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America ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ is going down the tubes, the older generations donโ€™t seem to realize this. Every Baby Boomer I have come across still thinks America ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ is #1 and is THE GREATEST country in the World. INSTEAD of fixing the problems in America ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ like we should, we are run by a 2 party system without giving much thought to libertarians and independents.

The Boomers seem to not care that theyโ€™re raising prices and every time you explain that to them they just tell you โ€œjust get a job!โ€ That would be like going to the middle of the Sahara desert ๐Ÿœ๏ธ and telling it to โ€œrain.โ€ Making $5.00 per hour back in the 70s is as equivalent to making $45.00 per hour today. The Boomers and Silent Generation promoted college at the top of their ๐Ÿซ lungs without telling young people what the best options are.

The young people donโ€™t seem to care either, the millennials and Gen Z people seem to have the โ€œI donโ€™t care ๐Ÿคท๐Ÿปโ€ attitude. Young people are increasingly looking up to their YouTube celebrities and other celebrities, no form of alternative entertainment is brought forth because you have to know where to look ๐Ÿ‘€. Pop, Rap and Hiphop is blasted everywhere and not many people blast Metal ๐Ÿค˜๐Ÿป and Rock ๐ŸŽธ anymore, itโ€™s sad and depressing.

To make things worse, private businesses and commercial business ๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿ’ผkeep stomping on the First Amendment. Have you noticed that at work, your Freedom of Speech immediately goes out the door. Your boss has the right to tell you โ€œyou canโ€™t say thatโ€ โ€œthatโ€™s not acceptableโ€ โ€œif you say that one more time, youโ€™re fired.โ€ But yet if someone screams and yells at you at work or outside work itโ€™s โ€œfree speech.โ€ Such hypocrisy exists guys, itโ€™s unreal how people get their free speech rights taken away but then itโ€™s viewed as โ€œfree speechโ€ for someone else.

My question ๐Ÿ™‹โ€โ™‚๏ธ is this: When are we gonna do something about this?

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[โ€“] Seleni@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Well, okay, first, a point of order: โ€˜Free Speechโ€™, as outlined in the First Amendment, simply means that the government canโ€™t persecute you for saying things they donโ€™t like. The First Amendment has no bearing, or jurisdiction, on private businesses.

Not that our government hasnโ€™t been violating the First Amendment too, of course. But that wasnโ€™t what you were ranting about.

And were we ever up the tubes? I mean, I suppose we were, and still are, if you consider white rich male landowners to be the only โ€˜Americaโ€™ that countsโ€ฆ which they certainly seem to believeโ€ฆ

But for everyone else itโ€™s always been kind of a shithole, letโ€™s be honest. For some more than others, of course.

What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciations of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade, and solemnity, are, to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisyโ€”a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices, more shocking and bloody, than are the people of these United States, at this very hour.

(Thatโ€™s Frederick Douglasโ€™ 4th of July speech btw)

[โ€“] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I thought I used too much emojis but look at this lmao

[โ€“] snoons@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

๐ŸŽ โ‹† ๐Ÿ ๐ŸŽ€ ๐ผ ๐“‰๐’ฝ๐Ÿ’๐“Š๐‘”๐’ฝ๐“‰ ๐ผ ๐“Š๐“ˆ๐‘’๐’น ๐“‰โค๐Ÿฌ ๐“‚๐“Š๐’ธ๐’ฝ ๐‘’๐“‚๐Ÿฉ๐’ฟ๐’พ๐“ˆ ๐’ท๐“Š๐“‰ ๐“๐ŸŒธ๐Ÿ’—๐“€ ๐’ถ๐“‰ ๐“‰๐’ฝ๐’พ๐“ˆ ๐“๐“‚๐’ถ๐Ÿ‘ ๐ŸŽ€ ๐Ÿ โ‹† ๐ŸŽ

  • Wong Ka Kui, March 2026

Yeah it looks like my boomer uncle wrote it on Facebook.

[โ€“] Steve@communick.news 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I think you should pay more attention. There were a bunch of people outside today. Republicans have been loosing every special election since Rump was swarn in again. People are working on it, how they can.