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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

This doesn't seem like c/nottheonion material

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Twice as exhausting for us boomers. You think you're tired. 60 and 2 jobs is bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This points out why the idea that boomers (as a whole) caused many of our modern problems upsets me

I sincerely doubt you voted for the situation you're in now

This in-fighting and blaming does nothing but detract from the real issue of who's doing this to us (spoiler alert: it's the politicians and it always has been)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Yeah some dude has a failed acting career, and now I have to hope my for profit insurance will cover a doctor or I'll be eating ramen for the rest of my life

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

"failed acting career" is apparently ending up the chair of the Screen Actors Guild, parlaying that into Governor of California and then the presidency, after being a known talent in the 50s.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Failed acting career applies to most of the current online right wing pundits spewing nonsense.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago

Yeah let's just pretend he wasn't talking about Reagan

[–] [email protected] -2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

At least he didn’t fail art school in Austria

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Though he likely killed nearly as many.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Gen X and I’m not making much more now than I did in 2008.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Millennial and I'm making over twice at much as I was in 2012. 🤷‍♀️

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago

Millennial and I’m making over twice at much as I was in 2012. 🤷‍♀️

And able to afford a third as much..

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The US never really recovered from 2008.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You say this as corporations are making record profits.

The US recovered just fine, the elites just didn’t think it necessary to include us in that recovery.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago

My issue is that I have to believe my lying eyes. Rates of homelessness, buying power, financial solvency, they all dropped through the tank and never really came back after what amounted to a financial earthquake for many many families. Whole extended families dropped through the cracks and never came back. There was basically no relief for the working families most effected by the incident, and basically no consequences for those that cause/ profited from it. Covid and the financial repercussions seems about the same. We've "recovered" from it "economically" because those permanently impacted by it that will never recover stopped being counted.