“Epstein Class” term is courtesy of
Everyone forgets about Gen X… so let’s blame them instead!
Funny, I was screaming this same thing 15+ years ago when every single reddit post was blaming boomers for everything and that millenials are the greatest generation.
billionaires are at fault … while we’re all fighting, they keep getting richer
Yes, I agree. The billionaire class=the epstein class.
Exactly. It’s the people who have enough money to get away with being in the files.
I think that the epstein class is on another tier, but they are similar. The richest are obviously billionaires, but the most powerful (because of money or politics) tend to fall into the epstein class. Someone like many US senators etc. do not have billions, but they have a lot of power that makes them (as well as having enough money) in the the epstein class, being effectively untouchable by the courts because they can delay the courts long enough for it to not matter.
Two circles with a lot of overlap.
As a Millennial, I blame the Epstien Class AND the Boomers.
right?! the epstein class can’t do shit without the votes and support from the boomers.
Then you have succumbed to propaganda from the Epstein class.
How so? These things are not mutually exclusive. As a whole and independent from the Epstien Class, Boomers are selfish assholes.
I hate to break it to you, but every generation is full of selfish assholes. That’s the way it be.
The boomers were unique in the way material conditions cultivated that selfishness. Their parents and grandparents left conditions better than they were given.
You’re ignoring nuance. Humans in general are selfish. Boomers are selfish humans.
Its the Epstein class’s fault and the boomer are complicit, and the millennials are being fooled by both.
It’s a misdirection to blame a generation for being entirely at fault. Every generation in history has inherited the consequences of their predecessors mistakes, and the changes they implement will screw up something for their descendants.
Boomers, Gen X, millenials, Gen Z are all comprised of a mix of demographics - each has a mix of entitled and destructive assholes and inspiring thinkers. The same decade that brought us Donald Trump also brought us James Hansen.
It is the will of the richest class to keep the masses poor enough and powerless enough that they cannot revolt effectively, yet rich enough that they don’t see a clear benefit to overthrowing their overlords. The individualism that our society has bred means that when everyone is for themselves, they cannot risk what little they have acquired.-
Every American too cowardly to throw a punch is to blame
As I predicted, they switched to blaming Millenials. Eventually, it will be Gen Z’s turn.
What exactly was I supposed to do to stop all this? I’m no fortunate son.
Do something about it or get out the way. Crying “why me though!?” is a distraction the real victims don’t need.
EDIT: Nice sidestep with “was”. You could do something useful today, or tomorrow. Instead, you’re here trying to shift blame that no-one was even pointing your way before you started preemptively whining.
EDITx2: bolding.
I’m literally struggling just to get an ADHD diagnosis, while my co-workers laugh at me using PPE to save my lungs. Just getting enough money to even attempt anything is at best, a decade away, and at worst, we get killed by AI.
How fucking delusional are you? I already have a min-maxed plan, I have yet to design a Lemmy community for what I want to do.
Gen Alpha will blame Gen Z next, just you watch.
BTDT. That’s my point. We’re all to blame, or no one is, because no-one will survive to be pointing fingers if no-one steps up.
Delusional? Wasting time being picky about who’s to blame before the crisis is resolved is delusional. We already know the solution involves killing or at least imprissoning a bunch of people, and who to go after first.
Again, do something or get out of the way. Wasting everyone’s time crying “why are you looking at ME like that!?” is a distraction we can’t afford.
EDIT: bolded a bit someone obviously missed or is shortly to pretend they missed on first read.
The real distraction is every generation blames the one above it.
The OP literally includes older generations blaming younger ones. Now you’re creating layers of distraction by quibbling over what is or isn’t “the real” distraction.
Who’s to blame? Who cares, so long as you don’t have to do anything about it, suffer any loss or inconvenience, or even admit you maybe share the slightest hint of fault.
Gross.
Ok, I guess I should have been a suicide bomber, or harvest my invisible anime protagonist powers to just ignore the physical laws that stop me and billions of others from simply overthrowing the oligarchy.
Or just take blame and feel guilty for ???
You no doubt live in a much more priviliged position, why don’t you go play superhero instead?
I have my own Lemmy Community plan and philosophy designed to adress this issue, but I can’t run anything while making life or death decisions daily.
You are just so far up your own ass with this bootstraps and blame bullshit.
The guilt one should feel or not is in no way dependent on what others blame them for. We all agree he gets a good chunk of the blame, but do you think Trump feels guilt? Should he? See, it’s backwards! He sure spends a lot of time shifting blame though, as if blame-shifting itself were the most righteous calling of orangemanity.
So ask yourself, are you trying to be like Trump, while discussing problems he refuses to admit are even real problems?
You should feel guilty, most of all, for refusing to shut-up about how blameless you are. So blameless that you must pre-emptively shift blame to others, as if people like me care if blame falls on us any more. It’s like you and the majority of people out there, every one of them just like you in your approach to this, honestly believes you’re more blameless than others.
I’ve told you to do nothing. Called you deserving of nothing-in-particular. Said nothing about myself as being any different in blameworthiness to you, beyond that I am bored with the notion of blame itself in the face of how bad things are, how much worse they are going to get, and how hard fixing any of it will be.
None of that has stopped you coming at me as though my refusal to call you or your pet exceptions blameless is a particularly eggregious offense to your very soul. Grow up.
Put me on the wall and shoot me all you like. Just make sure I’m surrounded by rich old people also getting shot. At this point, the fact the olds won’t volunteer to die or die doing something about it is plenty of reason to blame them also.
Future generations, the environment, and the guillotine factoy need the time and resources they will waste keeping my wrinkled ass alive more than they need the microseconds of sleep and comfort that killing me “should” cost them.
I can blame both, with more weighting to the billionaires of course. Only thing I suppose is that blaming boomers is generalising too much. Its a subset of boomers who vote to protect their exponentially increasing property values
The thing that is our fault is that we haven’t fixed things yet
With all that money we earned with those wages that stagnated and positions that were never freed up. Got it.
Or we could have voted for all those millennial politicians, for the past 20 years, to push forward the policies we have been asking for.
