Holy shit people under capitalism are fucking evil towards the most vulnerable people.

How many boomers are losing their shit over kids committing petty crimes is insane.

You'd think they'd click that it's because of poverty and, you know, there being NO FUCKING FUTURE.

But no, old people are screeching about how kids are little shits that need to be punished even more. They want to just arrest everyone and create career criminals instead of solving the real root causes behind it (poverty, capitalism, lack of society caring about their problems).

They act as though this was caused because "people are too nice to their kids now."

Holy shit, are you joking?

These poor fucking kids man.

I hate that the media can just heard old people like this, stop them from seeing issues created by powerful adults by attacking literal children.

It's the most obvious fash propaganda technique and yet they fall for this kind of shit all the time

Society has been turned into child sacrificing monsters, what hope so we have of a better future if THIS is what the people with the most power believe.

doomer sadness-abysmal

A species that eats its own children is doomed to extincton.

  • Rojo27 [he/him]
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    6 months ago

    Nah, this is a thing in America and it's been something I've been around for my entire life. Older people have always talked shit about the youth. Young people also talk shit about other young people. Everytime I hear people start to say "young people these days [insert wildly dumb generalization about youth]" I want to pull my fucking hair out.

    • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
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      6 months ago

      Oh yeah totally, I know that, but this is different. The mainstream media has been on and on about "the youth crime crisis." And it was the biggest issue the politicians are running their platform on. There have been several protests by old people demanding tougher action against kids and the police are removing a lot of protections kids have against the police.

      Also when I was a kid no one could force me to leave my school bag unattended outside a shop.

      • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]
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        6 months ago

        It's definitely a thing in the US and Canada. It's impossible to go anywhere without hearing simultaneous whining about kids not going outside anymore paired with the most incredible restrictions on kids existing anywhere.

        There was an HOA near where I used to live which installed those mosquito alarms throughout their subdivision so that people wouldn't have to see kids in common areas or have them playing in the street because those are for cars only.

      • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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        6 months ago

        They always made us leave bags, which made shoplifting way easier. Have a couple friends wander around with bags and make a fuss about giving them up and they're followed the whole time they're around. Walk in like 2 minutes later with no bag and steal

    • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]
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      6 months ago

      Everytime I hear people start to say "young people these days [insert wildly dumb generalization about youth]"

      ...in the fourth century BC, Plato was heard to remark: "What is happening to our young people? They disrespect their elders, they disobey their parents. They ignore the law. They riot in the streets, inflamed with wild notions..."

      Not minimizing how annoying this is, but it's not exactly new. Old people have been doing the 'shake stick and yell at kids' for millenia now