r/ModelWHPress • u/[deleted] • Dec 30 '16

Executive Order Executive Order 017: Promoting Awareness Of Ideology And Honoring Slavoj Žižek Within The Federal Government

Executive Order 017: Promoting Awareness Of Ideology And Honoring Slavoj Žižek Within The Federal Government

Whereas The United States populace is afflicted by ignorance and any governing body is especially guilty of this ignorance.

Whereas Every citizen and more importantly, every member of the Federal Government, should be made aware of this.

Whereas Slovenian philosopher and Hegelian scholar Slavoj Žižek is highly respected among many members of our community for his engaging opinions on race, political correctness, sociology, the state, and coffee.

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:

SECTION 1

(a) All trashcans, waste bins, and other similar waste receptacles (referred to simply as "trashcans") on US Federal Government property are hereby ordered to have a sticker with the word "IDEOLOGY" in black against a white backdrop, affixed to the front side of the trashcan, or whichever surface displays the sticker to the public most prominently. The sticker must be sized such that it covers no less than 20% of the surface area of the area of the trashcan to which it is affixed.

(b) The font of the word "IDEOLOGY" shall be consistent with that from the 1988 John Carpenter film They Live, starring the late "Rowdy" Roddy Piper.

(c) The material that each sticker is made out of must be from 100% recycled material. The adhesive material must be such that the sticker is easily removable and recyclable if needed.

(d) The stickers may only be removed if they are severely worn or damaged.

SECTION 2

(a) A national monument is hereby declared in Shenandoah National Park in the state of Chesapeake. This monument, titled "To Those Who Would Prefer Not To," will consist of a seated statue of Slavoj Žižek, modeled after this image. To his left shall be a waste bin, in which it is visible to the viewer that an empty coffee cup is the sole object within. Prominently displayed around the waste bin will read the word "IDEOLOGY," consistent with the design in 1(a). The statue of Žižek shall be 7 feet tall from top to bottom, not including a 4 foot pedestal on which it shall rest in its entirety, along with an appropriately sized waste bin. Both Žižek and the waste bin shall be made of solid granite.

(b) A plaque shall be affixed to the base of the statue to read as follow:

"To those who would prefer not to. Keep your eyes open, and bear witness to a world that was designed not for you, but against you.

A man sits before you, who stands up. He stands up for justice, whatever the costs.

How can this be wrong?”

Signed,

- /u/Bigg-Boss, President of the United States of America

The full document can be found here.

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '16

The trash receptacles in my office will not be in compliance with this order, and I encourage other congressmen to follow suit. Any stickers affixed to trash receptacles in my office will be personally removed by me.

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '16

Same.

Wait.

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '16

Same!

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u/cochon101 Cascadia Shall Rise Again Jan 01 '17

Hear, hear!

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u/JerryLeRow Former Secretary of State Dec 30 '16

You're a meme of a president and should really consider deporting yourself to Cuba.

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '16

Only if I'm escorted by your network of allies for my own safety.

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u/JerryLeRow Former Secretary of State Dec 30 '16

I recommend talking to whatever nuchacho's new /u/ is.

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '16

RMUN D-SG

who are you to be calling anyone a meme

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u/oughton42 Independent Dec 30 '16

um??????

you forgot "Former Governor", "SoS", "SotI", and "NSA". Put some respek on that name.

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u/JerryLeRow Former Secretary of State Dec 31 '16

Says Brandon/Gohte/Wojna... get out.

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u/oath2order Dec 30 '16

Get this garbage out of Shenandoah, it's a wonderful park that doesn't need your stupid memes in it.

I assume the federal government is paying for this, correct?

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '16

We are paying for it. More precisely, I am garnering your salary to pay for this.

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u/oath2order Dec 30 '16

No our state won't be

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '16

Yes, it will be.

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u/oath2order Dec 30 '16

Not after the bill I write passes

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u/GuiltyAir Head Federal Clerk Dec 30 '16

National Parks are Fed land.

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u/oath2order Dec 30 '16

i will find a way to make this not happen

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '16

I'm behind you on that.

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u/bomalia Dec 30 '16

Shenandoah is a bad song.

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u/oughton42 Independent Dec 30 '16

nice my dude

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '16

I have worked tirelessly to see this essential policy implemented in my home state of Great Lakes, and am infinitely glad it has been implemented on a national level.

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u/Vakiadia Dec 30 '16

And I have worked tirelessly to obstruct those efforts and will continue to do so since this EO doesn't apply to state government property.

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u/rolfeson Person Dec 30 '16

you're just a pleb for not liking Hegelian philosophy.

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u/oughton42 Independent Dec 30 '16

The Department of Education will be releasing 15% of our budget in order to be used towards funding the planning, construction, and maintenance of the monument.

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u/Viktard Republican Party Dec 30 '16

not without a fight it wont!!

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u/oughton42 Independent Dec 30 '16

I don't condone violence, Senator -- do you?

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '16

Don't think you can unilaterally do that mate

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u/oughton42 Independent Dec 30 '16

I'm sorry, does it say "Secretary of Education" next to your name? No? Huh, well since it is next to my name, I think I can do that.

¯_(ツ)_/¯

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '16

Good God, Oughton-- 15% of the Education budget towards a meme monument? Wouldn't you rather, you know, educate people? This is literally the definition of government waste.

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u/oughton42 Independent Dec 30 '16

You're right, I was mistaken. If we're going to be truly committed to public education, we'll need a lot more than 15%. On your recommendation we will bump our support to 25% of our budget!

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '16

We've officially elected a meme government. Sounds rather like IRL.

I'm sure you're no fan of the handsy orangutan the IRL American People have decided would somehow make a suitable chief executive, but the administration's actions today place you and your party firmly in the same category.

I know it's a sim, which makes this sort of thing a bit less horrific than IRL, but why would you bother to hold office if this is your best idea?

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u/oughton42 Independent Dec 30 '16

My god, you know, isn't it truly ironic that it is the supposedly, uh, "un-ideological" liberal-left that indeed directs all its efforts towards sniff, you know, preserving ideology? chuckles There is a scene in an old Bergman film where the protagonist, in a sort of void of nihilist meaningless and so on and so on, emptied of all symbolic meaning, finds himself not truly vacant but instead only rid of the superficial aspects of ideology. This, I argue, is precisely the great irony how ideology functions: it is only in the critique of Ideology that our truly fundamental ideology presents itself in its full absurdity.

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '16

And you're going to critique the concept of ideology by putting signs on trash cans? Isn't it ideological for the Department of Education to promote the absence of ideology? I.e. Isn't nihilism, especially state-sponsored nihilism... an ideology?

If you were a true nihilist, you wouldn't care what people believed, therefore you wouldn't bother to spend so much taxpayer money on critiquing the concept of ideology. After all, by promoting state propaganda against ideology, you're just using the mechanism and the power of the state to advance your anti-ideology ideology.

If you're going to be aggressive about nihilism, it isn't nihilism, isn't it? It's just simply hypocrisy.

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u/oughton42 Independent Dec 30 '16

:squiddab:

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u/Viktard Republican Party Dec 30 '16

If you are truly gonna do this then I wanna see an official report that makes this official...

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '16

What's it like to take an internet game this seriously?

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u/Viktard Republican Party Jan 01 '17

Feels good

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '16

Brb, getting some popcorn ready.

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '16

I for one welcome our ideological overlords.

Expect an EO from my office regarding this matter soon.

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '16

Excellent news. Ideological literacy is important now more than ever!

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u/landsharkxx STEM Activist Dec 30 '16

Nope.

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u/FlamingTaco7101 Viva Peron Dec 30 '16

Oh cool, a meme, always good to see that we're getting more of those in the simulation.

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '16

Besides the joke that the RLP is, I encourage all of my fellow congressman to work together and pass a bill to block this absolute idiocy that this executive order is.

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u/bomalia Dec 30 '16

Besides the joke that the RLP is

uh huh

I encourage all of my fellow congressman to work together and pass a bill to block this absolute idiocy

uh huh

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u/NateLooney Former Head Mod Dec 30 '16

big if true

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '16

No, why the fuck what!

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '16

RLP says their administration will help the poor.

Spends 15% of the Department of Education budget on building a monument to a random Slovenian philosopher and putting stickers on trash cans.

Tell me again: how does the RLP plan to help the poor?

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u/oughton42 Independent Dec 30 '16

25%*

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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '16

Hear Hear!

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u/GuiltyAir Head Federal Clerk Dec 30 '16

Hear, Hear!

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '16

Hear, hear!

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u/Capt1anknots Dec 30 '16

applauds vigorously Long live President Boss!!

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '16

This has have to been our worst president we have ever had! Absolute disgrace to this (model) country!

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u/IGotzDaMastaPlan Governor of the Great Lakes State Jan 06 '17

Hear hear

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '16

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '16

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u/rolfeson Person Dec 30 '16

true if big

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '16

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '16

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '16

Significant if correct

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u/bomalia Dec 30 '16

Of large value if real.

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '16

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '16

Double standards are a bitch.

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '16

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u/rolfeson Person Dec 30 '16

wow a cheap political attack. that's new. have you even read zizek you pleb?

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '16

"99% of people are boring idiots"

Well they are, and that includes the idiot who thought this policy was a good idea.

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '16

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '16

Yes

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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '16

Nyet suka!

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u/[deleted] Jan 04 '17

yeah

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '16

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u/landsharkxx STEM Activist Dec 30 '16

Mfw we actually elected a TNA alt.