It is all that is left unsaid upon which tragedies are built -Kreia
The internet: where to every action is opposed an unequal overreaction.
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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But soon after Mr Xi secured a third term, Apple released a new version of the feature in China, limiting its scope. Now Chinese users of iPhones and other Apple devices are restricted to a 10-minute window when receiving files from people who are not listed as a contact. After 10 minutes, users can only receive files from contacts.
Apple did not explain why the update was first introduced in China, but over the years, the tech giant has been criticised for appeasing Beijing.
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.
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.
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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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.
Originally Posted by Marjane Satrapi
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
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.
Formerly Howeller, lost my account.
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.
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?
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.
That's . . . not what CRT is about.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.
You're pushing disinformation. Stop listening to people like Tucker Carlson; they're idiots and liars.
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.Cuba isn't a success story. Aren't there mass protests going on in Florida/Cuba about this?
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.
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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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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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.
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.Note, if we would do that Texas would be a blue state tomorrow. So, sure. Let's do it.
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"In order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must be intolerant of intolerance." Paradox of tolerance
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.
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.
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Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time. --Frank Wilhoit