• @Contravariant
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    21 hours ago

    It’s one of those safe-guards that democracy implements that’s currently having rather unintended consequences.

    The reasoning is that taking away voting rights is far too easy to abuse, and if a majority of people agree with whomever you wanted to prevent from voting/getting elected then you’re fucked anyway.

    Which, incidentally, is looking like a very real possibility right now.

    • @rdri
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      117 hours ago

      That reasoning is missing a crucial part: even if you’re fucked anyway, why is it still okay to put a criminal in charge? Will it improve anything? Or do we think of the “fucked” condition very differently?