Did you ever say something at 13 that you regretted later in life? At least you had the presence of mind not to get that captured on camera or social media for posterity, right?
What? It's on Facebook?! Well, at least you didn't get it on YouTube, right? What?
Well, at least you're not this guy:
From Elspeth Reeve of The Atlantic Wire: Link | The interview at PoliticoLike so many teenagers, Jonathan Krohn says he cringes when he thinks of some of the deeply uncool things he said when he was 13. Unlike most teenagers, Krohn said those things on camera in a speech at the 2009 Conservative Political Action Conference, making him a YouTube sensation. Now? Krohn tells Politico's Patrick Gavin he's not a conservative anymore. He likes gay marriage and Obamacare. He's going to New York University in the fall. He name drops German philosophers. But his old fans can't accept that he's changed. "Come on, I was thirteen," he told Politico. "I was thirteen."
Listen: Anyone who says, “I’m a liberal,” better say it after hours of abject apologies on their knees after the total freaking mess you, your kind, and your polices of wrought on the world over the past 50 or so years (and that’s being generous).
Don't believe me? Everything that's wrong with the economy, banking industry, car industry, lost jobs, lost homes, health care, etc... can be traced back to liberals! Liberals are supposed to be "progressive" but the problem is that have regressive ideas on everything, such as taxes. The idea of "if it's not broken, then don't fix it" is not in the mind a a liberal. They feel that they must change everything without actually thinking of the future.
So, if you want to be a libtard, then go ahead, but stay out of our (conservatives) way while we fix everything that you all screwed up.
Listen: Anyone who says, "I'm a conservative," better say it after 10 to 15 minutes of abject apologies after the total fucking mess you, your kind and your polices of wrought on the world over the past 50 or so years (and that's being generous).
Something like that, yes. Except that I don't need to play tribal games of the partisans, so I don't need anyone to claim me, nor do I want to take sides by fame-dropping/name-dropping. I was talking trash about Mamet, though I'm not really embarrassed by it. I'm only embarrassed for people who would admire a lightweight like Mamet or those who'd want turn this story into taking sides like it's political team sports.
but he wasn't then.. he is now.
To say the least.
This kid may change his mind again and again and again. That's part of getting older. Or should be.
My reasoning was "No one likes to lose his job. It would be sad for him to lose his."
Our political, religious and philosophical beliefs aren't really our own until we've had a chance to explore them.
“I look back upon my Liberal political beliefs with a sort of wonder—as another exercise in self-involvement—rewarding myself for some superiority I could not logically describe.” -- David Mamet, The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kAVaIXosvw