Once Again, Ron Wyden Had To Stop Bad “Protect The Children” Internet Bills From Moving Forward

SnotFlickerman, 3 months ago

The gerontocracy needs to stop acting like they have any clue how the internet works.

Ron Wyden is seventy-four.

Age isn’t the problem.

Upton Sinclair named the problem a long, long time ago:

It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.

Apply that to large swaths of congresscritters who are too busy counting the money they get from lobbyists to give a shit what we think.

Nancy Pelosi: “We’re capitalists, and that’s just the way it is.”

Money in politics is the problem.

Powderhorn, 3 months ago

That’s a very fair point. Much as I’d like to think I haven’t aged in the past 20 years (when we were covering him as one of our senators), I’ve made the same error in assessing his age.

derbis, 3 months ago

Yes thank you. I’m pretty worried about what happens without this guy. We still have Ed Markey but he’s up there too.

Much as a lot of the worst people in government are relics from another time, age discrimination doesn’t behoove us, IMO. Some of the best are also the most venerable. I’d take Bernie in a heartbeat.

SnotFlickerman, 3 months ago

Some of the worst Republicans are pretty youthful! Matt fucking Gaetz, for example. Ron DeSantis for another! So yeah, exactly, age discrimination won’t help.

Kyrsten Sinema is also universally hated as a Democrat by this point, for good reason, she’s the worst, and she’s only a few years older than DeSantis. It’s not just the old people fucking us.