Well if it’s working for the Ukraine. …
they’re gung ho until they have to sleep in a tent
Send ICE
Silly child, we send the young and poor to die. Welcome to Humanity.
Complaining about age discrimination? OKAY
welcome to the US Army, private.
It would also solve the global birth rates declining, just saying…
5 problems at once. 😁
And they all seem to know so goddamn much, I’m sure they’d be really effective on the battlefield.
lol old people hate. Because blaming any other group for the world’s problems is very bad…. It’s as if the boomer generation was obligated to create utopia; not any generation previous or since. Just them. And when the last of them have died off, the youngins will scapegoat whoever is old in that time. So Millennials, you might want to get your excuses ready; you didn’t leave the world a better place for them…
The baby boomer generation holds 51.1% of the total populations wealth. They watched Regan rise to power, strip new deal legislation, neuter unions, kill millions with the AIDS crisis, and funnel cocaine into minority neighborhoods. In response to all that, the baby boomers… elected him to a second term. You all have had a literal lifetime to take that wealth and fight for the future generations to have a better life. Instead of doing that, the vocal majority told ALL OF US (Gen X, Gen Y, Millenials, Gen Z and now Gen Alpha) that we are entitled little shits who are lazy, and need to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps.
If you want the old people hate to stop, maybe look at your peers and get them to realize the mess that has been made fell largely on your shoulders to clean up, and you did nothing.
Maybe you’ve spent your whole life protesting and promoting progressive candidates. I dont know you. I only know the statistics and history about the generations. If you have been fighting for progress your whole life, thats great and I’m happy you did that. but understand when people say things like the OP, it isnt directed at those who tried to make a positive change, it’s directed at the majority who sat around and let fascism happen.
I’ve heard stats presented that way all my life, usually in terms of “immigrants”, “Jews”, “Catholics” , etc. You want to look up some stats? Look at voter turnout amongst young people. Or the population of the United States vs available land, 1960’s to present. Or look up post war economic booms and how they affect things.
Here we are, with decades of low voter turnout, a waning economy that is completely gamed not by an age group but by the wealthy, and too many people to allow the old ways of “growth” to work anymore.
And somehow amidst that we’ve decided that part of our very identity is the range of years in which we were born. Who decided what a boomer or millennial or gen X/Z/Alpha is? Was it a consensus amongst social scientists? Or was it something more useful for marketing strategy?
I reject your comment outright. Everything you said was perpetuated (or not) by the entirety of people living in that/this time. We are all part of this world and othering a group of people, i.e. scapegoating others does jackshit for solving our problems.
Ah yes, we’re all just one collective! Of course! No one has any defining traits that would make them vote one way or another. Were all a hivemind without any characteristics and its the young peoples fault for having no faith in the current government system that was completely fucking destroyed by Regan’s policies. It is the fault of the people who were not even born yet and have no wealth, living paycheck to paycheck. It is the fault of the single mother with 3 jobs thay she couldn’t vote. It is the fault of the 2nd generational immigrant that they got deported to a county they’ve never set foot in. It is definitely not the older generations fault for not standing up to this shit while it was being set up, its the people who werent even a semen in their daddy’s ballsacks fault
but actually were all one group and have no differences, so its really no ones fault. this was inevitable and could not have been prevented.
You skipped Gen X. Typical.
Gen X owes you nothing
Slacker.
I mean, with modern drone armies, there’s less and less need to restrict the draft to they young…
This is exactly the time, send them off to die for the bullshit they voted for.
Let them show us how “lift yourself up by your bootstraps” work
Dude why do you think they had Vietnam?
Wasn’t enough houses, colleges, and jobs for all of the boomers that were coming of age.
Cull the herd a bit. Get the ones that couldn’t afford to avoid it into the military. Problem solved.
Not enough? Have a domestic war on “drugs”, selectively target blacks and Latinos, and give them free housing in a state or federal prison.
Nah Vietnam was because there cold war was too cold and that’s not good for military industrial complex. 60k people is not really enough to make a huge difference in housing.
puts blunt down coz shit just got too real
There is a compelling argument to partially revert to the days of warrior kings. Every government who wants war has to be conscripted to fight on the front lines.
Is this community no longer going to be about posting shitposts? Because if I want political posts then I can get that from the many politics communities that already exist, or by reading newspapers.
Seriously, I love the actual shitposts posted here but most of the time it feels like I’ve accidentally subscribed to USA politics or something
Can you imagine how horrific it would be for the sergeants to wrangle a squad or platoon of boomers and actually get anything accomplished?
