Meanwhile elected and aspiring elected officials spouting off “Replacement Theory” getting Trump endorsements, because of course.
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Will be interesting to see if you still feel this way when you are disenfranchised at age y!
I read that the guy posted a 180 page rant on 4chan, and was wondering how a teenager could possibly write that many pages of anything.
The answer of course is that he mostly copied and pasted from the last 4chan massacre (who copied and pasted from the massacre before that). Adding to it a million random racist memes and posts that he picked up from obsessively logging into the message board.
I suppose obsessively spending all your time on 4chan is not too different from obsessively spending all your time here. Except with extreme racists instead of actuaries.
I’ll probably feel about as disenfranchised as when I was under age X
So you are trying to disenfranchise those whose views you disagree with? Republicans are already trying to do that to the groups that don’t support them. On a slippery slope here.
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nah, we’re trying to disenfranchise those who make decisions that impact others more than themselves
Interesting. For me it is a different feeling having something taken away from me rather than not having it in the first place.Taking my vote away from me at my current age would be more upsetting than being 16 and not having been able able to vote.
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I believe over 1/3rd of the senate, 1/4th of the house and both of the last 2 presidents are over 70 and Dan would like to make them ineligible to vote.
You know who has the most feelings? Karens. Not sure we want to cave to them.
Feelings are pretty meaningless if you ask me. Do what’s best for people.
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So Karens should not be allowed to vote either?
that’s exactly what I didn’t say.
I said we shouldn’t decide who gets to vote or not based on feelings.
And I am just saying we shouldn’t try to exclude any group just because we don’t agree with how they will vote!
And that is completely irrelevant to my proposal. I said nothing about what I agree with or what I don’t agree with.
Doing that would require an actual number instead of “Y”. You would choose ___ ?
I don’t need to choose anything. That’s up for the rule makers.
But I acknowledge that there should exist a Y.
It’s not that we want to cave to Karen’s… It’s just that in politics, as in business, you always take the path of least resistance. Democracy is an engine driven by feels.
How would “rulemakers” be able to disenfranchise people over the age of Y in a democratic society? People already over the age of Y would not support such a change and not enough people under the age of Y would support it either as they will eventually be Y years old themselves? Seems like a nonsensical idea!
depends on what Y is. there’s going to be an equilibrium point where there’s not enough people over Y to counter it. Once the bar is set and that Y becomes a thing, we can work on adjusting it downward.
The difficulty of accomplishing this is that you’re one of the “rule makers”. Somebody has to replace Y with a number. Other people are just like you, they aren’t willing to step up to that decision.
Oh I don’t believe it’ll happen in reality. But that’s what should happen.