Turns out woke wasn't so bad, huh
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I can only have an opinion when Fox News informs me of the new outrageous fad for this week.
Oh the thing professionals all said would happen? That's what they are stunned about? The very thing they were warned would happen if trump did the thing he said he would do.
Old people aren't exactly "finger on the pulse" types
Please stop the generation blaming/shaming. It’s a “divide and conquer tactic”. Also, please notice a LOT of the people at the protests are “old people”. We don’t sit behind keyboards blaming, we actually get out and DO something. And, finally, do some research and look up who voted for MAGA. ✌️☮️
Oh no, are the Boomers finally collectively suffering the consequences of their own collective actions?
What a shame.
Anyway, welcome to the 'you can never retire or afford a house' club along with all your children who've been begging you for the past 20 years to stop voting for policies and politicians who made this current situation inevitable.
This is not a good time to hate on Boomers.
https://www.thecivicscenter.org/blog/youth-voting-in-2024-election
White voters over age 65 supported Harris stronger than white voters 30-45. The most pro Trump group was white voters age 45-65.
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Excellently stated. Thank you.
I just took a couple Ubers. They were driven by retirees as a way to make a little extra cash and get out of the house. Both of them said they would have to quit driving and get another “real” job again if the market continued to tank. This shit rolls downhill…gonna create a job crunch again. People not leaving jobs, no jobs for people entering the marketplace, and companies are going to start crushing labor’s wages and benefits again.
Maybe that IS the end goal. Get old people working so wages get fucked for everyone and the corporate overlords can increase their profit margins from a measly 99% to 99.9% or whatever
And what's the end goal? What's their plan for when those old people die in a fiery crash while driving Doordash? Nobody's having kids anymore and immigration ain't happening so who's gonna take those jobs?
Doesn't matter to them, the rich are isolated from any real repercussions of their behaviours. The older ones probably think they'll be out of the game before things get worse anyway. Short term benefits for them are worth the long term issues for the rest of us, just as always.
Automation, once the population is too small to cover the jobs.
And who’s gonna buy this stuff when nobody has a job?
The true end game is for us poors to all die off and then there's a lot less need for production, and fewer mouths to feed.
It's all moving towards that.
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Every day, I'm further grasping just how fucked we are :)
This isn't fair! I was gambling with those other people's lives!
Where is the foresight? You knew you were voting for instability.
But at least they're stripping the rights of foreigners and women - that's what they voted for, right? Cruelty? Fuck those ones and every other Trump voter. Enjoy your inevitable consequence you bastards.
I know several people that were suppose to retire next year. Looks like they are gonna have to postpone 😂😂
They'll be out of work next year, one way or another.
Don't let them fool u by saying that this is just a correction. A correction needs a catalyst. The catalyst here is the tarriff. Trump created this mess. Rise up. Fight.
You keep saying retirees when I think you mean future walmart door greeters.
My fucking parents are going to end up Wal-Mart greeters and they will not admit, even after everything, that they fucked up voting for Trump.
They'll keep saying it's still a good idea butt just barely executed for years. That's what happened with Brexit in the UK.
If there is one thing I've seen about Republicans and conservatives is that conservatism/Republicanism can never fail, only people can fail conservatism. It's always that it wasn't implemented HARD enough. Or those damn liberals fucked it up somehow, etc....they are even more afield than old school Marxists when it comes to being steeped in a completely ridiculous narrative about economics. Hilariously, so many of the cons think it is THEY who are the hard-nosed realists... 🤣
True, but sadly not unique to conservatism. It's a human condition, lots of psychology involved with self-identity and worldview. See "communism just hasn't been actually implemented properly yet, and the Soviet Union and China were/are actually capitalists pretending to be socialists/communists" for examples on the "opposing" spectrum.
Absolutely, that's why I mention the old school Marxists. :) I have to admit the comparison is not one I've come up with; I'm pretty sure I heard driftglass (of the Professional Left Podcast) reference it several times...
Yeah, it's always ideology first. No argument or evidence can convince them otherwise.
It's obviously Biden's and Obama's fault, they made the stocks go so high in the first place! Not only does that mean they could buy fewer, but it also means they fall more!
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