• RagingNerdoholic@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    And who, pray tell, voted for the populist shitbags that ushered in the capitist coup that perpetuated fossil fuel and consumerist lifestyles at an accelerating rate and borrowed against their childrens’ and grandchildrens’ futures?

    Carter tried to warn them, but it turns out boomers didn’t like being called out on their shit, so they replaced him with one corporate stooge after another.

    Boomers aren’t entirely to blame, but they are far from blameless.

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      1 year ago

      Rant back on//

      And look at you talk like no one protested in the 1960s about this same stuff during their generation

      https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT51CBN8ppu2aq9IKKyJYO_BtwUjoIM6x1irw&usqp=CAU

      PEOPLE STOOD IN FRONT OF TANKS AND ALLOWED THEMSELVES TO GET RUN OVER AND SET THEMSELVES ON FIRE.

      ONE DUDE EVEN LEFT HIS ARM UP UNTIL IT DIED INTO A LIFELESS STUMP IN PROTEST.

      https://m.jpost.com/omg/meet-the-man-whose-arm-has-been-raised-for-almost-50-years-688399

      you didn’t invent the word ‘protest’. You haven’t even gotten your feet burnt on the word yet.

      Someone before you invented anti establishment songs that were also popular.

      https://www.denvercenter.org/news-center/protest-songs-of-the-60s-and-70s/

      There was definitely an audience.

      If anything : grandma’s days of protest make you look like the compliant one. You’re entirely compliant. Just whiney.watch out you don’t get any ash on your Pajamas what with all your ‘protesting’ online….making ….memes.

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        1 year ago

        Protesting has evolved. Protests of the past, of standing on a street corner with a sign, have repeatedly proved to be a waste of time. We have learned that you must protest with your wallet and by teaching the ignorant. No one responds positively or changes their mind on something because a rando on the street yells something at them and waves a sign in their face. Making a significant impact in the cultural zeitgeist requires a different approach. Like it or not, memes like the one in this post resonate with the younger generations. This is far more effective.

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          1 year ago

          Correct that Protests are supposed to be about motivating everyone in your current situation on what to do.

          What it is not: it is Not blaming and sitting back on your ass while someone does it for you.

          So I disagree this post was motivating. This isn’t even a protest. This is whining at best. it’s non productive shaming at it’s worst.