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Cake day: August 17th, 2023

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  • My grandparents got married because my grandfather left his car keys in his coat on the rack by the door of a diner and someone grabbed his coat.

    Apparently while they waited in the diner for a friend to pick them up he asked my grandmother if they should get married and she said
    “Sure.”
    3rd date. It was just something to do back then.




  • Hyperbole but the average age of the senate is 64 years old.

    The baby boomer and silent generation holds 294 seats in the US congress at about 55% of the Congress. The only reason the average is low is because of the bulk of 40 year old Republicans and the oldest members finally dying off. GEN X has been a larger swath of seats than they would care to admit.

    While millennials make up 25% of the US population they just recently made up only 5% of congress.

    The youngest members of the boomer generation where born just as Hawaii became the 50th state. Nearly half of Congress can remember as a kid when there was only 48 states.

    The point is that people in power are incredibly out of touch with modern existence and have been disproportionately protecting their positions and keeping younger generations from coming in. Yes they might not literally all be as old as WW2 but some of them literally are.

    To insinuate that younger generations have not grabbed for higher positions is disingenuous to the reality of the world.












  • I just got to wonder if the people who constantly think this are just angry that Trump got a loyal unquestioning fanbase, and want a piece of the media-manipulated voter base for themselves

    Yes, because they think that’s how he won since they ignore everything Trump and downtrodden people say on the premise that they are dumb and valid to be ignored.

    There isn’t a recognition of changing to meet people suffering to show empathy but a thought that if they just had enough power first they could fix whatever is really wrong cause it must be something other than what people are complaining about.

    They want the power without purpose which isn’t a winning strategy compared to explaining what you intend to do with power for people who feel powerless.