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05-06-2019, 01:53 AM
Isn't rent control one of those things where of course the communists/socialists want an authoritarian solution (rent control), while the real solution is just to build more damn housing?
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05-06-2019, 02:21 AM
Gee, if I had to keep rent down to artificially low levels due to a housing shortage, I sure wouldn't be willing to accept bribes from potential tenants to rent my super in-demand apartments. No way that would happen...
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05-06-2019, 09:38 AM
I reject the entire frame of these generational debates.
The people to blame are the ultra-rich, not grandma and grandpa who bought their house back in the 60s for $10k. They simply got lucky.
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05-06-2019, 09:21 PM
The thing many are missing when they try to understand the 1960s, is how little control most people actually have over their own minds. I still remember when the hippies came out, the construction workers hated the hippies and would beat them up. In merely one or two years later, the same construction workers were wearing long hair down to their waistes and smoking pot. The reality is that it was a very small group of manipulators supported by the media that changed the entire society. People are herd animals and easy to manipulate. It's like blaming a robot for its role in assembling a car. The manipulators don't get blamed because they remain invisible. It all looks spontaneous and supports the illusion of free will.
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05-07-2019, 11:09 AM
Again I'm a boomer (on the younger side, not a straight hippy but knew a lot of them). It's my group and I've watched them my whole life.
Boomers are 180 degrees opposite of the World War 2 generation. The WW2 people would do what it took, sacrifice their lives as needed, to give their children a better life.
Boomers would sacrifice their children's future to indulge themselves, then make up some BS reasons why it's the right thing. They are the most narcissistic group of humans ever to have lived. Ever.
Don't tell me: "oh, they're misunderstood". That's bullshit. They are easy to understand. They are selfish narcissistic assholes. Sure, brilliant and successful in their prime, and created a lot of amazing things, but now that they're getting old, their veneer of success is wearing down and all we see are selfish old fucks grinding their children and grandchildren into dirt poverty to feed their massive egos.
Of course they will win. Their kids don't have the numbers or the balls to resist them. After the last of the boomers die, the kids will be standing in a wasteland, looking at burned-out factories and ghettos, gated communities where the billionaire's have separated from the commoners. The middle class gone. Police and government owned by the rich and the corporations. The dreams of a healthy futuristic middle-class society, the dreams of the post-WW2 generation, destroyed - not - by any external foe, but by the greed and degradation of the boomers.
The kids of the boomers will have to fix it somehow. Or it collapses and we end up in a new Great Depression and war.
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05-07-2019, 01:08 PM
Quote: (05-07-2019 11:09 AM)MrLemon Wrote:
Again I'm a boomer (on the younger side, not a straight hippy but knew a lot of them). It's my group and I've watched them my whole life.
Boomers are 180 degrees opposite of the World War 2 generation. The WW2 people would do what it took, sacrifice their lives as needed, to give their children a better life.
Boomers would sacrifice their children's future to indulge themselves, then make up some BS reasons why it's the right thing. They are the most narcissistic group of humans ever to have lived. Ever.
Don't tell me: "oh, they're misunderstood". That's bullshit. They are easy to understand. They are selfish narcissistic assholes. Sure, brilliant and successful in their prime, and created a lot of amazing things, but now that they're getting old, their veneer of success is wearing down and all we see are selfish old fucks grinding their children and grandchildren into dirt poverty to feed their massive egos.
Of course they will win. Their kids don't have the numbers or the balls to resist them. After the last of the boomers die, the kids will be standing in a wasteland, looking at burned-out factories and ghettos, gated communities where the billionaire's have separated from the commoners. The middle class gone. Police and government owned by the rich and the corporations. The dreams of a healthy futuristic middle-class society, the dreams of the post-WW2 generation, destroyed - not - by any external foe, but by the greed and degradation of the boomers.
The kids of the boomers will have to fix it somehow. Or it collapses and we end up in a new Great Depression and war.
The problem with your thinking (and the main reason why we've clashed on this forum) is that you believe that this state of things is purely spontaneous: boomers are just selfish, narcissistic people, women are just plain evil etc.
Somehow women were great until the 1960s, when they suddenly became nasty man-hating feminists, and people were great in the 1950s, then they spontaneously became selfish douches?...
Fact is, there was an agenda. The leading feminist figure and biggest change agent was Gloria Steinem, a CIA agent who lived large and dated globalists like Kissinger and Mort Zuckerman between marches with brainwashed shiksas, where she tells them that "they need men like a fish needs a bicycle".
The Frankfurt School was shipped over postwar and posted all over American academia. Sex and drugs were relentlessly pushed on the leftie Boomers on one hand, while on the right, shills like William Buckley herded conservative BoomerCons into right-wing globalism (pro war, zionist free trade laisser-faire civic nationalism).
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05-07-2019, 01:20 PM
MrLemon, you sound like the Boomer version of the white lady who says she is spending the rest of her life teaching white people to listen.
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05-07-2019, 05:36 PM
Left-wing millennials really are no different than Boomers (and they are just as degenerate and hypocritical).
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05-07-2019, 05:53 PM
You want to know the only thing you can assume about a broken down old man? It's that he's a survivor.
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05-08-2019, 02:13 AM
The thing about boomers is that rarely do they admit a mistake. It's one thing to get baited as kids into sex lib and social destruction, then into yuppie careerism. They were led this way purposefully, I can understand that. But it's another thing entirely to never admit this was wrong. This unwillingness to admit they were duped into destroying western society is annoying, especially when they do the opposite and see themselves as heroes.
Not all of course, but most.
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05-08-2019, 02:25 AM
I am glad that I am learning to be competent and confident no matter what. I see now that circumstances do not affect the quality of my life. My choices, thinking, actions and reactions do.
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05-08-2019, 11:26 AM
I am a Boomer, and I try always to be humble, nice, and honest with younger generations.
In a few years I'm gonna need someone to change my diapers.
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