It’s amazing that it needs to be said, but Boomer politics won’t die with boomers. We’ll still have the same problems, but people will be more desperate as we will have fewer solutions and resources to throw at them than previous generations

What a dangerous path we’re walking down. All in service of a slightly better Clippy experience

More likely someone who’s never even met someone that doesn’t eat gluten but fears and hates that they exist

You missed the part where you were supposed to make a joke. The top of this thread is someone asking how I would choose to dress in my 70s. My answer being ‘not like Mick Jagger’ led to you getting in a huff about how much sex he’s had justifying his choices. It wasn’t a joke, but if that was the intention it was poorly executed. Not sure what anyone has to gain by being so defensive about a man who’s been world famous for about 6 decades, though

I’m really not. If you read my original comment you’ll see I was speaking hypothetically about how I would dress in my 70s: i.e. for comfort and not to look appealing to the opposite sex. You made this a weird conversation about how much sex this guy is having and what other male celebrities they’re rumoured to have slept with

Wilt Chamberlain was putting numbers up too but he wasn’t wearing his 70s shorts and a headband to attract to women into the '90s.

Do you really think Mick Jagger can’t get laid unless he’s dressed like it’s Halloween and he’s going as himself? This is about reliving their youth and not being willing to accept the passage of time. I think you open yourself up to satire if you’re a public figure who has such glaring insecurities

Yeah but uncomfortably tight leather pants that one woman told me was sexy 40 years ago probably ain’t it

They suspended journalists and researchers who posted the identity of a neo-Nazi cartoonist after he made a direct appeal to Musk for support. It was free-speech and not against Twitter’s terms of service to post the man’s name since it was newsworthy and already in the public domain, but Musk doesn’t actually care about free speech. He cares about the right to offend and say heinous shit without being shut down or ‘canceled.’ If you attack him or his allies (even the neo-Nazi ones) then he conveniently drops the free speech crusade

I agree that we need class consciousness and to unite the working class across the generations, but age is still a dividing line for Tory and Labour voters.

The majority of people over 60 voted for Conservatives in the 2019 election. It was 57% Conservative for those aged 60-69, and 67% for those over 70. Age is still a predictor of how Conservative people vote, so the generation divide isn’t just propaganda. And young people know this from their lived experiences.

I will say that it’s not the elderly’s fault. All of the media that caters to them is Conservative-leaning at best, and full-on Far-Right at worst. We won’t change anything in the country until we shut down the bullshit that pollutes the airwaves, newspapers and social media

Why are they the butt of so many jokes?

A little bit of ageism, but also it feels like they’re fair game since their vote is the most sought after and politicians bend over backwards to keep them happy.

It’s great that we take care of our elders, but when they get Triple lock pensions guaranteed by both parties while young people are saddled with increasingly higher student loan debts and higher rents/mortgages, resentments build up. They have in many ways voted to fuck the country and youth over the years as well. So it feels more like punching up than punching down

I think it was a mistake to go with yellow in the first place and I see the case for changing it to magenta/green/anything.

But I think when we’re representing people or human hands it’s necessary to allow for skin colour, and by not doing so we’re needlessly erasing people. I’m just not a fan of the ‘it’s racist to bring up race’ argument, which is not what you’re saying but the original comment was veering towards

I think it’s weird not to use a skin colour emoji. An everyday form of prejudice is the assumption that white is the default. Black or brown is an exotic/diverse category. That other people have odd customs and social norms, but our customs and religions are normal.

It’s even worse in design where the default human we design for is a man, hence women struggling with phone sizes that are too large for their hands. I think anything that helps break away from these default assumptions is good.

We already know from the Simpsons that yellow is a stand-in for white so it’s not neutral. There’s a white skin colour emoji, and by not using it when black/brown people use the other emojis, you’re refusing to acknowledge that you too have a non-neutral, non-default skin colour.

There is a long, bloody history of Islamic extremism throughout Europe

All of the attacks you listed happened within a 15 year timeframe. Which is not coincidentally the War on Terror timeframe. The discrimination is a lot older and the history of Islamic-Europe relations is a lot more nuanced than this. Far more relevant is the growing Far-right sentiment and anti-immigrant rhetoric across Europe.

So this is what Lemmy is doing now? “Why is there hatred of Muslims? Because they’re terrorists of frequent terror attacks.”

Maybe you had all these terror attacks because you already had large groups of disaffected young men who didn’t feel like local society had anything for them and then became radicalised?

In France, Muslims are half as likely to get a callback for a job than Christians with the same credentials.. So people already hated them. The terrorist attacks are just the latest excuse.