Just a question. It might be kinda funny if the stream really allowed a Big Brother style ruler to arise.

There would be tighter voting requirements ;)

Nothing bad would happen as long as yin and yang are balanced.

I agree with YNV

Delete lol

yes

People would "immigrate" leave the stream and come back when the term was up. Ever been to a forum where the mods are all @ssholes to everyone but their friends? it would become the mods own little walled garden for them and their select.

I suppose

Only one problem: you're on Incognito's hit list too. So any deal you make, any rule you make, any system you set up? He only follows them as long as it suits him.
So since it is impossible to negotiate with an Incognito type dictator, it's also impossible to give them the power they need to burn the stream down (as they've already promised to do.) Because they can never be trusted to give the power back.

They don't need to be trusted to give power back, that's my job ;)

Like I said, I would guarantee free and fair elections (I have a little more detailed restrictions in mind) so it's not like someone who somehow became dictator (there's a proportional congress remember) would be able to hold onto longer than his term if he lost an election, which he wouldn't be able to rig.

But, it's just an idea

He just literally finished rigging the election with voters from other streams. How are you going to stop him?

More voting requirements lol

Yes.

Let’s game this out. Worst case scenario?

IG — I mean, “whoever’s in charge “ — passes bigoted/censorship laws that offend 95% of the active stream users, but are opposed by only 49% of Congress. Wait, how’d that happen? I thought we had a proportional Congress?! Welp, don’t ask how. Maybe IG made a corrupt backroom deal with more pliable “opposition” leaders. Maybe promised them a bonus of some fake meme dollars from whenever a “privatized” IMGFLIP_BANK re-opens in the future. Private banks can do whatever they want, right? That’s not corruption! *wink wink*

Said active PRESIDENTS memers get fed up having their dank memes and witty commentary censored, and leave. Ironically, remaining Conservative Partiers having achieved what they theoretically wanted then also lose interest in the stream, because whatever interest they had in being here was based purely on wielding authority over their political opponents like a cudgel. No more “libtrads” (anyone a fractional degree to the left of Trump) to own? No more “winning.” No more conflict. No more interest.

Several more “elections” with waning turnout then take place between United Russia — I’m sorry, I mean Conservative Party — and the theoretical “opposition” parties, with the outcome never in serious doubt.

Democratic decline. Stream death.

The bold IMGFLIP_PRESIDENTS experiment in memeocratic self-governing comes to an end: not with a bang, but with a whimper.

So yeah, no worries

I think you're being a little over-dramatic with that

Yeah

Tbh I think rotating stream ownership (essentially) would be pretty cool, would raise the stakes of the elections a bit, but I don’t trust certain factions that shall remain nameless to refrain from abusing power.

Sheesh, and this is just a meme site, none of this matters, imagine if our elections in real life were actually capable of installing leaders manifestly incompetent, vindictive, and unhinged to run the most powerful country on earth.

I can’t imagine what that would be like

There's still a congress though, it's not just 1 guy making all the decisions.

not like its not happening lol russia china britain and various other countries are kinda doing that

Yeah. I mean if it happens here it doesn’t matter. Lol. But, actually, this is how democracies die, it has happened again and again…

thats why we have R E V O L U T I O N A R I E S

if the idea i suggested is taken by scar to be polled by stream government uprisings will be passed and we could simply overthrow

Wrong
Laws that offend you mostly and jemy

He’s not that bad, and the censorship stuff, he had a right to delete it, it was spam, and you were trolling, you knew he would get riled up, so you did it to make him mad, boom, right to delete those posts. And Congress is proportional, you are overestimating the opposition to IG, it’s not “95%” of the active users, it’s closer to 50%.

I think you might have me confused with someone else.

Anyway — under Conservative Party governments I’ve seen bad, poorly-written censorship-oriented laws passed by Congress because they weren’t explained properly by their authors (perhaps deliberately), with Congresspeople of other parties wishing to retract their vote because they felt duped. I’ve also seen rotten impeachments get way more support than they deserved. I’ve seen nonsense floated like the idea that a permanent Constitution is somehow treasonous, when in real life a Constitution that lays out baseline rules that don’t change from government to government is standard and essential.

For now I think we need an impartial Owner to keep things in check.

Bro, that's not even the half, lmfao.

IG can make himself look like the kindest most heartfelt leader when you're on his side, but when you take a step back, he's really just as bad as Surly.

Well at least we both agree that Surly is a bad chooice

I'm saying, in this stream, don't pick a favourite. People change their actions quite quickly

And i agree with that

yknow how about we do let that happen like they would irl i mean it would add the experience to the mock gov dont you think? allow extremism to be a thing here would be amazing in my opinion and maybe ig will be a little bit more mhhh "silent"

I agree, it might be kinda fun. We've got a proportional congress sooooo, I don't see this going too off the rails.

so allow it?

I personally would be in favor of trying something like that yeah

well lets put it up for poll and since this is dealing with the way the stream can be runned like changing government running style like communism or even fascism and monarchism this doesnt has to be runned by congress and senate but by the owner and the stream as we are trying to unrestrict what type of gov can be runned and not and as of now its just US government style running so make a poll to allow different political ideologies to be runned besides US government style

Well I mean, it'd still be in the same style of government we have right now, with Congress and all, but there could be more tight regulation/deletion of stuff people post here or whatever

like kissing images since that's the hot topic

but it could be changed next elections it could be a hyper fascist regime or maybe it'll become a commune or maybe even a monarchy which i think is fun to allow many different government styles to be allowed

and along side of that if we want to repel the gov and make a new one government uprisings shall also be a thing so there can be some more drama and the stream will be more interesting in a way it'll be like IRL history but on IP

IP would be ruined unless we force the Prez, VP, HOC, and HOS resign.

What if he passed a law that says you can’t pass just anything you want?

uh..... um...... well....... what COULD you pass then?

for you 😘😘

Well, that's probably true, but I don't really revel in that fact

Also, it's FDR that I really hate (though I hate Wilson too)

But thanks ;)

Lmao what

Gas. You could pass gas.

ok

A Big Brother style ruler would be a bad thing, but IG won’t be that ruler, he has never banned another democratically let elected user because he doesn’t agree with them, or they argued with him. He censors things he sees fit to censor, that is his right as President, he was elected by the majority, legitimately might I add, but he will not become Big Brother

How much were you paid

I was paid nothing, im just a conservative