Honestly, though, this has happened throughout all of human civilization. It’s only now that people think it’s generally a bad thing. In the past, you either didn’t care, suffered it, or celebrated the conquest.

What does the UK export that they could leverage here?

Why is it necessary to go on the attack over a past attempt that didn’t work? That’s how innovation functions. Sometimes you hit the mark and sometimes you don’t, but everyone learns from the process.

This is the most accurate take I have yet seen.

There’s a big difference between doing something in a lab and mass producing it for millions of people.

People who vote for law and order or over things like “crime” that are displaced from the real statistics are fucking morons and will always vote their emotions.

quote from Eugene Debs

I had to look that one up. Good reference.

Did you see that silly article with Gov. Abbot of TX indicating that people who left NYC would have to pay a tariff to enter TX?

That’s practically as sad, honestly.

You notice when you wake up and the sun either is brighter or it is dark outside.

That MUST be Thatcher. Amazing.

No but it did show where the zeitgeist was because I believe it was one of two times when that happened in US history.

People in South America still play Santa but it’s a much different experience in the hottest part of summer.

No joke they said nonsense like that. They forget that their own parents left them with nothing and they suffered. Fair is fair I guess.

I remember being 23 and asking my mom if she’d add me to one of her credit cards to help me with credit. I didn’t want access, just so that it would help my credit history. She refused by telling me that it was my responsibility.

I have felt sorry for boomers because of the endless propaganda. Only a few seem to have been able to see through it.

LOL mine too. They suddenly see the light and realize that they were terrible parents and now are so sad that many of my siblings are rampant MAGA types. Oh if only they knew then what they know now, dontchano.

I blame suburbanization more for that.

You have to remember that for Reagan’s first election, all but one state went for him. The entire generation and their parents/grandparents voted for destroying social safety nets.

Especially the boomers. The generations since them will prepare for this in some way. The boomers will just have all their wealth gobbled up by service companies.