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   Dude to Noah Sombrero   
   Re: Why are some young people angry?   
   20 Feb 26 15:42:52   
   
   From: punditster@gmail.com   
      
   On 2/20/2026 2:04 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:   
   > On Fri, 20 Feb 2026 16:54:04 -0500, Wilson    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >> https://x.com/AgroNationalism/status/2024850751214751912   
   >>   
   >> "Your generation inherited a global empire with a millennia of   
   >> accumulated capital and within one lifetime you liquidated it and sold   
   >> it to foreigners, and that wasn't enough.   
   >>   
   >> Then you took on unpayable debt, and THEN printed trillions of dollars   
   >> to hyperinflate and destroy the currency.   
   >>   
   >> Your age class intentionally underpays young people, shutting us out of   
   >> the asset market and making it impossible for us to build equity and   
   >> make investment capital gains.   
   >>   
   >> Then you boomers open the borders to flood the country with savage   
   >> criminals, who at best peacefully steal our jobs and extract welfare tax   
   >> money.   
   >>   
   >> At worst they run drugs that kill millions of people and make entire   
   >> swaths of the country unrecognizable and unlivable for white people.   
   >>   
   >> All so you can have a cheap concrete contractor for your patio. So you   
   >> can replace your roof for half the price that a white guy is able to charge.   
   >>   
   >> Now, with everything coming crashing down, your generation is retiring   
   >> en masse and is expecting to be waited upon hand and foot for TWENTY   
   >> YEARS of leisure and safety with world-class medical care by young   
   >> people that you STILL insist on underpaying."   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> I don't disagree with any of that.   
   >   
   > The mental contortions necessary to support such beliefs, however, are   
   > mind boggling.   
    >   
   You just can't make this stuff up!   
      
   It's not a stretch to imagine a Boomer, retired for twenty years,   
   expecting to be waited on hand and foot, while chatting safely at   
   leisure, with world-class medical care by young underpaid young people.   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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