An 82-Year-Old Congresswoman Told a Fourth Grader His Teacher Was Feeding Him Propaganda. His Essay Was About Electric Cars
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/articles/82-old-congresswoman-told-fourth-120712857.html
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/articles/82-old-congresswoman-told-fourth-120712857.html
166 Comments
Freeposity@lemmy.world · 271 pts · 100d
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.
Soulphite@reddthat.com · 153 pts · 100d
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...)
crozilla@lemmy.world · 125 pts · 100d
That chart is pre-ballroom and Iran war, too.
Soulphite@reddthat.com · 78 pts · 100d
His base: "we need a president to run this country like a business!"
Their guy: bankrupts every business he runs... including 6 casinos. (CASINOS! Fucking literal money printers...)
Malyca@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 99d
And he just shoe horned in his new fed chair who will implement rate cuts and push us closer to needing a wheelbarrow to buy bread.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 99d
he only ever used the casino as monely laundering, like hes using with the USA. i heard some people mention if TRUMP WASNT lazy and invested index funds with his inheritence he would be ~100billionaire by now.
nieceandtows@programming.dev · 1 pts · 98d
It's like a CEO of a company making bank at the expense of the company future.
W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 16 pts · 100d
couldhavebeenyou@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 100d
Mere drops in the trillion dollars buckets
otter@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 100d
The war is starting to be more than a drop in the bucket. It's only one order of magnitude less than what is shown on the graph.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 99d
1 month alone, 92bn was spent on luxury vacations, dinner and personal items for the department of war.
crozilla@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 99d
Follow this guy, he’s on the case: https://popular.info/p/update-media-parrots-pentagons-low
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 99d
all that is going to the MIC grift.
REDACTED@infosec.pub · 12 pts · 100d
"10 year projection as of 2025"
Huh? I doubt he will survive that long, let alone run for the fourth term
Soulphite@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 100d
The party of 'law and order' and his super smart and loyal supporters will definitely support and vote for him the fourth time as well because they support 'law and order'.
moistclump@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 99d
Look, this isn’t my country but I’d think there’d be rioting in the streets about this. Someone’s out there spending the public’s money and making his whims everyone else’s problem.
FishFace@piefed.social · -4 pts · 99d
This is dumb as bricks. Inflation means that the most recent government will always have an outsized contribution to any national debt.
Don't post it just because it dumps on Trump
(And I guess I have to say I too hate trump because otherwise everyone will conclude I'm defending him somehow)
EDIT because apparently that caveat is not enough: try running the same calculation as if it were 2016 and you were comparing Obama's contribution to the national debt to all other presidents. Or Bush. Or Clinton.
Soulphite@reddthat.com · 4 pts · 99d
This is adjusted to inflation.
FishFace@piefed.social · 1 pts · 99d
Oh yeah, what are the unadjusted numbers then?
Soulphite@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 99d
Here, I'll invite you to read this document published on house.gov specifically on trumps impact to the national debt throughout America's history. It is not a "slam piece" on it's own, he does it to himself with facts and figures which is what this article gives.
FishFace@piefed.social · 1 pts · 99d
I searched for "inflation", "nominal" and "adjusted" and didn't find anything relevant.
I believe that the $37 trillion dollars is the total debt whenever that graphic was made, and the $12.5T is the debt increase from Trump's first term, plus so far in his second term. That means you're comparing Trump's debt (issued in 2016 or later dollars) to, for example, Roosevelt's debt (issued in 1940s dollars).
The article you link seems perfectly factual and correctly identifies that debt to GDP is more important than nominal debt. Which is why you shouldn't be using a comparison of nominal debt increases to criticise Trump.
Soulphite@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 99d
It's relative to the economy. The comparison is the fact that he spends frivolously when other presidents who contributed largely to the debt did so during crises. Trump CREATES crises all on his own. He campaigns on lowering debt, but does quite the opposite ten fold. So yeah, it is perfectly within the realm to criticize and compare him with all other presidents all things considering. The pie represents his failures in the simplistic of forms.
apftwb@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 99d
How nvieve does she have to be to assume anyone is going to pay down the national debt. The US government will collapse with $200T of debt and implode the world economy.
brownsugga@lemmy.world · 151 pts · 100d
this is age-ism, but i really don't think anyone past 80 should be in charge of anything beyond self-care
Zier@fedia.io · 77 pts · 100d
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.
Malyca@lemmy.zip · 15 pts · 99d
I'd argue this bitch is lacking character
zewm@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 100d
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.
REDACTED@infosec.pub · 27 pts · 100d
This feels unhinged
zewm@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 100d
I’m not a door, Frank.
Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io · 20 pts · 100d
So you are unhinged! I just knew it!
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 100d
Got 'em!
NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 99d
Well this seems unnecessary. It's not really about being old that makes these people suck.
TheOctonaut@piefed.zip · 4 pts · 100d
Oh no I'm back on Xanga
Bassman27@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 100d
Age-ism is valid
KingOfSleep@lemmy.ca · -1 pts · 100d
Bigotry is bigotry.
scytale@piefed.zip · 4 pts · 99d
If you’re old enough to have black and white photos as an adult, you shouldn’t be in public office.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 102 pts · 100d
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.
What a fuckwit piece of shit.
brax@sh.itjust.works · 47 pts · 100d
Cute, the National Debt that HER and HER generation allowed to run rampant so that SHE could make off with mad bank? Not to mention the debt that HER party has incurred the last few years alone?
nickiwest@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 100d
Good observation. They almost gave her party affiliation, but they stopped short.
It's not exactly ambiguous, but it's also not explicit. That's a weird choice.
osanna@lemmy.vg · 8 pts · 99d
lol a repube concerned with the US national debt??
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 99d
They’re always concerned with it when they’re not in office. But these days no one cares what’s real.
Malyca@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 99d
She will be high on Luigi 2.0's list
WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 99d
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."
Gonzako@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 99d
Well, even the lawyer is saying "judge, just look out the window and see all those supporters saying that what he did was right."
zeroConnection@programming.dev · 94 pts · 100d
Well, she is absolutely right about that. She should know, because it's her generation's fault.
How are these people in charge of anything?
Simulation6@sopuli.xyz · 19 pts · 99d
How are they in charge? They get voted in because better people are not running or not getting voted for in many cases. Gerrymandering protects some of them.
Folstar@lemmus.org · 12 pts · 99d
Because we select our leaders via rigged popularity contests then let them sit in office with zero accountability, zero modern standards for hiring or work oversight, and "performance evaluations" every 2-6 years. Imagine running a company that way.
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 99d
Exactly.
The greatest problem of Representative Democracy where each representative stands for tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands or even millions of people - meaning voters can't know the person, only their carefully managed external image - is that it's selecting people for just Salesmanship capabilities, and salespeople are seldom good at anything that requires logical and honest thinking (in my experience, the best salespeople believe their own bullshit, and that's not at all possible if one's views are detailed and honest, rather than vague and full of wishful thinking).
So the top managers of a nation are people selected for personal qualities that are almost antithetical to the qualities a good manager should have.
FlyingCircus@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 99d
Don’t pretend like it’s down to voters. Money in politics ensures that good candidates can’t succeed before voters even get a chance to show up at the ballot.
BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 10 pts · 99d
I'd be a better president than most of these aging Boomers at this point, but running for president of the USA is around one billion dollars of campaign costs. Only those with already established money connections will get it and we know what that causes.
BillCheddar@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 99d
There's also more of them.
Simulation6@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 99d
There are not more boomers anymore. Maybe a higher percentage vote.
go_go_gadget@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 99d
A big reason the DNC didn't want a primary in 2024 is because boomer votes probably can't carry primary candidates any longer.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 99d
also because they REFUSE to release the election autopsy investigation for 2024, they definitely knew there was rigging. REPUBLICANS will call rigging regardless if they release it or not. they are totally complicit with the GOP coming into power.
callouscomic@lemmy.zip · 18 pts · 100d
I was told the same thing 30 years ago. Nobody is paying for shit.
FishFace@piefed.social · 2 pts · 99d
Yep. The way national debt is "supposed" to work, is that you pay it back by growing the economy.
Flower@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 100d
Kids these days know. That's why the birth rate keeps dropping.
BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 99d
I aint bringing a kid into this bullshit of a country.
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world · 64 pts · 100d
We need age limits on politicians.
Glitch@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 34 pts · 100d
And term limits
Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml · -10 pts · 100d
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.
SabinStargem@lemmy.today · 11 pts · 100d
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.
Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml · 0 pts · 99d
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.
SabinStargem@lemmy.today · 8 pts · 99d
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.
Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml · -4 pts · 99d
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.
SabinStargem@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 99d
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.
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 99d
The lack of limitations seems to be doing just fine with the supreme Court.
Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml · -2 pts · 99d
Plenty of elected positions in the US have term limits and none of them are any less corrupt, term limits don't do shit
BillCheddar@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 99d
Term limits increase the power of lobbyists.
njm1314@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 99d
Why do you think so?
BillCheddar@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 99d
We see it in studying state legislatures who have term limits. (I studied this in graduate school before switching to a different master's program)
Term limits doesn't change how much power and money are available. It just changes who controls that power and money (the budget.) If the congressmen lose some of that power via term limits, that power doesn't go away. It doesn't go unused. It gets scooped up and used by the lobbyists to get things passed a naive congress.
Worst, you create perverse incentives where congressmen are locked out of running for re-election, so they take their expertise and contacts gained in office and work for the lobbyists that used to lobby them.
No, as good as term limits sound, it's much, much better to leave it up to the voters to decide who their rep will be. If they want a 40 year veteran or a rookie every two years, that's their choice to make.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 17 pts · 100d
And minimal education requirements
Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 100d
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.
AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 99d
IronBird@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 100d
i would settle for televized cognitive assessments, fail and your forciboy retired
olafurp@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 97d
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.
mechoman444@lemmy.world · 62 pts · 100d
An 82 year old congresswoman.
Christ.
MisterD@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 99d
Any decision he makes will not affect him.
cogman@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 99d
She, and yes.
ProfThadBach@lemmy.world · 46 pts · 100d
This bitch runs the district north of me. I say this a native of WNC. Fucking hillbillies are stupid. Edit--- and me saying this is why I could never run for public office. I think my own people are mouth breathing morons who will vote for any dipshit that has a bible in their hand. This bitch is not even from WNC but yet but every Popcorn Sutton from the holler licks her festering taint.
HAL_9_TRILLION@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 16 pts · 100d
Just goes to show you that even higher education can't overcome religious brainwashing. She's deeply religious and dumb as a fucking rock. Dumb people sure know how to pull levers of power though, she's in there doing a bang-up job and even has time to propagandize a child she doesn't know (by claiming he's a victim of propaganda, naturally, as projection in one form or another appears to be the sole play in their playbook).
BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 99d
She probably got into education TO indoctrinate children.
troybot@piefed.social · 5 pts · 100d
No you should definitely run for office and keep saying what you're saying. Just make sure to keep a Bible in your hand the entire time.
blitzen@lemmy.ca · 36 pts · 99d
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.
NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml · 11 pts · 99d
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.
blitzen@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 99d
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.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 99d
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
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 98d
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.
blitzen@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 97d
Janet Reno, and the name of the city is Waco.
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 97d
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.
blitzen@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 97d
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.
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works · 35 pts · 99d
Well an educated populace has always been a threat to those in power so I understand why the old bat would be so volatile.
GladiusB@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 98d
Hey! Let's not insult bats like that.
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca · 33 pts · 99d
I feel like she would be surprised that her stocks in "Consolidated Slave Trading" are no longer liquid.
ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one · 6 pts · 98d
Ooohhh, I imagine Rep. Virginia Foxx has stocks in private prison companies. Modern day slave traders.
7101334@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 98d
What do you mean? GEO Group stock is doing fine.
AppleTea@lemmy.zip · 31 pts · 99d
If you pitched this as a scene in a satirical movie, you'd be told to tone it down a bit.
diggerbanks@thelemmy.club · 30 pts · 99d
It is so selfish to hold on to power when you clearly have no understanding of the present or future. There should be a ceiling age. politics is for people with a stake in the future.
mangobanana@discuss.online · 3 pts · 99d
Au conraire my friend politics for are people who seek power and money, and to force their own agenda. nothing more nothing less. They are not there to do the will of the people, there are they to enrich themselves and to force their own personal ideology onto the public
ActualGrapesTasteGreen@piefed.zip · 29 pts · 100d
I am so ready to move on from the boomer generation.
qarbone@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 100d
There are still stupid millenials and Gen Z. This isn't a problem with a lifespan.
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today · 9 pts · 99d
Gen X grew up with daily exposure to the highest levels of lead in their environment. Boomers had the second highest. Their mothers smoked and drank while pregnant. These generations are more brain damaged than any before or since.
Only the oldest Millennials can even remember leaded gasoline, and it was off the market long before they learned to drive. Zeds are obnoxious, but they aren't wrong. The sooner they engage with politics, the better.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 99d
The only benefit to being Gen X is we were shut out by the Boomers maintaining their grip on everything for so long. Oh, don’t get me wrong. There’s plenty of Gen X idiots, too. We were the biggest trump voting group, for instance. (Seriously, my people? The anti-authoritarians whose anthems were Breakfast Club, Raiders of the Lost Ark, or even Total Recall? Hate the system, hate the Nazis, hate the rich corporate overlords?)
skisnow@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 99d
I mean ok, she's definitely an awful woman and shouldn't be doing this job, but judging an individual for their membership of a group that represents some statistical shift from the median is as close to textbook bigotry as you can get. You wouldn't tolerate someone suggesting that women shouldn't be allowed physical jobs because they're statistically weaker.
EnderofGames@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 99d
I do agree with the general idea of what you are saying, however I do not think it really applies to what the original commenter or the article/post we are replying to are saying.
When it comes to politics and making changes that impact our future, we are playing a really stupid game always putting people in charge that feel zero consequences for poor, shortsighted decisions. In many cases, the shortsightedness of the decision actually benefits them, as they won't be around for the consequences. In our current plight, that happens to largely be the boomers.
Alternatively, using your example, a (theoretical, statistically weaker) woman works a physical labour job, any consequence is felt immediately. If she can perform her job, then she isn't too weak to... perform her job, I guess.
I guess what I'm saying is that I don't see it as bigotry to assert that we should have the groups invested in our future making those decisions. Eventually it isn't the statistical chance that the boomers aren't capable of doing the physical labour (or work in general), but instead the totality of the boomers being too old to work.
BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 99d
There's something to be said for possible lead exposure of that generation and how it's affecting as they age. There were studies about it and apparently the newest one is showing that their exposure is increasing the risk of Alzheimer.
BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 99d
There we go, found it. https://agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jgs.2000.48.11.1501
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 99d
what about pathological behaviors.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 99d
the only thing I'm genuinely looking forward to as I get older is watching every single boomer rot in the ground.
worst. generation. ever.
ActualGrapesTasteGreen@piefed.zip · 4 pts · 99d
I'm ok with them just ceding power.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 99d
would be lovely. I've turned blue too many times holding my breath waiting for that to happen.
the only thing that will get these self-righteous pricks out of power is the sweet release of death.
Mulligrubs@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 100d
Over 20% of our reps are over 70 years old last time I looked, 120 or so.
Mitch McConnell is absurdly impaired and still won't step down.
One our many problems in the USA, we are definitely long past our prime, so perhaps it's suitable that Mitch stays in office. May as well elect him as President at this point, Maxine Waters can be VP, she's almost 90.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 99d
mitch at least knows how to whip his party into line, unlike schumer.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · -3 pts · 100d
I mean, she’s not letting the grass grow under her feet. Moscow Mitch is.
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 27 pts · 99d
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.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com · 4 pts · 99d
Even the very wisest 82 year old isn't going to be sharp enough to legislate effectively for the modern age. Could they provide useful advice and context to younger legislators? Sure and that is the role they should shoot for if they want to stay involved but they should not be making or voting on policies themselves. Their time is past and they'll not be living with the consequences of their votes.
vagrancyand@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 99d
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
genocideswars, 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.
::: spoiler .world disclaimer 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. :::
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 99d
I think that's a different element from the one I'm talking about.
Surviving in challenging conditions does generally yield respect from others (something which doesn't just apply to old people), plus it builds character (though the quality of that character varies and is not necessarily good), thus it made sense to respect one's elders back when reaching old age was a pretty good indication that one had gone through a lot and survived, something that doesn't at all apply to most boomers from nations which were wealthy and stable during their old life or those born in wealth since such people could didn't really fought to survive and probably got where they did by coasting along.
However even the qualities needed to survive in challenging conditions aren't the same as Wisdom (they can include it, but not necessarily), both back then and now. In my experience the struggle for survival alone doesn't grant Wisdom - Wisdom requires broad life experience, and whilst age does help one to accumulate life experience, it most definitely does not automatically give it - if you've lived most of your 80 years of life in one place and with one occupation, your life experience is nowhere near that of, say, a young adult who has been force to emigrate and worked all kinds of jobs with all kinds of people.
So whilst I agree with your point about how people have respect for people based on their long year when in the present day that respect isn't really deserved because said old age doesn't correlate with certain personal qualities anymore, I think that even back when old age DID relate with such quality, it was only an indicator of Character and Experience (often in a very narrow sense) rather than actual Wisdom.
mattyroses@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 99d
Most young people have more applicable life experience to current situations than the average Boomer IMHO. Unlike them, others weren't born at the luckiest point. And didn't piss it away like them
Jax@sh.itjust.works · -1 pts · 98d
Yeah it's one thing to say they should all die for what they've done, it's another to say they all deserve to be tortured in front of their families.
Just kill them. We should do everything we can to be as little like them as possible.
AA5B@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 99d
That kid should get the top grade for the project. She really proved his thesis that this is something she needs to learn about
kboos1@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 100d
The rage bait is strong with this one
Mobiuthuselah@mander.xyz · 20 pts · 100d
She really is a troll though, just rotten. She's shitty to her neighbors, mean to those in her community, and cowardly to her constituents.
I'm surprised the kid even got a response. I only ever get form letters, if that, when I've contacted her. I'll again be voting against her in November.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 99d
she would be the old lady that would complain at the slightest issue with other neighbors.
Mobiuthuselah@mander.xyz · 5 pts · 99d
After Hurricane Helene, her neighbors didn't have access to the main road. She would not let them drive through her property so that they could park their cars at the road. Linemen came to repair the power lines and needed to open her gate, so she got the sheriff's dept to come out to ensure her neighbors didn't drive through while the gate was open. And then she posted on social media about how communities need to stick together.
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 100d
lol I guess she only replies so she can be a pissed of bitch.
SabinStargem@lemmy.today · 22 pts · 100d
The lesson I am learning: the elderly should have the congressional keys taken away from them, before they can drive the nation into stupid.
go_go_gadget@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 99d
They already did.
njm1314@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 99d
Its Virginia Foxx. Hard to be shocked. The idea of children being raped brings her joy.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 99d
her and kay iveys is something too.
NotSafeForWorld@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 19 pts · 98d
This is the old woman who shouted, "shut up" at reporters right? She literally reminded me of a witch in that video
Upgrayedd1776@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 98d
typical fox news geriatric unfortunately, they degrade to elementary level cognition when challenged
dan69@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 99d
I’m sorry, but why isnt* grandma retired? Like I hate it when I seek the elderly working!
quick_snail@feddit.nl · 11 pts · 99d
I'm pretty sure she opposes social programs like social security
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 8 pts · 99d
shes fueled by hate, and ignorance to keep her active.
Mcdolan@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 100d
Have fun in hell you rotten old Bitch.
PissingIntoTheWind@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 99d
She’s bought and paid for by the petro union.
RagingRobot@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 99d
Also she's like a bazillion years old. Who the fuck even is she?!?
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 99d
shes old as the coal that was formed 350million years ago.
HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca · 12 pts · 99d
No, she's an elder boomer who is literally brain damaged by lead poisoning, she really believes what she's saying.
Boomers should be excluded from positions of authority for that one fact alone.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8307752/
njm1314@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 99d
Pedo union
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 100d
Tick tock, bitch.
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 100d
She probably thought the kid said "eccentric stars" and just didn't want them being influenced by the likes of Jared Leto.
Soulphite@reddthat.com · 7 pts · 100d
At her age? She still thinks Ringo is relevant.
Edit: shit, I guess he still is.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 100d
Ringo is always relevant. Take a lap.
I think you meant Bobby Blotzer.
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 100d
Maybe we should go with Bing Crosby?
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.cafe · 12 pts · 99d
This treasonous MAGA pedophile is more proof that only the good die young.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 12 pts · 99d
none other than virginia foxx she belongs in a nursing home, along with Kay IVES.
betanumerus@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 99d
nocturne@slrpnk.net · 9 pts · 100d
Gammelfisch@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 99d
More importantly, another group of dumb voters supporting a corrupt old coot that does not give a shit about the future.
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 100d
I also appreciate that this Bible-thumping bitch has a name fit for porn.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 100d
Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you, the US government.
Cue sad applause
Treczoks@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 100d
Another reason to kick those people out of congress.
zerofk@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 98d
Virginia Foxx sounds like a pornstar name. Just a tiny bit less on the nose than Virgin Foxxx.
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 98d
yelling at a kid about the countries finances and looming bankruptcy like its his fault, while spending billions on a pointless wars to distract from the presidents pedophilic childraping activities, billions on a golden ballroom, billions on taxbreaks for their buddies, potentially billions on grifty settlements on every trump lawsuit, while spending billions on racists fourth reich final solution camps, while spending billions on the neo-SS ICE agents who are directed to fill those camps, etc etc etc..
What peak republican energy.
CoolSouthpaw@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 98d
What a fucking piece of shit cunt. Fucking retire already.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 97d
Because of course
libre_warrior@lemmy.ml · -19 pts · 99d
It IS propaganda! Electric cars still cause overproduction. All Cars Are Bad!
Zero Carz for a living Gaja 🦔🌍
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 99d
take that shit to !fuckcars@lemmy.world
libre_warrior@lemmy.ml · -3 pts · 99d
no mate
the truth has to be told, whether you are ready or not🙏
We need to move away from over production. Towards safety in our communities. Towards thriving towns. Towards living with nature🐝
By releasing our need for cars, we move towards the lokening of our communities and Gaja🌍
#ZeroCarz
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 99d
libre_warrior@lemmy.ml · -2 pts · 99d
thanks😁