# Politics sub-forum **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [November 19, 2012, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/politics-sub-forum/641497 "2012-11-19T12:37:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2012, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/politics-sub-forum/641497/1 "2012-11-19T12:37:39Z")
Would it be possible/desirable to create a Politics subforum for non-US Dopers. IMO alot of the info they share is irrelevant to the US political system. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2012, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/politics-sub-forum/641497/2 "2012-11-19T13:04:39Z")
Ugh. No, please. Though I do support the idea of renaming “Elections” to “Politics” in general. Subforum for non-Americans, though? No. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2012, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/politics-sub-forum/641497/3 "2012-11-19T17:47:47Z")
Yes, we should. In fact make that 50 yesses. So that’s 50 for and 1 against. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2012, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/politics-sub-forum/641497/4 "2012-11-19T20:35:10Z")
I’m always interested in an international view of American politics. I’d hate for anyone to believe you had to live in the US to post a political comment about US politics. They should just use the Elections forum for all their political comments. ---
**Author:** ![Measure\_for\_Measure](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/measure_for_measure/32/557_2.png) [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2012, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/politics-sub-forum/641497/5 "2012-11-19T21:52:48Z")
I think the Elections and GD forum should be merged. So that’s 2 votes against the OP. Seriously, this American likes the international flavor of this board, such as it is. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2012, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/politics-sub-forum/641497/6 "2012-11-20T02:44:31Z")
First they get their own countries and now they want their own forum? After we saved their bacon/invaded and conquered them/pretended we liked them only for expediency/nuked their sorry asses in Dubya-Dubya-Two I woulda thought they’d be more grateful. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2012, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/politics-sub-forum/641497/7 "2012-11-20T03:23:03Z")
On the infrequent occasions when the Powers that Be have created a new forum, it’s been because there’s some topic that’s getting a lot of discussion. What would be the point of creating a forum just for a topic that _doesn’t_ get a lot of discussion? It’d be a total ghost town. At least now, when someone creates an international politics thread, the usual denizens of Elections or GD will see it on the list-- Who would ever even bother opening a dedicated international forum? ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2012, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/politics-sub-forum/641497/8 "2012-11-20T03:35:02Z")
Furriners? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2012, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/politics-sub-forum/641497/9 "2012-11-20T05:31:49Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > First they get their own countries and now they want their own forum? After we saved their bacon/invaded and conquered them/pretended we liked them only for expediency/nuked their sorry asses in Dubya-Dubya-Two I woulda thought they’d be more grateful. :golf clap: Well played. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2012, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/politics-sub-forum/641497/10 "2012-11-20T11:54:57Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > I’m always interested in an international view of American politics. I’d hate for anyone to believe you had to live in the US to post a political comment about US politics. They should just use the Elections forum for all their political comments. Not that I support the OP, but I read it as suggesting that the forums be segregated by topic, not poster. One forum for US political topics in which anyone is welcome to post and one forum for non-US political topics where anyone is welcome to post. I assume the idea is to not swamp every forum we have here with US-centric topics. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2012, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/politics-sub-forum/641497/11 "2012-11-20T12:26:42Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#): > > Ugh. No, please. > > Though I do support the idea of renaming “Elections” to “Politics” in general. Subforum for non-Americans, though? No. I agree with this. I wasn’t a fan of the idea of an ‘Elections’ forum in the first place as I thought it was too specific and cyclical. But altering it to make it a general ‘Politics’ forum makes sense to me. And it can work across borders. I _like_ hearing from non-US folks who basically go, “You all are nuts…here’s how we do it here.” ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2012, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/politics-sub-forum/641497/12 "2012-11-20T13:36:33Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > Furriners? 😉 Where we import our fur from, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2012, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/politics-sub-forum/641497/13 "2012-11-20T14:22:05Z")
> [@Measure\_for\_Measure](#): > > I think the Elections and GD forum should be merged. So that’s 2 votes against the OP. Whereas I, on the other hand, am deeply grateful that Elections or Politics or whatever is now its own forum, so that I can happily avoid any and all threads on that topic, and would therefore be vehemently opposed to sticking it back into GD again. MAKE US ALL HAPPY, MODS!!! ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2012, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/politics-sub-forum/641497/14 "2012-11-21T02:49:33Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Where we import our fur from, of course. No, like milliners make mills, furriners make fur. We import our fur from nations like Angorra, Minkronesia, and Furundi where the natives pluck the hairlike strands from around the mouths of bearded clams. Always happy to do my part to fight ignorance, Cecil!