Comment on Grandma is on her own

bier@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• breecher@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This inter-generational strife nonsense is the greatest deflection the oligarchs have come up with to make people forget who their real enemies are.

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  • ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Political polarization was the greatest deflection.

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  • Jyek@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Some might suggest that most of the oligarchs are the boomers in these memes.

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    • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      All the oligarchs I can name are boomers or gen X.

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      • breecher@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Again, pretty irrelevant, considering oligarchs constitute a fraction of a fraction of a generation (and their wealth and oligarch status will be inherited by their gen a or z offspring anyway).

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      • doingthestuff@lemy.lol ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Overall gen x got shafted. But about a dozen of them won monopoly irl. We all pay rent to the landowners.

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    • breecher@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You can claim that all oligarchs are boomers (and that would not be close to true, a lot of the techbro oligarchs are a lot younger), but not all boomers are oligarchs. OP is inferring all boomers are oligarchs, so it is the textbook definition of intergenerational strife deflection.

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  • bier@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Exactly if we need to blame anyone, its fucking Wall Street and investment firms. Those are the people jacking up prices and reducing quality, they are also responsible for the entire outsourcing to China etc.

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