• CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Probably because at least some boomers were educated enough (in their schools as well as hearing it straight from their parents) about the dangers of fascism.

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      10 months ago

      I never quite understood what those were for…I remember people mocking boomers that still did that (because it was something the generation before mostly did?) but was it to preserve the couches?

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        It was to preserve the couches. And TBF they did work for that, but they raised the question of why the fuck did you pay for expensive furniture that you never used, and why did you devote a whole room in your house to that shit? The answer is it was for “company”, i.e. visitors you didn’t like and couldn’t wait for them to leave.

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        10 months ago

        They just foresaw Vance’s arrival, and were trying to protect the virtue of their innocent couches from him.

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          It was foretold in the lint patterns of old, embroidered into the sofas of kinds, printed on those little inside stickers that tell you how to wash things, that one day a great couch fucker will be born, a couch fucker with pretty blue eyes & mad eye-shadow game, a couch fucker to unite both the couch fucker nation, and ottoman fucker nomads, one couch fucker to rule them all (couches, not other couch fuckers).

          But the prophecies were lost to time and legend, decayed like the crusty old jizz between the cushions, subject to decades of hateful propaganda by the evil those-shitty-massage-chair-that-dont-shiatsu-but-only-vibrate oligarchy.

          However in the end, the great couch fucker (GCF?) shall rise, and don’t do shit.
          Not for incompetence reasons, nor all the hate speech, but because love defeats all. For nothing ever compared to that first couch, the couch he took when his parents tried to throw it out, the couch that is now in his bedroom where the bed should be.

          In the end, as all great legend go, the great couch fucker was defeated by a sweet old couch that fucked, fucked good.

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          That doesn’t make sense - how else do you get little couches if the momma couch can’t be fucked?

          But yes, you are correct about that, but I try to PSA that its not the great financial & economical depression that caused such behaviour - that behaviour is the default, the normal, what humans always did.

          Its the extreme profit driven consumerism that followed that that indoctrinated us into the ‘buy new completely discard the old, dont think about it’ … a price generations are now beginning to pay.

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          10 months ago

          Can confirm. My grandma had a sealed couch that would protect it from stains and the like. Scum like Vance would slide right off.

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    To play devil’s advocate in defense of the Vance pick, I don’t think Trump needs any assistance in courting boomers. He’s managed to appeal to the generation’s racist tendencies and “I got mine” attitudes to great success. Vance is to try and attract the young dudebro vote with a discount Andrew Tate. So far he seems like the incel messiah, so maybe it’s even working, but obv in all normal circles being such a giant incel is weird af.

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        Her tradwife scores were so high that she beat all other couches competitors even after losing points for her inferior bloodline.

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          I think it’s more than simply being involuntarily celibate. It’s a whole thought process and belief system that places blame outside of yourself which creates a great animosity towards others.

          I wouldn’t call myself an incel, but I sure wouldn’t be passing up sex if I were able to have it. I just don’t blame or hate women for my problems. It’s entirely my fault that I suck lol

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        I know the term is involuntary celibate, but the “movement” has kinda moved onto any men who believe that a woman is obligated to fuck them. That crowd has picked up on a heavy pro-natal message, and Vance’s disparaging comments about women who don’t have kids plays well there. He might have had sex, but he’s trying to offer those losers a world where they’re on top of the power structure.

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                he’s an incel who got laid. philosophically, psychologically, socially, he still is. he just got his dick wet a few times. as much as they whine about it;the difference isn’t big enough to waste valuable bandwidth defining.

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                  There is a big difference in a virgin and someone who fathered children.

                  And no I’m not defending him. He’s a total piece of shit. Just not involuntarily celibate even if he shares some views with those who are.

                  I mean just as one example of how they’re different: level of sexual frustration.

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          10 months ago

          Bit silly really. Why do they need women when they can have a really nice couch?

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      Yeah, but did Trump really need any help locking up that vote? It’s not like they were going to flock over to Democrats anytime soon. He’s just doubling down on demographics that were already going for him anyways. He needed a stable Pence figure that could convince “on the fence” voters that there was still going to be an adult in the room, or just somebody who is anti-Israel or supports Palestine, that probably would’ve caused the most chaos among Democrats. They’d disagree on everything else, but hey, this person is against genocide in Israel, let’s vote for them.

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        He needed a stable Pence figure that could convince “on the fence” voters that there was still going to be an adult in the room

        Anyone stable enough to be that figure saw what his cult wanted to do to Pence and wouldn’t want to be his running mate.

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        I think the only anti-Israel person Trump would be able to get would be a literal Nazi, so I don’t know if that would have changed anything.

        I do think that there’s a lot of apathy among the incel crowd though. Yeah they might support Trump as a strong man, but that doesn’t mean they’re willing to expend the energy to go outside and vote for him. I think the idea is that Vance is uh, energizing? that movement with all of his incredibly pro-natal talk. Vance feels pretty close to saying he wants women to just be breeding stock, and that’s something incels would vote for.

        I can’t really play devil’s advocate beyond that, it feels too yucky trying to rationalize it. For all we know he was just the name Trump thought of on the day.

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    10 months ago

    Real question is why younger generations aren’t more negative? Just ignorance or do they actually like him more?

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      The survey comprised 1,001 adults, out of a total population of about 330 million in the US. I’d think it very likely that many demographic groups weren’t accurately represented in that 1,001.

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      My guess is that it is ignorance and some of the same ignorant people look at the age of someone and think a younger person will somehow represent younger people better in some undefined way.

      I’ve heard the low-wattage types (we probably all have) that looked at Biden and donnie and wrote them off as more or less the same because they are both “old white guys”. So they either didn’t vote, or voted third party…I bet these same types see Vance and think he is somehow a good choice for younger voters…

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    10 months ago

    Millennial here, we don’t like him either. I’m really concerned for the couches my children will have to grow up with.

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    Trump would never allow a strong male to roam his pasture. Of course he chose a limp towel to be his running mate. Vance is basically his mini me.

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        Oh that’s not an issue. He’s got his name on the one hand and the info to not poop his pants on the other. He confuses the hands sometimes, but for that he’s wearing diapers. JD cries though, when the old man calls him sir poopy pants.

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      I saw a Trump/Vance sign the other day that had started as a Trump/Pence sign originally, and they just changed the first two letters of the VP’s name - the different color of those two letters made it clear.

      It made me wonder if Trump picked Vance because his name was so similar to Pence.

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    10 months ago

    Can I request he stop coming to Michigan? This week marks the 3rd time since becoming Trump’s choice. We don’t want him here.

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    10 months ago

    Don’t let’s ignore the searing hatred us gen xers have for this living example of retrograde evolution.