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[–] mariusafa@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 10 months ago (43 children)

What kind of psycopath counts generation death as a good thing. All interesting humans dead and you take it as an achievement.

Stop crying on the past. Stop blaming past on generations. Start learning from past generation mistakes, and thank them for having you.

Because as a new generation we're going to make a lot of mistakes, who knows if more or less than the past generations. And we shouldn't be blamed in the future.

Blaming the past generations and not learning from them is a childish response. Start doing something productive and useful to society, blaming is not helping.

Stop having tantrums and grow up. And thank you have past generations otherwise you would have to create all we have now from scratch.

It's like saying "Newton dumb" because his work is old and it doesn't work correctly for all physical frames, not like Einstein his work is much better. Both are as good because they lived at different times with different technology, knowledge, society, etc.

This feels like explaining basic life knowledge to a 3 year old tbh.

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 10 points 10 months ago (14 children)

Kiddies who can't think beyond the "us vs them" mentality but also think that all old people are bad, like that's not as insane a generalisation as saying "all people of X race/sexuality/whatever are bad". Human brains love trying to put everything in categories and labels, especially other humans.

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 1 points 10 months ago (10 children)

also think that all old people are bad

Not many people actually believe this. It's more that statistically it's better for the country as more old people die. My boomer parents are progressive, but the generation by and large is holding us back. Of course the electoral college is part of the problem as well.

[–] GoodbyeBlueMonday@startrek.website 1 points 10 months ago

This isn't far from the logic put forth in Kill The Poor by the Dead Kennedys. https://genius.com/Dead-kennedys-kill-the-poor-lyrics

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