# WARNING: dangerous topic (politics!) **URL:** \ **Category:** Off-topic\ **Created:** [May 30, 2018, 9:06am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/warning-dangerous-topic-politics/2753 "2018-05-30T09:06:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ZakPhoenixMcKracken](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/zakphoenixmckracken/32/41_2.png) [@ZakPhoenixMcKracken](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/ZakPhoenixMcKracken)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2018, 9:06am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/warning-dangerous-topic-politics/2753/1 "2018-05-30T09:06:48Z")
Since I truly believe that all the people currently writing on this forum are intelligent and respectful each other, I feel we can try, if you want, a discussion on a sensible subject: politics. The best way to break friendship is to talk about politics by pointing the finger towards the mistakes of the past, where WE (I mean, the single persons from all over the world in this forum) never did and have no fault. I don’t want this. It’s useless. I want to talk about politics in a constructive way. If you were the prime minister of a country (it can be any of the actual countries: Germany, Belgium, France, Spain, Greece, Italy, USA… ), and with the power of making laws, what would you do? Please, specify the country you would like to administer, and your ideas for a better living. It can include everything. Let’s try to melt intelligences and different experiences. ---
**Author:** ![tasse-tee](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/tasse-tee/32/4002_2.png) [@tasse-tee](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/tasse-tee)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2018, 9:22am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/warning-dangerous-topic-politics/2753/2 "2018-05-30T09:22:48Z")
I’m not very knowledgeable about politics, but I am interested to hear other people’s views, to gain a better understanding 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![milanfahrnholz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@milanfahrnholz](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/milanfahrnholz)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2018, 9:50am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/warning-dangerous-topic-politics/2753/3 "2018-05-30T09:50:32Z")
At best I might make an awesome dictator of a randome banana republic. Maybe I just should play Tropico… ---
**Author:** ![PiecesOfKate](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/piecesofkate/32/93_2.png) [@PiecesOfKate](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/PiecesOfKate)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2018, 10:13am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/warning-dangerous-topic-politics/2753/4 "2018-05-30T10:13:20Z")
> [@tasse-tee](#): > > I’m not very knowledgeable about politics, but I am interested to hear other people’s views, to gain a better understanding 🙂 Ditto! ---
**Author:** ![Sushi](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/sushi/32/163_2.png) [@Sushi](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Sushi)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2018, 10:21am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/warning-dangerous-topic-politics/2753/5 "2018-05-30T10:21:51Z")
Interesting! But I’ll just observe…exactly for the reasons you’ve mentioned on breaking friendships. Not that I have such radical views or anything, but if you see how heated the discussions can get already on _irrelevant_ stuff like games on here… ---
**Author:** ![ZakPhoenixMcKracken](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/zakphoenixmckracken/32/41_2.png) [@ZakPhoenixMcKracken](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/ZakPhoenixMcKracken)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2018, 10:31am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/warning-dangerous-topic-politics/2753/6 "2018-05-30T10:31:07Z")
I understand, and I am aware of the danger. ---
**Author:** ![tasse-tee](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/tasse-tee/32/4002_2.png) [@tasse-tee](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/tasse-tee)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2018, 10:33am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/warning-dangerous-topic-politics/2753/7 "2018-05-30T10:33:02Z")
> [@Sushi](#): > > But I’ll just observe…exactly for the reasons you’ve mentioned on breaking friendships. It doesn’t have to be like that 🙂 This thread is for discussing our opinions, with the agreement that we won’t take offence to differences in views, or put others down for having different views. ---
**Author:** ![Sushi](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/sushi/32/163_2.png) [@Sushi](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Sushi)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2018, 11:29am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/warning-dangerous-topic-politics/2753/8 "2018-05-30T11:29:42Z")
Ok then. I’ll start… If I were prime minister of any country (but let’s start with mine), I’d pass a bill that _really_ supports equal pay for women. And chemical castration for sexual offenders. That one is perhaps the easier of both to implement. There… let the thread explode! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![milanfahrnholz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@milanfahrnholz](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/milanfahrnholz)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2018, 11:36am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/warning-dangerous-topic-politics/2753/9 "2018-05-30T11:36:08Z")
I’ll rant about Germany when I’m back. ---
**Author:** ![seguso](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/seguso/32/1232_2.png) [@seguso](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/seguso)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2018, 11:52am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/warning-dangerous-topic-politics/2753/10 "2018-05-30T11:52:33Z")
> [@ZakPhoenixMcKracken](#): > > If you were the prime minister of a country (it can be any of the actual countries: Germany, Belgium, France, Spain, Greece, Italy, USA… ), and with the power of making laws, what would you do? Easy: the best policy possible is clearly to spend as much as possible and then lie to the EU about the deficit. ---
**Author:** ![Sushi](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/sushi/32/163_2.png) [@Sushi](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Sushi)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2018, 11:56am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/warning-dangerous-topic-politics/2753/11 "2018-05-30T11:56:41Z")
you got the purpose of the topic all wrong. It’s not describing what current politicians do. It’s how you would improve on things. ---
**Author:** ![tasse-tee](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/tasse-tee/32/4002_2.png) [@tasse-tee](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/tasse-tee)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2018, 12:00pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/warning-dangerous-topic-politics/2753/12 "2018-05-30T12:00:50Z")
> [@Sushi](#): > > If I were prime minister of any country (but let’s start with mine), I’d pass a bill that _really_ supports equal pay for women. Are there any current laws in Belgium that claim to do this, but aren’t actually very effective? ---
**Author:** ![Sushi](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/sushi/32/163_2.png) [@Sushi](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Sushi)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2018, 12:07pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/warning-dangerous-topic-politics/2753/13 "2018-05-30T12:07:14Z")
> [@tasse-tee](#): > > > [@Sushi](#): > > > > If I were prime minister of any country (but let’s start with mine), I’d pass a bill that _really_ supports equal pay for women. > > Are there any current laws in Belgium that claim to do this, but aren’t actually very effective? It’s probably in the constitution that men and women are equal. But in practice… Now I also believe it is mentality issue with both employers and employees. A law will hardly make a huge difference there. But we have had laws passing in the last years on not discriminating towards nationality and stuff like that when hiring people for a job. So the least they could do is to give a sign that they acknowledge the unfair pay and support employers who actively try to counter this. Another issue is that (at least in Belgium), the one thing we are more tight-lipped about than politics is our paycheck. So that doesn’t help. ---
**Author:** ![TaarakVakil](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/taarakvakil/32/13203_2.png) [@TaarakVakil](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/TaarakVakil)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2018, 12:30pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/warning-dangerous-topic-politics/2753/14 "2018-05-30T12:30:46Z")
If I was PM of India, first I want to make a true agreement with Pakistan… And if they violated it… I would kill them!.. Next I would try to eradicate corruption… ---
**Author:** ![TaarakVakil](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/taarakvakil/32/13203_2.png) [@TaarakVakil](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/TaarakVakil)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2018, 12:32pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/warning-dangerous-topic-politics/2753/15 "2018-05-30T12:32:07Z")
And Revise the old education system…make it better… for students.(Cause I am a student!) ---
**Author:** ![Sushi](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/sushi/32/163_2.png) [@Sushi](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Sushi)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2018, 12:34pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/warning-dangerous-topic-politics/2753/16 "2018-05-30T12:34:03Z")
> [@TaarakVakil](#): > > And Revise the old education system…make it better… for students. and teach them that violence is never the solution but always the problem? (hint to your Pakistan deal - which I’m sure was meant tongue-in-cheek?) ---
**Author:** ![TaarakVakil](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/taarakvakil/32/13203_2.png) [@TaarakVakil](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/TaarakVakil)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2018, 12:34pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/warning-dangerous-topic-politics/2753/17 "2018-05-30T12:34:45Z")
I was just too dramatic… ---
**Author:** ![TaarakVakil](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/taarakvakil/32/13203_2.png) [@TaarakVakil](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/TaarakVakil)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2018, 12:38pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/warning-dangerous-topic-politics/2753/18 "2018-05-30T12:38:20Z")
They changed the syllabus… Made is do the whole portion…in 10th … Which is a crucial stage… [https://www.google.co.in/amp/s/m.timesofindia.com/city/nagpur/from-2017-18-study-entire-syllabus-for-cbse-x-exam/amp\_articleshow/56901900.cms](https://www.google.co.in/amp/s/m.timesofindia.com/city/nagpur/from-2017-18-study-entire-syllabus-for-cbse-x-exam/amp_articleshow/56901900.cms) Happened last year… Results are out now… I got 93% ---
**Author:** ![Frenzie](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/frenzie/32/4416_2.png) [@Frenzie](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Frenzie)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2018, 12:40pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/warning-dangerous-topic-politics/2753/19 "2018-05-30T12:40:32Z")
> [@Sushi](#): > > hint to your Pakistan deal - which I’m sure was meant tongue-in-cheek? Probably, although I always feel it’s so unfair in Civ. They declared war, so I hit them with all I’ve got, and the rest of the world hates me. But Han shot first! 😢 * * * I would greatly loosen immigration restrictions. > [@Sushi](#): > > And chemical castration for sexual offenders. That one is perhaps the easier of both to implement. Is that punitive or preventative? Our judicial system is not nearly technocratic enough, based more on feeling than on numbers. What we want — or at least what I want — is to prevent crime and recidivism. Punishment can be a tool to that effect, but in the last Dutch elections the CDA was campaigning on a platform of, to put it undiplomatically, sheer nonsense. ---
**Author:** ![Sushi](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/sushi/32/163_2.png) [@Sushi](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Sushi)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2018, 12:57pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/warning-dangerous-topic-politics/2753/20 "2018-05-30T12:57:49Z")
> [@Frenzie](#): > > Is that punitive or preventative? Hey, I’m the prime minister in this hypothetical world. There still is a separation of the powers. So that’s up the others to decide. But I would say some preventative ones wouldn’t hurt either. [Next page](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/warning-dangerous-topic-politics/2753.md?page=2)