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There is a button when you scroll down that says "If you're a boomer, you should click here". I feel like that's enough on its own to completely undermine any credibility and gravitas a site might have. I can't imagine donating money to be managed by a group of people who decide to inject generational politics into this for utterly no reason.

Clicking on the link (omg am I even allowed to?? I'm not a boomer!) yields some kind of manifesto about racism, 1%ers, AI, slavery, social justice, and silicon valley? What the hell am I even reading, honestly.

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This project crossed the line into Poe’s Law [0] for me. I believe it’s raising money for small farms, but I’m far from certain of that fact.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law

Yeah it's the website equivalent of your uncle that starts the conversation with a reasonable sounding topic to lure you in before unleashing all his beliefs about the government on you.

Yeah, that was a pretty big turn-off for me as well.

Like, I'm down for the 0% recirculating loans to local farmers (I like this a lot), but reading that manifesto really made me uncertain as to whether there were more goals besides helping out local farmers that I was implicitly signing up for too here.

If I want to donate some money to help out small-scale farmers, but don't want to eat the rich, is this still the place for me? Reading that link left me unsure.

You can lend 0% to farmers, including U.S. farmers on Kiva:

https://www.kiva.org/lend/filter?sector=Agriculture&countrie...

Boomer doesn't exclusively mean baby boomer. It's just slang for someone who is old/out of touch. See 30-year-old boomer.

In the context of this page, it looks like they are talking about literal baby boomers, by virtue of the author associating with them ("dear fellow boomers").

But whew, just using it as slang for somebody who is out of touch is some next-level condescension. Cut that out.

Boomer is a way of putting a group down. It's elitist and I'm shocked by the people who use it. Most would try hard not to offend other sections of society.

Someone who is out of touch with what exactly? TikTok memes? Its easier now than ever to be somewhat out of touch with whatever trend youth is following, but you cannot follow all that, have a full-time job, a family, and following the stuff which is relevant for you (as a 30/40/50/60/70/80/90 something).

So for me, that slang just means people who are older than me who have a different reference because they are in a different point in life.

However because 'we' (those who have passed youth and young adolescence) are older we are supposed to feel empathy for youth. We've been their age, but not vice versa. So I suppose that is the goal, with an explanation of what is different in this time compared to when I was young (e.g. 2001 vs 2021).

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