Yup. Generational amnesia is going to fuck us all, even people old enough to know better…between nonsense like antivaxxer and fascism and probably a few other things I’m forgetting right now, it’d be nice if there were a great way to download wisdom.

One path for that, one might hope, is education. But that obviously has not worked. Whether that’s by design thanks to the intentional sabotage of the far right and how much of that sentiment is really, really hard to translate to younger minds is hard to say - since younger minds tend to be, as a general rule, extremely narcissistic.

LOLOLOLOL.

Now that’s not to say “Vote Blue NMW”

Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of elitists suddenly cried out in terror and suddenly clutched their pearls.

Yup. The boomers were young and idealist and had heads full of ideas of changing the world and human nature, too.

My generation (Gen X) watched things like Ronnie Raygun and the excess of the 80s and yuppies and so on, and watching boomers reveling in excess right after the 60s and 70s and a lot of us sneered and said, “look at these sellouts, doing everything The Man told them to do after supposedly rebelling against The Man, we’ll never be like those guys”. Of course, not all boomers and not all Gen X did these things/had these reactions; just talking verrrrry broad strokes here.

Anyway, the boomers didn’t really seem to course-correct and Gen X, in spite of being called “slackers” and so on, seem to be little different from the trajectory that the boomers went on.

And I bet I could find similar sentiments about The Lost Generation and The Silent Generation and The Greatest Generation if I were to try to mine information from newspapers and books and magazines of the past.

I don’t think Gen Y, Gen Z, Alpha, etc…have any magical property that somehow elevates them as a group, either. I suppose if some truly world-shattering human-altering tech comes on the scene, maybe then. Meaning, something in the transhumanist sphere that somehow is used for good to maximize both intelligence and empathy in all of the human population…something akin to The Matrix, but instead of learning Kung Fu, people gain deep insights and have something that shatters the ego (and lasts beyond just peak experiences from MDMA or LSD or the like).

He’s really bad at it, then.

TBF, the problem with media was well underway before Clinton came along. The Fairness Doctrine being done away with under Ronnie Raygun opened the floodgates.

FFS. So glad that SCOTUS gave this douchebag carte blanche.

I wish the US Marshals could just be sent to pick up Taco and give him the same treatment ICE has been giving people…detain him for a few weeks in an undisclosed location.

Yep. They are getting their news from the “news” networks that cannot even get the fucking name of the DEMOCRATIC PARTY right.

I don’t hold out much hope for them to wake up, since these are also the people that are terrified of all things “woke”.

I’m watching Mikey Johnson lying right through his teeth about the shutdown. It’s probably been a near-daily morning ritual for him.

Idiots that voted for Taco and moronic bothsiderists will probably eat up these lies or stupidly blame bOtHsIdEs. I hope it’s more, but I’d be surprised if very many figure it out.

These assholes keep trying to blame this on Democrats. I see Mikey Johnson standing there and brazenly lying about SNAP and healthcare, FFS.

democrat party

And there it is.

Um, that’s the entire POINT of this maladministration. Punch down on groups like POC and self-deal as much as possible so the rubes that voted for this shit have a circus to entertain them so they don’t know they are getting screwed, too.

Aggravated butthurt.

Jury: fuck yeah

Followed by a few fist pumps.

Oh, I’d so love to be on that jury. Jury nullification, BABY.

“We can’t eat because the radical liberals want our kids to cut off our dicks?”

If I understand their bullshit narrative, it’s more that you’ll send your kids off to “Democrat (sic) controlled schools” and then one day Johnny comes back as Susie. I mean, this just happens all the time, thanks to the liberals, doesn’t it?

There are radical left (or Radical Left, lol, this fucking guy. How we have normalized complete dumbfuckery. This guy, randomly capitalizing words for no fucking reason whatsoever…) Democrats? Where?

I’d be fine with Bernie’s approach - let people try to survive on one dollar less than a billion as a max. Everything over that, tax at 100%.

Reevaluate that cap over time, pinned to COLA/inflation or whatever…

It will be interesting to see if the people that are seemingly some of the most critical of “boomers” are somehow magically any different than prior generations…once history’s largest wealth transfer in history has transpired.

Knowing human nature, and very critical of the notions commonly bandied about in conversations regarding “generations”, let’s just say I’m very dubious.