Congressional law is a bit more final than a voter initiative.

This is an odd, feel good measure that they’ll just fight off if passed. Why are we wasting time on this when the actual solution is taxing them at the Federal level first, then by willing states.

I’m more of a dawdler.

TMZ being the last significant media outlet willing to ask a basic question is not what I hoped for. But I’ll take it.

That headline stating “modern influenza originated in Kansas” is bullshit. That is NOT what the article says. The so-called Spanish Flu of 1918 indeed is thought to have crossed over from birds in Kansas. But that is one flu, not the entirety of “modern” flu. Influenza can cross over anywhere at any time from most species. Ascribing human ethnicity or geographical locators associated with human populations is ridiculous.

They’ll vote again for him and his ilk. Being unhappy doesn’t make you admit you’re wrong. Also, the weight of gas prices doesn’t compare to the pleasure of inflicting cruelty on the non-white “others”…

Something wrong with your party? Stay and fight for the greater good. But nope, three dozen cowards silently walk away.

Only on Lemmy would someone get indignant about pens…. you don’t have to love Sharpie, just accept that the world includes some who do. It’s ok.

I love Sharpie. But I can find something else if they cut some Trump deal.

I said none of that. And the older generation “not standing up to this shit”? Quite a few did. And quite a few in previous generations did as well.

And quite a few people from whatever “generation” you fancy yourself a member also work for a better world.

I’ve heard stats presented that way all my life, usually in terms of “immigrants”, “Jews”, “Catholics” , etc. You want to look up some stats? Look at voter turnout amongst young people. Or the population of the United States vs available land, 1960’s to present. Or look up post war economic booms and how they affect things.

Here we are, with decades of low voter turnout, a waning economy that is completely gamed not by an age group but by the wealthy, and too many people to allow the old ways of “growth” to work anymore.

And somehow amidst that we’ve decided that part of our very identity is the range of years in which we were born. Who decided what a boomer or millennial or gen X/Z/Alpha is? Was it a consensus amongst social scientists? Or was it something more useful for marketing strategy?

I reject your comment outright. Everything you said was perpetuated (or not) by the entirety of people living in that/this time. We are all part of this world and othering a group of people, i.e. scapegoating others does jackshit for solving our problems.

The repost perhaps. My original post was definitely not. Tankies are an odd bunch. Never heard of them prior to Lemmy. Much like the far right, their world view seems to be entirely self-contained, with no room for perceptive beyond their brethren.

Gen X owes you nothing

lol old people hate. Because blaming any other group for the world’s problems is very bad…. It’s as if the boomer generation was obligated to create utopia; not any generation previous or since. Just them. And when the last of them have died off, the youngins will scapegoat whoever is old in that time. So Millennials, you might want to get your excuses ready; you didn’t leave the world a better place for them…

’ve posted some made up memes in various places over the years and hoped to see a repost some day. And here is one! Neat-o. So here’s the story behind it. On another site, someone posted a t-shirt idea of just the text. In the comments, a second person joked that the text would go nice on a Gadsden flag. And I thought hey I can that, so I did. The original context was slamming MAGA and similar ilk. The repost here is a bit ambiguous. Are there words missing in the title?

San Francisco has new Teslas in droves, oddly. Not sure who is buying them.

We need to set an example that will resonate throughout history. So, we eat them all.

200 million Americans in 1970, 340 million now. The dream of a nice house with a big yard is limited by space; space that also requires farmland, forests, parks, etc… We need dense apartment buildings, not houses.

Allow me to expand and clarify… Multiple people run for the same office within primaries. Some of them lean more left than others. You can support them by actually voting in the primaries (and especially in state elections), maybe even donating a few bucks or volunteer time as well. But you have to actually vote. You can also write to existing Representatives and lay out your concerns. Enough people do that on an issue, they’ll understand your concerns at least in terms of marketing. Or just poo poo everything. Write social media comments or mouth off at family dinners, both of which are meaningless gestures that change nothing.

Their policies are destined to trim an extra 50-100k Americans off Social Security each year, mostly the poors. I can’t prove that’s the intent, but it’s likely to be the outcome regardless.
The dead will get lost in various stats and old people are not popular nor respected, so it’ll be overlooked. I know it’s trendy to hate on the elderly but y’all need to understand you will be old yourselves soon enough and the cultural hate of the old will apply to you. You are neither different nor special. Get vaxxed, eat your veggies.