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yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49313444 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49313444 not just damaged, damaged permanently, like everything e
by ck2 2mo ago
yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49313444 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49313444
not just damaged, damaged permanently, like everything else this administration is burning to the ground in our country and just making it someone else's problem to rebuild over the next CENTURY
- mnky9800n 2mo agoBoomer politics has always been about me and not thee.
- WarmWash 2mo agoYou'd be hard pressed to find anyone who votes against their interests.
- BLKNSLVR 2mo agoIronically, it's usually the opposite, but they've been tricked into thinking it's in their interests. Copying what someone else said here once... gestures vaguely to everything
- WarmWash 2mo agoI generally find that that idea comes from ignorance of "the other side" rather than the reality of the situation. People on the left and right are incredibly ignorant of what the other side actually wants and is doing. Half the media would go bankrupt if that changed.
- roumenguha 2mo agoPeople have both personal and social interests; the latter can overcome the former in a system that people can trust. (Not saying that we have that right now, or ever have)
- bequanna 2mo agoGenerations before Boomers crafted policy that considered the future beyond them (children and grandchildren). Boomers do not follow that tradition.
- tialaramex 2mo agoActually a key element of modern Republican strategy is figuring out exactly how to ensure their base vote against their interests. In some ways the distinguishing difference for the Democrats is that they haven't proved to be very good at it. "We should fund somebody else's genocide" is against your interest and turns out that selling it as "We're protecting Jews" didn't work very well in their primaries. Tens of millions of idiots voted for Donald Trump, a wealthy rapist who they knew wanted to steal from them and destroy their country, of course they're voting against their own interests.
- BLKNSLVR 2mo agoYou don't need the (stupid) word Boomer in there. I usually find usage of that word is a good indicator that the argument isn't well thought out enough to be worth reading. It's an "I want easy answers" word.