queermunist she/her

It’s to prevent the expectation of privacy. We’ve all been trained to accept that we are being spied on, even when we shit.

Social anxiety + extroversion is its own special hell.

It started in 1971 under Nixon. The guy who said "You start out in 1954 by saying, “N*gger, n*gger, n*gger.” By 1968 you can’t say “n*gger”—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.… “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “N*gger, n*gger.”

Nationalities at least have a basis in actually existing nations. There’s literally no basis for generations.

Age cohorts exist. People born the same year have stuff in common. Generations aren’t like that, they’re just arbitrarily defined over arbitrary time spans.

Incarceration rates started skyrocketing in the 70s and only got worse from there. Did you forget about the war on drugs and who the primary victims were?

The meme is that boomers had it easy. Black boomers objectively didn’t. Black people have never had it easy in this country.

Yeah, these are pattern reproduction engines. They can predict the most likely next thing in a sequence, whether that’s words or pixels or numbers or whatever. There’s nothing intelligent about it and this bubble is destined to pop.

AI isn’t saving the world lol

If you live during a time when things get better that, by definition, means you also lived during a time when things used to be worse.

It’s completely arbitrary, especially towards the edges of the time period. A boomer born 1946 had a wildly different life than a boomer born 1964, and a boomer born in 1964 has way more in common with a Gen Xer born in 1965.

Age cohorts are real, but “generations” are just arbitrary groupings.

Putin can feasibly last until the West loses interest and stops supporting Ukraine, which with Trump that’s highly likely. Alternatively, Israel starts so much trouble the US is forced to prioritize and can’t afford to support Ukraine anymore.

And of course, Russia simply has more people than Ukraine. The most morbid possibility is the war lasts until Ukraine runs out of bodies.

Okay, but my point, that Black boomers didn’t have it easy, is still true.

Also generations are bullshit - they were made up by advertisers! They’re totally arbitrary.

Zero clue how you got this from my comment??? Ending Jim Crow was good, but claiming that Black boomers had it easy is fucked.

You realize that also means they got to suffer until those improvements happened? And then, of course, ending Jim Crow didn’t really fix everything. For Black boomers things got a little better for a while and then got worse again.

Boomers were alive in the 50s and 60s.

To be fair, a lot of them came into maturity later in the 70s and 80s, but it’s an age range of like 20 years.

Generations are bullshit ttbh

Willing to negotiate a surrender that wouldn’t force them to become a conquest of the US. They just wanted to keep their own government. The US refused, it wanted unconditional surrender and total control of Japan.

So? The nukes weren’t dropped on he military. They just slaughtered civilians.

Japanese civilians weren’t exactly the ones doing the slaughtering. It’s not like the nukes targeted a military target.

A nuclear war definitely implies use of nuclear weapons on both sides. That was nuclear conquest, or nuclear terrorism.

Just slaughtering civilians in a country that was already willing to negotiate their surrender.

We haven’t had a nuclear war yet!

So you created an example that doesn’t match on purpose?