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So is your grandma a member of congress or equivalent for her country, a billionaire or a mega corporation?
- She voted for the pro billionaire politicians and was a very good customer of those mega corporations.
  Or maybe I posted this on me_irl because I feel like the grandma.
  
  And what are you?
  
  I guess those two persons symbolize the conflict between the young and old generations. As generation X, I would be in between. I do many things to save resources but I also know that I am still part of the problem. Every consumer is.
  
  I'm sure they never buy any Apple product, go to McDonalds or shop at Amazon. I'm sure they live in a cabin in the woods that they built by chopping their own sustainably sourced wood and spend their evenings by candle light.
  Grandma insisted on using electricity of course the damnable hag.
  
  “Hmmmm, you want to better society yet you participate in society? Owned with facts and logic.”
  
  That's the criticism this meme is making about Grandma though. Just pointing out the hypocrisy.
  
  No, that generation voted for conservative politicians who lead us directly to where we are now. I know the real blame lies with the politicians and capital class, but Reagan was elected in an absolute landslide - everyday boomers are not blameless.
  
  Right the whole generation. The generation that spawned the sexual revolution and the civil rights movement. All ultra conservatives. And millennials, not a conservative among them of course.
  
  More than 50% voted for Reagan, and older people vote more conservatively in general. I’m well aware that there were leftist people then (arguably more than nowadays), but as a generation they royally fucked us. That’s the point, and you’re acting like we’re calling out your grandma specifically lol.
  
  You are right, I don't buy apple products, never go to McDonald's and avoid Amazon. That's pretty easy to do.
  Our power contract is with local energy communities, they only invest in renewables.
  
  Our power contract is with local energy communities, they only invest in renewables.
  Ah, but you didn't generate it yourself using nothing but sheep strapped to a generator wheel that you built by hand. Gotcha!
  
  Great then you're one of the outliers doing much more than the average person. We can try a few more (drive a car? buy goods in plastic bags or containers? eat meat?) but that's not really the point.
  My point is that Grandma was just following societal norms in her day. She wasn't aware to the level we are now. And most people today, young and old, despite being much more aware, still live horribly unsustainably day to day.
  Constantly painting this picture or the poor, angelic millennial being horribly mistreated by their grandparents might make you feel better but it doesn't help anyone. It's just more stupid, ignorant adversarialism.
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