axont

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[–] axont@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

what's ligma balls

[–] axont@hexbear.net 77 points 1 year ago (13 children)

Libs are still on about Trump drinking water with 2 hands? Completely indistinct from chuds screaming about Obama's tan suit.

[–] axont@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Listening to people younger than yourself also keeps you grounded in the present. Too many people get stuck in the past, or get isolated from wider society. I really don't want to become a detached old person, that's one of my greatest fear. I don't ever want to have the feeling that time has passed me by and I'll never understand the world.

I haven't had that feeling so far, thankfully. You're right about younger people needing mentors and stuff, I hadn't seen it much from that angle. I think older people need to listen to younger folk as well, to keep them grounded in reality. Younger people aren't aliens out to ruin society and they're not naive confused toddlers either. They're people sharing the present and we don't need to have such a generational gulf or apprehension if we're all on Earth and alive at the same time.

[–] axont@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

why would vaush show any interest in me? I'm not a child

[–] axont@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

substory where kiryu tries to fix va*sh and make him normal but fails, gives up and instead just beats him up several times outside of the Poppo mart

[–] axont@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Is this like a personal defense sword someone might carry around the countryside?

I don't think it's a calvary sword. It's got fancy engravings but I don't know how common that was on swords in the 18th century. I think it was It was kind of uncommon on personal defense swords in the 17th century unless you were some rich dude

[–] axont@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago (14 children)

I tend to like the young folk and identify with them way more than people my age, not in a creepy way I hope. Probably because I don't have kids and am terminally online. I'm optimistic about everything. I don't think there's anything about younger people I fundamentally don't understand.

I don't get sending huge amounts of money to streamers, but I also don't have huge piles of money to throw around.

I actually like how younger people are going more minimalist in their fashion taste. Lots of reappropriation of stereotypical work clothes, like Dickies pants, overalls, stuff like that. That's a neat trend I've noticed.

[–] axont@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Also, a lot of people are saying that Gen z are a lot cooler than our predecessor politically.

This is what's said about every young generation. I don't mean to rain on your parade or anything, but young people being more progressive than previous generations has been a staple of the US since at least the 1950s. Boomers were at one point considered radicals who threatened to overthrow all of society. It's what got said about Gen X too and Millennials.

Progressive young people tend to either acclimate or die off, but we still gotta have hope. I really hope younger folk can get it together and decide on a better future.

[–] axont@hexbear.net 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Liberals in general treat politics as prayer and ritual to a pantheon of polytheistic gods. You must perform the Biden voting sacrament or else the nefarious Putin will ruin this year's grape harvest.

[–] axont@hexbear.net 34 points 1 year ago

Reminds me of in 2020 I saw a post detailing Elizabeth Warren's platforms and one of the bulletpoints was simply "Healthcare"

[–] axont@hexbear.net 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Normal person is old white man getting arrested for harassing a school board

Not normal is when gay person

Height of comedy. Also there's gotta be something going on with right wing self-image, or maybe just who they're trying to appeal to. I remember in 2016 the image they tried to project was hip, cool type of internet racist who knows memes. Now with this and the stupid Mr. Birchum show it's like their self-image is instead very grumpy impotent old man.

Their ideal image is of a befuddled old man who doesn't understand anything and annoys everyone. An old man who complains a lot but never accomplishes or changes anything, that's who they see themselves as. Also this guy is like 65 years old with a teenage daughter in high school? Pardon?

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