• 🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    29
    ·
    3 天前

    Good luck being distracted by age. That’s almost as bad as red/blue state bullshit. Sure, the people in power in those states is making a difference, but my point is there’s a huge mix of people in every state. And in the same way, there’s plenty of old progressives and young fascists.

    Constantly putting this crap on older generations implies you’re one of the ones hoping the problem will die off.

    It won’t.

    And distracting you from realizing that is the big reason for the push for “boomers” to equal “evil”. There’s a lot of idiot evil boomers, but there’s plenty of young idiot evil fascists.

    The problem ain’t gonna die itself away. We must fight.

    • MrShankles@reddthat.com
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      18
      ·
      3 天前

      The problem ain’t gonna die itself away. We must fight.

      And teach. We’re fighting ignorance and intolerance. We all gotta learn

    • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      15
      ·
      3 天前

      I’ve been hearing that the Republican Party will wither from attrition as they all die off for 50 fucking years. We should be free of them by now, but instead they’ve taken over everything.

      I always tell people to remember back to that first big protest in Chancellorville, when all those neo-Nazi fuckwits marched in with their tiki torches, chanting “Jews will not replace us”. ALL those weenies were under 40 years old. Rush Limbaugh and all the other psychopathic propagandists have been great at recruiting and indoctrinating new psychopaths into their ranks, and replacing all the old psychopaths that finally got dragged to Hell.

      • Impractical_Island@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        4
        ·
        3 天前

        You don’t understand Christianity. Christianity is the religion of the police state. Revelation 22:15 encapsulates the notion of how the sinners are surrounded, with everyone who loves AND practices lying (not TO) being the undercover cops. Jesus’ crucifixion let us see who the idoltarers were, and cost one Roman soldier with a spear a promotion. I guarantee those tiki torch fuckers were 80% cops. The Proud Boys are feds. I know this because the joke is I had to be a crackhead because I wasn’t good enough to be a pothead, which is a festival cop.

    • webadict@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      7
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      3 天前

      This is sorta the same defense as “#NotAll(X)”. Because, like, yeah, obviously there are plenty of older progressives. But… The issue at hand here is one of power. Older generations have more wealth on average and hold more conservative views on average. It’s sorta on them to use their positions to make lives easier on those younger and less fortunate than themselves, and unfortunately for the rest of us, they are less likely to do so. And I say this with a boomer grandma doing her fucking best protesting outside ICE facilities.

      To pretend there isn’t an age bias is silly. To pretend there is only an age bias is also silly. But it does exist, interrelated to wealth and power disparities that everyone is suffering from. So, you know, fuck boomers. If you don’t like hearing that, then really reflect on what that says about you.

      In closing, yeah, the problem won’t simply die away, but I ain’t gonna pretend it doesn’t help, even if it isn’t every boomer’s fault.

      • 🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        6
        ·
        2 天前

        The point that you are glossing over and dismissing as a minor one is Central to my theme: the problem is not going to die itself away.

        Most of the people riding off boomers assume that all the youngsters are progressives. They are not.

        Nowhere did I say boomers are equally as progressive as any other group. There’s a reason I didn’t say that. There’s a reason I said the other things that I said.

        • webadict@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          2 天前

          I don’t think everyone is saying the youth are all progressives, either. I think the only people saying that are conservatives.

          The problem will get better with people dying of old age, though. You can’t really deny that.

          • 🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            3
            ·
            2 天前

            Around 44% of Boomers consider themselves conservative.

            Around 33% of young adults do.

            Go ahead and wait around while the fascists only increase the propaganda if you think that’ll help, but in my humble opinion, that only falls into their trap. They get us to wait while they keep fighting tooth and nail.

        • webadict@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          2 天前

          True, but I think if we’re going off pure numbers, fuck men. Like, they are doing the least outta all these groups.

    • Impractical_Island@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      3 天前

      Thinking in labels is inherently dualistic thinking. The brain processes entanglements, and it is möbiated entanglements, that which the Buddhists called “defiled” that manifest the illusion of the self. This is giving a string a half-twist to create dualistic dichotomy (inner/outer). A form of möbiation that would take a minute to explain, but can be summed up in the phrase orthogonal relativity, and this picture, is what allows the brain to process an eleven dimensional topological matrix. Yer a knot, Neo. Enlightenment is being the effect before the cause - developing your prefrontal cortex to predict and outclass the animal parts of the brain, and resolving all karmic debt to demöbiate all your mind back into a unified field of entanglements.