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[–] 124 points 2 years ago (4 children)

If you're cool with sending an 18 year old to battle, you should be cool with letting them vote

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    [–] 110 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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    [–] 70 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Man, the GOP just loves making the core tenet of Democracy inaccessible to anyone and everyone who isn’t rich and white.

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    [–] 61 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    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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    [–] 59 points 2 years ago

    This demographic I'm not popular with shouldn't be allowed to vote

    Sounds like the terrorist GOP

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  • [–] 41 points 2 years ago*

    The party of forced birth for child rape victims says what?

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  • [–] 36 points 2 years ago

    Let’s call this what it is: a call to repeal the 26th amendment

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  • [–] 31 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Misleading headline. What it should say is:

    GOP Contender Vivek Ramaswamy Thinks Voting is A Privilege to be Earned

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  • [+] 30 points 2 years ago* (1 child)
  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago

    Yeah, while I don't want to restrict anyone's voting, any logic against younger people voting is not nearly as strong as logic against older people voting. It's not just that they won't be a part of the world for as long (that said, it's entirely possible a 70 year old gets another 2 decades, so I don't think that's necessarily compelling reasoning). Mental decline is also an issue and arguably more relevant.

    The alt right doesn't like young voters because they claim they're too immature. But senility is very similar on the opposite end of the spectrum. Senile voters can be simply disconnected from reality and thus unable to make good choices.

    That said, you can't just draw an age limit and expect that to cover senility, since one person can be 65 and senile while another is 90 and of sound mind. So I don't think we should be restricting voting on either side of the age range (though we should let people as young as 16 vote -- we already trust them to do dangerous things like drive).

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  • [+] 30 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (9 children)
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    [–] 29 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah, well I feel 37 is too young to run for president. Maybe he should pause his campaign.

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    [–] 28 points 2 years ago

    The GOP is too corrupt to breathe our air.

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  • [–] 25 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I saw that interview where said democrats are genetically different than republicans, so fuck him.

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    [–] 24 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    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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    [–] 17 points 2 years ago

    Coming from the guy who never voted until he was 30. Who has never had any experience in politics at all...

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago

    Ramaswamy ding-dong.

    If you're old enough to die for your country, you're old enough to vote. Period.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago

    Whoever this guy is

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    He likely doesn' he just know what the GOP wants to hear.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago

    Then make sure they pay zero taxes of any kind please.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    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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