driving to the store to buy the latest funko pop but they’re all sold out so you drive back to your mchouse empty handed, like Bush Jr said, just keep buying stuff

Honestly I’d gladly fight for the elderly. I recently went to a leftist event (note: I don’t live in the USA) where I was basically the only young person there, and yeah, it was really nice seeing these old ladies with solidarity keffiyehs, and there was also one fellow there who said he’d been active in leftist organizing since the 1960s — so even though I wish there was more young blood at that event, the mood was still great, I very much have enjoyed being around the elderly.

Now I have of course also met my fair share of very insufferably reactionary old people, and I can name reasons for why such people might be overrepresented among the elderly, and this effect would certainly be amplified in the USA; but I still just do not let this reactionism I have seen cloud my judgment of an entire age group, and I still reject the idea that there is such a thing as “generational warfare”. Old people, even if not all of them are willing to accept it, are oppressed under capitalism and deserve to feel dignified and socially fulfilled just as anyone else.

So all in all, the Funko Pops should be melted down, the suburban homes razed, and the cars banned and scrapped — but the elderly? The elderly are worth fighting for just as anyone of any other age, is my own stance.

Working at a nursing home so you can witness boomers die and the world get slightly better in real time