Flocklesscrow
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- Comment on BlackRock CEO Larry Fink said America could dodge a ‘retirement crisis’ by encouraging people to work longer 1 day ago:
They were “Generation Me” before anything else.
I’m not getting mad at Boomers; I’m apportioning blame as I see it merited. Why should they be denied their own culpability?
They could have received college educations for the price of a modest car; most chose to remain ignorant. Even now, Boomers hold pervasive views of intellectual resentment; they sent their own kids off to college, and then refused to listen to an educated word they had to say.
- Comment on BlackRock CEO Larry Fink said America could dodge a ‘retirement crisis’ by encouraging people to work longer 1 day ago:
What scapegoat? The enmity heaped at the feet of Boomers is absolutely deserved.
They voted in the worst people, they took advantage of every social opportunity only to immediately pull up those same ladders behind them, they have collectively had an outsized influence on global politics and economy for 50+ years, and they are still, to this very day, hoarding resources while perched upon corporate and political ladders as implacable barriers to young, fresh leadership. They have collectively defaulted to obsessively focusing on their own material needs and wants, while stripping the futures from a minimum of Millennial (Y) and Z generations. Anecdotally, they are the least empathetic and most gullible of rubes- defiant in their ignorance and arrogant in the face of overwhelming facts.
Obviously not every Boomer is an awful person, but as a cohort they are the worst generation in modern history.
- Comment on BlackRock CEO Larry Fink said America could dodge a ‘retirement crisis’ by encouraging people to work longer 1 day ago:
Boomers explicitly ushered this reality into existence. The young people are correct.
- Comment on Michigan GOP Lawmakers Propose Total Ban on Porn 1 week ago:
They’re all velociraptors testing the fences
- Comment on Important update: It's 10 poptarts 1 week ago:
Definitely not. Long pig is usually found adrift at sea.
- Comment on Important update: It's 10 poptarts 1 week ago:
Probably some kind of anteater
- Comment on Penguin States of Matter 3 weeks ago:
The bottom image show penguins undergoing pyrolysis
- Comment on 80s Nostalgia AI Slop Is Boomerfying the Masses for a Past That Never Existed 4 weeks ago:
Be somebody
*in debt
- Comment on Call 1-888-GOT-GUNK NOW! 4 weeks ago:
That’s a lot of snoot
- Comment on Tried naming the states from memory as a European 1 month ago:
NYC suddenly inundated with Old Bay crabs
- Comment on Stripes! 🐅 1 month ago:
“The lines seemed to be present at birth and didn’t follow any other known body system such as vessels or nerves. Instead, they create sweeping chest arcs, mountainous shapes across the back, and swirling butt loops.”
- Comment on New idea 1 month ago:
Richard pipelines?
- Comment on Saw this on r*ddit, had to share with my people 1 month ago:
Shaq
- Comment on The Age-Checked Internet Has Arrived 1 month ago:
Because they want to privatize all aspects of living so that a handful of exorbitantly wealthy people can build larger hoards. There’s no end to it; it’s a mental disease, enabled by Capitalism and the death of real Labor laws and rights.
Every industry should have unions that actively work to dismantle owner authoritarianism, but for 40 years Boomers have been paving the way for every awful piece of shit “business owner” to have some idolized place at the top of our society. And of course, the knock-on effect of that over time is that the pieces of shit have carved into the legislative and political arenas that provided even a modicum of worker/commoner protections. The digital divide is just a coefficient on the slippery slope.
- Comment on tag yourself 1 month ago:
It won’t matter to the current leadership anyway, as most of the C suite will have moved on their next host within 3-5 quarters. Whatever wreckage they leave behind is in the past and therefore doesn’t exist.
- Comment on This was actually posted by the Owasso Police Department 1 month ago:
“Wildly racist vampires discover the internet”
- Comment on HOOOOONNNNKK-snewewewewwew 1 month ago:
Ghost Manager: “Where the fuck is everyone tonight?”
- Comment on HOOOOONNNNKK-snewewewewwew 1 month ago:
A lil trouble keeping up proper turgor pressure
- Comment on Everything is a problem 2 months ago:
Return to Analog!
- Comment on oof 2 months ago:
“the cycle of trauma will continue”
- Comment on We all sleep alone soundly; Maybe the key to a happy marriage is separate beds 2 months ago:
“ass to ass, ass to ass”
- Comment on I can hear the 8-bit theme playing now 2 months ago:
*HVAC school
- Comment on Microsoft buys more than a billion dollars’ worth of excrement, including human poop, to clean up its AI mess — company will pump waste underground to offset AI carbon emissions 2 months ago:
Greenwashing is a fraud.
- Comment on salty 2 months ago:
Bits of Mouth, name of my new band.
- Comment on One day😔🤞 2 months ago:
Dearest Gaia, bring out your beauties; we got a hankerin to frolic
- Comment on Spiritual Safety Tip! 2 months ago:
Tbh sin water sounds much cooler than “holy water.”
- Comment on ⚡️👇👇👇⚡️ 2 months ago:
That’s a helluva grudge
- Comment on 2 months ago:
That’s exactly what happens; crisis capitalism wherein the upper wealth layer scoops up assets for pennies on the dollar, which it then uses to extort more wealth from the less advantaged. So even when the greater economy “turns around,” there are more people who have less access to the mechanisms that historically allow upward economic mobility.
The 2008 financial crisis is a perfect example, and much of what we are still suffering today stems from that manufactured catastrophe. Ultimately, none of the perpetrators were held accountable, while wealth simply flowed upward, concentrating even further at the top, while the average American has seen almost none of the benefits of our productivity growth, 17 years later. Big businesses, on the other hand, had nearly 14 years of open purse monetary policy from the Fed, and could therefore operate on nearly free debt. This long period of finance junkyism has created a capability trap of today, where most businesses don’t actually have many capabilities, ie don’t produce, service, or generate any real commerce, which is why we have been gliding downward in a spiral of enshitification and massive inflationary pressure.
Ultimately, the “good jobs” of yesteryear have been dismantled through outsourcing, arbitrary job requirements, collapsing white collar work, and decades of demonizing trades and union busting, while further roadblocks have been erected through insane education costs and a dearth of the “starter homes” that Boomers used 50 years ago to launch themselves to the top of ladders. Which they promptly pulled up afterwards, ensuring no successive generations would be able to participate. Boomers mortgaged their children and children’s children’s futures for their own well-being. Which has continued to today.
- Comment on Yikes 2 months ago:
Dude in bull costume, giggling
- Comment on Jeans 2 months ago:
Let me see that Jong…jajong jong jong