you make it sound as if politicians do things in a logical well thought out manner. It doesn't matter anyways, politicians will never vote for something that adds restrictions to themselves. Politics is entirely self-interested, and those who are publicly interested get pushed out.
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on the surface that sounds reasonable, linking the age to run with the age to retire. If you're going by todays "retirement" age and social security age...
But what will happen in practice is then the politicians will vote to raise the age of retirement, thereby giving them more time in office. Meanwhile, we're gonna have a lot more Walmart Greeters than we have positions. (assuming your local Wallyworld still has greeters..... and that the greeter isn't AI)
if the GOP cared about consistency, or had any shame to begin with.... we wouldn't even be having these problems.
It's only the Dems who seem to care about doing things by the book, taking the high road, being proper...... and we can all see where that's getting us.
nobody likes Newsome, but in contrast to the rest of the Dems.... he's actually effective at getting under the GOPs skin. That's the whole thing.
GOP doesn't give a shit about Jefferies yapping on the floor for hours. They don't care about another "strongly worded letter" from Schumer. And everyone, EVERYONE, hates Pelosi....
Yes, we all want more people like Mamdani. His policies are everything that I want, that most of us want. But you'd also have to be politically ignorant to not realize that his platform is on shakey ground nationwide. You can do something like Mamdani in a blue stronghold like NY. But across the nation? At this moment in time? No chance, you might as well just hand GOP the keys to power ad infinitium.
I don't like Newsome, but I'm not trying to throw the whole country in the toilet waiting for the world to come around to Mamdani. Playing this "all or nothing" game is getting real people killed and lives ruined.
So, let me get this straight. I call out a person playing defense for fascists by scoring into own goal, call them useless, I get a warning.... But they are literally all caps screaming, cursing, throwing unsubstantiated insults and calling me transphobic because I'm not being zealous enough.... still posting.
Make it make sense.
EDIT: LOL, their bio literally admits that they're only on Lemmy because they got banned multiple times from Reddit for being violent... and here they are, on Lemmy, screaming, cursing, losing their shit... learning nothing.... not banned.
Cool, all the trans people can thank you for your spine as we're all being rounded up by ICE.
Forest and trees and all that shit. You're hopeless. You're no one's ally but to yourself, your ego and pride.
Oh cool, trans people are soooo much more protected now. I'm sure all the Trans people who got ejected from military, losing all their benefits feel so much more protected now. All the girls having to submit to "genital inspections" for sports probably all thank you for "having standards".
Hey, but at least you got to give it to people like Kamala and Newsome for not being pure enough for you.
Wokescold bullshit. In your effort to gatekeep the left, you let fascists take over. Good job.
this is wokescold purity testing, and it's exactly why we have Trump now. Because wokescolds prioritized some future microaggressions instead of the very real, immediate Fascist reality and decided to dumb things like "protest vote" for Warren, or just not show up.
saving this for later in case I ever finally decided to do the thing I've been thinking about doing now for 10+ years.... maybe this time I will.... maybe
so.... the solution to the plastic problem is to convert it and then burn it?
And burning plastic will fix the environment..... ?
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this is the cringiest shit I've ever seen.
How tf do you get to being a fat, forehead rolls having, old man and you're unironically acting like a 14 year old on 4chan? In an official capacity to the public? This is senior official in our administration and they have the self control and maturity of a schoolyard edgelord.