• @[email protected]
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    1061 year ago

    Can confirm. Fight the power, fuck the system and all that jazz. I was told it was my “maximalism of the youth”, a phase that would pass, but I only become more and more radical in my views as I mature, so that was a fucking lie.

    • Dojan
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      Aye. I’m almost 30 now and I feel like I’ve gotten more radical rather than less.

      Makes sense though. In the 30 years I’ve been around I can tangibly see ecosystems failing and the climate going haywire. And for what? Wealth inequality has gotten worse and the idea of owning a house is almost a pipe dream.

      Meanwhile everyone’s getting more hateful. LGBTQ people, women, and minorities are having rights scrutinised and stripped away.

      There’s war in Europe again. The gerontocracies are still going hard. The oceans are dying. The mummies are melting along the permafrost.

      We lived through a pandemic, companies made record breaking profits, yet none went to workers. Everything is turning into subscriptions, we’re literally fighting to get to repair stuff we’ve bought. We are to own nothing and be happy about it.

      Humanity, society… it’s all bullshit. Everything is bullshit.

      • @FReddit
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        I’m over 60 and not at all represented by these old motherfuckers. It’s partly their age and partly their wealth – they can’t represent people who actually work for a living.

        There are various theories of how age and term limits could limit this.

        Here’s my fantasy, which is just that.

        Set up an AI unit that’s been programmed to a 90 IQ level. If these assholes can’t beat it in chess three times out of five – or checkers for that matter – enjoy the rest of your life on the porch.

        Just a fantasy.

          • ElleChaise
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            221 year ago

            It was never about age, that was just another distraction. If old people, trans people, gay people, black people, Mexican people, democratic people, and all the rest are responsible, you won’t have any attention left to pay the rich guy who’s fault this actually is.

      • TwoGems
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        81 year ago

        Time to munch some billionaires

        • Dojan
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          91 year ago

          Oh I wouldn’t put that in my mouth, which says a lot given my proclivity for putting things in my mouth. I’d rather let the guillotine do its job.

    • @[email protected]
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      191 year ago

      Yup, I’m 41 and I haven’t gotten less radical, just more detail-oriented in how we make it a reality.

      • @[email protected]
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        31 year ago

        You poor? Usually people get more conservative the more wealth they accumulate. I’ve got barely anything to my name which might be why I slowly getting more and more radicalized on the left. That and you know reality.

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          I grew up poor (rural Arizona, living in a trailer we couldn’t afford to heat in the winter, mom worked at Walmart, dad was a mechanic, just to paint a picture of what I mean). Both my parents are more progressive, we moved from the Bay Area of California when I was ten because we couldn’t afford it and also so they could get away from their druggie friends circle. Thankfully I liked science and had people who encouraged me, and I now have a PhD in molecular biology and my partner does computer programming and makes a lot.

          But before I decided on science, my progressive parents + being poor + Intro Philosophy + Against Me anarcho-syndicalist punk rock made me want to major in some combo of history, economics, and political science so I could change/overthrow the system from within. I still have the anarchy tattoos behind my ears, though! But I think Scandinavian style Democratic socialism is better suited to modern technological society.

          And now I’m in academia, most people here grew up middle class or upper middle class, and the entitlement is mind boggling sometimes. I’m learning more and more how to blend in with them, my partner is upper middle class academic family. But sometimes I still feel like some of them can tell I’m a dirty poor.

          It just pisses me off so much that there’s soooo much wealth in the world and it’s all locked up by rich people. I read somewhere that a study by the Swiss bank found that if all the wealth in the world was evenly divided amongst every men women and child, each person would get like $30,000. That would be amazing! No more world poverty! A living wage would be a great start.

          Anywho, it’s late, I’m tired and rambling. TLDR: eat the rich.

      • @alcamtar
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        -81 year ago

        Spoken like a boomer

        • @MsPenguinette
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          Boomerism comes for us all. That’s why you shouldn’t trust anyone over 30

    • @[email protected]
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      31 year ago

      My views haven’t changed one bit, I just had to make some compromises in lifestyle to survive (e.g. get a job).