Posting republican talking points feels like cheating
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regdog@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
rosco385@lemmy.wtf 2 weeks ago
We can solve most of the political problems in western countries with one simple change: an upper age limit on voting.
If under 18’s can’t vote, why can those over 70? Having worked in residential Aged Care (Australia), I know the oldies are all still voting and they’re voting conservative.
aphonefriend@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Ya know what would solve everyone’s problems? Removing money from politics. Or just removing money from the rich. Or both.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Both.
Campaign Finance Reform is the issue from which ALL other issues flow.
QuandaleDingle@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Nahh, we need an upper age limit on political office.
Jyek@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
Nah this is just ageism. Now, I do think there might be a conversation to be had about once medical power of attorney goes into effect if the individual should no longer be permitted to vote, but there’s no set age where everybody lacks the mental faculties to vote.
I’ve had relatives knocking on deaths door by age 60, and I have a 100 year old relative who drives the Amish around as his retirement gig
binux@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
If it’s ageism then there shouldn’t be any minimum age for voting either, no? By your logic, since there’s no set age for lacking the mental cognition to vote, under-18s should be allowed to as well.
Zoot@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
Should it not go for the reverse as well? Some 14 year olds are smarter than a lot of 30 year olds, but I don’t ever see anyone advocating for them to get voting rights.
I see both sides. There is no good way to cognitively test either, as that could be abused as well. Age limits would help, for both voting, as well as term limits for the politicians.
That said, I believe there is far far far more wrong with the country which if fixed wouldn’t even need any of the above to be significantly better.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
an upper age limit on voting
What would this accomplish other than guaranting the abolition of Social Security and Medicare?
rosco385@lemmy.wtf 2 weeks ago
It’d would prevent the elderly from locking in far reaching, irreversible destruction to the environment because they either don’t understand the damage they’re doing to future generations. Either that or they don’t care, which is highly likely.
yesman@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
There are plenty of Republicans that pretend to be folksy morons. Tuberville is the genuine article.
Leviathan@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Implying that the old girlfriend was men? Very progressive, Tumorville.
J3N5T4R@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Not having A Xenomorph queen for A girlfriend is A bit of A skill issue tbh.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
swab148@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
HeHoXa@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Yup. I’ve gone too deep. Would you please tell me how to find my way back to cat memes and fail videos?
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I will concede every girlfriend I’ve had has been a woman, scandalous I know, and an adult one even.
northendtrooper@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
This is the same shit who blocked high rank military promotions?
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I thought Hegseth was behind this. But I’m sure Tuberville supported it
AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Aren’t young men turning away from the right in droves? Could be another accusation that in reality is just a confession.
go_go_gadget@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Democratic politicians, Republican politicians and Billionaires all want you to believe the Democratic party is too far left to appeal to voters.
BrickEater@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Sadly they’re actually too far right to appeal to voters.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
ICE isn’t being staffed by the elderly.
There continues to be an enormous base of young republicans and religiously indoctrinated conservatives.
zarathustrad@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Well, that accounts for 20k of them.
AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
True, its not like theres zero support from that group, but I could’ve sworn I saw young men were getting fed up with trump & conservatives cuz they aren’t following through on anything and everything is more expensive.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
women make up a large amount of voting power, and the gop is scared of that.
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
It’s because of guys like Tuberville that I do not regard myself as a man anymore.
I mean seriously, masculinity currently is defined in media by folks like Matt Walsh, Ben Shapiro and Joe Rogan (and before them, Donald Trump and Bill O’Reilly).
When I was a kid, masculinity was defined by the capacity to be responsible for a nuclear bomb and not launch it. Id est, to be able to take care of business without being petty. Then that just became common adulting, and everyone is supposed to do that.
And now we’ve got a man in office in the White House who is eager to launch nukes and end civilizations (and has had to be told no more than once regarding nuclear authorization).
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I mean seriously, masculinity currently is defined in media by folks like Matt Walsh, Ben Shapiro and Joe Rogan (and before them, Donald Trump and Bill O’Reilly).
you choose how you define your masculinity.
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
I prefer to think in terms of “mature adult vs petulant / immature” rather than in gender terms.
I happen to pee standing up, but so what?
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
That’s the thing. I can’t think of a single trait that is preferable for men to have but women not, or for that matter, vice versa.
I used to be a gender abolitionist, and the only reason I’m not is because I can see how much it means for trans folk to represent at the gender they identify with. (I also hypothesize that it’s similarly important for self-identified alpha-males, who just don’t feel masculine enough no matter how much they try.)
Starik@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
WOMEN??? Bleh!
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
what’s wild is that donald trump has been a globalist his entire adult life; he literally made his career on it. so what do they really mean when they accuse someone of being a globalist? huh interesting.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
(((Globalist)))
MousePotatoDoesStuff@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
“Their new girlfriend is… women” Huh.
Klear@piefed.world 2 weeks ago
Isn’t that gay or something?
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Yes. Sex with women is gay because women are feminine and femininity is gay.
To be truly straight, only have sex with other men. Men are masculine, that’s straight.
pomegranatefern@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
As opposed, I assume, to the old Epstein class standby of an underage girl.
nullify3112@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
They put the girl back in girlfriend, that’s for sure.
CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Illegal exotic women……