General Discussion

Because, as we get younger politicians from Millennials on down, we're going to have to start contending with the reality of social media histories. As a Xennial, I just barely edged out having my entire teens and 20s documented online. If anyone found my Reddit name right now, it is the most boring shit on earth, because I've been old enough to know better. If I don't want my boss to see it, it probably shouldn't be online.

People think it's 2014 for some reason. "Can you believe he said this thing in the past?"

Yeah. But, I dunno. I don't care. Voters don't care. Twitter isn't real life.

It just feels ancillary. "He had a bad tattoo!" Ok. Entrenched politicans have been skimming the system for decades. But that's fine. It's the tattoo I should get really worked about?

I just don't that much. It's not great. Platner's not my first pick. But when considering moral weight, the powerful have so much worse on their end of the scale that I'm not going to pretend to take a moral high ground. "Sure I support people who hire everyone and their uncle into nepotistic positions at tech companies, AI, and crypto while I take their donations and write legislation they can easily exploit. But have you seen the tattoo?"

People need to get real about some of this. Bad words, bad thoughts, dumb behavior vs. generational damage to the People.

I know which one I care about more.