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- Comment on My people need me 2 weeks 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.
- Comment on 103°F in Los Angeles all week 2 weeks ago:
Yes, grandma started the industrial revolution 200 years ago. Thanks Na Na…
- Comment on My people need me 2 weeks ago:
I assure you, from the perspective of the boomer blamers, everything I said is not trite. It might illuminating or it might be infuriating. But it’s something they need to hear.
- Comment on My people need me 2 weeks 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.
- Comment on My people need me 2 weeks ago:
Do you?
- Comment on My people need me 2 weeks ago:
In the context of the post that was yet another “it’s the boomers’ fault”, generalization is just fine. Nuance and Lemmy don’t get along very well. But sure, “it’s not all ___ people” works. Just don’t phrase it that way….
- Comment on My people need me 2 weeks 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.
- Comment on My people need me 2 weeks ago:
I haven’t looked up voting statistics lately. Have you?
- Comment on My people need me 2 weeks ago:
That’s not at all what I said, but I get it, reading is hard.
- Comment on My people need me 2 weeks 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…
- Comment on My people need me 2 weeks ago:
You all collectively are dumping on boomers to satisfy a need to blame others for not having what you want or think you deserve. The right wing does the same thing only they have a greater diversity in who they hate. Lemme know how griping on social media is helping out with the situation…
- Comment on It was cold this morning. You all know what this means. 5 weeks ago:
The “Iron Man” parody that starts off, “I AM SANTA CLAUS…!”
- Comment on It was cold this morning. You all know what this means. 5 weeks ago:
Ok yeah that one too. Insufferable greed is rampant enough…
- Comment on It was cold this morning. You all know what this means. 5 weeks ago:
All you wannabe hipsters trying to bond over mutual disdain for that song when the real enemy is “Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer”
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I don’t know who actually started the Boomers vs Millennials gripefest, but both of these advertising demographics can just shut up.
- Comment on Delicious 2 months ago:
Forgetting is sometimes a survival instinct
- Comment on Creative panhandling 2 months ago:
I’m sure he’s a wonderful person… s/ Actually: c/ cynicism
- Comment on clean that up 3 months ago:
Aww yiss, using your age as an identity… Timeless…
- Comment on "Top Movies" in Amazon Prime is full of series 4 months ago:
I’m just here to vouch for The Boys
- Comment on Gurll 4 months ago:
Yeah, solid pun. The image of said gurl getting punched not so solid. It would take but a minute to redo this meme into something less violent.
- Comment on A modest proposal 7 months ago:
I said none of that. And the older generation “not standing up to this shit”? Quite a few did. And quite a few in previous generations did as well.
And quite a few people from whatever “generation” you fancy yourself a member also work for a better world.
- Comment on A modest proposal 7 months ago:
I’ve heard stats presented that way all my life, usually in terms of “immigrants”, “Jews”, “Catholics” , etc. You want to look up some stats? Look at voter turnout amongst young people. Or the population of the United States vs available land, 1960’s to present. Or look up post war economic booms and how they affect things.
Here we are, with decades of low voter turnout, a waning economy that is completely gamed not by an age group but by the wealthy, and too many people to allow the old ways of “growth” to work anymore.
And somehow amidst that we’ve decided that part of our very identity is the range of years in which we were born. Who decided what a boomer or millennial or gen X/Z/Alpha is? Was it a consensus amongst social scientists? Or was it something more useful for marketing strategy?
I reject your comment outright. Everything you said was perpetuated (or not) by the entirety of people living in that/this time. We are all part of this world and othering a group of people, i.e. scapegoating others does jackshit for solving our problems.
- Comment on That nice liberal, I see they got you working the easy shift 7 months ago:
The repost perhaps. My original post was definitely not. Tankies are an odd bunch. Never heard of them prior to Lemmy. Much like the far right, their world view seems to be entirely self-contained, with no room for perceptive beyond their brethren.
- Comment on A modest proposal 7 months ago:
Gen X owes you nothing
- Comment on A modest proposal 7 months ago:
lol old people hate. Because blaming any other group for the world’s problems is very bad…. It’s as if the boomer generation was obligated to create utopia; not any generation previous or since. Just them. And when the last of them have died off, the youngins will scapegoat whoever is old in that time. So Millennials, you might want to get your excuses ready; you didn’t leave the world a better place for them…
- Comment on That nice liberal, I see they got you working the easy shift 7 months ago:
’ve posted some made up memes in various places over the years and hoped to see a repost some day. And here is one! Neat-o. So here’s the story behind it. On another site, someone posted a t-shirt idea of just the text. In the comments, a second person joked that the text would go nice on a Gadsden flag. And I thought hey I can that, so I did. The original context was slamming MAGA and similar ilk. The repost here is a bit ambiguous. Are there words missing in the title?
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- Comment on The consequences of not building enough housing 8 months ago:
200 million Americans in 1970, 340 million now. The dream of a nice house with a big yard is limited by space; space that also requires farmland, forests, parks, etc… We need dense apartment buildings, not houses.
- Comment on Evidence 9 months ago:
Blaming all the world’s troubles on old people does jackshit for solving anything. I get it, many of you need a scapegoat and an arbitrary “generation” to blame is socially binding for you. But why “boomers”? When they die off, will you blame Gen X next? Then the millennials as they age; age like ALL people. If you really want to find root cause generations, look into those Nineteenth Century folks and their penchant for wanton industry and slavery. Or Roman Empire people with their imperialist expansion and Christianization… Or just sit on your hands and gripe about grandpa…
- Comment on Are you not entertained? 1 year ago:
I’m annoyed by celebrity culture, but geezus anti-celebrity culture can be just as insufferable.
Just tune it out people.
