• SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    Especially since when he was governor, he ordered the army into Berkeley to corral the protesting Boomers, but then when those same Boomers got older and richer, they didn’t want to pay taxes so they embraced him. These same “enlightened educated hippies” have descendants who now make up the tech bros controlling the country and embracing fascism.

    In his last years, he was as demented as Trump, and he killed millions with purposeful inaction on AIDS, much like Trump with COVID.

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      when those same Boomers got older and richer

      Except it was never the same Boomers. Most of the people involved in student demos remained at least progressive many decades afterwards. There were plenty of other boomers who were rightwing idiots and remained so. They were the ones throwing things at me when I was protesting, so I know. And I know what happened to a large number of my politically-minded peer group, and to many of the Young Republicans who hated us.