How would it have been better if they were kids? It’d be worse: displaying the kind of bullshit being handed down to the next generation.
They’re inept, stupid, racist adults. Pray they don’t teach kids to be like themselves (though I’m sure they will).
You can vote = not a kid.
Republicans always say “kid” because they always have kids on their minds because they are pedos
Some of these “kids” are older than Charlie Kirk. They were literally all in the same age range and demographic. This is the modern Republican party when you don’t include the old people.
Charlie Kirk…. Charlie Kirk…. Oh, little face blood fountain guy!
All in all i feel world is a little better without him in it
How does their age excuse their behavior?
Great now “boys will be boys” is a dog whistle.
it always was for misogyny, but now it might be for fascism too
“Boys will be boys” was always about getting into foolish hijinks. It has been co-opted by shitheads to excuse abhorrent behavior. And every time it happens there needs to be significant pushback from from folks to take it back from the bastards.
sadly it’s hard to take back a term.
shitheads missuse the term
normal people then avoid such term
now it’s a bad term
any attempt at reclaiming it will be suspicious as if someone just wants an excuse to use that word.
it’s mostly a slut thing.
but with slurs it’s “easier” to reclaim, as the community affected by it, can choose to use it.
in this case it’s different.
I think it was more of a euphemism for stupidity than a dog whistle for mysogyny.
it’s often used to excuse male children or teens (or young men) of misogynistic acts.
although originally meant for general youth stupidity.
it’s a good dogwhistle because it comes with plausible deniability.
it depends on the context.
It doesn’t, but that’s the excuse JD Vance is making.
They all looked like pathetic losers, chuds, and incels.
Hopefully they’ll go to jail and learn some respect.
One problem with this defense? The people in the group chat aren’t “kids.” By scanning public records and media reports, Mother Jones determined the ages of eight of the 11 participants in the chat: They appear to range from 24 to 35. Ages for three other participants—Bobby Walker, Michael Bartels, and Rachel Hope—were not publicly available. Bartels declined to comment to Politico, and the outlet could not reach Hope for comment. Walker told Politico parts of the chat “may have been altered, taken out of context, or otherwise manipulated,” adding, “The language is wrong and hurtful, and I sincerely apologize.”
“You don’t get it, when I was dropping n-bombs, the context was crucial! It was an ironic hard-r!”
This is just what leaked. The youngish adults staffing all these senators’ and representatives’ offices are barely any older, and are probably saying the same shit.
Let’s say for the benefit of the doubt this was a chat composed entirely of children. Where did these “children” learn all that talk? As young republicans maybe from older republicans or their Republican parents. Them being actual kids would make it worse
