Holy fuck this denies basic reality. Imagine unironically saying that millenials have it good.
How about people who contribute to the labour force just freely cooporate to demand a greated product of the wealth they produce.... and the feds have now infiltrated your organisation, killed your leaders and raped your wife. At least I know I'm free!
The 90s were awful for everyone who wasn't a white suburbanite, especially people outside of the imperial core
There is always talk about people having more money back in the 90s and would spend like crazy. Clinton gets all this credit for the economy and creating jobs, but most of it was from the dot com bubble and it came crashing down hard at the end of the 90s.
Clinton was also the end of the unions and Democrat's support for labor rights, especially in the south. He was able to bust the unions that Reagan couldn't touch. A lot of people are unaware that historically, the southern states used to be a hotbed for labor activism and had strong workers' rights. The Dems betrayed all those people there in the 90s. That was around the time they completely abandoned the south and left it unchallenged to the GOP.
Chris Hedges has said before that the left should've abandoned the Democratic party after Clinton and NAFTA and I 100% agree with him. We should've stopped having arguments about "vote blue no matter who" and "sucking it up and voting Democrat to stop the Republicans" way back then.
There was also relatively high inflation from 1992 until 2000, and that massively benefitted people who bought their homes right before that. When people talk about the 90s being good, this was the biggest part of it.
Millenial here, we do not, in fact "have it good". Also: "Learn to code lmao".
Fuck these people.
If you know how to code you do have it pretty damn good as a millenial, the problem is it's pretty damn bad for everyone else.
I see liberals make this exact same argument all the time, usually when defending Bill Clinton and talking about what an amazing president he was.
"He created so many jobs! Yeah sure, he destroyed unions, but who cares? Fuck you for being poor and needing those unions to begin with!"
The Fuck is this guy talking about? Student loans are such a problem that even fucking Biden has a loan forgiveness plan on his website. It's means tested, and I don't believe him, but even the mummy in chief realizes that he needs to pantomime in that direction.
Sure, you millenials like to whine about 9/11, the recession, the other recession, the big recession, covid, the bigger recession, fascism and climate change, but you're ignoring all the good stuff that has happened like
They have cellphones but no houses. They have 4 year degrees but no high paying jobs.
They have cellphones... They have 4 year degrees...
See? Look at all the good neoliberal capitalism has done! You can't complain about it from your smart phone you ungrateful little shit.
btw they did a survey and a lot of them actually arent swimming in money.. idk if thats better or worse. is that a minimum wage dude saying that?
Thanks BlueMAGA, very cool.
On a serious note who wants to go back to the 90s except for nostalgia reasons? Tons of homophobia that was popular, poor treated like shit under growing neoliberalism.
It's honestly not even worth the effort. These delusional fucks outright deny reality, there is no way to reason with them. Let's just hope they piss off the wrong Trump supporter or something
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I don't mess with chapof@gs anymore just not worth it. They're actual fucking psychopaths. I wanted to debate them wasn't even memeing that much and they dug up everything from my post history and kept pressuring me to post pictures of my dick. Fuck with any of the r3tarded political boards on reddit but I would stay away from chapo. they don't even get mad, they just waste your time and degrade you and some of them are real fucking psychopaths and I don't know what they might or might do nor do I want to
Having read it again your post definitely has less corncobbing but I do still get some similar energies. r/neoliberal is just people either desperately coping, 16 year olds from rich families getting high off ideology or older people desperately telling each other everything is fine. The cocoon of rhetoric they've built themselves is disgusting and you need to find ways to engage that bypass it but they're just as open to persuasion/radicalisation as anyone else and for the same reasons.
I don't know, if you can convert a neoliberal I'd say go for it, but it just seems like such a colossal waste of time because they don't have anything in common with us - they don't see poor folk as people so showing them the damage of capitalism only makes them like it more. Maybe I'm not cut out for it but I just don't see any way to engage with these people and have them engage back in good faith
The link isn't working for me, I think they deleted their account
TIL that it is possible to physically get choked out by words over the internet. Really cool idea to act like we've had a plan for thirty years for the climate where we magically just fucking edge it until we almost ruin the earth for human habitability but don't actually do it. Can also confirm that before the cheeto I earned $16,000 / hr because of Clinton dollars but now I only make $15,999 / hr, so I'm struggling a little.
The line went up, so you literally can not tell me your life is worse than 10 years ago because the line is higher now than 10 years ago. Yes I'm a member of Mensa, why did you ask?
