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- Comment on A modest proposal 18 hours 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 21 hours 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 21 hours 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 22 hours ago:
Gen X owes you nothing
- Comment on A modest proposal 22 hours 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 1 day 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 1 month 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 1 month 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? 5 months ago:
I’m annoyed by celebrity culture, but geezus anti-celebrity culture can be just as insufferable.
Just tune it out people. - Comment on Can you believe all those wildfires in [your country here]? 6 months ago:
The generational level of “concern” can be measured in voter turnout data. It isn’t very good.
- Comment on Can you believe all those wildfires in [your country here]? 6 months ago:
Two questions: 1) Who you gonna blame when they’re all dead and 2) What are other, apparently superior “generations”, en masse, doing to realize a better world?
- Comment on Can you believe all those wildfires in [your country here]? 6 months ago:
This is wrong. It’s 20-25%. And the last 50 years includes a whole bunch on non-boomers and a massive industrialization of Asia. WTF is up with you people and “boomers”? There’s always going to be old people. And all of them were formerly young people.
- Comment on Can you believe all those wildfires in [your country here]? 6 months ago:
“They” elected the Republicans? Voter turnout then and now says all ages were/are complicit in sitting on their hands. Boomer hate, though trendy and scores internet points, does nothing to resolve the current world situation and the future… Boomers are dying off rapidly. Whose fault will it be next…?
- Comment on Can you believe all those wildfires in [your country here]? 6 months ago:
Ha ha sure, 200 years of Industrial Revolution but it’s the “boomers” fault.
