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You say that but I currently know middle managers from the gen x and millennial generation expecting people to drive into work when they could be running their businesses from home and should be minimalizing the emissions. Grandma didn’t make them do that.
Taylor swift and her private jet are of the millennial timeline.
I don’t know a lot of grandmas with a private jet.
And grandma isn’t providing you all with the plastic bottle waste. She isn’t forcing Coca Cola down your throat. Which btw is still being enjoyed by millenials who still are keeping these giant assholes in business. Grandma didn’t make you do that.
Grandmas aren’t forcing you to drive a combustible engine car.
Grandmas aren’t calling up to make the oil companies dump into the sea.
Grandmas aren’t releasing c8 into all the water infecting everyone just so you can have some non stick floss.
These are current day decisions. They are STILL current day decisions of the current generation in power of decision to continue to use, take advantage of, build on top of or change.
so don’t shuffle off the blame off yourself and your own generation are doing to your grandma for what these fuck faces are continuing to be doing in the current generations running the show. They have their own free will and choice to fuck us all up with their selfish behaviour.
If anything: grandmas may have even taught a few people how to knit. And cook frugal with little food because some even lived through a war. Those are actually sustainable hobbies believe it or not. That’s not something you can ‘attribute’ to current day generations for all the shit they partake in that isn’t sustainable. /rant over.
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.
Rant back on//
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.
Capitalism is to blame. Not individuals or generations..
That’s isn’t what the OP posted. So just sharing some of that blame so they know it.
First, it's a meme. The context is the grandma is of the generation since the meme is a known thing. It's not specifically calling out grandmas. That seems a bit lost on you.
Second, they did make the decisions we are currently in and fought to make it conventional knowledge. They allowed the mechanisms of balance within the government to go so far off the scale that coming back it so daunting I am not sure how it can get there.
And third, it's a joke. Jokes have hints of truths and hints of fiction. They should provocative healthy discussions. It comes off as super aggressive at some meme. No one is attacking you personally by posting this.
If you are pissed at the situation, I understand. I'm pissed too.
If you dish it, take it, hypocrite.
Good talk
Unprompted Attacking people and groups online isn’t discussing or communication. It’s abuse. It’s you. You are you’re problem. find a better therapist.
Attacking? I think it's you that needs the therapy. Angry person.
Fucking swinging for the fences on the prairies.
Ok Boomer
Ok Trump lover. He is after all what your generation allowed into power. Good luck on explaining that one to the future generations.
And depending on who’s doing statistics it was overwhelmingly white millenials voting for trump. Either way you get to wear it for the rest of your life cuz you’re the generation he was president in. It is after all the logic you’re using for everyone else.
And depending on who’s doing statistics it was overwhelmingly white millenials voting for trump. Either way you get to wear it for the rest of your life cuz you’re the generation he was president in. It is after all the logic you’re using for everyone else.
Finally your bias starts to show its true colours.
Lol ok boomer
Ok bigot.
Listen smoogs, untwist your panties a bit. I didn't vote for Trump, but I do know people in my millennial generation that did. I'd call them boomer, too. That's how I take this meme, not as a slight against baby boomers, but the mentality of people that vote in ways that harm us. If you want to blame me and call me bigot for doing everything I can to prevent shit like that, by all means boomer, you're doing a bang up job helping.
Shell is currently releasing pure death into the air and water (biggest oil spill 2010 - Barack Obama was a voted in president at this time ) and nestle charges for water use (flint water disaster 2014 - - Barack Obama was a voted in president at this time) baby formula was 1974 - (Richard Nixon ) and dupont released c8 into water supply in 1984. - (Ronald Reagan).
This could have been reversed any time in the last 60, even 15 yrs.
Calm down, find a better therapist and Get educated.
Just half of who I mentioned were two generations before the boomers. Go get some education already.
Loool triggered ya eh? Imagine weaponizing therapy and education. Just go vote boomer.