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Cake day: February 1st, 2024

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  • Ah yes the generation that wasn’t even worth naming so they gave us a placeholder.

    Growing up Gen X in the US was watching a slow motion train wreck where you’re able to see the causes, current wreck, and even look down the road to the future repercussions but everything you do or try to make things better for everyone is ignored, co-opted, or sidelined by the monolithic boomer voting bloc. And all the while you’re being gaslit by the beneficiaries of the current shitshow selling you an American Dream that never was true and hasn’t been remotely attainable since you joined the workforce.





  • And that’s just one example.

    The most glaring generator of mistrust for decades now is the thing citizens discuss all the time but is never addressed: our out of control military budget.

    We could solve every one of our country’s financial issues multiple times over by reducing the military budget, and not even drastically so.

    Our military was tasked with an audit to reign in waste and spending. They couldn’t pass an audit so they were just given a free pass, no penalties or repercussions. The first audit was 2017 and they failed to pass. They failed two more since then. Senator Sanders intoruduced a bill in 2021 and again in 2023 which required an audit and was supposed to impose penalties for failure, it’s been introduced so we’ll see how that goes.