Rudd plans to lower voting age to 16 (4 Viewers)

[chelsea girl]

no, he is great. he LOVES me for my MIND.

basically he is a REAL MAN.

 

[John McCain]

Copkiller isn't eloquent enough to be dom. Could be wrong.

 

[S.H.O.D.A.N.]

Copkiller isn't eloquent enough to be dom. Could be wrong.

His style is definitely different to dom's.

Also, sorry for the rage guys.

 

[chelsea girl]

dom is not particularly eloquent.

he is too gung-ho about it all. it's headache-inducing stuff, really.

 

[copkiller]

What is dom's username? I want to read some posts by the guy who is supposedly like me but more eloquent.

 

[S.H.O.D.A.N.]

What is dom's username? I want to read some posts by the guy who is supposedly like me but more eloquent.

He wasn't more eloquent, just more aggressive.

I'd suggest reading Schroedinger's posts instead. Every single one of them.

 

[dieburndie]

What is dom's username? I want to read some posts by the guy who is supposedly like me but more eloquent.

I disagree that he is more eloquent. His username is zimmerman8k

 

[copkiller]

I don't give a fuck if my posts are eloquent or not. If you want to post in NCAP, debate what I say based on whether it is logical and supported by evidence or gtfo.

 

[katie tully]

I was going to argue in the negative (re: dom) but the *name* copkiller is a definite Dom hallmark

 

[SylviaB]

Let's see some of the hard-hitting issues in NCAP that justify a thread about major electoral reform being classed as "off-beat":

-A thread about why atheists don't go to heaven

- A thread about the recognition of Muslim holidays

-A thread about the use of the word "gay" as an insult

-A thread about young people voting on some rubbish climate change thing


yeah great job mods

 

[katie tully]

wah wah wah

you dickheads can still find the thread yeah? it hasn't disappeared from sight, no?

then stfu

 

[Planck]

such typical Young Liberal hostility.

social democrats would never resort to such aggressiveness!

*some spiel about coercive with guns redistributive rah rah *

 

[Planck]

I'd suggest reading Schroedinger's posts instead. Every single one of them.

They're all gone and they're NEVER coming back.

 

[David Spade]

dom wouldnt have it in him to kill a cop though

Edit: didnt doms posts get deleted also

 

[Planck]

Automatic enrolment processes, whereby personal details provided to other government agencies are used to place people on the electoral roll, are suggested as a remedy to the problem where the Australian Electoral Commission does well at removing wrongly enrolled voters from the roll but less well at getting unenrolled voters on there in the first place. It is noted that the NSW government is examining such a mechanism for its “Smart Roll” project, utilising high school students’ details from the NSW Board of Studies.

I really, really don't like this.

The Howard government’s indefensible move to close the electoral roll almost immediately after the issue of the writs is set to be at the very least reversed. There is discussion of pushing the closure even later into the campaign, which technological developments have made easier to achieve, and even of allowing registration on election day, as occurs in Canada and some places in the United States.

But I do love this.

 

[katie tully]

Social democrats are too busy eating the shit under their toe nails to have any real clue about what's going on in the world.

Yum, organic.

 

[Uncle]

if minors are allowed a sex change lowering the voting age to 16 shouldnt be a problem

 

[HumanDichotomy]

How do you expect people to want to be involved and aware if all people do is condemn and patronize their enthusiasm? Government policy impacts on a vast majority of sixteen year olds, why not allow them to have their say?

Exactly. The goal should be to empower and inform as many people as possible (not just 16 year olds) not to just assume they don't care. That sort of thinking is likely to add to people's sense of disempowerment and apathy. When I was 16, apathy about political issues wasn't 'cause I didn't care. It was 'cause I knew I couldn't do anything about it.

I can't believe people's cynicism on this issue. Honestly, we live in a nation where young people are being encouraged to become empowered and have a say. That's pretty damn awesome.

 

[gorgeoussmile]

Compulsory <18 voting would be a fucking nightmare

If it's optional, then you're really only going to get kids who give a shit about politics who will be voting.


Sadly however they will all likely be dumb liberals (as in opposed to conservatives) who will vote for Rudd because of global warming and for trying to stop those 'big evil greedy corporations' :'(

Why would people who want to vote liberal vote for rudd?

 

[occer]

Liberal ≠ Liberal Party.

At all.