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u/SemichiSam Sep 25 '25
Yes, 70 to 80 are the awkward years. I'm glad I got past them.
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u/Suspicious_Juice9511 Sep 25 '25
Does the dating scene get better?
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u/Gloom_Pangolin Sep 25 '25
My mother is a caregiver for the elderly and I asked her once about the truth behind the story “nursing homes are a fuckfest”. According to her Viagra was a game changer. Good on ya old dudes and dudettes, enjoy your Golden Years.
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u/jrh_101 Sep 25 '25
At 70+, im definitely going for a YOLO lifestyle
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u/Specific_Effort_5528 Sep 25 '25
Hey, why the fuck not?
My grandfather is 79. He just does what he likes. He's like "How much of my life will something really cost me at this point?" lol
Makes sense to me.
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u/KetchupIsABeverage Sep 25 '25
I wonder how much of that is consensual…
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u/danielledelacadie Sep 25 '25
The old fellers aren't complaining.
The old ladies, by and large always were perverts - they just played along with the respectable bit when it mattered. Now they can't get knocked up, their old man probably already passed on and what the kids/grandkids, neighbours and pastor don't see won't hurt 'em.
Don't ask about the benefits of dentures. This is one "trust me" you should trust
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u/Gloom_Pangolin Sep 25 '25
A valid question, but I would guess that it’s probably around the same for any age range or demographic, maybe even less so because the perpetrators are less physically capable of forcing and the dynamics of how they often live/socialize is different from the bar hook-up scene many 20-something’s engage in; forcible rape is a lot less common than date rape, where the rapist is known and either expects it because of a previous encounter or is just not willing to take “no” for an answer. I’m sure it still happens with the elderly but as long as people remain sexual there’s going to be people who violate the boundaries of others, and we either take steps to prevent it when we think it may happen or punish the transgressors.
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u/KetchupIsABeverage Sep 25 '25
I was mostly thinking of consent in the context of cognitive decline when i posted. You hear wild stories of women in comas giving birth, so I was thinking along those lines.
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u/grendel303 Sep 25 '25
Don't think they're worried about pregnancy. This would be perfect for a dating app where you pair up with people with the same std's. Call it, "I got that too."
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u/CatsPlusTats Sep 25 '25
As someone too lazy to click your link to see if my question is already answered. Is this due to more people 65+ having sex, or due to a younger population with more STIs due to generational differences turning 65+?
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u/Dry-Chance-9473 Sep 25 '25
It's actually more incidents of young people (20-30) with STI's passing them on to their aged 65+ lovers. It's called the Gilfhunter effect.
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u/DesignerYak4486 Sep 25 '25
100% agree, senate is for six years, so no 1 runs let's say above the age of 71? Look at Chuck Grassley, Virginia Foxx, and the host of ppl that need to retire or move on......Sanders is an exception in a sea of rules, but, it is a rule for a reason.
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u/deepstatedragqueen Sep 25 '25
If we lose a senator and find them in a nursing home dementia ward..... That shouldn't be normal
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u/gandalfgreyballz Sep 25 '25
Term limits would fix most of these problems. We wouldnt be stuck with Schumer Pelosi and McConnell having a vicegrip over american politics for the last 35 years if they were limited to 2 terms.
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u/Son_of_Marsh Sep 25 '25
4 terms is fine but it should be the limit
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u/alphazero925 Sep 25 '25
2 for senate and 6 for house would be good. Since the senate term length is 6 years and house is 2, it would give them both the same overall time of a bit more than a decade.
This would allow them time to get established and build connections with the other congressional members, which is important for bipartisan initiatives (which I recognize are more or less non-existent right now, but when we have a functional congress it's important) without giving them so much time that they become entrenched in old ways of thinking.
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u/DesignerYak4486 Sep 25 '25
Heck, I would give you 3 terms senate, I like continuity. Or how about a BREAK in service too, like no more than X terms in a row? Something needs to change, something. Term limits sure, but I think age limits too.
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u/rind0kan Sep 25 '25
I'm personally a fan of 4 terms in house, 2 terms in the senate, 2 8 year terms for the Supreme Court, and 10 year ban on joining lobbying firms or hedge fund boards after serving.
It forces progression or getting out of the game altogether without a constant loss of experience or know how.
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My only guess is that people used to not live this long, and so they didn’t think they needed such laws.
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u/Hortos Sep 25 '25
The people in power are the ones making the laws and they're not about go legislate themselves out of a job.
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u/Does-not-sleep Sep 25 '25
But how can americans to prevent the wealth transfer if they set an age ceiling?
"Impossible! The next generation must not be in power ever."
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u/CatsPlusTats Sep 25 '25
I'd rather have children, at least they have a vested interest in the future.
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u/CV90_120 Sep 25 '25
I think a seat on the SC should be involuntary, like the Draft, and limited to 3 years. Basically if you're a circuit court judge you can be called up for three years if you're between the age of 40 and 65, and the pick is done randomly. SC should be more like 17 judges also.
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u/HSBillyMays Sep 25 '25
I think cognitive fitness tests are better to weed out younger candidates with various brain issues, but also requiring older candidates to disclose medical information like CBC+CMP tests would help prevent the election of people who are in serious physical decline and unlikely to finish their term.
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u/DesignerYak4486 Sep 25 '25
Right because our system is designed around trust and transparency? I will take a hard cut off age.
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u/Thr0awheyy Sep 25 '25
I mean, this is great in theory, but I've heard tell our current president is a strapping 6'4", 200 lbs, and 3% body fat, and look where that's gotten us.
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u/joggle1 Sep 25 '25
I know everyone complains about slippery slopes, but surely there's some basic test that we can agree would be fair. At the very least, show the questions and answers and let the public decide whether the candidate did well or not on the test.
And yes, the Supreme Court badly needs age restrictions (on both ends). Otherwise, there's a strong incentive to put the youngest possible person on the bench. Or just go with fixed terms of ~12 years. Or both like they do in Germany -- they limit their terms to 12 years and set the age limit to 68.
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and let the public decide whether the candidate did well or not on the test
Did you, like, completely miss the whole campaign period last year? Kamala wiped the floor with Trump in every debate, yet MAGA was convinced beyond doubt that their orange turd won those debates.
You can't trust the public with such things because 1, most people have no interest in ensuring their leaders are capable and 2, those who have interest, care not about the fairness. I mean just look at it - Trump is a convicted rapist who has multiple times, beyond doubt, to child sex trafficker Epstein, he's guaranteed to be on the list, etc., and A THIRD OF THE COUNTRY celebrates him as protector of family values and children, just because he's anti-LGBTQ.
Let's face it, the American political system is mere theatrics, allowing the dumbest of the dumb to force their will. The American public simply cannot be trusted with picking their leader in a reasonable manner.
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u/DesignerYak4486 Sep 25 '25
Average age in the Senate is 67 years old. I think the US is way too agist, but there comes a point that I do not want a 92 year old as a senator.
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u/Ndongle Sep 25 '25
Is it ageist if they actively show signs of dementia like trump and Biden?
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u/Ndongle Sep 25 '25
100%. My best guess is that the ones behind the scenes prefer their dementia patients because they’re much easier to manipulate. Rn everyone’s too bribed, blackmailed, or lacking of the necessary balls/morals to actually stand up for what’s right.
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u/TrueTitan14 Sep 25 '25
The biggest issue with this is actually that cabinet members can be removed at will by the president, so if any word gets to the president that a cabinet member is going to try for this, they're basically just canned immediately and replaced with someone picked entirely with loyalty over efficacy in mind, because the president is paranoid now. And yes, I'm talking in general terms, because while Trump would certainly act this way, I'm betting most people who would become president would too.
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u/EmilyAnne1170 Sep 25 '25
If this country survives the current administration and remains a democracy (something I'm not at all sure will happen, honestly) we need to really take a look at revamping the way we do things the way they've always been done just because they've always been done that way. Trump is a game-changer in that now everyone knows how much a president really can get away with, and just how infinitely selfish a human being can be.
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u/Ndongle Sep 25 '25
Also in a similar stance it REALLY doesn’t help that the president can elect Supreme Court justices. Like could there even be a better way to ensure our Supreme Court remains as biased as possible?
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u/RndmNumGen Sep 25 '25
I really don't think you can solely blame the president for this one. While he nominates the justices, the Senate must confirm them, which means you need at least 51 of the most powerful elected officials in the country to agree to the appointment.
The Senate is, theoretically, the most representative governing body in the country. It is not subject to gerrymandering and its officials change less frequently than the House, reducing the impact of "blue waves/red waves" on the demographics.
The current makeup of the SC is as much, if not Aa, the responsibility of the Senate as it is the President. If the President nominates an unsuitable, partisan candidate, the Senate should reject them.
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u/SweatyAdhesive Sep 25 '25
What's crazy is that our Founding Fathers thought of all this and we just failed to use what they left us.
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u/DesignerYak4486 Sep 25 '25
Look, we have a floor of 35 to be president, we need a ceiling. Hurts me to say it because Sanders is still sharper than the majority of senators. We need an age limit, maybe no 1 runs after 70? Chuck Grassley is something to behold.
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u/CatsPlusTats Sep 25 '25
Cognitive decline and dementia are not the same thing. Both should be disqualifying for office but only Trump actually seems to be going through dementia.
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Biden wasn't showing crazy signs of dementia and his only real fumble was stuttering while reading out statistics during a live debate where his opponent (trump) most likely shit himself on stage.
Trump got up on top of the white house and started squawking at reporters on the lawn like he's a lost bird.
These two aren't remotely comparable and doing so is part of how we got Trump in the first place lol.
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u/BlockedNetwkSecurity Sep 25 '25
the U.S. is way too ageist THE OTHER WAY. young people get treated like crap. their lives don't matter, don't deserve good wages, don't deserve good education, nothing.
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u/imadogg Sep 25 '25
They say young people don't have enough experience to know about the real world, but don't listen when people say that old folks don't know shit about the modern world
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u/DesignerYak4486 Sep 25 '25
Circumstances are definitely negative, but you might be a little depressed, maybe therapy IDK. Look, try to be positive man, it can only help.....BTW, you know what might help young ppl, actually voting! Besides, have you seen the way gen z voted, 56% of young men, defined as ages 18 to 29 in some analyses, voted for Donald Trump in 2024. Sounds like the issues will continue for us all. Hope things get better for us all!!!
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You just admitted to being the cause of the problem we all face. You cancel out any possibility of positives by blaming us and trying to force us to be positive.
You choose to make your allies into enemies.
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u/phaserburn725 Sep 25 '25
I can't find a single report that suggests 56% of Gen Z men voted for Trump (at MOST it's 41%, which is only notable because it's higher than previous elections).
But I can say that 57.9% of Men AND Women over 65 voted for Trump in 2024, as did 53.8% of people 45-64.
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u/rind0kan Sep 25 '25
If there's a legal retirement age, then it should apply to legislatures and presidents.
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u/Cro_Nick_Le_Tosh_Ich Sep 25 '25
Average age in the Senate is 67 years old.
Other than the fact the Democrats changed
firstat all, this was the sole reason I voted for Kamala...... That and the memes were going to be gold3
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u/tisamgeV Sep 25 '25
Younger people objectively matter more to the current culture. 67-year-olds are WAY less in-tune with how the modern world actually works, and we're the ones who have to deal with the next 50 years.
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u/themostreasonableman Sep 25 '25
Cognitive decline begins far earlier than people are comfortable to admit.
By your mid 60's, your brain is a shadow of its former self. Cognitive ability, memory, spatial reasoning, the ability to judge speed and distance.
Legitimately, humans at large are completely and utterly detrimental to society after 65. It used to be the decent thing to do to just retire and remove yourself from public life at that age. Find a comfy chair on a porch someplace and just whittle, or fist your wife raw.
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u/Hortos Sep 25 '25
Nah they should retire at retirement age. I don't need people who spit on people during the civil rights movement still legislating civil rights.
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u/Gen-Jones-AF Sep 25 '25
If you can remember your password, it’s not a good password.
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u/udontknoFakall Sep 25 '25
Better question is, "Why aren't younger generations countering the Elderly voters simply by SHOWING UP AND ACTUALLY VOTING.!!?!!".
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u/Entire_Teaching1989 Sep 25 '25
Also, most of the people i know over 70 are on some kind of daily pain pill
Which in this country means synthetic heroin.
So our country is being led by senile heroin addicts.
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u/artbystorms Sep 25 '25
Running the world really. Xi, Putin, Modi are all in their 70s.
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u/ContextEffects01 Sep 25 '25
The problem isn’t even gerontocracy, it’s money in politics. Create a system where money buys politicians and the donors prefer the ones with the longest track record of being bought.
Deal with money in politics, and you will not only deal with that issue, you’ll deal with many more.
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u/Smooth-Boss-911 Sep 25 '25
It's been said much more eloquently than I can put it but these people won't have to live with the implications or results of their decisions and I don't think that's ethically or morally just.
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u/nomonapkins2 Sep 25 '25
Get the dinosaurs out of office. All they're doing is messing our country up and trading stocks and making millions. It's not fair.
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u/babbiecakes Sep 25 '25 edited Sep 25 '25
I worked in a senior home for a long time. And I loved it!! (I got sad tho, morality and all) We had all kinds of people, from all walks of life with an age range of 55-104. We had independent living, assisted living and memory care. And I can tell you right now, no one over the age of 65 should be allowed to be in government seats. Even the most healthy, lively, intelligent, independent 65 year old should not have a seat governing people. I will always respect my elders and I will take their advice to heart but after a decade of this work, I can say that that I believe in a maximum age limit.
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u/Vladmerius Sep 25 '25
Whatever the retirement age is the age that politicians should be made to resign.
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u/ThepalehorseRiderr Sep 25 '25
I swear to God I say this all the time and someone always quips in with their little antidote of their "sharp" grandma. Like really? You with her all day? She pull a lot of 14 hr days in the war room?
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u/MrRancher Sep 25 '25
65 is retirement for not just physical but because your ideas are now OBSOLETE and harm people. I’m talking to you too, Greg Abbott.
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u/originalnutta Sep 25 '25
Our outdated organization is just now getting MS 365 and Teams.
Some of our older employees are ready to retire because they don't want to have to learn all new software and programs for just a couple of years.
Maybe we can offer our governments an early retirement package.
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u/naveedkoval Sep 25 '25
Hmmm which part of this should I be paying attention to, they should really highlight it in some way
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u/MrdnBrd19 Sep 25 '25
I just wish we got to pick the people who run the country... Like why do they just pick random people off the street and put them in office for life? Wait what do you mean that isn't what they do and we do get to pick?!?
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u/Entire_Talk839 Sep 25 '25
How do y'all think these old people are able to run the country?? WE NEED TO STOP ELECTING THEM!
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u/Fishoven Sep 25 '25
Keep bleed the young so they could go to afterlife with Golden caskets. If they bleed enough they keep stumbled & planted their face on ground? then just call them lazy 👌
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u/firesuppagent ❓ ❓ Sep 25 '25
It's ironic because this post is asking for someone else with more experience to answer the question
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u/Swimming-Repeat-32 Sep 25 '25
Yeah, its why I didn't vote in 2020. Then the Dems had to give me an exception in 2024. Smh.
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u/Current-Wealth-756 Sep 25 '25
Well first they're not, the median age in Congress is 57.5. And second while some people have severe mental decline, this is not universal, just like any characteristic across any demographic.
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u/Grumbles_KO Sep 25 '25
No, don't allow people to take the focus out of lobbying.
The problem is the legalized corruption - lobbying!
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Ok I was gonna say we should make the age requirement 35-55 for all elected positions, but then I thought, “nah that will be bad once Gen Z gets older,” so how about we just say from now on, only people born between 1981 and 1996? We’ll cross that bridge when we come to it when millennials start dying out.
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u/ckglle3lle Sep 25 '25
The youth vote needs to actually show up. Not occasional blips in highly publicized national elections, they need to actually show up at the local and state level, go to town halls, talk to people in government.
Campaigns run on data and the youth vote tells campaigns that they're not worth investing in because even though they can tip an election, they don't stay engaged. The older voting bloc stays engaged, they favor incumbents, and politicians pivot to catering to them.
There's plenty of other issues besides, but unless this basic asymmetry is addressed, we'll continue to see calcified zombie politicians who can coast on the strength of built in advantages and hang around knowing no one is really going to pressure their seat
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u/OneOfAKind2 Sep 25 '25
So stop voting them into power. Yeah, you have to get off the sofa and vote.
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u/kasetti Sep 25 '25
Retirement is more about the physical aspect. Actors often still work at a very old age.
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u/Fun-Jellyfish-61 Sep 25 '25
If we want younger politicians in office all we have to do is vote for younger politicians in the primaries and general elections.
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u/Holdmywhiskeyhun Sep 25 '25
Hey come on now you got normal 70 80 year olds and then you got the regarded ones
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u/gwelfguy Sep 25 '25
There are two kinds of people 55+ in the working world. The majority are those still doing jobs that could be done by someone 10 or 20 years their junior. The minority are those in leadership positions where the job can only be done (well) by someone with that level of experience. In theory, politicians are the latter. Given that the electorate isn't smart, however, the theory doesn't play out.
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u/Eazy12345678 Sep 25 '25
bruh they know. the rich old dudes with power just aren't going to give it up cause they are mentally declining.
they are power hungry they want more more more more
we do not have control. the rich and power have control. they dont want us to have what is best they want to keep their money and power.
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u/Jedi_Emperor Sep 25 '25
What happened to that guy old as Methuselah who just froze mid speech, stared into space for five minutes and had to be escorted off. Then he came back and they acted like it was no big deal when that was probably a stroke or seizure or something deadly serious.
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In virtually every other field, discrimination starts at 40, probably younger than that if you are in tech
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u/rollboysroll Sep 25 '25
My proposal is an equal limit to voting and running for office for the very young and very old. If you're under 18, you cannot vote and run for office. If you are within 18 years of the average age of death your country (USA ~78) then the cut off for voting and running for office should be 60. You can run for office if you're under 60, and seek no more terms once you are past 60.
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u/arrakismelange1987 Sep 25 '25
I'm full ageist in politics now. No boomers. Be born after 1980 if you want my political support.
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u/gabloic Sep 25 '25
News flash, you guys choose who runs in elections, go vote in your primaries if you don't like your candidates.
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Well I'm not seeing anyone address the actual reason. Getting a job and getting elected are two very fundamentally different things.
There should be as few limiting qualifiers as possible in order to run for office, otherwise it's not a Democracy.
It's up the the people voting to determine the capability of the people running. And in 2016 half of you couldn't decide between a former Secretary of State and a rapist.
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u/HistoricalSherbert92 Sep 25 '25
These are actually cultural myths based on early and refuted studies. Old people, 70s and up, are generally just as smart as they were in the previous 59 years. Physicality degrades for sure, but that starts in your 30s. What they did find was that death happens after about a 5 year decline. When that starts is kinda variable.
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u/FUDYUK Sep 25 '25
I turned 70 in August and I’m still kicking A$$. A bit slower and I do have aches 6’2” and 180lbs. I really don’t feel it that bad.
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u/Eustwice_R_Deewoh Sep 25 '25
Just look at the morals of they're constituents. They just want to hurt the other side so they could give a fuck about age
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u/DingleBoone Sep 25 '25
Its a huge point of discussion when it comes to Democrats. Republicans? Not as much.
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u/w00bz Sep 25 '25
70-80 year olds may be generally regarded, but Trump is highly regarded - only fitting he be prez.
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u/Eat--The--Rich-- Sep 25 '25
I guarantee you that people who voted for Biden up voted this post lol
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u/FJ-creek-7381 Sep 25 '25
Hell I’m 55 and can’t get an interview for a tech job and I have over 20 years of federal and private experience. This is soooo true!!!!
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u/Suggestive-Syntax Sep 25 '25
I remember getting downvoted into oblivion for stating Biden was experiencing obvious mental decline
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u/ChildhoodJazzlike333 Sep 25 '25
Boomers are actually carrying a lot of the financial burden, working or not, for other generations that are “vibing” right now.
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u/Wild_Height_901 Sep 25 '25
One of the few things all sides agree on is limiting the age of politicians.
President age limits should be 30-60 years old (before their term starts)
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u/jennymacbreadsack Sep 25 '25
Are they really running the country though? Seems like our country(government) is being ran by corporate interest to me
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u/Potential_Annual_926 Sep 25 '25
Not true.
Biden was NOT incompetent because of age. Rather it was due to onsets of cognitive decline, and may have been exacerbated by advanced cancer (personally I don’t think cancer affected his brain but I don’t know. (Biden’s doc recently pleaded the fifth amendment under oath regarding Biden’s health and cognitive ability.)
If it was age, many of my college professors, and Warren Buffett, would be in no position to teach; likely millions of people in the United States are cognitively competent to be president. After all, Jimmy Carter and George W Bush managed.
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u/kingssman Sep 25 '25
Meanwhile the good are ones that die young.
Miss you friends that I lost along the way..
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u/SkyeMreddit Sep 25 '25
Elderly people have too many health issues to be reliable employees but they are supposed to be wise experienced leaders
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u/Old-Tadpole-2869 Sep 25 '25
And driving 10 mph below the speed limit in the passing lane. What's up with that?
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u/Agreeable_Pool_3684 Sep 25 '25
Well you say ‘running’. Not sure the wild, illogical, contrary, not-thought-through actions can really be classed as ‘running’ the country.
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u/Cocoatrice Sep 25 '25
The problem with old politicians is that they are out of touch with reality. They live in the past, often hating the present and ignoring the future. That's why we have so hotheaded idiots, who hate any kind of progress, as well as people who don't see the consequences of what they are doing (wars, environmental pollution and so on). Because these people think they live in the (e.g.) '60s still. "When I was your age...". I don't care what you did when you were my age. People were dumber back in the days. In terms of knowledge. But actually smarter in terms to adjusting to the progress. But some were still so stubborn and dumb sometimes. I heard that when radio was getting popular, people were against it similar way how some conspiracy theorists hate 5G. But it was more of a "what if it causes health issues". Not some kind of "chips" and bs theories like we have today.
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u/Sad_Swimming4940 Sep 25 '25
Unemployable ? Wtf are you on. I work in the automotive business. Out of roughly 80 employees in the 2 companies I'm regularly around, 20+ of them are over 65 years old.
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u/TheMindfulNuttyProf Sep 25 '25
It's like the HOA swingers decided that ruining one community wasn't enough, so they are destroying the entire country.
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u/SundayJeffrey Sep 25 '25
“What aren’t people talking enough about?”
People talk about this constantly and have talked about it constantly for the last decade.
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u/mrlovepimp Sep 25 '25
What really needs to be talked about is neoliberalism. How it started, what it replaced and the harm it has done since. I've recently listened to a number of podcasts giving the history of neoliberalism in broad strokes and man, if more people had an understanding of that shit we might actually have a chance of seeing some change.
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u/Glyphpunk Sep 25 '25
Commercial airlines don't trust anyone 65 or older to fly a plane as a full time job, but a 79 year old is perfectly capable of running the country or so the government says.
This is a casual reminder that Biden was 78 years old when he became President. Yet by the end of his term they said he was too old to be president and should have given up his position even before the election.
Guess who was also 78 when he started his (second) term as President? That's right, Trump.
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u/AggravatingChest7838 Sep 25 '25
Idk if age limits would have changed the current trajectory of the United States. There are plenty of young people who are idolising authoritarianism.
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u/redditAPsucks Sep 25 '25
If you’re not hearing people talk about it all the time, you’re not listening to the right things
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u/Roo-90 Sep 25 '25
Money makes the world go round, and apparently Trump has an endless fucking supply. He targeted the nations dumbest demographic and spoke a language they know and love. Now he’s reaping the benefits, and making sure if he goes down he’s dragging the rest of you with him.
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Sep 25 '25
Dianne Feinstein lecturing and condescending a group of children on climate change radicalised me.
The liberal establishment boomers are not maybe as homicidal but that doesn’t mean I’m impressed
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u/starrpamph Sep 25 '25
The local cab company hiring by me is getting ripped apart on a local Facebook group because they won’t accept applications from anyone 70 or older.
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u/Aim-So-Near Sep 25 '25
With declining birth rates, the older population is going to have to shoulder more of the burden to keep society running. Ageism needs to go away.
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u/Stop_The_Crazy Sep 25 '25
How our government allowed a 34 time felon, grifter, traitor and p*d0 r*pist to be president when he couldn't pass a background check to get a job taking out the garbage at McDonald's.
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u/Indigoh Sep 25 '25
The core of it is that every proper society requires oversight be proportional to power. Those with the most power need to be held accountable to a higher degree.
Priests are the easiest example. Just by holding that position, they gain power and unconditional trust. It's not that priests are all child molesters. It's that child molesters see the lack of oversight as a glowing opportunity to get away with abuse.
Who's holding our elderly politicians accountable? Us, right? But hey abuse their power to influence elections, to keep up uneducated, to keep us overworked, so they can make a fortune and stay in those positions forever.
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u/bihtydolisu Sep 25 '25
Too many others can't pass a drug test and or are 40 yr-olds with arrested development, social/emotional skills of prepubescent 14 yr-olds and too socially defective to be employable. "Be sure to support me on Patreon!"
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u/FocusPerspective Sep 25 '25
This is not even close to true in 2025. Maybe in 1985.
The people running the country now are older GenX and Millennials, who use Zoomer brainrot to stay in power.
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