• TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org
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    1 month ago

    The avocado toast meme is from Boomers shitting on Millennials because Millennials are broke due to the Boomers fucking the country and they had to come up with some stupid thing the Millennials must be spending all their money on. It’s not political in origin.

    Can’t possibly have anything to do with the decades of union-busting, corporate deregulation, etc. no, it’s the avocado toast.

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      1 month ago

      Actually it was a millennial couple buying homes with their parents money saying it about other millennials, but it represented the boomer mindset to a tee and represented that privileged out of touch understanding of the world.

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        1 month ago

        What’s funny is that this kind of notion predates avocado toast by a lot. I remember people lecturing others in the 90s about how Starbucks is keeping you from being a millionaire. I’m sure it was some other “sin” before Starbucks before that…