Exactly. Prima facie, a 19-year-old doesn't have the judgement, education, or experience to be a state legislator. That assumption can be defeated with evidence of superior character, insight, and judgement. But otherwise, obviously not.
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Replying to @beyerstein @NewscastNow and
I suppose you can extend that to simply pass a law raising the age limit for eligibility to hold public office to 25, since that is supposed to be the age at which the brain is supposed to be fully formed. As long as that law is not reatroactive.
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Replying to @SheldonRanz @beyerstein and
I'm not categorically against 19-year-olds holding public office necessarily, they just have to be 19-year-olds who didn't harass and abuse people to the point of attempting suicide five years ago
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Replying to @arthur_affect @SheldonRanz and
I wouldn't vote for ANYONE who did those things five years ago But you seem to think that him being 19 makes this better than if he were 39 and did it when he was 34 It does not, if anything it makes it worse
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Replying to @arthur_affect @SheldonRanz and
Do you understand that him being young means he has almost no track record to judge him by He has done almost nothing significant in his life EXCEPT sexually harass his classmates
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Replying to @arthur_affect @SheldonRanz and
If you added an extra 20 years to his age that could be 20 years of him doing positive things in the community, being a good friend and partner to the people around him, or even just 20 years of keeping his head down and just *not committing abuse* It'd bring the average down
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Replying to @arthur_affect @SheldonRanz and
But as it is, you've got nothing His accomplishments in life involve being a sexual abuser, getting therapy, then immediately deciding he should hold a position of authority over other people Come on
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Replying to @arthur_affect @SheldonRanz and
In his interview with Greenwald, GG is actively leading him, prompting him to feed him some positive story to show that he's changed or describe how he's changed, and all he can give us is "Well nothing's come out about me in high school has it"
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Replying to @pedantish @arthur_affect and
That is, what’s so great about this guy, in GG’s view?
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GG is in love with the narrative of scrappy teenagers defeating crusty old Democratic politicians
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