Same story. One year ago. That and stopping drinking are some of the best choices I’ve made in a long time.
I still use reddit occasionally for its smallest communities where I know I’m still interacting with humans. I assume the top posts are all bot posts with bots flaming bots in the comments. Everyone’s time is worth more than that.
That’s great that AIPAC had a backup plan
Cerrainly not war on this scale.
WW1 was trenches and mustard gas.
Now world leaders can nuke an Arby’s an easy as they can order Arby’s on Doordash.
That’s gotta create an underlying sense of “well, we have it, why not use it?”
The recent Israel-Iran conflict is a perfect example of this. The initial attack accomplished nothing (set their nuclear program back by what, months?) and the response was equally meaningless.
Ro Khanna, Hakeem Jeffries and of course Nancy Pelosi.
They’re acting as close to a controlled opposition as ever before.
When you’re backed by AIPAC, you don’t have to ever give up.
If performative ethics were an Olympic sport…
Well, modern day eurocentrists are weird people.
Interestingly eurocentrists often refer to Alexander the Great as taking over “the world” even though he only took over Europe and the Middle East (which is what they saw as “the world” at the time). His troops abandoned him almost immediately upon entering what is now modern day Punjab (Pakistan/India).
Glad you have a resource to refute this colonial era drivel / brain rot.
When home is relatively cold and only borderline habitable, taking your chances with going out to sea is an understandable instinct.
Capitalism is important but it is a downstream effect of a society that does not prioritize egalitarian values.
A lot of the issues that hyper capitalism has caused can trace their nexus back to Reagan, who had majority support from Boomers at the time and whose policies have disproportionately enriched Boomers at the expense of future generations.
Even more recently a majority of Boomers have supported Trump, who appears to be accelerating the “sell out the public’s future for private riches now” ideology.
Unfortunately for us and them, this will be their legacy. Many of us are waiting eagerly for them to step away from positions of prominence in key institutions so that the rebuilding process can begin, if it’s not already too late.
I’m aware. In ancient hunter gatherer societies elders often accepted death gracefully once their care needs became a burden on the tribe. They knew that their final purpose was to look out for the greater good.
Things changed with the advent of civilization and especially modern medicine. Modern society has minimal if any comfort with death. If anything it fights it to the point of embracing the unnatural.
Boomers have been a burden for some time now. That doesn’t mean they have to disappear nor are they the only generation in human history that has had a negative impact. But it’s notable to the point that an asterisk will be put next to their era. They inherited, in many ways, a world of plenty (relative peace and abundance) and have left us with a world of scarcity (whether artificial or real).
That does not mean there aren’t absolutely incredible people that are a part of this generation. But collectively, they have either actively or passively allowed institutions to be steered towards complicity with mass suffering and that will not be soon forgotten.
I think Millenials, Gen Z and Gen Alpha are or will be better, especially with regard to parenting self awareness, but the reality is boomers have left us with a world where having children is financially unfeasible so it won’t matter. But we can follow up in a few decades and see where things are at. I think Boomers will certainly be remembered a certain way (collectively).
Doubtful. The boomers are uniquely self serving as a group and have a sort of cruelty brain rot bug that may or may not be lead poisoning.
Many are obsessed with entrenching themselves within institutions, creating a poor work life balance (while blaming the rest of us for not sacrificing as much) leading to fragile interpersonal relationships that are centered around ‘keeping up with the Joneses’ rather than creating a meaningful sense of community.
Most younger generations blame boomers for having a good life and then promptly shutting the door in their children’s faces.
We have survived 500,000 years as a species because past generations cared about the world they left behind for their descendants. Boomers, instead, are collectively focussed on enriching themselves by putting our future at risk as collateral.
As a generation, they will not be remembered well. Many of us wish they would simply step aside so we can fix the mess they’ve propogated.
Tl;dr: There is more to this than the usual young vs old dynamic.
Perhaps there is an element of that but I think many people are bracing for a repeat of the Iraq weapons of mass destruction scenario so they’re starting early with using humor as a coping mechanism.
Many also feel that Israel’s current government is a fascist genocidal regime that very likely will be the instigator of WW3. Which should be a lesson to humanity in general on fascism as those that face the greatest trauma (as they did in WW2) are often more open to the extremes of nationalism and ethnic cleansing.
This applies mostly to WASPs and Catholic imperialists, wouldn’t say all Christians feel that way.
When a large part of your origin story is being the number one weapons dealer in WW2 with geography conveniently placing you out of range for major infrastructure loss… We really can’t be suprised.
Where did this guy get his math from?
India has 265 million English speakers and Nigeria has 125 million.
297 million > 265 + 125 million?
India will likely have more English speakers than the US within this decade.
Transgenderism has a long precolonial history in India. Westerners have been heavily propagandized into thinking they are the origin story of progressivism (mostly colonial propoganda to justify genocide) when the truth is history is much less linear and much more complex than they are made to think it is.
I’m not suprised that the propoganda exists. But I am in awe when the worldview it promotes is still held by many today. Perhaps the consequence of having a wholly inadequate education system.