I know the whole internet is talking about it but I can’t get over the fact that these look like the shitposts of 12 year old gamers from 1998 and instead they’re two of the world’s richest and therefore most powerful people, who also just had a child. Coupled with a U.S. president who has devoted multiple hours of his life to e-raging in defense of his hair, I wish billionaires were evil genius Bond villains like people used to think they were. The people ravaging our entire world could have at least had the decency to look dignified and threatening in the process so we wouldn’t have to live with the knowledge that most of our resources belong to tacky, emotionally fragile adult babies
You know what? This actually isn’t funny at all because this really does happen. Baby boomers can’t afford to retire; that’s a big part of why millennials can’t find jobs in their fields. And if they lose their jobs (which can mean a variety of things, including their companies finding an excuse to fire them so they don’t have to pay anything for their retirement, which happened to my uncle and 5 people he worked with over one year), they aren’t as desirable because they’re retirement-age. The world has changed a lot since they got jobs they thought were supposed to be secure, and now their old strategies that used to work for finding a job don’t work anymore and they don’t know what does work. So a lot are desperate; I recently talked to a woman who had to be in at least her mid-60s who was begging on a street corner because she was replaced by a younger person and lost her job of 18 years, and it’s not the first time I’ve heard a story like that. A lot of people who were never rich to begin with lost a lot in the 2008 financial crisis and never fully recovered. Baby boomers didn’t all just magically become financially secure as they got older.
This generation war bullshit is 100% manufactured to keep our anger misdirected. It’s not baby boomers screwing over millennials. It’s rich capitalists of every living generation screwing over baby boomers, their parents, gen x-ers, millennials, and gen z-ers all at once and all in different ways. And if we collectively realize that we’re not enemies and that we actually have a common cause with common enemies, it’ll be really bad for the people doing this to us, which is why they’re pushing the generation war thing so hard.
On this day, 26 July 1937, Gerda Taro, a pioneering photojournalist and committed anti-fascist, was killed in a tragic accident while covering the Republican retreat after the Battle of Brunete during the Spanish civil war. Born in Germany of Polish Jewish descent as Gerda Pohorylle, she later changed her name to disguise her origins to have more commercial success, choosing a name which sounded similar to popular actor “"Greta Garbo”“. Taro was forced to leave Germany after being arrested and imprisoned for subversive and anti-Nazi activism. In exile in Paris she met fellow Jewish exile, Endre Ernő Friedmann, and for a time they published work under the name Robert Capa. While the male half of Capa went on to global fame and acclaim, Taro remained until recently much less well-known. Although she was a hero at the time to many anti-fascists and left-wingers, and on August 1, thousands of people gathered in the streets of Paris to mourn her death.
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On this day, 26 July 1937, Gerda Taro, a pioneering photojournalist and committed anti-fascist, was killed in a tragic accident while covering the Republican retreat after the Battle of Brunete during the Spanish civil war. Born in Germany of Polish Jewish descent as Gerda Pohorylle, she later changed her name to disguise her origins to have more commercial success, choosing a name which sounded similar to popular actor “"Greta Garbo”“. Taro was forced to leave Germany after being arrested and imprisoned for subversive and anti-Nazi activism. In exile in Paris she met fellow Jewish exile, Endre Ernő Friedmann, and for a time they published work under the name Robert Capa. While the male half of Capa went on to global fame and acclaim, Taro remained until recently much less well-known. Although she was a hero at the time to many anti-fascists and left-wingers, and on August 1, thousands of people gathered in the streets of Paris to mourn her death.
We have made available one of her most iconic photos for purchase to help fund our work, of a Republican militia woman in training in 1936: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/homeware/gerda-tarohttps://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1484810108370801/?type=3
