“Epstein Class” term is courtesy of
Funny, I was screaming this same thing 15+ years ago when every single reddit post was blaming boomers for everything and that millenials are the greatest generation.
blaming millennials
Lol, what was our crime? Being unable to change things?
Okay, your turn genZ
Lol, what was our crime? Being unable to change things?
Every single generation has the same crime, unable to change things. Most of the people in power politically and/or are billionaires, are gen x or younger.
Again, it’s a class war, not a generational war.
Everyone forgets about Gen X… so let’s blame them instead!
It’s a misdirection to blame a generation for being entirely at fault. Every generation in history has inherited the consequences of their predecessors mistakes, and the changes they implement will screw up something for their descendants.
Boomers, Gen X, millenials, Gen Z are all comprised of a mix of demographics - each has a mix of entitled and destructive assholes and inspiring thinkers. The same decade that brought us Donald Trump also brought us James Hansen.
It is the will of the richest class to keep the masses poor enough and powerless enough that they cannot revolt effectively, yet rich enough that they don’t see a clear benefit to overthrowing their overlords. The individualism that our society has bred means that when everyone is for themselves, they cannot risk what little they have acquired.-
Its the Epstein class’s fault and the boomer are complicit, and the millennials are being fooled by both.
Put me on the wall and shoot me all you like. Just make sure I’m surrounded by rich old people also getting shot. At this point, the fact the olds won’t volunteer to die or die doing something about it is plenty of reason to blame them also.
Future generations, the environment, and the guillotine factoy need the time and resources they will waste keeping my wrinkled ass alive more than they need the microseconds of sleep and comfort that killing me “should” cost them.
billionaires are at fault … while we’re all fighting, they keep getting richer
Yes, I agree. The billionaire class=the epstein class.
Exactly. It’s the people who have enough money to get away with being in the files.
I think that the epstein class is on another tier, but they are similar. The richest are obviously billionaires, but the most powerful (because of money or politics) tend to fall into the epstein class. Someone like many US senators etc. do not have billions, but they have a lot of power that makes them (as well as having enough money) in the the epstein class, being effectively untouchable by the courts because they can delay the courts long enough for it to not matter.
Politicians are much lower down on the food chain: they have to at least appear to be taking a side.
The billionaire just buys every side.
I disagree here. They don’t actually have to do that. Sure, politicians take all of the money, but they are the (relatively) few in power to actually legislate things into being. It’s like a filter for billionaire money in a sense. Billionaires need the US congress in their purse in order to push legislation.
Because billionaires need congress to pass legislation in order to keep them from harm, congress is beholden to the billionaire class. They are one and the same in the epstein class.
Two circles with a lot of overlap.
As a Millennial, I blame the Epstien Class AND the Boomers.
right?! the epstein class can’t do shit without the votes and support from the boomers.
Then you have succumbed to propaganda from the Epstein class.
How so? These things are not mutually exclusive. As a whole and independent from the Epstien Class, Boomers are selfish assholes.
I hate to break it to you, but every generation is full of selfish assholes. That’s the way it be.
The boomers were unique in the way material conditions cultivated that selfishness. Their parents and grandparents left conditions better than they were given.
You’re ignoring nuance. Humans in general are selfish. Boomers are selfish humans.
Except Boomers all have lead poisoning from growing up around leaded gasoline, which means their generation is uniquely antagonistic, selfish, and stupid. This is not an “every generation” thing, there is an actual reason their generation is so short-sighted, uncaring of future generations, and has fucked everything up.
Every American too cowardly to throw a punch is to blame
The Epstein class and their supporters which, by and large, includes boomers.
It included boomers, yes. And it included every other age group by fucking millions. 30 million women voted for him, too, in spite of all the rape allegations. I don’t get Lemmy’s obsession with blaming every last thing on boomers. The boomers are dying off in droves but the problems persist. Why? Because every so called generation has enough complicity to keep this shit going.
Do you think the epstein class only includes MAGA? Bill Clinton is in the files, in a hot tub with victims.
MAGA are lower class losers who didn’t have the money to hang out with Epstein. But congratulations, you found a rare Democrat in the files, amongst the predominantly wealthy conservative pieces of shit.
You literally can’t see past team sports can you?
Oh no I ignorant. Educate me on whatever point you’re half assing.
As I predicted, they switched to blaming Millenials. Eventually, it will be Gen Z’s turn.
What exactly was I supposed to do to stop all this? I’m no fortunate son.
Do something about it or get out the way. Crying “why me though!?” is a distraction the real victims don’t need.
EDIT: Nice sidestep with “was”. You could do something useful today, or tomorrow. Instead, you’re here trying to shift blame that no-one was even pointing your way before you started preemptively whining.
I’m literally struggling just to get an ADHD diagnosis, while my co-workers laugh at me using PPE to save my lungs. Just getting enough money to even attempt anything is at best, a decade away, and at worst, we get killed by AI.
How fucking delusional are you? I already have a min-maxed plan, I have yet to design a Lemmy community for what I want to do.
Gen Alpha will blame Gen Z next, just you watch.
BTDT. That’s my point. We’re all to blame, or no one is, because no-one will survive to be pointing fingers if no-one steps up.
Delusional? Wasting time being picky about who’s to blame before the crisis is resolved is delusional. We already know the solution involves killing or at least imprissoning a bunch of people, and who to go after first.
Again, do something or get out of the way. Wasting everyone’s time crying “why are you looking at ME like that!?” is a distraction we can’t afford.
The real distraction is every generation blames the one above it.
The OP literally includes older generations blaming younger ones. Now you’re creating layers of distraction by quibbling over what is or isn’t “the real” distraction.
Who’s to blame? Who cares, so long as you don’t have to do anything about it, suffer any loss or inconvenience, or even admit you maybe share the slightest hint of fault.
Gross.
You vote matters, and therefor how people voted and continue to vote matters. Honestly, Gen Z is on my Shitlist for voting Trump back in.
Everyone but the genocide wing is at fault. They were horribly failed by the voters they rightfully own.
They are still around to bitch about it. We haven’t failed them enough. FAIL HARDER!!
Honestly, Gen Z is on my Shitlist for voting Trump back in.
Boomers did that shit. Not us.
I’m sorry to break it to you but Gen Z saw the largest shift towards conservatives in the youth demographic ever recorded. 7% more women 18-29 voted for Trump in 2024 than in 2020, and 15% more men 18-29. The youth voter turnout also decreased by as much as 10%. LINK TO SOURCE
This is true, but it’s also true that the internet did it to them because nobody ever held any technology companies accountable while there was still time. Every time I hear some idiot talk about how the dumbing down of technology was necessary because normal people don’t want to have to understand technology to use it, I remind them that not understanding technology is 90% of what got us to this point.
Who raised them?
Google says GenX and Boomers, mostly.
Millennial are raising alpha mostly now.
Apparently Jake Paul, shamefully.
Given most millennials are under 36 (if you draw the line at 1990) their kids are not really old enough to vote on average, Gen Xers are better than boomers but it’s so fucking far from a lot.
We live what we learn. These are ancestral patterns.
Yeah that doesn’t jive anymore in the era of smartphones and social media unfortunately.
Parents are overworked in increasing wealth inequality.
School becomes a necessary daycare. Less time with parents, sadly. More time learning bad habits from peers.
Combine with easily access internet access. And if parents are strict they’re accused also of being helicopter parents bubble-wrapping their kids from reality. Connect the dots. Most saying it’s easy aren’t actually parents themselves.
also of being helicopter parents bubble-wrapping their kids from reality.
Thats a serious issue; its not uncommon to see kids who literally don’t know how to interact without their parents because their parents don’t let them socialize without hovering directly over.
While my own parents weren’t helicopter parents in the traditional sense, I was around adults more than most kids much of my childhood and that was both good and bad. For childhood it was harder because my maturity level relative to my peers was much higher. I expected peers to behave like the adults in my life and with reason and maturity and found neither. On the other hand it was an investment into adulthood and I had dodged A LOT of things other people did not.
Ah yes, I remember in history being taught about the Gaul invasion of Rome being promoted by Gaelic Psyops’ app ChikChok. /s
That’s karma. Feel more clever than those who came before, find new ways to make the same root mistakes, curse the kids for not being grateful, not understanding our real struggles. No wonder kids check out, decide to sell themselves, drugs, some sort of “favors” while giving a fat middle finger to the 'rents and “can’t/don’t” have time for them. I was that kid. So were my parents. And theirs. The parent still in my life is bitter, angry, narcissistic. And after some hard life lessons, I realized how blessed I am. I caught glimpses of their trauma. One day a simple blurted truth and refused to speak of it again. And I suffered the same trauma by their hands. And I understood. Forgave. Loved anyway, from afar, when necessary. And now. Now as the light dims in their eyes, I realize how most actions, beliefs were from their own trauma. I recognize the impossible choices that had to be made. And I am so fucking grateful. Because it was still hard. But just a little bit less worse because of those impossible choices.
And I see your bitterness, probably from some sort of trauma. I wish you healing. Especially if you have kids.
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It’s because a lot of your comments need replies. Maybe consider eating your own ass?
I feel bad for your kids. If they’re fucked up, it’s probably your fault.
Sorry you don’t like replying to you on a public forum. If you don’t like that, don’t post or comment.
I’ve always considered millenials to be 1981-1995.
Millennials don’t exist: https://youtu.be/-HFwok9SlQQ
1985?! Nah there’s no way those of us early 80s-ers are Gen-X
I don’t believe in hard cut-offs, but I reckon it starts at approx 1980, and ends at approx “remembers 9/11”
I’ve got a hell of a lot more in common with Gen X than millennials. 1980 is way too early.
That’s one guy making his case for it. Nobody uses his metric. Nice try trying push your narrative by source dropping in hopes that nobody actually reads the link.
If you’d actually read it, you’d see that it’s used by the entire Joint Center for Housing Studies.
Feels weird to cut it off before the millennium.
I can blame both, with more weighting to the billionaires of course. Only thing I suppose is that blaming boomers is generalising too much. Its a subset of boomers who vote to protect their exponentially increasing property values
Let’s blame the Reich people, k?
FTFY
The thing that is our fault is that we haven’t fixed things yet
With all that money we earned with those wages that stagnated and positions that were never freed up. Got it.
Or we could have voted for all those millennial politicians, for the past 20 years, to push forward the policies we have been asking for.
