You should have an IQ and empathy test before you’re allowed to vote. Do you agree?

[Anonymous]

Yes

No

see results

Updates

+1 y

Edit: I’m not saying this is my opinion, I think this is an interesting take. Wanted to see people’s views.

[ohsheeT]

I don't know why but I really like this question because it is so funny in so many different ways because I think there's even more tests that needs to be taken.. . Like are you a follower or a leader.

Or a test. Asking out of the 57 0 something elected Federal officials how many of them have stood up to be great.

And that is the other 4,000 regular officials how many of them have stood up to be great.

. Or how many elected officials have been bought their vote has been bought for money that they can get reelected on in the following year.

I really do like this question because we need some sort of test to wake up everybody.

In the United States we have some of the brilliant most smartest the best leaders the best workforce the best of everything and we are last and everything so she taking care of our people and our elderly and our kids it's bullshit

[Kaneki05]

It don't solve anything so would be a pointless implantation. Here's a list of why is matters not.
Do you think one with high IQ and EQ can't be manipulated?
Do you think high EQ can't be the most single minded people?
Do you think high IQ means one can't choose wrong choices?
Do you think high IQ can't be stubborn?
Those without Empathy are sometimes better at critical thinking, while those with Empathy are sometimes clouded by their emotions, then sometimes it's the other way around.
In reality everything has two sides so all your doing is making less voters but the actual votes of what wouldn't change.

[Anonymous]

Yes. We can then eliminate almost all of the uneducated people that Trump loves.

[OlderAndWiser]

I don't want to put the pointy heads in charge.

[Asker]

Pointy heads?

[HawkPerception]

I honestly do. There's too many idiots out there that are selfish and do not care for anyone but themselves. There are some people out there that just want to watch the world burn.

I don't care if it's not fair that some people are not able to vote. Life is unfair and it will always be so. The IQ test should not be based on education level but how you process information and what kind of rationality/logic you have.

And who should make these tests? People who have more of a moral/philosophical inclination.

[Lliam]

No, because most people with high IQs are still as clueless and indoctrinated as the dumbest village idiot.

I know people with PhDs who think because they read the NYT and Wall Street Journal everyday, they are intelligent and informed. LOL

Also, the idea of IQ tests is similar to social Darwinism and eugenics ideology.

[Anonymous]

No, IQ will lose the Republicans their rural Americans but the Democrats their people in the housing projects

Empathy will lose the rest of the Republicans but you clearly desire a dictatorial state so will be cry tears of joy when Joey sells the USA to China and you become the property of USCCP

[Asker]

Huh? I wrote that this isn’t my opinion. Also I’m not from the US

[Opinion Owner]

Saying something isn't an opinion doesn't make it so
They eventually catch up with the rest of the world don't worry about that

[DextroShade]

I don't think anyone who doesn't have skin in the game should be able to vote, meaning you need to either be signed up for the draft, have served, or own property. I understand this would disqualify most women but considering how they vote that would be a good thing.

[OddBeMe]

Ehh…my literalness says no, tho my emotions say yes.

[Asker]

I understand that

[OddBeMe]

It would be nice. But sounds like poll taxes.

[dreamstar72]

No, but there should be a multiple choice of why you vote for that person, if your choice is because that is my party than your vote is disqualified

[normalice]

No. We have tried this before and by some completely unpredictable coincidence the people in charge of writing the tests always ended up winning re-election..

[shortster]

I think that the only requirement for voting should be paying taxes in the district you are voting in.

[meepmeeperton]

IQ test would end up barring a lot of racial minorities from voting

[JacobJordan]

Empathy has little baring on a vote. Iq absolutely. If you aren't smart enough to understand what is going on you aren't smart enough to vote

[ThaMaskedMarvel]

Naaah, the tests will be super rigged, just like the elections.

[exitseven]

No you just should have some form of government issued ID to prove your citizenship

[genericname85]

Do people with low intellect have no right to be represented by politics?

[RingOfFire]

Ridiculous.

Any government that would impose such a rule has no business governing.

[Anonymous]

what happens after the test? they get to vote? then, what's the point of the test?

[Juxtapose]

Absolutely not! I live here and I have a voice.

[Anonymous]

Empathy is not a good quality in this context.

[Asker]

Why?

[Opinion Owner]

You cast a vote for yourself alone, not on behalf of others. This would be an even more important distinction in an exclusionary voting system like what you're proposing.

[gorydetails]

The democrats wouldn’t like that.

[Syntosi]

Trump: I love the poorly educated (his voters)

Just saying...

[gorydetails]

@Syntosi The democrat president “Trump tells you to inject bleach.. no lie”. Democrats *clap like trained seals*

[Syntosi]

You mean, as opposed to MAGA which literally did just that after listening to Trump?

time.com/5835244/accidental-poisonings-trump/

[gorydetails]

@Syntosi you should really try to read the links you post

Even before Trump’s comments, accidental poisonings from bleach and other disinfectants were on the rise from Jan. 1 to March 31 of this year, according to the U. S. Centers for Disease and Control and Prevention’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, with people sanitizing surfaces, groceries, smartphones and more as a defense against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. Most of the poisonings were the result of inhalation of fumes, but there were ingestion cases as well, typically among children who got their hands on chemicals left out in the open.

[Syntosi]

There was a statistically significant rise directly after his appearance. Yes I did read it. Including the parts where it mentioned covid19, inhalation and such. I also read that that there was an increase in ingestion after Trump mentioned it. I can read after all, why do you even question this?

[gorydetails]

@Syntosi because it was on the rise already. Time just tried to pin it on Trump. You’re a moron if you think Trump told people to inject bleach.

[Syntosi]

No, thats not how this works. Yes, there was already a rise but the rise after Trump was large enough to distinguish it from the rest.

[gorydetails]

@Syntosi Didn’t they teach you correlation doesn’t imply causation in school? I get it. You’re desperate. CNN told you Joe Rogan was on horse paste and you believed it. Fauci told you 6’ social distancing was science. You’ve been wholly lied to for years and you have a hard time staying in reality.

[Syntosi]

Statistically significant increases means that its statistically provable.

[gorydetails]

@Syntosi Remember when Rolling Stone reported gunshot victims were waiting outside Oklahoma hospitals because of all the “horse paste” overdoses? Same vibe.

[Syntosi]

Again, statistically significant. The increase after Trumps little speech was not the same as the one before, there was a notable increase that can't be explained otherwise.

[gorydetails]

@Syntosi lol, sure.

[Syntosi]

Kinda funny how you reject fact while arguing over who is poorly educated.

[gorydetails]

@Syntosi I reject the wholly dishonest media.

[Syntosi]

Yes. Reject what your eyes and ears are telling you, I am sure that will lead you towards the truth.

[gorydetails]

@Syntosi My eyes and ears have told me many times that the media is wholly dishonest. Remember this oldie but goodie? "Trump called nazi's very fine people". "the covid shot prevents transmission of the disease" "Ivermectin is horse paste"

[Syntosi]

Ever heard of something called media literacy? While the headlines are usually incredibly embellished, all of those stories is based on true facts. For example Trump does maintain support among nazis and specifically avoids speaking out against them. He is only doing the absolute minimum to distance himself from their support so if the question is "Does Trump think Nazis are fine people?" Then the answer is probably yes because they vote for him.

I never saw anyone state that the covid shot prevents transmission. It might lessen it because it lessens the symptoms and period of sickness but it was never about lessening the transmission itself, that is the role of things like masks.

Ivermectin is a an anti-parasite drug mostly used in animals and by extension common among horses which makes the horse version, which is dosed and designed to work on a horse and not a human, the most easily accessible version of this drug. To get the human version you need to get it proscribed by a doctor and they are not going to do so for treating covid19 because that is stupid, hence why people kept using the animal version which is not rated to be safe for humans. Most notably the horse one because its so common.

[gorydetails]

@Syntosi Yeah, you're too much of a tool of the propaganda. You're a lost cause.

Point one
x.com/BruinJustine/status/1551659383481741312

Point two
https://x.com/imjdsharp/status/1648495598486847491

Point 3 - Ivermectin is a HUMAN medicine also effective for animals.
• Its discovery won the Nobel Prize in 2015
• Recognized, 2nd to penicillin, for having the greatest impact on human health
• Has brought river blindness to the brink of elimination
• Over 3.7B doses administered

And doctors are prescribing ivermectin to treat covid. Effectively.

[Syntosi]

1: I can give you part of the transcript of you want:
Reporter: "The neo-Nazis started this. They showed up in Charlottesville to protest --"

Trump: "Excuse me, excuse me. They didn’t put themselves -- and you had some very bad people in that group, but you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides..."

2: That was indeed a bad take, but also in the minority. Most news I saw during the time got this right, that the vaccine was not a perfect solution but another tool to protect people.

3: Ivermectin was discovered in 1975 and first used by veterinarians before it was approved for humans in 1987. Avermectin which is a derivative of Ivermectin was discovered in 2015. You are being confused here. Research has not shown any positive effects of treating covid19 and early research which indicated it has turned out to be fraudulent. If you want my two cents then someone had a financial interest in selling out for cash. Also its Ivermectin that is considered the "wonder drug" and not Avermectin, again you are confusing the two.

[gorydetails]

@Syntosi It's right in the video of what Trump said about nazis. It can't be any clearer.

2) absolutely not the minority. It was spread among the entirety of the media, crowed by the CDC. Your gaslighting is not going to work, son.

3) Weird that doctors are prescribing ivermectin for covid infections. YEs, someone absolutely had a financial incentive to downplay ivermectin treating covid.

[Syntosi]

1: Oh I agree. He is running defense for the nazis there by defending their positions and bringing up their arguments and the fact that he tries to cover it up by saying that they were totally wrong or whatever is not sincere.

2: It was the minority and it was pushed by host opinions rather than experts who contradicted them since day one.

3: Any doctor that prescribed ivermectin for covid19 should have their medical license revoked for malpractice. Its not even a question, that is a serious breech.

[gorydetails]

@Syntosi 1. lol, bullshit.
2. Not the minority AT ALL. It was stated by the CDC, the President, and every corporate news outlet
3) lol. For what? Prescribing something that works?

[Syntosi]

1: You say that but Trump immediately jumped in to defend the nazis by trying to claim there was good people on either side and that their motivation and arguments regarding the statues are correct and such things.

2: That is a complete lie.

3: To this day there has never been a scientific study that can prove that Ivermectin (or Avermectin) works against Covid19. Wrongfully prescribing medicine that has no evidence of working is a massive abuse of their position and also puts the patients health at danger without actually addressing the sickness in the first place.

[gorydetails]

@Syntosi no he didn’t and you are lying

2) no it isn’t. Here’s the CDC director saying people who get the shots don’t carry the virus, and don’t get sick
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uKf8dVxOy0s

Biden said the same thing

3) no, ivermectin is less dangerous than Tylenol. Weird that Chris Cuomo’s doctor just prescribed ivermectin for his “long covid”

[gorydetails]

Here’s a full three minutes of how you’re full of shit

x.com/.../1741562626910384253?s=61

[Syntosi]

1: I mean, I can give you more and more of the quote but it won't get any better you know.

Trump: "I’m not putting anybody on a moral plane. What I’m saying is this: You had a group on one side and you had a group on the other, and they came at each other with clubs -- and it was vicious and it was horrible. And it was a horrible thing to watch.

"But there is another side. There was a group on this side. You can call them the left -- you just called them the left -- that came violently attacking the other group. So you can say what you want, but that’s the way it is.

Reporter: (Inaudible) "… both sides, sir. You said there was hatred, there was violence on both sides. Are the --"

Trump: "Yes, I think there’s blame on both sides. If you look at both sides -- I think there’s blame on both sides. And I have no doubt about it, and you don’t have any doubt about it either. And if you reported it accurately, you would say."

Reporter: "The neo-Nazis started this. They showed up in Charlottesville to protest --"

Trump: "Excuse me, excuse me. They didn’t put themselves -- and you had some very bad people in that group, but you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides. You had people in that group. Excuse me, excuse me. I saw the same pictures as you did. You had people in that group that were there to protest the taking down of, to them, a very, very important statue and the renaming of a park from Robert E. Lee to another name."

Reporter: "George Washington and Robert E. Lee are not the same."

[Syntosi]

Trump: "George Washington was a slave owner. Was George Washington a slave owner? So will George Washington now lose his status? Are we going to take down -- excuse me, are we going to take down statues to George Washington? How about Thomas Jefferson? What do you think of Thomas Jefferson? You like him?"

Reporter: "I do love Thomas Jefferson."

Trump: "Okay, good. Are we going to take down the statue? Because he was a major slave owner. Now, are we going to take down his statue?

It is very clear that Trump is sticking up for the nazis.

2: Nothing in that video is false to my knowledge. There very likely was a study and that study might very well have had that result and their conclusions are correct.

3: You say that as if Tylenol (or Paracetamol which is the actual drug rather than the brand

[Syntosi]

Ops the text got cut off. Basically you say that Paracetamol, which is a pain killer, is safe which it is not. To my knowledge all pain killers are inherently dangerous so its a bad drug to compare safety with.

[gorydetails]

@Syntosi I’m saying that you are calling a drug that is one of the safest drugs ever produced (Ivermectin) is dangerous for doctors to prescribe. That is a complete falsehood.

Your trump quote leaves out the entire chunk when he says “except for the nazis”

your lying and gaslighting has no power here, child.

[Syntosi]

Well of course it is. Ivermectin still has negative side effects and can have serious health issues, especially if you take an animal version which has an entirely different dosage and can contain other substances that must be removed for human safety in the human version. After all, there is a reason why it requires prescription rather than being over the counter.

2: I already had to cut my message in two to fit that quote and I did not cut anything out in between. That is from start to finish a whole quote. But as I said, Trump makes the minimum amount of distancing from Nazis because he has to politically but he then turns around to continue defending them. For example:

Trump: "No, no. There were people in that rally -- and I looked the night before -- if you look, there were people protesting very quietly the taking down of the statue of Robert E. Lee. I’m sure in that group there were some bad ones. The following day it looked like they had some rough, bad people -- neo-Nazis, white nationalists, whatever you want to call them.

"But you had a lot of people in that group that were there to innocently protest, and very legally protest -- because, I don’t know if you know, they had a permit. The other group didn’t have a permit. So I only tell you this: There are two sides to a story. I thought what took place was a horrible moment for our country -- a horrible moment. But there are two sides to the country.

[gorydetails]

@Syntosi and nothing you posted even mentioned support for nazis.

And you aren’t even American. Worry about your own country.

[Syntosi]

Lets try this again but with feeling shall we? What were the nazis there to support? Is it perhaps exactly the things Trump defended in his interview? Almost like.. I dont know... Trump was defending every position the Nazis had as well as their right to hold those views? Saying Trump did not support the Nazis by name (which he kind of did anyways) and just supported everything they stand for is not very convincing.

[gorydetails]

@Syntosi And we'll try this again. Let's say you're at a family reunion. 500 people there. You're all having a good time cooking up soy burgers.

Some guy with a nazi flag shows up. By your logic, your entire family is nazis.

[Syntosi]

No, but Trump is like the dad who says that you are just as bad as the nazi and that everything the nazi believes in is correct.

[gorydetails]

@Syntosi lmao. Maybe if you live in your fantasy land that isn't connected to reality. I mean you're mentally gone at this point. The propaganda has scrambled your brain.

[Syntosi]

Why dont you read my quotes of Trump himself and just see that everything he said is in defense of the Nazis.

[gorydetails]

@Syntosi lmao. I did read the quotes where you left out parts that contradicted your propaganda.

[Syntosi]

I did not leave out anything. The only limitations were how damn long they are.

[gorydetails]

@Syntosi of course you did. you're wholly dishonest.

[Syntosi]

Fine then. Prove it. Where did I omit anything he said?

[gorydetails]

@Syntosi rump, Aug. 14, 2017: As I said on Saturday, we condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry, and violence. It has no place in America.

And as I have said many times before: No matter the color of our skin, we all live under the same laws, we all salute the same great flag, and we are all made by the same almighty God. We must love each other, show affection for each other, and unite together in condemnation of hatred, bigotry, and violence. We must rediscover the bonds of love and loyalty that bring us together as Americans.

Racism is evil. And those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans.

We are a nation founded on the truth that all of us are created equal. We are equal in the eyes of our Creator. We are equal under the law. And we are equal under our Constitution. Those who spread violence in the name of bigotry strike at the very core of America.

[Syntosi]

That is not even the same interview dude. What are you even talking about. The "Fine people" interview happened on August 15

[gorydetails]

@Syntosi you left out the part condemning the nazis. Because you are a propagandist. Not a truthful human.

[Syntosi]

No I did not. Prove it. So far you have not even found the right interview.

[gorydetails]

@Syntosi lol. No. I'm not playing your stupid games any more. At no point did he endorse nazis. For you to say otherwise is you fabricating bullshit. Just like you did on the covid shot and ivermectin. You are a wholly dishonest person. And not even American, so shut the fuck up about stuff you know nothing about.

[Syntosi]

What are you even talking about? I literally quoted him, word for word, and you are calling me dishonest when you can't even find the right interview? You are so incredibly uninformed.

[gorydetails]

@Syntosi lol. yeah, you are dishonest. At no point was there support for nazis or nazi positions.

[Syntosi]

Is not the protection of the statue a nazi position? Did not Trump oppose removing the statue? Does that not mean that Trump supports the same position as the nazis did?

[gorydetails]

@Syntosi no, you fucking idiot.

[Syntosi]

Oh really? What part of what I just said was wrong?

[virtualwasp]

thats the ideology hitler used

[Asker]

I think if people had empathy they wouldn’t have voted for him

[virtualwasp]

you are missing the point entirely, its like you are my colleagues at work.

[Asker]

Can you explain your point then?

[virtualwasp]

nah im not being paid.

[Asker]

Cool so you have no argument