And the people championing this kid see it the exact opposite way I guess a kneejerk reaction to the seeming gerontocracy at the highest levels of power, with Joe Biden poised to be the oldest President ever as soon as he's elected, etc. Gen Z Will Save Us narratives
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But I mean come on this isn't rocket science Yes, I do believe a lot of people do fucked up things when they're 14, and that they shouldn't be judged by them their whole lives, and should have time to grow and change FIVE YEARS IS NOT THAT MUCH TIME TO GROW AND CHANGE
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THAT IS THE WHOLE REASON PEOPLE IN POSITIONS OF POWER SHOULD BE SOMEWHAT OLDER THAN NINETEEN
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Rainy fascism island won't even let you stand until you're 21. And I strangely find myself agreeing even as I want the rest of the island to lower the age to vote down to 16
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I appear to have misremembered this, since we have an MP who was only 20 when elected
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the problem arises in the tendency as people get older that they become more invested in capitalism as a whole and their politics become less radical and more pro-capital as a result.
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The thing that struck me about that Glenn Greenwald screed is that he blindly asserted that the kid was reformed. There’s zero evidence of that. It’s a really powerful commentary of how some people expect things to go for them.
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That is how white male privilege works (How "surprising" that Coleman is boosted by people who pretend that's not a thing either.
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Which, oddly enough seems capitalistic itself. A weird fetishism of "youth"
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