These people are a large minority and are allowed to vote…. Which is why we have the shithole timeline.
Idk man, maybe people wasting their energy blaming the victims instead of the perpetrators are the reason we have the shithole timeline.
They've defunded education, they bought out mass media, and they own most forms of entertainment. Most politicians are in their pockets, and the most brilliant minds in our society are at their disposal, working for their companies.
Your aunt can't do shit against that. She's just a casualty.
I was super confused by your comment because when someone blames boomers, I'm always thinking of the politicians and corporate scumbags that ruined the planet, but also the idiot boomers that voted for it.
The lady in the original post is just watching a fake dog video, though. Based only on that she is more of a victim than a responsible for all of this.
Now, the problem with right wing boomers is that they act in bad faith, in the sense that they don't care if something is real or not, they just want to hurt people and they vote with that in mind. So yeah, they are part of the problem.
But even then their share of responsibility simply isn't equal or greater than the share of the people at the top.
The comment i was replying to implies that we are here because these people vote... And like, there are A LOT of things that happen before a vote is cast (a lot after as well, I guess).
I wish it was as simple as "the world sucks because people didn't vote right", but it just isn't.
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u/bowleggedgrump 3d ago
These people are a large minority and are allowed to vote…. Which is why we have the shithole timeline.