@slutmagazine

What's an anchor baby?

I'm not against the requirement to serve but it needs to go beyond that. You don't need to know anything about politics to be a chef, and your intelligence certainly doesn't need to be above average to follow recipes.

I have some arguments in favor of hereditary monarchy but let's save that for another time.

I just stumbled back here, noticed the back and forth you're having with @TiberiusBravo87 on the topic of types of government, which has evolved into discourse on the subject of citizenship and enfranchisement.

Tib's absolutely right, the late Robert Heinlein's "Starship Troopers" and the 90's sci-fi action flick adaptation directed by Dutch retard Paul Verhoeven, and scripted by Edward Neumeier are less about sci-fi action, and more about the philosophical discussion on concepts of responsibility and accountability of the individual fundamental to maintaining an ethically healthy, and morally balanced state or government, which in turn justly serves the populace.

A few years ago Sargon of Akkad did a lengthy, but fair summary of the philosophy of the story.

Honestly, I can definitely see the appeal to the formation of a real life Terran Federation, if a world government were to exist. A term of service to the state doing some filthy disgusting, mostly thankless job, and I can have the power through my vote to influence the state of affairs for millions of subordinate civilians. In some peoples mind, that might be an insane amount of power, but in the mind of a person who's had to submit to several years of placing their life in the hands of other people, some who might very well be idiots compared to me, forces you to recognize realities of a properly functioning ethical and moral society.

@slutmagazine What you are talking about is what is discussed in Starship Troopers. Yes, it's a sci-fi story, but the author tackles this issue. It's voting franchise. It has to be earned in that theoretical society. It's a very good idea that I agree with because exactly as you stated: 2-digit IQ niggers, Hitler-worshipping white methheads, latino anchor-babies that turned 18, and other general scum in society should not have the ability to nullify my well-educated and heavily researched vote.

Voting franchise is a set of conditions you need to meet to have the right to vote. A good idea is service. Cripple or not you can serve, maybe as a chef if you got a bad leg etc. but if you really want to and are of sound mind you can serve. Not meant to be easy, and those that earn it proven they have the best interest of the nation in mind. Or at least a much higher chance of having the best interests of the nation in mind, sorta like how a high number of veterans end up conservative hence the Biden admin considering white veterans to be a dangerous threat.

@TiberiusBravo87 I'm getting tired of semantics so I'll just get to the point. I don't think it makes sense for the average dumb ass to get to have equal say with someone who is both intelligent and educated as to political matters. So I don't think that doctors and engineers should have equal say with lawyers, and I don't think that Mr. Average IQ should have equal say with someone like @destraht or the average user of this forum for that matter.

As for pirate ships, didn't democracy work out pretty well there all things considered? These guys are literal violent criminals after all. Taking that situation, I would say democracy worked pretty well. How come? These are small communities with clear goals. Unlike trying to figure out an empire sized country of fifty states, each of which are the size of a country themselves on average, for the purposes of justice.