• Maoo [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    11 months ago

    Bootlicking appeared to work for boomers, who enjoyed the benefits of many social safety nets and forms of government central planning and cost controls, all if which were getting dismantled just behind them.

    Or, at least, this seemed to work for the cishet white ones.

    • Tankiedesantski [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      11 months ago

      Or, at least, this seemed to work for the cishet white ones.

      Unfortunately, some minority communities have had to adopt boot licking as a basic survival mechanism.