Is it time to rethink suffrage laws?

[Fluminator]

We tried giving suffrage to all, and look at where the world is now. I think we need to filter out the voting pool before things continue to progress at this rate.

- Can't be older than 60. You're going to die soon, and we can't trust you with the future anymore
- Can't have more than 100 million dollars. You're a bad person if you have that much, so I don't trust you. (You're still going to bribe policy makers anyway so it's not like you'll be hard up)
- Can't be a male with testosterone levels higher than the human average
- Can't be someone who uses the word "female". I would never trust someone who uses that term to describe a female
- Anyone who hasn't read at least 100 pages of Roman Republic history

Any other ones I'm missing? Let's fix democracy

[Octavious]

Simple solution. We keep the one man, one vote tradition... but extend the one vote across elections and television shows. You can use your vote for your favourite Eurovision song, or political party, or sports personality of the year, or X Factor contestant, but only ever one of those things. That way we can effectively remove the sort of unthinking numpty from the system and finally have a Eurovision Song Contest with a worthy winner!

[President Eden]

I think we need to repeal suffrage altogether. It’s absolutely barbaric that we continue to legislate state-mandated suffering. It’s, like, 2021 man.

[MajorMitchell]

"We tried giving suffrage to all, and look at where the world is now"

I wasn't aware that the entire adult population of the world had ALL been voting in relatively corruption free elections, this is encouraging news regarding those enfranchised(?) citizens of numerous totalitarian or corruptly dysfunctional nations, they have the Oppressors for whom they voted.

The breathtaking leap of causality, the current state of our world is entirely the result of democracies in action, no other influences, causes exist that have shaped our societies, nations and world. Zuckerberg won't like hearing that, or the Media Magnates, poor Rupert Murdoch, decades of wielding power for zero effect?

That causality link from Fluminator, from wildly inaccurate claim about universal suffrage existing to our current global circumstances, that intellectual concoction from Fluminator is outstanding on the imaginative input yet perhaps a deficiency in logic reveals Fluminator's purpose, it's a prankish fishing exercise.
Such a surprise? Not seen before from Fluminator?

[Fluminator]

I was talking about America MajorMitchell. When I say "the world" I obviously mean America because the world is kind of irrelevant beyond the borders of the greatest nation on the earth.

[Jamiet99uk]

Shouldn't this be in the "Politics" subforum?

[Octavious]

Shouldn't this be in the "Politics" subforum?

If you think that it's a serious post, certainly. Do you?

[Jamiet99uk]

Shouldn't this be in the "Politics" subforum?

If you think that it's a serious post, certainly. Do you?

Almost nothing Fluminator posts is serious.

[epstein]

Honestly I'd thought trolling was against the site rules. Rule enforcement in this game is uneven, however.

[Octavious]

Trolling? In what sense is it trolling? It's just gentle humour, no different to some absurdist fun at a debating society.

[epstein]

Nonetheless I find it gender insensitive.

[Fluminator]

I knew epstein didn't kill himself.

[epstein]

Careful, you'll blow my cover!

[MajorMitchell]

You're correct Octavious, it's absurdist comedy from Fluminator. Perhaps like The Tourist's first innings at the Gabba?

[mitomon]

Taxes too, don't forget to rid the world of those

[Johnny Big Horse]

Read Starship Troopers by Heinlein. You all probably did already.

To vote you have to have fought in a war. Otherwise, no vote for you.

[Randomizer]

Read Starship Troopers by Heinlein. You all probably did already.

To vote you have to have fought in a war. Otherwise, no vote for you.

Which disenfranchised pacifists, Quakers, and those physically unfit for military service.

It would better to require a civics exam which would disenfranchise in the US the Trumps and most of his supporters

[Wusti]

Churchill comes to mind.

[Kakarroto]

To vote you have to have fought in a war. Otherwise, no vote for you.

*sad swiss noises*

[Jamiet99uk]

To vote you have to have died in a war. Otherwise, no vote for you.

Sensible.