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He wants to kill everyone he can before he dies.
He will sacrifice people foolish enough to break the law in his name to eradicate Real Americans.
He doesn’t care. The majority of the boomer generation feels the same way.
The world will improve significantly when the wealth hoarding boomers just finish dying off.
Protect yourself in the meantime. Stay armed. Stay alert.
My feeling is he wants:
Whatever he wants it's bad
If he manages to live another 3 years I suspect there will be no election. He’ll just declare himself king and the Supreme Court will follow suit.
The average boomer has $1.3 million. That is not hoarding. Sure they are selfish and disconnected from the modern reality. But that is not where the stolen wealth is hiding.
The "Me" generation for sure.
The world will improve significantly when the wealth hoarding boomers just finish dying off.
Sweet summer child, I’m afraid you have another thing coming.
Judas Priest? Cool
Priest indeed!
Living after midnight !
Trump was elected by a last minute surge of young, male, anti “woke” sexists.
I only bring this up to highlight the absurdity of claiming that Trump somehow represents wealth hoarding boomers. Hardly.
There are plenty of billionaires in red states but the largest percentage of “wealth hoarding boomers” are in the far wealthier blue states. They are not Trump voters. These are all easy facts to confirm.
not just sexists but racists and people who hate muslims and mexicans/minorities.
they are simple folk. They don't even understand mostly what they are against
Let's stop the age divisiveness crap. The are plenty resisters who are over 60 and young men preferred the felon. Also, young men are the main fascist recruits today. Want proof? Just look at the voting statistics.
Every young generation feels like that. Every single one before yours felt the same. :)
Its actually not about generations being different, we are the same. You may be 20, I may be 50, we still want the same things.
Doubtful. The boomers are uniquely self serving as a group and have a sort of cruelty brain rot bug that may or may not be lead poisoning.
Many are obsessed with entrenching themselves within institutions, creating a poor work life balance (while blaming the rest of us for not sacrificing as much) leading to fragile interpersonal relationships that are centered around 'keeping up with the Joneses' rather than creating a meaningful sense of community.
Most younger generations blame boomers for having a good life and then promptly shutting the door in their children's faces.
We have survived 500,000 years as a species because past generations cared about the world they left behind for their descendants. Boomers, instead, are collectively focussed on enriching themselves by putting our future at risk as collateral.
As a generation, they will not be remembered well. Many of us wish they would simply step aside so we can fix the mess they've propogated.
Tl;dr: There is more to this than the usual young vs old dynamic.
Am old, remember feeling the same as you youngsters. The sad fact is a lot of people are bad, and usually when they get older they become worse either through mental decay, denial of being bad parents, a constant physical pain built up over the years, etc etc
The only way to fix the system is to burn it to the ground. But funny thing is, everyone wimps out
I think Millenials, Gen Z and Gen Alpha are or will be better, especially with regard to parenting self awareness, but the reality is boomers have left us with a world where having children is financially unfeasible so it won't matter. But we can follow up in a few decades and see where things are at. I think Boomers will certainly be remembered a certain way (collectively).
Have you read history? When you say that 500.000 years passed and you feel those generations cared about the world, but boomers just dont, it sounds like you havent.
You make it sound like everything was just amazing and peaceful and selfless and then boomers just destroyed all of that... :) Read about history and how people treated eachother. America was created in 1776, founded on genocide of the native people. Everyone cared about eachother back then, looking out for eachother?
You can read about hundreds of these historic events around the world. Humanity has a history of taking things from eachother and being cruel. The way your generation looks at boomers as the problem is a bit strange. Its like you just woke up, and you look 20 years back and think you have identified boomers as the problem and now humanity is going to die because of them. Its a bit funny and you would see that yourself if you had my perspective.
I'm aware. In ancient hunter gatherer societies elders often accepted death gracefully once their care needs became a burden on the tribe. They knew that their final purpose was to look out for the greater good.
Things changed with the advent of civilization and especially modern medicine. Modern society has minimal if any comfort with death. If anything it fights it to the point of embracing the unnatural.
Boomers have been a burden for some time now. That doesn't mean they have to disappear nor are they the only generation in human history that has had a negative impact. But it's notable to the point that an asterisk will be put next to their era. They inherited, in many ways, a world of plenty (relative peace and abundance) and have left us with a world of scarcity (whether artificial or real).
That does not mean there aren't absolutely incredible people that are a part of this generation. But collectively, they have either actively or passively allowed institutions to be steered towards complicity with mass suffering and that will not be soon forgotten.
Sure, we may want the same things, but we don't go about trying to obtain them in the same way.
Your generation largely has those things... you know, housing, a retirement investment plan.... younger generations largely do not, and they never will, because your generation climbed the ladder set up for you by your elders, and then you guys blew it up with dynamite after you finished climbing it, in order to selfishly preserve your own status.
This ultimately destroyed society in the process, and now, well, that bomb your generation threw at the ladder after climbing up the wall... has done collateral damage to the wall itself, and will soon crumble, and you all will have impoverished yourselves and all your children.
The housing market is currently crashing, Trump's mismanagement has damaged your 401k, and Trump and the Reps really, really want to destroy Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, VA Tricare, all that shit... and the US economy will soon enter into a Second Great Depression, and most of you will die alone, being mistreated in understaffed, corporate run retirement homes, or just on the streets homeless after your house gets foreclosed on and you can't find work you can actually do.
Your generation could have instead been more equitable with your historically anomalous and freakish amount of prosperity... by continuing and expanding upon the New Deal and Great Society style programs.
Instead, your generation dismantled them, and it made things so unfair and unstable that, unless you are one of the very few who made it into the top 1 to 0.1%, most of your material wealth and accompanying social status will evaporate right when you need it the most.
Oh and there's also the whole... climate change thing, which your generation refused to take seriously during the timeframe where doing so could have made a difference, so the result is that now most of humanity is doomed to perish this century.
You are the generation that grew up watching a man transposed forward in time, bellowing "You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!” ... and then your generation just... did that, blew it all to hell.
I’m very impatient. Anything we can do to maybe speed up the process?
Can you just kill yourselves and leave the rest of the world alone?
Do what his idol did and hitler yourself already
I think the saddest part about these WW3 memes is that it really does feel like the people making them only care about the conflict being engineered in the Middle East by Trump and Natanyahu because there's a chance that it might negatively impact their own lives. The implication is that as long as this doesn't actually turn into WW3 (it won't, Jesus Christ please learn some basic history) it's fine and a bunch of people getting killed by bombs is missiles is OK as long as they're brown and way over there.
You're probably right in some cases, but I think it's more of a way of people dealing with their disbelief that it's come to this. There's a lot of ways to process the current insanity; dark humour is possibly the most accessible though.
That’s where I am, we went from being in disbelief that an active genocide is being supported by the US, to the US contemplating nuking a country cause Bibi says they have WMDs.
Usually when I’m befuddled I resort to observational comedy.
Realistically there is absolutely nothing any of us can do to stop this. Anyone who isn't an arsehole is constantly appalled and sickened by the constant conflict created by the usual sad little psychopathic narcissists.
About all we have left is black humour expressed as memes. You can't stay constantly anxious about it or you go mad, and at this point humour is basically self-preservation.
I feel like you're reading a lot into this and start with a false premise. Both war and WW3 can be bad, WW3 is just more memeable
Your final sentence has pretty much been american military policy for the last few decades.
Don't start a major global conflict and kill mostly brown people of a different culuture and religion and we will get away with it.
Perhaps there is an element of that but I think many people are bracing for a repeat of the Iraq weapons of mass destruction scenario so they're starting early with using humor as a coping mechanism.
Many also feel that Israel's current government is a fascist genocidal regime that very likely will be the instigator of WW3. Which should be a lesson to humanity in general on fascism as those that face the greatest trauma (as they did in WW2) are often more open to the extremes of nationalism and ethnic cleansing.
What makes you sure it won't be WW3? I don't know enough to comment just asking for your perspective
Turn the question around. Ask yourself, what are the conditions necessary for this to become WW3?
First, at a minimum, you need more than one major power to become involved. For the purposes of this discussion I'll define make powers as The US, The EU / NATO (functionally indistinguishable for all practical purposes at this point), China, Russia, India.
Aside from the US, the only other major power with a serious interest in the region is Russia. You can vaguely make an argument for the EU, but they're too concerned with the war in Ukraine to really give a shit right. At best you might see some involvement from the UK, and they're no longer strongly aligned with or capable of influencing the rest of Europe.
So basically the only way this escalates beyond a limited regional conflict is if Russia decides to throw in. For Iran. While they're struggling to win a war in Ukraine that is currently cratering their economy and killing off an entire generation of young Russian men. Do you really think they have the slightest inclination to get into a shooting war with the US right now, with everything they're currently facing? I'm not even sure they have the logistics capacity to actually get troops to Iran right now.
But what if local powers get involved? They won't. No one in the region likes Isreal or Iran. They're both pariahs. No one around them wants to get involved in a war for either of their sakes.
Hell, they can barely even fight a war with each other. Rockets and bombing raids are the only real options they have, because there's a whole lot of Iraq in between them. At best the US could stage a naval invasion (something that Isreal has no capacity to do on their own), in which case what you're looking at is another Iraq style invasion followed by twenty years of bloody, costly occupation as they try to maintain order over a mountainous region containing a hundred million people.
That's really reassuring thanks
Let me add - and I should have said this in my original reply - that I completely get why it's easy to feel scared about this stuff. First, there's this constant environment of everyone talking about the looming threat of WW3, which is exactly what memes like this contribute to, creating a culture of fear for no good reason.
But, second, there absolutely is a general ratcheting up of tensions across the world. Major powers are more militarized than they ever have been previously, and the strong trade relationships that helped maintain peace are eroding. There is, absolutely, an increased likelihood that we're going to see conflicts break out, but what's missing is the specific conditions needed for those conflicts to spiral out in a mass scale escalation.
What I think we're likely to see over the next ten to twenty years is more limited regional conflicts like Ukraine. I think it's quite likely, for example, that India and Pakistan may go to war. But there's simply no reason to believe that war will pull in other major powers.
The world is becoming a scarier place. You're not wrong to feel that way. And any conflict is a tragedy. Why these memes annoy me is not because I'm on the "Nothing ever happens train" but rather because they discard very real, very valid concerns in favour of this nebulous fantasy of everyone dying in nuclear fire for vague and unspecified reasons.
I don't like what people are focusing on.
I'll change the subject.
Now I don't like that people are talking about how I bungled some part of the distraction.
I don't like what people are focusing on.
Repeat.
If they don't celebrate my birthday I will celebrate their deathday
Thinking he was afraid to TACO again. Whatever the case, it's all dumb.
We're just trying to make more terrorists to keep business profitable.
Well the parade didn't stroke his ego, so this was the next best thing.