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I am a valued member of every forum on here except for MPSIMS. My Cafe Society threads routinely go for multiple pages. You cannot act as though I’m a troll. You cannot be serious, John McEnroe.
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Why is it that goofballs invariably equate the length of threads with popularity? Don’t get me wrong TLDR I am not a hater I just think you are an idiot. You used to make me laugh but you are becoming old and tired and sad. Sad because your posts remind me that there are people like you walking around and even voting. If I got the sense that you were just having us on it would be different. I guess in that respect I wish you were a troll. But you seem so earnest in your stupidity that if you are a troll I salute you as one of the best…
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The House requires its members to be at least 25, the Senate at least 30 or 35, the Presidency 35. So yeah, a 21-year-old cannot serve in Congress, period.
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[QUOTE=Miller]
And yet, when presented with an example of someone who is genuinely politically aware, motivated, and active, you take this as also being proof that we’re in the End Times of American democracy.
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Moreover, there is a huge hole in his logic. The member is working under the assumption that democracy is an absolutely rotten system. If the problem, ultimately, is that the system is irredeemable, it should not matter who serves in the system, as there will not be a man on a white horse who can ride in and save us all.
[QUOTE=TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW]
This is a weird thing to admit, but when I just read that I screamed out, slapped the computer monitor on both sides of its face, and started hyperventilating. Am I the only one who has a problem with BABIES making these serious decisions?
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I’m trying overlook the base irony here - you’re acting like a complete baby, not to say a psycho, over someone else’s perceived immaturiy - but I just can’t do it. I can’t tell if you’re trolling or mentally ill, but it’s hard to care either way. Get some help, fuck off, get yourself banned (it’s inevitable anyway), do whatever.
[QUOTE=TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW]
But the ignorant, embarrassing California Recall is a great example of why democracy is broken. The average chicken-pluckin’ moron voter out there just plain doesn’t know his ass from a hole in the ground; it’s that simple. The average person has absolutely no grasp of any of the issues or sociopolitical nuances behind why things are they way they are, so when deregulation causes them to get fleeced, they roar “IMPEACH THAT THERE GRAY DAVIS FELLER AND REPLACE HIM WITH THE MAN FROM THE MOVIES!” When they see a child running for a DNC position, they say “YOU KNOW I JUST SAW SIMON BIRCH ON HOME VIDEO AND YOU KNOW THEY’RE RIGHT WHEN SOMETIMES ‘OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF BABES’ AND STUFF. THAT’S WHO WE WANT!”
There is no hope. None.
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This whole thread is really perplexing. Out of curiosity, how old do you think one should have to be in order to be a superdelegate?
I should mention, also, that not all young people who run for these positions get elected. People aren’t just blindly voting for the young candidates. One of my best friends ran for office twice–once at age 22, once at 24–and he was passed over for the older, “establishment” candidates both times. If you can mange not to be totally predictable and make some crack about how the constituents were obviously thinking clearly, I’d like to point out that he knows his shit, he works really damn hard, and he recently helped deliver his state to Obama. Is it fair that, conversely, someone who’s on the younger side gets passed over simply because he has no name recognition? Both scenarios happen–sometimes a young person runs and the voters go nuts about it, and sometimes a young person runs and the voters go “who?” I hardly see a nation-wide phenomenon here.
By the way, young Democrats are voting for Obama by a large margin. Isn’t that enough for you? You recently started an anti-Clinton thread, so maybe I’m jumping to conclusions, but I would think you’d be overjoyed about getting more young Americans to take part in the democratic process. I know I am.
On preview, I see that you’re against democracy altogether. What the fuck? I’m serious–what the fuck??? I thought I could make some sort of interesting reply to this thread, but now all I have to say is ALL HAIL THE CROWNING OF THE NEW PHILOSOPHER-KING!!!1
[QUOTE=TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW]
What? I’ve never even seen you on the board before. Who are YOU to make such a comment!?
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Someone who read the article, surprise surprise. Had you actually read the article rather than submitting to your baser instincts, you would have seen a mature young man, active in politics and keeping himself informed on the issues. Someone with enough political acumen to beat out two other men for his position on the DNC. Had you taken the mere effort to google “jason rae dnc” you could have seen his C.V. up on Wikipedia, that Antinor01 linked to. Had you the slightest shred of decency you might have admitted before now that, while he does seem kind of young, perhaps you misjudged his character, instead of redirecting your unrighteous outrage towards them damn hippie lib’rul Californians.
[QUOTE=Boyo Jim]
No I’m not gonna pony up that kind of money. It’s interesting that you “love” this place where virtually everyone despises you. That pretty much certifies you as a troll.
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I object to this statement. You have no way of knowing what the majority of the members here think about TLDR, and I do not think you should presume to speak for the entire board.
[QUOTE=TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW]
What? I’ve never even seen you on the board before. Who are YOU to make such a comment!?
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Yeah, Punoqllads, don’t address a favored poster such as Alphabet Poop until you’ve started at least 30 nonsensical, insulting threads of your own. Have a little respect.
[QUOTE=Punoqllads]
Had you the slightest shred of decency you might have admitted before now that, while he does seem kind of young, perhaps you misjudged his character, instead of redirecting your unrighteous outrage towards them damn hippie lib’rul Californians.
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Hell, he hasn’t even admitted he fucked up the link in his OP.
I was politically active when I was in my 20s, (hopelessly naive as well, since I was a Democrat in Utah) and was a delegate to the state convention, and declined an invitation to stand in the elections for the national convention because of scheduling conflicts. I was far more informed then than I am now in my 40s (although if I still lived in the States, I would have continued my involvement.)
It’s not unusual for delegates to be courted intensely. The Chairman of the Utah Democratic Party post had an election while I was a State delegate, and as I was undecided in a close election, I got more and more calls from increasingly more important people, eventually by both candidates and my hero, a Democratic congressman from Utah.
Political activists who can deliver votes are gold. Student votes are counted the same as 30-year-olds, so having college delegates in good for the party.
Not that reason is going to help in this thread. . .