The first step for the candidates running in next year’s California Senate race is to quietly try to spook newly appointed Sen. Laphonza Butler into not running at all.

  • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    There are old people who support LGBTQ+ people and causes. There are young people who oppose them. That is what matters.

    I dgaf how old someone is if they vote the way I want them to. This is ageism.

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      1 year ago

      Half the country is screaming for age limits on politics, so yeah, call it ageism. We don’t need more dementia in politics. We don’t need more politicians stroking out at the podium due to age-related illness. We need new blood. We need a monumental shift in politics that the elderly cannot lead, because they are direct products of the old system.

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        1 year ago

        Ageism is idealistic.

        Young people aren’t inherently better than old people, you’re completely misunderstanding the problems with American politics. The old people in power now were in power when they were young and they were bad back then too! We need better politics, not better blood.

        People like you vote for losers like Pete Buttigieg lol

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          1 year ago

          Why don’t you just disappear up your own ass, since that’s where your head is already. Imma go ahead and mute you, cause I got no time for your dumbassery.