Isn't it a complete MINDFUCK that the stock market keeps being splashed in our faces as a sign of 'success' meanwhile EVERYTHING around us is steadily degraded: schools, roads, parks, transit, public spaces, healthcare, etc etc etc
Why do we go along with this?
Boomers are going to move into assisted living retirement communities owned by private equity, and all this wealth will be completely stripped out of the population.
We're being priced out of existence. We're being priced out of the freedom to be self-determining people.
I look at average wages, then I look at home prices, apartment rentals.
There is no way this is sustainable.
While standing in line to enter an event at the RNC today, I was assaulted by what appeared to be a member of the pro-Hamas group CODEPINK. A nearby police officer witnessed this assault and I understand they have been arrested.
This appears to be an incident of political
Biden has turned out to be everything we were warned Trump would be: a genocidal monster fueling racist violence and crimes against humanity while imperiling the world with insanely reckless foreign policy decisions.
A list of things that don't exist to people voting for Harris:
- unaffordable healthcare
- homelessness
- the genocide in Palestine
- record US oil drilling under Biden
- police brutality
- rampant censorship
- US state-funded propaganda
- threat of nuclear war
What else?
I don’t particularly like Jill Stein, and I fugging HATE the Green Party, but there’s a decent chance I’m voting green for president in 2024.
You will either understand this rationale, or you won’t.
@albyva
A whole lotta boomers agree with you.
They’re just getting what they want. And they’re happy to pay for it.
They’re going to be dead soon, so the consolidation of wealth doesn’t bother them at all.
Just asked a lib family member how Trump is worse than Biden.
He said "oh, his character is so terrible."
Me: "not his character, which policies of Trump's are worse than Biden's?"
Him: "to be honest, I don't pay that much attention to Biden and don't know his policies."
Boomers are selling the homes they bought in the 1980s, paid off in the 00s, and will use that money to pay for 20 years in a retirement living “community” owned by private equity.
Watch where the money is going.
We should play a game, where we put up a policy, and ask whether it was Kamala or Walz who supported it.
I’ll go first:
AUTHORIZING STRANGLEHOLDS FOR CHILDREN IN SCHOOLS
@girlziplocked
There’s no pathway for working class child to physician.
Physician is a profession rooted in class.
And class interests protect this professional pipeline, and restrict entry into it.
For argument’s sake:
Let’s pretend Jill Stein wins a plurality of votes on Nov 2024.
Let’s pretend she gets 40% of the popular vote, and the necessary number of electoral college votes to be elected US President.
Then what?
In elementary school, in the Midwest, USA, we read *multiple* books about the holocaust of the Jews in WWII.
Can you guess how many lessons we had about the genocide and holocaust of the people indigenous to the US?
I have no comrades, no like-minded, IRL.
I’m usually the only one. Often the only one, speaking up in a room, risking my job, risking relationships.
Everyone is mind-numbed and complacent.
Oh, the pearl-clutching at the mere whiff of dissent!
I’ve never been shamed by a Trump voter for not voting for Trump. I honestly can’t think of a single time.
Can’t say the same for the democratic voters. Vote-shaming is a whole ministry.
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I don’t care if people get mad when I say it, but your average boomer is one of the biggest obstacles to local organizing.
The status quo worked for them, and they’re deeply invested in maintaining it.
And there’s a lot of them.
5 years ago, could you imagine yourself arguing with democrats/liberals/progressives that
- Arming Nazis is bad?
- Nuclear war is bad?
I honestly couldn't, and now I feel foolish that I didn't see this coming.
Have you ever noticed how propaganda works on people who aren’t paying that much attention?
There’s a vague attitude or narrative that dissuades busy people from looking into something, and effectively keeps them from discovering certain facts or truth.
“Thank you for walking through neighborhoods with your terrorist scarf.”
A Harvard graduate student wearing a keffiyeh, was subjected to Islamophobic harassment on campus by Eve Gerber, wife of Jason Furman, professor at Harvard's Kennedy School and a former Obama Admin advisor.
Remember, none of this was about Hamas. Its about a canal, off-shore oil/gas, beachfront condos, new settlements-a land grab.
Get those Zionists out of Palestine.
#FreePalestine