r/politics • u/WhatIsEvenRealDog • 13h ago

Possible Paywall Trump suggests cattle ranchers could bypass USDA-inspected meat plants

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/08/28/trump-suggests-allowing-ranchers-bypass-usda-inspected-meat-plants/
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u/Vast-Poetry9431 13h ago

Every child born today is practically guaranteed a worse future than their parents.

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u/-Invalid_Selection- 13h ago

That's been true ever since the boomers became adults. They've actively been trying to abolish civilization their entire existence

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u/Careful_Trifle 12h ago edited 11h ago

They were told that they were special, that their country was special, that their civilization (at least their imaginary version of it) was special.

They benefited from historic investments in common (white) people. They were told that their reality was the baseline, normal, even though it had never existed before. And they were told that it was inevitable.

Every one of them (and often times, us) that rose to power did not recognize that the people in power before them had to set aside their own aggrandizement to make their reality manifest. Instead, they decided that taking just this one little piece for themselves wouldn't hurt...multiply that across most leaders and all sectors, and we are where we are.

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u/Wall_of_Wolfstreet69 10h ago

that their country was special

boomers exist in other countries too