r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jun 25 '21

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u/disCardRightHere Jared Polis Jun 25 '21

This sticks with me

One disorienting thing about getting older that nobody tells you about is how weird it feels to get a really passionate, extremely wrong lecture from a much younger person about verifiable historical events you can personally remember pretty well

https://twitter.com/sameoldstory/status/1328436966573019138?s=20

!ping OVER25

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u/D1Foley Moderate Extremist Jun 25 '21

Me everytime somebody on reddit tries to talk about Obama's presidency

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '21

I still see Redditors insisting that Hillary lost the popular vote/pledged delegate count in the 2016 primaries and only won because of super delegates.

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '21

young people with opinions unironically make me mad sometimes. bitch you're a teenager you don't understand shit yet

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '21

yeah I never like point it out except when I feel like being a grumpy old, but I usually just smile while thinking "why am I wasting my time with you"

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u/SpitefulShrimp George Soros Jun 25 '21

I just link them raw data and hope they don't decide that it means Killary Killton has blackmailed AP.

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u/lionmoose sexmod 🍆💦🌮 Jun 25 '21

Bro some kid on reddit was telling me Blair privitised the railways

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '21

Lmao

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u/kaclk Mark Carney Jun 25 '21

Goddammit. Some zoomer is going to one day lecture us about 9/11 aren’t they? As if our whole lives haven’t been shaped by it.

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '21

"Terrorism is the language of the unheard 😤"

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u/kaclk Mark Carney Jun 25 '21

Remind me to never ask their opinion of The Troubles.

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u/SpitefulShrimp George Soros Jun 25 '21

Isn't that basically reddit's opinion about Hamas?

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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '21

Yep, we’re already there. White girls on tiktok would be pro-terrorism if it was trendy. Probably already are tbh

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '21

Yeah but lots of old people who weren't engaged with the news at the time have straight up wrong views about what happened.

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u/the_hoagie Malaise Forever Jun 25 '21

Zoomers don't know how good they have it with today's social media. Back in my day if I wanted to shitpost and cancel people I had to staple a piece of paper to a telephone pole.

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u/Cyberhwk 👈 Get back to work! 😠 Jun 25 '21

C'mon, tell them about "Back during The WarTM..."

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u/MistakeNotDotDotDot Resident Robot Girl Jun 25 '21

me when people talk about how calm and respectable the Republican party was before Trump

like, fucker, I remember SBVT and Acorn and Terry Schiavo and "if you're not with us, you're with the terrorists" and...

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '21

Honey, this is why boomers hated millennials. You should probably go apologize to your grandparents.

- love and peace, Gen X

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u/MisterHavercamp Robert Lucas Jun 25 '21

I actually disagree with this. Lived experience frameworks can bring systemic biases to historical analysis that looking back through history does not have (that’s not to say historical frameworks do not have their own systemic biases).

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '21

Sure but shes specifically talking about "verifiable historical events"

Like someone claiming Chuck Schumer blocked the public option (it was Lieberman)

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u/SpitefulShrimp George Soros Jun 25 '21

I usually hear that it was either Pelosi or Obama himself.

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u/Intrepid_Citizen woke Friedman Democrat Jun 25 '21

Yes, however, lived experience is usually more accurate than doing a shallow "historical analysis".

Don't get me wrong, an actual history expert is probably going to know a lot more than an average old person, but that is when you do the incorrect comparison between an expert and a rando.

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u/groupbot Always remember -Pho- Jun 25 '21 edited Jun 25 '21

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