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Syldon ,
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The world could use more celebrities doing this. Kudos to her.

mkhopper ,
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True, but it’s sad that some people need a celebrity to be the impetus to get them to register.

Syldon ,
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Part of that could be cured in the education system. The two main parties in the UK are happy that the country has an ignorance regarding the importance of voting. The US is very much the same. It is much easier to pander to a small voter base. If the kids start voting then this pushes strategies into the long grass.

P1r4nha ,

It’s an aging voter base with an average age around 50, maybe even older. Sure, it’s great younger people finally go voting, but a majority will always be older for the coming election cycles.

Syldon ,
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Shouldn’t be like that imo. We should be educating kids better.

P1r4nha ,

Educating a dwindling numbers of young people won’t help if the whole population grows older and older. Baby boomers are pulling the average well above 50 and are more reliable voters (despite educating young people). You gotta convince the boomers of voting for a future.

Syldon ,
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I hate this idiotic boomer generalisation. It has no foundation in anyway shape or form. It is just culture wars that people buy into. Yes older people vote more, but they have the same statistics when they were young as the young do now. They haven’t spent their whole lives voting selfishly. In the UK the only reason you have more boomers in the group is because the group is based on 18 years and not 15 like the other groups. When you average out how many are in each group by year they come in 3rd lowest. The highest is the gen X. By the time these people were 18 they were not even the largest group then. People die leave the country and other emigrate in. It is just a stupid fallacy people have latched onto.

P1r4nha ,

Don’t call them boomers then. Call them people over 50 or 60… they are a majority demographic-wise. Younger immigrants can’t vote, so even asking young people to vote you still have a majority of old people that can vote.

Syldon ,
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Don’t call them boomers then. Call them people over 50 or 60… they are a majority demographic-wise.

What? I responded to your reference. There are also more people under 50 than over 50. That is just plain ridiculous.

Baby boomers are pulling the average well above 50

Please show me where you are getting this from.

Younger immigrants can’t vote, so even asking young people to vote you still have a majority of old people that can vote.

What has immigration to do with age demographics? You are attacking people of a certain age with a generalisation then throwing a totally different issue into the mix in a feeble attempt to reinforce that argument.

P1r4nha ,

Here’s the source you’re asking for: pewresearch.org/…/what-the-2020-electorate-looks-…

Voters are getting older. I bring up immigrants because they may skew overall demographics and median age, but not that of eligible voters.

What people am I attacking exactly and how?

Syldon ,
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That is voter share, that does not indicate that there are more over 50s than under 50s.

clutch ,

America - where celebrities tell you how you should fulfill your civic rights, since Reagan times

catfish OP ,

ominous shit right here

jordanlund ,
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Can you imagine Beyonce? They would need new servers.

Aceticon ,

What a fucked-up world we live were people will do or not do stuff because celebrities tell them to, double fucked-up when the celebrities have to tell people to do what they should already have done :(

Syldon ,
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As I have already said, this should be part of our education system.

Aceticon ,

IMHO if children were taught Skepticism (the proper one, not the Denialism that some morons try to pass as Skepticism) we would end up in a much better world.

Syldon ,
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Germany promotes critical thinking in politics.

RickyRigatoni ,
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You won’t be saying that when she tells her fans to elect her as president and to give her emergency chancellor powers to give herself unilateral control of the galactic senate.

Mr_Blott ,

God, are you one of the guys she dumped? 😂

quack ,

So that’s how liberty dies. With thunderous applause :(

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