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"venezuela? that was some mean bush"

evidently maduro was being guarded by a praetorian guard of cubans. as well as being frequently visited by chinese and russian diplomats (i.e. handlers), it seems fairly obvious what the geopolitical play is here. maduro may have even been slightly relieved to be taken out of that situation by the americans. i'm guessing the cubans would have preferred to shoot him rather than see him defect or bail out of the vise-like situation he has found himself in his country (i.e. massively unpopular and living on a military base).

the oil may be heavy low-grade muck, but that's the oil companies' problem. the american national debt is ballooning and the fed keeps making the money machine go brrrrr. securing a couple trillion dollars in resources can't hurt.

truly insane things are happening in the UK.

the boomers hoarding the national wealth to themselves, voting for populist Reform, and demanding triple-lock pensions at the cost of youths ever getting a house or having affordable university education, are also apparently getting coked-up to high heaven.

Last edited by uziq (2026-03-01 07:48:24)

lazy.

boomers live in the same economy as everyone else. in america's case. boomers still getting wiped out by medical bills from the 80s on. boomers today can be found living on the streets or in cars. still working (if any place will take them) not because they want to hog jobs, but because they have no choice if they want like two weeks of 'financial security' (haha) at any given time. 'better off' is still case-by-case.

even considering the reagan landslide in '84, +/=60-whatever % is still not an "all boomers suck" number. and with trump, it's probably hypocritical for younger voters to hold reagan over the boomers anymore in terms of susceptibility to cult of personality.

Last edited by unnamednewbie13 (2026-03-03 09:33:49)

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

lazy.

boomers live in the same economy as everyone else. in america's case. boomers still getting wiped out by medical bills from the 80s on. boomers today can be found living on the streets or in cars. still working (if any place will take them) not because they want to hog jobs, but because they have no choice if they want like two weeks of 'financial security' (haha) at any given time. 'better off' is still case-by-case.

even considering the reagan landslide in '84, +/=60-whatever % is still not an "all boomers suck" number. and with trump, it's probably hypocritical for younger voters to hold reagan over the boomers anymore in terms of susceptibility to cult of personality.

regardless of all that yapping, it is fucking insane that the youngest generations in the UK have all turned teetotal while the boomers are becoming increasingly hedonistic and taking drugs. the society is literally upside-down. it is a vampiric arrangement. all the tax takings and benisons of the state flow up the pyramid to the 'simon and linda' cruising types.



the fact that pubs and clubs have closed en masse is one thing, with arguable merits and demerits; but that the young are now too broke or thrifty to (mis)spend their youth on pints and cocktails is quite another. the vision of a country full of coked-up 55 year olds – who also skewed heavily towards things like brexit, and sustaining 15+ years of incompetent Tory rule – is absolutely demonic.

you're a state employee, of course you don't see it as antagonistically. the private sector in the UK has had negative wage growth and increased taxes for the last 15 years. i doubt that you're ever getting a payrise below the rate of inflation from the beneficent state of NJ. i'd be kum-bay-yah about the General Prosperity too if i had a teacher's pension.

as for racist subtexts: my guy you're more explicitly racist here than anyone else lmao. even that horn o'plenty from the education sector has you frequently redacting your own multi-paragraph posts. no, i don't think it's racist to point out that young people are basically getting a bad deal in the UK. i am mostly referring to the younger generations trapped in predatory university loans. i'm alright m8.

Last edited by uziq (2026-03-03 11:46:43)

in socialist yurop, boomers in the UK have a hotly contested thing called 'triple-lock state pensions'. that means regardless of how bad inflation becomes, no matter if wages are stagnating and nobody is getting annual raises to keep up, the retired can be sure their lifestyles are going to continue to improve relative to the worsening picture everywhere else. it fucking sucks when you have a top-heavy population pyramid occupied by conservatively (small-c) voting pensioners who want to keep their holiday homes and cruising lifestyle intact -- all paid for by weekly pension deposits.

i think the nick 30 ans meme in france and now in UK is finding traction with a lot of young people, because they are buried in debt and cannot afford to live in cities. the 'my taxes are going to the blacks' thing is mostly focussed in the UK around access to public/council housing. some of the most valuable real estate in the country in the inner zones of london is heavily subsidised social housing stock for basically un/underemployed migrant families. when the local population have such a hard time getting a foothold, it breeds resentment. this doesn't affect me, again – don't shoot the messenger – i'm just explaining why suddenly a lot of young people are voting for hard-right populist parties. that demographic of patient and understanding liberal graduates who can rise above the crabs-in-bucket dire economics are a tiny sliver of the population, and even they have been fucked over by punitive and usurious loans. after 15 years of this declining picture, people have their pitchforks out.

how would making love to sweet oriental women make me a racist? if anything, by that logic and according to that calumny, i'm a race-enjoyer, not a h8r. checkmate.

Last edited by uziq (2026-03-03 15:31:14)