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  God stop fucking saying this shit. I agree 100% with what the comment above you is saying. It makes me angry. But this phrase has turned into Reddit’s response to every injustice for years now and nothing has changed. It’s slacktivism at its finest.
context: This isn't moving the Target day back. This is, Let the kids fucking do it >
  
  That’s the status quo now anyway: politicians in place for 25+ years and don’t do shit but line their pockets and pontificate with their opinions on social issues they formed during vastly different time periods.
  Then, when things from urgency to emergency, they cower away. Wash’n’repeat every 40 years and here we are. >
  
  I’ve said it before and I’ll keep saying it. Boomers we’re to large of a voting block. When they were young - We had amazing progress in the west. When they had a future they built towards it. Then… It slowly turned. As they aged more conservative they voted to leverage against the future. And keep doing it. No one generation should ever have had this kind of power.
  I hate that I won’t have that my vote hasn’t mattered for 20 years. Xers haven’t mattered even longer. And it’s taken it’s toll on a lot of them. I really hope millennials and Z have enough in common to come together before millennials as a whole get too conservative to do better. We have a lot of work to do. >
  
  
  before millennials as a whole get too conservative to do better. 
  
  I think (and hope) this won't happen. Growing up in a rapidly changing world has (I think) made us more accepting of new developments. We've also seen what conservative looks like and hopefully will know that it is a pointlessly destructive ideology.
  No way to know except to watch it happen I suppose! >
  
  I'm in my 40s and am horrified to see my fellow once liberal late Gen-Xer/early Millennials become ultra-conservative. To the point where I have to listen to them pontificate on harsh penalties on drug users, removing support for the unemployed,  etc. when I know how much they used as teens and that they were raised on government support. >
  
  Do you call them out on it? >
  
  Yup. And then there's a pause of awkwardness and then ten minutes later they move off in the room and start spouting the same stuff to someone else. 
  That's  when I found that there is a real mentality that liberalism is youthful/rebellious/naive and conservatism is mature/respectful/wise. And that the views they expressed when they were younger was just trying to get attention and "being cool" (Their words believe it or not.). >
  
  You don't have to be friends with people that enable fascists. There are 8 billion people out here. Quit wasting your time with people like this. >
  
  Most of those 8 billion may be more conservative than you'd be willing to admit.. >
  
  That is precisely what conservative minded people want you to think and what creates more conservatives and enablers. On a policy by policy basis, people skew more liberal on average but time and time again we find that the established powers-that-be have their foot on the scale. They use their influence, and a society dedicated toward making sure that their influence is maintained, to get what they want. >
  
  wish i could get a window like that for a few of my impending obligations >
  
  Can always write in and ask for a 36 year extension on your taxes. I'm sure they'll give it equal consideration. >
  
  *but only if you are a Tory, or Tory contributor.
  Ftfy. >
  
  Sometimes we all need a deadline to go back but fuck me >
  
  Yeah, I think the original deadline of 2027 for cleaning up 3,651 waterways was a tad impossible but 2063 is way too long. >
  
  Oh don't worry, it won't be done by then either. >
  
  it's called kicking the can down the canal >
  
  Kicking the can IN the canal >
  
  And that's how we add another year >
  
  Kick the can down the road 36 years for cleanup but the Tories have time to vote and allow human sewage to be dumped in waterways. 
  Quite literally up shit’s creek without a paddle. >
  
  Anyone, I repeat anyone who votes Tory in the next General Election is either a jibbering idiot or has some serious brain damage. >
  
  As a yurop mainlander watching the British elections is just as fascinating as the american ones. It's like every week other I open the news, read something like "Tory PM pisses on grave of children killed during the troubles, continues previous Tory tradition of using  300.000£ a day for gold plated shitting paper and struck a personal double deal selling landmines to Assad and metal detectors to Syrian rebels. Country is in uproar." Then one week later it's like "poll shows Tory F. Asslicker is still preferred as PM". >
  
  It's absolutely horrifying being locked in with this nightmare. >
  
  That's longer than it took to clean up Chernobyl. >
  
  Not quite.   
  
  Following the disaster, Pripyat was replaced by the new purpose-built city of Slavutych. The USSR built the protective Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant sarcophagus by December 1986. It reduced the spread of radioactive contamination from the wreckage and protected it from weathering. The confinement shelter also provided radiological protection for the crews of the undamaged reactors at the site, which were restarted in late 1986 and 1987. However, this containment structure was only intended to last for 30 years, and required considerable reinforcement in the early 2000s. The Shelter was supplemented in 2017 by the Chernobyl New Safe Confinement which was constructed around the old structure. This larger enclosure aims to enable the removal of both the sarcophagus and the reactor debris while containing the radioactive materials inside. Clean-up is scheduled for completion by 2065.[15]   
  
  But the 2060s should be awesome! >
  
  jesus christ. what is wrong with the world? >
  
  Most easily summarized as "people do things for personal profit and the consequences are for someone else to deal with" >
  
  
  Not one English waterway, including rivers, lakes, estuaries and coastal waters is in good ecological and chemical health at present, with pollution from water treatment plants and agriculture the key sources of the damage
  Targets to clean up the majority of England’s rivers, lakes and coastal waters suffering from a cocktail of agricultural and sewage pollution have been pushed back from 2027 to 2063.
  
  Oh look another one of those Brexit "benefits" I guess as we get to put up with shit filled seas and waterways for another 36 years while the corporation continue to send insane profits to their shareholders approx £52b in shareholder pay-outs so far iirc
  
  Until Brexit the UK government was signed up to the water framework directive, which required countries to make sure all their waters achieved “good” chemical and ecological status by 2027 at the latest. The UK government later reduced the target to 75% of waterways reaching the single test of good ecological status by 2027 at the latest. The target for the majority of waterways to achieve good status in both chemical and ecological tests has now been pushed back to 2063, according to the documents.
  By 2027, only 4% of waters are currently on track to be in good overall condition.
  
  Yet the environmental agency has had their funding cut to the bone by the government because they don't want any pesky complaints against their wealthy mates running the private, for profit water companies. >
  
  Eat. The. Rich.