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Generational infighting among the working class only serves the wealthy and corporations who are who we should actually be angry at.
In a decade you'll see memes blaming your generation for not doing anything and can you actually point to anything you've done besides creating a meme blaming boomers?
I would feel more responsibility if the boomers could release their deathgrip on the government.
Lucky you, in my country the boomers are still fighting over the government with the silent generation. The latter of which is barely still alive
Japan?
USA
Their primary demographic is millionaires, not boomers. You could change them all tomorrow for millennials millionaires and still have a shitty government.
Which government?
Any government would be great.
Similar to the Russians’ desire for other countries’ citizens to have a negative opinion of all Americans, only about one-third of America is the issue. However, they want less politically informed nations to blame all Americans. Most of us are working multiple jobs to afford our living and healthcare costs, making it next to impossible to have any free time.
Boomer here. Excellent point. I was mostly a lone voice at work. Then again those I worked with never bothered to be the least bit informed. I also worked with much younger folks that were not any more informed. In fact, most all the people in our rural area are also young and grossly misinformed and they love it.
Yes I can, easily.
Okay, but so can a lot of boomers. Still expect to see memes about how you didn't do anything
I minimize plastics use, recycle anything that can be, reuse/renew whenever possible, minimize all use of products dangerous to the environment/ecosystems, educate myself on the issues and candidates and then vote in every election, volunteer for political campaigns, I educate my children about the environment (including what we do to minimize our impact and why it's a problem at all) and politics (including the importance of voting, how to research candidates and issues). Yes, there is more I could do, but I think I do a pretty good amount--far above the average. My kids won't blame me, even if the memes blame my generation.
I wouldn't go out of my way to make older generations feel bad because that isn't solving anything, but I would educate them so that maybe their votes will be better going forward.
At least I'll be able to say I never voted for conservatives or fascists
Or is it the large companies' and the capitalist system's fault for not focusing on general wellbeing, instead looking at profit for everything, even if that means pollution?
Yup, bashing on arbitrary "generations" is stupid. The whole "okay, boomer" meme manifested after thousands of ridiculous articles about blaming the youth for buying less diamond rings or whatever. It just turned around the absurdity. That was the funny part. Just seriously blaming our elderly is stupid the same way.
I don't think it's fair so put the blame entirely on just one person.
My grandparents and parents might also feel a little guilt from beyond.
I don’t think it’s fair so put the blame entirely on just one person.
But it would be so easy to put it on them, and then flush them out of the airlock!
I blame corps and billinaires.
80% of our vehicle co2 emissions comes from overseas cargo shipping. I blame America consumers.
50% is from overseas shipping ships, and the rest from local transportation.
US customers didn't decide on this system, it was corps and billionaires.
They did, but continuously buying cheap overseas goods. Corporation just fill the demand, not create it
I think it's something in the middle. Consumers are to blame for consumption, but corps are also investing huge amounts in creating that demand in the first place (marketing, lobbyism, etc.).
What they did was vote for the lesser of two evils presented on the ballot. Does that sound familiar? Go on, admit, it, that's exactly what you do now, too.
It's a class war. It always has been. Start blaming the real villains, and stop the infighting, which just plays into their hands.
How do people not see this?
Every generation has had people who believe in and work toward all sorts of things. Hippies who thought they could levitate the Pentagon were the same age (actually, that's an oversimplification because, surprise, social movements have always been more age-diverse than they are presented in our media and histories) and existed in the same context as Henry Kissinger who was picking out carpet bombing sites in Southeast Asia as if he were picking what to have for lunch.
For as long as there's been people, we've disagreed with one another and worked toward disparate goals. Find people working on things you care about and work with them. Anything else is a waste of your extremely limited time in this life. Allowing endemic power structures to refocus your anger toward broad groups of "others" and then further propagating that misplaced anger only serves to prolong the status quo and to make working together harder.
This is an excellent summary of supporting your beliefs meaningfully and not letting class warfare define yourl life. Saving this, well written 👏
I'm going to guess active, diverse social life and maybe psychedelics. Incredibly wise shit twinjamin
Where do I sign up for this “billionaire grandma” program?
Also, besides burning all sort of trash, holes in the ozone layer etc. it's always fun to dig a 1+ meter hole in the ground and find old trash from the pre-1980s.
Our house was built in 1930 and sits directly across the street from what used to be the farmhouse that owned all the land. Our backyard slopes down to another road. Anytime we dig we find old trash. Our backyard must have been the dump of the farm.
Let's wait at least six months before reposting this meme again.
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Lol, in forty years when "generation phone brain" is being mocked for their free surrender of data to the overlord class I hope someone gives this comment a like
They'll also say something like:
"You mean you already HAD home office, old man? For a few years? And then you just... let them take it away again? And internet has been around for decades at this point anyway? And still, you were totally on board with increasing pollution and global warming by absolutely pointlessly 'commuting' from home to something called an 'office,' every day? Oh, what's that, you actually hated doing that? That's cute. But then you could have gotten a different job, right? Did you at least flip over some cars and set them on fire, in protest? Nothing? Just pure, unabashed complacency? I despise you and will piss on your grave."
(I played this through in my mind many times. There is no good comeback.)
Grandma should've lobbied harder for green energy. Look what you've done, grandma? Look what you have single-handedly done. Why did you melt the ice-caps, grandma? Hmmm? Did you think it would be "ROLFCOPTER"? Is that it? Is that why you melted the ice caps? Cause you thought it'd be "ROLFCOPTER"?
I needed this laugh. Thank you.
I do know that there are folx in this thread who point out it's less generational and more class warfare. True. I think the issue with the olds is the lack of ability to want to learn seems to be more on their side? Not to say the lack isn't across the board but having a convo about gender identity is harder with an asshole boomer than an asshole gen Z.
