I would really rather that these were actual examples, and not conspiracy theories. We all have our own unsubstantiated ideas about what shadowy no-gooders are doing, but I’d rather hear about things that are actually happening.

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    “Once all the boomers are dead everything will be better!” Yeah, corporations will still rule your life, inflation will still outstrip income, you won’t be able to afford a house, and your politicians will represent whichever special interest pays them the most. Also you won’t ever be able to vote in progressive candidates because every year there’s going to be some vile ghoul like Donald Trump, but somehow worse, and the Democrats just need you to close ranks and vote in whatever corporate liberal whose turn it is to sit in the Big House this time so a literal fascist doesn’t get his finger on the button and attempts to dismantle what little democracy our republic has over night.

    Grandma and grandpa being six feet under doesn’t change these things. And, guess what…you probably won’t change them either because you’re too lazy and apathetic to do anything other than shitpost on the internet about how badly your life sucks.

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      The boomers being dead means the largest, wealthiest support of old ass laws is gonna, and nearly every single member of the population at that point would have been directly harmed by capitalism.

      Trying to stop people from improving things will by far be much harder, and betting on peoples apathy is a gamble that can only last so long

      (Unless we get some full my mind control shit in the best future, but we can pray not)

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        nearly every single member of the population at that point would have been directly harmed by capitalism.

        As opposed to the boomers, who weren’t harmed by capitalism. Not like that’s the generation that was sent to Vietnam or anything…

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      Also, we’ll have plenty of formerly-young people who age into being similar to what the boomers are now