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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Edit: good to see I woke the shills

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

If there is an invisible hand, it needs to stop this. I'll stop talking to anyone under the age of 28 ever again because if even one of you doesn't vote I just cannot forgive.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (5 children)

why are the American people not fighting for a vote reform, to make voting on Sunday, like in every reasonable country?

Voting on Tuesdays is just designed to keep normal working people from voting.

How can you all be fine with that?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

What the fuck! Whichever day you vote, is a public holiday in my country. All institutions are obliged to do so.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

We Can barely hang on to the shitty voting system we have. I can almost never make it to polls (and often work Sundays) but I used to receive automatic mail in ballots. Now I need to apply for ballots early before each election and many politicians are fighting to make it harder and harder to do mail in. Women's reproductive rights have back slid, internet freedoms have become restricted, vaccines are being required in schools and hospitals less not more. This guy is talking about progressive reforms and we are here just trying to dig fingernails into basic rights.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

We vote by mail in my state. I love it. Me and The Wife sit down at the kitchen table and fill out our ballots together and then pop them into the mail and that's it. Granted, I live in a solidly blue state so my presidential vote basically doesn't matter anyway.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

A lot of us aren't fine with it. One side benefits when less people vote. Our government is absolute shit at getting things done because half of politicians elected want to hinder all progress.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It makes extra sense because it includes ages 0-17

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Votes for people 0-17 count double so they should vote extra hard.

No I don't have any idea what they're talking about either.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They're assuming (probably correctly) that a lot of people under 28 won't vote, and that (probably less correctly) they'd vote Democrat if they did vote. So if Trump wins and they pass a random 28 year old on the street, they're thinking there's a good chance that person is partially responsible for Trump's win.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Appreciate the clarification

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

People 18-28 vote least frequently in the US

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Ok that makes more sense thanks. 28 seemed very arbitrary but if the statistics say so...