Also, "ReTruths" are stupid
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Every time I see him speak or write, I wonder why they don’t have IQ tests for being president.
Cause for so many, having money is seen as a replacement for being smart.
They actually think that having money proves that rich people are smart. Had a dumb ass tell me a couple years ago that Musk must be smart, because he wouldn't be so rich if he wasn't a genius.
They had tests, but for active voting rights and for racist reasons.
“In order to receive your presidency, you must first answer this skill-testing question:”
Put a clown in the white house and he won't become a president but the white house a circus.
Someone said.
Actual clowns are smart,
I don't think IQ tests are regarded as a good test of intelligence anymore but I know what you're saying
A simple geography test would suffice "point on the globe where the country Zimbabwe is."
Ah man I failed and pointed to Botswana
Points are awarded like geoguesser. You receive 90 points for being close.
I should practice my africa geography though, definitely weakest in that region
Here you go
https://worldle.teuteuf.fr/
Because pseudo-science has no place deciding who gets to participate in their country's politics.
How about a cognitive health test for the elderly?
Incredibly subjective and prone to abuse. There is no world where that doesn't end up getting applied to whatever other "undesirables" the wretched and powerful decide shouldn't have a political voice.
Is it not telling that, historically, the only people that would agree with those sorts of limits on voting are racists, bigots, and fascists?
Lol of you're one of those... While I agree that IQ tests are indeed just as problematic as you described, watching my father in law decline so quickly and so low that he couldn't remember a word from a sentence he read less then a minute before tells me all I need to know. You want people like that making decisions for millions in the name of fairness?
Yes, I do. Because I understand that excluding them (a fraction of a percent of people actually voting) will inevitably disenfranchise much larger swathes of voters that already face discrimination in every other facet of their lives.
And what do you mean I'm "one of those"? Be clear if you're going to disparage me.
I hard disagree with those in cognitive decline be allowed in positions of power. I get what you're saying in a broader sense, but not in the very real sense that those people aren't capable of making logic based decisions for large groups of people.
It was less a disparaging comment and more of a descriptive one. You're a "can't see the forest for the trees" person imo.