I played Dark Souls for 80 hours before I thought it was crap. Shit graphics (on the Xbox 360), shit difficulty, no story, thought the game was just one big trollface, tempting you with ideas that might pan out, but don't. I kept playing because everybody else thought it was the best game ever, and convinced myself that it was like other RPGs, where if you grinded enough to get the right gear, you could tame the difficulty. It didn't. Difficulty for older areas was better, but new area difficulty was still shit.
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That's not true. The cynicism gave us critical thinking skills to navigate through the bullshit we live with on the internet now. If anything, Millennials and Zoomers are more corporate friendly than ever, consuming whatever the doomscrollers tell them to.
Well, that depends on how well we manage to get out from under the shadow of the boomers and bring our ideals to the next generations.
It's too late for that. The last meaningful bill that got passed was Obamacare, and even that was watered down and didn't do much to solve the healthcare crisis.
Whatever government benefits we are holding on to will be gutted in the next four years, and American democracy will be dismantled within the next decade.
Welcome to the final goal of late-stage capitalism: anarcho-capitalism. We'll be paying for our fire departments and police protections before you know it.
All patents need to be killed. They only benefit the rich and powerful.
We live in the same country we did 4 years ago, we live in the same country that elected Barrack Obama twice.
They elected Obama twice and then stayed home in 2010, ensuring that he would never have the support he needed to pass bills.
Nobody gives a shit about politics. They only care about popularity contests.
Star Wars, Ghostbusters, the Mario Movie, the Breakfast Club, the Princess Bride, it goes on and on and on. The heroes were all rebelling against some ignorant authority that either didn’t understand the damage it was able to do or didn’t care about hurting those who had no power. As a result, when I was coming up my generation felt very much against the established status quo. Even the kid-targeted stuff in the early 90s, it was all gross-out humor and struggling against adult authority in favor of personal autonomy. Nickelodeon takes over your school. As a teenager it was grunge and punk and everything being ‘extreme’.
And what did Gen X get out of it? To be so forgotten as a generation that everybody else thinks we're Boomers!
Ask anybody who's not a Gen Xer to list out the current generations and they will, without fail, say: "Boomers, Millennials, Zoomers, and whatever Alphas are going to turn into"
It's not that they don't want to institute these things. It's the fact that every Republican win shifts the Overton window, and makes them believe that they need to move more to the center.
"If the GOP are winning elections, then maybe this is what the American people want."
Also, none of us are the typical voter. Nobody on this forum, nobody popular on Twitter, nobody with a YouTube channel. None of us are the average mindless American that doesn't give a shit about politics, doomscrolling 4 hours a day, falling for whatever propaganda lands on their eyes, and are only voting because it's a team sport they get to play every four years.
From now on, I’m voting for someone that can offer real change.
So, Trump or whoever the GOP offers?
Unless that resistance includes armed insurrection, it's not going to do a damn bit of good. Full control over all three branches of federal government, and they'll make sure they implement their policies as quickly as possible.
I mean, that all depends on what the MPL allows.
Trump wasn't elected in 2016?
*cough* Dr. Who *cough*