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Willa Rogers posted:whoa, you mean if boomers didn't exist we wouldn't have had all those bad things happen & continue to happen, for the cheap-in-your-eyes cost of sacrificing 50,000 working-class lives, and the wounding of millions more, which was an entire class war unto itself? I can do all that, even acknowledging that there is no war but class war, which there is not. Also yeah sorry but climate change is orders of magnitude worse than the drat draft. This seems to be a sticking point for you so I'm spelling it out explicitly for you.
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actually boomers solved far tougher problems than are to be found at your average dsa brake clinic. you should thank them for their service (being american)
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I mean, boomers didn't solve any of those problems they watched preceding generations solve them for them. Must have been nice. Their main contribution as a collective political entity has been to make sure that that never happens again, and that the most productive political activity that can happen is precisely those brake light clinics.
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Stereotype posted:yeah it would be nuts to live through threat of war between two nuclear powers, or deaths of prominent community leaders, or an unjust war that took the lives of thousands of american soldiers and millions of innocent civilians, or massive government corruption at the highest level, or an oil crisis, or stagflation. i can't even imagine how hard it must have been to go through all that and then fix none of it and make it all worse
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none of the problems boomers claim they solved were ever really even solved, they were outsourced and obfuscated
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COVID is worse than Vietnam and the draft for Americans in every way
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I mean I will hand it to boomers for managing to convince everyone that they, by definition born after the end of WW2, were the primary drivers behind tackling problems that were, as a matter of historical record, addressed by people who were born before WW1.
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^^^ things no one has said in this threadmawarannahr posted:COVID is worse than Vietnam and the draft for Americans in every way well, it's certainly killed 10x as many boomers so who's to say what's worse!
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me, a boomer, at best dimly aware of political events when I'm not trying to figure out how to put my hands on a tit: "I did a civil rights"
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Willa Rogers posted:^^^ things no one has said in this thread i agree with you about generationchat but nobody cares there was a draft or a war people had to go to back then  people are focused on what’s in front of them. generation me. I me mine
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man, I'd be jumping for joy at the news that covid killed hundreds of thousands of my mortal enemies, those who were born between a particular 18-year period. instead, it just seems like you can't appreciate a good thing when you see it!
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boomers are ghosts of kiev daily killing millions of young people with their high-precision attacks and mastery of the sky
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genx is army geny is navy genz is marines?
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steadily becoming convinced that you have a similar sense of entitlement as your generational peers actually. what people are saying here is that boomers, on average, have worse political views. I mean we have the data there is not much to argue about there. and there is not much of a political legacy for them to point to either, which I don't think you disagree with? there is not much controversial there even for you, I think but you're nevertheless pissed off when people point out the fact of it because "no war but class war" despite all the other basically idpol nonsense this forum dabbles in sometimes against its better impulses. you don't seem to disagree on any of the facts you're just annoyed if people even just nod along when it comes up and you know, I'll probably do the same poo poo when / if it's my turn. so I take it back. fwiw certainly no one is suggesting that you, personally, could have or should have done anything differently. and, like I said, the worst you can say of most boomers is that they allowed themselves to be bought out when the sole alternative on offer was "nothing" which anyone would do. they still got bought out and I don't think it's unfair to say that, but I definitely agree that calling out individual people for it is generally wrong (unless you're throwing it back in their face because they're assholes for different reasons)
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It's almost halfway through 2022 and I'm aggravated to find out the democrats continue to exist
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i think such polling likely to be false because capitalism ensures that the more conservative you are, then you will likely live longer
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While there are things to say about the various generations, I think they are all fairly surface level and descriptive and distractions from trying to build solidarity But that's just me I guess
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ikanreed posted:I'm aggravated to find out the democrats continue to exist Not for much longer, thankfully.
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:While there are things to say about the various generations, I think they are all fairly surface level and descriptive and distractions from trying to build solidarity
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in 1980 america was 25 years old with spouse, 2 kids, and a house free and clear in 2020 america is still in that house but its a squat and they are dead of a fent od
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Millennials go to Venus to get a big penis boomers go to Jupiter to get more stupider
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the lived experiences of everyone throughout history has been exactly the same - crushed and exploited by the ruling class
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edit: oh hey hell of a time to be reminded of alzheimers' in your family's history
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boomer hatred is not useful or especially wise but it's very fun so whose to say if it's good or bad or what
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Excelzior posted:the lived experiences of everyone throughout history has been exactly the same - crushed and exploited by the ruling class
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MSDOS KAPITAL posted:yeah it's like any other identity politics. the point is that everyone on this forum will dabble in idpol to some degree or another. it's fine to point it out when it happens, but we had some folks poo poo-talking white southerners the other day and I don't recall anyone leaping to the "not ALL white southerners" defense and harping on it for three pages and poo poo but woe betide you if you suggest that (some) old people suck I'm genuinely baffled as to why you aren't celebrating the hundreds of thousands of american boomers who've died of covid.  another 10-20 years we'll all be gone & you'll still be  about how the boomers made you stub your toe.edit to lol at the parenthetical "(some)" after your rants itt. You're learning! Willa Rogers has issued a correction as of 00:57 on Jun 15, 2022 |
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replace boomer in all your generational divide posts with white people and see if it becomes more interesting and correct as an analysis
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pretty sure we'll turn our attentions to the gen-x members of the ruling class that managed to entrench themselves while everybody was bitching at boomers
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cam we shut the gently caress up about generations and focus on the real issue, the democrats
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boomers are cringe and so much cancer AND class warfare
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imagine 600,000 of your worst enemies dying in the span of two short years & still bitching about how they need to stfu & die harder.
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Lastgirl posted:boomers are cringe and so much cancer AND class warfare the term is get with the times, grandma! Willa Rogers has issued a correction as of 01:12 on Jun 15, 2022 |
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Willa Rogers posted:the term is cluegy, not cringe. it’s cheugy, ma’am
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never thought I'd see cspam turn on willa. dark times.
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ex post facho posted:cam we shut the gently caress up about generations and focus on the real issue, the democrats
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ex post facho posted:the democrats are bad
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