Another question for you all because I’m bored lol

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    Owning a toothbrush. I’d have only one national toothbrush that everyone has to share. You’ll have to register on a waitlist so that you can only brush your teeth a maximum of once a month.

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      Also, as a communist, I would ban, not having a bedtime. Everyone must have a bedtime. Anyone deviating from their bedtime will be sent to bedtime gulags. Where they have multiple bedtimes throughout the day.

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        Comrade, I have a crime to confess: I’ve missed my bedtime several times prior to this glorious revolution. I believe I may need re-education in the Marxist theory behind Communist sleeping in order to weed out these remaining vestiges of Capitalism. While it pains me, I will submit to arrest and go willingly and compliantly to the bedtime gulag.

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        I would vote for this if it captured the people who make you miss your bedtime and then my employer couldn’t give me so much work that I am constantly missing my preferred bedtime.

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          Forcing someone to miss bedtime will result in sever punishments and repeat offenders will receive capitol punishment of the highest order.

          Infinite bedtimes.

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      Let’s just ban property in general. Not private property, just property. Have everyone share the national toothbrush as well as Stalin’s mythical spoon.

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    I’d ban my enemies from holding political office, obviously. Don’t need capitalists biting at my heels and plotting my downfall.

    Might ban them from living too, depends on how much of a threat they are.

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    I would ban privatized public services and charging users money at the point of service for said public services. Healthcare, school, transportation, water, communications… All free and all purged of private capital.

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    Everyone drives on the left from now on, and red means go.

    On a serious note, I would do what the other poster suggested. Ban private healthcare, schools, universities, mass transport, electricity, gas, water and internet.

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      I would just ban cars. Start working on a network of local light rail and high speed long distance passenger rail. If you cant get to where you need to go via train, then you have to move out of your exburb enclave

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        Ah well I’m a bit of a centrist. I only want to ban like 95% of cars. I like that energy though!

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        How “local” are we talking? Idk what the situation is where you are geographically, but in my region (in Russia, for context) there’s plenty of small towns and villages with no railway connection. People go by intercity bus or by car (guess which one’s more convenient). Do you put a railway station at every single village? Or do you tell them to “move out”?

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          I don’t know, man. I can’t claim to know your struggle, especially since you’re on the other side of the world from me. I interpreted the prompt to how would I run my country and that country is the US. I live in a positively sprawling metro area, with no mass transit at all; You could spend 3 or so hours crossing it at freeway speeds, and even just going to the club is a half hour drive (or ridiculous rent). I work with a vulnerable population (the disabled), and literally their primary barrier to care/ work is transportation. If you don’t have a car, your center of gravity shifts. Meanwhile, my area is defined by inner city poverty vs rich white people to who pushed further and further out from the city as black people also flowed out to the “near suburbs” in the 80s and 90s.

          I’m not here saying that different regions or places can make better use of it, Im just saying, within the parameters of the prompt, in my place, the automobile and automobile infrastructure has been used, extremely effectively, as tool of segregation and for the enforcement of inequality.

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    I would ban or at least dismantle the capitalist mode of factory farms.

    Raising animals for meat for slaughter would most likely unfortunately have to exist for a long amount of time, and possibly never completely done away with. But I think that animals raised for slaughter deserve a much stronger and official “bill of rights” of sorts, outlawing animal abuse in all its forms and guaranteeing animals a very good life before a humane death.

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    Can I say subwoofers and speakers over 6w? Not a complete ban. More of a restraining order. No subwoofers or >6w speakers allowed within 300m of a mattress or 500m if it’s open space.

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        A single cruise ship produces more pollution than some entire nations.

        Cruise ships operate with minimal regulatory oversight in many important sectors, such as food safety and what to do with wastewater.

        They disrupt the view (look up pictures of cruise ships in Venice).

        The wake from these ships damages property and endangers the lives of swimmers.

        They destroy natural habitats and the noise they generate disrupts undersea life.

        They are playgrounds for the rich.

        The people that go on cruises are disruptive wherever they land.