• wolf6152@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    Have they tried trickle down economics or maybe pulling themselves up by their bootstraps??

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      9 months ago

      The material conditions and sociopolitical norms for a large demographic group of people were such that the majority of them actively and deliberately destroyed social safety nets and privatized everything they could in the hopes of making a quick buck and sticking it to the (slurs), and you're only upset that some people fucked over by that group are feeling schadenfreude about that group now experiencing what they had been dishing out. what-the-hell

        • UlyssesT [he/him]
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          9 months ago

          One sentence was "too long, didn't read" for you. 👍 smuglord

          And your collective condemnation of the people you look down upon for having unsanctioned feelings is the superior take. 👍 smuglord

            • UlyssesT [he/him]
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              9 months ago

              I would like the stroganoff treatment

              That's already old and stale. Your attempt to hitch a ride on it explains why you're so defensive about the boomer demographic in general. I doubt you're that old, but boomer is by and large a state of mind and you seem to fit that state of mind. grillman

              for personal tragedies

              Except decades of suffering that boomers as a demographic inflicted on those younger (and in the past, on those older) than themselves. That's fine and good because the smol bean boomers are special and better than those that came before them and after them and deserve all of the sympathy, including for things they inflicted on everyone, including themselves. galaxy-brain

              that occur in your life

              Fuck all the way off with your smarmy concern trolling. smuglord farquaad-point

              Just inform me when something big happens.

              You live in a bubble world of smug condescension, so chances are you won't notice anything anyway. smuglord farquaad-point

                • UlyssesT [he/him]
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                  9 months ago

                  You're begging for sympathy for a demographic group that by and large were known for their entire lives for being abrasive condescending selfish assholes, and your way to demand sympathy is by acting abrasive and condescending.

                  perhaps you'll grow a sense of empathy

                  You're not demonstrating any for the people hurt by boomers in the long decades that they had near total economic and political control.

                  Good luck.

                  Your smug levels are already off the charts. You may break the meter.

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    • StarlightGlimmer [they/them]
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      9 months ago

      The article doesn't say, but I'm assuming the demographics of these newly homeless boomers is not predominantly white male. I still say boomer remover tho so i'm not exactly above generational warfare, it's just the worst boomers get hurt the least from poverty

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
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        9 months ago

        I think you make a valid point, unlike the federated smuglord that you replied to. This is mostly going to hurt people that least deserved it, as is often the case. Yeah, I know one or two boomer chuds that will likely get hit by that, but that's not worth it overall.

  • jray4559@lemmy.sdf.org
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    9 months ago

    Anyone here who comments about how they deserved this fate or how they got what was coming to them needs to grow the fuck up.

    There are very, very few people in this world who have done something bad enough to have this kind of condition even be remotely justified. They're gonna either be on the streets or in basic Medicaid nursing homes for the rest of their lives. Many will get beaten and robbed. Many will probably just commit suicide to avoid the nightmarish conditions. And people here are celebrating this?!

    Newsflash, the baby boomer generation are also people who also deserve to have someone give a shit about them. You people are sick.

    • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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      9 months ago

      In any case, it's going to overwhelmingly not be reaganites who are going homeless. If someone spent decades shilling for austerity and had it bite them in the ass, that's one thing, but this is the economic bottom dropping out, so it's mostly not those people.

  • Lemmygradwontallowme [he/him, comrade/them]
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    9 months ago

    Don't worry, as the saying goes "pull yourself up by the dick", and maybe they will gain enough wealth to become expats and gain more in foreign wealth and sex on Southeast and East Asia..., /s (Edited for clarification)