Yellowstone would be turned from a civilization ending threat into a geothermal power plant.
Environmentalist would be catapulted into controlled forest fires using minecart tracks.
Global warming and pollution would be weaponized.
We'd have a space elevator.

You've reached too high. Turns out space was filled with clowns.

For real though. It's easy to armchair politician. Maybe some good things could happen, more likely a few well meaning things would happen while the system as a whole fell apart because nobody knows how to clean out the boondoggle trap and the porkbarrel tubes overflowed and poisoned all the lobbyists, whom, you have to understand, are a protected species. The bridges to nowhere would all collapse under the weight of power and the aides and interns would be starved of love, eventually dying of loneliness..

Foremost because we wouldnt even be able to agree on which country it was we're ruling in the first place.
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Re: What would happen if bay12 ran a government
« Reply #9 on: July 04, 2017, 06:59:44 am »

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Re: What would happen if bay12 ran a government
« Reply #10 on: July 04, 2017, 07:26:45 am »

a large portion of the government wouldn't actually do anything beyond exist, check in once a year and give their opinion on something and then disappear again

shit memes would envelop humanity forever
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Re: What would happen if bay12 ran a government
« Reply #11 on: July 04, 2017, 07:40:37 am »

Politics would consist of endless lively debates, occasional fistfights, and every now and then a giant amphibian coming in and swallowing a representative whole.
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Re: What would happen if bay12 ran a government
« Reply #12 on: July 04, 2017, 07:58:13 am »

For real though. It's easy to armchair politician.

And as American politics has proven it is easy to be an actual politician.
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Re: What would happen if bay12 ran a government
« Reply #13 on: July 04, 2017, 08:00:11 am »

Wait... so I would have power?

Now Max leads: SWORDS FOR EVERYONE!
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Re: What would happen if bay12 ran a government
« Reply #14 on: July 04, 2017, 08:01:59 am »

Wait... so I would have power?

Now Max leads: SWORDS FOR EVERYONE!
if everyone has power, nobody does

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