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   Terry (terry@bae.st)'s status on Monday, 15-Jul-2024 03:45:36 JST Terry
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     Coon Appreciater (mebigbrain@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 15-Jul-2024 06:08:45 JST Coon Appreciater

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     @WashedOutGundamPilot @Terry The boomers cannot understand the younger generation and will refuse to. There is a permanent divide because the boomer has an unshakable faith in the system because it worked for them and in many ways it is still working, they do not have to worry about the worst of it because they got their's and will be dead soon, now they see the future as somebody else's problem (even as boomers continue to occupy seats in government). Despite everything they have going for them they are at best useless to us and at worst obstacles.
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     Summertime for Zeon (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 15-Jul-2024 06:08:46 JST Summertime for Zeon

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     @Terry Bless his heart.

     I know you guys hate this archetype of boomer but these would be our base if we gained enough headway. I don't get how zoomer racists will look at a guy who came up in the good times, enthusiastically following the only strongman available to him and say "haha fuck him that would never be me"

     If we got the $500k house and a comfy job with a plain wife, we'd be just like that too

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     Summertime for Zeon (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 15-Jul-2024 06:09:02 JST Summertime for Zeon

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     @MeBigbrain @Terry Like the youth understand them so well? How many of us have anything worth dying to protect? We're poor dead-enders by default, of course we lack faith in the system: Its faults have been laid bare for us all along. It's not a great moral courage of ours to call the sky blue.

     Boomers towards our end of the political spectrum, even when somewhat distant, are still more friend than enemy, and in the right conditions those fat old bastards will be the ones looking the other way as the young fighters "steal" their resources to be put to use. They have things we don't, in the future that gap will need to be bridged in order to get anything done, unless you think we're doing just great making our own businesses, supporting our own, and popping out 5 kids each?

     In time, conditions will deteriorate to the point where they see that they need force to protect what they have, and then they're with us. Acting like we - the poorest, least networked generation ever made - can somehow pull off anything alone is a childish tantrum.

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     Summertime for Zeon (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 15-Jul-2024 06:09:40 JST Summertime for Zeon

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     @Terry The most essential element missing from our dissident fringe politic/ideology is love for our own people. It's easy to love them in the abstract, to love their heights, their history, their accomplishments, but it's much harder to love them as imperfect as they are.

     That love for our extended white family is grievously missing in every body politic in the scene today. A good leader, a real leader sees his mens as sons and brothers, not cannon fodder, gullible marks, or rubes with faces-for-steppingstones.

     I get grumpy with these types of people IRL too, which is why I've tried to extend my heart and empathize with them. Are their motives righteous? Are they trying in life? Under a different set of material conditions would that man stand beside me as a brother? We're only 'based' for the miracle of our birth, too. We hit the exact point in history when there was info shared in our purview right as we were deprived of the kinds of distractions that would close our ears to it.

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     受不了包 (shibao@misskey.bubbletea.dev)'s status on Monday, 15-Jul-2024 06:17:47 JST 受不了包

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     @WashedOutGundamPilot@poa.st @MeBigbrain@poa.st @Terry@bae.stActing like we - the poorest, least networked generation ever made - can somehow pull off anything alone is a childish tantrum.I disagree with this, i think we can and are currently "pulling off" things of interesting and actual use, it's just a scale that's so far below the average height of boomers that it's not really visible to them and it'd be a shame it's invisible to ourselves. it's the shop in the shed, the tarp unrolled in the living room, the american interest in manufacturing clawed from cheap chinese 3d printers and the extinction of hobby radio shops and machine shops, a focus on learning, training and maintaining things that liberals want to restrict and regulate and corporations want to paywall behind a subscription. these are hidden from the boomer who are only paying attention to the old signals of establishing a fiefdom business, marrying early, popping out kids, but innovation and progress has a funny habit of creeping slowly in the background until the table flips seemingly all at once and entrenched systems like taxicab drivers, local machinists, and auto factory workers go puff almost overnight

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     受不了包 (shibao@misskey.bubbletea.dev)'s status on Monday, 15-Jul-2024 06:26:58 JST 受不了包

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     @WashedOutGundamPilot@poa.st @MeBigbrain@poa.st @Terry@bae.st it's not going to be that clean of course, but it's interesting to me to see what elon is doing with spacex and as el segundo gets a fresh wave of blood, there's a lot of static electricity in the air and one interesting thing about elon is that he's managed to channel it where the next generation of engineers can produce self-landing rockets even as we lament the lack of knowledge transfer from all the machinists of the previous generation. the main problem i see is that of capital, things have gotten so overregulated and restrictive that those with capital are the only ones that can move, which is why everyone is seemingly going insane over large caps and billionaires as the only people who can seem to get anything of worth done. i think it'll stay like this for a long time until the next economic shock shakes up the regulatory environment and economy, this might be ww3 or could just be a market crash once everyone figures out that all the AI investments are only going to produce a fraction of the returns that were expected couple with the bottoming out of commercial real estate and other assets people used to think were completely safe and didn't need to be thought about, but who can ever really know. i do think that the generational knowledge transfer failure will not be as drastic as we once thought it could be, but it will definitely be highly irregular, which is why we're already seeing some titans showing warning signs in environments that are a lot more dynamic: nike and disney come to mind of examples of quickly changing environments with corporate ideologies that might have many effects but pretty sure they also prevent that knowledge transfer and work to insulate themselves from reality until it's too late