Don't get me wrong, I think I know how reality works

It's not gonna change within a year or maybe 50..

But at some point people have to start and fight back

If we keep repeating "It's just how it is" shit will NEVER change

I refuse to accept shit as is, otherwise what's the point of everything

@mloxton I had such an idea but still..

The point of acceptance if the same as giving up I guess?

I am not sure *how* old these elderly people are but a good portion of elderly people aren't truly aware of "just how it is".

As just a surface example, I bought my home in 1999 for about $140k, and a home just like mine on my street recently sold for over $600k. My parents see this sort of thing on the news and are aware of it and will say things like "it must be hard for young people to buy a home if they are barely making $200k/year eh?" And I am like "oh mum they're lucky to make much more than half that" and they are just mind blown.

My parents were born before WW2 and grew up through the end of the depression and wartime rations so know hardship, but have lived their entire lives through fairly constant progress and prosperity. For older boomers they don't even know that pre war hardship, and comfortably retired they are all quite isolated from the experience of young adults. They cannot conceive of the concept 1st world society has unacceptably declined in recent years.

Sounds like they might be comfortable people and the suffering hasn't reached them yet, maybe?

People have to get fed up, out of patience. High empathy people can get fed up with the suffering of others. Low empathy people have to suffer directly, or see people just like themselves suffering, before they can get fed up.

Maybe they feel powerless. Maybe they are lazy.
Hard to say.

But yes, it's a very common phenomenon.

Though i agree there's this: the older, the more wars experienced and the more war-weary.

Grew up during the cold war, had a glimpse, a moment of hope when the soviet enemy fell, lost that after during both Iraq wars, 9/11, Aleppo, Bucha, 7/10 and recently tRump and his maggats.

57, Seriously think i'm not going to make it to 60. Have hit the Hopium too often, it doesn't work any more.

My very comfortably off sister said a while back that she has no problems with people becoming wealthy. I forgot to ask her both whey she said it and why she meant it.

Wealthy people on a planet with BILLIONS in poverty ...

hit 'em with history? anyone within spitting distance of "elderly" was around for the reagan tax cuts (from 70% to 50%). if they're actually oldies, then they were around for kennedy/johnson cutting rates from 90% to 70%.

so yeah, no, that's not how it has to be.

Yes but the point is to deny community and support to queer and trans kids while continuing to protect and support the anonymous trolls talking kids into suicide online.

They kept the poison free on purpose.

It's bad form to ask for more personal and exploitable data to use Discord when they couldn't protect the personal data we'd already provided to them.

Perhaps it's time to find a replacement platform on which we can recreate our communites.