Americans; If Trump wins in November, what are your plans?

  • z00s@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    “Significant systemic challenges” such as…?

    They’ve had it better than us at every stage of life and have trashed everything for those coming after them. If they are facing challenges now, they’re lucky.

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      8 months ago

      As they do now, capitalists are to blame for what previous generations have had, not the generation themselves. While the boomer generation may have profited by the direct disenfranchisement of others, the same is inherently true of almost anyone who participates in capitalism.

      Hating boomers for being born when they were is prejudice plain and simple, while we may face our own modern issues they had their own when they were younger. More recently there’s lovely stuff like elder abuse that’s rampant in aged care.

      The leftist cooks did a great video on the topic that I’d recommend watching rather than listening to me, I’m no expert on the topic, I just think social cohesion is important and we need to keep in mind who really causes our problems.

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        8 months ago

        I don’t dislike boomers because of when they were born. I dislike boomers because the right wing ones are assholes and idiots. They blame the younger generations for the problems they caused and they’re actively trying to burn down our country because they believe the bullshit they’re fed by fox “news” and wannabe dictator tRump.

        • Sasha
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          8 months ago

          That’s exactly my point.

          Hate shit people, don’t hate people who belong to a demographic. There are lots of awesome boomers.

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            8 months ago

            Thank you for your comments. I was getting caught up in the hate rhetoric for “boomers” in general, forgetting who perpetuated these issues we face today.

            Thinking back, I know I said some shitty things to older friends and family, who were just trying to get along in life like everyone else.

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        8 months ago

        They have made changes to the system they profited from so that others cannot do the same. It has nothing to do with ageism