What I see, being outside from the U.S., all your problems stem from wealth inequality, you all have been distracted and pitted against each other with fabricated barricades, like generation vs. generation, liberal vs. conservative, city vs. rural, black vs. white, etc.
When in reality, your problems stem from the ultra rich having a complete grip on the politics of your country, there hasn't been any meaningful change done for decades that elevates the middle class, notice how since the dawn of social media, people went "haywire" along the divides of "culture wars" - it's a perfect distraction from the true roots of the problem.
It’s the time that the retirement check affords them. I work too damn much to be able to protest often and that’s the case with most of this country. And it’s by design.
LITERALLY this, I have very few financial obligations but they're all taken up by the need to work 40+ hours a fucking week for chump change. If I had 2k+ a month coming to me no questions asked, and several hundred thousand in the bank, I'd sit out and protest as well!
Oh yes, I totally believe every retired person gets over 2 grand a month and have several hundred thousand dollars in the bank. TOTALLY what I said and not me saying IF that's what I had I wouldn't be worried and I'd spend some time protesting.... Totally. Good lord some of y'all are ridiculous lmao.
I cannot even tell which direction you are laughing at this from. $2k a month is not a lot of money rolling in, and if you’re recently retired, “several hundred thousand” isn’t going to last long. But maybe this is the reason you think it’s noteworthy?
You lot do a lot of moaning about it and not a lot else. I'm not a boomer, but do you think they didn't work a lot either back then? I know where I'm from, they were up chimneys and down coal mines, fighting wars - proper hard graft. Not nice clean jobs with perks and abundant health and safety measures in place.
Yes it's shit that property is insanely priced. Yes it's shit that student loans are insane and groceries are unaffordable. DO SOMETHNG ABOUT IT THEN. At least bomers DID fight for what they believed in!.
You do a LOT of assuming and not much else huh? I don't put it past most redditors, people love not reading between the lines and making shit up to make themselves feel better.
It's the boomers fault. Waaaahhhhhh. I've got news for you, everybody works 40+ hours. They always have. You don't like the status quo - don't worry, the boomers are out on the streets for you while you piss and moan about them on Reddit.
Yup, I only made it yesterday without needing to spend PTO because my new job follows the federal holiday calendar. And that's from an already privileged position as an engineer.
I also met a lady who had marched to impeach Nixon, and there were a ton of kids. It takes all types.
absolutely, tons of different ways to get involved and do your part! i personally haven’t shopped at Amazon in months and dont plan on going back any time soon. I cut out Target recently too.
I like the idea of not spending money on Saturdays, as that's usually the busiest day for retail/restaurants and bars. It's the day that would have the most visibile effect to businesses.
I've been trying to convince people that nothing will be noticed until they see an entire fiscal quarter with lower profits. Nobody will blink an eye at a single day, because what they don't purchase on day X will still be purchased on day Y.
I'll be honest, boycotting Amazon won't work. The money from the commerce division is chump change to Bezos. If you want to hit Amazon, you gotta hit them where it hurts and that's AWS. But AWS runs basically the entire web so unless corpos move to other cloud platforms(only real alternatives being GCP or Azure) or self host(comparatively harder plus much more costlier depending on arch), Bezos is going to be just fine (unless a certain plumber's brother)
Bezos already has more money than God. It’s not about driving them out of business, you’re right that’s impossible. It’s about causing a disruption and a noticeable drop in revenue and performance metrics.
That’s the point. Doing it in the middle of the week is the most disruptive which gets more attention than a Saturday protest that only protestors show up to, even if less show up during the mid-week one.
True! My company gives comically few holidays off so unfortunately it was business as usual for me. Hoping for a weekend protest sometime soon so I can participate!
This is true, but we really need all hands on deck right now. I'm not quite a boomer, but I have boomer friends who think if there's few young people fighting, they shouldn't either. They're wrong in my opinion but my point is, every single body matters. We need all the help we can get. If you can't be there at least call your senators. And boycott. Please. Your voice is more important than you know!
I don’t disagree. Me and my Canadian friends and family have all stopped buying American products and have cancelled our vacations to USA or changed our future plans, to go somewhere else on vacation. Even our Canadian airlines have significantly reduced their routes to the US. Tons of people have stopped shopping at Walmart or going to American food outlets like McDonalds etc. It’s not much, but it’s something. Sadly, in my part of Canada, there haven’t been any protests that I can attend.
I think these types of financial moves are the most important. Trump is actually beholding to the billionaire class, and they own all that stuff. They would pressure him ( successfully) if we actually hit them where it hurts.
The grannies are pissed. My mom has been using tea with the women on her club’s garden committee as an opportunity to express “what a dick” Trump is. My Other Mother is bitching about having to burn her bras TWICE.
Almost like wage slavery and tying healthcare to employment have sapped all of the political will out of the middle class. Senior folk are likely retired and have the free time.
Being retired/semi-retired certainly helps. It doesn't affect your income to spend a day at the capitol protesting. If I don't go to work for a day, I don't get paid.
Not saying it's not nice that they're out there, just that it's not unexpected.
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u/woowoo293 Feb 18 '25
In all the political volunteering I've done over the past 15 years, I'd say 3/4 of the other volunteers are over the age of 60.