It’s easy if you don’t know how shitty the other 90% have it. That’s the thing about privilege. The folks who have it assume that everybody has it like they do (i.e. that privilege isn’t really a thing, everybody has equal opportunity, racism is dead, etc).

Oh really? My bad. I’ve always heard it used specifically to talk about corrupted implementations of Marxism. E.g. Animal Farm.

Err, maybe I’m confusing Marxism and socialism.

I’m still not exactly clear on how any of it avoids corruption. At the end of the day, somebody decides whose street gets paved first.

I didn’t say I was anti-marxist. I’m anti-authoritarian. In all it’s forms.

I’m anti-tankie as the next guy. But pick up a history book. Soviet Russia did a huge amount of the work during WW2.

100% on your side. But careful not to set yourself up for the same legit criticism that we throw at R’s. Whataboutism.

edit: but also that would be a pretty great meme, tbf

Whoa whoa. Never said I hated myself. That doesn’t solve anything. If anything it makes things worse by stealing focus. More like realizing that this isn’t working. We need to fix the system instead of letting people distract us with plastic straws or playing the blame game

GenX was also relatively small compared to the boomers.

I wonder if every generation will blame (maybe correctly) previous generations. So long as things are getting worse, the kids kind of have a valid argument. “Why didn’t you fix this before it got to us?”

As a millennial, I’ve been doing what I can short of going full vigilante. But in 30 years, they still wouldn’t be wrong to say “it’s still broke though isn’t it?”