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What a great job you did on this! Hits the nail on the head. These guys need to be in prison.

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They are normalizing dysfunctional families, their borderline offspring and elevating sociopaths.

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I was so gobsmacked by that Atlantic article you shared, I wrote up an entire analysis of it and linked to your article here: https://wholistic.substack.com/p/the-irrational-covid-neurosis-and

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Great stuff.

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OMG! The mind boggles...the poor kids having a maniac for a father.

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gotta be virtue signalling their wokeness re the kid poor lil buggers obviously got severe issues already;-/ and Chris Id be a late Boomer and most of the thinking and NONvaxxing people I know are my age over 60 a fair bit older ie mid 70s or a teeny bit younger.

got very personal for me a dear friend just got cancer diagnosis( from idiot docs NOT following up a melanoma) got metastases , shes been pushed into the Mab anticancer meds and the local GP refused to think...her immune system is now shot to hell.. and insisted on the AZ jab as shes over 60

jab tues hospital with clots on lungs etc on wednesday;-(

and i can do zero as victorian/Sth aus borders are up against the non vaxxed like me, while other states travel freely and OS travels resuming

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I'm reminded of Pirsig's Lila. Seems like craziness has to go to its extreme limits to reveal and remove the crazies among us.

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loved zen and the art , Lila...I think I need to reread

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The Atlantic is famous for showcasing Transhausen by Proxy parents, who trans their toddlers for social credit. It's so beyond sick.

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This is one of the biggest problems that people don't recognize and even like narcissists, sociopaths and psychopaths. We've been engineered by popular culture, movies, TV etc. to like them. I never did, I listened to my gut.

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One of modern civilization's great tragedies.... supposedly educated, intelligent, modern men and women who have completely lost the common sense ability of critical thinking.... and become the most fearful, traitorous, cowardly things imaginable....

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Last December, when our then-23-yo son brought Covid home, we all settled in for 14 days of quarantine. We ate together, hung out in the same room, and shared a bathroom (even hand towels!). It only took a few days for my husband and me to get it. Imagine, even without vaccines (or any medical intervention), none of us were hospitalized or died. In fact, the only symptom I experienced was some things tasted weird/“off”. Not even my chronically-ill husband got particularly sick…it must be a miracle. 😇

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Sorry can you explain the reference to boomers there? I'm sort of on the cusp of being one so would just like to know what I'm responsible for here.

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what evers perceived as wrong in the world is blamed on parents IE us Boomers mostly they fail to figure out the real mongrels were the just before that usually white men with phenomenal inherited money and power that set a lot of the "systems" up ie banking big biz monopolies and worst of all theyre in HUGE numbers in govt and bureaucracies globally. true many of their sons have continued their frankly evil methods of control, but the majoirty of boomers worked hard in blue collar jobs the odd white one and saved and scrimped because theygrew up with their parents war yrs poverty warnings all the time. we're the same ones who get trashed but the kids are drooling to have us die to inherit and blow the inheritances. Im seeing way much of that right now and am glad i dont have kids and can gift my land etc to someone unrelated and deserving of help. not an entitled brat!

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This is Boomerism. Not wanting to pass anything on. Grew up in 50s, and saw literally everything get worse whilst telling the kids to make their own way.

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You're assuming that all boomers have something to pass on. That's not true. Also the destruction of the middle class is not actually a middle class operation. It's an elite one. The middle class is not to blame for that.

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Not all boomers. But boomer share of economy was and is many times higher than younger generations. All those jobs went to the East as the Boomers put Blair and Clinton and Bush in power.

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boomers were the after war baby boom so yes more of us, and more share in the economies they worked in and helped build up. none of my relatives went to anything past highschool at best, and until my gen none of us owned a home either. my single mum in the 50s so life wasnt great no govt benefits at all, so while Boomer I sure didnt benefit much. fallen down home 16 yrs of hard yakka renovating earnt me a better home n more land. and I am 6th gen aus

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Similar story, grandparents wern't rich, parents wern't rich. I'm not rich.

Trillions were stolen from the US Government in the 2000s. Further trillions printed since 2008 (aka Qualitative Easing) in the service of Blackrock & Vanguard. But Mr Boomer who may have lucked out with his house gets the blame despite the fact that 40% of boomers don't even own a house.

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Yes because the billionaires are taking all the capital. Now I don't know which generation these billionaires are but they have printed trillions since 2008 and stole trillions at the same time.

And you're blaming a few middle class parents who are possibly struggling to get their kids into houses?

FFS

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hi Chris

its not "not wanting to pass stuff on" as much as kids who have been spoilt rotten BY boomer parents being now unwilling to care for their parents shove em into care homes etc and get inheritances early. the friend i said has melanoma and now also covid blood clots? her 40ish daughters never visit call etc but as soon as mums in hospital have already taken the car and gave her dogs away after 2 days in hospital!

shes NOT anywhere near dead or incompetent yet! she will be lucky if they havent put the home up for sale before shes able to return there!! kids have had best education etc etc and are utterly self absorbed shits. I can see why many better off oldies are buying a winnebago and enjoying what little they have themselves

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I’m an old Gen-Xer. I grew up during the advent of “latchkey kids” (the kids who wore a house key on a chain around their neck so they wouldn’t lose it). My mom was one of the few SAHMs I knew. My dad came from nothing but built a thriving dental practice. He didn’t only support his nuclear family, but his mother and my mom’s folks, too. They also saved so that they’d “never be a burden” on us girls (as if!). Dad’ll be 90 next week and he still does his gardening and woodwork, and Mom’s in her 80s and goes to the gym 3x/week.

I (and my husband) raised our son similarly, with an attentive parent at home. Hopefully, if we ever need it, he’ll take care of us the way we took care of him: with love, respect, and attention.

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That's just a version of Chris's 'boomers are easy fodder, let's blame them' except with millennials. I'm going to stick with billionaires.

Not all billionaires though....... as Musk seemed to have proved with his 'did 4 tests, got two positive and two negative' tweet.

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Me! Pick me! 😉

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you live in aus? 10 acres of crappy sandy soil and a rundown home in Staziland ie vic land of Xi Dan the despot;-(( not really a bargain even for free at this time

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No, coastal Southern California. (May as we’ll be AU!)

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oh deary yes, Noose-some is as bad as Xi-Dan andrOOZE.

my sympathies. amazing how lousy govt can make a nice place unliveable so fast!

you'd be used to poor sandy soils at least and either heat or cold damp and not much between em;-/

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As soon as I read the line about that poor child, alarms went off in head & stopped reading.

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ps Chris what format are your embedded vids in?

my Linux cant open them cant find suitable formats

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Just Twitter most of time or YouTube

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i think theyve been the youtube ones all i get is something like format/mime type unrecognised

its only happening here I can get youtube n twit stuff elsewhere

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