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    Quote Originally Posted by Theodarzna View Post

    I mean I'm okay with a system that empowers Hispanic and Black voters to have a much stronger voice.
    Then make up your mind. Do you want parents to be artificially given more power, or these two minorities in particular?

    Note that both these ideas are bad even just in principle, by the by, but at least stay consistent in your poor logic.
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    Wonder how an ill-informed chart would look considering republican voters have a huge amount of walking imbeciles.

    How about it being a privilege that comes linked with the ability of critical thinking?

    How many GOP voters think the election was stolen - every court challenge has been struck down
    How many GOP voters think getting a Covid vaccine should be voluntarily or Covid being a hoax - compared to facts and statistics (who gets it now?)
    How many GOP voters are required to elect space laser Qanon etc. nuts - well its teeming with those in power already and getting worse
    How many GOP voters think Trump is law and order - lost count of how many that got sentenced or indicted within his close circle already
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    Quote Originally Posted by Theodarzna View Post
    Given how they govern, it does seem like letting society be ruled by people with zero stake in the future isn't a good plan. Plus if you want to empower say minority voters, especially Hispanic and Black voters, this would be one way to help ensure marginalized voices get heard even louder.
    1> There are plenty of ways to have a "stake" in the future of society without having children. This is just a bullshit premise from the ground up, particularly as plenty of people who have kids don't give a single shit about the future, or even their kids.

    2> Families with lots of kids already get more say in how the country develops, because those kids get older, and start voting when they become adults. So you're whining about a supposed imbalance that doesn't even exist.


  4. #144
    Quote Originally Posted by Endus View Post
    Jesus Christ.

    You literally do not understand even the very basic principles of Marxism, and yet you claim to oppose it. You have literally no idea what you're talking about.

    Just as a big hint; the majority of Marxist philosophy has absolutely nothing to do with "transforming society". If that's all you're thinking it is, you don't have any idea what you're talking about.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxism

    There's your Basics 101 introduction.

    The idea that I'm the one "indoctrinated", even though I am not a Marxist and have never claimed to be a Marxist, as opposed to you, who has clearly never read anything by any Marxist author, let alone Marx himself, but feel completely confident in claiming to understand the full swath of Marxist thinking, is frankly just funny.

    Marxism was not about dictatorships. The only way you could be drawing that ridiculous conclusion is by swallowing 70-year-old anti-Soviet propaganda without any critical thought or analysis.

    I'm a history grad. History's one of my major fields. Your issue with me, you'll find, is that I'm generally too well read for simple bullshitting about nonsense propaganda to have any effect on me whatsoever.

    You can't source any of the garbage you're posting, because you're wrong, and no reputable source would back you on any of this.
    I do understand Marxism, Endus, but you are so emotionally attached to it that you can't stand any criticism in regards to it. And that's okay. Everyone grows up differently and some happen to get misguided, happens to the best of us. Just look at what happens to the Soviet Union, Venezuela, or Nazi Germany when people got caught up into toxic ideology.

    Quote Originally Posted by uuuhname View Post
    I sincerely doubt you know what Marxist socialism is. none of the people who say this crap have ever read anything about it besides what some talking head on Fox News says. you just fear the idea of working class people having any sort of leverage over their business owning overlords, change my mind.
    The working class never get any leverage, Venezuela is proof of what happens when you fall for false promises. As I stated earlier, until mankind's tendency to flirt with corruption ends, we will always be victims. The Marxist Struggle to achieve a Socialist's dream is the biggest scam you can fall for. Just look at China, they claim to be Communist but the people don't own the means of production, the Communist party does.
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    Quote Originally Posted by BronzeCondor View Post
    I do understand Marxism
    Which is why you're spending the entirety of your time saying other people don't understand Marxism rather than demonstrating your understanding of it.

    Kinda gauche, but okay.

    Quote Originally Posted by BronzeCondor View Post
    Just look at China, they claim to be Communist but the people don't own the means of production, the Communist party does.
    Wow it's almost as if they aren't actually communist. Shocker.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Elegiac View Post
    Which is why you're spending the entirety of your time saying other people don't understand Marxism rather than demonstrating your understanding of it.

    Kinda gauche, but okay.



    Wow it's almost as if they aren't actually communist. Shocker.
    Isnt the argument often that China and the ussr. Never even considered themselves communist? Instead they had a communist party which represented a goal… communism but at any particular time the country was mixed. I mean didn’t Lenin refer to the current system as literally state capitalism?
    As an aside.

    We have a Democrat party and democracy is what we strive for… we haven’t quite gotten there yet

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  8. #148
    Quote Originally Posted by Theodarzna View Post
    Given how they govern, it does seem like letting society be ruled by people with zero stake in the future isn't a good plan. Plus if you want to empower say minority voters, especially Hispanic and Black voters, this would be one way to help ensure marginalized voices get heard even louder.
    So here is a challenge, find the politician, that you deem to having been passing the most destructive policies with no regard for the future, and find out what the voting percentage were parents, and then compare it to the one that you deem the least destructive and most caring for the future.

    I'll bet ya there'll be virtually no difference.
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    Quote Originally Posted by BronzeCondor View Post
    The working class never get any leverage, Venezuela is proof of what happens when you fall for false promises. As I stated earlier, until mankind's tendency to flirt with corruption ends, we will always be victims. The Marxist Struggle to achieve a Socialist's dream is the biggest scam you can fall for. Just look at China, they claim to be Communist but the people don't own the means of production, the Communist party does.
    China engages in state capitalism... they have socialist programs sure, but they are no where near "communist" in any way shape or form. same as Venezuela except not unlike other capitalist states of old made the choice to focus on one commodity and when said commodity implodes well, shit happens. oh also US sanctions don't help. speaking of Latin America, one country that no one likes to talk about is Cuba! and how even despite over half a century of embargo's by the largest economy in the world has managed to eliminate homelessness give free health care to all it's citizens and be a leader in medical innovation, unlike.... the US.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BronzeCondor View Post
    I do understand Marxism, Endus, but you are so emotionally attached to it that you can't stand any criticism in regards to it.
    I have no "emotional attachment" to Marxism. Willful ignorance and rank dishonesty offend me, however, and that's all you've provided. You're lying about basic shit, seemingly just to push people's buttons.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Endus View Post
    I have no "emotional attachment" to Marxism. Willful ignorance and rank dishonesty offend me, however, and that's all you've provided. You're lying about basic shit, seemingly just to push people's buttons.
    Marxism comes from a school of thought that emphasizes the Oppressed vs Unoppressed. That isn't willful ignorance or rank dishonesty, it's the truth. That's why it appeals to so many people. It creates a struggle and pits A vs B. Why do you think CRT is appealing to so many? Because its the victor that gets to write history, the story of the oppressed isn't told.

    Quote Originally Posted by uuuhname View Post
    China engages in state capitalism... they have socialist programs sure, but they are no where near "communist" in any way shape or form. same as Venezuela except not unlike other capitalist states of old made the choice to focus on one commodity and when said commodity implodes well, shit happens. oh also US sanctions don't help. speaking of Latin America, one country that no one likes to talk about is Cuba! and how even despite over half a century of embargo's by the largest economy in the world has managed to eliminate homelessness give free health care to all it's citizens and be a leader in medical innovation, unlike.... the US.
    Cuba isn't a success story. Aren't there mass protests going on in Florida/Cuba about this?

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    Quote Originally Posted by BronzeCondor View Post
    Marxism comes from a school of thought that emphasizes the Oppressed vs Unoppressed. That isn't willful ignorance or rank dishonesty, it's the truth. That's why it appeals to so many people. It creates a struggle and pits A vs B.
    See? This, right here, is a lie.

    It recognizes an existing struggle where A is already actively oppressing B. There was no "pitting" of A versus B. That class struggle already existed. Marxism was about casting that class struggle away.

    Which was by no means a unique idea to Marxism, either. Another thing you get wrong.

    Why do you think CRT is appealing to so many? Because its the victor that gets to write history, the story of the oppressed isn't told.
    That's . . . not what CRT is about.

    You're pushing disinformation. Stop listening to people like Tucker Carlson; they're idiots and liars.

    Cuba isn't a success story. Aren't there mass protests going on in Florida/Cuba about this?
    Cuba is an incredibly poor country, due to the continued embargo by the USA, for decades. Given that poverty, it's amazing what they have managed to achieve.

    People protesting in Cuba aren't protesting because of their health care standards. Noting some things Cuba's managed to achieve is not a statement that Cuba's policies on everything are laudable.


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    Quote Originally Posted by BronzeCondor View Post

    Cuba isn't a success story. Aren't there mass protests going on in Florida/Cuba about this?
    loooool did you not read the part where it has been under crushing US embargo's and sanctions for the last half century? and even still managed to do more for the average Cuban citizen than the US ever has for theirs? and those protests? maybe if again, the US got the fuck over it's petty little tiff with a country exercising it's right to self govern and lift the sanctions chances are there wouldn't be protests for you know, things that are being deliberately withheld from them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Endus View Post
    People protesting in Cuba aren't protesting because of their health care standards. Noting some things Cuba's managed to achieve is not a statement that Cuba's policies on everything are laudable.
    certainly not, but it is a scathing indictment that US foreign policy does more to harm the average citizen of any given country than it does to help.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mihalik View Post
    We tie the ability to vote to the ability to give consent which in turn is relevant for the ability to enter contracts etc. We call that "The Age of Reasoning".
    So if a minor takes a civic/reasoning test and scores as high as the typical adult or 18 year old then would you let them vote? I personally don't think a reasoning test is necessary but I'm also 100% okay with saying that their voting right should be based on their level of comprehension/merit. Having more options is always good.
    Note, if we would do that Texas would be a blue state tomorrow. So, sure. Let's do it.
    Okay, that part doesn't really matter because there will always be new issues and new changes that mess up statistical correlations and trends in politics. Also even if a new group of people is enfranchised and they heavily lean one way on the political spectrum it would cause centrists to shift a bit in the other direction in order to stabilize politics in a democracy.
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    Quote Originally Posted by BronzeCondor View Post
    Marxism comes from a school of thought that emphasizes the Oppressed vs Unoppressed. That isn't willful ignorance or rank dishonesty, it's the truth. That's why it appeals to so many people. It creates a struggle and pits A vs B. Why do you think CRT is appealing to so many? Because its the victor that gets to write history, the story of the oppressed isn't told.



    Cuba isn't a success story. Aren't there mass protests going on in Florida/Cuba about this?
    This is an incredible shallow understanding of Marxism and dialectical thought in general.
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    Quote Originally Posted by BronzeCondor View Post
    Marxism comes from a school of thought that emphasizes the Oppressed vs Unoppressed. That isn't willful ignorance or rank dishonesty, it's the truth. That's why it appeals to so many people. It creates a struggle and pits A vs B. Why do you think CRT is appealing to so many? Because its the victor that gets to write history, the story of the oppressed isn't told.
    It's ignorance, wilful or not.
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    I would prefer a more restrictive voting process myself mostly to ensure people are actually aware of what they are voting for but I can see how that could open it up to abuse.

    A simple government picture ID should be all that is required.

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    We need to abolish all voting requirements.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Krakan View Post
    I would prefer a more restrictive voting process myself mostly to ensure people are actually aware of what they are voting for but I can see how that could open it up to abuse.
    Requiring people to be fully aware of what they are voting on is a pipe dream I could not agree with more on. But as you pointed out, it just won't happen.

    Quote Originally Posted by Krakan View Post
    A simple government picture ID should be all that is required.
    But it's not needed. Demonstrably so. Pushing that kind of requirement is tantamount to disenfranchising voters, as both Trump's Commission and the North Carolina legislature can attest to.
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    Quote Originally Posted by cubby View Post
    Requiring people to be fully aware of what they are voting on is a pipe dream I could not agree with more on. But as you pointed out, it just won't happen.


    But it's not needed. Demonstrably so. Pushing that kind of requirement is tantamount to disenfranchising voters, as both Trump's Commission and the North Carolina legislature can attest to.
    If they want to insist on that, then great, make it free and easily accessible. Haha, jk. Also as long as we're picking arbitrary metrics to deny people the franchise, I pick cruelty as disqualifying.
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