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   Aven (aven@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 15-Oct-2023 03:15:51 JST Aven
   90's: "Break the cycle. End the oppression with mercy and forbearance. Be a better person than the one who hurt you."
   
   2020's: "Can't wait to make things even worse for the next generation, in revenge against the boomers who made things terrible for my generation! Eye for an eye all the way, baby!"
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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Sunday, 15-Oct-2023 03:15:49 JST iced depresso

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     @sim @aven we aren't trying to make things worse for the future generations. we don't have the knowledge or power how to make it better.
     
     the boomers are still in ultimate control of everything (even though millenials, finally, have enough voting power if they could agree on anything) and will take the ship down with them come hell or high water. their last acts on earth are to tie us to as many forever wars and lockdowns as humanly possible until entropy claims them.
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     sim@shitposter.club's status on Sunday, 15-Oct-2023 03:15:50 JST sim

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     @aven Sad that things have reached this point.
     
     I wonder if this is what happens when people feel the pinch of deprivation? That the people before had things better and took that from them. Which is kind of true when we borrow from the future or don't pass an inheritance to the next generation.
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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Sunday, 15-Oct-2023 06:05:20 JST iced depresso

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     @aven @sim what i usually see is that boomers didn't really pass civilization to X, and then X didn't pass it to millenials, who in turn haven't passed it to zoomers.
     
     most of us don't read the old books and there haven't been people passing the rules down for several generations now. there's literally a thread elsewise about how zoomers kids can't poop in a toilet because they're not being potty trained :blobcatgooglynotlikethis:
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     Aven (aven@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 15-Oct-2023 06:05:21 JST Aven

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     @icedquinn @sim
     >we don't have the knowledge or power how to make it better.
     That's a lie you've been fed to blackpill you. You have better access to information that boomers ever had, particularly regarding skills.
     
     But to be fair, it's a lie that boomers fed you. Their relentless pity for millenials did more harm than their myths about housing prices, the value of university, or retirement.
     
     What really annoys me is that millenials passing than pity on to the generation after them, too. It frankly disgusts me to see them doing the exact thing they complain about boomers doing to them.
     
     At the current rate, millenials will be more reviled than boomers are.
     
     >their last acts on earth are to tie us to as many forever wars and lockdowns as humanly possible until entropy claims them.
     
     As far as I'm aware, that's only a gerontocracy in DC, and not an entire generation. Or do you feel that way about relatives or neighbors?
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     Aven (aven@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 15-Oct-2023 06:20:33 JST Aven

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     @Griffith that's a lie. Clearly you don't know anything about the great depression. Or WWII. Or "duck and cover". Or the 70's.
     
     Things were definitely better in the 90's and 2016-2020.
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     Griffith (griffith@5dollah.click)'s status on Sunday, 15-Oct-2023 06:20:34 JST Griffith

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     @aven clearly those people didn’t mean it or it didn’t matter. Things have been getting worse generation by generation since the Great Depression.
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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Sunday, 15-Oct-2023 06:23:21 JST iced depresso

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     @aven @sim :blobcatshrug2: i've been on those fights, and people just don't care. i still remember trying to have the anti-drm conversations in my 20s and people straight up "don't care, gonna do cocaine"
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     Aven (aven@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 15-Oct-2023 06:23:22 JST Aven

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     @icedquinn @sim so the public education and television that boomers warned us about? Some subcultures did pass it down, like conservatives. They're happier and less blackpilled.
     
     Overall I think it's the cultural marxist ideological subversion thing. Making people miserable and mentally ill on purpose so that they agitate for revolution, because happy people don't want revolution. Likewise blackmailing politicians and having them sell out the country like the CCP does (Feinstein and Swalwell are easily proveable examples) and Jeffery Epstein did.
     
     There's a very real specific reason why Yugoslavia went insane, why Canada is going insane, why South Africa is going insane, etc. It's being caused on purpose to agitate revolution. Woke SJWs are very similar to Mao's Red Guards.
     
     They want to fill you with blackpills so you'll lay down, surrender, and die for them. They want you hopeless, because the goal is to bully us all to suicide, because they're assholes. Cough up the blackpills, because you deserve better.
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     lainy (lain@lain.com)'s status on Monday, 16-Oct-2023 00:53:49 JST lainy

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     @aven i think the boomer hate is 30% truth and 70% "let's create intergenerational conflict". I mean, who are these booomers? Our parents. Don't know about everyone else, but at least my parents did more for their kids than we could ever repay them.
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     Aven (aven@shitposter.club)'s status on Monday, 16-Oct-2023 01:10:25 JST Aven

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     @lain Agreed. The boomers fell for some harmful "boomer myths" like housing prices always going up, like a university diploma being the key to success, like working too hard for retirement and then just pure leisure after retiring.
     
     I honestly think the worst things they did for millennials was the snow-plow parenting and the pitying that started in 2008. It created a learned helplessness in millennials which is hard to un-learn.
     
     The really poisonous thing is the other-ing (like they're a class in class-struggle) and attribution of malice (again, class struggle proxy) to the boomers. This I think is that 70% you're talking about.
     
     It's remarkably similar to the Marxist stuff, like "eat the rich, but Bernie Sanders is cool", where Bernie Sanders is rich, but he's familiar. The same way the other-ing doesn't stick to one's parents. However, if some kind of hypothetical revolution happened against boomers, yeah, our parents would get the guillotine. It's the whole "this group is evil! ...present company excluded" thing.
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     smartomato (smartomato@eientei.org)'s status on Monday, 16-Oct-2023 01:11:37 JST smartomato

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     @lain @aven boomers may have allowed things to go south but they were mostly unaware and didn't have ill intent. I dont think hating the whole gen is reasonable when is just a small part (that is still in power) who actually created the issues. I wont even justify "redpilling" them boomers on the issues they allowed to happen, as most of them are too old to do something about. Most I do is act differently and explain why.
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     Aven (aven@shitposter.club)'s status on Monday, 16-Oct-2023 01:11:58 JST Aven

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     @thendrix @lain in fact Mao's Red Guards were the original "ok boomer"s
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     Aven (aven@shitposter.club)'s status on Monday, 16-Oct-2023 01:11:59 JST Aven

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     @thendrix @lain it is, and "ok boomer" is great for breaking family ties.
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     Terry Hendrix II 🏹 (thendrix@social.hendrixgames.com)'s status on Monday, 16-Oct-2023 01:12:00 JST Terry Hendrix II 🏹

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     Isn’t that the entire idea of cultural revolution and replacing the family with the state?