Generational infighting among the working class only serves the wealthy and corporations who are who we should actually be angry at.
In a decade you’ll see memes blaming your generation for not doing anything and can you actually point to anything you’ve done besides creating a meme blaming boomers?
Similar to the Russians’ desire for other countries’ citizens to have a negative opinion of all Americans, only about one-third of America is the issue. However, they want less politically informed nations to blame all Americans. Most of us are working multiple jobs to afford our living and healthcare costs, making it next to impossible to have any free time.
Boomer here. Excellent point. I was mostly a lone voice at work. Then again those I worked with never bothered to be the least bit informed. I also worked with much younger folks that were not any more informed. In fact, most all the people in our rural area are also young and grossly misinformed and they love it.
Yes I can, easily.
Okay, but so can a lot of boomers. Still expect to see memes about how you didn’t do anything
That’s fine, all I care about is being able to look my kids in the eye and tell them I tried, and what I did.
I will be agreeing with those memes.
Don’t get tennis elbow patting yourself on the back. Your individual actions won’t matter unless you can bring industry with you. The best way to do that is to help people gain class consciousness. The best way to do that is by not considering your individual actions as relevant.
Weirdest leap of logic I’ve seen in a long time…
“If you can’t change other people’s minds for them, then your personal efforts are worthless”
I could give two shits what anyone else thinks about my efforts.
It goes back to my original point though in that attacking other working class individuals based on birth year is just counterproductive infighting.
The fight needs to be brought to the rich and powerful who have had the opportunity to solve climate change and other global issus but have chosen instead to enrich themselves further by making it all worse
Of course, talk shit about any fascists you know as they all deserve their teeth kicked in but a boomer you see on the street could just as easily be a lifelong environmentalist hippie as they could be a fascist - just as anyone from any other generation could be (especially Zoomers for some unholy reason)
TL;DR is fuck billionaires and generalising is bad
At least I’ll be able to say I never voted for conservatives or fascists
Or is it the large companies’ and the capitalist system’s fault for not focusing on general wellbeing, instead looking at profit for everything, even if that means pollution? Coupled with a big media oligarchy?
Yup, bashing on arbitrary “generations” is stupid. The whole “okay, boomer” meme manifested after thousands of ridiculous articles about blaming the youth for buying less diamond rings or whatever. It just turned around the absurdity. That was the funny part. Just seriously blaming our elderly is stupid the same way.
And which generation voted for politicians that let the capitalist system run amok?
The corporate lobbiests. Unless you’re seriously arguing that swapping the Presidents from their era until now would have actually made a significant difference.
You aren’t seriously arguing that, right?
13·8 months agoEvery generation has had people who believe in and work toward all sorts of things. Hippies who thought they could levitate the Pentagon were the same age (actually, that’s an oversimplification because, surprise, social movements have always been more age-diverse than they are presented in our media and histories) and existed in the same context as Henry Kissinger who was picking out carpet bombing sites in Southeast Asia as if he were picking what to have for lunch.
For as long as there’s been people, we’ve disagreed with one another and worked toward disparate goals. Find people working on things you care about and work with them. Anything else is a waste of your extremely limited time in this life. Allowing endemic power structures to refocus your anger toward broad groups of “others” and then further propagating that misplaced anger only serves to prolong the status quo and to make working together harder.
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Also, besides burning all sort of trash, holes in the ozone layer etc. it’s always fun to dig a 1+ meter hole in the ground and find old trash from the pre-1980s.
Our house was built in 1930 and sits directly across the street from what used to be the farmhouse that owned all the land. Our backyard slopes down to another road. Anytime we dig we find old trash. Our backyard must have been the dump of the farm.
Nice corkscrews.
