"Weak men create hard times"
"Weak men create hard times"
"Weak men create hard times"
I was gonna post that but then I was, like, whatever.
Silent as per usual
Exactly the comment I was looking for. Tip of the hat to you.
Only thing that isn't okay is to mangle your sentence to conform to the obsolete "never end a sentence with a preposition because some old fogey said so hundreds of years ago" rule 😛
It's the 1% against the working class, not generation against generation.
We should just revive everyone who contributed to this dumpster fire and make them fix it before they can go back to being dead.
Do we REALLY want zombie Reagan and hundreds of others like that running around again? I dunno about you guys, but I'm so tired of living through Interesting Times ™️ and Unprecedented Events ™️. A zombie apocalypse where they don't eat our brains, but just fuck up the economy even more doesn't sound fun.
Make Zombie Reagan take Carter's former place and build homes (by hand) for poor people.
The holy water that leaks out of the sink will probably burn him out of existence anyway.
Lmao, yeah I can't imagine why someone would think that reviving them would make them suddenly want to correct their mistakes. They just got a chance to further be shit.
Watergate Part Two: Electric Bungaloo
To be fair, us genX did nothing about anything and just felt cool wallowing in our fake cynicism of "why do anything when nothing matters" so we're probably half as much to blame as the boomers
There's a certain selection bias to the "Weak Men, Hard Times / Strong Men, Good Times" just so historical analysis. You don't talk about all the folks that die during good times or bad times. You just point to the old people and your brain slips right past the selection bias that allowed them to live and others to die.
Trying to blame this generation or that is a fool's errand. What do you tell a population of Gen Xers who were dragged out to the suburbs and raised in these segregated hermitages for twenty years, then plunged into the capitalist meat grinder at the tail end of the post-war boom years? "Hey, you should have all just psychically linked up and formed a socio-economic Voltron to change a century's old system overnight"? Who can seriously believe that? The deck was stacked against you and yet we still have a litany of Gen Xers who struggled - even died - in their effort to undo the damage of prior generations.
And what do you say to all the children of WW2 refugees who washed up on America's shores and struggled to carve out a life for themselves in the graveyards of the First Nation's people? Or the Cold War refugees - the Korean and Vietnamese and Indonesian and Taiwanese and Venezuelan and Cuban and Spanish and Russian and North Africa and... and... and... - who came into the US as children and were promptly indoctrinated to hate their home countries by the white supremacist majordomos of the American imperial class?
Its easy to blame yourself or your neighbors or your generation. Its hard to see the bigger picture and how each of us fit into it. Its hard to know if we're doing the right thing, or doing enough of the right thing, or who is with us and who is against us given the sheer tsunami of bullshit in our information networks.
We're playing the game on Hard Mode. And I don't think anyone who cares enough to question and inquire about their efforts can really be held to blame. It's the folks who have burned the ability to care out of their souls that hold us back. And that's not a decision unique to a region or time period.
Boomers and Gen X lived in a paradise, destroyed it and now complain that things are shit.
Boomers and Gen X did exactly the same thing that you're doing. Nothing. They just let the super rich elite screw the whole world up and now you're doing the same thing they did. Nothing.
If you want to act high and mighty you're not going to change the world by complaining on the internet. You have to stop the super rich.
You have to stop the super rich.
If I could, I would use this simple way to stop them: ban all parties that support them, nationalize all their beings and "sweeten up" their coffee if they complain too much.
There's only one problem: I CAN'T DO NOTHING BECAUSE I'M NOT IN FUCKING POWER
Complaining is a tool. Talking is a tool. Leads to acting and organizing. Guillotines don't spontaneously form from the aether.
Strongman leaders create hard times.
Boomers see the world wildly and in wild ways
I Think You Should Leave is such a gold mine of meme templates.
There's even an ITYSL meme maker & quote database
"hard men make good times, good times make soft men, and soft men make me hard" -Richard Rider
This is bullshit. Boomers, genXers and now millenials have been fighting against wild capitalism for decades, and a lot of them died fighting or are rotting in jail right now.
Bickering about what generation is better. My favorite topic. 🙄
This is really stupid.
Dunno, I hear lots of young people say that.
Here, have a Pepsi.
I don't know what any of this is!
Boomers were born on the third base and think they hit a triple
Triples makes it safe. Triples is best
Threesomes are fun
"Then aids ruined everything"