Yes, but at the same time, aren't people still voting for cheap gas?
Piemanding 6 points a day ago
Let's vote for cheap gas by making it so obsolete that the supply way outpaces the demand. đ€
YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH 7 points a day ago
Yes all boomers are responsible for the 100 boomer politicians who suck
DarkCloud 3 points a day ago
Oh yeah, BadEmpanada is not a controversial streamer living off click bait revenue at all... sure "bruh". I'm sure Sergei Brin is happy to have the uploads... I know I watch youtube regularly (with an ad blocker of course).
Like I said, have fun with the Slacktivism and generational rage baiting so the wealthy classes get ignored. That said, I definitely would have preferred Bernie got in rather than Trump, he was quite clear when he said that criticism of Israel is not Anti-Semitic (a step up from most politicians). But yeah, now I see we're talking celebrities? What's your point? To make the perfect the enemy of the good?
This is another lazy attack from you that boils down to "Bernie wasn't perfect enough"... great, I'm sure your purity politics will save the world. Hey you should stop talking to me, because I'm not perfect either - therefore I must be your enemy right?
DarkCloud 12 points a day ago
"all old people are rich and evil" is a bad retort.
There's plenty of old people who are poor. Who never got a say in any of this. There's plenty of old hippies who spent their lives at protests. Plenty of old anarchist and communists.
So it's just helping the problem to say we should hate all old people.
There's millennials who are rich right wingers, but saying "therefore we should hate all millennials" would also be a distraction from class politics.
Don't help the wealthy do that, because we need old lefties on the protest lines as much as we need anyone on the protest lines.
You either pull people in, or you push them out, and the left needs people.
alapakala -5 points a day ago
I agree. It is a weird retort to make, when defending the generation responsible for Vietnam, Cuba, Bay of Pigs, Pinochet's rise, Maduroâs rise, the Korean, Hawaii, Puerto Rican genocide, etc.. Why would innocent boomers suddenly solidify for special 100 boomers when engaging on a political meme criticizing a generation responsible for sooo much destruction?
Are you by any chance a gulity conscious boomer trying plea for néos not to fire squad you for your sins?
DarkCloud 6 points a day ago
I think you're trying personal attacks because you want to stay in a lazy thought pattern, because it's easy and apathetic. Looking at the past, excuses you from acting in the future.
For your information, I'm part of the generation responsible for the later Iraq and Afghanistan wars, the "dot com" bubble, data centers, mass surveillance, mass pornography, and the bleaching of coral reefs.
Let me guess you're from the one true generation, in which life and the planet got healthy again, and Capitalism was made ethical and just.
I fucking hope so. I know you do too.
YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH 5 points a day ago
Whatever generation you are in also has people in power who are fucking the planet. Are you responsible for them? No.
There are many many boomers who put up a good fight and are still putting up a good fight. We need solidarity with all people who are not those who are destroying the planet. These reductive âboomers did itâ memes ignores the reality that a very small cohort of people are destroying the world. And they all benefit when anger is directed at people who are powerless.
alapakala -1 points a day ago
Wait, you have a nĂ©ocracyâœ
Are you responsible for them? No.
This would be the only logical reason you would say this utterly irresponsible statement, like if guardians deposit children to the forest as soon as they are born.
There are many many boomers who put up a good fight and are still putting up a good fight.
Where? I see most boomers voted to utterly crush us, in nearly all fascist nations.
very small cohort of people are destroying the world
Again, how do you think they got cohorts to even achieve this?
Do you think fucking the planet is only possible by 100 peopleâœ
And they all benefit when anger is directed at people who are powerless .
Bridal Chorus:
Here comes the lie, there comes the truthâȘ
The âpowerlessâ are choking the living daylights of the youth!âȘ
DarkCloud 3 points a day ago
Do you think fucking the planet is only possible by 100 peopleâœ
100 companies are responsible for 70% of greenhouse gas emissions. Infighting isn't going to stop that.
Just 57 companies are responsible for 80 per cent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new report released by UK-based think tank InfluenceMap.
The report also reveals big producers did not reduce, but rather increased, their output of fossil fuels in the seven years after the Paris Agreement.
Source: https://www.abc.net.au/...
So why did I say 100, if the report says 57? It's because the figure fluctuates, and there are other reports with other figures (they always confirm that Capitalism produces a minority against the majority). The fact remains that culpable, true "I'm a billionaire getting rich from the company" isn't a majority position....
....but it needs a majority solution to stop it. You're on the wrong end of the argument, and should deescalate. This isn't a problem of all old people being evil.
Even with boomers who are millionaires owning two homes they simply are not enormously wealthy by global billionaire standards (a billion is an order of magnitude wealthier than a millionaire. Especially a low millionaire). They seem wealthy to me, and you, and probably a lot of other people on this end of the spectrum, but in the grand scheme they're not the driving force in the state of the planet today. We could say they're a voting factor, but not (generally) a lobbying factor.
EDIT: clarified my "are not wealthy" statement, because it's aimed at "compared to the top end" rather than the bottom end - the poorest (anyone reading this is wealthy compared to the barefoot poorest of the world).
RickyRigatoni 20 points 2 days ago
Scientists were warning about climate change in the 1800s and everyone still actively chose to ignore them.
Rhaedas 12 points 2 days ago
Earlier guesses (which is all they were at the time) calculated several centuries before it would become a problem. That was just based on coal burning at the time and making some population increase estimates. They were far off and couldn't see other advancements that made it exponentially faster and worse. But yes, we had a good idea it would happen, either way.
nilloc 10 points 20 hours ago
Gen X: give their kids awards for everything because they grew up latch key kids. Secretly suspect their kids wonât have social security. Hoping the beanie baby collection will mature before their own retirement.
Millennials: canât afford kids, houses, or new cars.
Gen Z: donât want make things any worse.
Nouvellalia 3 points a day ago
T.V. rots the soul
lemonhead2 1 point 2 days ago
who are the people in the pictures?
Gpennyhigh 0 points a day ago
Most people of all gens keep doing the same unhealthy indoctrination, stay in dualistic thinking rather than grow and actualize. They numb blindly to the algorithms. Bad policies produce bad results and doubling down makes it worse, not better. The artificial scarcity forced on us, by those with the wealth and power, and superstitions keeps the unhealthy societies going. Too many voters pick the unhealthy platform or don't show up for the better one. It's not perfect but we make more progress with Dems and less suffering around the world. If this wasn't obvious before choosing the rapist for a second time, I hope more people understand it now, care enough about humanity and do something positive going forward.
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Generational infighting only benefits the wealthy and powerful. The people responsible for our predicament are the politicos and billionaires who are destroying our biosphere.
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