Read the next sentence in their post.

Recognizing a fact, and being like that….

Particularly when you consider the difficulties to voting in that phase of life- most are students, mostly at college, and may not have the ability to return home to vote (or get registered to vote in the state they’re in,) and absentee voting is frequently made extremely difficult.

Not to mention they also frequently have jobs as well as school and simply don’t have time.

But of course? It’s their fault regardless of reasons.

It’s factually accurate to say black people are convicted of more petty crimes than white people. Would you tell black people to just do less crime? Or would you recognize that a large part of that is systemic racism in policing and the courts leading to much heavier police presence in predominantly black neighborhoods?

“Old people can’t be ageist against young people”.

Is basically what you are saying.

Also that analogy with cardiac arrest? It is ageist if you then proceed to blame them for whatever. Older people have more cardiac-related problems because they’re old, and things just wear out. Genetics plays a huge risk factor there as well.

the problem here, is that this rhetoric is a prelude to “those damn kids didn’t vote and that’s why we lost”.

You want to make sure young people’s voices are heard? Then listen to them.

Pointing fingers rarely is persuasive or motivational.

I dunno, being blamed for 2016, with with the same damn statement during the election, rather than actually listening to what people are saying seems pretty harmful to me.

Also, there doesn’t need to be clear harm for it to be bigotry. OP’s entire comment - not just the idle fact- is clearly based in a belief that under-25’s don’t vote, and clearly felt it was something they needed to correct.

It is true to say that there are more boomers- as a percentage of boomers- voting over millennials or gen z, (70%, 55%, and 48%) but it’s patently not fair to say we don’t.

Particularly when you understand many of the reasons that young-ish voters are not voting.

The national average was 60%, in 2020, and you have to go back to 1968 to see a higher turn out. Americans suck at voting, there’s really no need to pin it on any one group.

Riiight.

“Hey OP is being ageist .”

“Nuhuh!”

“Calling out a specific group for not voting when nearly half of Americans don’t vote is ageism.”

“Getting some all lives matter vibes!”

Totally the same. Totally.

OP clearly seems to think the problem is young voters not voting.

Otherwise there would be no reason to mention that specific age group at all. If the motivation is to encourage people to vote, age is irrelevant- any additional voter is good.

This post is specifically calling out a specific age group, and that’s blatantly ageist. In exactly the same way that saying “black people are convicted of more crime, so stop doing crime!” would be blatantly racist.

The assumption is because when they were that age they didn’t vote… that people that age aren’t voting.

Another statistic- across the board, 40% of Americans don’t vote. Ever. And it’s not a question of age.

This post didn’t have to be ageist. But it is.

Fun fact, gen z turned up more to vote than any other generation before them- when that generation was the same age, and millennials kinda started that trend.

So you can get off your soap box and stop laying the groundwork for blaming us for yet another thing.

I’m sure all this whiplashing is leaving his base just bit confused. “So are we gonna or aren’t we?! i got my Gravy Seal Cosplay ready to go!”

“Is that a snake in your pants, or are you just happy to see me?”

“Snake. Definitely a snake.”

“Rude!”

“Tell me about. His ballsss sssmell like old gym sssocksss.”

But guys! They have a framework!

Your point? I’m not saying there’s no covert racism. Nor am I saying Biden et al aren’t also racist. But I am saying there are degrees of racism….

Trump is one of the most racist shits to open his mouth. If you think his private positions aren’t even worse, you’re probably going to be in for a rude awakening if he gets power again.

Because they have no solutions.

They prolong the problem and obstruct solutions because they benefit from hurting people and don’t want that to end.

So they became the problem.

Are you suggesting that everyone is as equally racist as say Trump?

Covert or otherwise, there are degrees.

Biden is doing this to drive a wedge into Republicans. The gun nuts and the ones that don’t care about guns will have differing opinions because now gun violence affects them directly. It’s really smart.

Or… he just doesn’t want to get shot himself. Just saying. not wanting to get shot is a powerful motivator…

Not that it’s perhaps prudent. or you know, god forbid, actually a good fucking idea.

Quoting Biden for saying the exact same thing is hilarious.

Also because, like, Reps are even more racist than dems.

probably.

There’s a lot of manpower in providing security for something like that. And that’s before the assassination attempt. soft check points need bodies. hard check points further into the event need even more bodies than the soft check points. And then there’s the roving people watching the gaps. Then there’s the people inside watching for anyone that slipped through somehow.

Then there’s all the other people that want additional security because they’re property is next to a soft check point, or vaguely adjacent and protestors/counter-protesters usually have a problem.

and I know internal dialog at the branch levels says we don’t have the capacity to provide uniformed security guards if a trump rally comes here. (or Dem rally.) the last trump rally was a shitshow. They didn’t have enough capacity in the venue so they set up jumbotrons outside the soft check points. Which were entrances to the skyway. All the people who didn’t want to give up their firearms chilled and watched the hitler trump rally, and basically shat all over everyone without regard for “oh, is that private property?”

And yes. I meant that literally, because they didn’t provide for sanitation.

What? You think their bosses are going to give them time off to get politically active?

That’s how you get unions, my friend.

“Yokels”

“Get a fucking clue”

“[always has been]”

A very convincing argument. Well thought out and totally civilized. Totally not proving the article’s point!

so… you’re building a miniature greenhouse.

The problem is insolation. technically, that’s just light that hits the earths surface… but in this context, it’s light that passes through your glass chamber. it then hits whatever is inside and turns into heat, causing things to heat up.

Like a car in full sun. This would likely increase your thermal gains and not decrease them. (because for the gas mix or whatever inside the layer to have any effect… light already needs to be entering the system.)

Alternatively several things can be done to reduce solar heating. The first is painting your building a white (or very light color- sky blue, sandy tan, etc. titanium white is best… but… really who wants a stark white house like that?) Another is planting things. Trees in the yard will transpire- they release water into the atmosphere as part of photosynthesis which is why tree-shade feels cooler than blocked-sunlight-shade.

Then there’s the living-roof set up. Basically you have some type of water barrier, then you have a large grow box (think of it like having a raised-bed garden tall enough and large enough to live under,) In which you plant… stuff. I recomend talking with whatever DNR-type you have (most state DNR’s in the US, at least, have ‘native seed mixes’ you can buy by. my state has a wildflower mix that’s… not entirely “weeds”…heh.)

Along that line of living roofs; you might be inclined to find some type of leafy climbing vine- Stay away from kudzu, it’s horribly invasive, and I’d suggest staying away from non-native ivies as well. (though, those may be less offensive.) These plants will also transpire, and have the added benefit of absorbing and using the light as something other than heat.

If you don’t like the idea of your house covered in vines… you could also go with a living wall There’s lots of options there… some of them easier and more maintenance free than others. (you can also grow vegetables or whatever here, if you should like.)(you can do them indoors, too, for a natural air-purifier… anything leafy works.)

When I say they’re a threat to democracy…

This. This is what I mean. Political violence is never good. But trump’s rhetoric has made it… maybe justified?

Like his potential presidency is an existential threat to anyone who doesn’t agree with him; or they’re able to other-ize

LGBTQ, immigrants, racial minorities. Politically opposed, anyone with sufficient education to know he’s fucking stupid,

The courts have certainly been incapable of halting his rampant criminality. And that’s a problem.

You’re right. I apologize.

I should be better than that. I’m not. But I should be.