• DarkCloud@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Fourth turning theory is fashy crap written by a play write and a business fund manager (people with no credentials for historical analysis), worshipped by people like Steve Banon.

    Accordingly it’s totally subjective, a guessing game.

    Truth is: No one can predict what’s going to happen.

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    2 months ago

    Boomers and Gen X lived in a paradise, destroyed it and now complain that things are shit.

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        2 months ago

        Nah, 80s and 90s were paradise too.

        Let’s just go back to those decades and never leave.

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            GenX was also relatively small compared to the boomers.

            I wonder if every generation will blame (maybe correctly) previous generations. So long as things are getting worse, the kids kind of have a valid argument. “Why didn’t you fix this before it got to us?”

            As a millennial, I’ve been doing what I can short of going full vigilante. But in 30 years, they still wouldn’t be wrong to say “it’s still broke though isn’t it?”

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              Gen Z already has some belief that Millennials did nothing but complain. No/not enough progress was made for all the protesting millennials cried for. It looks like Z is going the X apathetic route.

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            2 months ago

            The systems that destroyed our society were created by boomers and Regan

            Which system do you think destroys our society?

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      Boomers and Gen X did exactly the same thing that you’re doing. Nothing. They just let the super rich elite screw the whole world up and now you’re doing the same thing they did. Nothing.

      If you want to act high and mighty you’re not going to change the world by complaining on the internet. You have to stop the super rich.

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        2 months ago

        You have to stop the super rich.

        If I could, I would use this simple way to stop them: ban all parties that support them, nationalize all their beings and “sweeten up” their coffee if they complain too much.

        There’s only one problem: I CAN’T DO NOTHING BECAUSE I’M NOT IN FUCKING POWER

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        Complaining is a tool. Talking is a tool. Leads to acting and organizing. Guillotines don’t spontaneously form from the aether.

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        2 months ago

        Yeah, yeah, 80s and 90s had concentration camps for black people, heard that shit before. Meanwhile no climate crisis, no Trump, no Tiktok, nothing, just some fucking peace.

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    This is bullshit. Boomers, genXers and now millenials have been fighting against wild capitalism for decades, and a lot of them died fighting or are rotting in jail right now.

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    We should just revive everyone who contributed to this dumpster fire and make them fix it before they can go back to being dead.

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      Do we REALLY want zombie Reagan and hundreds of others like that running around again? I dunno about you guys, but I’m so tired of living through Interesting Times ™️ and Unprecedented Events ™️. A zombie apocalypse where they don’t eat our brains, but just fuck up the economy even more doesn’t sound fun.

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        Lmao, yeah I can’t imagine why someone would think that reviving them would make them suddenly want to correct their mistakes. They just got a chance to further be shit.

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          Since we’re just playing necromancer, why not have these zombies live in constant agony wishing for true death and the only way they can achieve it is to undo their legacy work which binds their children.

          The fantasy was already pretty high, may as well lean into it