Did… did this person just say that unemployed people shouldn’t get to vote?
If those people could read they would be really upset: even unemployed people pay taxes. Even children! Or do they not pay value-added tax when buying groceries, fuel tax when fueling their car or property tax¹
¹ Of course they pay property tax even when living in a rental unit. The landlord calculates rent with such expenses in mind.
Matt Walsh is a self described Christian-Nationalist fascist. So that’s expected from him.
What’s also expected is that he’s a creep who obsesses over the fertility of 16 year old girls.
It’s Matt Walsh. He knows that sharing his actual views would lose a portion of his female and non-white viewers
Unemployed people pay taxes
Yes
It’s Matt Walsh…
Literacy tests and similar are a terrible idea.
Yeah we did this during the Jim Crow era and it was a bunch of trick questions designed to stop black people from voting.
Okay but what if we auto-passed everyone willing to say they’re officially legally not white on a form?
How would that help?
Well I have no problem saying whatever, but anyone who’s proud of it probably doesn’t need to be involved in society.
I think people are severely misunderstanding you.
Yeah I have trouble talking down far enough.
Ironically enough, why we don’t have poll taxes and literacy tests would likely be on a 8th grade civics exam.
God, yes.
I’d settle for not a criminal nor foreign intelligence asset. Intelligence used loosely.
We should let felons vote. It’s become a feedback cycle of racism and disenfranchisement. Voting is a right, not a privilege.
id say that letting convicted criminals vote could help get convicted criminals elected but uh… yeah
Doesn’t work that way in reality. It is more about people being convicted on small charges en mass to keep them from voting.
Or
I don’t think most Trump voters in 2024 were convicted criminals.
sure, just said it so i could make the joke
If you can take rights away from one person, you can take those rights away from anyone. If voting is a right, then it must be a right for all.
If prisoners can vote for someone to free themselves from prison, you’ve jailed too many people and a fuctional society shouldn’t be jailing that many prople.
The US doesn’t allow prisoners to vote and the US has the more people in prison than any other country in the world. And now there’s a huge police force being built up that targets the places that didn’t vote for the current President.
And who determines who is a “foreign intelligence asset”? Maybe we should check your phone and see what you’ve posted on the internet to make sure you’re not a foreign intelligence asset. You don’t want the government checking your phone? That proves you shouldn’t aren’t trustworthy enough to vote!
who determines who is a “foreign intelligence asset”?
Foreign Intelligience, who have confirmed Trump was a Russian Asset first scoped out in the 80s and again when the Russians interacted directly with Trump’s 2016 campaign and ran indirect psyops on FaceBook.
I’m all for letting prisoners vote, I just don’t want a guy whose crimes include trying to overthrow democracy into the fucking White House, even for simple things like Tourism.
Can we pull up matt’s tax records and see if he pays?
Or give him a civics exam?
Unrelated, butt fuck this dude for besmirching the good name of “Matt Walsh”!
That dude is an amazing actor and doesn’t deserve to be in the same orbit as this fuck wit.
I think about this every time I see this goon’s name. Matt Walsh is a comedy legend. UCB co-founder
Every voter already is a taxpayer, you dolt.
They are, presumably, referring to trump not paying taxes, not ever releasing his own tax returns, and his organization being convinced and tax fraud, admitting to mortgage fraud, and countless other examples of his financial fraud over decades. You dolt.
No, it was Matt Walsh, a self confessed fascist. He was not being ironic
My comment is directed to Matt Walsh’s tweet.
I’d settle for Matt Walsh shutting the fuck up forever.
Omg I love literacy testing it’s my favorite way to arbitrarily block people based on physical characteristics the local ruling party doesn’t like
I didn’t have a civics class at all and I don’t think its legally required
Every appointed office is occupied by a person selected ant random every three years.
That way we have to make sure everyone can do every job.
Specialization is for insects.
expertise and experience is extremely valuable and can only be gotten through specialization. jack of all trades master of none situation
i will add that i like the lottery idea and its backed up by studies (or a study idk how many)
What we need is a jury who can decide to allow or block individual bills (one jury per bill).
The average person doesn’t have the experience to write bills, but they do have empathy to understand when a bill is unjust.
Not everyone can do everything. The unfortunate truth is that not every person is capable of performing every task. Even leaving out things classically called disabilities some people just can not hold a rhythm no matter what. Some are unable to grasp higher level math. People are unique and that is why specialization is critical for humans.
Not everyone can do everything
Not with that attitude
Let’s include all elected positions in that, and all newscasters while we’re at it.
What? Anyway, here on my friend’s t phone, eating t stakes at the world famous t casino while reading about the latest thing that starts with a t. Can’t say the entire name unless I want a fed visit and a red eye.
As a millennial, civics was never taught in my school. Had to learn that shit on my own.
Odd. I’m also a millennial and we started civics lessons in 3rd or 4th grade, then continued civics or some version of history until 12th. All of it american unless you took AP Euro
We had social studies in 5th grade and government for junior year. None of it covered how elections work, what our civil rights are, or covered much of what the Constitution and its amendments are.
I had to take AP gov before they even started covering any of the “behind the scenes” stuff like party primaries. Before that it was just “the Democrats and Republicans select a nominee for president and you can pick between the two.” Red states aren’t behind in education for nothing though.
