Comment on 23-Year-Old Elon Musk Rep Granted Energy Dept. IT Access Without Security Clearance
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoEvery person is different. But on average, younger people are easier to trick. As are the elderly. The former lacks experience. The latter loses faculties.
It’s ageist to pre judge a ~person~ based on age. It’s not ageist to understand the progression of the human mind.
You wouldn’t say it’s ageist that babies are easy to trick, would you?
Cypher@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
There it is again, infantilizing an adult.
There’s no evidence this guy has been tricked. There’s a lot of evidence he’s a piece of shit.
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Maybe. See, you assume this person has a full comprehension of what’s he’s doing, why he’s doing it, and the historical context around what musk is doing. You assume he’s all-in on being a fascist.
You’re assuming this guy is a genius who spent his time learning programming and history and politics. And from there he decided that he’ll help overthrow a government.
I remember being that age, and apparently I wasn’t as smart because I just learned programming by then. It took will into my 30s to start to understand social issues and into my 40s to start to get politics. I worked for a very evil corporation because the money was good, and never gave it a second thought.
If we knew the guy’s name we could look him up online and see if his posts are more “well researched Nazi” or “easily fooled lonely edgelord”. But if I had to put money on it, I’m betting it’s the latter.
Cypher@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
His age or individual knowledge of topics outside of his work are non-issues.
He has chosen to take marching orders from Nazi President Musk, is installing back doors into sensitive systems, and has a highly suspect history that implicates him in cyber crime activities which would likely prevent him from obtaining a security clearance.
As I have stated numerous times, there is plenty of info available to criticise this man and his age is irrelevant.
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
His age is only relevant if you care about the how or the why. You seem to care only about the what.
Which is fine. But the how and why matter if we want to prevent more of this. For example, to me this shows we need to teach history and politics better in technical colleges.