dRLY [none/use name]

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Cake day: August 14th, 2021

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  • I am just done with all the Boomers and Gen-X folks being condescending about Millennials and Gen-Z being more supportive of options left of Liberal. Get hit with “you just don’t understand what it was like living in the Cold War. And I don’t think you would support them if you were around for Vietnam and constant threat of nuclear war” (or some version of how much chaos existed in the Cold War like we haven’t lived through basically the same shit and more along with them).

    Those same people will talk about how they protested Vietnam, nukes, and were so active (along with “you will get more conservative when you’re older”) in other protests like Civil Rights and Women’s Rights. Maybe even say some shit like “I didn’t sell-out, I bought-in” when pressed about why they became their parents. This doesn’t mean that very broad generalizations of gens is correct. But there are some broad sections of every gen that are large enough to be the “symbol” of those gens. Millennials and Gen-Z will be known to Alpha and (I am guessing) Beta based on similar observations. So it really matters that we need to try to be better. I don’t care what the older gens try to “symbolize” us as, because it is how much we fail those future gens that matters.






  • It also helps that (I think) two of the resistance groups are communist/socialist. So it would be worthwhile for OP to study those groups and their contribution to the struggle now and in the past. Everyone knows Hamas (seeing how basically all media paints them as the whole of Palestinian revolution) and should be made more aware of really all of them. Might at least be good starting point and better show how shared efforts are needed to fight imperialism.





  • I think that the pro-privatization of all gov ran departments have been making sure to defund and overwork the staff of those departments/services in order to have shit like this and the drops in literacy. That way they can get mass support for removing all services/departments to cheers. Just like how they have constantly been trying to ditch the USPS because it “isn’t profitable” (even though it shouldn’t be treated as a for-profit “business”). Or like how they make sure stuff like 9/11 or other “terrorist attacks” scare the masses to strip rights and over-fund the MIC.