I honestly don’t care about anything anymore. I just wear the same 6 or 7 pairs of sweatpants everyday and at the end of the week I wash them and start over. This is how I mark the passage of time.
And honestly, at this point if you go to a local Democratic party meeting, see a bunch of protesters on the side of the road, or meet with the local liberal or progressive organization’s members – the majority of the most active members will be boomers in a huge portion of the country. Outside of the cities and/or the odd left-leaning rural area, young people don’t seem to get involved.
So, to blame the problems on just that generation but also all of that generation is just wrong.
Yea, there was that Power to the People concert in my county this weekend. All the acts and seemingly most of the concert-goes were 40+. Same as the No Kings protest crowds.
40+ are Millennials. Millennials are defined as 30 to 45. Gen x are 46 to 60 and Boomers are 61+.
Millennials grew up with Bush II and saw their country change after 9/11. Younger groups don’t understand what not living in a surveillance state is even like. It’s their normal.
I’m too busy working my 12 hour shift to afford the small house I got luckily 9 years ago…
I know about a half dozen younger people who voted for Trump, believing him to actually be the Senator Armstrong-type person the meme war made him out to be.
No, you’re right. He landslided the 20-30 age range that year because he went on their shows and focused on them
Seems to me you can handle it one of two ways.
One, you can punish the boomers. When Z gets in power, abolish pensions, Social Security, and Medicare. Let the old die from poverty and disease. And then you yourself won’t have any safety net when you’re that age.
Two, you can focus on the class struggle. Focus on weakening the billionaires who control us and who made up this bullshit in the first place. Target income inequality, access to services, and draconian employment practices. Begin the century-long transformation of capitalism. This is the harder road.
So which one will do more good?
As a millennial I find it a little funny whenever someone says that type of stuff about Gen Z, because they used to say that about us. I hate to tell you but the people that get into power are almost always the shit heads. It’s not a generational thing. It’s a wealth and privilege thing. The future Gen Z leaders will be the same entitled out-of-touch shitheads that they always are.
Obviously the latter. But I need to make fun of older Americans who lost the plot for my mental health
i appreciate you for this answer
I appreciate you speaking truth to situation. It’s easy for me to get caught up in the rage, so I at least owe some emotional honesty
I saw wildmimic in this thread too and know they’re kind of on the same page
TacoButtPlug wasn’t the one spewing truth btw.
i spew other things ;p
Ok… Is it a butt plug made out of tacos, a butt plug in a taco, or a butt plug for when you’re having tacos?
Damn I’m stupid.
Yo, @snarkpolo@lemmy.world ! I’m dumb as hell and should have said thank you on your comment. That is all
Boomers own 52% of the country, they ARE the class struggle. Over 55s together over 70%. I don’t think anyone in gen Z is operating under the assumption they could ever retire anyway? They’re not pumping out enough babies to fund their retirement. Neither are us millennials.
One, you can punish the boomers. When Z gets in power, abolish pensions, Social Security, and Medicare. Let the old die from poverty and disease. And then you yourself won’t have any safety net when you’re that age.
Gen Z doesn’t need to be in power for this. The actual boomers are doing this on their way out.
- Send Trump and cronies to the Hague for war crimes.
- Expell Israeli ambassador and diplomatic personnel.
- Disband AIPAC; try citizens on their board for treason.
- Keep all the social safety nets, and fund it by eviscerating billionaires with wealth taxes.
- Break up and nationalize big-tech like Theodore Roosevelt, a (gasp) Republican.
- Introduce age ceilings and term limits for every elected office in the United States.
- Mandate rank-choiced voting, undo all gerry-mandering.
- Release Epstein files.
Watch boomers mald and rejoice in schädenfreude.
Is that the “Jesus Christ is my ni*ga!” couple? Serious question lol
Holy shit. No, that’s him! I didn’t notice
That’s delightfully horrific 😂
This video is offensive. They used Papyrus font.
Can someone clarify if this was done to be satire?
no
I recognized them immediately.
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This is your reminder that division along age or generation lines is as much of a distraction as division along race lines is. The real division is between who works for a living and who owns for a living. Simple as that. Sadly, the owning also includes owning the media and politicians (why yes, also most democrats), so there’s not much you can do either way. Get used to not owning a home.
Boomers own 52% of the country. Over 55s own about 73%. They ARE the ownership class. Billionaires are a minority of that class both by numbers and by assets. And most of the billionaires themselves are old fucks.
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The boomer generation failed to develop class consciousness. GenXers failed as well, as did the Millenials after them and the Zoomers following.
The lack of sufficient class consciousness to positively impact society actually unites every generation more than it divides.
I have hope this time things are different. It’s hard to deny reality when it’s this ridiculous.
you make it sound like a failure of the generations, and not a heavily targeted campaign that was started before the millennials were born specifically to stop them.
The final fuck you is when they reverse mortgage the house and blow through their entire net worth, maybe leaving enough to cover the retirement home, before kicking the bucket and leaving their kids with fuck all.
So, I totally understand the mindset you’re coming from. But if they built their fortune through years of labor, are they not entitled to spend or give it as they see fit?
Sure, but having the right doesn’t make it right. Know what I mean?
My Silent Gen parents packed the entirety of their priceless antiquarian book collection, and spent a bundle sending it to their book dealer friends in the UK. All to keep their “ungrateful children” from getting it.
The elected officials sending everyone off to die for war are often older than boomers. It’s a rich and powerful group more than a generational group.
You’re right. I’ve got maga-headed boomers in my life I want to take it out on though and posting memes is how I give that desire an outlet
The gerontology group!
At least you get to board the plane early as long as you’re in uniform. You still have to sit in coach, but you do get in group 1.
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…
The right hate the wrong people. That’s it.
That’s not at all what I said, but I get it, reading is hard.
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. The right just hates the wrong people.
It’s not “boomers” exactly, but rather, people wealthy enough to live safe and healthy lives into old age.
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.
Yes, and I pointed out that sometimes blaming others is correct, and sometimes it isn’t. You can’t just say “everyone likes to blame others” and pretend this is a useful insight.
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….
Do you not see the irony of generalizing Lemmy while trying to flatten all generalizations as being the same?
You guys know you’re getting hoodwinked? Yeah, it’ll do you wonders if you start hating on your elders. All of our mysery is definitely their fault. No, they’re not victims of class warfare, like us, sure. Hate your elders, that’ll solve everything.
My parents didn’t even make it out of their 50s. That’s the reality of class war.
Yeah, I’m lucky, cuz I only have a 50% experience of yours. Please accept my sympathies.
Maybe I’m too angry to express myself properly, but I hate it that these types of hater posts get so much attention. And if I keep going with my rant, I’ll just sound like Patrick Swayze’s character from Donnie Darko.
