Thread by @RancidGinger

Scientists knew how bad everything was and warned us. Then billionaires worked up a campaign to put ALL of the blame for global warming and pollution onto citizens. We were taught in school that it was all our fault. If only we turned off the water while brushing our teeth, 1/

And recycled our plastic, everything would be fine. The problem wasn’t them, it was us.

They turned us against one another, so that we would feel self righteous when we told people to recycle.

Meanwhile, they knew most of the recycled plastic ended up in the landfill. 2/

They paid politicians to say that climate change wasn’t real so we could keep cars on the streets, destroying us all.

There wasn’t money in supporting mass transit, and alternate energy.

They taught us in school that it was all our fault, AS CHILDREN, and I believed it. 3/

Now it’s too late, we all know now that it was a lie, and that it is irreversible.

My kids will live in a dystopian future, from which I can’t protect them.

They told us healthcare was socialism because corporations want the money, and now my disabled kids will be used up. 4/

Society won’t take care of them. They will be broke and penniless, and possibly homeless when I’m no longer here to protect them…

And I’m just trying to hold on dread, EVERY FUCKING DAY, that my son Alex is going to die young, and then I worry that he will live. 5/

Live to be exploited like we were. Live to be used and abused by society and the corporate elite.

There is no happy ending scenario, because it’s honestly too late for this rock.

I have a massive love for #GenerationZ I hope they are smarter than we were. 6/

I hope they set fire to this system and save themselves, and never believe a god damn lie that comes out of a billionaires mouth, or a corporation sponsored school event.

They indoctrinated millennials to their own demise. I’m sorry we didn’t know better, we were kids.

Stupid, idealistic children, who thought we could be anything, and we were too distracted with the spice girls, puberty, and the comeback of leather pants, to notice the boot on our necks.

I hope you all can fix this. I don’t even know how. I literally feel like a powerless pawn, from birth, who has gained knowledge of their place in this world, but lacks the knowledge of how to change the outcome of the game.

They really fucked us over.

They don’t fund the schools well enough so that education programs can be paid for by corporate interest groups. That and because the dumber we are, the more we will fall for.