Comment on I was wrong. I hope Russia wins, for all the slaughter the UA nazis have been doing for a decade
sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net 2 years agoI don't know if I agree with that. As I've aged I've watched a whole lot of people who want to save the world and they can't even save themselves. It seems the lesson from where I'm standing is that we should be more focused on saving ourselves and maybe, after that, if we manage to put on our own life preserver, afterwards we can try to help others put on their own.
And overwhelming amount of the troubles that we face are people who are completely failed as human beings assuming that if they just conquer the world then all of their problems will disappear.
mayonesa@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
I know I don't agree with that; I heard that horseshit from Boomers long ago. People need to focus on our future. They will not be sane until they exist in a sane environment, and the "focus on saving ourselves" is pure Boomercon cope. Donate twice a year to The Blaze and Fox News, no doubt.
sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net 2 years ago
The boomers didn't necessarily have it so easy either all the time.
Everyone points out their cheap houses and education and cars and so on.
Are you enjoying the process of those things becoming "cheap"? Because this year's inflation so far times 10 is how that happened.
The next step is starting: massive rise in interest rates on everything and especially the debt you buy that "cheap" stuff with. Lots of people will lose their cars and their homes because they aren't paying attention, and that happened to the boomers too. Good jobs will go away in places that had them, and people will need to figure out what to do in a brand new landscape. Won't be the government that saves you -- they caused this -- it'll be you.
And on the other side, if you manage to cling to your way of life, some gen alpha will go "Oh, the selfish millennials had it so easy!"
But you know what? Make those right decisions and little by little you'll be making your own environment saner. You build something, start small and build. And you find like-minded people and build communities, and it isn't something they can tax away from you. Before you know it, you've built a miracle for yourself and those around you, all without the ridiculous notion that you have to take over the world first.
Ironically, if enough of us build these communities, we will have created the opportunities to change the world for ourselves. And opportunity is the father of invention.
mayonesa@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
Sorry man, this strikes me as cope. "Ignore the problem of civilizational failing, focus on your retirement plan, church, and garden." That's what conservatives did for the last sixty years or so and it has failed.
sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net 2 years ago
The biggest downfall of the religious right was their failure to do this. They went out and tried to change the world, they tried to stick their fingers in everyone's business, and then they became irrelevant. The left is doing the right thing. It's an unforced error in progress, and it's about to end the Democratic party for the next 10 years.