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Bill: An intellectual past-time
Details
Submitted by[?]: MLC Old Endralonian Resistance
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: February 2071
Description[?]:
| Ok Basically I'm just wondering if I have any support here , this bill will encourage our youth to play mentally stimulating sports such as chess (all 3 major variations) Go and any other similar competitive challenge , whereas playing athletic sports at a competitive level can often lead to agression these sports when practiced instead lead to a greater appreciation of your opponent , they are somewhat akin to a hearty conversation , I think this would benefit our population greatly. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The official national sport.
Old value:: Socialist Football
Current: Football
Proposed: Chess/Go
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 20:22:52, June 22, 2005 CET | From | Abandoned NFC Headquarters | To | Debating the An intellectual past-time |
| Message | Yes for reasons previously stated. |
| Date | 20:23:00, June 22, 2005 CET | From | Imperial Conservative Party | To | Debating the An intellectual past-time |
| Message | Chess is also the sport of communists, but what the hey? ;) |
| Date | 20:24:44, June 22, 2005 CET | From | People's Liberation Front (PPP) | To | Debating the An intellectual past-time |
| Message | We would rather much the sport be changed to soccer/football. |
| Date | 21:16:57, June 22, 2005 CET | From | International Socialist Party | To | Debating the An intellectual past-time |
| Message | This should be under Education not Sport we need a team of Socialists to Represent Endralon and win against the Capitalists. |
| Date | 21:39:39, June 22, 2005 CET | From | Imperial Conservative Party | To | Debating the An intellectual past-time |
| Message | As long as no state-funding whatsoever is concerned, we might as well have many national sports. |
| Date | 21:56:26, June 22, 2005 CET | From | Unified Communist Labor Party | To | Debating the An intellectual past-time |
| Message | Pardon me, but are communists intellectuals or workers? Which is it? Rugby is a very proletarian sport. |
| Date | 22:26:13, June 22, 2005 CET | From | Imperial Conservative Party | To | Debating the An intellectual past-time |
| Message | Not in its home country it's not. It's played by "Public" (=private) schools and is even named after the one where it was invented. But since when was communism ever proletarian either?? :D |
| Date | 21:54:37, June 23, 2005 CET | From | Communist Party of Endralon | To | Debating the An intellectual past-time |
| Message | What the hell is "Socialist Football" anyway, and how is it different from, uh... Capitalist Football...? |
| Date | 22:24:26, June 23, 2005 CET | From | Imperial Conservative Party | To | Debating the An intellectual past-time |
| Message | Capitalist football is good for you and fun to watch, while socialist football happens at night without floodlights and all the players are old men and drunk. Great national sport! |
| Date | 17:28:00, June 24, 2005 CET | From | MLC Old Endralonian Resistance | To | Debating the An intellectual past-time |
| Message | Communists are both workers , and intellectual workers the two words are not mutually exclusive , sport popularity is random football may be popular today it doesnt make it proletarian . The only thing which could determine this is the cost required to play , for example many people cannot afford to play equestrian sports , I'd point out that the sports Ive detailed are the cheapest of all as they can be played without anything at all (dont even need a board) . Also Communism has always aimed for an educated proletariat , the more intelligent the workforce the better as the better they'll be able to support democracy and communism without being influenced by polemic and faulty logic. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 214 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 443 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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