“No need for bombs when hate will do” ~ Ulysses

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Cake day: February 3rd, 2024

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  • Thanks. I will try talking to him about it. I was more so worried he might immediately go into the “gays gotta die” territory like a lot of the trumpies around here.

    I do agree about right wingers being on the precipice before straight up twisting into believing something else. Maybe I can find something there.

    Just so tired of the same rhetoric everywhere and now it’s literally the apartment below lmao













  • Generally, from what I’ve seen; the biggest issue is not “the kids aren’t reading hemingway!!!” because, actually, in my high-school; a good chunk of students were given the “classics” as assigned reading in English, as well as some other ones like Hatchet and such. Neighboring school districts had different ones, but same principle. This was city, as well; so I am not sure if the bougies cut out classics elsewhere or if the city I had just had a ton of donated books. People my age also just prefer to read more short-form content.

    That is sort of a thing I notice though. Attention-spans are being fucking shot. This isn’t even unique to Gen Z; I know boomers, X, etc who will sit on their phone and just scroll and scroll. Hell, I do it sometimes; how else do I get dank lefty memes?

    A good chunk of people can retain their spans, I can still read Dune or watch a 3 hour video without losing attention. However, I worry more for children who are being handed a tablet as a form of “here kid, get outta my hair”.


  • Yeah; I’d say X’s take the cake for that bullshit. At least a good chunk of Z is interested in politics; either it be subtly or just general grassroots activism. X was a bunch of apathetic, depressive assholes who completely caved in the second they got any power or money. is this the case for all X? No. I don’t believe in clear generational differences.

    Millenials get a lot of shit; but in my opinion, they have gotten that power and money and there’s been a good few of them who maintain their humanity/morality in a fucked up system. X came after the boomers and wanted a piece no matter what they had to sacrifice to get it. I’m a Z.

    X literally grew up in one of the most hedonistic, individualistic eras of American history. Drugs, rock n roll and women were being commercialized and commodified in some excessive ways for the first time.