Recent comments in /f/Age_and_Ageism
roanoke9 wrote
I like Okay, Renfield, because bootlickers can be any age group.
roanoke9 wrote
Reply to The Nihilism of Generation X is an Artifact of Privilege: Only a generation that was promised the “end of history” could care about so little by Pop
My nihilism came from personal experience of oppression and reading philosophy. Most gen x ers probably did not even hear that ridiculous end of history speech, let alone base their lives on it. A bunch of guys took fight club as a guide rather than a cautionary tale. Generational reductionism is not really useful. It's a fun diversion but, mostly unhelpful. What generation do I relate to the most? None. They all got their brains washed and some people from all age groups have done some unwashing. Mostly not though, so ... what evs.
MHC wrote
Reply to If You’re Over 50, Chances Are the Decision to Leave a Job Won’t be Yours by An_Old_Big_Tree
I'm in agreement with this thesis.
Forem1994 wrote
Reply to It’s not thanks to capitalism that we’re living longer, but progressive politics | Jason Hickel by Hibiscus_Syrup
It is good quote to real theory of life.
cycles OP wrote
Reply to First-Time Human Study Shows Reversal in Biology of Aging - Telomere Shortening and Senescent Cells Accumulation - with Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) by cycles
Article containing references
https://www.aging-us.com/article/103571
Referenced publication, not even paywalled
onymous OP wrote
Reply to comment by !deleted20335 in Anti-ageist recs for non-radicals? by onymous
Oh hey, thanks! I meant like a philosophy to introduce to people.
Quicksilver wrote
Reply to by !deleted7175
I'm happy that they bring up those with dementia. As someone who works in a field where we assist those with dementia, I've seen this first-hand, though this is the first time I've seen a name put to it. And while we will do everything we can when they are declining all food and drink, in the end, it happens, and we make them as cozy as we can, and help their kin through it.
Though, whether those with dementia are capable of vountarily doing this is something that should be asked, and brings up issues of safeguarding, best interest, variable capability, dignity, neglect, etc.
With what you are asking, I like to think if my folks truly did want this, I would give them my time and help, though I dont know how well I would deal with the hardship of it.
pearl wrote (edited )
Reply to Mind the age gap: Since the financial crisis, a huge generational divide has opened up in politics, displacing class as predictor of voting behaviour. by An_Old_Big_Tree
Even better, we don’t have to wait until the left seizes state power before we start.
shudder
Powerful solidarity networks and renters’ unions, in which participants pledge to back each other over disputes with landlords and companies, can be built now.
It seems like such an odd perspective - we can do this, we don't have to use state methods. Rather than - this is what we should do, fuck the state.
Why so little imagination?
An_Old_Big_Tree OP wrote (edited )
Reply to comment by !deleted7175 in [RECOMMENDATION]: I've been reading 'No! Against Adult Supremacy', linked in the sidebar, and it's been really nice towards helping me up my anti-ageism game. by An_Old_Big_Tree
Thanks for this, it's very welcome. I hope to find time to look at it all.
Glad to see you back on the site.
An_Old_Big_Tree OP wrote
Reply to [RECOMMENDATION]: I've been reading 'No! Against Adult Supremacy', linked in the sidebar, and it's been really nice towards helping me up my anti-ageism game. by An_Old_Big_Tree
Also, if anybody knows anything good for around ageism against other age groups, I'd love to hear about it.
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MHC wrote
Reply to IBM HR made me lie to US govt, says axed VP in age-iscrimination legal row: I was ordered to cover up layoffs of older workers by n_n
Amazing how easy it is to get people to do the unethical! Where do people draw the line? Just say no?
EmeraldShark wrote
Selfish people hate past versions of themselves.
Selfless people like past versions of themselves.
Since most of the successful people in this culture are selfish, our culture, news, media, is biased against the youth.
edmund_the_destroyer wrote
Reply to If You’re Over 50, Chances Are the Decision to Leave a Job Won’t be Yours by An_Old_Big_Tree
My father spent all of his money on our education - and propping up the Catholic Church world's largest pedophile ring - and he was laid off twice in his early 60s. Each time he had a spreadsheet of all of the places across the US where he applied for work. He got past 500 the first time he was laid off before getting a job 500 miles from the house they owned. He got past 1000 the second time before he got something.
(My mother is too sick to hold a job.)
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Reply to If You’re Over 50, Chances Are the Decision to Leave a Job Won’t be Yours by An_Old_Big_Tree
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ziq wrote
Reply to What it feels like to be the last generation to remember life before the internet by An_Old_Big_Tree
We could be entertained by the same 6 vhs tapes playing endlessly for years.
autonomous_hippopotamus wrote
Reply to comment by !deleted7175 in by !deleted7175
with red diaper babies, i've always found them annoying, most of them that i've met have had terrible politics imo. But yes, people need to be given the freedom to develope their own politics, room to grow and make mistakes, the freedom to seek out people they have common interests with, grow together or separate as their perspective changes. We can't impose the correct line on people, even if we try, to can only work to influence people through cooperation and open discussion.
autonomous_hippopotamus wrote
Reply to comment by !deleted7175 in by !deleted7175
I think probably the best way to go about it would be to introduce younger people to certain privacy-oriented peer-to-peer software that's easy to use. If parents make an effort to introduce kids to software that allows for secure chat, private rooms, filesharing etc. then the kids will find plenty of uses for it.
With Retroshare, as an example, you can create different circles of friends, you can have a "Family* circle and then another circle that is is young anarchists, and then you coudl have another general political group that is all ages where more knowledgeable people can share educational material. I think the important thing is to allow kids the space to build their own exclusive groups where they are in control So this setup allows older folks, family etc. to interact with the younger people, while everyone's privacy is protected. Retroshare has an entire suite that includes chat, filesharing, email, forums and other features.
Another way could be setting up an instance of Mastodon that is invite only oriented towards young people, where the server collectively managed by some kind of parents association that allows participation from the younger users.
So there are many options, but I think working on a peer to peer levle like that is a lot safer than relying on some kind of third party server that is open to the public, because these become easy targets for predators.
mofongo wrote
Reply to by !deleted7175
I don't think there is a way for it to work as a online only space. Maybe as a private website with a parent/teenager focus. Or just an extension from IRL activities.
That way children can have a bit of liberty and parents a bit of control.
autonomous_hippopotamus wrote
Reply to comment by !deleted7175 in by !deleted7175
no those are very helpful :)
Pop wrote
Reply to by !deleted7175
personally I'd be happy for kids to make their own raddle
the idea that we need to create it for them seems troublesome
I could understand assisting kids to make one if they asked for help
but assuming that they want or need us seems to be a mistake]
i dunno
autonomous_hippopotamus wrote
Reply to by !deleted7175
I see often younger people being talked down to in one way or the other by older people, this is true of the left generally as well as all the various leftie online communities.
The problem is, how do you go about making these spaces? how do you get young people to join a space once it's been started, how do you ensure that older people don't just join and continue to derail it? We couldnt' ask peopel to prove their age in any way without endagering their privacy, while good faith goes a long way, any onine group like that is an easy target for trolls and wreckers. It's also true that young people don't like being in groups called Jr or for kids as young people rightfully feel they have the same right to participate the the real discussion as anyone else.
In my opinion when it comes to actual safe spaces, i think the best way to do that would be groups that form organically out of networks of friends, using peer-to-peer software, while yes we could create a forum or subgroup that was intented for and focused on youth issues, it would not be a safe space in any meaningful sense of the term.
ziq wrote (edited )
Reply to comment by !deleted7175 in by !deleted7175
No offense intended, but if you have been honest with me about your afk circumstances and how many minor kids you are currently raising
I think you might have me confused with someone else, I'm not raising any kids. I didn't take any offense. Just trying to better understand your idea to see if I could help. There's nothing inappropriate about your thoughts.
If you were criticizing anyone, I couldn't tell.
ziq wrote (edited )
Reply to by !deleted7175
Can you demonstrate that this need exists somehow? It's hard enough to get the rest of the radleft population to care about this site, without getting another site that caters to what would amount to maybe 5% of the audience raddle has off the ground. Would they even want to be sandboxed into their own little ecosystem?
I guess what I'm asking is, would they be content sitting at the kiddie table with a handful of their peers when there's nothing physically stopping them from crashing the (still very underpopulated) party in the room next door?
I still have the raddit.me domain if that helps. But I'm not sure a site for 13-15 year old radical leftists is going to work for several reasons that come to mind.
roanoke9 wrote
Reply to Generation X Faces a Bleak, Impoverished Old Age (USA) by An_Old_Big_Tree
I prefer Breaking Rad in place of retirement. It should be a thing.