The point is to create a rule that they can selectively enforce.
What if they’re a homeless boomer? An unmovable object means an irresistible force.
At least add pregnant women so you’re not a complete dick.
But honestly, fuck this noise.
This is so ridiculous I hope it’s fake.
The anti-property tax propaganda is from the real estate hoarding corporate owners. As usual, these anti-tax wingnuts latch on to “why should I pay property tax (insert selfish reason here)” when the real reason is the real estate hoarding companies don’t want to pay property taxes on all the properties they’ve hoarded and are likely sitting empty. The same properties they used to price people out of homebuying, the same ones they used to increase rent super high because you can’t afford a home and will own nothing.
And of course anti-tax wingnuts don’t care that property taxes pay for schools, police, fire services,etc. (ain’t got no kids so why should I pay for school? My house has never burned down. Who needs cops when I got a Smith and Wesson?) and those things will still have to be paid for via some kind of tax, so in the end they still pay but the absentee owners get a huge tax break.
In my town benches are the recreational place for teenagers. What are teens/young people supposed to do?
Spend their parents money or get fucked
Looks like a private sign posted on private property. Can be ignored.
What about the younger handicap’s? Are they all screwed because of those stinking Boomers? One day in the distant future we’ll need to do something about those Boomers. /s
Surely, that sign is more expensive than any sort of additional maintenance cost from people using your bench…?
I doubt this is about bench maintenance and more about giving and excuse to chase homeless people and kids away from the area. In other places they just use bench designs that are uncomfortable or make it impossible to lay down.
It also mentions citizens so presumably they can chase away anyone who doesn’t look like a citizen
Ah, well that’s just fucking lovely. So, presumably they’re legally required to put a bench there, but they would also rather not have anyone actually exist there…
I think we may have bigger fish to fry these days; billionaires love it when little people fight amongst themselves. It’s high comedy because in the mean time they’re well on their way to owning everything.
I disagree wholeheartedly. This is a dumb exclusionary policy being fairly pointed out, not ageism.
I’ll explain it with a comparision of the language used.
The language used for benches like this in my country, Australia: “Priority seating. Please stand for seniors and handicapped people”.
Priority, based on needs. Anyone can use it otherwise.
The language used in this sign: “Benches are for seniors are handicapped citizens only”
Exclusionary, based on privilege and needs. If you are old and infirm and a citizen ONLY YOU may ever use this bench, and if you’re not a citizen (tourist, asylum seeker, migrant worker) you can fuck off regardless of your needs.
This is not a subtle distinction. This is language used to assert a hierarchy and exclude underclasses, and it’s embedded into every aspect of your society without most people even noticing because they’ve never seen different.
I don’t disagree with you. My point is simply that in the US right now there’s a concerted effort to keep the citizenry in a frenzy of angry finger pointing to distract us from the fact that we are being robbed blind by the “Epstein class”. The issues are real, but these are relatively small issues in comparison. Those folks pay actual money to keep us doing this shit and it works. In the US we have a desperate need to understand that this is engineered, and the engineers are laughing their asses off at the screaming rabble.
You’re not wrong… But the crossover age range of the vast majority of billionaires and seniors is a damned circle, it’s both a class and age thing simultaneously. Boomers are usually defined as those born between 1946 and 1964, so that age range would be 62-80 as of 2026.
Nearly half of the 3,323 billionaires worldwide in 2023 were between 50 and 70 years old. Moreover, more than 40 percent were above 70 years, whereas around 10 percent were below 50 years.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/621046/age-distribution-of-billionaires-globally/And that ignores the much larger number of them that are under a billion but still well on their way up towards it. In practicality, there’s little difference between 100 million and a billion despite it being 90% less.
Of those mentioned between 50 and 70 years old, the ones up to 61 are Gen X.
Also the trillionaire is Gen X.
I have seen so many boomers going to the front of demonstrations to make the police hold back their batons.
It’s not a generational issue, it’s a media bombardment of manufactured issues with a generational spin. In that picture we should be angry at not having enough benches for everybody instead of blaming the beneficiaries of that dumb sign.
Pitting racism doesn’t work so well with left-leaning audiences, so the billionaires try with ageism which is not so frowned upon. No demographic is without a wedge to exploit.
Also against homeless people, which everyone, even poor people with some sort of housing looks down upon.
Went canvassing for the first time today. So many seniors living in shitty homes. Fixed income at $900 and rent is still going up while no jobs exist for miles. We cant single out a generation and just blame them while material conditions worsen everywhere.
is that rural, lcol areas. we still have 1 story homes in our pretty expensive col area.
Kids don’t play outside anymore. Also Why are there kids outside!!!
You can tell that you live in a society that’s about to totally collapse when you see signs like this.
Some of Gen X is elderly now, too.
Are you saying only boomers can be disabled?
They’re saying it’s absurd to try to stop anyone from using a public bench
Or what? You get a ticket if you’re not old enough? If you have a problem with not enough benches for everyone, maybe just make more benches? Not like they are expensive.
“Oh, sorry, I didn’t see the notice. Maybe it should be more obvious.”
$1500 plus installation and ongoing cleaning and maintenance, plus each one probably adds to insurance.
Better use of tax revenue than hiring another cop, though. In fact they could afford more benches if they fired a cop, that would be a good trade.
Whenever a city says they don’t have the money, suggest they fire a cop.
Or suggest they don’t spend money they don’t have on flock mass surveillance cameras
