The assumption that old people are inherently right wing and young people are inherently left wing is just wrong. Correlating age with political beliefs is a fucking pseudoscience, and so is the whole concept of generations like boomers and zoomers. Their marketing terms, the baby boom was a uniquely United States thing and to apply that term to 20 odd years of people from across the world is just factually wrong. We got to stop self identifying with these terms because they are ageist and they divide us and they allow for shitty excuses like “it’s just their generation” to excuse shitty behavior.

What’s the point of this? Stop dunking on old people. Old people aren’t inherently reactionary.

  • Runcible [none/use name]
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    1 year ago

    I get kind of annoyed at people who make "jokes" about the age of people like Biden and Feinstein too.

    Being drunk doesn't make you a bad person, but it does mean you shouldn't be driving a car. This separation tends to get lost in most jokes but the complaint about mental infirmity (which is different than age but nearly every one seems happy to conflate them depending on their agenda at the moment) is entirely valid.

    Also, I do acknowledge the irony of the car brain metaphor here, it was just easy.

    • blobjim [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      I actually want them to br in power because I hate this country. I don't want toa be ruled by young hip fascists instead of old ones.