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Wasn't sure where to put this, but we need a thread for the wing nuts. Lauren Boebert.
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You've provided no evidence at all.
LA - LA. said:You don't see the internal contradiction of those two statements?
People are individual people who respond and react to the same major shared events in very different ways, because they are unique, complex individuals
LA - LA. said:Did we all get shaped and turn out the same way from COVID? We obviously didn't. My grandparents lived through the Great Depression. Some were very miserly and stingy and the others were overly generous. Two very different individual outcomes to the same shared experience.
That is the fundamental flaw in the idea that one's birth generation is a significant indicator and predictor of how an individual will be. It also makes the false assumption that the people in each generation have universally unique traits from the people of other generations. Every generation has every kind of people as far as behavioral traits and values, because like you very accurately stated "people are people."
Generations, particularly blaming generations, is just another manifestation of tribalism used to keep us divided and squabbling with each other instead of unifying against the foundation of all inequity and inequality, the systemic perpetuation of caste/class systems. Don't eat the cheese, it's toxic and only does harm.
This seems to be a bit of a tangent to this thread, but I think this particular stat is a bit misleading in this context, given that a key reason that the millennials are poised to become the richest generation over the next 20 years is that they - well, some of them - are going to inherit it from the boomers and silent generation.And guess which "generation" is actually going to amass the most wealth? Hint, it isn't the "Boomers."
Millennials stand to become the richest generation in history, after $90 trillion wealth transfer | CNN Business
Many millennials are currently grasping in frustration at long-held American Dreams like homeownership, a steady job and an affordable cost of living. However, over the next twenty years, Millennials are poised to inherit some $90 trillion of assets and become the richest generation in history –...www.cnn.com
I don't know where to put this
When you make assumptions about inherent traits of any group it is triggering. Try going to a group of black people and telling them that black people are lazy and see how that goes. Saying that boomers are selfish is just a shallow idea, which you refute yourself when you say people are just people. I totally agree with that. People are just people and not much has changed since the Middle Ages as far as human personality traits. There are roughly equal numbers of good and bad, selfish and altruistic, whatever trait you care to mention, between generations. This idea that generations share inherent traits is pretty ridiculous and is the sociological version of astrology.Please for the love of god, stop with the anecdotal stories. If you can't handle a conversations about demographics without getting all up in your feelings. Fine, just ignore the post and move on. This should not be triggering.
ENID, Okla. — The photo of Judd Blevins was unmistakable.
In it, Blevins, bearded and heavyset, held a tiki torch on the University of Virginia campus, on the eve of Unite the Right, a 2017 coming-together of the nation’s neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups.
Connie Vickers had found the photo online along with others showing Blevins marching alongside an angry mob — a crowd of men recorded throughout the night spitting and shouting “Jews will not replace us!” Vickers had it enlarged at a local print and copy shop.
On a January night in 2023, she and Nancy Presnall, best friends, retirees and rare Democrats in a deeply red Oklahoma county, brought it to a sparsely attended forum where Blevins, a candidate running to represent Ward 1 on Enid’s six-seat City Council, was making his case.
They had hoped to get a question in while Blevins was on stage, but settled for confronting him after.
Hearts pumping, Presnall and Vickers approached the 41-year-old former Marine. From a kitchen trash bag, Vickers pulled out the blown-up photo of Blevins and asked about his ties to white nationalists.
As his campaign manager whisked a red-faced Blevins away, Vickers and Presnall followed, yelling, “Answer the question, Judd!”
“He ran away from two little old ladies,” Presnall recalled.
Two weeks later, on Valentine’s Day, Blevins won his race, unseating the Republican incumbent, widely viewed as a devoted public servant, who died from cancer later that year. Voters seemed to appreciate Blevins’ bio: a veteran who’d served in Iraq and who’d worked a manual job in Tulsa before moving back to his hometown to take over his father’s roofing business. Blevins described himself as a man of God and extolled the city as a place where “traditional values” remained the norm.
The message resounded in Enid, a city nearly 100 miles north of Oklahoma City with just over 50,000 people. In 1980, more than 90% of the area's residents were white; now less than 3 in 4 are. Enid is both one of the country’s most quickly diversifying places and one of the most conservative, where residents describe the ever-present whirring of jets from nearby Vance Air Force Base as “the sound of freedom.”
It’s not clear how many voters knew about Blevins’ white nationalist ties. There was an article in the local paper, which Blevins labeled “a hit piece,” but beyond the confrontation with Vickers and Presnall, it just wasn’t talked about. Blevins wasn’t asked about it at campaign events or forums and his opponent never brought it up.
But a white nationalist campaigning for office is one thing; his election is another. And Blevins’ win didn’t sit well with many in Enid. It marked the beginning of a fight to expel Blevins from the City Council — a fight for the very soul of Enid that would unite a coalition of its most progressive residents, divide its conservatives and show the power of community organizing.
Over the next year, grandmothers would be branded antifa radicals, local organizers would be accused of attempted murder, and a national white power movement would stake its claim on the City Council. And for a growing number of state and local governments confronting extremism in their ranks, the outcome of that fight — Blevins’ recall election on April 2 — will serve either as a model or a warning.............
A small city in Oklahoma elected a white nationalist. Will it be able to vote him out?
Judd Blevins, a city commissioner in Enid, Oklahoma, marched in the 2017 white nationalist Unite the Right rally. Now he faces a recall vote.www.nbcnews.com
Texas Governor Greg Abbott's warning to musicians who have pulled out of the South by Southwest festival (SXSW) over the U.S. Army's sponsorship could put the festival's economic impact of $300 million at risk.
The internationally recognized festival brings thousands of visitors to Austin each March, showcasing music, film and interactive media. This year's festival is running through Saturday and includes live panels and special events.
In 2023, SXSW brought in $380.9 million of spending activity to Austin, surpassing even pre-pandemic numbers, according to an analysis by Greyhill Advisors.
On Tuesday, musicians including Kneecap, Lambrini Girls, Scowl, Gel, Okay Shalom, Squirrel Flower and Sprints began pulling out of SXSW in protest of the U.S. Army's sponsorship amid heightened tensions in the U.S. and around the world due to the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. The musicians have cited the U.S Army's role amid the conflict as the U.S. has provided strong support and military aid to Israel following Hamas' October 7 attacks.
Abbott criticized the musicians in a post on X, formerly Twitter, warning them "don't come back" to the state.
"Bands pull out of SXSW over U.S. Army sponsorship. Bye. Don't come back. Austin remains the HQ for the Army Futures Command. San Antonio is Military City USA. We are proud of the U.S. military in Texas. If you don't like it, don't come here," Abbott wrote.
There are concerns that the governor's warning could put the revenue that the festival brings in each year at risk. Newsweek has reached out to Abbott's office and SXSW via email for comment.
"SXSW does not agree with Governor Abbott," SXSW wrote on X. "We are an organization that welcomes diverse viewpoints. Music is the soul of SXSW, and it has long been our legacy. We fully respect the decision these artists made to exercise their right to free speech. Across the globe, we are witnessing unspeakable tragedies, the rise of repressive regimes, and the increasing spread of violent conflict. It's more crucial than ever that we come together to solve these greater humanitarian issues."
After a two-year pause in the festival due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the event's impact on the Austin economy in 2022 totaled $280.7 million, according to SXSW, as it typically attracts over 300,000 people each year...........
This is how boomers got their wealth, largely, yet we still see them being touted as “wealthy” when they got their money the exact same way. Not seeing the misleading bit here.This seems to be a bit of a tangent to this thread, but I think this particular stat is a bit misleading in this context, given that a key reason that the millennials are poised to become the richest generation over the next 20 years is that they - well, some of them - are going to inherit it from the boomers and silent generation.
Does sharing the wealth - patchily - between generations really count when it's happening because they can't take it with them?
And then also today, a sitting governor made and released a commercial for an out-of-state dental clinic on social media.
Oh, Candace,