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A private bill to give 16-year olds the vote is back in Parliament

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  • This. And I used to teach that age group. They seemed to be very invested in gaming, the opposite sex, celebrities, what their friends were doing, social media and music. Not sure those are the people who give two seconds thought to politics and there were a few who were socially aware and active on some key issues, but in general, nope, they're far too distracted to care enough to even vote.

    It takes time and these days, it takes some training to learn discernment in media messaging. Those skills come over time.

    • A private bill to give 16-year olds the vote is back in Parliament

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  • I understand the logic, that Parliament is making decisions that is going to affect the future lives of our youth, but I would worry about young people who have grown up devouring a steady diet of TikTok, youtube and Instagram making voting decisions before they've really understood how much the messages they ingest have been massaged, curated and shaped in order to manipulate them. There's far too much rage baiting, shilling and astroturfing on socials but the hard fact is that the really effective stuff is getting harder to discern and AI and algorithms are making it harder and harder to figure out what's real and what's not.

    • Pam Bondi fires US justice department’s top ethics adviser

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  • The attorney general firing her ethics advisor just as the most damning stories about Epstein and Trump emerge (again). What could possibly go wrong?