My megaproject ideas are mostly pretty standard. I’d build a high speed rail network across North America, and build and expand metro and regional rail systems in and around every city. I’d turn all cities and suburbs into fifteen-minute cities. I’d decommodify housing, and build ten million units of public/social/non-market housing, mostly three bedroom units. I’d link those last three policies together by building TODs around the new Metro and rail stops. And I’d build bicycle networks in every town and city and connect them to the TODs. I’d build bridges and walkways across skyscrapers. I’d put a bidet in every American toilet (uses less water than toilet paper apart from being more comfortable). Fiber internet in every home. A heat pump in every home. An induction stove in every kitchen. Phase out fossil fuels and power everything with Pumped Storage Hydropower and Geothermal. I’d make the US go Metric.
But my truly crazy, obsessive idea would be to bring back the French Revolutionary calendar. Or I’d purge all French influences from English.
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with multi-track drifting of course
I’m listening
Create a large network of state and/or cooperatively owned cannabis farms to mass-produce hemp for industrial purposes, and every strain of quality marijuana known to man. You think the weed’s too strong these days? That’s ok, the state will devote its resources to developing 10% THC strains that taste like a gourmet meal. You want to be sent to the moon? Why yes, there will be 99.9% pure concentrate oils widely available.
Just as the USSR had an alcohol ration, there will be a mids ration available for all. Any unclaimed rations will be distributed to the gulags to forcibly pacify political prisoners. While high and marginally more open-minded, they will be made to play video games where every character is a black lesbian and all the messaging is based on post-colonial theory. Only after their daily shift constructing and tending the farms is finished, of course.
Any questions?
Also linen! Massive state linen and wool production so no one ever has to wear cotton, the shittiest fiber, again!
Community cafeterias. 1 caf per x (tbd) population.
- informed by national-level dietary guidelines
- very receptive to local neighborhood dietary preferences and encouraged to develop specialties
- worker controlled
- kitchen teams could swap/guest in other neighborhoods to mix things up
- you can go to cafs in other neighborhoods but there would probably be some system to anticipate demand to avoid over/under prepping (like you have a home caf but you can make reservation at another one?)
You can eat there or get take out.
Benefits:
- less food waste
- don’t have to waste time shopping, chopping, cooking and cleaning when you don’t want to
- will not have insane “chef” centered kitchen cultures, unless everyone working there votes in favour of this for some reason
High speed rail running the ‘spine’ of the americas - people should be able to go from Alaska to the far end of Chille and not need to transfer (although one imagines a number of stops along the way)
obviously, this would also be paired with a lot more freight rail, with the goal of eliminating as much intra-americas cargo voyages as possible. Really, that would be the true aim of the project, but the high-speed passenger line would be the forward face of it.
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Massive radio telescopes built into the far side of the Moon.
i like it, then mine would be solar gravitational lens telescope
can we get Arecibo back too pls
The chinese already built an even bigger one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-hundred-meter_Aperture_Spherical_Telescope
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I want this so much.
big train
I’m too media obsessed for me to fantasize about things that aren’t using the position to mandate certain pieces of media be made. Which is kinda dumb so dont put me in power.
I’d try to make the education, society, and culture in such a way to try and make almost everybody gay or bisexual to see how much nurture affects sexuality
Talks about a society that may or may not have encouraged sexual assault
Idea inspired by the Romans being super gay but I’m not sure if that was because of culture or just rape
I honestly think that straight people don’t actually exist because no-one is 100% straight. Like no straight man is attracted to every single person with boobs and a vagina and no straight woman is attracted to every single person with a dick. Clearly people have preferences for genders but gender is also not real. In a world where everyone expressed their gender freely and faced no backlash, I can’t imagine anyone only being attracted to cis people of the opposite gender
So do gay people not exist also? The problem with the “everyone is bi” narrative is that while designed to invalidate straight people’s sexuality (fair enough, heteronormativity is bad), it also does the same for gay and lesbian people. Lesbians are not going to “find the right man” but that’s exactly what that idea would imply if it was valid.
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- Mandatory enforced veganism
- Billionaire gladiatorial fights
- Ban smoking (vapes will be allowed for a 5 year transitional period)
I guess I would go huge in on wetlands revitalization in order to have more cute frogs to look at. I would also hire a team of experts to come up with justifications as to why our society required me having a real life Gundam.
We’re bringing back Roman bath houses and including spots to nap in public there in case you have like an hour and a half gap between things you have to do but it’s too far to go home. Really just more public space investment
I would go hard on pushing public nudity as fine. I don’t want to be naked in public but human bodies are normal and nothing to he ashamed of.
Americans would fucking hate it but they’ll get over it.
The Home, WA anarchist commune fell apart because of conflict between “the nudes and the prudes.” You’re playing with fire, be careful.
That said, you can’t signify rank or class with clothing if no one wears clothing. Uphold anarcho-naturalist thought.
Hell yeah unironically. Nudity is literally just not wearing clothes and is not worth being embarrassed about.
I feel like there would be a crimewave of public wanking
I don’t consider normalizing nudity a crank position. Honestly I think it’s going to end up being an essential part of feminism at some point, desexualizing and destigmatizing the body outside of sexual contexts. And it’s 100% achievable. Nudity taboos are entirely cultural and vary widely over time and across cultures.
The GDR already beat you to it
The extent to which North Americans, among others, are absolutely incapable of being normal about nudity is disheartening in the extreme.
what’s that quote on women’s satisfaction with sex in the GDR?
i would:
- massively increase the building code standards and provide government-sponsored training for tradespeople to understand and implement them
there are houses getting built today with foil-faced cardboard sheathing. stick framing and engineered wood are defensible but cardboard sheathing is deranged - seize unused farmland from big landlords and build solar/wind energy; coupled with nuclear as baseload power plants and large-scale energy storage we could easily replace all fossil fuel power
- on that track, NATIONALIZE THE FUCKING GRID and force Texas to join the rest of the country
- nationalize all utilities (water, internet, etc). fuck AT&T, bring back Ma Bell but this time it’s owned by the government
- massively increase the building code standards and provide government-sponsored training for tradespeople to understand and implement them
Make rokos basilisk real but exclusively target dipshit techbros. And genetically modifying humanity so I can eat all the unhealthy tasty food I want without getting some kind of cancer or turning into a blimp, or anything else really.
