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Every generation believing they are the first generation to be fed up with the way things are (lemmy.world)
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[–] -5 points 3 months ago (30 children)

Apparently Gen X wasn't going to take taxation anymore, so they made sure to abolish taxes for the top 1%.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago* (9 children)

    And, here it is. We're bickering amongst ourselves again, just like they prompt us to.

    It's a class war, try not to forget that.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    It's a class war, sure, but voters have power and a lot of them betrayed their class and continue to betray.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    But thats the tjing, voting usually does nothing. Most voters already know this and ....they continue to vote.

    george carling told us this decades ago and most people refuse to accept he is right:

    "Now, there's one thing you might have noticed I don't complain about: politicians. Everybody complains about politicians. Everybody says they suck. Well, where do people think these politicians come from? They don't fall out of the sky. They don't pass through a membrane from another reality. They come from American parents and American families, American homes, American schools, American churches, American businesses and American universities, and they are elected by American citizens. This is the best we can do folks. This is what we have to offer. It's what our system produces: Garbage in, garbage out. If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're going to get selfish, ignorant leaders. Term limits ain't going to do any good; you're just going to end up with a brand new bunch of selfish, ignorant Americans. So, maybe, maybe, maybe, it's not the politicians who suck. Maybe something else sucks around here... like, the public. Yeah, the public sucks. There's a nice campaign slogan for somebody: 'The Public Sucks. F*ck Hope. .'" -- George Carlin

    He even added at the back part of that quote that I forgot that you cant get mad at him in particular cause he just doesnt vote.Ever! THE PUBLIC are the ones who vote so THEY should be getting mad at themselves for electing such awful 'leaders' and millionaires who ruin and steal everything and these millionairss in the Electoral College run the same jerking session every 4 years splat splat splat splat. Meanwhile, HE at home who didnt vote he'll/have something to 'show' for his little 'jerking session' 😘

    This comment applies to pratically everywhere else on the planet not just america  .

    People can get mad at the Bolsheviks for not voting and for doing things 'a certain way' but we can all see that from 1917-1991 the Bolsheviks strategy of not voting ACTUALLY ....worked! The living standards of a Slavic person from 1917-1991 was amongst the highest on the planet whether they were Ukranian or Kazakh and it has also been proven that from 1991-2001 no place on the planet experienced a sharper rise in poverty than...well.... those same Slavic peoples! Hmmm how bout that? Same can be said for the Cubans and the Vietnamese and the Koreans

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (4 children)

    Go fuck yourself, fascist. Can't believe a fucking Trump supporter dares to lecture me on class issues.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Im not a trump supporter lol what. Look at my username. Im a communist lol wot?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (2 children)

    Corporate needs to find the difference between these two pictures. Eastern Bloc are the ones who put Trump back in the white house, the ones he reports to.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    The Eastern Bloc has been thoroughly exterminated and those who werent exterminated were satiated and thoroughly convinced to switch sides.

    Dont most former Soviet countries have their communist parties outlawed or banned out of media?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    indeed, in the thread about a hospitals closure from Medicaid cuts and a few protestors outside with signs being cursed at by passers by that we yelling can't afford it

    Apparently $400Million on a ballroom band tomahawks on Iran doesn't highlight there is plenty of money , its just not for you.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 months ago (19 children)

    That's a boomer thing, but nice try.

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  • [+] -6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (18 children)

    Boomers have been voting for a century about 64 years, the thing that changed in the 80s and 90s were Gen X coming of age.

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    https://ropercenter.cornell.edu/how-groups-voted-1984

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    Boomers have been voting for a century

    Unless there is a statistically-significant amount of 118+ year old people actively voting, this is not possible.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Not just that, but had to be born after 1945 to be considered "Boomer". Clearly time travelers

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Not sure who downvoted you. You are correct. I feel like the term "boomer" has lost all meaning. Now people just use it to mean anything from "old person" to "out of touch person". The problem with that is, by that definition, all these Gen-Z people using the term like that, will all eventually be boomers. Which by definition would NEVER actually be true.

    The boomers were born boomers. Gen-X and Millenials had to endure the boomers bullshit for 60 years before Gen-Z was ever born. We FULLY understand why you'd want to bully boomers. They frankly deserve it. But Gen-Z has lost all sight of WHY the boomers deserve shit. They're just using the term boomer for anyone, of any age, that they want to insult.

    I saw a 15 year old call a 25 year old a boomer.

    At that point, the word has lost all meaning. I should just go around, insulting people by calling them a fish. No context. I'm going to strip the word fish of all meaning. No longer does it have anything to do with fins, or gills, or being underwater. If you make me mad, you're a fish!

    So, to anyone unfirmiliar with the word, boomer is shorthand for baby boomer. Essentially in WWII, hitler was trying to take over the world. So we sent all the men overseas to go kill the germans. When the soldiers got back, after not seeing their high school sweetheart for 4 years, they wanted to fuuuuuuuuck. And suddenly you get this massive wave of new babys. A boom rise in the amount of babys born between 1945-1965. A real......baby boom.

    So these boomers in 1946 were still boomers, but also 1 year old. Yes, I AM using the term boomer correctly, to describe an infant baby as a boomer, as long as that baby is a baby between 1945-1965. They are both an infant, and a boomer at the same time. While it has nothing to do with being disconnected from reality.

    Language is stupid when we just hijack words to make them whatever we want.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (8 children)

    That's basically when the first genx kids "came of age", most were still kids. Find another reason for the data, you're causating the correlation.

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  • [–] -1 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    That's when it started, yes, but things haven't gotten better as their share of the voters increased.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Other things that have changed in the same time frame is the explosive growth of Reich wing broadcasting. Rush Limbaugh and the like coming to reach millions of people and then the birth of fox news. That has made things much worse in the last 40ish years

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  • [–] -2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Everybody's the result of the environment they were raised in, but that doesn't justify a single thing.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    I'm not seeking to justify their actions, but explain why the change seems to have happened around that time. I'm not convinced it's totally on gen X to have that sudden change, but more that the entire population was affected by the explosion of propaganda

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (2 children)

    Oldest boomers turn 80 in 2026. Some boomers aren't even 64 years old yet as generation ends in 1964. Voting age was 21 before the 26th amendment was adopted in 1970. Almost no boomers have been voting for 64 years.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I think most people would agree Boomers are 1945 to 1960 and after that is Gen X

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