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[–] pinheadednightmare@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Hey republicans, when your grandparents die because they can no longer afford the healthcare they thought they had for life, just remember to thank yourself and your lard in savor…. These deaths that will follow from people losing their insurance will be on your hands whether you think so or not. Merry Grimas!!!!

[–] bagsy@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

They don't care, they are voting for racism. Ig grandma might die in order to keep a black man out of the whitehouse, then that's a risk they are willing to take.

These people suck, and have no shame.

[–] Pacattack57@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Hey that’s just the universe correcting itself. Less boomer voters means less republican voters.

[–] QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

With Gen Z turning Right Wing, it may not be enough

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yep. I've been seeing a lot of shit-stirring between generations probably mostly spurred on by the oligarchs and their apparatchiks.

I doubt that is an accident: keep everyone distracted. Have the boomers bitching about Gen Y. Have Gen Z whining about Silent Generation ("Biden so old"). Another wedge issue to fight over and distract with while the oligarchs funnel more money upwards. Just like they use race and trans, they'll have young vs. old. Micro-generational differences (Gen Y1 vs. Gen Y2!) being agonized over. People seriously believing a teenager working in a dead-end service job giving you an exasperated stare is unique to Gen Z (lol) and other such inanities. Anything to have everyone take their eye off the ball...

Meanwhile, it seems the very people that are supposedly going to "save us" are getting rapidly red-pilled into crazy right wing extremism on the platforms.

[–] QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago

Meanwhile, it seems the very people that are supposedly going to “save us” are getting rapidly red-pilled into crazy right wing extremism on the platforms.

If I went back to the 90's and told people that Silicon Valley Tech Billionaires and Donald J. Trump controlled the nation, that they'd think the Democrats were in power.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

LOL, if only. Also, remember, this is the boomers. The generation that the old fart cons that came before would point at and whine about when it came to all their rhetoric about "the 60s".

There is lesson there. If only people might ponder on it...

[–] 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 days ago

Trump was literally responsible for covid shitshow in US, killing thousands.

The base stands for what he is: racist, misogynist, fraud, a felon, and a pedophile, not what he does.

What he does is irrelevant.