Not only will you die, but so will your entire family and your pets.
This is so you are incentivised to stay alive.
Rules:
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You cannot refuse this, refusal is also instant death, along with everyone mentioned above.
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You have absolute authority over the entire world.
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Every person has a non-removable brain implant that allows them to vote “Approve”, “Disapprove”, or “Abstain from vote”. These are completely immune to hacking.
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Every above age 18 can vote.
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You must maintain 50% + 1 vote of “Approve”, exactly 50% Approve / 50% Disapprove still means death for you. “Abstain” is not a vote means it isn’t counted.
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The effects don’t apply until at least 50% of the population has voted. If you get more 51% disapproval, you’ll still live as long as theres less than 50% of the votes submitted.
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If someone dies before voting, their vote automatically becomes “Disapprove” (So you don’t get any ideas of committing genocides)
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Once a vote is submitted, it stays valid even if the person died. A person could also make their implant automatically change vote if they die. So someone could have their vote be set at “Approve” but becomes “Disapprove” upon death.
Any non-corrupt politician would be unstoppable if they honestly attempted to strive for at least a few of these:
- election reform
- single payer
- abolish private medical insurance and fold those companies into a 100% taxpayer funded (Single Payer) national healthcare system much like they have in Canada and South Korea. (Anywhere else doesn’t have true Single Payer.)
- repeal Citizens United
- bring back Glass Steagall
- anti-genocide/ cutting off the infinite money tap that the AIPAC/IDF command
- prosecute Israel (and the politicians that enabled them in the US should also be tried in front of The Hague) for crimes against humanity
- prosecute George W. Bush and company for the Iraq war. Imprison them for the rest of their lives.
- publicly execute Jon Bolton in the most brutal way possible using weapons from arms manufacturers that he openly works for 😅
- student loan reform (without bullshit means testing)
- reparations
- stop spying on US citizens and dissolve the CIA/NSA/FBI’s conflict of interest with ALL tech companies in the US. Facebook is a DIRECT feed to the NSA and law enforcement and that needs to stop not be ramped up under the guise of “protecting us from terrorism” like Kamala asserts and ends up being used solely to go after whistle blowers and protesters.
- break up the conglomerate farms that our government actively encourages to put poison in our food that they then feed to only poor children in our schools while the rich kids get organic diets.
- reform the FDA and USDA (compare the list of banned chemicals in the EU to here and tell me that someone isn’t greasing someone’s palms in exchange for POISONING us with roundup, etc)
- police DEmilitarization
- stop writing blank checks to the military industrial complex under the guise of “helping”, sending vast sums of money that would EASILY pay for Single Payer to be burned in futile proxy wars with Russia
- force car companies to make self driving car technology open source and introduce rigorous standards and best practices for this software that is responsible for human lives
- break up the airline industry
- break up the banking industry
- audit the Fed
- disallow Black Rock and other conglomerates from owning homes
- disallow real estate purchases from non US citizens
- disallow real estate price fixing and penalize the companies that did it
- make college free for EVERYONE and raise taxes on the rich to pay for it
- force NVidia to open source CUDA/ZLUDA
- decriminalize marijuana
- fund a high speed rail system in the US
- reform the Supreme Court and bring Clarence Thomas up on treason charges under the penalty of death
- immigrants no longer in cages (rather than ramping up putting immigrants in cages and just marketing it differently)
- end the embargo on Cuba
- penalize countries and corporations financially for pollution. Make it prohibitively expensive for Temu, Amazon, SHEIN, and Alibaba to ship their goods over oceans on the worst polluting internal combustion engines on earth: container ships. In reality, it was our Clintonite, globalist Democrats (the good guys!) that actively encouraged corporations to manufacture overseas.
- reward other countries and corporations financially for green policies
- dissolve the two party system and bring the DNC and GOP up on treason charges
- give Edward Snowden immunity for his “crimes” and protect him as a whistle blower
- fund the fediverse and other decentralized technologies that have a direct positive effect on democracy
- socialize and break up Amazon into twenty companies
- open source and decentralize Twitter for the crime of election interference
- force Amazon, Google, Alphabet, OpenAI, Meta, and Apple to open source at least a large chunk of their tech stacks
- force pharmaceutical industry to open source their tax-payer funded research and products that were created using government funding
- socialize Google (for the crime of election interference and others)
- fund RISC-V chip technologies instead of closed source technologies to bring chip manufacturing back to the US
- socialize Meta (for the crime of election interference and other crimes)
Wouldn’t even get 10% of American approval. Truly wild and unhinged.
50% of THE WORLD. You’re dead because I don’t believe anywhere near 50% of China or India cares about most of this list. This is a list of American issues.
Start with what you know
Know your audience.
My list was preconceived in a comment I made a while back so you caught me there. But as I went back through the list , 80% of what I was proposing would instantly make the rest of the world a better place because the US is basically the villain of the world.
The Jon Bolton execution alone would inspire parades across the Middle East.
The Jon Bolton execution alone would inspire parades across the Middle East.
We’d first need to know who he is, so who is that guy and what did he do?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bolton
Iraq War and profiteering off of hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of deaths across the Middle East and the rest of the world.
Yeah fair enough. Please if anyone here becomes king of the world fucking kill this guy.
That’s true. I mean, I’d welcome all those reforms. Still, at an political level, I’m not sure 50% of the world is politically savvy enough to actual appreciate what these reforms would do.
At some level I’m pretty cynical about the ‘average’ voter. I don’t think it would be possible to come out of this alive. Too many people want what immediately benefits them, not what would make a better world.
For example, the majority of the world is worried about climate change, but it seems like a small minority that would actually vote for useful reforms if it meant they would have to adjust their lives.
The question mentions that whatever I wanted would instantly come to fruition.
Imao, imagine doing every good thing, but then people are apathetic and doesnt vote, and only people whom are disapproving of you, votes.
IMHO this is the most likely scenario
You’d die as a result of apathy.
Year 1: Eliminate Food and Water poverty.
Year 2: Porn is legalized everywhere, and there’s a world government official porn site that’s always free. Free smartphones for everyone as well.
Year 3: Universal Housing and sewage.
Year 4: Sex work is legalized everywhere (this might be popular enough to coast you an extra year) and ensured to be safe for the sex workers.
Year 5: Universal Child care
Year 6: Drugs are legalized everywhere
Year 7: Universal Elderly care (+ free healthcare for the USA weirdo country)
Year 8: Universal Education and media translation to top 10 most spoken languages. Also the top media franchises of each existing country will be freely available online now as well in a “cultural digital vault”.
Year 9: Eliminate country borders, issue new universal passport, set up new cultural ethnic / geographical regions instead that exist only to help with political and business management. Begin 5 year disposable plastics phase out (medical exception though), eliminate plastics and pseudoplastics from foods and cosmetics, Worldwide public transportation system + Continental Hypertrain System project. Set up a world government that can only be compromised of elected STEM degree holders that have a job in their role, and bars anyone that has ever owned / owned a company or worked in any petroleum based industry. Esperanto is also more the official world government language, Linux and FOSS official world government software usage, and lawyers can now only work under the government for fixed rate. Everyone has access to a lawyer by right. These foundational laws cannot be changed.
Also announce I have been contacted by extraterrestrial life, and was told they will greet us if we survive the great filter and set up solar system wide travel and infrastructure as a species. Oh, and limit wealth/assets to be no higher than 200 million euros equivalent (inflation adjusted) worth. There will be a new currency set up as well.
Year 10: Announce I’m “retiring” from direct rule but will intervene if 57% of the world votes for me to enact something. Die probably. If the alien and world government gambit does pay off, maybe coast off previous popularity for a couple years and just have fun until summoned or dead.
You cannot refuse this…
Yeah, no, I’m refusing this, dying sounds less compliment, and yeah, I did read the rules.
May I point out this entire question is fundamentally broken.
I have absolute authority over the entire world? I order everyone to vote ‘Approve’ on me. “But wait!” you say, “You can’t just order them to do that! They’ll never listen to you!”
And that could be absolutely true. But if it is, then my authority is no longer absolute - in which case, no course I take will work, because anyone can elect to not follow it. I can’t compel any group of people - nations, religions, corporations, the local elderly golfer’s association - to do anything. And the second they realize that, they’ll break off to pursue their own agendas.
At most, I can select one broad coalition who I think will work with me, and try to leverage a smaller group. But now we’re just back to good ol’ factionalism, and that’s not a long-term winning solution.
🤫
(if you keep pointing out plotholes, we aren’t gonna have movies and tv shows anymore, so just um… shhhhh 😉)
I don’t. Nobody has the magical ability to make anyone listen to them.
Not what I would do, but the safest way is to villify then execute small and unpopular minorities (in the minority/majority sense) and then cater to the monolithic block that emerges. Super evil but it works.
Any simple majority is, I suspect, systematically like this
Lol that sounds like Germany in 1933. So horrible and immoral, but like… it worked. Dude has so much support and everyone else was just apathetic and didn’t oppose him.
Step 1. Ask the world for 1 year decision amnesty while I get my bearings.
Step 2. Bring together the different government run hacking groups and direct them to obtain the root certificates the devices use to communicate back to the tallying servers.
Step 3. Rewrite all death votes to be approved.
Step 4. Scrub the internet of this entire thing. Because if it isn’t on the internet then did it really happen?
Step 5. What world leader? You all vote for your own national governments.
Step 6. Return to be a nobody because fuck that pressure.Nah, you cant hack this shit because it has plot armor. Call it “magic” “divine intervention” or whatever, you just cannot hack it.
I mean you can put out propaganda to manipulate people, but you cannot hack the system, its just has unhackable firewall.
Ok, absolute power route it is.
All proposals must be voted yes by the populus.
Lolol this is the 2nd comment point this out.
C’mon I just wanna a fun scenario, why ya gotta point out the plotholes? 😅
Well don’t give us absolute power mate. :D
How much control of the media do I have? Will fox news be all “president figjam helped raise 2 million people out of poverty with YOUR tax dollars!”
How frequent are the votes?
You have absolute control of the media. However, keep in mind, if you start censoring things, people might not like it and “disapprove” of you, and if you have 50% disapprove and you’re dead.
Votes are basically always active.
Basically like how social media has your “status” set like your mood being happy or sad. This is similar, but Approve or Disapprove.
Once its set, it remains that way until changed. But people could also set it up so that it auto switch to “Disapprove” upon dying, as a dead man switch, to disincentivise you from killing people. And if someone dies before interacting with the voting system, its an automatic “Disapprove”. (Basically, don’t start doing massacres or your disapproval will rise)
Basically, you live as long as less than 50% are “Disapprove” or if there are less than 50% of the votes submitted.
“Abstain” doesn’t count towards the approve/disapprove numbers, but does count towards the vote percentage. (Example: If you have 25% disapprove, 20% approve, 5% abstain, and the remaining have not yet interacted with the voting system, total vote count is 50%, and your disapproval (of those who voted) is higher, so you are dead.
TLDR: There are no election cycles, you are constantly judged.
I press the red button and end it all.
Approval ratings don’t matter anymore.
You’re welcome.
Damn, what did the animals do to deserve this?
Establish a system where voting Approve provides tangible personal benefits, Abstaining remains a safe, comfortable default, and Disapproving results in immediate personal drawbacks. Maintain a decent standard of living, encourage open non-violent expression, and quickly address problems so people rarely feel compelled to choose Disapprove. By making Approval the path to greater prosperity, Abstention harmless, and Disapproval costly, the majority either Approve or simply do nothing, ensuring that discontent never coherently organizes into a mass disapproval large enough to threaten your life.
I would die pretty quickly, so I’d do as much good as I could in the time I had. Mostly tons of wealth transfer.
Free cheesesticks for everyone!
You must maintain 50% + 1 vote of “Approve”, exactly 50% Approve / 50% Disapprove still means death for you. “Abstain” is not a vote means it isn’t counted.
All the world’s population is super diverse. Hard to convince them.
So my strategy is to maximise the Abstain voters, and then it’s only a small group of actual voters that I need to convince for my actual ideas.
I manipulate people into believing that all this voting is something super special and complex and first you need to understand lots of things about the whole world before you will be able to make correct decisons etc. This is going to work because most of the world’s population is rather uneducated, so they would feel quite inferior and always vote Abstain.
I see, you’re going with Operation Eagle Freedom, nice choice.
No idea what that may be. I am just telling my own thoughts.
I’m referring to how this actually happens in the US, make it difficult for people to vote and then focus on the group of people that’d vote in a favorable way to you. It’s just that my references are trash.
I see. Yes, that is one of the countries with many uneducated people.
But then if the actual voters don’t like you you die. The whole thing becomes a lot more volatile.
But then if the actual voters don’t like you you die.
No different than before.
The whole thing becomes a lot more volatile.
In my opinion it becomes a lot less volatile, because a smaller & less diverse group is easier to convince.
Free blowjobs
That’s 50% taken care of now for the 1 extra vote to stay alive, how hard could it be to please a single woman …
you won’t hit the 50%, since there’s more women overall
(it’s all the grandmas, they live longer)
edit : grandma approves of your proposal and asks " teeth or no teeth? "
If I have absolute control of the media, this seems ridiculously simple. I’ve no interest in material possessions or the hoarding of wealth, so I’ll implement large scale tax reform designed to reduce our current levels of income inequality, kill oil subsidies in favor of green tech investment, truly universal worldwide healthcare, and mandated percentage worker ownership of companies.
The problems of our world are manufactured by those currently in power in order to enrich themselves. While it might take a few generations to fix the communities plagued by religious toxicity with widespread access to a good, secular education, I truly believe that limiting the capitalist’s ability to rape and pillage would be enough to maintain widespread popular support. Provided, of course, that those capitalists can’t use their control of the media to discredit and slander me to the point people vote against their own self-interests.
