What are the five issues most important to you?

March 08, 2016, 01:43:38 AM

You can go into detail or just list them. And I mean specific issues, not just "the economy".

For me (in no order):

Right to your own body (including doing things to consenting others, since that's their own body)
Fighting the corporate hold on American agenices/legislature
Eliminating the entire process of genetically modifying organisms through chemical intervention
Changing public perception of suicide/depression/mental illness
Doing anything we can to reduce poverty

BaconShelf · March 08, 2016, 01:52:52 AM

More space travel and shit
Keeping the NHS (They're slowly privatising the NHS here)
More general funding for science and technology

I can't think of anything else because I either don't care or know enough to have any kind of opinion on the subject.

big dog · March 08, 2016, 04:14:37 AM

Shift to nuclear energy, research into nuclear fusion. Fuck fossil fuels.
Unfuck the NHS's shit up while keeping it accessible to all, regardless of financial status
Lower/get rid of tuition fees
Get rid of unemployment benefits and the minimum wage, introduce Universal Basic Income.
SECOND LIBERAL DEMOCRAT UPRISING

also get rid of the tv licence i cant watch cash in the attic live at uni because i dont have one

More Than Mortal · March 08, 2016, 07:35:42 AM

- Nuclear energy.

- Tax reform.

- Infrastructure investment.

- Inequality.

- Financial regulation.

challengerX · March 08, 2016, 07:43:10 AM

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Turkey · March 08, 2016, 08:28:46 AM

Quote from: SecondClass on March 08, 2016, 01:43:38 AM

Eliminating the entire process of genetically modifying organisms through chemical intervention

GMO's are crucial to keeping up with demand, fighting disease, reducing pesticide use, and reducing hunger and poverty worldwide.

rC · March 08, 2016, 08:40:08 AM

Quote from: Fedorekd™ on March 08, 2016, 04:14:37 AM

also get rid of the tv licence i cant watch cash in the attic live at uni because i dont have one

>1984+32
>bongs can't watch tv without government approval

LOL

March 08, 2016, 08:45:57 AM

Quote from: HurtfulTurkey on March 08, 2016, 08:28:46 AM

Quote from: SecondClass on March 08, 2016, 01:43:38 AM
Eliminating the entire process of genetically modifying organisms through chemical intervention

GMO's are crucial to keeping up with demand, fighting disease, reducing pesticide use, and reducing hunger and poverty worldwide.

Keep telling yourself that. They only create more sickness in the human body, which in turn keeps the populace popping pills churned out by Big Pharma. It's all an interconnected scam. But please, go back to getting your information from Monsanto.com.

Turkey · March 08, 2016, 08:52:28 AM

Quote from: SecondClass on March 08, 2016, 08:45:57 AM

Keep telling yourself that. They only create more sickness in the human body, which in turn keeps the populace popping pills churned out by Big Pharma. It's all an interconnected scam. But please, go back to getting your information from Monsanto.com.

I've asked you for research and you haven't provided any.

March 08, 2016, 08:54:05 AM

Quote from: HurtfulTurkey on March 08, 2016, 08:52:28 AM

Quote from: SecondClass on March 08, 2016, 08:45:57 AM
Keep telling yourself that. They only create more sickness in the human body, which in turn keeps the populace popping pills churned out by Big Pharma. It's all an interconnected scam. But please, go back to getting your information from Monsanto.com.

I've asked you for research and you haven't provided any.

Any research I'd give you, you'd call illegitimate or not peer-reviewed or whatever. Well, newsflash, the big important studies aren't the impartial ones, they're the ones that corporations like Monsanto buy and sell. People underestimate the power that these conglomerates have in our world by so much.

Turkey · March 08, 2016, 08:56:32 AM

Quote from: SecondClass on March 08, 2016, 08:54:05 AM

Quote from: HurtfulTurkey on March 08, 2016, 08:52:28 AM
Quote from: SecondClass on March 08, 2016, 08:45:57 AM
Keep telling yourself that. They only create more sickness in the human body, which in turn keeps the populace popping pills churned out by Big Pharma. It's all an interconnected scam. But please, go back to getting your information from Monsanto.com.

I've asked you for research and you haven't provided any.
Any research I'd give you, you'd call illegitimate or not peer-reviewed or whatever. Well, newsflash, the big important studies aren't the impartial ones, they're the ones that corporations like Monsanto buy and sell. People underestimate the power that these conglomerates have in our world by so much.

Peer review is critical in the field of science, but you haven't shown any regardless.

March 08, 2016, 08:57:44 AM

Impartiality to the result is more critical.

Turkey · March 08, 2016, 09:00:14 AM

Quote from: SecondClass on March 08, 2016, 08:57:44 AM

Impartiality to the result is more critical.

And who's qualified to judge bias? An impartial journal of peers reviewing the research, maybe?

March 08, 2016, 09:02:16 AM

Quote from: HurtfulTurkey on March 08, 2016, 09:00:14 AM

Quote from: SecondClass on March 08, 2016, 08:57:44 AM
Impartiality to the result is more critical.

And who's qualified to judge bias? An impartial journal of peers reviewing the research, maybe?

Don't kid yourself, any modern scientific journal wouldn't be able to get away with any anti-GMO insinuations or they'd be taken care of.

DAS B00T x2 · March 08, 2016, 09:07:26 AM

1: Roads, bridges, water mains, etc
2: Nuclear power
3: Firearms rights
4: Simplify the tax code (local: eliminate the property tax)
5: Westernization of the Arab nations and/or secure the existence of our people and a future for white children

Turkey · March 08, 2016, 09:17:32 AM

Quote from: SecondClass on March 08, 2016, 09:02:16 AM

Quote from: HurtfulTurkey on March 08, 2016, 09:00:14 AM
Quote from: SecondClass on March 08, 2016, 08:57:44 AM
Impartiality to the result is more critical.

And who's qualified to judge bias? An impartial journal of peers reviewing the research, maybe?
Don't kid yourself, any modern scientific journal wouldn't be able to get away with any anti-GMO insinuations or they'd be taken care of.

Frankly that's ridiculous, insulting, and unfounded, but for someone whose most important issue is banning GMOs you're surprisingly short on research. Still waiting.

Verbatim · March 08, 2016, 09:47:25 AM

I mean, once we all figure out that the world would be better off without us, and that we should stop reproducing forever, everything else pretty much becomes irrelevant, doesn't it? All other problems become moot, because we'd have finally cut to the very core of all the world's problems: us. So that's obviously #1 for me.

Barring that, education reform is probably #1. Before you can solve the rest of the world's problems, you'll need to make sure that future generations are actually capable of doing the work first. Improving K-12 education, as well as making college free (or at the very least, affordable), will create a much stronger learning environment. Indebting our students for wanting to become productive members of society is an affront to all things just and good and right-minded and rational and etc.

#3 is the economy. We need some socialist policy up in this bitch. If we could just kill the rich, too, that would be nice.

#4, ending the global holocaust of 50+ billion farm animals that are tortured and killed every year, just to feed our fat disgusting faces. Becoming a vegan is piss-easy, and there is literally NO excuse not to be one in the current year. None.

#5: Nuke Japan into oblivion.

Cindy · March 08, 2016, 10:28:33 AM

Quote from: SecondClass on March 08, 2016, 01:43:38 AM

Right to your own body (including doing things to consenting others, since that's their own body)
Changing public perception of suicide/depression/mental illness
Doing anything we can to reduce poverty

Those three things, LGBT rights, and uh....

Idk, women's issues or some shit? That's mostly covered under the first one, I guess.

I can't think of a good fifth, tbh

challengerX · March 08, 2016, 11:14:06 AM

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Mordo · March 08, 2016, 11:19:11 AM

Quote from: HurtfulTurkey on March 08, 2016, 08:52:28 AM

Quote from: SecondClass on March 08, 2016, 08:45:57 AM
Keep telling yourself that. They only create more sickness in the human body, which in turn keeps the populace popping pills churned out by Big Pharma. It's all an interconnected scam. But please, go back to getting your information from Monsanto.com.

I've asked you for research and you haven't provided any.

He can't. That's the beauty of conspiracy theories. The lack of evidence just shows how well the conspirators have covered their tracks. It's like the 'scientists are paid shills' line. They can't provide any evidence but they keep saying it because it's all they have.

Verbatim · March 08, 2016, 11:21:27 AM

Quote from: challengerX on March 08, 2016, 11:14:06 AM

Quote from: Verbatim on March 08, 2016, 09:47:25 AM
the current year
I MEAN

COME ON

Yeah.

For some reason that I haven't yet figured out, it's considered "fallacious" to simply point out that people ought to be more civilized in modern times than they were in the past (because of a greater and more developed understanding of the world).

I know it's unrealistic to expect human beings to be fair or intelligent, but that doesn't mean we're incapable of learning.

Ender · March 08, 2016, 11:35:39 AM

but muh meat

ΚΑΤΑΝΑΛΩΤΗΣ · March 08, 2016, 12:14:34 PM

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ΚΑΤΑΝΑΛΩΤΗΣ · March 08, 2016, 12:15:16 PM

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Incan · March 08, 2016, 12:41:31 PM

Quote from: Chief Among Sinners on March 08, 2016, 12:14:34 PM

3. Dismantling and destruction of institutions that provide abortions, as well as the social movement seeking to dehumanize unborn children.

I'm curious for your reasoning here.

Verbatim · March 08, 2016, 12:51:40 PM

Quote from: Chief Among Sinners on March 08, 2016, 12:14:34 PM

3. Dismantling and destruction of institutions that provide abortions, as well as the social movement seeking to dehumanize unborn children.

why would this be in your top 5

my abortion beliefs aren't even in my top 20

ΚΑΤΑΝΑΛΩΤΗΣ · March 08, 2016, 12:54:06 PM

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ΚΑΤΑΝΑΛΩΤΗΣ · March 08, 2016, 12:58:04 PM

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Cindy · March 08, 2016, 01:01:40 PM

>Dehumanize unborn children

lmao

ΚΑΤΑΝΑΛΩΤΗΣ · March 08, 2016, 01:05:11 PM

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