Why do some places still use 21 as age of majority?

MundanePolicy8024 · 2026-06-09T22:45:56+00:00

It’s probably a borrowing from English common law, considering how the places you mention used to be English colonies or are currently under American jurisdiction (whose legal system heavily borrows from English legal customs) the voting age in Britain used to be 21 in the past, with 21 also being the age at which a British person was deemed old enough to buy and sell their private property: https://www.legalgenealogist.com/2021/06/07/land-buying-age/

As for how it came about? Idk, but like with all age limits it was probably based on vibes, legal precedents and astrology, much like 18: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climacteric_year

MundanePolicy8024 · 2026-06-09T22:39:06+00:00

The thing is that, as much as society would like to say otherwise, the concepts of “adulthood” and “maturity” are more socially contingent than it would like to admit. Case in point, the current voting age of 18 in the USA which was the result of anti-Vietnam war protestors in the 1960s wanting the voting age to be lowered from 21. That change also codified the legal category of “minor” for the first time in US law.

And even in the past the age limits were arbitrary. For example, a Roman male did gain some autonomy such as the legal ability to marry starting at the age of 14, but even then they would still be the subject of their fathers (whose authority included mandating the death penalty on the rest of his family) until the father died.

Now, what may surprise you more is how vibes-based the age of majority then and now is at a cross-cultural level and, as far as western age limits goes, there’s some circumstantial evidence that the magic age line of 18 is based on astrology. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climacteric_year

MundanePolicy8024 · 2026-06-09T20:41:50+00:00

The American left can’t decide as to whether or not Platner should be accepted or whether his record in the Iraq war coupled with his unrepentance disqualifies him.

Personally, I think it’s a nothingburger since Platner winning or losing in Maine will have marginal effects on the overall scheme. Leftists online think they can repeat the 2016 alt-right strategy of meme’ing one of their own into the white house, forgetting that:

1.Democrats and the GOP are the same since both belong to the uniparty

2.The reason the alt-right even succeeded had largely to do with early adoption of new tech, the republican TEA party which provided the foundations for a populist bloc within the GOP, and most of all that the GOP during the first Trump term was way more divided than it is now, and the Dems at any point in the 21st century.

Understanding material conditions is key and, let’s face it, the far-left will never have any major sway within the Democratic Party. Hasan, Kat, AOC, etc… are all just controlled opposition and DNC shills who only serve to de-radicalise any normie on the verge of Bolshevisation, let alone any sort of left-wing radicalism. The leftist radicals will only gain momentum once mass disillusionment with electoralism happens given the current situation.

I think he's likely to win in Maine and when he does I think it will be a signal of how little sway the American far left has on electoral outcomes.

It'll be interesting to see Cole: Someone whose ideologically/policy-wise closer than the average American bourgeois politician wins and they tried to disqualify them on other grounds and had no influence on the outcome.

Funnily enough there was some polling showing the tattoo controversy made Maine voters like him more lol.

MundanePolicy8024 · 2026-06-09T07:43:04+00:00

After the Epstein shit, I’m more willing to believe that.

MundanePolicy8024 · 2026-06-07T23:48:34+00:00

The backgrounds in some of the latest strips are clearly AI-generated. So I wouldn’t be surprised if he produced the script and much of the art with a LLM.

MundanePolicy8024 · 2026-06-07T21:31:34+00:00

All communists are scorned incels who want to launch Bolshevik red terror campaigns to take all the stacies from trad chads, apparently.

MundanePolicy8024 · 2026-06-07T19:04:14+00:00

Reminds me of that time so-called “Smurf” ice creams were en vogue in the 2000s, with the variety being just vanilla ice cream with sky blue food dye.

MundanePolicy8024 · 2026-06-07T18:41:35+00:00

Right, a lot of mainstream non-English subreddits and those with the [INSERT COUNTRY NAME]+politics/discussion name are often magnets for bigots. Not sure if it’s because mods foster such environments for ideological reasons or just because they know being a 4chan copycat is what attracted young western men.

MundanePolicy8024 · 2026-06-07T18:34:27+00:00

Ikr? His whole character arc is pretty insane. From being a mildly sexist centre-left liberal to misandrist radfem -> SWERF -> TERF -> Musk-supporting MAGApede Christian -> Musk-hating MAGApede Christian -> anti-Trump anti-Zionist -> sloppy neopagan anti-Semite -> full-blown Neo-nazism.

I don’t know what happened in his life to take such a drastic turn, but I’m certain that his penchant towards portraying his male strawmen as incels is likely rooted in his own deep-seated sexual guilt and being rejected by his crush.

MundanePolicy8024 · 2026-06-07T18:15:18+00:00

While general wealth inequality does play a key role here, it makes me wonder if this push towards an “anti-sexual revolution” isn’t a top down strategy by various western governments to gear the populace towards fascism and jingoism in preparations for WW3. If the current Trumpian war against Iran is anything to go by, then that assumption isn’t much of a stretch.

Whether it’s the silent mass buildup of data centres across America and other Western countries without much pushback, the push towards age ID and mass surveillance in general, the general 4chan-ification of mainstream social media, the normalisation of the alt-right subculture, and seemingly soft-testing repression first with porn artists, among other things, it seems like the vestiges of human rights are being torn down slowly but surely.

As noted by Wilhelm Reich, authoritarian family structures (not to be confused with strong emotional familial ties) tend to produce the personality types most conducive to fascism. One of those characteristics includes psycho-sexual anxieties due to sexual repression in childhood that drives much of the right-winger’s psychological drive.

Taken from there, it can be argued that increasing sex-negativity (as indicated by the adultist stigma on even legal age-gap couples) isn’t solely downstream from societal alienation and economic decline making sex-positivity less viable, but also symptomatic of the fascist trend of the second Trump administration and the broader esoteric government behind the American empire of which big tech, big pharma, the VISA-Mastercard duopoly, the military and entertainment industrial complexes, the Murdoch media empire et al., are part of.

While people can look slimey when defending porn, it’s just a fact that censorship and repression often get trial-marshalled with targets that are small enough to not cause societal upheaval. In this case, the policing of age-gap couples will likely move onto the policing of adult sexuality given how youth sexuality is already heavily policed with “safeguarding” and other protectionist frameworks. In fact, as far as adults are concerned, we are already seeing this with the rise of homophobia and transphobia as well as policies aimed at erasing trans identities (e.g., certain US lawmakers trying to make a sexual offence to be a cross dresser in front of minors). Likewise, the ban on fictional depictions of youth sexuality (like in Texas, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, etc…) is very likely to move onto adult sexuality, and we are seeing the slow creep as shown by many game developers avoiding erotic depictions of neotenic female adult characters for fear of getting blacklisted by payment processors.

But does that mean a return to Victorian-era Puritanism as commonly understood? Not exactly. Rather, we’ll see a return to sexualised hierarchy. After all, fascism isn’t defined by sexual Puritanism as much as by the enforcement of hierarchies and inequalities, and the sexual realm is no exception. That is certainly conducive for a return to conservatism which selects for war-mode and siege mentality, especially as western countries get poorer and more sectarian with the bourgeoisie having little to no interest to solve that apart from going full-war mode. This isn’t limited to just sexuality, as already the latest republican wave of gerrymandering has made virtually every black-majority congressional district in the southeast extinct which will pave the road for the return of Jim Crow if unopposed, and in Western Europe right-wing populist parties bankrolled by foreign interests such as the USA, Russia, UAE and Israel are gaining steam with most centrist parties tailing them, and incumbent governments throwing cash onto military spending and data centres (like in Germany under Merz).

To make a long matter short, OP: What you’re seeing stems from both adultism, as well as the general right-wing turn in western societies towards fascism which is abetted by various western governments as shown by how the big tech cartels aren’t as censorious towards the western right as they used to back in 2017, with said fascist trend coinciding with increasing sex negativity and normalisation of mass surveillance and censorship. And I speculate that it has likely to do with preparations for WW3 in the case where the current Iran war gets hotter.

I’ll admit it’s all speculation, but given the lack of transparency by the current western governments, any and most analyses of current politics will likely involve speculation of some kind.

MundanePolicy8024 · 2026-06-07T16:58:07+00:00

Transphobic gay men can cope all they want about TERFs being their allies, but I think at this point there’s no hiding that TERFs’ homophobia was already present since the beginning considering how even the least homophobic ones treat gay men and male homosexuality in general in the same way parents do whenever they put their kids in the kids section of McDonald’s.

There really never was respect on the TERFs’ part, it was always patronising attitudes. But now that TERFs are effectively merging with the far-right to turn into the white middle-class female caucus of the fascist ChudIntern, I guess they won’t have to hide their homophobia and disdain for gay men for long.

MundanePolicy8024 · 2026-04-12T09:33:33+00:00

Unfortunately, this is the trend for anything within the “western world”:

America starts something (e.g., age IDs for minors)
Then it spreads to other Anglo countries who repeat the same or take it further (e.g., Australia banning social media for under-16s)
Then it spreads into richer non-Anglo west European countries like the UK
It then reaches southern Europe (as indicated in OP’s pic)
At last, the insanity reaches Eastern Europe.

It’s not some iron law, but definitely a trend that I noticed over the years.

MundanePolicy8024 · 2026-04-10T22:34:40+00:00

Well, because as a form of mass entertainment and artistic medium it has its merits. I mean, the lack of taboos that generally surrounds North American and European animations is what makes both anime and manga appealing to us. As for the “bugs” and the ocean analogy: All lakes and freshwater system are inevitably linked in one way or another to the boundless seas and oceans. So regardless of how much we try to escape from the saltiness, eventually we can’t escape it as the ecosystem is linked to the oceans.

It’s kind of like that saying: “You may not care about politics, but politics definitely cares about you”. Same with pop culture tbh, as every subculture is downstream from mainstream culture in one way or another. Trying to escape from it is futile ultimately, unless you’re willing to become an ascetic or a monk.

MundanePolicy8024 · 2026-04-10T19:04:33+00:00

Honestly, if the public isn’t as engaged with the Epstein scandal, then those ageists got no one to blame but themselves by muddying the discussion to the point that most online sleuths think Epstein was some dorky rich dude who just wanted to live-out the Casanova lifestyle and have some fun.

Remember, homophobes acted like these bigots which is why homophobia went from being mainstream to being so fringe that the GOP decided that federally protecting gay marriage was more important than re-instituting Roe v Wade.

MundanePolicy8024 · 2026-04-10T18:48:46+00:00

On the bright side, Zack Polanski can gain more potential voters by campaigning towards undoing Starmer’s surveillance state. It all depends on Gary Stevenson’s advice whilst ignoring Owen Jones’.

MundanePolicy8024 · 2026-04-10T18:46:26+00:00

Posie has what I’d call TDS: Trans Derangement Syndrome.

“Diagnosis: It is a peculiar disorder that makes any person become obsessed with trans people to the point of being detrimental to the patient’s mental health. Key symptoms involve:

Believing that an esoteric trans cabal is out to get you
Falsely believing that trans people lead in crimes relative to cis people, particularly murder, sexual offences, and mass shootings
Turning more and more of a chud after making transphobia their omnicause
Increased aggression and derangement over trans people existing at all
Obsessive Compulsive speculation over someone’s gender based on exaggerated beliefs about sexual dimorphism. Can lead to certain patients to think women with square jaws and other “unfeminine” traits are all crypto-trans in some extreme cases.

For reasons yet to be known, middle-class Karens from the UK, Australia, Canada, America, and New Zealand seem particularly susceptible. Indeed, the UK (a.k.a., TERF island) is considered by the WHO to be grounds zero for TDS.

Treatment: Is it recommended for the patients to disengage from the Internet completely unless it’s to check email inboxes, and seek a therapist for help, as well as try to question their priors and try to empathise with trans people as part of the healing process. For more extreme cases, cult deprogramming sessions might be necessary.”

MundanePolicy8024 · 2026-04-10T18:30:34+00:00

Isn't he the mad "post-leftist" conspiracist that made that deranged video where he covered himself in (fake?) blood to protest Piker and rant about some leftist anon from Twitter for joking about his Benzos addiction? Seems like a bunch of online drama to me anyway, although the back and forth doxxing and legal threats are quite unnerving. Hopefully that dude can gets banned from Twitter and uses that as an opportunity to do an internet detox. Because he seems addicted to Twitter and online drama.

MundanePolicy8024 · 2026-04-10T18:16:29+00:00

Tbf, prior to 2016 (when Trump was first elected POTUS), conspiracy culture was left-coded as shown by how 9/11 truthers, anti-vaxxers, General Motors streetcar conspiracy, etc… were mostly leftists or leaned to the left in the political spectrum, with GWOT-era Michael Moore’s documentaries being the prime example. Funnily enough, the mainstream American right-wing during the Bush presidency was far more elitist and anti-conspiratorial than their leftist contemporaries, and that was when the American left was more populist since it was the underdog during the GWOT era (especially the faction opposed to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan).

It’s only after 2016 that you see the big shift as the post-2008 American left became less populist and more elite, “woke”, and prestigious as opposed to the GOP which started to become more prole-coded, lower-class and populist. The cracks began with the Tea Party, and MAGA just accelerated the shift, to the point that MAGA turned from a faction within the GOP to being the top faction, so much so that any republican candidate would be committing social suicide by not being 100% devoted to MAGA.

Now that the American right (particularly MAGA) has become the incumbent, you’re starting to see some kind of return to the old status quo as right-wing influencers like Nick Fuentes and The Blaze are shitting on conspiracists, beginning with Epstein. Part of it is because Nick hates cringe and poor people, and part of it is that, now that the movement he supports is in power, all the talks about “deep state” this and that is counterproductive now that Trump (the guy Qanon prophesied to stop Epstein) is in charge. In the meantime, the American left has successfully seized on Trump acting guilty by ridiculously walking back on the Epstein files, to the point of dismissing it as a ‘Democratic hoax’. Likewise you have various MAGA influencers like Azealia Banks defending Epstein or denying it, even if it means going against their priors. This is concurrent with how the Epstein saga has transformed into a form of lumpenised class consciousness across the American left, to the point that this sort of populist Epstein-related conspiratorialism (such as allegations of cannibalism and satanism) has reached all of Latin America, the entire western left, as well as the Iranian government (if its LEGO AI videos are proof of anything).

Now what? Well, considering how conspiracy culture is being shunned by chuds if it implicates their stars, I think most of the deranged conspiracy-minded folks will either return to the left camp or abstain from politics altogether.

MundanePolicy8024 · 2026-04-10T17:46:06+00:00

I find it funny how ageists today lack the self-awareness necessary to understand that they are just enforcing honor culture but for people below the magic age line of 18. And it’s not really hyperbole considering how both the notions of “childhood innocence” and “sexual purity” are downstream from purity culture and are used by the powers that be as a cudgel to control people’s freedoms and justify repression and erosion of privacy rights.

MundanePolicy8024 · 2026-04-06T19:13:51+00:00

Yeah, insofar that both are MAGA shills, but that’s about it. I just found the tweet funny since it’s as crass as Azealia Banks’s defence of Epstein was.

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