That’s not true. The cynicism gave us critical thinking skills to navigate through the bullshit we live with on the internet now. If anything, Millennials and Zoomers are more corporate friendly than ever, consuming whatever the doomscrollers tell them to.
Well, that depends on how well we manage to get out from under the shadow of the boomers and bring our ideals to the next generations.
It’s too late for that. The last meaningful bill that got passed was Obamacare, and even that was watered down and didn’t do much to solve the healthcare crisis.
Whatever government benefits we are holding on to will be gutted in the next four years, and American democracy will be dismantled within the next decade.
Welcome to the final goal of late-stage capitalism: anarcho-capitalism. We’ll be paying for our fire departments and police protections before you know it.
We live in the same country we did 4 years ago, we live in the same country that elected Barrack Obama twice.
They elected Obama twice and then stayed home in 2010, ensuring that he would never have the support he needed to pass bills.
Nobody gives a shit about politics. They only care about popularity contests.
Star Wars, Ghostbusters, the Mario Movie, the Breakfast Club, the Princess Bride, it goes on and on and on. The heroes were all rebelling against some ignorant authority that either didn’t understand the damage it was able to do or didn’t care about hurting those who had no power. As a result, when I was coming up my generation felt very much against the established status quo. Even the kid-targeted stuff in the early 90s, it was all gross-out humor and struggling against adult authority in favor of personal autonomy. Nickelodeon takes over your school. As a teenager it was grunge and punk and everything being ‘extreme’.
And what did Gen X get out of it? To be so forgotten as a generation that everybody else thinks we’re Boomers!
Ask anybody who’s not a Gen Xer to list out the current generations and they will, without fail, say: “Boomers, Millennials, Zoomers, and whatever Alphas are going to turn into”
Trump wasn’t elected in 2016?
They will put up a fight. They will fight like Democratic state senators in Oklahoma. They will fight like the Weiße Rose. And then they will lose.
They can’t fight federal law, and they can’t fight against an uncaring, sociopathic GOP majority in Congress.
It was obvious in 2012 and 2016 that we needed somebody further left than Obama and Clinton.
When Republicans win, the Overton window doesn’t slide to the left. It’s slides to the right. Expecting it to go even further left is a misunderstanding of politics.
The majority of population aren’t the ones who voted for Trump. The majority of the population didn’t vote at all.
I don’t. I also don’t believe we’re ever going to get another (fair) election, thanks to your inaction. The rule of law is finished, because:
That guy, he got voted president. If he can get re-elected after doing all of that shit, instead of being put in prison, then the rule of law is finished. We don’t really have a functional government that punishes criminals. We’re on the level of Brazil in terms of government corruption now, and quickly sliding into Turkey or Nazi Germany by the next decade.
Be sure to thank your fellow trans Beehaw Lemmy users [he/him] for deciding that your protest non-vote is more important than their lives, while they have their medical rights stripped, and their faces curb-stomped by an already-hostile public.
You are not my ally. You are useful idiot to my enemies at best, and my direct enemy at worst.
False equivalency will be the death of our country. The media has been pushing this line for decades, even when it has become clear that the GOP has been getting more and more extreme during that time.
Even Jon Stewart immediately started pushing this garbage that none of this really matters, and we can just live our lives like it was just any other election. Meanwhile, all of his colleagues in late night media has been fighting hard to combat the disinformation in their own way, and this is how he rewards them.
Hey, Jon… in the words of Jon Stewart: “Go fuck yourself!”
That won’t last long. They’ll enact federal laws to make all of it illegal.
More like Elons past behavior with Epstein, Diddy and some unnamed co conspirator would come to very public light.
Well, that didn’t work for Trump.
Yeah, makes sense to North Korea, too. I’m not sure they’re an example to follow, though.
To be clear, nation states controlling the tools that their employees and, potentially, wider population communicate and access information is a dystopian vision, and I cannot agree with that point at all.
Wow, what a way to take the most extreme POV possible on an issue.
Whaaa??? Not even Trump Steaks?
So, you’re endorsing Trump?
Shitty tech opinions were flooding Medium before, so it’s not much of a difference.
for exemple by letting in immigrant, allowing schools (provincially controlled, not in Trudeau’s jurisdiction) to support trans kids
I swear, the conservative talking points are the same stupid bullshit the world over.
What’s wrong with Trudeau?
This is not the time to be nice. It’s not even the time to be angry.
Either we do something drastic that would completely take us out of our comfortable chairs and houses, or we watch as democracy and the rule of law gets dismantled, piece-by-piece.