this is age-ism, but i really don't think anyone past 80 should be in charge of anything beyond self-care
this post was submitted on 13 May 2026
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Old people who are smart, retire and enjoy their later years as much as they are able. Shitty con artists grab on until the last breath of their rotting corpse. It's not about age, it's about character.
You don’t have to apologize. Fuck old people. Let them die miserably in their gold filled coffers which they can’t take with them when the worms are eating their innerds 6 feet under. Greedy fucks.
Well this seems unnecessary. It's not really about being old that makes these people suck.
This feels unhinged
I’m not a door, Frank.
Age-ism is valid
Bigotry is bigotry.
Because of course
"YOU and your classmates will be responsible for paying down the national debt."
Well, she is absolutely right about that. She should know, because it's her generation's fault.
Foxx, who voted for the spending bill that the Congressional Budget Office projected would add $3.4 trillion to the national debt, told a 10-year-old that he and his classmates would be responsible for paying it down.
How are these people in charge of anything?
We need age limits on politicians.
I'd thought about this and I came up with term limits instead. Holding office should be limited to 30 years over a lifetime. This should go across specific appointments such as federal reserve and senate.
This prevents people from just staying on forever and accumulating too much power and favors. It also increases the turnover of politicians a lot more without breaking continuity and getting rid of the most qualified politicians.
Not sure what the exact structure would be but I'd also increase the senate term lengths but add a 2 term limit. Governors also 2 term limits, house of reps 7 terms and president 2.
I believe 100% that people in power become more corrupt over time and this fixes that but allows for long careers.
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And term limits
Term limits are stupid, if the person doing the job currently is neither incompetent nor corrupt then there's no benefit to swapping them out. As long as you can vote them out if and when they stop doing a good job there's no good reason not to let the same person keep doing the same job til they retire, and if you can't then your system is already fucked.
The lack of limitations seems to be doing just fine with the supreme Court.
Plenty of elected positions in the US have term limits and none of them are any less corrupt, term limits don't do shit
Nah. Term limits help prevent the creation and perpetuation of "good old boy" clubs. Quite honestly, it is better to have an inexperienced but well meaning rando, than an expert who makes a habit of lining their pockets with their experience.
Term limits don't prevent anything, they just make the club slightly larger. The US is proof of this, we have term limits on the vast majority of elected positions, still organizedly corrupt in favor of the ruling class on all fronts.
Term limits are not the solution, they are part of a solution. Term limits alone wouldn't work without other parts of the political process being reformed. For example, First Past the Post voting makes it much harder for independent candidates to get a fair shot.
The United States needs huge reforms across the board, because much of our processes were built 250 years ago.
Term limits are at best a neutral impact, a rotating cast isn't any more likely to be competent or less likely to be corrupt. If an official is bad at their job then vote them out, if they aren't then forcing them out just for the sake of change is directly counterproductive. It's really just that simple.
No, the problem with keeping people in office, is that they get to establish strong networks of interests. By disrupting this and adding social uncertainty from unfamiliar people, we make it harder for corruption to become baked into society. Corruption is very much a social behavior that relies upon trust - the trust that the other guy won't snitch on you, if the horsetrading is profitable.
We make it harder to establish that trust among thieves, by swapping people often.
Term limits do nothing to prevent that, observable reality proves it
Age isn't a safe metric, some people's brains go to shit at 50, some are still fully functional at 90. Just test them.
No doubt her own grandparents firmly believed that the future was the Buggy Whip industry.
Age is not at all the same as Wisdom.
In fact I'm starting to think that if you don't get a broad life experience and recognize the need to and start walking down the path of Wisdom early enough, the natural calcification of habits and thinking, and increased emotional comfort from what is familiar that come to all of us with aging, will actually result in one becoming less wise with age.
Even when the brain is sharp, if one is not wise enough one's comforting feelings from certain beliefs will shut off accepting all evidence or conclusions leading elsewhere. When the brain is not sharp enough, this is pretty much guaranteed, IMHO.
Back when deeply ingrained societal ideas were first being forced into the genome it took a wide-range of life experience to survive to an old age. Sure most people that lived to 5 made it to 50 for most of human history, barring pandemics and society-changing ~~genocides~~wars, but most people don't even gray or wrinkle by then in any significant way. But we all know to treat old-looking people with more respect than others; specifically because to make it from 50-whatever before a time of antibiotics and nutritional science required an incredible amount of experience dealing with a lot of people (you could just be left to float out on an iceberg or chucked off a cliff or left in a forest if people don't like you after all) and an incredible amount of folk wisdom on how to get a varied diet in the location you were in so that the common stuff doesn't kill you even when you're vulnerable.
We've abandoned that part of the human and animal experience, but we still hold the genetic memory of the time when that was common, since it was less than a century ago for most of humanity. The old people alive today statistically rarely struggled, they never really had to grow up, and they inadvertently developed a society perfectly focused at keeping old people alive for as long as possible to drain them of all their financial resources. So they have no more wisdom than a 20-something that doomscrolls on the fairly educational side of the internet.
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To make sure this is spelled out in any logs that may eventually be the only record of this comment; I'm not advocating for the genocide of old people or saying that we should kill old people or otherwise promoting harm to any population except zionists regardless of age. They should all be killed. Every single zionist needs to be tortured, mutilated in front of their family recursively, and then killed. Any one that disagrees with this is just as bad as them and their actions, and should probably remove themselves from the fediverse if they feel uncomfortable for being Nazi-adjecent.
No prizes for guessing this congresswoman’s party affiliation.
Not that “Yahoo Entertainment” (news is dead, i know) even bothered to put it in the entire article, much less the headline.
The congresswoman started by thanking Christian for writing. She said they agreed about the importance of innovation in the automobile industry.
That was the last kind thing in the letter.
Foxx told the 10-year-old that his request meant taking money out of the pockets of hardworking taxpayers who might not be able to afford an electric vehicle themselves. She told him the country was heading toward bankruptcy and economic failure. She wrote that 2038 is only 12 years away, and that "YOU and your classmates will be responsible for paying down the national debt."
She capitalized "YOU." She was writing to a fourth grader.
Then she linked him to six articles from Fox News, National Review, The Washington Times, and the Wall Street Journal editorial board — articles about the failures of climate change policy.
And then she turned on his teacher.
What a fuckwit piece of shit.
She will be high on Luigi 2.0's list
This innocent-until-proven-guilty guy is never going to get a fair trial. His biggest supporters are constantly like, "yeah, he totally shot that guy."
She wrote that 2038 is only 12 years away, and that "YOU and your classmates will be responsible for paying down the national debt."
Nevermind that Trump and the rest of the congressional Republicans increased the national debt by 3 trillion dollars already, fuck you kid for wanting something good for everyone instead of only wanting good stuff for the Epstein class.
Fun fact:
(Add 2 trillion to this pie... wait 3 trillion? No wait.. almost 4, Now? Well, add 4 trillion to this chart for the ole pedophile just for good measure...)
That chart is pre-ballroom and Iran war, too.
Mere drops in the trillion dollars buckets
I don't even need to look up her party affiliation to know that she's a republican. I mean, the average age of congress can be blamed equally on both parties, but an octogenarian who talks shit on education, is super "concerned" about the national debt, and speaks in a shitty manner toward a child is definitely republican.
There was a similar story/video a few years back of (the late) Diane Feinstein being a dick to kids when they tried talking to her about climate change. -But I don't think she ever attacked education.
Clearly unacceptable, and part of the reason the elderly need to be stripped of their seats. I will say, however, it takes a certain kind of evil to do it pre-meditatively like the woman in this story did.
And Barbara Boxer before her. It's just an old lady in politics thing. Men in politics generally have learned that yelling at children is bad. Notallwomenbutalwaysawoman
I think it has to do with how a lot of women in politics especially those who got in before the turn of the millennium have this need to prove themselves, which just kinda manifests into being the biggest assholes. A good example is how Wako was caused largely by some cunt being stupid and wanting to be seen as tough on crime, no I'm not gonna look up her name she isn't worth my time I will remember her fuck ups regardless. Damnatio memoriae is perfectly valid in my opinion.
Janet Reno, and the name of the city is Waco.
In my defense I've read way too much shit that uses K instead of a hard C that my brain just forgets hard C is a thing. Also why do we even have a hard C let's just use Ks instead.
I'll go one step further. Why have Cs at all. Hard Cs can be Ks, and soft Cs can be Ss. And while we're at it, Ph can get the fuck out too.
I've said as much to my wife, who reminded me my name has both a C and a Ph.