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And who, pray tell, voted for the populist shitbags that ushered in the capitist coup that perpetuated fossil fuel and consumerist lifestyles at an accelerating rate and borrowed against their childrens' and grandchildrens' futures?
Carter tried to warn them, but it turns out boomers didn't like being called out on their shit, so they replaced him with one corporate stooge after another.
Boomers aren't entirely to blame, but they are far from blameless.
If you're talking about Ronald Reagan, he literally won or tied in every age group, except for the 18-21 block, which he lost by 1 percentage point. https://ropercenter.cornell.edu/how-groups-voted-1980
Friendly reminder that ageism is a ploy used by capitalists to distract from the only meaningful difference between groups: their class. Because the Boomers are gonna be dead pretty soon and posting memes blaming them for societal problems which existed before them and which will exist after the fact is going to do about as much to improve the material conditions of the world and the people in it as it does today. Which is to say: dick all.
The 18-21 year olds in 1980? The Baby Boomers who are 61-64 now?
If Gen Z could do basic math, they'd be very upset right now. Thankfully Common Core made sure that will never happen.
And even then you’re giving genZ too much credit. They don’t legitimately give two fucks about the world. If they did they’d go after Coca Cola / nestle. Not someone’s gramma who has all the power of a pen cap to control the world.
I don't think any generation is a monolith and I'm sure there are plenty of Gen Zers who both don't go after their grandmas and who do hate Nestle/Coke/corporations in general. My joke was more about how Gen Z was disenfranchised as a result of incompetent educational policy. Common Core is terrible.
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And look at you talk like no one protested in the 1960s about this same stuff during their generation
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT51CBN8ppu2aq9IKKyJYO_BtwUjoIM6x1irw&usqp=CAU
PEOPLE STOOD IN FRONT OF TANKS AND ALLOWED THEMSELVES TO GET RUN OVER AND SET THEMSELVES ON FIRE.
ONE DUDE EVEN LEFT HIS ARM UP UNTIL IT DIED INTO A LIFELESS STUMP IN PROTEST.
https://m.jpost.com/omg/meet-the-man-whose-arm-has-been-raised-for-almost-50-years-688399
you didn’t invent the word ‘protest’. You haven’t even gotten your feet burnt on the word yet.
Someone before you invented anti establishment songs that were also popular.
https://www.denvercenter.org/news-center/protest-songs-of-the-60s-and-70s/
There was definitely an audience.
If anything : grandma’s days of protest make you look like the compliant one. You’re entirely compliant. Just whiney.watch out you don’t get any ash on your Pajamas what with all your ‘protesting’ online….making ….memes.
PS: as much as you want to cry about previous president and voting decisions: watch yourself. For Trump was this generation. You can cry all you want about how you didn’t vote him in but being compliant and not voting doesn’t undo it. So prepare yourself for you’re going to be forever blamed in the future for trump having had power to be destructive.
And you still didn’t protest anywhere near the previous generations did when someone got voted in they didn’t like. So good luck explaining that to future generations. You can say it’s the NRA. You can say it’s the proud boys. But so long as we all use the generational argument you’ve gotten all cozy and latched onto: Trump is going to be considered to be all on you. That is the exact logic you are using after all.
Protesting has evolved. Protests of the past, of standing on a street corner with a sign, have repeatedly proved to be a waste of time. We have learned that you must protest with your wallet and by teaching the ignorant. No one responds positively or changes their mind on something because a rando on the street yells something at them and waves a sign in their face. Making a significant impact in the cultural zeitgeist requires a different approach. Like it or not, memes like the one in this post resonate with the younger generations. This is far more effective.
Correct that Protests are supposed to be about motivating everyone in your current situation on what to do.
What it is not: it is Not blaming and sitting back on your ass while someone does it for you.
So I disagree this post was motivating. This isn’t even a protest. This is whining at best. it’s non productive shaming at it’s worst.