pacobird wrote:Friday wrote:Yeah, I maintain the following two things now and forever:
1. There's a serious world-threatening problem going on right now, and if you think that's just doomsaying, you're an idiot.
2. The future is overwhelmingly liberal. We are more liberal and environmentally conscious as a generation than any generation before us, worldwide. Our kids even more so.
So, yeah. It's crass, but you're not wrong. The Boomers have to fucking die.
"Once these old reactionary fucks are all dead we can start building a just and equitable world"
-some guy in 1971, probably
True, but it's worth ponting out that the sheer number of Boomers means they have a disproportionate effect vs any other chronologically-adjacent generation.