You kids just don’t know what it’s like! When I was 19, it was 2002, and do you know who we had as a president? We had an idiot that couldn’t socially function, but the republicans made excuses for him daily. You don’t know what that’s like.
When I was 19 we had a president that thought he deserved to be president just because of his last name. You don’t know what that’s like.
When I was 19, we had an overly polarized society where nobody could agree on anything! It was almost like the media was pushing a divide among people. You don’t know what that’s like.
When I was 19, the republicans in texas were trying to reshape our lexicons by calling it “freedom fries” when everybody knew that was just a thinly veiled attempt at pushing racism through by removing the name of a foreign country from a well established term. You don’t know what it’s like.
When I was 19, we had a president that racist people loved, but everyone else could easily tell he was racist. You don’t know what it’s like.
When I was 19, there was an unwarrented mass hysteria that we were going to be entering WWIII soon, even though no nation wanted that. You’d turn on the news every night and see stories of war overseas, and think something bigger was about to erupt. You don’t know what that’s like.
When I was 19, we had a president that made up his own phrases, such as fool me once, shame on…shame on you. Fool me twice…can’t get fooled again! He would just make up his own phrases and words to suit his own political image, and never admit he made a mistake. Well then the other republicans would DEFEND his misuse of language and covfefe him! You don’t know what that’s like.
When I was 19, everybody complained about everything being made in china, but nobody actually did anything to STOP that from being the case. They’d just blame china as an easy political fall guy who they didn’t need to worry about consequences of. You don’t know what that’s like.
When I was 19, gas prices were a real problem! They often got as high as $1.10 per gallon! Outrageous! You don’t know what that’s like!
When I was 19, you just COULDN’T afford food. You’d get a job at a fast food job just to take home the extra food or whatever. Living off of ramen noodles, and rice. And hey, if it’s 3 hours until close, and the boss says to put 6 potatoes in the oven…and you put 8? oopsie poopsie! That’s how you had to eat during a time when the politcal regime didn’t care about it’s people! You don’t know what that’s like!
When I was 19, healthcare was absurdly expensive! It often felt like the rich were just profiting off of peoples suffering. You don’t know what that’s like.
When I was 19, the police were corrupt, and not held to any amount of accountability. They’d get away with whatever they wanted, and would often beat people, or kill them without reason. You don’t know what that’s like!
…kids today man, I tell ya! It’s a different world out there now!
Except, today, the police aren’t just corrupt.
They’re militarized agents of an authoritarian state where the “president” is a foreign asset and the president is a racist billionaire with a god complex.
When Nazis, literal, actual Nazis, are given free reign to operate without oversight or opposition within the government to dismantle it, and nazis march in the streets without fear, because they are supported by the “president” and the president, the similarities end.
There are plans are in place to destroy western society, roll back decades or a century of civil rights, eliminate any social safety net, and rule by technocracy.
While you may be conflating things in jest, if you do not see the seriousness and actual present danger in the current regime, then you are just blinding yourself.
This is nothing like anything before.
This is the prelude to all out war on freedom, democracy, autonomy, and decency.
On you. On me. On your neighbors.
On everyone who doesn’t bend the knee.
Scouts motto: Be prepared
(Then I realized this was in shitpost, so, grain of salt. Anyway, what I said I said(
technocracy
I don’t think it means what you think it means. The concept you are looking for, probably, is “techno feudalism”.
On October 7, 1940, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrested members of Technocracy Incorporated, charging them with belonging to an illegal organization. One of the arrested was Joshua Norman Haldeman, a Regina chiropractor, former director of Technocracy Incorporated, and the grandfather of Elon Musk.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocracy_movement?wprov=sfla1
Technocracy is a form of government in which the decision-makers are selected based on their expertise in a given area of responsibility, particularly with regard to scientific or technical knowledge.
It was so different when I was young to what you had. George Bush was president and the US was at war with Iraq.
I see your point. There’s always bad in the world and there will always be discontent in the world but not accepting the current state of things and pushing back is vital for progress. Because things sucked in the 2000s does that invalidate the crimes and wrong being trespassed against us now? Edit: oh it’s a shitpost
I love this. With that ending, I legit can’t tell if you actually momentarily lost your shit, or if the reply too is a shitpost.
When I was twenty one it was a pretty good year
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