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It's not that all Boomers are bad, it's just Boomers in western countries who ruined everything.
Casual ThoughtEvery generation blames the previous generation for "ruining everything" and the next generation for being lazy and stupid.
Welcome to life on earth.
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OP you must be the generation below me because this is some stupid shit
Okay, so are you just going to sit here and have a pity party or actually do something to improve your situation?
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Alright, but I’m not the one getting downvoted into oblivion. That tells me something.
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It's not about the karma, it's about how dumb your comment is. Yours are very dumb
It isn’t about the points. The general public are telling you something. Your immaturity is showing through. Your claims have zero credibility. If you come onto Reddit and act like a child, they will call you out on it.
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Then why did you come here whining in the first place? You’re just angry because you got called out.
“You shouldnt generalise all boomers but it’s fine to generalise all boomers in western countries”
It's crucially missing the all in the second part. So it's not saying "all boomers in western countries", just some.
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TIL all boomers voted for Thatcher and Reagan
Ah yes, the only western countries in existence, USA and UK. You people need to realize the west is not resumed to USA and Europe
You're extending an American perspective to the entire world. "Boomer" has no meaning outside of the American and perhaps European context. That word comes from "Baby boomber", due to the boom in babies in the US and Europe (maybe?) after WW2 ended in. That didn't happen everywhere. In India, for example, Independence in 1947 is far more important than the end of WW2 in 1945, and the generation that was born then lived through horrible times in newly independent India.
europe and British allies worldwide had boomers, because everyone had been busy with the war. in same cases later, as with germany, with lots of of POWs in camps years afterwards.
Intergenerational wars are a distraction from class struggle. Also, blaming everything on "boomers" and then calling any older person you don't like a "boomer" is just a cheap way to rationalize your ageism.
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I'm a retired Boomer and still looking for that wealth that you speak of. Yes the cost of a college education now is ridiculous and it cost much in the past. But even then I was not able to afford college. It was never free.
I would like to imagine than in 40 or 50 years, young people are gonna blame all their problems on OP and there will be a flash of introspection as to how individuals dont cause general situations and how each generation blames all the ills on the last
...but the kind of person who feels this likely wouldnt be capable of that
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Nah, its not that ALL millennials are the problem, just the ones that blame a generic group of disconnected individuals for every problem they face, instead of thinking about it for a second and realizing there are more factors to consider
In the UK people who were born towards the end of what the US calls the Boomer Generation have benefited from a social system that is now collapsing and on average they are better off than millennials and gen z, but the idea of Boomers in general doesn't work the same way.
Children born in 1946 in the UK lived in a country full of bomb sites. Rationing actually got worse after the war, and bread was added to the ration list in 1946, food rationing didn't end completely until 1954 because the country's economy and infrastructure had been so badly damaged. France, Belgium, and The Netherlands were in an even worse state, Germany had been partitioned, and Spain was still living under a dictator.
but it went up fast. kids do not care that much and the economic boom was in full force in the 1960s, when the first boomers became teenagers.
You, my dude, have not been in China.
This is victim mentality.
Next time you have a thought... Just let it go.
Lol, good advice, Ron White!
If a boomer in Iran honor-kills their child, how does that compare to a western boomer contributing 1/100,000,000 of Thatcher's election?
All boomers are bad and good bc all humans are humans no matter where you go. Give non-Western boomers the same power over world / major economy affairs, and they will act the same. Maybe better or worse in specific situations, but broadly the same. They would still contribute to the climate change we see today. They would elect (if they can vote) the same kinds of politicians who would make similar arguments for their specific cultural context.
Don't make generalizations like that about a generation that contained billions of entire human lives. You would be upset if I did that to the generation you're in.
And BTW, nobody is "defending" boomers. you're just attacking them, and people are disagreeing.
Ungrateful little fuckwit.
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You ageist people are really the worst
TIL that young people who want the latest iPhone even though the previous one still works, are called 'Boomers'.
Oh man I need the laziest iPhone so bad !
I hope it has also the laziest autocorrect :())
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Oh and you blame the boomers for it. Well that's good news for you, then, because boomers are more or less all retired, now, meaning younger generations are in charge and they will make the right decisions to fix everything within 2 or 3 decades. A little patience and your life and everyone's life will be perfect.
Younger generations in charge? That's laughable, we literally have a geriatric, dying man in the oval office.
Oh sorry I didn't know "western countries" limit to the USA.
This part, I don't understand.. I agree it seems like the previous generation had it better (hindsight is 20/20 but worthless) But I was born in 1991. I think that makes me a millennial I'm not sure. But I bought a house by the time I was 20. I had to work 72+ hrs a week in a mill for a few years, but I got it. It wasn't a white picket fence, on a hill, with a 2 car garage like most folks think they deserve right off the bat. But when I pay it off, I'll rent it out, and get me a bigger one.
Everything takes time.. that's what I tell myself anyways. Don't think I'm tryna sound perfect, I'm an alcoholic and been divorced twice lol. I didn't come from money. I just have absolutely NO social life or fun. It sucks, but.... I got a home I guess lol.
It might not be the exact same situation, but "boomer" generation in Asia is absurdly privileged.
Pretty much anyone who bought up real estate made guaranteed bank. They assume every generation after them has it just as easy as they did, and are as out of touch as you'd expect that mindset to make them.
But they also charge exorbitant rental prices and screw businesses (owned mostly by subsequent generations) because of it.
Source: A random opinion on the internet
Imagine taking the meme so seriously that you form a worldview around it.
Its not even "western countries" - its just North America.
In Europe, boomers were growing up in post-war austerity. There was still food rationing in some areas. Kids were being brought up in families that couldn't put food on the table, playing in bomb sites. Mega consumption and gas guzzling cars was strictly an American phenomenon.
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Nope. Boomers is middle east is same
Anytime I read Boomer I instantly stop reading because only knuckle dragging mouth breathers use that term. It's just so lame. It's like tell me you're a boner without telling me you're a boner.
Uh… then who the hell were the Hippies?
Omg. Stop with the boomer nonsense. We all know the Reagan republicans ruined everything. And continue to do so.
Another reason we think they suck is that the cool component of their generation was devastated by HIV/AIDS, leaving the blander or more rigid people behind. Think of how much interesting things would be if we still had Robert Mapplethorp, Freddie Mercury, Klaus Nomi and all the other writers, artists and average people who ended up getting sick and dying too soon.
That's a very uneducated and narrow minded view of a generation you understand nothing about. That's probably the reason people are downvoting it so much because they recognize this comment is total garbage.
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