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We'd be lucky if they were boomers. These are greatest generationers. Feinstein is 90 years old ffs
We really wouldn't be lucky if they were boomers
Seems like a humble crowd, naming themselves the greatest generation.
/s, just incase conservatives read this.
These reanimated corpses have been in power for way too goddamned long. They can barely carry the weight of their own clothes FFS. Just. Go away.. I bet they park their shit boxes on the sidewalks too. Bastards the lot of them.
Always has been
Was anyone disavowed of this notion? Show of hands?
Yeah, I did wonder why this objective fact was being shared in the "opinion" section, but then I realised it isn't really "news" either.
yall check out a movie from the 60s called Wild In The Streets. The boomers are pretending they don't remember.
How is this a new article? Of fucking course it is. "Breaking news! Pea soup has peas in it.". It should have been prefixed with "just a reminder..."
Nonsense, just ask Mitch!
Queue the tenders of the sarcophagus busily working
Steam rises
"Mitch" is wheeled out to the crowds of MAGA...
Silence...
"Uuuuuggggghhhhh"
The crowd goes wild.
“If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal.” — Emma Goldman
If you don’t know who she is, I’d recommend you spend part of your day finding out. A remarkable woman they don’t want you to remember.
If voting didn't change things. They wouldn't be working so hard to take away the ability or right to vote from certain groups. Or negate their votes. Voting matters. But so does who's counting. It's an uphill battle. But there are almost no better battles to be fighting.
Look at the user name and you'll understand the sentiment.
That must be why things are getting better. They’ll let you vote for culture war policy, but not economic policy. The battle in the streets is where real change happens. Protests. Strikes, organizing, unions. That’s what scare the capitalists. Hypothetically, if we overwhelmingly voted for Socialism, you think they would allow that?
Actually the fact that things are getting better is a very reason why conservatives are on a cultural jihad. It used to be that hateful bigotry and exclusion was normal for people who did not meet intolerant conservatives approval. Nowadays they are allowed to get married and even be open with who they are and that just really upsets conservatives.
And believe me. As a Gen X socialist in the Midwest I would like to see things improve economically as well. But the fact that I have to try to pool my votes with liberals on heavily flawed capitalist candidates. In the simple hope that the outright insane conservative candidates don't get elected. Which they generally do. Is very frustrating to me. But seeing conservatives try to take away my general ability to vote lets me know that I'm doing the right thing.
You should have never been put in the position of having to choose between a fascist dictatorship or a mediocre corporatocracy.
People should not have to experience a lot of things in their lives that they do. But what sets them apart is how they handle them. Defeatism only begets defeat. And the only way to affect change is through the broken system. It's doable but a lot of hard work.
I’m not defeatist. I can argue you are. I want a grass roots popular revolution to usurp the corrupt electoral system. You want to keep it the same and hope it gets better over time. We don’t have time with climate change. This is where I am.
As much as I (a 43 year old teacher) may shake my head at the tik-tok generation, we need their energy and idealism to renew our democratic institutions and approach society’s problems with fresh eyes and optimism. Term limits have never seemed more crucial to that renewal process than they do now. This much entrenched money and power just seems like fear of that change and renewal.
Don't judge a generation by the popular app of the time. I'm not much younger than you and remember being called the Facebook generation, and now it's swarmed with boomers. Plenty of 40 year olds use TikTok anyway.
You're right, we need their energy and idealism more than ever because they are sticking to their ideals and see the writing on the wall.
I agree with term limits. Just a shame it would also mean less time served for people like AOC.
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