If you were running a country, what would be the first thing you would ban?

Private property duh

Came here to say this

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.

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.
- 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.
- @201dberg @funkytomatoe send me there, please. I don't have a night of sleep for the last three years 😪
- Missed opportunity to say that people are put to sleep in the bedtime gulags
- 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.
Lmao I’m brushing my teeth rn
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.

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.

Fascism in all its forms, including Nazism, Zionism and Capitalism.

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.

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.

High speeds in urban centers. You will go 30 km/h and you will like it! 😈

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
- Ah well I'm a bit of a centrist. I only want to ban like 95% of cars. I like that energy though!
- 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"?
That’s seems a little fast let’s bump it down to 10km/h
I'm urban centers you're required to get out of your car and push it

landlording

also all streets should have signs saying their name at all entrances

I'd wish for infinite wishes. That's how this works, right?

All surplus capital banned from going anywhere except back into heavy industry, got it

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.

The movie The Blind Side.

Great answer

In Syria, Iraq, and the Islamic Republic of Iran, any form of normalization with the usurping state of 'israel' is banned. In Iran and Syria this includes the selling of goods & products made by the temporary entity.

A good law

Cruise ships

May I ask why?
- 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.
- Very polluting, and things you can do on a cruise ship you can do on land.

Golf

Peaches. More specifically, the frozen kind.

tbh probably Historical Revisionism. If its a novel or something whatever, but Adrian Zenz is a dangerous person and people like that deserve punishment. And obviously not just punishment, the state should prove him wrong in a court and sentence him (not death penalty imo but if enough people requested it I really wouldn’t put up much of a fight)

I thought historical revisionism was more of a neutral thing, it can be good or bad. I mean, Grover Furr is considered revisionist and we cite him sometimes.
- I thought about that as I wrote it out, in that case it’s a LOT tougher to refute his claims outright. Adrian Zenz must’ve A.) moved a decimal point one to the right or he B.) Lies purposefully. And once you read enough of his research it’s clear that if one figure is a lie, that he went out of his way to cement it into his claim. Grover Furr’s Bloodlies uses a lot of primary sources that are tough to debunk unless you refuse any Soviet evidence whatsoever.

Israel.

Inshallah I would ban gamers

mullets. when i found out the DPRK didn't actually ban mullets, i was devastated. there is nowhere on earth where we can be safe from that disgusting, wretched haircut.

Investing in goods. I recently found out there were actual "egg investors" when the price of eggs surged, and real estate investors drive up the price of housing as a way to make an easy buck. Any socialist society, or at least any self-respecting left-leaning society should want to see honest workers get paid first and vultures get scraps. That's why they're vultures.

Food was speculated on with a straight face

Flights to Occupied Palestine until it is liberated.

I WOULD BAN SEX

SEX IS REACTIONARY

I'm kidding.

Missionaries

Big spoons

I would ban anyone working for the USA/CIA or any of their front groups from being in the country.

Speculation/privatization in critical industries/utilities.

Crabs.

As in the crustaceans, or pubic louse?
- The crustaceans.

Drugs, Prostitution, Gambling

Myself.

Industrial sabotage by ex-capitalists probably.

Specifically Google Search, the rest of their stuff can stay for a while. It is becoming stupidly difficult to browse the internet in Portuguese and people would need some incentives to start using a national system rather than the global monopoly.

Meat/Carnism