It's really fucking shitty, I agree.
The sad fact of the US is that what you described is what we vote for every two years.
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What about the morons who ran a candidate with very public dementia?
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That's a lot of money for a Geno Smith.
Respectfully, only someone who doesn't know much about investing would make the argument this meme is making.
This generation isn't going to be cashing out any of their retirement funds for another generation, and isn't going to realize any gains or losses until that happens when they retire. Any gains or losses in the interim are generally inconsequential.
People at retirement age likely have the bulk of their funds in money markets and other exceedingly low risk investments, as that is money you cannot afford to lose.
Now is the time to buy stocks at a discount. Think of this as a Steam sale for your pocketbook and buy as much as you can while stock prices are in the tank.
(But yes, the news headlines are very scary.)
Also, too tired to filibuster when something bad actually needs to be stopped, like Chuck Schumer collaborating with Trump two weeks ago.
It had one on the secondary market. 🤟
Realistically, it's the fault of people voting for shitty candidates. That's not a matter of opinion, but of fact.
I'm always 2-3 years behind on new consoles for this very reason.
Your point of view sounds a whole lot like the 2500 year-old history of blaming young people.
In reality, however, it's the Boomers who are largely responsible for the world we find ourselves in, not the 20 year-olds. Electing Reagan twice, by itself, was more harmful to American society and beneficial to consumerism than anything Gen Z has done.
I don't think this is a generational thing, personally, unless we're talking about the Boomers.
The Boomers took a vibrant, beautiful world and spent two generations driving it into this McDonaldized hellhole we live in, after reaping the benefits of the most prosperous economic period for workers in our history in the 1960's. They're still profiting now thanks to the lopsided tax policies that favor people with wealth.
The vast majority of the country only has one or two choices when shopping for necessities now, so I can't really blame them for the world that they were born into. Calling young people consumerist is just blaming them for circumstances of which they had no real control.
Why?
Democrats and Republicans have spent the last eight years convincing the poor and middle class that voting doesn't matter. Hell, Democrats even subverted their own primary rules twice to strike that point home, and then argued in court that it was their right to do so when they were sued for it.
I vote, but I can't pretend it matters much when I watch most people in this country across the last eight years working gig jobs for 100 hours a week and all their labor can buy for them is a roach-infested studio regardless of where they live, and our president always has money and time for genocide.
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It's not a good comparison, though, as Reagan could still publicly present as a cognitively-functioning person.
Biden couldn't. The June debate wasn't the first time we'd seen his brain melt in public. It was just the worst.