• Mr_Blott@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      Accurate insofar as no other generations after them did very much about it until the last ten years when everything started to go to shit, aye

      Edit -lol

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        The previous generations actively sabotage effective measures. Prosecuting protesters, celebrating consumption, ridiculing the educated. My guidance counselors looked at me like I had two heads when I said I wanted to pursue a science education motivated by climate change over a “career”. What career could I have if society isn’t certain because of constantly shifting weather patterns, climate refugees, and the threat of resource wars? A little bit of any one of these things can throw the whole system off.

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        You’re right; Gen X has a healthy dose of responsibility too.

        Edit: forgive for the lack of nuance. This obviously applies more-so to the capital owners, not your every-day Joe just trying to get by. This, like all things, is heavily aimed at the Haves, not the Have-Nots.

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          So are we going to get another party in power and remove the corrupt establishment?

          Or join the boomers in complacency?

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            9 months ago

            To add, this was my specific jab at my early Gen X mother who was made homeless by the 2008 housing crash. Instead of learning anything, she has elected to buy an island.

            Like a well-adjusted adult.

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              To add, this was my specific jab at my early Gen X mother who was made homeless by the 2008 housing crash. Instead of learning anything, she has elected to buy an island.

              Like a well-adjusted adult.

              If she went from being homeless to being able to afford buying an island, that seems pretty well adjusted to me…

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          Gen X is too small to have much political influence. It took Gen Z coming of age to finally have enough people to out vote the boomers. X, Z, and the mindful millennials is a large enough group to make enough noise for enacting change.

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          9 months ago

          Honestly, genXers got brainwashed into thinking that recycling their plastics and and extra 3 miles to the gallon is enough.

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        No other generations had enough influence or power until the last few years. Gen X was always massively outnumbered, and Millennials quite often sided with boomers with some sort of weird Stockholm syndrome. Now with Millennials seemingly cured of their Stockholm syndrome, Gen X still existing, and Gen Z being adults, there are finally enough people to out-vote the boomers.

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          and Millennials quite often sided with boomers with some sort of weird Stockholm syndrome

          wat