I love this channel, and starting my day with this video, it put me into this amazing open-hearted place where I long to unite with others to build something better whereas I am much more prone, normally, to angrily wish to tear the capitalist’s world down.

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It’s farcical to claim that my original position was that

Do you believe it’s possible to perform a motte and bailey strategy without using these exact words?

Nobody could reasonably believe that it simply refers to everyone born in certain years.

No one reasonable would, but it was not a reasonable person who replied to this comment with ‘not all men’. That’s why you’re catching shit. You doubled down hard.

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I don’t even understand what point you all are trying to make. What makes a boomer a boomer is that they’ve had all the advantages possible in life and still operate under the delusion that their hard work alone is what has afforded them their comfortable position. Words don’t exist in a vacuum, they are contextual and the way I use “boomer” here is different than the way I’d use it in another context. I still say “not all men” is a perfect analogy. Most of my non-cismale friends have said, at one point, “men are trash”. In that context, a bunch of non-cismen hanging out and having a casual discussion, it’s assumed they aren’t referring to all men, or really even most men, but a very specific type of man. Of course, every so often a cis man will butt his head into our conversation and offer up a “not all men”. In this space, where all of us understand class politics, I feel like it should be understood that “boomer” means exactly what I’ve written. It should be obvious that being born between some arbitrary dates doesn’t determine whether or not you’re a capitalist. I don’t understand how anyone who spent any amount of time here could honestly believe that someone here is an unironic supporter of generational politics. It really just seems like concern trolling to me and a huge waste of energy. But I guess a video titled, “We need to talk about elder-care” isn’t going to get clicks and a post about that video isn’t going to generate any engagement on hexbear, so we get to have a huge struggle session over it.

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Post videos you genuinely enjoy and want to share, duh. Celebrate the diversity of interests shared by chapochatters by posting a deep dive into Venetian kelp farming, I dunno. Also media criticism, bite-sized versions of left-wing theory, all the stuff you expected. But I am curious about that kelp farming thing now that you mentioned it.

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