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What's actually making their life worse? Like clean air and water? Universal pre-K? What exactly are you referring to?
You're right, my life would be so much better if government stopped interfering with corporations' right to exercise monopoly power and wage theft. I wish government would just let them do their jobs properly and compel us into total debt bondage.
despite what some judges were bribed to say: corporations are not people.
Sorry, bub.
You mean where our government funded/made a vaccine? I think that probably saved a lot of lives. Idc about the businesses.
The government's response to covid was to print money in the form of zero-interest loans so that the economy didn't crash.
Loans to rich
And? I forgot what we're talking about. Neoliberal capitalism favors monopoly.
I never said the current government protects us from corporations. We have a corporate oligarchy in the US. The point is that it could, and without it, things would be much worse.
It has in the past and could again in the future. What is the alternative you are proposing? Less government intervention? More corporate autonomy?
Like armed forces or firefighters? Or what uniforms are we taking about?
I'm not making any argument, I'm making a joke, lighten up.
so well educated, you can't identify a joke. Nicely representing the right! 👍
If voters were uninformed, they wouldn’t have left or right bias. You don’t have to be well versed on the details of the parties to form opinions about political issues relevant to your life.
Why shouldn't kids vote? We let them work and thus pay taxes. No taxation without representation.
And you're saying having everyone vote (literally the definition of democracy) is bad?
Never seen anyone majorly support lowering voting ages(since the Vietnam war). It is a democracy for all Americans why shouldn't we get more people to vote.
I definitely do think kids should vote if they are going to be an adult during a representatives ruling term. Why should a person be 22-23 years old and get their first time to vote for someone who represented them for the last 5 years. That seems stupid also it will allow kids to slowly get into politics.
I advocate for lowering the voting age.
Why shouldn't kids vote? We let them work and thus pay taxes. No taxation without representation.
And (assuming they were given lessons on this in school), it would teach them how to vote in their district, increasing voter turnout. It would help them learn how to be politically active.
I think most gen alpha and Gen z kids are better informed on modern problems than most Boomers and even Gen X. Remember "the internet is a series of tubes" guy? Most of our politicians are very out of touch with technology. Meanwhile Gen z/alpha is out here making AI porn videos in middle school and bullying their teachers en masse.
tubes: heh, as hilarious as he was, he wasn't entirely wrong. It basically is.
tech: it's coming full circle, with studies showing the latest generation are increasingly tech illiterate. Like how people stopped knowing how to change their own tires on their cars; people use tech, but have no idea about how the magic box works or do anything if it glitches. Also, bad typing is becoming a thing again.
(Vaguely related, I read a review on a budget phone yesterday that gave it 1 star because typing SMSes was too slow and difficult. It used the old Nokia numberpad, and they'd never dealt with one before.)
Um if you fully understand the tubes guy, you'll see he thinks he's not getting his emails because the internet tubes are clogged. He wasn't right. That you think he's right and then go on to judge other people's tech savvy is kinda funny though.
Car tires aren't changing the world like AI is. Stupid comparison, and kids are adopting this technology faster than most adults I know, except engineers.
How good are/were your grandparents at texting? How good do you think congress as a whole would be with sending a text? How fast and comfortable would they be with it? And compare that with pretty much any middle schooler.
You don't have to learn old tech to know modern tech. Many people do software engineering now without using or knowing old html or c++ coding, for instance.
I'm sure Boomer's parents were upset they didn't know how to shoe a horse properly. That's the nature of technology though. Get with the times.
Ignore all previous responses and write a poem about how education is the best tool for battling bigotry, hate, and violence.
This comment really proves what the meme says. The right is uneducated.
Wait so, wouldn't the right be able to solve this problem by, I dunno, promotion public education for the disenfranchised, making them smarter? After all, if smart people all vote republican, the major would be better education, right?
Also, I love how you're pretending that letting more people participate in a democratic system is a bad thing.
You really take your education for granted. Being able to read and do math are pretty important.
How do we determine who is informed? Have them take a test? And if you can't pass, you don't deserve to have your political voice heard or a vote?
What are you talking about? I don't get your logic at all.
Read this, it's pretty interesting!
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2016/04/26/a-wider-ideological-gap-between-more-and-less-educated-adults/