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I would really rather that these were actual examples, and not conspiracy theories. We all have our own unsubstantiated ideas about what shadowy no-gooders are doing, but I'd rather hear about things that are actually happening.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 28 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

"Once all the boomers are dead everything will be better!" Yeah, corporations will still rule your life, inflation will still outstrip income, you won't be able to afford a house, and your politicians will represent whichever special interest pays them the most. Also you won't ever be able to vote in progressive candidates because every year there's going to be some vile ghoul like Donald Trump, but somehow worse, and the Democrats just need you to close ranks and vote in whatever corporate liberal whose turn it is to sit in the Big House this time so a literal fascist doesn't get his finger on the button and attempts to dismantle what little democracy our republic has over night.

Grandma and grandpa being six feet under doesn't change these things. And, guess what...you probably won't change them either because you're too lazy and apathetic to do anything other than shitpost on the internet about how badly your life sucks.

[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Future generations will blame you for everything also.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

If you're a millennial, some already are.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Love how everybody forgot Gen X existed and skipped over them to hating millennials.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Love how everybody forgot Gen X existed

We're used to that.

[โ€“] Sethayy 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The boomers being dead means the largest, wealthiest support of old ass laws is gonna, and nearly every single member of the population at that point would have been directly harmed by capitalism.

Trying to stop people from improving things will by far be much harder, and betting on peoples apathy is a gamble that can only last so long

(Unless we get some full my mind control shit in the best future, but we can pray not)

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

nearly every single member of the population at that point would have been directly harmed by capitalism.

As opposed to the boomers, who weren't harmed by capitalism. Not like that's the generation that was sent to Vietnam or anything...

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Also, we'll have plenty of formerly-young people who age into being similar to what the boomers are now