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  • SaltyAmerican@lemmy.world
    231·
    10 days ago

    They have you focused on old people so you are distracted from the fact that capitalism is the problem

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      73·
      10 days ago

      This is the answer. The fad (psyop?) of blaming “boomers” for all the world’s ills is annoying AF.

          • almost_genocide@lemmy.world
            24·
            9 days ago

            Lol. You’d rather look like an idiot than lay any blame at the feet of boomers huh?

            As someone who has phone banked and canvassed in multiple primaries: It’s boomers.

            • SaltyAmerican@lemmy.world
              1·
              9 days ago

              Regardless of age, anyone that’s voted for either shade of fascism is responsible. Liberals created this mess, conservatives created this mess.

              If you’ve canvased for the oligarchy you are part of the problem

            • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
              21·
              9 days ago

              Gen Y is now the biggest voting bloc as far as generation breakdown.

              If you think all the problems lie with…checks notes…the sixties generation, I have a bridge to sell you.

              • almost_genocide@lemmy.world
                21·
                9 days ago

                Gen Y doesn’t participate in primaries at the same rate as Boomers. You’d know this if you ever phone banked.

    • almost_genocide@lemmy.world
      32·
      9 days ago

      To be fair most old people clutch their pearls when you say radical things like “capitalism is the problem”… so yeah. They’ve ruined a lot of shit.

          • DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.world
            1·
            2 days ago

            wp:Capitalism

            Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and its use for the purpose of obtaining profit.[1][2] This socioeconomic system has developed historically in several stages and is defined by a number of constituent elements: private property, profit motive, capital accumulation, competitive markets, commodification, wage labor, and an emphasis on innovation and economic growth.[3][4] Capitalist economies may experience business cycles of economic expansion followed by recessions.[5]

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            wt:capitalism

            Noun

            capitalism (countable and uncountable, plural capitalisms)

            .1. (politics, economics) A socio-economic system based on private ownership of resources, and capital and their exploitation for profit.

            .1. (Marxism) An economic system based on private control of the means of production and the exploitation of labour by capital.

            .2. (economic liberalism) An economic system based on private property and the abstraction of resources into the form of privately owned capital, with economic decisions made largely through the operation of a market unregulated by the state.

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            wq:Capitalism

            The failure of capitalism is still much better than the success of socialism.

            Garry Kasparov, Interview with Bill Kristol (April 2016), transcript

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            It would be better for us to go down with Bolshevism than live in eternal slavery under capitalism.

            Joseph Goebbels, The Devil’s Disciples: Hitler’s Inner Circle by Anthony Read (2004) p. 142, diary entry Oct. 23, 1925