Honestly, this just exposes how bad the author is at math.
Like congratulations, you’ve heard of a linear trend line, surely all systems can be modelled with nothing more than an unchanging straight line right?
I hope nothing but the worst for Tesla, but this kind of guffawing at the most basic possible extrapolation just makes the author look dumb.
Why is stolen in quotations in the original headline?
It is objective fact, not an opinion someone said.
Fuck Russia straight to hell for what they’ve done.
“the majority of boomers that voted to support conservative politicians since 1980”
This is inaccurate again.
Boomers is a generation of people, not Americans. The majority of boomer aged people around the world did not vote for conservative politicians in the way you’re describing.
the majority of American boomers didn’t even vote for them. Are you sure that Republicans have held more offices, for longer, then Democrats? Are you sure it’s not just that they’ve been more effective at accomplishing their goals? Even if that is the case, given voter turnout rates, it’s not the majority of that generation, just of who turned out to vote.
This is sort of how discussion works. You’re also doing this. You’re saying rich people instead of “politically active rich people supplying money to XYZ, while ignoring those born into money and disconnected or lottery winners, or whatever other issue with syntax I can dig up.
No, it’s fundamentally different. You can never change being a boomer, you can change whether or not you’re rich.
They’re happy to live in the GOPs alternate reality rather than face the reality of what they’ve done.
Your own sentence points out the issue. You yourself instinctually scoped it down to those living in the GOPs reality, which is a tiny fraction of the billions of boomers.
At the end of the day, you have to ask what the purpose of blame is. Is it so that you can vent? That’s human, but helpful only to you, and only in the extremely short term while it feels satisfying. In the long term constantly ascribing blame just makes you bitter and makes you see calculated ill intent where there’s just chance, systemic effects, or ignorance.
Blame is useful as a tool only so much as it can actually effect future change in the world.
And baming an entire generation for ‘being conservative’ evidently isn’t accomplishing anything given how conservative gen z and alpha are. This isn’t the kind of blame anyone can draw any meaningful lessons from. Systemically reducing wealth and class inequality is.
Yes it is the logic you’re using.
That logic is called “collective punishment” or collective blame, and it’s you blaming all boomers for what a subset of them actually did.
If all millenials turned up to vote, or even just the majority, we wouldn’t have Trump in office, therefore millenials are to be blamed as a whole for him being elected.
Don’t feel like you deserve to be blamed for that? Great. Neither do boomers.
And that’s on top of the fact that you’re ignoring multiple factors:
boomers started out farther left and then drifted farther right as they aged, same effect is true for millenials, we haven’t seen how far right this generation will go yet. And on a percentage basis, they don’t even skew that differently, they just have always had the tyranny of the plurality available to them since they’re the biggest generation, so when their generation shift right, everything did, an effect not true for millenials or gen z.
millenials and boomers were raised in different environments, with different pressures and values, hell boomers are largely the result of parents that just went through two world wars. That alone will have generational effects on families.
Even just in terms of information, would you be going to the library, reading books, and paying for newspaper subscriptions to replace the internet, or would you be out playing and hanging out with friends?
Without the Internet and your parents raising you, would you have fallen to Fox news or Sky news or The Telegraph, just like them?
If you were born in boomer times you would not be the person you are right now, and it’s wild to blame all of them when half of them were literally deliberately manipulated by corporations, in a time with little awareness that that could be happening.
Blaming the Boomers overall accomplishes nothing. It is at best too broad a category to actually learn anything from or make any meaningful change.
The rich upper class however, has continuously fucked over Boomers, GenX, Millenials, and now Gen Z. They are the actual subset of people to blame, because a) they have the power to change the systems we live in, and b) they are by and large (though still not universally) the ones who have chosen to keep perpetuating the system.
Lmfao, “progress”
If you want a vacuous word then buy a dictionary or a sign that says “progress”.
If you want a real thing that tangibly benefits a real person, I’m listening.
Yes ,millenials elected Trump twice, because your generation was alive when he was elected.
That’s the logic your using to ascribe every previous bad decision to every boomer. By your logic, you are to blame for Trump being elected.
Again, it’s not boomers who did this to you, it’s the rich.
Yes, which is why we not to draw a line in the sand and demand no more building of data centers.
No more resources for data centres.
It’s fucking insane that we are pumping trillions into replacing human workers when we can’t even provide everyone with food, housing, and healthcare.
These companies need to be stopped.
Who elected Trump?
By your logic, you did.
Because literally everyone older than us didn’t do this to us. The rich upper class of them did, just like the rich upper class of young tech bros are screwing us over now.
It’s never been a generational issue, it’s always been a class issue.
Plus, the wave of anti-boomer hate is literally a massive marketing campaign paid for by the former head of Blackstone, all to get the young generation of Americans to hate social security so it could be run by private capital.
He wrote in his diary that he wanted $1B for himself.
Not like in a fanciful, thought experiment way, in a that was his actual personal goal way.
So he wanted to hoard 10,000 six figure (100k) salaries for himself.
Why is he allowed to walk free in society? Why is someone with a goal like that not immediately thrown in prison?
You wanna know why we can’t have nice things? It’s not because of boomers, it’s because we allow rich assholes like these two to openly rob us of the fruits of our labour.
Or maybe I do and you don’t get to fucking claim a monopoly on how people make analogies just because you lost someone.
Heroin addicts are often some of the most able to recognize the problems with heroin.
And I’m pointing out how that is too broad a brush to be meaningful
People who say this never lived in a world without social media.
Social media didn’t improve anything. It’s an outrage machine that wastes trillion of hours of people’s lives.
No, it’s not like drugs at all.
Drugs have existed alongside for all of human evolution. Social media and smartphones are a brand new technology optimized to exploit you.
Also, we have extremely strict regulations on legal drugs and would not accept the effects of social media as a side effect.
Adults have lots of alternatives. The problem is with social media.
Start counting tech giants and financial services in your trade calculations you deceitful little bitches.
There is no trade deficit. The US exploits the entire fucking world through Tech and Finance, and then whines that they intentionally prioritized tech and finance over manufacturing for decades.
You want to go back to manufacturing everything yourselves, fine, the rest of the world can go back to running their own finance systems and regulating their own tech companies.
Richest country in the world whines that it’s not rich enough.
The Wikipedia article on infrasound has one US weapons expert quoted as saying there’s no reliable evidence of it causing nausea, yet the original discovery of Infrasound was from a French researcher who’s whole team was nauseous and they were able to trace it back to a low frequency motor that was resonating with the building. They published a paper on it in Science in 1968 called “Infrasound” which is literally where the word infrasound comes from.