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> Democracy is an engineering exercise, just like any other system. God, tech people should have stayed in basements.
by wolvesechoes 2mo ago
> Democracy is an engineering exercise, just like any other system.
God, tech people should have stayed in basements.
- hollerith 2mo agoThe person you're quoting is a lawyer.
- rayiner 2mo agoI was a basement dwelling tech person first. I don’t know when techies got soft, but back in my day we were like “remove all the warning labels and let god sort it out.”
- Jtsummers 2mo agoA lawyer who has, in the past, said only property owners and people with at least two grandparents born in the US should be allowed to vote (which excludes him by the second criteria). He's been an advocate for disenfranchisement for a while now. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46885305 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46885305
- TimorousBestie 2mo agoI do believe the “we have to strip voting rights from the poor in order to save the poor” framing expressed in this thread is new, however.
- Jtsummers 2mo agoIt is new, but it's not that surprising given his stated positions in the past.
- rayiner 2mo agoIf you think poor people know what’s best for them, how do you think we should decide vaccine schedules for kids? We should have online voting on it with universal franchise, right? We have the technology now. If you don’t agree we should do that, explain why you think we should gatekeep such an important decision instead of letting people decide what’s best for them?
- TimorousBestie 2mo agoSorry, did you intend to link this reply to a different comment?
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- Jtsummers 2mo agoI'm just pointing out that you have advocated, repeatedly, for the disenfranchisement of people (including yourself, which leads to a question: Do you practice your current right to vote, or stand by your conviction that you don't deserve that right and so don't vote?. And your plan for disenfranchisement includes cutting you off from the vote, but not your children, but could disenfranchise your grandchildren. How that'd work: You were not born in the US (per many, many past comments you've made here). Your wife was (also per many, many comments). Your parents were not, but your wife's parents were, so your children get the right to vote (they have two grandparents born in the US). If your child marries an immigrant or the child of immigrants, then their children would be deprived of the right to vote despite the fact that one of their parents had the right to vote. Your grandchildren would only have 1 grandparent (your wife, their grandmother) born in the US, so you think they wouldn't deserve the right to vote. How is this possibly a reasonable system? Have you told your children yet that if they don't marry the right kind of people that you don't think their children (your own grandchildren) deserve the right to vote? You're no better than the Jim Crow pushers of old.
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