The move would extend her 36-year House career and continue to freeze her would-be California successors in a long-standing holding pattern.

The move would extend her 36-year House career and continue to freeze her would-be California successors in a long-standing holding pattern.

  • anon232English
    901·
    10 months ago

    It’s time for nationwide term limits. You get to serve your term and do what you’d like, then give the reins over to the next person. Sick of all these fucking old ghouls who cling onto their positions of power like it’s a fucking philosophers stone for them.

    • greenskyeEnglish
      10·
      10 months ago

      I’d be ok with at least an age cap. No one can run after they’re 65. Leave governing to those who will be alive to see the impact of their policies.

      • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
        22·
        10 months ago

        The problem with an age cap is that us younger generations are going to be the first beneficiaries of life extension medicine. We’d need to remove/raise the age cap almost immediately.

        I fully expect some of my generation to break 120 and still be as spry as a 40 year old. We’ll be the outliers and guinea pigs, but I view the potential benefits as worth it.

        • SnowdenHeroOfOurTime@unilem.org
          31·
          10 months ago

          Where on earth did you get this idea? Life expectancy has literally decreased. I see no reason to expect a drastic increase of it.

          • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
            1·
            10 months ago

            Not for the tail end of Gen X. And the only reason you kids have a lower expectancy than we do is cause you guys got even fatter. I’m in good shape, and all of you kids that are in good shape have a higher life expectancy than me.

              • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
                2·
                10 months ago

                I read a few studies that came to that conclusion a few years ago. I’d love to provide the source, but I have lost the ability to find anything remotely historical with any of the search engines in the last year or so.

                As far as the tech angle is concerned look up Kurzgesagt’s video on life extension tech, they have a few, but the one that discusses senescent cells is the most important. Senolyitc drugs have been on the market for a year or two now, so we have a way of preventing cancer, which is the current disease that takes out most people, with a side benefit of forcing new cell growth.