And that's a sad truth.

then again this also applies to a good chunk of the world population

The media makes us seem dumber than we actually are

And the state hasn't done anything about it.

i'm partly conflicted, as i think if a vote only affects you then you should have a say, but on society as a whole, somone a thousand miles away could influence who i'm governed by and that shit sucks

the danger of universal suffrage is underrated.

I believe the average American could be better educated but they are not dumbasses

Agreed

@Ronin is that if you include infants in the senile?

even if they're smart politics is a complex issue

a lot of people only care about one thing or get easily bribed with free stuff

If you have a state that state is authoritarian because it must enforce its laws in its areas

There is just less authoritarian

@DrRisen I honestly don't know.
I saw some vids about some guy asking if the US should bomb Agrabah and most people thought it was a real place.

you can various degrees of authoritarian, yeah

That’s fixed partially by Education and apply trust laws to political parties

@Ronin did he imply that Agrabah was anywhere specific?

@DrRisen Agrabah was the fictional setting from Aladin that sounded vaguely real.

They ask 40 people

And take the 4 dumbest

i mean, it sounds like it's in the middle east and so it probably sounded real

"Authoritarianism or Libertarianism? Why? What are the advantages and disadvantages of Authoritarianism and Libertarianism?"

Libertarianism

even with education some people get easily bribed.
there are also vast sections of society that refuse to educate or vote for somebody based on race

I don't need to answer why I'm too cool for that

@Ronin So did people want to bomb Aladdin or not?

#bombaladdin

> @Ronin So did people want to bomb Aladdin or not?
@DrRisen the point was that they thought it was a real place

if i understand correctly

@DrRisen most repubs asked wanted to bomb it, and most dems thought the US should take in refugees
in other words expect cartoon refugees

Driven out one Arabian night...

I proposes we build a wall to keep the genies out

@𝖃𝖆𝖛𝖎𝖊𝖗 correct

**Syrian refugee hiding in the woods of their native Agrabah from chemical airstrikes** *(circa 2018, colorized)*

Society

Jokes on you Disney’s deserves to suffer

They are a monopoly in the making

And they dun fucked up copyright

but also, problems i see with having only politically conscious individuals vote is ensuring that they actually are politically educated. This has its own problems of who is doing the educating, what kinds of tests are in place to make sure people are politically aware and know who made those tests and how they're educated, etc.

@Ronin how could you turn down such an innocent refugee? You can see the fear in his hideously deformed eyes!

The way I see it is that democracy and libertarianism can only work in a utopia or homogenous society where the people all work together to a common goal.
The thing is that the west isn't that.

And it makes it SUPER easy to only let people of certain opinions vote