What government action do you agree with?

[Lemmingwiser]

I was thinking about the thunderdome having a very anti-government consensus.

People may not quite be anarchists, but they're certain government isn't to be trusted and wrong a lot of the time.

Well when isn't it? What are examples of good government?

I was thinking I'm happy with the food regulations in the Netherlands. You want to sell food, you are subject to random inspections and heavy fines, required hygiene certification. Products have to be labeled with their nutrient contents and ingredients have to be ordered by the most common ingredient to the least common. So if one of the first three words is sugar, you know you're just eating sugar.

Of course everything has workarounds but even imperfect systems are a lot better than chaos.

 

[Jershua Coomer Troon]

Mao Zedong executing all the opium addicts

 

[Chilson]

The issue with government isn't necessarily its existence in and off itself. The issue is that once a government initiative is put in place there is pretty much no INTERNAL incentive for it to ever grow smaller or be outright removed even if the problem is no longer an issue. Leading them to grow into bureaucratic hives of scum and villainy over time.

A lot of the giant bureaucratic nightmare factories started out as relatively small reasonable programs/organizations with a focused goal that most people would say is worth the expenditure. However, because the of the way governments are funded and managed they will consistently demand more and more funding for an evermore questionable wider scope of at best tangentially related "issues" to the original problem it was created to resolve.

You need people at the bottom, voters, who continually treat the government as a rabid dog that needs to be beaten into line and the people at the top, congressmen/the president, willing to give the beating.

If you want to know a government function I actually like, its the US's program of seeding sterilized flies (SIT) to wipe out screw-worm populations. Its never lost its original goal, kept relatively inexpensive (at least compared to the cost of screw worms being let loose in NA again), is founded on good science and responds pretty quickly to any Screw Worm outbreaks in NA.

 

[Gaddafi]

Biden for the most part sucked but he reversed some of the retarded environmental regulations (or lack there of) Trump passed. Shit like allowing more arsenic and mercury pollution that ended up hurting working people in rural/working class towns. I have no clue why Trump wants to bring it back, Biden silently adding back those regulations was a get of jail free card

 

[Sexy Senior Citizen]

Taxing money being sent to Mexico will always be a win for me.

 

[Fishmalk Observer]

Deportations. By trebuchet, if possible

 

[Paradox Mystic]

Ending Roe vs Wade, The Muslim travel bans and other cracking down on migration from the third world, and the court decision that supported a middle-aged white woman for being treated unfairly at work because she is a straight normie and not gay.

 

[WielkiWapiesz2137]

Solely property defense anything else is mental deficiency

 

[Lord of the Large Pants]

Section 230 was one of the few good things they've done in my lifetime.

So of course they're trying to get rid of it.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

It's a very subjective question in that people would be for services that help them or people they know, even if it contains bloat, best example is Social Services. It doesn't help that, like with federal organizations, we only give a shit when a point of failure occurs. No one appreciates the government actually running the country semi-efficiently. We'd probably need to live in a second/third world country for a few years to see that things can be far worse.

 

[Fascist Kirk]

Mao Zedong executing all the opium addicts

I prefer camps for Troons, Debtors, Homeless and foreskins to concentrate..... build useful thing for society like pots and pans.

 

[Chicha Drinker]

What are examples of good government?

Anyone who is unironically against public libraries are soulless and should be socially shunned. The National Park Service is another service i appreciate a lot, they have a few problems, but what they provide is very important and they do so fairly efficiently.

 

[Lemmingwiser]

We'd probably need to live in a second/third world country for a few years to see that things can be far worse.

Tbh, it also works to go to a southern european country.

 

[Angry Alt Right Nerd]

I agree with the pandemic lockdowns and I think they should do it again, permanently this time.

 

[BradeRunna]

Rounding up and deporting foreigners

Rounding up and executing foreigners

I can go either way I don't really care.

Rounding up and executing political dissidents

Rounding up and executing people for other reasons

using the military to put down uprisings

government control of the media (censorship)

government getting involved in trade (tariffs and so on)

government getting involved in some aspects of the economy ( minimum wage laws)

government getting involved in healthcare (national healthcare single payer socialized medicine whatever you want to call it)

Universal Basic Income (UBI)

government taking measures to encourage certain segments of the population to have more children

 

[Lemmingwiser]

Rounding up and executing foreigners

Rounding up and executing political dissidents

Rounding up and executing people for other reasons

Universal Basic Income (UBI)

government taking measures to encourage certain segments of the population to have more children

I'm not asking what you would like, I'm asking what you like that is being done.

 

[Angry Alt Right Nerd]

Rounding up and deporting foreigners

Rounding up and executing foreigners

I can go either way I don't really care.

Rounding up and executing political dissidents

Rounding up and executing people for other reasons

using the military to put down uprisings

government control of the media (censorship)

government getting involved in trade (tariffs and so on)

government getting involved in some aspects of the economy ( minimum wage laws)

government getting involved in healthcare (national healthcare single payer socialized medicine whatever you want to call it)

Universal Basic Income (UBI)

government taking measures to encourage certain segments of the population to have more children

You forgot rounding up and executing welfare parasites

 

[Jinn in the phone]

I like it when the government does good to my friends and evil to my enemies.

 

[thyme]

The compulsory sterilization programs of the early 1900s- 31 states had made it law. However after WWII everything was kneecapped because the practice was likened to Nazis. Since then women have still been sterilized, but through fucking with their hormones with pills, which they can choose to stop or avoid at any time- which is clearly working out just great for everyone /sneed

 

[Lint Licker]

The bombing of Waco. David Koresh clearly had society-destabilizing levels of rizz and had to be iced.