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Bro doesn't even have a single friend that isn't in the Trump administration eulogizing him, lmao.
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I struggle with this all the time. The disaster the boomers brought to the USSR was regularly on the evening news. I know this because I was a kid and saw them watching it. I remember it, so I assume they do, which probably isn't actually a good assumption to make. All the boomers I know are obsessed with watching the news, but I don't know why because they seem profoundly uninterested in thinking about the news. Really this is just the consequence of boiling their brains in 70 years of red scare bullshit. There's too much racism for them overcome.
Consuming the news but not wanting to discuss or analyze or reflect, that is a good observation. It seems almost obvious but I hadn't looked at it quite that way before. I've certainly observed and seen it discussed here how one might carefully, painstakingly have a conversation with someone like that and feel like you have made some progress, then the next day or the next time a similar story comes up, it's like they've completely had the reset button pushed.