Comment on Why does it feel like protesting isn't as "extreme" as it used to be?

LovableSidekick@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• spacecadet@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I was gonna say something similar. The amount of “activists “ that have never set foot at a protest is astounding. Most of the recent protests have been full of geriatrics reliving the past glory of the 60’s. Then the young people that do show up are nobody to look up to or admire, they are usually uneducated about the subject and have a plethora of mental issues or only there because they have a huge unrelated chip on their shoulder.

  Also, the priests of the past in my city were always well dressed professional people with a clearly defined goal. Currently, it’s just trust fund babies mad at daddy pretending to be anarchistic in their $3800/month apartment burning down the poor part of the city they don’t live in because they are mad at Trump and ice.

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  • AppleTea@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    speaking of an unrelated chip on one’s shoulder…

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  • LovableSidekick@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    “geriatrics reliving the past glory of the 60’s” ?

    I get that saying anything positive about boomers is pretty much against the rules of social media, but for fuck’s sake dude, you’re talking about people who are out there actually trying to do something for the world instead of thumb-typing nihilism into their phones.

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