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tl;dr you can’t group people by their generation in any meaningful way. If you could we probably would never have disruption, activism, or change.

The new political game is to use age as the defining way to pit people against each other. 

But, like every one of these games it serves only one purpose, to distract us away from class consciousness.

Race, religion, sexuality, gender, age, political beliefs are not singularly defining qualities. 

In fact the only meaningful group, coordinating to effect negative outcomes on the broader public is the capitalist class. 

Therefore, if you want to direct your anger somewhere, that’s where you should point it.

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A good reminder. It's fine to critique a leaders capabilities but a lot of the comments are just ageism, and like you say there are good reasons to talk crap about these politicians like the actual harm they're causing, focusing on age is a distraction.

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Listen I don’t mind age gating politics but it’s not even fully accomplishing the thing we want it to. A better solution would be term limits and the best solution is liquid democracy. 

The only reason we’re talking about this is because Biden is incompetent. Bernie Sanders is literally older than Biden and no one would be saying the same of him.