• al_Kaholic@lemmynsfw.com
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      Come on man one generation has voted to fuck our eyes out for the last 50 years. Look at all the 65 plus politicians still hoarding the power and wealth, still winning elections… Who helped destroy the occupy Wall Street movement because fuck them kids my 401k retirement money… Who is indoctrinating their grandkids into hate and division currently? You didn’t stand up then you aren’t gonna stand up now. At least that generation could be honest and admit they were lied to. After Nixon and Reagan you voted in two bushes and a double trump term you all can get fucked.

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          You know what sounds stupid you saying “black folk”. You know what sounds even stupider. “I’m not american, but I have read and consumed enough American produced propaganda and I feel really informed on a subject.”
          Unchecked Capitalism doesn’t have a race, gender, or sexual identity.
          I hope you enjoy explaining your bullshit to your grandkids while the worlds climate is scorched and raze.

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              They as a generation have burned all the good will I can stomach. Now they can prove they aren’t part of the problem. Soon enough they will finally go the way of the dinosaur and I just hope they didn’t corrupt the youth into their image.

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        That is a nice parody of the nonsense strawman arguments used by generation warriors. Because that is a parody, right? Right?

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          Boomers failing to take responsibility for something nahhhh definitely parody /s. It isn’t even in the radar how this is the consequences of their actions.

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              So apparently you think there’s no options other than “every person in this generation is exactly the same” and “generations have no bearing on identity at all”.

              Generations are raised at a similar time with similar cultural events that shaped them as a whole. To claim that the time a generation is raised does not affect them as a population is to claim that nothing that happens during people’s childhood affects their personality for the rest of their lives.

              An entire generation in America was raised on Dr. Spock’s The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care, another was raised on Sesame Street, does that make no difference?

              One generation was raised to be afraid of stranger danger, another was kicked out of the house and told not to come back until it was dark. But to you, they’re still the same?

              Class matters, but to pretend that it’s the only thing that matters is putting Marxist blinders on your reality.

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                  Ok, so you do think the only options are “exactly the same” or “nothing alike”. No shit it’s a generalization, the discussion is about the general population of a country born within the same ~20-year timespan.

                  I think everyone in my generation was raised at the advent of the internet, and had 9/11 as a defining moment in their childhood. I think they entered the workforce around the Great Recession, and it affected the way they see the idea of corporate culture and their likelihood of achieving ‘The American Dream’. I think those events affected my generation differently than they do one born 40 years before, since they were at a different stage in their lives.

                  To ignore that is to be willfully blind. You can easily look up polling data by generation at each stage in their lives and see that each generation as a whole has different attitudes about politics, or desired income, or family preference.