• Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    8 hours ago

    Geez, here is another issue for which we’ve known about for 40 or so years that requires “urgent Action” for the past 40 years already

    Wake me up when we finally do something

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      5 hours ago

      Boomers have categorically chosen apathy in favor of their own self interests since 1970. By the late 90s, they were a wrecking ball.

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        I disagree. People who live their entire lives being relentless bombarded by consumerist propaganda and pro-capitalist disinformation are not truly free to vote against it, nor were they given the chance. Al Gore cared more about the environment than Bush, but he was still a capitalist that supported car dependency and the military industrial complex.

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          3 hours ago

          Which is why replacing First-past-the-post voting is so important. We need to have more then two options.

          Democrats believe in democracy right? What’s the hold up blue states?

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          3 hours ago

          So you’re absolving “Generation Me” of ever having to think for themselves? The same generation that could have educated themselves for less than the price of new car, and simply chose not to because a high school diploma was enough?

          Millennials were just as heavily, if not more propagandized, and yet, as a cohort, we have skewed far from Baby Boomers (ie Millenials are killing x), while retaining the ability to be critical of the systems we have inherited. We are also far more educated and far more in debt. All as a result of Boomers subsidizing their own welfare on the backs of their children and grandchildren.

          Baby Boomers collectively failed upward, soaked up benefit after benefit while telling themselves that they deserved their station in life, and then pulled up every ladder behind them.

          So, hard disagree.

    • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
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      7 hours ago

      You might as well just take the long nap.

      No ones gonna do anything.

      We’re gonna keep wringing our hands about it, desperately shout time is running out…and watch time run out, then shrug our shoulders and go “Welp, nothing we can do about it now”

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        4 hours ago

        We need to convince billionaires to care. They are the ones who hold all the real political power.

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          3 hours ago

          they dont care about anything but their money and the bunkers where they think they’ll hide during the coming man made disasters

        • umbrella@lemmy.ml
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          4 hours ago

          nah, guilliotines exist.

          we dont actually have to take orders from them.