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Look we have plenty of long term officials in Congress.

It’s a train wreck. Their plans enacted insulate them from real work and threaten the public with repercussions for not doing the work they won’t.

It was tried. This is the result; another nostalgia obsessed group of elites an gerontocrats bleating story and words of power that are nonsense.

We should ban old people from roles that impact the next generations they won’t be around for.

It’s tacit ageism against the youth but no one will call it that.

It’s shocking how kowtowed we are by people we’ve just seen have no ability to support themselves without abusing workers. So much for American memes of self sufficiency. Their self sufficiency is still based upon dumping on lower castes.




We're voting right now in Switzerland about giving voting rights in some areas to 16yo. A common rhetoric against that is calling them "manipulation mass for the left". Of course that's conveniently ignoring the manipulation mass of the conservative right, the 70+ which vote having a completely different horizon in mind.




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