• ripcord@lemmy.world
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            No, no, the correct meaning of “boomer” apparently is “anyone older than me that I don’t like”

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              I recently heard some teenager call someone that was Gen Y a “boomer”. IRL.

              Yeah, I actually laughed out loud at that. 🤣

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              Attempting to explain anything meaningful by referencing generational cohorts is a lazy, useless pastime anyway. It has about as much intellectual rigor and explanatory power as astrology or the theory of humours.

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      This is a huge about-face by her. Why couldn’t she have done this when she was still in power?

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      Retire? Oh you’re funny.

      She is 100% planning on dying in office. She’s obviously one those people who are obsessed with leaving a “legacy”. In her mind she’s going to be remember as the first female member of the House and a groundbreaking feminist who made way for others, etc.

      Which would have probably stuck if she’d retired a decade ago. Now she’s going to remembered as a greedy ghoul who intentionally sabotaged other politicians and held back society to enrich herself. This is too little, too late.

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        Yea, I have nothing but disdain for Dianne Feinstein who did great things like 300 years ago and then held on to her position so long that it all got ruined and thrown away.

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        a groundbreaking feminist who made way for others

        Ah, right, he “woman CEO” 1970s bourgeois feminist trope. But experience has now demonstrated that here’s no difference between a male and a female corrupt weasel. Capitalists are still capitalists, and their weasel mouthpieces are still weasels.

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      Yeah I was gonna say, she’s 85 and has insider traded her way to a net worth of ~$250 million. No wonder she’s like yeah fuck it lol.

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      Normally I’d agree, but she’s one of the old boomers. She’s planning to stay in power another 15 years.

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        Well, kids these days only care about TikCrafts and their MineToks, so it’s our fault she has to stay in power. If we cared more about governance by the people, for the people, instead of streaming Fartnight, she could learn what skibidi toilet Ohio means from her great-grandkids and know why Democrats lose there.

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    That’s like Trump saying they should ban pedophilia now that he can’t get it up anymore.

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    lol, she already made her money. I agree with removing it, but that’s a very boomer way of seeing…. “I’ve got mine, so fuck you”.

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    Twist: It is actually a total ban on all stock trading thus eliminating stock markets forever.

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    She blocked it when it had a chance of passing. Of course she supports it now that she knows it won’t

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      Pelosi is the poster child (though “child” in this case is woefully inappropriate) for why such a ban is needed.

      If it weren’t for insider trading, she’d be living in a trailer.

      The fact that she’s speaking on the topic at all bespeaks a breathtaking level of arrogance and hypocrisy.

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        If it weren’t for insider trading, she’d be living in a trailer.

        I don’t get what the point of saying stupid shit like this is. She had been speaker of the house for years, and in Congress for decades. Making 170-190k/year. That’s not trailer money. Her husband also was wealthy prior to this.

        Did they abuse her position for personal gain? Yes.

        Would they be poor without it? Fuck no

        Is she the worst offender? Also no, but Republicans refuse to admit their own politicians do the same shit, more blatantly and more often. Do she gets criticism from all angles while Republican politicians get it only from the opposition. Being the most prominent member of the house also gave her advise more visibility.

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      That’s probably the only way to move things forward though. Implement rules that only affect future politicians. Let the current generation have their cake. We can gradually transition to something more sane as they get replaced.

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        I loathe agreeing with that, but when a political system is so self-serving, that’s the only way.

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      It wouldn’t have changed her retirement plans when she blocked the last attempt several years ago

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    Clearly Nancy doesn’t believe in a word that she’s saying. It doesn’t take decades to figure out that you’re getting rich because you have insider knowledge. Which means she knows there’s no chance the legislation would pass, and she’s just grandstanding, and hey that’s better than nothing, so we can give her a golf clap.

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      It’s cynical, dishonest, manipulative, and completely unproductive.

      Based on that alone I completely believe that Nancy Pelosi did the math and realized that Democrats could argue for this out loud maybe even vote for it but there’s no chance that it’ll ever happen so it’s a great chance for her to actually do politics with the voters which I thought she had considered beneath her.

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    To everyone here dismissing this and saying “too little too late…”

    What are republicans doing or saying that comes even close to this?

    Like sure this is bullshit, but can anyone say when republicans even came close to the lowest fake ass shit you’d pretend this to be ?

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      She’s commenting in support of a Republican’s bill. This is Hawley. It’s performative. They all know it won’t pass.