The most annoying thing about being human right now...

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32. Yeah, many of us never stopped trying to get the world to the point of "growing up"

We fought the yuppies back in the day, and we fight them now in anyway we can. The fight just takes on a different form when you're talking about 70 yo vs 20 yo. Today, those of us still fighting, marching, protesting, and boycotting are hard pressed to do even those things, and most of us think they're pretty useless against this administration. This is the time for the younger generations to pick up the movement and run with it just as we did...or even moreso... We were fighting for a world where everyone was treated the same... with human dignity and rights. Today, we're fighting for people just to be allowed to live. How much greater the fight. And how ill equipped we hippies and Rainbow children were against the big monied yippies and yuppies of their day. The Bush's hated us with all their might, and rigged every election and law against us. Still, we wouldn't go away. Take away our food or ability to earn a living? We didn't go away, we got right back into their faces.

I'm 70. Thanks to the yuppies we fought then and the billionaire corporate "persons" they enabled, I have both lupus and fibro. These are, near as I can tell, genetic possibilities that stay dormant until kicked off due to some environmental issue. The fact they hit women more often than men is a feature, not a bug to these people. They are terraforming this world against living, human beings, IMO. And they're doing it on purpose. They'll have ways to continue in this brave new world of unbreathable air, undrinkable water, and soil that won't grow good food. They're AI masters will find a way.

I say this only in part via /snark. I am incensed that all we tried to do back when we were in our heyday has come to nothing. But I blame "incrementalism" more than anything else. The fact we were duped into believing by our people to be satisfied with change that comes little by little, instead of striking for the common good of all. And I'm fearful of good people falling for it once again. Go along to get along speaks of tolerance, and it goes to the very heart and soul of most of us. But there are a LOT of people who don't deserve tolerance of any kind. Maga is one of those groups, IMO.