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[–] 22 points 3 months ago (9 children)

These stupid people vote though. So…

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago* (7 children)

    Yeah thats a big problem tbh Nothing worthwhile is ever gonna change while stupid people can still vote...

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    For someone with your username, that sounds incredibly eugenicist (choosing who can vote), and more typical of someone who believes in liberalism to say (the elitism in blaming people who fall for the propaganda instead of the propagandists themselves). Surely this kind of language plays a part in disenfranchising people who are simply misinformed. Kind of counterproductive.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    Well it could be better if we could get more smart people to vote. But the smart ppl are too busy working.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Incorrect. The real solution is to get rid of stupid people. Most stupid people are just poorly educated, particularly in logic and critical thinking. There are very few courses that even touch on those topics, and the majority could easily be taught, especially at a young age. So why don't we? There are those who argue that we don't because that would harm those in power and as the years go by I find it harder to disagree with that assessment.

    Also, if you're smart and you don't see the value in taking the time to vote for those who aren't actively working against your best interests because you're too busy working, you're either stuck in a dystopian hellhole or you're not smart (in the area of critical thinking).

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I am not smart, but I voted for both NDP for the Provincial, and Federal elections. In my county, the results were both for Conservative. We got Doug Ford.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    We got Doug Ford because 22% of stupid people voted, but more stupid people did not vote.

    This is because the Ontario political parties are indistinguishable from each other and the left ignored workers.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 child)

    Ha ha ha, right. You will lose your war on stupidity so resoundingly, it will give you near-fatal perplexation.

    Stupidity is found uniformly across all classes and divisions of humans. Every percentile IQ has the same stupidity. Every social and financial class. Educating people doesn't make them do fewer stupid things. Giving people access to reason and logic doesn't prevent them from doing stupid things. Stupidity is completely orthogonal to the concepts you think oppose it.

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