“Epstein Class” term is courtesy of
As I predicted, they switched to blaming Millenials. Eventually, it will be Gen Z’s turn.
What exactly was I supposed to do to stop all this? I’m no fortunate son.
billionaires are at fault … while we’re all fighting, they keep getting richer
Yes, I agree. The billionaire class=the epstein class.
I think that the epstein class is on another tier, but they are similar. The richest are obviously billionaires, but the most powerful (because of money or politics) tend to fall into the epstein class. Someone like many US senators etc. do not have billions, but they have a lot of power that makes them (as well as having enough money) in the the epstein class, being effectively untouchable by the courts because they can delay the courts long enough for it to not matter.
Politicians are much lower down on the food chain: they have to at least appear to be taking a side.
The billionaire just buys every side.
I disagree here. They don’t actually have to do that. Sure, politicians take all of the money, but they are the (relatively) few in power to actually legislate things into being. It’s like a filter for billionaire money in a sense. Billionaires need the US congress in their purse in order to push legislation.
Because billionaires need congress to pass legislation in order to keep them from harm, congress is beholden to the billionaire class. They are one and the same in the epstein class.
Exactly. It’s the people who have enough money to get away with being in the files.
Two circles with a lot of overlap.
As a Millennial, I blame the Epstien Class AND the Boomers.
right?! the epstein class can’t do shit without the votes and support from the boomers.
Then you have succumbed to propaganda from the Epstein class.
The Epstein class and their supporters which, by and large, includes boomers.
It included boomers, yes. And it included every other age group by fucking millions. 30 million women voted for him, too, in spite of all the rape allegations. I don’t get Lemmy’s obsession with blaming every last thing on boomers. The boomers are dying off in droves but the problems persist. Why? Because every so called generation has enough complicity to keep this shit going.
You vote matters, and therefor how people voted and continue to vote matters. Honestly, Gen Z is on my Shitlist for voting Trump back in.
Who raised them?
Google says GenX and Boomers, mostly.
Millennial are raising alpha mostly now.
Apparently Jake Paul, shamefully.
Given most millennials are under 36 (if you draw the line at 1990) their kids are not really old enough to vote on average, Gen Xers are better than boomers but it’s so fucking far from a lot.
We live what we learn. These are ancestral patterns.
Yeah that doesn’t jive anymore in the era of smartphones and social media unfortunately.
Parents are overworked in increasing wealth inequality.
School becomes a necessary daycare. Less time with parents, sadly. More time learning bad habits from peers.
Combine with easily access internet access. And if parents are strict they’re accused also of being helicopter parents bubble-wrapping their kids from reality. Connect the dots. Most saying it’s easy aren’t actually parents themselves.
Ah yes, I remember in history being taught about the Gaul invasion of Rome being promoted by Gaelic Psyops’ app ChikChok. /s
That’s karma. Feel more clever than those who came before, find new ways to make the same root mistakes, curse the kids for not being grateful, not understanding our real struggles. No wonder kids check out, decide to sell themselves, drugs, some sort of “favors” while giving a fat middle finger to the 'rents and “can’t/don’t” have time for them. I was that kid. So were my parents. And theirs. The parent still in my life is bitter, angry, narcissistic. And after some hard life lessons, I realized how blessed I am. I caught glimpses of their trauma. One day a simple blurted truth and refused to speak of it again. And I suffered the same trauma by their hands. And I understood. Forgave. Loved anyway, from afar, when necessary. And now. Now as the light dims in their eyes, I realize how most actions, beliefs were from their own trauma. I recognize the impossible choices that had to be made. And I am so fucking grateful. Because it was still hard. But just a little bit less worse because of those impossible choices.
And I see your bitterness, probably from some sort of trauma. I wish you healing. Especially if you have kids.
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It’s because a lot of your comments need replies. Maybe consider eating your own ass?
I feel bad for your kids. If they’re fucked up, it’s probably your fault.
Sorry you don’t like replying to you on a public forum. If you don’t like that, don’t post or comment.
I’ve always considered millenials to be 1981-1995.
1985?! Nah there’s no way those of us early 80s-ers are Gen-X
I don’t believe in hard cut-offs, but I reckon it starts at approx 1980, and ends at approx “remembers 9/11”
I’ve got a hell of a lot more in common with Gen X than millennials. 1980 is way too early.
That’s one guy making his case for it. Nobody uses his metric. Nice try trying push your narrative by source dropping in hopes that nobody actually reads the link.
If you’d actually read it, you’d see that it’s used by the entire Joint Center for Housing Studies.
Millennials don’t exist: https://youtu.be/-HFwok9SlQQ
Feels weird to cut it off before the millennium.
Honestly, Gen Z is on my Shitlist for voting Trump back in.
Boomers did that shit. Not us.
I’m sorry to break it to you but Gen Z saw the largest shift towards conservatives in the youth demographic ever recorded. 7% more women 18-29 voted for Trump in 2024 than in 2020, and 15% more men 18-29. The youth voter turnout also decreased by as much as 10%. LINK TO SOURCE
This is true, but it’s also true that the internet did it to them because nobody ever held any technology companies accountable while there was still time. Every time I hear some idiot talk about how the dumbing down of technology was necessary because normal people don’t want to have to understand technology to use it, I remind them that not understanding technology is 90% of what got us to this point.
I can blame both, with more weighting to the billionaires of course. Only thing I suppose is that blaming boomers is generalising too much. Its a subset of boomers who vote to protect their exponentially increasing property values
Let’s blame the Reich people, k?
FTFY
The thing that is our fault is that we haven’t fixed things yet
With all that money we earned with those wages that stagnated and positions that were never freed up. Got it.
Or we could have voted for all those millennial politicians, for the past 20 years, to push forward the policies we have been asking for.
