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This framing gets it wrong. It isn’t boomers vs. millennials. It isn’t immigrants vs. citizens. It’s ordinary people fighting over a shrinking share while an extraordinarily wealthy few accumulate more money, assets and political power than they could ever need. Stop turning class problems into generational wars. Tax extreme wealth.
I agree that is class war but boomers are enabling the wealthy.
Boomers would rather punish millennials for our avocado toast than see billionaires taxed.
Not all boomers.
Again, you are falling for their propaganda. "Boomers" wants no such thing, but fascists do. Fascists comes in all ages, including millenials and gen zs. This is not about age, it is about whether you are in the ruling class or not.
It is not generational war, it is class war.
Yeah that's a hard one to understand though, I had to see people my own age teaching hate worse than "the boomers" before realizing them dying out won't fix the real problem.
There’s also a non-negligible amount of Gen X, millennials and Gen Z who are fascist supporters.
Fascist appeal transcends generational lines.
It can be both. I don't know a whole lot of retirees that want better for the next generation and are willing to sacrifice for that.
I would say "boomers" have largely contributed to the conditions that have brought about fascism in this country, and have normalized looking the other way in service to the almighty dollar.
I must have missed a memo, since the boomers did do quite a lot to push things forward, too. Not all boomers are Faux watchers FFS.
I think it's no surprise boomers though who struggle to learn new tricks and are more susceptible to snake-oil scams and fear mongering. That's not inherently unique to one generation, for we'll be there one day too.
Though I'll say they and GenX may standout a bit more, having grown up in an era so far removed from the modern tech world.
Baby Boomers have voted more Republican than both the generation that came before them and the generation that came after them.
There is a story for everyone. For you it's Boomer for others expats and yet for others men. (Or Flanders)
Everyone gets his story so a small portion can fly private!
Exactly right. They manufacture enemies out of us and enjoy their yachts while we squabble and miss the point.
Divide and conquer is the way the right defeats the left in this country.
Put the minor conflicts aside and walk in lock step. A United front is the only way we can resist. 💪
Meanwhile I made the comment you're replying to, and yet I've been unnecessarily aggro elsewhere in this very thread, cuz damn is this tactic effective and requiring constant vigilance to counteract.
I think you and I used to fight. But with this statement I am on your side.
As it's a class war, we're all on the same side, opposite the billionaires. We just need to recognize that simple fact.
Cheers, and I love that about this place. Thanks for making Lemmy worthwhile.
It's a little bit boomers vs. millennials, based on the boomers and the millennials I have encountered
... Let's unpack this.
Person points out this is just another case of wealthy and powerful people stirring up trouble between two groups of people. This is easy because people are easy to trick. If the headline is to be believed, even AOC, who isn't stupid, believes boomers are the source of the problem.
You point out that, based on the people you know, there's a conflict between boomers and millennials.
but... that's not proof that the source of the problem actually IS either group. It's still the case that this conflict is caused by a third group of people who have a vested interest in making sure the poors fight each other.
Okay yes let's unpack it, please
What percentage of "the people who have a vested interest in making sure the poor fight each other" do you think are boomers, and what percentage are millennials? And of those millennials, what percentage of them are acting on behalf of, and/or dependent on a mega powerful boomer?
And to be fair I said a little bit.
There are millennials in this US administration. The fuck are you talking about?
It's class. Not age.
Does "on behalf of a powerful boomer" include...ya know...having an inheritance from them and working in the family business?
Okay dude, Millennials are no better than boomers, got it. Everyone is the same in every generation...only once you achieve $500k per year do you become hateful and evil
Money is the only thing that corrupts, and the evidence I see of younger people voting differently than older people, and younger people next to me in the protests means nothing. The kind loving boomer neighbors of mine are probably also in that crowd of protestors somewhere, I just missed every single one of them when I looked....
You're not wrong that it's rich vs poor first and foremost. But you're lying to yourself if you think boomers aren't actively harming younger generations, and that younger generations are totally fine with it.
Cool, thanks for the utterly useless straw man reply where you reduce my own more nuanced take into this idiotic "oh okay so then it must be this cartoon version of what you said".
I'm not taking the side of boomers at all. They're uniquely deranged and damaging to us all, and have been that way for decades.
Take whatever you want from my POV, not a lot of point in discussing with you further.
I mean all I literally tried to say was "it's a little bit millennials vs. boomers", which you seemed to take as a direct challenge, and had to "well acccccctually" argue against, for some reason. I actually never disagreed with your overall point, I only "straw manned" when it was clear you'd dug your heels in and weren't reading the actual point of my comments and needed everything in black and white. You really weren't presenting your argument with much wiggle room at all.
Ya know, I wasn't reading your comments carefully, you're right. That's my bad, apologies.
What pathetic percentage do they take up in your gerontocracy?
I don't have the first clue how I'd determine something like that. Do you? I'm talking about the US Presidential administration.
Maybe you're talking about Congress + the actual presidents we always get? The elected officials themselves are all old as fuck.
Wonder how many of those congressional staffers are millennials? And the executive cabinet, etc., all the many many unelected creatures.
~~Your take is shallow and bad and betrays a poor understanding of our government and who actually does the "work" in it.~~
[Edit - I didn't say anything here I disagree with, but I'm bringing an unnecessary tone to discussions in this thread where I'm not even adequately reading the stuff I'm replying to, so apologies on the hostility at the end, I'ma chill out]
Uhh, yeah. Look at how many senators and Congress people there are, then see how many of them are over the age of 50, then divide that number by the total and multiply by 100. Are you 12?
What you evidently don't understand is every person you're describing has large teams of people working for them, and they are by and large ages where the brain still fires on all cylinders.
Our present gov is rife with millennials, you sound real uninformed or you're not thinking very hard about who actually does the nitty gritty in the government. The elected official is the tip of an iceberg, and there's a lotta icebergs.
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You seem unwilling to really make any claims, so, see ya I guess.
Bye polar karen
AOC is a tool like the rest of them. Her messaging is out there to hold millennial women to the Dems.