> certainly didn't say anything akin to the recent racist tweets from another Doge staffer, no

Were you on Twitter?

I don’t remember anything that heinous. But I do remember telling off-colour jokes. If I’d done that in public and received validation from someone I respected and admired, is it implausible I’d have gone down the rabbit hole?

> unspoken piece left out of your sentence, which is that they are an asset if taught and guided well

That’s my point. These kids show potential. It’s being squandered for the short-term gains of old men.

If you’d done something dumb and then lots of things even dumber then you would have done really dumb things and no, not everyone did or would.

> and then lots of things even dumber

The point is we have multiple layers of society working to turn small dumb things young men say and do into very dumb things.

Small dumb things stop being a valid excuse when they have material impacts on other individuals. Your right to fuck around stops when it impacts me.

Isn’t this basically the point they were making?

> We’re wasting our youth on the fever dreams of old men.