Opinion of Switzerland
       |           

Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.
Did you miss your activation email?
March 28, 2024, 06:11:17 PM
News: Election Simulator 2.0 Released. Senate/Gubernatorial maps, proportional electoral votes, and more - Read more

  Talk Elections
  General Politics
  Individual Politics (Moderator: The Dowager Mod)
  Opinion of Switzerland
« previous next »
Pages: [1] 2
Poll
Question: ?
#1
FC
 
#2
HC
 
Show Pie Chart
Partisan results

Total Voters: 63

Author Topic: Opinion of Switzerland  (Read 3498 times)
TDAS04
Atlas Star
*****
Posts: 23,471
Bhutan


Show only this user's posts in this thread
« on: July 23, 2014, 05:03:51 PM »

Obvious freedom country. 
Logged
Flake
Flo
Junior Chimp
*****
Posts: 8,688
United States


Show only this user's posts in this thread
« Reply #1 on: July 23, 2014, 05:10:08 PM »

Neutral.
Logged
Supersonic
SupersonicVenue
Junior Chimp
*****
Posts: 5,162
United Kingdom


Political Matrix
E: 4.90, S: 0.35

Show only this user's posts in this thread
« Reply #2 on: July 23, 2014, 05:28:41 PM »

FC.
Logged
Atlas Has Shrugged
ChairmanSanchez
Atlas Superstar
*****
Posts: 38,096
United States


Political Matrix
E: 5.29, S: -5.04


Show only this user's posts in this thread
« Reply #3 on: July 23, 2014, 05:38:40 PM »

I wish we would adopt their foreign policy.
Logged
politicus
Atlas Icon
*****
Posts: 10,174
Denmark


Show only this user's posts in this thread
« Reply #4 on: July 23, 2014, 05:41:05 PM »
« Edited: July 23, 2014, 06:15:26 PM by politicus »

A very mixed bag with an interesting history and culture and beautiful mountain scenery. Less HC than before since it has started cooperating more with other countries on combating money laundering and tax fraud. Still home to an amazing amount of white collar criminals and general scumbags from around the globe though.

FC on balance, I guess.
Logged
Хahar 🤔
Xahar
Atlas Legend
*****
Posts: 41,731
Bangladesh


Political Matrix
E: -6.77, S: 0.61

WWW Show only this user's posts in this thread
« Reply #5 on: July 23, 2014, 06:17:47 PM »

Racist cesspool.
Logged
AggregateDemand
Jr. Member
***
Posts: 1,873
United States


Show only this user's posts in this thread
« Reply #6 on: July 23, 2014, 06:21:18 PM »

FC on balance, but Switzerland has a lot of skeletons in its closet.
Logged
Wake Me Up When The Hard Border Ends
Anton Kreitzer
YaBB God
*****
Posts: 4,167
Australia


Political Matrix
E: 8.00, S: 3.11

Show only this user's posts in this thread
« Reply #7 on: July 23, 2014, 07:03:09 PM »

Mega-FC
Logged
Marokai Backbeat
Marokai Blue
Atlas Icon
*****
Posts: 17,477
United States


Political Matrix
E: -7.42, S: -7.39

Show only this user's posts in this thread
« Reply #8 on: July 23, 2014, 07:19:16 PM »

Logged
SNJ1985
Sr. Member
****
Posts: 2,274
United States
Political Matrix
E: 0.19, S: 7.57

Show only this user's posts in this thread
« Reply #9 on: July 23, 2014, 07:47:18 PM »

It's among the greatest countries in Europe. Massive Freedom Country. Smiley


Roll Eyes
Logged
Flake
Flo
Junior Chimp
*****
Posts: 8,688
United States


Show only this user's posts in this thread
« Reply #10 on: July 23, 2014, 07:50:19 PM »

It's among the greatest countries in Europe. Massive Freedom Country. Smiley


Roll Eyes

Why are you rolling your eyes? Switzerland has a lot of racist people.
Logged
Sopranos Republican
Matt from VT
YaBB God
*****
Posts: 4,175
United States


Political Matrix
E: 3.03, S: -8.87

Show only this user's posts in this thread
« Reply #11 on: July 23, 2014, 07:59:55 PM »

I'm sure the scenery is nice enough,  but I can see mountains back in beautiful Vermont, and deal with far more: shall we say, open minded people.
Logged
SNJ1985
Sr. Member
****
Posts: 2,274
United States
Political Matrix
E: 0.19, S: 7.57

Show only this user's posts in this thread
« Reply #12 on: July 23, 2014, 08:11:39 PM »
« Edited: July 23, 2014, 08:45:27 PM by NJ Christian »

It's among the greatest countries in Europe. Massive Freedom Country. Smiley


Roll Eyes

Why are you rolling your eyes? Switzerland has a lot of racist people.

While this is admittedly an assumption; I'm guessing that he thinks the country is racist due to its well-publicized opposition to mass immigration. I've heard people call the country racist because of this. Firstly, that doesn't make much sense when you consider the fact that a majority of the country's immigrant population actually consists of other Europeans. Besides that, it's perfectly reasonable to oppose allowing the entry of immigrants from countries like Turkey and Albania who are more likely to be unskilled, more prone to crime, have next to nothing in common with the native populace, and show little to no respect for the country's native culture or customs.
Logged
RR1997
Sr. Member
****
Posts: 2,997
United States


Show only this user's posts in this thread
« Reply #13 on: July 23, 2014, 08:15:33 PM »

Massive FC

I see what you did there. This was a really clever post. I laughed at this a lot harder than I should have.
Logged
ElectionsGuy
Atlas Star
*****
Posts: 21,107
United States


Political Matrix
E: 7.10, S: -7.65

P P
Show only this user's posts in this thread
« Reply #14 on: July 23, 2014, 08:19:50 PM »

Logged
Snowstalker Mk. II
Snowstalker
Atlas Star
*****
Posts: 20,414
Palestinian Territory, Occupied


Political Matrix
E: -7.10, S: -4.35

P P P
Show only this user's posts in this thread
« Reply #15 on: July 23, 2014, 08:42:54 PM »

Other than being a xenophobic tax haven, quite nice.
Logged
H. Ross Peron
General Mung Beans
Junior Chimp
*****
Posts: 9,406
Korea, Republic of


Political Matrix
E: -6.58, S: -1.91

Show only this user's posts in this thread
« Reply #16 on: July 23, 2014, 10:00:25 PM »

Logged
Associate Justice PiT
PiT (The Physicist)
Atlas Politician
Atlas Superstar
*****
Posts: 31,135
United States


Show only this user's posts in this thread
« Reply #17 on: July 23, 2014, 10:43:38 PM »

     The true light that guides this world.
Logged
Flake
Flo
Junior Chimp
*****
Posts: 8,688
United States


Show only this user's posts in this thread
« Reply #18 on: July 24, 2014, 02:59:44 AM »

It's among the greatest countries in Europe. Massive Freedom Country. Smiley


Roll Eyes

Why are you rolling your eyes? Switzerland has a lot of racist people.

While this is admittedly an assumption; I'm guessing that he thinks the country is racist due to its well-publicized opposition to mass immigration. I've heard people call the country racist because of this. Firstly, that doesn't make much sense when you consider the fact that a majority of the country's immigrant population actually consists of other Europeans. Besides that, it's perfectly reasonable to oppose allowing the entry of immigrants from countries like Turkey and Albania who are more likely to be unskilled, more prone to crime, have next to nothing in common with the native populace, and show little to no respect for the country's native culture or customs.

No, the problem is that these people are very discriminatory against people who aren't white, and in some parts of the country (rural areas mostly), places with no tourism, nonwhites are labeled as gypsies and viewed with distrust. It's immigration views among the people are also a reminder of how backward they are in regards to that issue, because if an albanian family moves next door they are viewed with distrust, but if an arabic family moves next door all hell breaks loose.
Logged
Franzl
Atlas Star
*****
Posts: 22,254
Germany


Show only this user's posts in this thread
« Reply #19 on: July 24, 2014, 03:06:29 AM »

     The true light that guides this world.

I certainly hope not.

But disregarding politics, Switzerland is a nice place. Expensive, but nice.
Logged
Associate Justice PiT
PiT (The Physicist)
Atlas Politician
Atlas Superstar
*****
Posts: 31,135
United States


Show only this user's posts in this thread
« Reply #20 on: July 24, 2014, 03:18:49 AM »

     The true light that guides this world.

I certainly hope not.

But disregarding politics, Switzerland is a nice place. Expensive, but nice.

     You're just jealous because you have yet to dispose of the genitive case. Tongue
Logged
Franzl
Atlas Star
*****
Posts: 22,254
Germany


Show only this user's posts in this thread
« Reply #21 on: July 24, 2014, 03:52:10 AM »

     The true light that guides this world.

I certainly hope not.

But disregarding politics, Switzerland is a nice place. Expensive, but nice.

     You're just jealous because you have yet to dispose of the genitive case. Tongue

I love the genitive case Smiley

But it's slowly dying out here in a lot of cases it should be used. "Der Dativ ist dem Genitiv sein Tod"
Logged
Antonio the Sixth
Antonio V
Atlas Institution
*****
Posts: 57,964
United States


Political Matrix
E: -7.87, S: -3.83

P P
Show only this user's posts in this thread
« Reply #22 on: July 24, 2014, 06:08:41 AM »

A tax haven full of xenophobic assholes.
Logged
Cranberry
TheCranberry
YaBB God
*****
Posts: 4,501
Austria


Show only this user's posts in this thread
« Reply #23 on: July 24, 2014, 07:55:47 AM »

The parts of the alps that weren't cool enough to make up Austria Tongue
Swiss are greedy, unfriendly, xenophobic, talk in a way that no one can understand them...
No seriously, I don't like Switzerland that particularly much...
Logged
ingemann
YaBB God
*****
Posts: 4,226


Show only this user's posts in this thread
« Reply #24 on: July 24, 2014, 11:25:25 AM »

If we ignore the parasitic part of their economy, which have begun to make up a smaller part of their economy, I personal think Switzerland are a interesting experiment in creating government structure which are radical different from the rest of the world.
Yes the Swiss do come across as somewhat xenophobic, but sometimes the price of having a well functioning state is limiting immigration, while some people have a ideological problem with this, well that's not the Swiss' problem.

So all in all slightly more to the FC side than the HC side, simply because they show a different more decentral way to build a state, in a world where central government rules.
Logged
Pages: [1] 2  
« previous next »
Jump to:  


Login with username, password and session length

Terms of Service - DMCA Agent and Policy - Privacy Policy and Cookies

Powered by SMF 1.1.21 | SMF © 2015, Simple Machines

Page created in 0.056 seconds with 14 queries.