The context the irrelevant stuff offers…
…Does it tell them millennials are lazy because they can’t afford to have a family and own a house on a single income?
(Yes it does.)
…Does it tell them that being LGBTQ+ is wrong, immoral, and they should not have equal rights?
(Yes. It does)
…Has the experience of fighting fascists in a war stopped them from being fascist, or from supporting genocide?
(No. It does not.)
if you have two fletner rotors, you can attach two lights and and a giant face statue to it and make people really regret that bottle of rum.
Nope. I answered the question- just one- but that they won’t because they believe trump took care of it. (IMO it’s more damning that way.)
Having younger people being bribed vs. older people and having term limits on those younger people is supposedly going to accomplish something, but I’m not really sure what.
age has nothing to do with being bribed. that’s a distraction.
As for wisdom, age has little to do with that, too.
do you really want me to list all the fucking stupid, unwise, and vile policies being pushed by mostly-old-people, who’ve stopped giving a fuck about their legacy because they already got theirs and pulled the ladder up?
Edit: Again: the only functional difference is that you think it’s appropriate to shit on younger people. That’s it. Every medical justification you use to do so… can be applied to anyone over 30, and especially anyone over 60. Any justification about “experience” can be ignored since most of that doesn’t even apply to the modern world.
You act as if they would suddenly lose representation. Which is not true any more than anyone under 30 is not already represented.
There is no legitimate argument you can make that justifies one but not the other. None.
huhuh.
If that’s true then why hasn’t god smited trump? whose objectively awful, but acting in his name? or any of thousands of preachers who are pedophiles? Why are they still allowed to be preachers and pedophiles raping kids?
gonna fix that for you…
how many Republican Senators does it take to change a light bulb?
Just one. But Trump has told them he already changed it and they applaud him in the dark.
I honestly don’t have a great answer for this.
Town halls work. Speeches, work. meeting with constituents in any of a dozen formats… works. hell, even an AMA somewhere.
Personally, we should replace debates with MarioKart64 competitions.
The problem isn’t old people in office. I’ve known a lot of 80 year olds who are still with it mentally, and while they are slower physically they make up for it with their experience and wisdom.
And I’ve known a lot of very wise 12 yo’s in my time. Should we start letting 12yo’s run for office? what about 22 yo’s? what about a 32 yo president?
for someone whose 80, over half of their experience does not apply to the world we currently live in, anyway.
Yes. We should have anti-corruption laws being reliably forced, and have anti-corruption laws strengthened.
that won’t happen if all the good ones leave because they can’t afford to live in DC.
Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité!
They’re not different things though. The only difference between one arbitrarily established limit and the other is that you think it’s okay to shit on younger people.
They’re both extremely arbitrary limits based on some expectation that a 29yo is unable to be a reasoning, empathic human being but a 30yo can. It’s not even based on medical science. It’s based on a cultural belief that old people are somehow wiser and more experienced.
Oh, and since you brought up the development of the prefrontal cortex, the human brain begins to show signs of deterioration as early as the thirties. with cognitive declines related to aging becoming pronounced and obvious around the sixties. so fuck off with that.
a kind, empathetic and compassionate 20 year old is going to be a better congress person than a 50 year old whose not.
Oh, and by the way, a person born in 1945… half of their experience predates the modern world, and the quality of one’s experience is far more important than the extent of that experience. (for reference, such a person would be 80 years today, and would have been 46 when the first webpage went live. they would have been 58 when MySpace went live.)
the majority of their experience applies to a world that no longer exists. In every way relevant to modern governance, their preconceptions and understanding of the world is- generally- a world that is gone.
This is why so many of them believe that young families can afford a house on a single income if they just went and got a fucking job. Because they could and did.
There are exceptions to this, so don’t even bother listing them. I don’t care. Because any hard limit you set is not going to fucking care. and all of that brings us back to… both limits are either aegist, or not aegist.
And lets be clear, you’re worried about a 24 yo going off and starting a war because their brain is underdeveloped, but ignoring that a person with dementia is a paranoid fucker, and makes that 24yo look positively saintly.
there is a problem with minimum wage, yes.
but you’re solution isn’t a solution. it will lead to the exact opposite of what you want. even more so than now.
there are not-corrupt senators. There wouldn’t be if they couldn’t afford to live.
If an upper limit is ageist, then so is a lower limit. But you wouldn’t think that having a 14 yo in office is a prudent thing. You probably never balked at the 30 yo limit for senate.
the minnimum wage thing only means that the people that go up for the job are the corrupt bastards cutting favors and deals.
Like the minions? No. He does it in the executive boardroom. Even when he’s having an affair, he still working. You know. Giving presentations and, uh, stuff.
The message of the headline “so you should, too.”
The problem is that it’s a lie.
my pizza joint is the kind of place that republican pedos would catch fire in.
it’s not a miracle or even an accident. They’d set them on fire.
you progress to the cat test.
Did I say that? You are putting words into my mouth.
They are, however common views, and serve as an excellent example of how that “context” isn’t always a good thing.
If you’re gonna sit there and say anyone under x age is immature - and that’s exactly what you’re saying- then I get to say anyone over y age is decrepit.
And i think you understand that point. It doesn’t matter if it’s universally true- it’s true enough, on both sides the issue.