Impassionata @ Impassionata @lemmy.world

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you've never actually advanced to the level of writing beyond "say things, get applause," have you?

well let me tell you, it's harder to make controversial points, but that's the only real work.

otherwise, you're just speaking into a mirror

https://lemmy.world/comment/3335897

When I was young I blamed previous generations too.

This is very precisely the dysfunction of the old: they think they've seen it all so they're unable to listen.

At least you will can rely on Matt Gaetz, Ron Desantos, Elon Musk to always do the right thing.

More old person histrionic dribble.

Are you really this incapable of recognizing the problem that geriatrics face? You're showing me precisely the problem I'm describing.

That's nonsense. But if it's all I have, maybe it's all you left us. The burning need to make sure the old people get out of office immediately.

You can demean it if that's all your old person flailing can do, but you can't shake that burning need.

Neither did I. I’ve been aware of and concerned about the greenhouse effect since the early 70s. I was part of the first Earth Day. I was around and active for a number of anti-monopolistic decisions.

And none of that will save you from your generation's failure. You failed and you're leaving a broken country to your offspring. Don't make that my problem. 65 year olds shouldn't be in office and that's the end of it.

If that hurts your feelings? good. It should. You should have to face your failure, and vote for age restrictions on people in office.

Your leadership didn't work. You led us here.

You want to alienate our allies. You are pushing a hidden agenda or you are a tool of those doing so. I am awake. You are a member of a cult.

This is incoherent old person rambling.

I can't hear your opinion over the upvotes I'm getting for my main comment

gen z didn't elect a russian asset to public office and then try to burn down the country with a fascist insurgency. wake up.

it's absolutely an inherent quality of being old. no not every 66 year old is unfit to fly a plane. but airlines don't let them fly. that's the way it is and that's the way it should be. stop whining about discrimination.

Age is absolutely the problem. Bickering partisan politics over 40 years led to a division in our country. The millennial conservatives I know are reasonable, the boomers aren't. Their minds went funny with too much fox news and that's just the plain facts.

Age limits are difficult.

They're not that hard, and they're simple and direct, and we already use them. Don't overcomplicate it.

In my opinion, you're too naive to participate in this conversation constructively.

But the leaders of this country aren’t trying to make the best country for 25 year olds. They’re trying to make the best country for everyone.

And they're failing, because they're old, and too many of them don't believe in climate change. It's not hard. Get all the old people out immediately.

It would have prevented the Trump disaster and that's really all I care about.

You're overthinking it. Babies can't run for office and that's a good thing.

Life extension has already begun redefining what "old" means: it means holding onto 40+ years of political bitterness and partisanship until a reality tv boomer has successfully divided us from our countrymen.

We can do both but the existence of one old lucid person doesn't mean we shouldn't be avoiding 65 year olds holding onto power. They're demonstrably worse at politics: you can tell because a reality tv boomer bumble is dividing our country and we're in a frequently hot civil war with an actual insurgency targeting power plants.

All of these equivocators about the issue seem to fail to understand what has actually happened with mass boomer dementia. That needs to change. Learn the party line: 65 or over, no more governing.

This kind of idpol idiocy is dogmatic. It's not ableist to keep babies from holding office and old people degenerate into babies. It's not hard to understand.

This is overthinking things. Old people do a bad job, this is obvious if you look at the last seven years of politics. Don't muddle the issue so we can fix one goddamn thing.

You're overthinking things. People over 65 are experiencing physical and mental deterioration and should not hold office. That's the end of the conversation, stop muddling the issue.