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   Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jul-2024 21:38:59 JST Bread up, Bro
   I assume FN is an Xer.
   
   People keep forgetting that our political class is old as SHIT
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jul-2024 21:40:34 JST Bread up, Bro

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     what's freaking insane is that Franz Ferdinand was killed in 1914 and this was celebrated as the end of monarchy and literally the generation after this happened came into power and refused to let go.
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     Kenny Blankenship (dw2@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jul-2024 21:47:47 JST Kenny Blankenship

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     @sickburnbro to your point, Schumer is 73, McConnell is 82 and Pelosi is 84. The late stage USSR has nothing on BurgerWorld
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     dictatordave (dictatordave@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jul-2024 21:50:40 JST dictatordave

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     @DW2 @sickburnbro i have a feeling a lot of 'smart' people that got addicted to corruption are going to be sperging when things change
     
     especially all the degenerates that were enabled on purpose by the dying paradigm
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jul-2024 21:50:40 JST Bread up, Bro

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     @dictatordave @DW2 if you think boomers not teaching people how to be machinists is bad, imagine if they just aren't telling people how to run the USG
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     dictatordave (dictatordave@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jul-2024 21:50:41 JST dictatordave

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     @DW2 @sickburnbro the collapse of their paradigm is hilarious
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     Kenny Blankenship (dw2@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jul-2024 21:50:41 JST Kenny Blankenship

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     @dictatordave @sickburnbro remember when the supposed smart people laughed at the idea that Zog was in terminal decline?
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     Bonsai (bonsai@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jul-2024 22:37:38 JST Bonsai

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     @sickburnbro >plenty of millennials
     like who lmao? token new york jew lady? she doesn't give a fuck about millennials
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jul-2024 22:37:38 JST Bread up, Bro

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     @Bonsai look at this more of her seeing no Xers in power.
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     CaptainButthurt (captainbutthurt@mstdn.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jul-2024 22:41:24 JST CaptainButthurt

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     @DW2 @sickburnbro keep in mind what happened in the late stage USSR to their leadership. In the early 80s after Breznev died, there was like half a dozen new leaders that replaced him over a period of year or so before they finally settled on the "young" Gorbachev. Their leaders kept dying on them suddenly. Their ruling class was just so old that they couldn't keep anyone alive long enough to do anything.

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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jul-2024 23:05:21 JST Bread up, Bro

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     @dictatordave @JoshuaSlocum @Bonsai LOL lobby for rights, with boomers? the "muh bootstraps?" I mean I'm all for telling Xers what they've done wrong, but I don't think this is it.
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     JoshuaSlocum (joshuaslocum@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jul-2024 23:05:22 JST JoshuaSlocum

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     @Bonsai @sickburnbro a bit old
     there are some Xers, but the Millennials are on the rise
     this could very well be the high water mark for Xers
     look at the fucking senate, horry shid
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     dictatordave (dictatordave@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jul-2024 23:05:22 JST dictatordave

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     @JoshuaSlocum @Bonsai @sickburnbro doesn't this just prove that gen x are a bunch of all talk slackers who let boomers infantilize them longer?
     
     if you dont like boomers lobby for removal of rights, medical care and def dont respect them
     
     you sound like a leftist sperg who needs everything to be equal for your tism
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jul-2024 23:06:11 JST Bread up, Bro

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     @JoshuaSlocum @Bonsai nice graphic too
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     dictatordave (dictatordave@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jul-2024 23:51:25 JST dictatordave

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     @JoshuaSlocum @sickburnbro @Bonsai you know one thing boomers can't control
     the level of respect they get
     and its one thing they absolutely crave
     
     they need approval of their peers and respect from others and i can't wait until books are written about how they were just consumer shit heels
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     dictatordave (dictatordave@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jul-2024 23:51:26 JST dictatordave

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     @JoshuaSlocum @sickburnbro @Bonsai i'm sorry but gen x had it easy
     millennials have had to deal with one disaster after another, i dont wanna hear it
     
     at least we can all agree that boomers deserve to be gassed and hopefully they top themselves after having to survive on cat food, its the least they deserve for running out the resources of other generations like it was their mandate to do so
     
     i can't wait to dig up their bodies to sell to some african to make voodoo potions out of or some shit, fuck em
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     JoshuaSlocum (joshuaslocum@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jul-2024 23:51:26 JST JoshuaSlocum

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     @dictatordave @sickburnbro @Bonsai >i'm sorry but gen x had it easy
     easy, i dunno about that, but genX certainly didn't have to deal with the same fucked up problems as millennials, who in turn don't have the same fucked up problems i'm seeing in the zoomers
     my point is that when you roll through generations in the normal manner, this sort of thing can be avoided
     boomers went from "muh social programs" to "muh stonks" to "muh social security" and drug the rest of us along without any pushback for thirty goddamn years, and they're still fucking there
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     dictatordave (dictatordave@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jul-2024 23:51:27 JST dictatordave

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     @sickburnbro @JoshuaSlocum @Bonsai oh no i meant remove the rights of boomers, but i was mostly mocking this nigger's demand for cohort equity and how it sounds like some literal nigger bitching that they aren't represented in literally fucking everything
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     JoshuaSlocum (joshuaslocum@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jul-2024 23:51:27 JST JoshuaSlocum

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     @dictatordave @sickburnbro @Bonsai all politics are generational politics
     each stage of life has different concerns, needs and wants
     boomers retaining power for as long as they have means there was an entire generation whose concerns, needs and wants were passed over in favor of the boomers' own
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jul-2024 00:11:17 JST Bread up, Bro

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     @LawrenceGerald @dictatordave @JoshuaSlocum @Bonsai What I've seen with gen X as opposed to the boomers is that when people level criticism against them, they seem to go "yup, seems right" where as 99% of boomers will fight you to the death.
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     Wignatia (lawrencegerald@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jul-2024 00:11:18 JST Wignatia

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     @dictatordave @JoshuaSlocum @Bonsai @sickburnbro >gen x are a bunch of all talk slackers who let boomers infantilize them
     
     it's definitely true that we're a bunch of slackers, but I would argue that we infantilized our ownselves. we were told starting in the 80s that Social Security wouldn't be there for us, though we would pay into it all our lives, and that we would never achieve the living standard of our parents. 40 years ago they were telling us this. It was crystal clear that boomers were nothing but a bunch of consumer shitheels, that's where the "yuppie" perjorative came from. I remember everyone around me just looking at the whole thing (go to college! get a career! build credit!) and nope-ing out.
     
     genX's main sin was that we saw the evil that was rising, in the form of sexual degeneracy, and we flinched (ht to PA, where is that guy?). many of us participated in it until it became clear it was the way of death. that's why I now have a late-life career of being a voice crying in the wilderness telling young wammans not to do these things, and exactly why it is bad. I don't think they heed me necessarily but at least someone is telling them the truth.
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     Bonsai (bonsai@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jul-2024 00:15:53 JST Bonsai

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     @LawrenceGerald @JoshuaSlocum @dictatordave @sickburnbro yuppies used to be a good thing, that meant it was a nice area with opportunity and growth. But yuppies were apparently driven to extinction by obama since he thinks success looks too much like nazis, swarthoid cope.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jul-2024 00:15:53 JST Bread up, Bro

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     @Bonsai @LawrenceGerald @JoshuaSlocum @dictatordave yuppie was actually initially a slur
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jul-2024 00:16:18 JST Bread up, Bro

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     @Bonsai @LawrenceGerald @JoshuaSlocum @dictatordave "young urban professional" was the term it derived from
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     Wignatia (lawrencegerald@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jul-2024 00:16:36 JST Wignatia

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     @sickburnbro @dictatordave @JoshuaSlocum @Bonsai >99% of boomers will fight you to the death
     dude I KNOW. I have close boomer cousins and they do this. It drives me crazy. They're good people, too, you would definitely want them in the ethnostate. It's just a peculiarity of boomers. They were lied to their entire lives, when the propaganda was subtler and well-hidden, and most people of any generation do not have the strength of character to consider that everything they believe might be wrong.
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     Wignatia (lawrencegerald@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jul-2024 00:30:34 JST Wignatia

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     @Bonsai @JoshuaSlocum @dictatordave @sickburnbro >closer to a final stand for yuppies nationwide than it is to a sign of health for America
     I'd say this is spot-on. Anyone who knows and loves Austin can see it's not actually healthy, it's more like it just has all these metastasized real estate developments. The whole city is pockmarked by landmark businesses that were driven out by rent increases and nothing took their place. The buildings stand empty, covered in graffiti and weeds and fenced off to keep bums out while they build a brand-new luxury condo with retail on the first floor right next to it.
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     Wignatia (lawrencegerald@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jul-2024 00:30:35 JST Wignatia

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     @Bonsai @JoshuaSlocum @dictatordave @sickburnbro >My generation's not larping we just actually are poor.
     don't know if you're millennial or zoomer but I see tons of bougie young people every time I go to Austin. they drive Teslas and step over urine-soaked bums on their way to brunch.
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     Bonsai (bonsai@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jul-2024 00:30:35 JST Bonsai

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     @LawrenceGerald @JoshuaSlocum @dictatordave @sickburnbro Austin is one of the last cities like that left in the US. It is closer to a final stand for yuppies nationwide than it is to a sign of health for America. Obama couldn't totally choke the life out of it yet with woke bullshit but they're trying.
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     JoshuaSlocum (joshuaslocum@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jul-2024 00:30:36 JST JoshuaSlocum

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     @Bonsai @sickburnbro @LawrenceGerald @dictatordave update your database, we call it "bougie" now
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     Bonsai (bonsai@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jul-2024 00:30:36 JST Bonsai

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     @JoshuaSlocum @LawrenceGerald @dictatordave @sickburnbro very boho, being rich but larping as poor. My generation's not larping we just actually are poor.
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     Bonsai (bonsai@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jul-2024 00:30:37 JST Bonsai

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     @sickburnbro @JoshuaSlocum @LawrenceGerald @dictatordave I wish stuff was nice enough to get called a yuppie anymore, it hasn't been in a decade
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     Wignatia (lawrencegerald@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jul-2024 00:33:46 JST Wignatia

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     @dictatordave @Bonsai @JoshuaSlocum @sickburnbro Austin was once absolutely paradise on earth and we all knew it. It was such a great place to be a young slacker. Everybody was good-looking and had endless amounts of time on their hands bc none of us gave one single shit about careers (or family womp womp) we just romped and played in this beautiful city, making music and art and perfecting our weirdness. Sigh. Should have been making babies.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jul-2024 00:33:46 JST Bread up, Bro

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     @LawrenceGerald @dictatordave @Bonsai @JoshuaSlocum sadly they were right, it's tough to be a slacker and make art and have a kid. Seems like people can choose two.
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     dictatordave (dictatordave@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jul-2024 00:33:47 JST dictatordave

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     @Bonsai @LawrenceGerald @JoshuaSlocum @sickburnbro austin is gayer than fuck
     worst city in texas i've been to
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     petra (petra@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jul-2024 01:11:18 JST petra

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     @Bonsai @sickburnbro This is it exactly. It's easy to pacify people. Even the minimal ability to live that welfare provides is enough to keep people from rebelling.
     
     I'm a tail end boomer that watched every ladder get pulled up through the X'ers span. Got balled up in that myself working in tech and having jobs moved overseas or displaced by migrants moving here. I have every sympathy with the generations after me that have seen stolen opportunity after stolen opportunity taken from them.
     
     Pensions are what is keeping boomers and soon to be X'ers pacified as well. You won't risk anything if the result is literal homelessness. Not when you have a home now. But even boomers are ending up on the streets and in shelters because they worked a less than optimal career, on the margins. And now they slip over the edge with no real savings. Something that virtually never happened even 20 years ago.
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     Bonsai (bonsai@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jul-2024 01:11:19 JST Bonsai

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     @sickburnbro Gen X didn't have a reason to rebel against boomers since they still got houses and families. Millennials never did.