DingleberrySoup
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DingleberrySoup
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2yr ago
So what gives?
I don't think it's all that complicated. If they lift all restrictions right now, they're looking at a death toll potentially in the millions because their vaccine doesn't work (embarrassing in and of itself), and they're worried that the population will blame the party for this whole predicament (which they should).
The CCP is kicking the can down the road, or digging a hole for themselves. Whichever analogy you prefer.
Do you really imagine if 16 year old Sam was going to vote in a local or national election, he'd vote for a different candidate than the Democrat his parents were going to vote for?
I imagine most 16-year olds would vote Democrat because they're in roughly the same environments as 18-year olds and would therefore vote similarly. The fact that their environments encourage voting Democrat and not Republican is ultimately downstream of the Democrats being more effective at messaging to young people. That's just politics.
I'm not really sold on lowering the voting age, mind you, as the same-age-for-everything idea is very appealing. But I'm completely unconvinced by this idea that 16-year olds in particular would just ape after their parents and completely disregard all the other pressures around them.
DingleberrySoup
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2yr ago
If you give children the right to vote, the majority of them are just going to vote for whoever their parents tell them to.
What justification do you have for believing this? An 18-year old's vote is going to be heavily left-leaning pretty much no matter where you go in the democratic world, but you think the 16-year old vote would instead track the 45-year old demographic? Why?
DingleberrySoup
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2yr ago
In a now famous remark, Edward Gibbon observed that ‘of the first fifteen emperors Claudius was the only one whose taste in love was entirely correct’
This is indeed a very amusing statement, considering that Claudius married his niece.
DingleberrySoup
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2yr ago
If we end up like the Greeks in Turkey or the Greeks in Lebanon, there is no recovering.
Or like the Germans in Königsberg? Russia is one of the worst offenders in this respect.
I see them as perhaps the most ideologically confused people on the spectrum today. They wear the cloak of socialism while extolling authoritarian dictatorships, their words are like those I'd expect from Soviet career-bureaucrats with the KGB breathing down their necks. Because what else could possibly keep all these self-contradictions together?
It's not just that I disagree with them, I don't get them. I get why a dedicated right-wing culture warrior in the US today might support Russia's invasion, their reasoning is at least coherent. The only way I can make sense of tankies doing the same is if their fundamental moral axiom is just "USA bad", but that seems excessively uncharitable.
DingleberrySoup
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2yr ago
Yes, thank you!
DingleberrySoup
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2yr ago
Someone once wrote a post about sales being a bullshit job that spawned a lot of interesting economic discussion, which would be my pick. I'd appreciate if someone has a link to that, actually. It might have been KulakRevolt, although I'm not sure.
Immigrant birth rates always normalize to the local level within a generation or two.
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