• Draghetta@lemmy.world
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    23 days ago

    European here so maybe I’m confused, isn’t avocado toast the emblem of the snob left winger that trumpists hate?

    Making them less accessible, while idiotic, seems rather coherent on their side…

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      23 days ago

      The avocado toast meme is from Boomers shitting on Millennials because Millennials are broke due to the Boomers fucking the country and they had to come up with some stupid thing the Millennials must be spending all their money on. It’s not political in origin.

      Can’t possibly have anything to do with the decades of union-busting, corporate deregulation, etc. no, it’s the avocado toast.

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        23 days ago

        Actually it was a millennial couple buying homes with their parents money saying it about other millennials, but it represented the boomer mindset to a tee and represented that privileged out of touch understanding of the world.

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          22 days ago

          What’s funny is that this kind of notion predates avocado toast by a lot. I remember people lecturing others in the 90s about how Starbucks is keeping you from being a millionaire. I’m sure it was some other “sin” before Starbucks before that…