• Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works
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    16 hours ago

    Yeah I’m still a anticapitalist weirdo exept now I get to teach college kids about punk rock and anti-police sentiment in modern music.

    • lurch (he/him)@sh.itjust.works
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      10 hours ago

      idk adults said that to kids when i was younger. if you mean “young people” as in “young adults like under 30”, then maybe. “it’s just a phase” was also common. (the “phases” turned out to go like 20 years with most ppl i knew)

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        10 hours ago

        I remember most older people appearing “normal” when I was younger. But now that I’m almost 40 most of my peers seem unapologeticaly unhinged. Not fitting into what our parents thought as non-weird at all.

        Actually, maybe kids these days see me as “perfectly normal old guy”, and it’s just a generational divide.

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      14 hours ago

      ikr it’s like dressing goth as you get older bc you look in the mirror and are like: “I look old and decrepit… cool!”

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    15 hours ago

    Most people even out. But they don’t get any less weird. Adults are less social, and being weird by yourself isn’t a big deal for anyone.

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      14 hours ago

      He passed in 2000 at the age of 52. 😐

      I loved watching him when I was growing up, but as adulthood and kids took over my life, he slipped away. Thanks for the memory!