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[–] the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works 33 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Uh im 45 and this tracks. Guess we're 31 different flavors of fucked

[–] jaemo@sh.itjust.works 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah why in the FUCK do people keep insisting Gen x has more than 5k in retirement. We don't. I don't. Don't really know anyone who does.

I'm also seeing a shitton of homeless boomers. Maybe the youngins' rage ought to be pointed at the 1%, irrespective of an age demographic.

[–] WhistlingGhost@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I mean, don't get us wrong. We are WAAAAAAY pissed off at the 1% shitlords... but we are also WAAAAAAAAY pissed off at the people that just let shit get this bad just in time for us to enter the "real world." Ya'll watched this happen and, for the most part, did nothing to stop/fix it. Some of you even elected shitheads that accelerated the issues, all while telling us, "No child left behind," "You can do ANYTHING you want!" "Work hard, and you will be ok! You'll have a house and a car or two, and be able to retire! Just work hard!" "Going into the military is all honor! You're helping/protecting your country!" Yeah, no, the military in many countries is only interested in protecting foreign investments. I respect anyone willing to go to war to save their people. But fuck the government(s) that lie and then send young men and women off to die for fucking oil. "The government has your best interests at heart!" Riiiiight is that why they are trying to make it so that if a young woman gets fucking raped and has a nonviable pregnancy come of it, her only choices are risk near certain death or become a felon? Sure. Naw. Ya'll coulda stopped this train before it was going supersonic, but you didn't. THAT is why we are so FUCKING pissed off at the generations before us.

[–] jaemo@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

Ok, but I've also been saying that for aeons too. Longer than you've been drawing breath, if I may make, perchance, a bold assertion.

None of my peers (at least the ones I choose to associate with) have every said anything to me like what you're suggesting. Anyone who ever has is a taking head with an agenda as see thru as saran wrap.

"The government has your best interests at heart!"

I was 18 during the APEC protests. I came of age distrusting these lying, evil, craven mfers. It's imprinted. No one's ever gonna convince me or even a notable fraction of my peers of that one. Granted: context is king, I am Canadian, and geopolitics varies from place to place.

I'm 100% behind the energy in your rage but focus it on the right demographic. It's not when you were born. It's what you've done since showing up.

You'd be surprised at where your allies are.