I am posting this out in the open for all of you to answer, since I wanted to originally request interviews, but I realized it would be too time-consuming (with 260 registered candidates at last count). So instead, I'm putting this out for all to see and then answer back, to me, which I will then post here. All I ask is a response to answer the questions and topics posed, it could be a simple yes or a long paragraph for each. I promise there will be no modifications, and all responses will be presented as is. SoCal Editorial does not endorse (just yet anyway), and a lot of you will probably be be criticized, but in the interest of fairness and informing the public, I'm asking for just these no matter what.
This is a long list, so there might not be time to answer all of these. Anyway, here are the questions and topics:
- Do you want to help the world?
- Do you know anything bout anthropology at all?
- Do you know anything or care about the Havana Mob in the 1950s?
- Does the largeness of the universe have any effect on you at all?
- Would you help homeless teens? How?
- To congressional and Senate Republicans running for president:How can you guys say that you hate gridlock in DC when a lot of it is caused and facilitated by you guys?
- Do you really care about the non-rich?
- What is your take or idea on worldwide nuclear disarmament?
- Would you support a moneyless society if the means were available and practical?
- What is you goal (or goals) in regards to the planet's environment?
- Would you work for increased public transportation?
- Superpowered vigilantes appear in the streets, what do you do?
- Would you be interested in World Game developed by Buckminster Fuller to use in international relations or something?
- Would you support space exploration?
- Are you quietly waiting for the catastrophe of of your personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting and modern? (credit to Frank O'Hara)
- What is your take on genetic engineering?
- What do you think of transhumanism?
- Do you think work is drudgery?
- To Republicans: What is your relationship with the Koch brothers?
- Who is funding your campaign? Are they anonymous? Why?
- Do you ever think, or are you deliberately ignoring big issues while riling up small ones?
- Have you ever read the works of the Marquis de Sade?
- How would you face an unpleasant issue, for example incest? (Not supporting incest, by the way, it's just a question)
- What if you're just wrong in general. what would you do?
- Have you ever been in an existential crisis due to the very large scale of the universe and its elemental structure?
- For you, is perpetual peace a goal?
- Are you a heavy anthropocentric?
- (To Republicans this is relevant to) Is your love of Ayn Rand a brute fact?
- Hilbert space: Are you for or against it?
- What is your take on metaphysical and/or existential nihilism?
- Would you ever consider humans being nothing more than money-and-sex-obsessed sacks of saltwater and goo?
- Where do you see the species in the year 3800 CE?
- Is it possible the current status quo paradigm of liberal-conservative is false?
- (To Ted Cruz and anyone else relevant) You know that Galileo also dismissed the ideas of Kepler, possibly religious-based, right?
- Do you believe God has a plan to modify humans so they can survive the future?
- Are you obsessed with economics? Why or why not?
- Do you know what a googolplex is, and if so would you try to create it?
- Do you know what a rafflesia is?
- Do you know what a picometer is?
- Do you know what a neutron star is?
- How far is the nearest star relative to us, and what is it called?
- (Especially Republican candidates) Do you have a hatred of Muslim people, like regarding them as "others" and not human?
- Would you say you have a huge confirmation bias?
- (To global climate skeptics) You are aware that taking one article from the 1970s out of thousands is basically cherry picking, right?
- What methods of problem solving do you believe in and recommend, such as heuristics?
- Say you are reading for example L'Assommoir by Emile Zola, assuming you've at least heard of it, what would you say to a person in the situation as seen in the novel? (If you don't know, look it up on Wikipedia, then read the plot summary)
- What would you say to a satirical mockery of your person?
- What would you consider pornography?
- Would you invest in building arcologies?
- What is your take on, and solution to, deforestation?
- Democrats: Why are you guys such capitulators?
- What are your thoughts on lobbying? Should it be outlawed?
- Is there such a thing as an absolute, timeless enemy?
- What should be done to help child soldiers?
- Do you carry any pain?
- Would you look into energy and paper alternatives?
- Given a lot of American policymakers in history secretly wanting control of Cuba, would you at least consider the idea of turning it into a state in the Union? (Again, not advocating, just posing a hypothetical)
- Do you believe we are currently on a path toward destruction?
- Do you believe it is time for a new American dream?
- Do you believe humanity has an inherent goodness found in at least most people? An inherent evil and destructiveness? Both? Neither? Explain.
- Do you believe America is the center of the moral universe?
- Do you support current and future extinction of other lifeforms in pursuit of human wants?
- Would you ever support the selling of the U.S. government outright to corporations?
- Could or should cyberspace be a public property and space?
- Why do you want to be President?
- Did you ever pick on other kids in school, such as classmates with developmental disorders?
- How and what should be done to improve public transportation?
- What should be done to find places for the homeless?
- Name 7 countries on the continent of Africa.
- Are you running solely for power?
- Are you running to turn the country into a testing ground for your ideology?
- Hypothetical: If the technology were available, would you authorize the development of superhumans with extra-human abilities in service to you or the U.S.?
- California drought: What do you think? What should be done to fix this?
- Do you believe the ends justify the means?
- Nationalism, your thoughts.
- Would you take money in order to vote a different way?
- (To non-major candidates) How "out there" are you?
- How to fix racial inequality?
- Interstellar migration jump-starting ideas?
- Any thoughts on banality
- Are suburbs mind-numbing?
- Have you ever watched a pornographic film involving nuns and/or bondage?
- Are we in a post-industrial society?
- What are your thoughts on nanotechnology?
- What are your thoughts on sex robots and VR?
- Have you ever read the Codex Seraphinianus?
- Would you ever consider civilization a mistake, ever?
- What are your thoughts on the sex drive? Do you believe in humans it's increasing or declining?
- Do you think humans can ever be "happy"?
- Are there limits to anthropocentrism?
- A former marine sees his family killed by criminals, and starts attacking criminally., Your reaction.
- What do you do think are ultimate implications of our modern-day world?
- Have you ever seen a burlesque show in Las Vegas?
- Complete this statement: the current status of women around the world is ___.
- If powerful persons offered you access to your own private orgy on their dime, in exchange for something or other, would you accept?
- What would you say constitutes "reality"?
- Do you think countries are a self-imposed myth?
- Do you think the present is definite or indefinite?
- Would you support horrible examples of humanity if they helped your aims?
- Do you think of yourself as a prophet or messiah?
- Do you see yourself as a Hero?
- What came first for you, the ideas or the ideology?
- Do you think that there are problems in the universe that cannot be solved?
- Would you ever consider everything as a dark joke?
- What solutions do you propose to fight poverty?
- How would you help biodiversity?
- Is consumerism a problem?
- Would any of you think about raising up videos games as a specter to be banned or such? Possibly as a way to get some "moral panic" out of prospective voters?
- Are life and death quantifiable?
- Do you think time is simultaneous?
- Would you ever consider that a lot of things (such as in politics) are lethal mistakes made over and over?
- Are you a psychopath?
- Would you support a rule pledging persons in public offices to celibacy oaths while in term?
- Would you mind being bland and business-ish and straight to the point, dull without a personality, if it meant getting things done?
- What would you call a synthetic truth?
- Thoughts on political dogma?
- Would you ever walk around Wilshire and Normandie in Los Angeles, unaccompanied?
- What are your thoughts on abnormal psychology?
- Would you support insect-based foods to help fight things like world hunger and drought?
- Do you understand anything about the water cycle?
- Do you know what the carbon cycle is?
- Do you think adulthood is a crock?
- If you were a curious child, what would you ask about politics today?
- Would you ever "bang" a household servant or something?
- Did you ever believe Ebola was spread as a plot by ISIS to infect "pure" Americans?
- What would you do to address the problems and needs of indigenous populations in this country?
- Hypothetical: Would you ever sell your soul to achieve what you want?
- Thoughts on folk music?
- Hypothetical: Lynchings are resurgent in the states. What do you do?
- Solutions for overpopulation?
- Working class person leads a revolt against their employer. Your reaction.
- Would you ever consider legalizing prostitution?
- Would you support research into spaceflight programs?
- Would you ever put any effort away from work and into secretly subverting and sabotaging any opponents and opposing viewpoints? Be honest.
- How can peace best be accomplished?
- Solutions and ideas for racism
- Solutions and ideas for police racism
- Solutions and ideas for institutional racism
- Solutions and ideas for police brutality
- Solutions and ideas for authoritarian regimes
- Thoughts on national parks
- Solutions and ideas for homeless persons in LA
- Solutions and ideas for college tuition and debt
- Solutions and ideas for discrimination against the mentally challenged and different.
- Solutions and ideas for global climate problems
- Solutions and ideas for Russia's corrupt oligarchy
- Solutions and ideas for lack of NASA funding
- Solutions and ideas for the California drought
- Solutions and ideas for agricultural problems
- Solutions and ideas for industrial agriculture
- Solutions and ideas for pollution
- Solutions and ideas for dealing with the bushmeat trade
- Solutions and ideas for dealing with chemical weapon stockpiles
- Solutions and ideas for nuclear disarmament
- Solutions and ideas for indigenous peoples around the world
- Solutions and ideas for language extinction
- Solutions and ideas for worldwide to personal-level violence
- Solutions and ideas for animal rights
- Solutions and ideas for joblessness and unemployment
- Thoughts and worries on private military companies
- Soft core porn: Are you for or against it?
- Solutions and ideas for doomsday preparations
- Solutions and ideas for dealing with and stopping organized crime
- Solutions and ideas for stopping street crime
- What to do with daylight savings time
- Thoughts on culture jamming
- Solutions and ideas for biosecurity
- Thoughts on drones
- Thoughts on identity politics
- Solutions and ideas for stopping the Mexican cartels (without blowback)
- Solutions and ideas for land reform
- Solutions and ideas for political corruption
- Thoughts on denialism
- Solutions and ideas for the minimum wage
- Solutions and ideas for urban planning
- Thoughts on censorship
- Solutions and ideas for inequality
- Thoughts on collective rights
- Solutions and ideas for human rights violations
- Solutions and ideas for Israel and Palestine conflict
- Thoughts on future AI
- Thoughts on electric cars
- Thoughts on hacking
- Predestination or free will? Can both co-exist?
- Solutions and ideas for social alienation
- Thoughts on fusion energy
- Thoughts on sending people to Mars
- Are many banks and financial firms monopolies violating anti-trust laws?
- Is there such a thing as a "Heroic War"?
- Income inequality.
- Ownership of endangered tiger species, what would you do?
- What is the modern opiate of the masses?
- Is the concept of a nation-state outdated?
- Do you have any prejudice toward Latinos and persons of descent from Mexico down to Argentina?
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