God I hate boomers
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Not that I disagree, but 90 would be silent generation.
The rich and powerful are making us hate each other to distract us of the real problems of the world
while that is true, it is also true that a majority of boomers I know are worth this feeling of contempt and loathing
Yes, but boomers are a chunk of the reason that the rich and powerful continue to be able to grasp and maintain power.
If boomers ceased to exist tomorrow and elections were held, I think there'd be a good swing left. Not a total swing, but substantial.
boomers are a chunk of the reason that the rich and powerful continue to be able to grasp and maintain power.
Boomers are only 28% of the US voters. Explain why their chunk is more responsible and the younger 72%.
The machine would stop having elections at that point, or just come up with more convolutions to try and undermine the sentiments within the movement of any emerging “public consciousness”.
The revolution Must Not be Televised (or on the internet, lol)
Good thing it won’t be too long until it’s over.
Disagree, the machine is 99% boomers to begin with. It would cease to exist.
I wouldn’t put money on it (especially since that technology is precisely what has gotten us into such catastrophes as for example all the oil cartels buying government influence around the world, wanting to continuously gain access to more of natures most profitable industrial raw material, despite all of us now recognizing what it would mean to actually burn all of it, and how, generally, the creation and use of better ways of capturing energy and byproducts from oil refineries, is not worth the tradeoff of letting robber barons around the now-more-global-than-ever world’s economy own nearly the whole of the worlds reserves of various resources through private claims made to vast scales of area of the globe is not, and will not likely ever end up being, a valuable or productive enough use case for those landscapes, and that the systems of measure we have been using to determine compensation, resource pricing, and measuring+recording debts have all contained various major design flaws which had not been established with enough guard rails in place [or maybe one could argue that no such single use currency could have enough guard rails, so perhaps upwards of 3 or 4 might be required] to be able to protect innocent lives throughout nature which have all each found their niche by carefully and patiently adapting a resilience to survive and thrive another day, despite constantly changing adversity throughout their environments.)
Boomers are only 28% of the US voting population. Try again.
They’re way fucking more than 28% of the fucking politicians dipshit.
No need for the unnecessary hostility. It's obvious that plenty of young people are voting for your rich politicians too. US politicians can't win with only 28% of the vote. And US elderly make up a substantial portion of those below the poverty line, and they don't all vote alike anyway.
I hate them too but boomers can fuck off as well. Logan's run was onto something.
I love paying for schools, because I hate being surrounded by dumb people.
Jokes on you, I pay for schools and am still surrounded by dumb people!
How unbearable would it be if they received no education, I can't imagine.
opinion: individualism is a plague and the generational war is a distraction
There can be more than one issue, of which both of these are a problem.
The boomers and the rediculously wealthy have the same mindset: fuck you, I've got mine
It's a myth that all the boomers got theirs. Don't get me wrong, our deal is absolutely worse, but the rich have been fucking people for profit as long as there's been rich people.
Yep, the real war is the class war and the billionaires are winning.
Exactly. Class is the biggest thing that divides us, the rest is a distraction.
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Yes, of course you are. That's why taxes are mandatory and you go to jail if you don't pay.
I attended a very rural school district and in 7th grade a bunch of retired people got their friends to elect them to the school board and at their first meeting they closed my school.
But hey, it's OK. They're all dead now.
Voting needs a max age cap, and it needs to be lowered to 15-16 imo.
I love a happy ending.
Current boomers have paid for 100% of their Social Security pension from payroll deductions from their working years. Social Security pensions are not dependent on young taxpayers. It hurts to see Lemmy becoming a source of youngster misinformation like Reddit. Lemmy needs to delete this miseducational and divisive thread.
Okay, we're still paying money into social security that we will never receive, so the anger won't just go away
we’re still paying money into social security that we will never receive
You don't know that you won't receive Social Security. That's just pointless scaremongering. In any case, vote for legislators who will manage Social Security better instead of blaming everything on boomers.
There will never be another general election in the United States.
So many people don’t understand why we live in a society, and apparently have no capacity for empathy.
They’re free to go live in the wilderness, with no roads, no fire department, no water or electricity, no services whatever, and find out how much they’re actually benefiting from our collective.
They won’t, because though they like to complain, they’re pussies who can’t be bothered to think for 5 minutes that the fact they can read and write their snarky bullshit is because they benefitted from free education, else they’d be illiterate.
But gods forbid they pay back the overwhelming amount they benefit from society in a small way. It’s fucking infuriating.
They’re free to go live in the wilderness, with no roads, no fire department, no water or electricity, no services whatever, and find out how much they’re actually benefiting from our collective.
That's the neat part. They do try, repeatedly, and it always fails. A classic one is Grafton. It's also known as A Libertarian Walks into a Bear because their little paradise got overrun by aggressive bears. Lack of public services will do that.
As someone who works on private wells and water systems, its always baffling to me when someone with a "hunt camp" more luxurious than any house I'll ever afford is complaining about the cost of our services. Like dude your "camp" is 2000 sqft and 200 kms from the nearest city. Yea its gonna cost a bit to make your well water clean, clear, and safe to drink while running on a solar system.
They'll even start to question my wage and why the bill costs so much (as if i have any say) completely tone death to the struggles of people outside their class. They imply if i was paid less their bill would be much cheaper despite me barely making enough to own my own tiny home and my wages really aren't a major cost on the bill.
You know the Mongols did this thing where they poisoned wells.
if you guys don't have much competition, you should start treating those customers fairly
and by fairly I mean treat them how they treat you
Sounds like you need to raise your rate. And also not break out your wage from the other costs in the invoice.
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"A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they shall never sit"
90 and not happy paying taxes? Save us all some trouble and move on to the graveyard
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