shlaifu wrote:
so. a 73 year old and a 50 year old tell us that the pensioners lived through ww2. That was your parents.
2 years military service before voting rights? - now that sounds like a certain way to world peace.
as an older millennial, I stand with my younger peers.
was it not our grandparents, who lived through nationalist insanity, and decided to try for a pan-european solution, so europe would not tear itself up again?
and is it not the generation of the now 50 to 73 years olds, who managed the EU in such a way, that it would become a paradise for big transnational corporations, deadlocked for democracy?
did your generation decide to start pointless wars, just so we would have an opportunity to serve our country? is that what afghanistan is about? now- that finally makes sense.
you tell us that we are the entitled ones, because we got to go to school for 20 years, instead of "work". now that we are out of school and haunted by student loans, you are the CEOs trying to keep minimum wage low, try to avoid paying taxes and refuse to hire us on anything but a short-time contract.
well, thanks for the lego. we'll be building our houses from it, as we can't afford to live in the ones you're renting to us.
oh, and by the way, in our 20 years of going to school, we learned that free education is a brilliant idea for a national economy, and that if we don't manage to cut carbon emissions, w're all doomed.
well, just a reminder, it's your generation that had the chance for making changes to that. ours still can barely afford cars. and you built us an EU that is incapable of getting its s**t togethe against VW.
no, sending pensioners to wars is not a good idea.
just stop wars entirely and get rid of that idiotic idea of nation states and serving your country by killing people in other countries.
our grandparents started the EU so w would talk with each other.
about the old people...
two words:
soylent.
green.
Wow, what upset. You are really angry about something.
But let me assure you that at no time were either Gingerpickles or myself or anyone in our families (OK jump in now GP) ever in charge of any part of making the decisions you describe. Really; I'm telling the truth.
Are you unaware of who runs the government? Do you really think the "Pensioners" ever had a say in wars or minimum wage? Would you like to buy a bridge in N.Y.City?
Time to pull together guy. This is Democracy we're talking about here. In a Democracy you get one vote, and I get one vote, and if you vote differently than me I respect you for your decision. If something needs to be changed, there are ways to do this...get involved.
Cheers!
Our political votes are largely irrelevant in times of TTIP, TISA and TINA.
We make our decisions through our choice of consumption now, and the indebted youth does not get the same power as everyone else here.
25 Jun 2016, 9:34 pm
