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They’re smoking fentanyl on public transportation.

@Haironfire22 So I’m supposed to throw roses at your feet and acknowledge you for being ‘special’ while you can’t acknowledge how your generation failed us? Typical.

@Xtraqua A long diatribe but not a very smart one. Grow up.

Why Donald Trump is a Fitting Curtain Call for American Boomers What we are witnessing is the curtain call of the most destructive generational cohort in modern history: the American Baby Boomers. They were born after World War II into a country that had already been built for them. Their parents survived depression, war, rationing, industrial mobilization, and global conflict. The Boomers inherited the reward: cheap homes, strong unions, public universities, expanding suburbs, rising wages, pensions, American industrial dominance, and a government still willing to invest in its own people. They mistook that inheritance for personal achievement. From the beginning, their generational identity was built around indulgence. They came of age in the 1960s and 1970s, years defined by drugs, excess, performative rebellion, sexual self-indulgence, anti-institutional posturing, and a belief that personal liberation mattered more than civic duty. They rejected the restraint of their parents without replacing it with responsibility. They mocked the order that gave them prosperity, then later demanded that younger generations show gratitude while inheriting none of its benefits. Vietnam should have been their first moral reckoning. Instead, it became the template. The leading edge of the Baby Boom generation was old enough to be drafted into a war built on lies, body counts, escalation, and institutional arrogance. They saw the government deceive the public. They saw military power abused. They saw the credibility of American leadership collapse in real time. And yet, when they became the voting class, managerial class, media class, donor class, and political class, they did not prevent the same machinery from returning. They simply rebranded it. During the Cold War, Americans were Red-scared into tolerating intelligence abuses, domestic surveillance, covert operations, and the erosion of civil rights in the name of fighting communism. COINTELPRO, CIA abuses, political spying, illegal surveillance, and rogue action abroad showed how easily fear could be converted into state power. The Boomers grew up amid those revelations. They watched the Church Committee expose a security state that had targeted activists, civil-rights leaders, antiwar groups, and foreign governments. Then, after 9/11, they helped surrender the country to the same logic again. The Patriot Act. Mass surveillance. Guantánamo. Torture memos. Extraordinary rendition. Indefinite detention. The Iraq War. The Department of Homeland Security. A permanent national-security bureaucracy. A culture where fear became policy and civil liberties became negotiable. That is one of the clearest indictments of the generation: they saw Vietnam and still gave us Iraq. They saw intelligence agencies abuse power and still gave them more. They saw Cold War paranoia corrode civil rights and still accepted the War on Terror. They learned nothing except how to repeat the disaster from a position of authority. Their environmental record follows the same pattern of inheritance, denial, and decay. They grew up as the United States was forced to confront burning rivers, poisoned air, toxic dumping, pesticide scandals, lead exposure, industrial waste, and nuclear anxiety. Three Mile Island was not some abstract event. It was a warning about institutional complacency, technical arrogance, regulatory failure, and the danger of complex systems run by people too confident to admit risk. But the Boomer response was not stewardship. It was consumption. They embraced suburban sprawl, car dependency, disposable consumer culture, fossil-fuel politics, climate denial, and decades of delay. They were handed a country rich enough to solve environmental problems and powerful enough to lead the world on climate. Instead, they spent decades arguing about whether the fire was real while the planet warmed around them.

Hot take: If you add zero-day exploit, you and everyone involved in the project deserves to see the inside of a prison cell for DECADES. The risk to the public is too great and now outweighs any conceivable benefit. CC: @intel @Microsoft @Apple @Google @nvidia @NSAGov

You can watch the surveillance state in America being put up on real time This chart shows the amount of Flock cameras being put up from January 1st 2024 through May 2026 This is horrifying. Wake up before it too late

@bobbywitt15 Feed your kid.

@Xtraqua Liberalism is a mental disorder.🤡

@bobbywitt15 It’s a Friday night — shouldn’t you be drinking at a bar in Florida while denying your homeless kid money to eat because you “figured it out on [your] own, so they will too,” boomer?

@Xtraqua You're an idiot. Fuck you.

Then, as a final insult, they handed the bill to everyone born after them and called it personal responsibility.

Economically, they may be unmatched in modern history for ladder-pulling hypocrisy. They entered adulthood when housing was affordable, college was cheap, wages were rising, pensions still existed, unions still had power, and a middle-class life was broadly attainable. Then they spent their adult political lives supporting, tolerating, or profiting from the destruction of the very systems that made their lives possible. They benefited from public universities, then accepted student debt as normal. They bought affordable homes, then turned housing into a speculative asset class. They enjoyed union protections, then watched unions collapse. They inherited pensions, then left younger workers with 401(k) risk. They entered stable career ladders, then normalized layoffs, outsourcing, offshoring, contract labor, and shareholder primacy. They grew up in communities built by manufacturing, then helped ship those jobs overseas and told the people left behind to learn to code. The result is everywhere: hollowed-out towns, medical debt, student debt, unaffordable housing, collapsing trust, financialized everything, and younger generations forced to pay more for worse versions of the life Boomers treated as normal. Their political legacy is worse. Boomers became the dominant voting bloc during the long American slide into grievance politics. They powered the tax revolts, the deregulation era, the war on unions, the culture wars, the tough-on-crime politics, the surveillance state, the Iraq consensus, the financial crisis, austerity politics, climate denial, and the transformation of American politics into a permanent resentment machine. And then, as their final national act, they helped deliver Donald Trump. Trump is not an interruption of the Boomer story. He is its conclusion. He is inherited wealth pretending to be self-made. He is excess without shame. He is nostalgia without memory. He is grievance without accountability. He is the television-age con man elevated by a generation trained to confuse image with substance. He is the perfect avatar of Boomer politics: loud, self-pitying, entitled, allergic to expertise, contemptuous of institutions, and convinced that every obligation is a ripoff unless it benefits him personally. Through Trump, the Boomer curtain call became an international humiliation. After inheriting the American-led world order built after World War II, they backed a politics that treated alliances as scams, NATO as a protection racket, diplomacy as weakness, and democratic credibility as disposable. They inherited the prestige of American leadership and spent their final political years degrading it in front of the world. They took the alliance system their parents built and handed it to a man who saw foreign policy as a collection of personal transactions, television moments, and revenge fantasies. That is the full arc. They inherited abundance and created scarcity. They inherited institutions and hollowed them out. They inherited civil rights momentum and accepted surveillance. They inherited Vietnam’s lessons and gave us Iraq. They inherited environmental warnings and chose denial. They inherited affordable housing and left a crisis. They inherited public education and left debt. They inherited unions and left precarity. They inherited American alliances and left distrust. They inherited democracy and left Trumpism. The Baby Boomers are not merely a generation with flaws. They are a generational case study in squandered inheritance. They were given the strongest economy, the strongest institutions, the strongest middle class, and the strongest global position any cohort could reasonably expect. They did not preserve it. They consumed it, monetized it, privatized it, polluted it, securitized it, outsourced it, deregulated it, and then blamed their children for not thriving in the wreckage. They inherited the American century. They spent it.

@FaZeAnneFrank45 @DarkoStateNews Yeah bro. This was only 20 years ago. You don’t know how easy you have it.

@Xtraqua @DarkoStateNews ok grandpa no tf you didn’t 💔

The acceptance rate argument is lazy. MSU's average admit has a 3.74 GPA. More than half (54%) are above a 3.75. Which means the average MSU admit had better than an A- average across four years of high school. The 84% acceptance rate doesn’t mean 84% of people would get in. It’s 84% of an already-qualified pool. People without the grades don't bother applying because they know they won't get in. So when people (the 〽️s) who couldn't sniff a 3.74 themselves point to MSU's acceptance rate as proof it's "easy," they're actually proving they don't understand basic math. They wouldn't have been in the 84%, because they weren’t good enough to be in the applicant pool at all.

@FaZeAnneFrank45 @DarkoStateNews Bro, the fact that the equitable grading scale exists and y’all can barely spell anything is evidence at how low the standards have gotten. When I was in high school, we got an F on our paper if we misspelled a single word.

@Xtraqua @DarkoStateNews i’m gonna be so deadass i haven’t seen a single US school use this. also this ain’t even accurate for what the equitable grading scale even is.

@David_Dawn05 @Human0837 @FoxNews It’s funny because… If they’re Pakistani, they’re angry at being called a Pakistani. If they’re Indian or from any other country, they also get mad at being called Pakistani.

@Human0837 @Xtraqua @FoxNews No he's a buffoon and they come in any nationality.

BREAKING: Brand new details released about President Trump’s bilateral meeting with Chinese President Xi. The White House says China is interested in buying more American oil while also agreeing with the U.S. that Iran can never have a nuclear weapon. Meanwhile, the Chinese government says Trump was told that Taiwan is the most important issue on the table for the communist country — and warns the future of U.S.-China ties depends on how it’s handled. When it comes to Iran, President Trump says he doesn’t need Xi’s help with ending the conflict. U.S. CEOs are also making pitches for expanded business ties during the ongoing meeting. @aishahhasnie with the latest.

@SMO_VZ Русские такие глупые? There is no way that “Dragon” would know this. There are few infantry battles being fought. Most casualties are caused by drones and both sides are stuck, so “Ukrainian troops are few” is such a meaningless statement.

"There are practically no Ukrainian soldiers left in Ukraine, Russia is currently at war with Western mercenaries" : Russian tanker with the call sign "Dragon". -“At the moment, even Ukrainian troops are few. Only the mercenaries remained. We are at war with the West. This is how it is, no one is afraid to voice it anymore, ” "Dragon" clarified that Russian soldiers came to the territory of Ukraine with a specific goal - to fight for children, women and the elderly

@MarioNawfal Mario is trying to get yet another Community Note.

China has developed a weapon capable of firing around 180 rounds per second... per second!!! Forget nets and interceptor missiles to stop drones, this thing just creates a wall of lead

@willyNgendahayo @WhiteHouse Who cares? Tens of millions of Chinese will be killed if they attempt to take Taiwan.

@WhiteHouse And China reiterated that Taiwan will eventually be reunified with China, warning that any opposition to this is a red line that will not be tolerated and would be met with force

From the Bilateral Meeting in Beijing: President Trump had a good meeting with President Xi of China.

@WhiteHouse Can someone explain to me how selling more oil to China will help gas prices go down? 😆 How is it a positive to give China more power over our economy? 🤣 This was a complete failure and the administration should resign in disgrace.

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@Tyreid52wg @FoxNews Tens of millions of Chinese will be killed if an attempt to take Taiwan is made. You and your family should move to a new country as soon as possible. You are in danger.

@FoxNews China should not stop buying Iran oil. It’s way better in quality.

@Rick17421111 @FoxNews The US doesn’t need China to buy any of these. Tens of millions will be killed if Taiwan is made. End of story.

@FoxNews China wouldn’t mind buying oil, or soybeans, beef, or Boeing from the US as we need these anyway and it doesn't really matter who we buy from. However China would certainly have conditions, such as the Taiwan issue. If the US fails to meet them, the deal could be cancelled.

@Human0837 @FoxNews You made $0.002 for this tweet. Congratulations, Pakistani.

@FoxNews Wow USA is begging in front of China for investments and help in war. And China is warning USA on Taiwan issues how table's turn so dramatically after one war. End of American empire is real.