MindTraveller @ MindTraveller @lemmy.ca

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Utter nonsense. I already feel like I'm surrounded by children in this conversation.

Okay, suppose I buy your argument that we should restrict people's rights to do things that they already physically cannot do. It seems pointless and absurd, but let's say I buy your premise.

Set the voting age to 3, then.

I love Fallen Kingdom. Who the fuck is Coldplay?

No. I don't think you understand anarchism.

I think children have the right to own things, and if children own the goods they buy, children are taxed. What you're advocating is total parental control over children. That would harm so many kids! Especially queer kids. What if a trans boy spends his birthday money on a binder and hides it from his parents because he knows they'd throw him on the street if they saw it. Are you going to say the goods and services tax on the binder is a tax on the parents? No, that boy has his own property!

If I were on a deserted island I'd run it anarchically. I wouldn't erect a state, democratic or not. But if we must have states, then we must also have democracy.

1 year olds should vote if they want to. Most don't want to, but it's still important that they have the right.

It's like in Life Of Brian. Loretta has the right to have babies even though her body can't do it.

The minute a baby pops out of the womb, it has the right to vote. It will not be able to exercise that right until it can hold a pencil, but it theoretically has the right, and it can vote as soon as it's decided it wants to participate in politics.

pre-k kids should vote if they want to. It's up to the individual.

From pocket money and birthday money, obviously. A lot of kids also get lunch money, and some 15 year olds even work at McDonald's

Well I'm not American, I'm talking about my own country when I say no taxation without representation. The rest of what I said stands in America though

Sure are. They pay sales tax on their toys and candy

When I was 10, I heard about North Korea and asked my caregiver what communism is. He told me communism is when a country doesn't trade with any outsiders. I made it to high school without knowing what the holocaust was.

When my baby cousin was 10, we had an honest conversation about Korean geopolitics and I was blown away by the understanding he already had. Now he's a 12 year old communist who stands with Palestine. I wasn't half as based as he is when I was 12.

Kids whose grownups talk to them about the big issues grow up to be awesome. I consider sheltering children from politics to be child abuse.

If your aim is to legally prevent demographics that lean Republican from voting, your effort would be better spent campaigning against the right of mormons and scientologists, to vote. Hell, campaign to prevent straight white men from voting. You'll have better results than trying to prevent democracy for children.

Our children will have to live in the world the longest, and as such they have the greatest need in our society for a right to vote. Greta Thunberg inspired the world when she was 15. There is no reason she shouldn't have been able to vote at the same time.

I don't care. No taxation without representation! No country is a democracy unless it allows ALL of its people to vote. This is a matter of equal rights. I also defend the right of mormons and scientologists to vote, and I'll defend the right of children to vote, consequences be damned. If the human species can't raise kids well enough to participate as equals in the electoral process, it deserves to go extinct.

It still shifts the balance of power in favour of first time home buyers. Landlord fucks have to pay extra.

Fuck Ground News

I am 100% sure the Night Sisters smoke weed.

Fuck Ground News

There was that time he dismantled western civilisation by wearing a tan suit, though.