• panda_abyss@lemmy.ca
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      28 days ago

      Boomers: we went to woodstock! Free love

      Gen X: I know just the way to rebel against that!

      (I kid, of course)

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        Seeing the Woodstockers of yesteryear become the Boomers of today means that my secondary retirement plan is a bullet. If I ever so fundamentally betray my values like that my friends and family have explicit instructions to put one through my brain stem and put me in a hole. There is no event, experience or injury that exists that can turn me into a conservative without first removing all parts that make me myself. At that point, that is no longer the Skul you once knew, that is a zombie, and it needs to be put down. I will never, ever understand how yesteryear’s free love hippies became today’s “fiscal conservatives”.

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          You won’t… The so-called “hippies” turned Trumpers never actually believed in anything, they just enjoyed the music, vibes, and aesthetic.

          I should know, my dad is one of them.

          I was told my whole life that I’d become more conservative as I got older and started working and paying taxes, etc. Literally the exact opposite has happened. If anything, those things radicalized me against capitalism.

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      27 days ago

      I hear you and agree, I know some people I grew up with went full maga. I think my use of “most” could have been “some”. Which probably applies to all generations, sadly. Also, fuck Nazis. 💯