{"id":52574,"date":"2024-04-18T01:00:09","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T05:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=52574"},"modified":"2024-04-17T09:24:48","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T13:24:48","slug":"qotd-the-intergenerational-blame-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2024\/04\/18\/qotd-the-intergenerational-blame-game\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The intergenerational blame game"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 25px 10px 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>I believe it&#8217;s related to pensions, Medicare, and the whole Social Security scam. Boomers paid into these funds with the naive but innocent understanding that their money would be returned. Instead, the government spent it on other frivolities such as wars for Israel and keeping the Federal Reserve happy, so there&#8217;s no money left, and naturally the younger generations will have to pay. I believe that the elites want to get the younger generations so angry at the Boomers that they cut off what was promised to them \u2014 so angry, they dream of the day that Boomers get <a href=\"https:\/\/www.takimag.com\/article\/the-day-of-the-pillow\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">murdered in nursing homes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>OK, Zoomer. Two can play this game. Keep in mind that the little magic trick I&#8217;m about to perform here does <em>not<\/em> mean I&#8217;m blaming your generation for any of these things, because I&#8217;m not a Generational Astrologist. I&#8217;m merely taking what you do and flipping the script:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><em>Yours is the generation of &#8220;woke culture&#8221; and Antifa. As much as you yabber about how the Boomers let the culture slide into liberalism, atheism, and degeneracy, your generation is far less religious than the Boomers. You lean heavily socialist and encourage &#8220;punishment&#8221; for Halloween costumes you deem &#8220;offensive&#8221;. While the world is burning, the Zoomers&#8217; top three voting issues are emotionally laden trifles such as &#8220;mass shootings, racial equality, and &#8230; treatment of immigrants&#8221;. You are far more anti-racist, anti-&#8220;hate&#8221;, and pro-LGBT than any generation that preceded you. This is not my opinion \u2014 it&#8217;s a statistical fact supported by every survey and poll I&#8217;ve ever seen.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Therefore, every Zoomer is personally responsible for Drag Queen Story Time and the fact that there&#8217;s no wall on the border, because you just sat there and LET it happen. Three trillion dollars have been added to the national debt since Trump&#8217;s inauguration, and you Millennials and Zoomers just sat there and LET it happen. The tech giants are doing purges of people for thoughtcrimes, while your generation hides behind goofy fake names and clown avatars and LETS it happen.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>That&#8217;s because every member of every generation is 100% responsible for what happens on its watch. Get down on your knees and APOLOGIZE!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And if you don&#8217;t repent immediately and bend to my shaming tactics, you fucking deserve all the righteous pain the generations after you will rain down on your selfish head.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>See how stupid that sounds when it&#8217;s applied to you?<\/p>\n<p>People hate to admit they&#8217;ve been brainwashed. But sorry \u2014 you&#8217;ve been brainwashed.<\/p>\n<p>Politicians enjoy a little generational warfare if it suits their needs. They&#8217;ll even instigate it. And as far as I can tell, this sudden emergence of a generational identity-politics civil war is a divide-and-conquer tactic that has worked wonderfully.<\/p>\n<p>Jom Goad, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.takimag.com\/article\/the-myth-of-boomer-privilege\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The Myth of Boomer Privilege&#8221;, <em>Taki&#8217;s Magazine<\/em><\/a>, 2019-11-03.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I believe it&#8217;s related to pensions, Medicare, and the whole Social Security scam. Boomers paid into these funds with the naive but innocent understanding that their money would be returned. Instead, the government spent it on other frivolities such as wars for Israel and keeping the Federal Reserve happy, so there&#8217;s no money left, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,53,41,13],"tags":[407,262,1205,1106,956],"class_list":["post-52574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-politics","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-babyboomers","tag-culture","tag-generationx","tag-genz","tag-millennials"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-dFY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52574"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88511,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52574\/revisions\/88511"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}