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[-] DieguiTux8623@feddit.it 8 points 2 years ago

I love that meme and I already sent it to my friends, unfortunately for me not only I remained poor but I also interiorized so much the idea that "it's my fault and something must be wrong with me" that I ended up thinking my boomer parents were just right about everything.

I am leaning towards skepticism about every hint that a "different future is possible" and that social justice will prevail in the end. The current geopolitical, environmental, economic and financial crises point to something else.

[-] LinkOpensChest_wav 6 points 2 years ago

Oof yeah. It took me a long time to accept that my financial struggles aren't part of a moral failing on my part. In my case, parents were actually good, but growing up in a region where the "protestant work ethic" was emphasized was hell on the self esteem. There's so much casual classism out there as well, trying to make people like me feel like "trash." It's extremely fucked up.

[-] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

Haven't hit the moltov throwing antifa stage but yeah.

[-] loudWaterEnjoyer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 years ago

Give it some time

[-] Holzkohlen@feddit.de 6 points 2 years ago

Screw that, I've got empathy unlike conservatives.

[-] Thorndike@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

I'm 60 now and lean WAY over to the left

[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

I have grown more progressive in my 30's and 40's, but looking around me, I feel like I have no choice but to acknowledge that, at least here in the US, conservatism has won for at least the next generation.

The strategy of buying up both ruling parties worked exceedingly well for the 1%.

[-] darkphotonstudio@beehaw.org 6 points 2 years ago

53 year old me.

[-] vankappa@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

I like the pic, anybody has a link?

[-] j4k3@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Any yet we are past the post of neo-feudalism which I find infuriating. This should be the political jihad being fought for votes in a democracy.

I was ultra conservative, born in Alabama to religious nutters, and don't believe there is any representation for the Left in the USA.

[-] SuperSynthia@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

At least we can suffer together :)

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