Add on top of that a heatwave that won't break until next week and all the general news about Biden and Trump has made me kind of existential dread modeing. What the fuck do we do?

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[–] Red_Sunshine_Over_Florida@hexbear.net 22 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

My boomer dad can be all over the place sometimes. Like he knows the rich are bastards who'll never give us anything but war and poverty but, then he'll say something like climate change is caused by there being too many people on this planet having too many babies. Then he'll say something like, "If I was in charge, the first thing I'd do is make sure everyone in the world had enough to eat." Just contradictory stuff.

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

He sounds salvageable, very tame compared to most boomers I've run into.

[–] Red_Sunshine_Over_Florida@hexbear.net 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I think so too. Trump and Russiagate kind of scrambled him a bit. I think his unmoderated opinion is that Putin is an evil communist who's responsible for Trump, ect, ect. But, he has no time to really get emotionally invested the way MSNBC pmc libs do because he breaks his back for a living and the pain kind of sobers him to how much of a dead end being invested in the political process is. It was even more stark for him growing up in Italy, where the NATO-approved party Democrazia Cristiana ruled over a regime of naked machine-style corruption, backed up by the brute force of the local Mafia. Local people who were communists and spoke out were ostracized, he would say, while the DC bribed you for your vote. It makes for a sort of apathy towards the political process that you don't see as prevalent in America. The big inside joke in Sicily is that the government is corrupt.

Besides that, when you sell him on communist arguments, he'll ask "Ok, what do I do next then", and I don't have an answer because there really is no organized anything in this world that can challenge the power of capital.