Comment on My people need me

modestmeme@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  But it IS mainly the boomers that are still in charge, denying the younger generations access to power and to the places where change can really happen. There are some GenX and Millenial Traitors mixed in, but the impulse for these events comes from the boomers.

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  • modestmeme@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Vote them out. People complain about the elderly in Congress and then promptly vote them right back in. That enough people are considering them the best qualified is telling. Run some quality younger candidates who talk practical solutions, not idealistic boilerplate…

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    • Zorque@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Just because a group is vocal doesnt mean theyre the majority.

      The people complaining about age arent the ones voting for predominantly older politicians.

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      • modestmeme@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I haven’t looked up voting statistics lately. Have you?

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    • Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      If we weren’t living in a rapidly aging society which gives them the majority for the next decades.

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      • modestmeme@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Yeah seems like there’s a constant influx of more old people every year… Sooner than you think, you’ll be one of them. But by then you’ll blame the world on the younger generations.

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    • DarkFuture@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Vote them out.

      That starts with discussion. Discussion takes place, among other places, in forums on the internet.

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• queermunist@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  The right hate the wrong people. That’s it.

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  • modestmeme@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    That’s not at all what I said, but I get it, reading is hard.

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    • queermunist@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      What you said was “you’re all the same as the right because they blame other people”

      I’m pointing out how stupid that is, because sometimes, other people are to blame.

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      • modestmeme@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I said people, as in people in general, like to blame others. I followed that with differences between the current state of left and right wing in the U.S. And I was sarcastic about it when I used the word “diversity” in regards to the multitude of people the right hates vs the left shitting on the elderly because shitting on anyone else will be met with a great amount of scorn.

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• DarkFuture@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  “Hey guys, stop using a discussion forum to discuss a group of people who are provably responsible for many of your woes.”

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  • modestmeme@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    There’s a difference between what you think I said and what I actually said. But I understand your kneejerk response. It’s often the case when someone refutes a dearly held belief such as yours and your boomer nonsense. I’m sure your “provable” complaints are every bit as solid as the right wing’s complaints about immigrants, gays, trans people, people of color, etc. Can you even define “boomer”? Does boomer include everyone born during a specific range of years? From around the world? Of color, or just one race? My definition: it’s an advertisement term for white Americans, middle class or above, born 1945-64. The abysmal voter turnout over the last half century isn’t their fault. The world not being an affordable utopia isn’t their fault either. But sure, pin all the frustrations of the modern world on one generation, nobody from the centuries before and nobody since. It sounds so simple and easy.

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