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[–] 122 points 15 hours ago (14 children)

The older generation ceded our power to the wealthy. They went gleefully along with tax policy designed to move money to the top, anti union legislation, increasing costs of education, stymieing environmental regulation, not pursuing and enforcing trust busting measures, offshoring industry, etc , etc. They weren't the driving force, you could claim they were tricked, but it was their own short sighted greed and often bigotry that allowed them to go along with it. And they by and large continue to support all that same shit.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 hours ago* (2 children)

    Older generations also elected FDR four times and created the only social safety nets we have, created the EPA, eliminated smog, cleaned up our rivers, created the endangered species list, etc.

    I'm getting really sick of how easily some of you fall for these obvious divide and conquer tactics. Wake the fuck up and actually think critically for once. Climate change is far more of a class issue than generational one.

    Conservatives blame immigrants and minorities for their problems, liberals blame old people. People are fooled so fucking easily but I bet you think you're so much smarter than magats.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

    People are fooled so fucking easily but I bet you think you’re so much smarter than magats.

    Dang, I sure hope I never run into one of those types who think they're the smartest person in the room. That sound's insufferable.

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  • [–] 20 points 9 hours ago (1 child)

    And Gen-Z helped elect Trump in 2024.

    Saying that problems are because if a certain group of people is just dumb analysis. It is always about broader systems of power. Capitalism has it's ways to bend democracy to it's will.

    The ruling class wants you to blame the elderly for the problems in the world. Because then you aren't focused on the real issues.

    If we really wanna fix problems instead of fighting each other, we need to really stop bigotry in all it's forms and start becoming class conscious.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 hours ago (1 child)

    So by your nonsensical logic the current young generation is at fault for ceding more power than have been ceded in a long time to fascist oligarchs in the US.

    It is plain bullshit nonsense. And you have gobbled up all of the ageism propaganda created by the oligarch propagandeers to make you completely forget the actual issue of class war.

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  • [–] 15 points 14 hours ago* (5 children)

    The older generation ceded our power to the wealthy.

    Did they actually? Or are you just saying that?

    it was their own short sighted greed and often bigotry that allowed them to go along with it

    Did we take any kind of vote on our actual energy policy? Did we collectively decide to build highways over railways or big trucks over dense housing blocks at some point?

    Who decided to tear up the streetcars?

    The Americans who believe their democracy is real are as bad as the ones who believe climate change is fake.

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  • [–] 10 points 10 hours ago (4 children)

    Oh, okay- so you’re just cowards who spent half a century allowing it because you didn’t want to risk your relative comfort.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 hour ago*

    you didn’t want to risk your relative comfort

    I'm still not sure who this "you" is.

    Who do you think invented the Solar Panel? Who has been the most rapid adopters? Who built the wind farms? Who did the research that tells us Climate Change is even happening?

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  • [–] 5 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

    Literally the same thing the next two generations are still doing?

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  • [–] -1 points 5 hours ago (1 child)

    Did I suggest they were any better?

    I mean… they’re not. But fuck you for that disingenuous little sleight of hand where “they didn’t fight fascism hard enough” somehow becomes equivalent to “we voted for the fascists,” and also fuck you for making me defend their cowardly asses.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 hour ago*

    The generation wars are bullshit.

    But we cant deny one generation has moved america to where it is and they still refuse to admit theyre in the driver's seat, are too drunk to drive, and insist only they can do it

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