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I wish it was acceptable to call older folks out as lazy if they refuse to learn how to text, email and otherwise use the internet. It’s fine for them to call millennials lazy if they can’t drive a stick shift or balance a checkbook, but if you’re giving me bullshit like “I’m 68 years old, I don’t text and I don’t email” you are just a lazy, stubborn bastard. I’ve met plenty of 90 year olds who are perfectly capable because they aren’t lazy old fucks.

The dangers of conservatism/fascism.

If not for conservatism, humans would be proactively addressing global heating. Conservatives oppress the innocent and vulnerable in every country where conservatives have power. If not for conservatism, there would be no genocide. Conservatives are the gullible, deadly foot-soldiers of the billionaires.

Conservatism is the single biggest threat to life on earth. Eradicating conservatism would be the single most positive change we could make to preserve life on earth.

Seems nobody will ever put sanity and social safety over their feelings. People don't really understand the social contact anymore. They think that's for everyone else.

That the covid pandemic is still going full tilt and still demands a very aggressive worldwide response.

Everybody (over the age of 4--they were born in 2020!) knows it, they just deny it like crazy because they don't have the balls to deal with how unpleasant it is.

Which makes it infinitely more unpleasant because we aren't lifting the weight together. But anybody still denying the pandemic is consciously deciding to do it, and an explanation isn't going to make them un-decide, because it's not a lack of knowledge.

The importance of digital privacy and freedom. The way capitalism ruins everything you like.

Before calling support, turning your device off and back on again will legitimately resolve 90% of your issues.

If you call the helldesk and the uptime of your device is more than 24 hours and you said you already rebooted it how can we trust anything else you say?

Actually two things:

First: Capitalism is bad. It gets so bad it will destroy people the worst way: both mentally and physically. And it will destroy our planet more sooner than later. We need to get rid of „the rich“, switch to a social stable System and actually care about our environment (aka climate) immediately to stop the worst. It is already way too late to stop the catastrophe entirely, but some of us still can survive.

Second: Voting for faschist and racist parties will hurt you badly. They don‘t want what’s best for the common people, they want power.

That if they vote third party before we can get rid of the first-past-the-post system, they are helping their ideological opposite. And a corollary: if they do it because of the genocide in Gaza and Trump encourages a total wipeout of the Palestinian state like he's telegraphing, the blame for the deaths of those innocent civilians is on them for being self-righteous instead of honest.

When you're at a fast food drive thru and they offer to round up for a charity cause, YOU can claim that write-off donation on your taxes, not the restaurant. Of course virtually nobody would do that unless you save your receipts and tally them up next year... but you can!

Washing hands, not eating off the floor, not drinking from the same bottle as 10 other people etc...

Just basic hygiene things

Looks at Republican party

Grammar.