4 ms·

This is only going to grow more extreme in the years to come. We finally have a generation in this country that actually gives a shit. DoorDash didn't invent ba

This is only going to grow more extreme in the years to come. We finally have a generation in this country that actually gives a shit. DoorDash didn't invent bad labor practices. They weren't even part of the first thousand companies to bilk workers out of tips. But now we have a critical mass of people who notice and care and are even willing to act (or at least be outspoken). The apathetic and irrational reign of the boomers is finally, finally coming to an end.

frankbreetz 7y ago
I hope you are correct, and I hope we are reaching the critical point of old people die and young people coming of voting age that we can elect some politicians that care about the voters and not the donors. They say politics is like a pendulum and it seems like we are all the way on the right and it should start going back to the left any day now.
- thatoneuser 7y ago
  "We are all the way on the right" As someone who is not right, I couldn't disagree more. No major right legislation has been passed and the right hasn't had the same majority power that Obama had since Obama. I think what's currently going on is the left politicians started going way left and people pulled back support. If anything the pendulum is currently swinging towards the right.
- jhayward 7y ago
  I'll just say, "I hope you old people die soon, please die faster" (paraphrase) is quite a hateful thing to say. Especially since roughly half those older people you want to die actually agree with your preferred policies.
  - frankbreetz 7y ago
    This is what we are up against: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-48964736 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-48964736 The future is bleak and the only alternative is a paradigm shift, I don't think the older generation is coming around soon on this
    - jhayward 7y ago
      The mistake here is attributing a particular set of policies to a generation whose only common attribute is when they were born. 'Old' people are not the problem and you will be quite surprised at how many 'young' people have problematic policy views as well. And the lack of shame at wishing for people's death is alarming and repugnant.
      - frankbreetz 7y ago
        Old people are the problem: https://news.gallup.com/poll/234314/global-warming-age-gap-younger-americans-worried.aspx https://news.gallup.com/poll/234314/global-warming-age-gap-y... Maybe it would have been better to say, the younger generation needs to be better represented by politicians as they are the ones who will be suffering. There is only one way this will happen, I am not asking for anything other then nature taking its course. Maybe I was somewhat crass, but wanting a culture shift in a very natural way is neither alarming nor repugnant. If older generations didn't go away, we would still have slaves and society would be run by kings, and countless other out dated policies. The baby boomer generation is larger then most so they have more votes and there out dated views are keeping us from being the best we could be.
        jhayward 7y ago
        Voting-age people 55 and younger (the youngest boomer is 56) have outnumbered people 56 and over for a long time. And in fact, showed up at the polls in greater numbers in 2016 and 2018 as well. [1] Your disrespect for their humanity is indeed alarming and repugnant, as well as just plain misguided. If we were to accept your claim that a "generation" can be to blame for something, today's politics and policy fall squarely on the younger ones based on their numbers.
listenallyall 7y ago
Yeah, those baby boomers never protested against anything!
- phil248 7y ago
  Of course we are talking generationally here. Plenty of boomers bucked the trend, but by and large they defended the status quo, moved the nation economically to the right, locked everyone up for minor crimes, and just absolutely devastated the environment, to name just a few of their great accomplishments. Under the boomers, labor unions have all buy gone extinct. And for the record, the largest protests in US history have occurred amidst the rise of the millennials (Iraq war protests and Women's March).
Invictus0 7y ago
What makes you think gen z or millennials are less apathetic than previous generations?

frankbreetz 7y ago

I hope you are correct, and I hope we are reaching the critical point of old people die and young people coming of voting age that we can elect some politicians that care about the voters and not the donors. They say politics is like a pendulum and it seems like we are all the way on the right and it should start going back to the left any day now.

thatoneuser 7y ago
"We are all the way on the right" As someone who is not right, I couldn't disagree more. No major right legislation has been passed and the right hasn't had the same majority power that Obama had since Obama. I think what's currently going on is the left politicians started going way left and people pulled back support. If anything the pendulum is currently swinging towards the right.
jhayward 7y ago
I'll just say, "I hope you old people die soon, please die faster" (paraphrase) is quite a hateful thing to say. Especially since roughly half those older people you want to die actually agree with your preferred policies.
- frankbreetz 7y ago
  This is what we are up against: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-48964736 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-48964736 The future is bleak and the only alternative is a paradigm shift, I don't think the older generation is coming around soon on this
  - jhayward 7y ago
    The mistake here is attributing a particular set of policies to a generation whose only common attribute is when they were born. 'Old' people are not the problem and you will be quite surprised at how many 'young' people have problematic policy views as well. And the lack of shame at wishing for people's death is alarming and repugnant.
    - frankbreetz 7y ago
      Old people are the problem: https://news.gallup.com/poll/234314/global-warming-age-gap-younger-americans-worried.aspx https://news.gallup.com/poll/234314/global-warming-age-gap-y... Maybe it would have been better to say, the younger generation needs to be better represented by politicians as they are the ones who will be suffering. There is only one way this will happen, I am not asking for anything other then nature taking its course. Maybe I was somewhat crass, but wanting a culture shift in a very natural way is neither alarming nor repugnant. If older generations didn't go away, we would still have slaves and society would be run by kings, and countless other out dated policies. The baby boomer generation is larger then most so they have more votes and there out dated views are keeping us from being the best we could be.
      - jhayward 7y ago
        Voting-age people 55 and younger (the youngest boomer is 56) have outnumbered people 56 and over for a long time. And in fact, showed up at the polls in greater numbers in 2016 and 2018 as well. [1] Your disrespect for their humanity is indeed alarming and repugnant, as well as just plain misguided. If we were to accept your claim that a "generation" can be to blame for something, today's politics and policy fall squarely on the younger ones based on their numbers.

listenallyall 7y ago

Yeah, those baby boomers never protested against anything!

phil248 7y ago
Of course we are talking generationally here. Plenty of boomers bucked the trend, but by and large they defended the status quo, moved the nation economically to the right, locked everyone up for minor crimes, and just absolutely devastated the environment, to name just a few of their great accomplishments. Under the boomers, labor unions have all buy gone extinct. And for the record, the largest protests in US history have occurred amidst the rise of the millennials (Iraq war protests and Women's March).

Invictus0 7y ago

What makes you think gen z or millennials are less apathetic than previous generations?