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Yeah not too far off. The post WW2 generation are the most successful ladder pullers of all time.
At this point I'm genuinely considering the only way to convince them to put the ladder back down is to ask them if they want more than 1/10 of their retirement care nurses to be white.
Similar to how I think the only real solution to MAGA is to start a psyopp that all citrus fruits make you queer.
They won't be willingly lowering any ladders. We're gonna have to dilute their political power and pull the ladder back down. Of course, the later generations still have too many rich assholes that will try to prevent that, so it'll be a fight either way.
Really we're just running the clock until their vote doesn't hold enough swing.
A race to see which happens first: Boomers dying off or irreversible global climate catastrophe. Place your bets.
The problem is there are plenty of ass hole genX that took all the wrong lessons from the Boomers.
I fear that the lauded “Boomers dead golden age” just leaves a bunch of bitter latch-key genX that want to “get theirs” because daddy wasn’t around enough.
There will be but the millennials outnumber them so readily and are much more apt to have the gumption to affect change without Gen X.
As if there aren't plenty of asshole millenials and gen zs. It is not a thing that dies out with generations, otherwise it would have died off a million years ago. It perpetuates itself through societal and structural conditions.
Am i allowed to bet now that the outcome is certain?
Uhhhh...
Gen X carry the torch, then our generation, then Gen Z.
Each grown under the system of selfishness, the rest are discarded.
Do not believe that we are special.
You are not factoring in the world wars.
The boomers were raised by people with ptsd who were raised by people with ptsd.
Has nothing to do with being special and everything to do with millennials being the first generation not raised by collectively traumatized parents.
We're running out the clock until climate change starves half the global population to death and then water shortages and war kill the other half.
At which point the Millennials will be in charge.
Can't wait for JD Vance, Pete Buttigieg, and Mark Zuckerberg to hold the keys to the castle. Hope all y'all are excited to start a shooting war with China.
Why lump Buttigieg in with those assholes?
I mean, just for starters...
But he's been a corporate plant and a soulless climber within the Democratic Party since his mayoral days. The absolute worst that the party has to offer.
Your article says Pete started work in his 20's as a consultant for McKinsey. Some people blame his work for contributing to price fixing bread at Canadian grocery store(s) 6 years before he started working there.
This doesn't feel like a big deal to me or your average American. This feels like a campaign to run the career of a young and potentially effective Dem politician through the mud. Like had been done to Hilary and and now AOC. This doesn't mean that Pete Buttigieg is perfect, but let's not pretend he's the same as JD Fucking Vance.
Specifically, for Loblaws, which was in the middle of the bread price fixing scandal while employing McKinsey to facilitate it. This was a career accomplishment that Pete touted while running for office, because he thought "I worked 14-hour days to make a grocery store more efficient!" was going to be received as a testament to his hard work.
Anyone familiar with what McKinsey consultants actually do within a company will tell you why that's bullshit. And why "McKinsey Consultant" on a resume typically signals someone as spineless as they are ruthless, when it comes to ruining the lives of the working class.
Your Average American probably couldn't pick Pete out of a line-up. Or JD Vance. Or Mark Zuckerberg. So, no surprise there.
You make it sound like Pete doesn't already have a political track record. The folks that do know him - whether from his mayoral days in a small Indiana town where he privatized public services and bloated the police force - or as Transportation Secretary under Biden - during which he presided over a number of high profile train crashes and helped break a strike of Union Pacific workers - tend to hate him.
If he manages to reach the next rung of the political ladder, it will only be thanks to insiders in the Dem establishment boosting him in exchange for money from his extensive private donor network.
Yeah, South Bend is doing fine last I checked
We're going to have to build a new ladder
And fruits and vegetables. Vitamin C sneaks in in a lot of places if you aren't living off preserved food
lol vitamin C. Yes gran, I’ve had vitamin C enrichment for years and it made me the cunning linguist I am today.
You know as well as I do those types of people would just say "why do you think I want to deport 1/3 of the country?"
They can say whatever they want. Their work visa philipino care aid isn't gonna give any more fucks cathing them when they have 20 other geriatrics in their care. If they want white people they can talk and relate to than they'd better make healthcare a viable profession for their grandchildren.
Damn, Grandma is getting fucking roasted next Thanksgiving
I know I'm going to end up caregiver for another entitled boomer I just know it.
You get to choose how much you actually care, don't ever forget that.
Boomers were called “the me” generation by their parents, they rewrote the narrative to call themselves boomers.
I have a boomer on my wife’s side that just remortgaged his house at 84 to buy an $80,000 Toyota Tacoma with all the custom add-on bullshit. They are not only intent on spending every cent they have, but also signing loans they never intend to pay off.
Why attribute to dementia what can be attributed to malice of forethought?
Boomers are also falling for phone scams and online phishing attacks in record numbers. Almost as though they're old af, living alone, and incapable of taking care of themselves.
No no he has a boomer 2nd wife intent on leaving nothing behind to the kids from his first marriage. It’s 100% petty spending.
I’ll never give a boomer the benefit of the doubt when a situation can be explained by selfishness.
Just stop expecting things from them, and write them off.
Family nowadays are the last people you should trust.
What is a ladder puller?
Someone who uses a ladder to reach a higher spot (uses privileged situations to improve their life standards) and pulls the ladder up from behind them so those that follow can't use it.
For example: taking advantage of government subsidised secondary education to reach a higher income without loads of debt and then voting to get rid of the subsidies so you can pay slightly less in taxes because "you don't want to pay for someone else's schooling"
See my formerly poor father who got a pell grant and used it to get out of poverty to comfortable middle class but is a conservative who generally does not want the government helping people because it could be abused.
On the bright side he became disillusioned with MAGA and now just generally hates all politicians which I will consider a win for him
Ah! So irony can be a noun.
Wow almost full circle. Uneducated—> college —> ladder pull —> far right maga —> hates all politicians.
Now maybe if he went back to school one more time he might actually understand what a stupid path he took.
Thanks! Great metaphor.
Greg fucking Abbott, governor of Texas had an accident when he was younger that paralyzed him. He sued the fuck out of those responsible, and then proceeded to pass a law that caps penalties to those responsible for accidents.
That's a ladder pull.
Wow I didn’t know that, thank you
A boomer /s
Clarence Thomas
The problem is have with the term "ladder pullers" is that it implies the ladder is still around and functional, just waiting to be lowered.
We sold the ladder for scrap metal.
We didn't sell it. They sold it because it wasn't to be used by anyone else after them and they kept their ladder money until it gets funneled into the medical system because their kids "didn't earn it".
We can change that.
Let me introduce you to Madame La Guillotine. She will be taking care of this.