If you're cool with sending an 18 year old to battle, you should be cool with letting them vote
this post was submitted on 19 Aug 2023
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Also can we please just let them have a beer, too?
If I'm going to be forced to die in a desert for some rich dude profit margin I'm going to do whatever the fuck I want
No no, if we let them vote they might vote for people who want to not send 18 year olds to war
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10 is old enough to be a mom.
16 is old enough to fall into a meat vat.
18 is old enough to give them a rifle.
Old enough to raise a whole ass human, slaughter edible living things, slaughter edible flying living things... but not old enough to decide what changes affect your community.
Wow.
18 is old enough to decide to owe 200k on an education
18 is old enough to give them a rifle.
Actually 17 with parental consent.
12 is old enough to enter the workforce without a permit or parental consent.
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Man, the GOP just loves making the core tenet of Democracy inaccessible to anyone and everyone who isn’t rich and white.
and OLD
Let's be honest: if youth these days were inclined toward the right, Republican contenders would be fighting to 'defend' youths' right to vote from non-existent left-wing 'threats'.
Shit, they'd be fighting to lower it to 16.
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I'd rather go the other way and restrict voting to folks under 70. At least 18 year olds are going to have to live with the consequences.
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This demographic I'm not popular with shouldn't be allowed to vote
Sounds like the terrorist GOP
The party of forced birth for child rape victims says what?
Let’s call this what it is: a call to repeal the 26th amendment
Yeah, well I feel 37 is too young to run for president. Maybe he should pause his campaign.
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The GOP is too corrupt to breathe our air.
Misleading headline. What it should say is:
GOP Contender Vivek Ramaswamy Thinks Voting is A Privilege to be Earned
And that is far, far scarier.
I saw that interview where said democrats are genetically different than republicans, so fuck him.
Wait, what?
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Can go die in a war at 18, but can't buy a gun until you're 21
Can't drink beer until you're 21, but can vote in general elections at 18
We need to just pick one and go with it, either 18 or 21
I was in a US history class in high school when the teacher said that the drinking age used to be 18, and the voting age used to be 21, but they switched places. He then asked "Why?" And started calling on random students.
When I got picked, my answer was "Fewer drunk voters?"
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Wasn't there this whole defining thing for America? Something about taxation without representation, right? So the 18 year olds have to pay taxes on the wages they earn by working and therefore should be able to vote. The retired, however...
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Coming from the guy who never voted until he was 30. Who has never had any experience in politics at all...
Ramaswamy ding-dong.
If you're old enough to die for your country, you're old enough to vote. Period.
Whoever this guy is
I kind of agree. 16 is way too young to legally drive, 18 is way too young to be able to join the military, 60-whatever is way too old for retirement, etc.
In a perfect world, I would agree. But in this Mephisto timeline, we gotta work with what we got.
Shit, even Mephisto would be like "Y'all too fucked up for me. I'mma bounce."
He likely doesn' he just know what the GOP wants to hear.
Then make sure they pay zero taxes of any kind please.
This person doesn't think anything, he is paid to parrot statements for Supreme Court Justice owning billionaires.
"...gonna be on the trail... See you out the trail!"
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