People were saying "but if you arrest the Republicans for crimes, they'll put you in camps when they get power back!". Now we have camps.

They're going to be evil no matter what. Might as well try to break their spine while you can.

Well said.

Exactly! Jeffries was the exact example I had in mind of a Democrat who simply will not stand up for anyone.

Yes, the is exactly the kind of comparison that is so very apt. Age is not really the problem, indeed, is likely to become even less of a problem (assuming the likes of Taco and Bobby Brainworms don't completely disrupt all advances in medicine).

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)

Term limits make sense for the highest positions that have little oversight, but implementing term limits for minor positions encourages political cronyism over technocratic experience

The likely advances now that the NIH was shut down?

No. Once they achieve longevity, THEN look at it again maybe, but as of TODAY, many of the reps are too fucking old!

I thought Charles Darwin was smart, smh.

science and medicine mostly prolong life or save lives. they can (in a very limited manner) help somewhat with tiredness at old age. healthy brain function is not improved that much with the help of health industry.

and we need those who their thinking is not fossilized. I don't mean that as insult, it is just they way of life.

as I said they can of course be advisers.

are you saying most 110 years old are capable of holding highest offices? like house of representatives? they need to move alot and talk to alot of people. it is very tiring.

if not at 110 then at some age most of us are not really gonna be great at those "jobs".

and another side to my point is that old people are gonna set in their politics and also is they survive the politics circus (many many terms) then they become like a family so they are not gonna rock the boat, so they usually become THE status quo. look at Bernie and his support for jewish isis.

also they are not really good at fixing new problems (or even old ones) with new tools.

i don’t disagree, but affectually what are we to do?

solving the actual problem at hand here would mean fixing the flow of wealth, power, and capital away from the elderly.

the government is never even going to entertain that notion. that’s why we’re debating age limits instead of something that matters.

most people would emotionally bring up protest or violent revolution at this point, but, i honestly don’t think western populations will meet whatever thresholds must be met to catalyze such an event anytime soon. people don’t like to hear it but the masses are all bark and no bite. that’s why they trample us so publically and flagrantly now, they know there is nothing we could do against it bc 80% of people are too dumb or scared to care.

in such a world, sitting on the internet clamoring for revolution is honestly kind of cringe and i see it all over lemmy and other spaces. people who actually care are thinking strategically, what could realistically affect change in our struggle? knowledge is power. if (rhetorical you, in this context) your internal world model leads to you thinking shitposting is praxis, you’re part of the 80%. spreading the word doesn’t help because the problem isn’t that people are ignorant, they’re just fucking stupid. when we can’t agree what the signs and symbols we use to communicate even mean anymore what are we to do?

• 75% of the electorate said long before the 2024 election said Biden was too old and wanted someone different.

• Biden had initially commented (and later admitted to this in a press conference) that he once said he'd be only a transitional one-term President.

• Biden disastrously fumbled the June debate and wasted precious weeks while many people blindly followed him despite having worse approval-ratings than Jimmy Carter.

This put the Harris campaign in such a tight spot where 3 weeks were dedicated just to transitional logistics and a mere 12 weeks to run a national campaign against a competitor who's been taking cheap shots from the sidelines for 4 years straight.

Biden was immensely instrumental in setting Democrats up for failure in 2024. My opinion about his actual Presidency is independent of the reality of national optics, perception, and their campaign quality.

In other words, if Biden had announced ahead of 2024, "Having recovered America from the COVID pandemic and set the economy back on the path of success, narrowly dodging both recession and out of control inflation, I am now going to commit to my one-term transitional Presidency and open up my party's process to a vibrant, organic, Democratic primaries. May a younger generation take this country forward" — that would've been SO much better than the incompetence out of an obsession for legacy we got.

Well put. I didn't love Biden for a lot of reasons. One of which was not taking the threat of the conservatives spearheaded by the likes of the convicted felon.

But given his one term, and after all the destruction of the felon and the conservative movement...his administration did do an awful lot right and gets nothing but flak from Democrats and liberals anyway.