grillman sowing: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!

grillman reaping: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

  • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
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    3 days ago

    They keep looking to their children to bail them out too. Like holy shit bruh maybe you shouldn't have pulled the ladder up and we could have supported you.

    Fuckers expect a return from children they refused to invest in. Now we can barely afford to rent let alone help out an aging population.

    Obviously this isn't all boomers and generational warfare is stupid. I feel for the ones that actually tried to do the right thing.

    • SubstantialNothingness [comrade/them]
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      3 days ago

      Obviously this isn't all boomers and generational warfare is stupid.

      I'm of a split mind. My fear is that if younger generations do let boomers off the hook, then they will also expect forgiveness for their own inaction, which will doom future generations of innocent children. Which seems to me like the most unethical choice a human can make.

      However I don't think that generational warfare that excludes class analysis (i.e. all war = class war) can ever really be productive.

      • CyborgMarx [any, any]
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        3 days ago

        I've always held to the maxim; boomers are real, other generations aren't

        The boomer phenomenon is the result of specific and unique circumstances, the aftermath of a World War, the US controlling half of world production, entire populations poisoned from birth by lead and other toxins, the advent of nuclear weapons

        • SubstantialNothingness [comrade/them]
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          2 days ago

          To me that makes them a byproduct of class war, and I don't think that other generations have escaped being shaped by class war even if it shaped them differently.

          However I agree that the boomer generation is unique and has a stronger identity than most - due in large part to the reasons you bring up.