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Errrr, so let's take away the right of people to vote when they hit the age of 50?
LOL, do you think we will be this relevant/irrelevant when we turn 50? Brexit was dumb as fuck but that doesn't justify stripping away people's rights.
Go look for stats on the referendum, if it wasn't for the 50+ years old people the UK would still be in the EU. It's not about "let’s take away the right of people to vote" it is about "how can we let people take vote for something that wont ever affect them either way?". I bet there was someone voting to leave that died of old age the next day, should that person have as much voting power as someone who's on their 30's and had to live an extra 50 years with the fallout of the decidion?
Yes. Your right to vote doesn't change based on how many days you have left to live. By this logic, maybe we should ban everyone with cancer from voting too?
But maybe it should for certain subjects.
Good luck changing the world to the worse. I'm sure you'll do a stellar job.
They can't be serious lol they're just waffling nonsense
No no, what's your take on this? https://lemmy.world/comment/6915894
Dumb article that bowlderizes actual labor issues into stale generational politics takes that have been pushed by consultants since the 90s as blandly palatable fodder for this kind of writing.
That's fair.
The generational politics thing irks me because it's an example of advertisers openly trying to divide people's families and yet that gets taken seriously by "muh family values" conservatives.
And I'm supposed to guess that how? From the /s they didn't add to the end of their post, or?
Oh I wasn't saying you were dumb, they're dumb