• CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Yep. I’ve been seeing a lot of shit-stirring between generations probably mostly spurred on by the oligarchs and their apparatchiks.

    I doubt that is an accident: keep everyone distracted. Have the boomers bitching about Gen Y. Have Gen Z whining about Silent Generation (“Biden so old”). Another wedge issue to fight over and distract with while the oligarchs funnel more money upwards. Just like they use race and trans, they’ll have young vs. old. Micro-generational differences (Gen Y1 vs. Gen Y2!) being agonized over. People seriously believing a teenager working in a dead-end service job giving you an exasperated stare is unique to Gen Z (lol) and other such inanities. Anything to have everyone take their eye off the ball…

    Meanwhile, it seems the very people that are supposedly going to “save us” are getting rapidly red-pilled into crazy right wing extremism on the platforms.

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      5 days ago

      Meanwhile, it seems the very people that are supposedly going to “save us” are getting rapidly red-pilled into crazy right wing extremism on the platforms.

      If I went back to the 90’s and told people that Silicon Valley Tech Billionaires and Donald J. Trump controlled the nation, that they’d think the Democrats were in power.