Boomer Hate Thread

[Leslie Nielsen]

I've always been impressed by how much boomers love the television. They actually seem to enjoy the old model of how it was run (IE 8 minutes of a show, followed by 5 minutes of straight mind-numbing advertisements). My mind feels like it's melting whenever I'm forced to be in the same room as that shit.

I know a ton of boomers who only believe what they see on TV. Like, they won't think something is true unless it's CNN or Fox. It can even be on their website or youtube channel and they'll think it's fake. Shit's baffling.

 

[Orange Rhymer]

I found myself subjected to the ultimate Boomer Thanksgiving Anthem: Alice's Restaurant:

The plot in a nutshell: folk singer gets arrested for dumping; finds to his delight, that getting arrested for a petty crime gets him off the hook for the draft. Also, Alice (who runs the titular restaurant,) lives in a decommissioned church full of garbage, which I can't help but think is an apt symbol to illustrate the fall of Western Culture in general. Imagine, being Arlo Guthrie and being naive enough to think that your folk music is going to permanently change the world, or that the counter-culture movement you champion won't be eventually co-opted by the same government that wants to ship your skinny ass to Vietnam.

The same group that evaded the draft in hundreds of creative ways
now petitions the government for double digit increases in social security.

Spoiler: Arlo and his Parents

A. Guthrie was born in the Coney Island neighborhood of Brooklyn, the son of the folk singer and composer Woody Guthrie and dancer Marjorie Mazia Guthrie.[1] He is the fifth, and oldest surviving, of Woody Guthrie's eight children; two older half-sisters died of Huntington's disease (which also killed Woody in 1967), an older half-brother died in a train accident and a third sister died in childhood. His sister is the record producer Nora Guthrie. His mother was a professional dancer with the Martha Graham Company and founder of what is now the Huntington's Disease Society of America. Arlo's father was from a Protestant family and his mother was Jewish.[3] His maternal grandmother was Yiddish poet Aliza Greenblatt.[4]

Guthrie received religious training for his bar mitzvah from Rabbi Meir Kahane, who formed the Jewish Defense League. "Rabbi Kahane was a really nice, patient teacher," Guthrie later recalled, "but shortly after he started giving me my lessons, he started going haywire. Maybe I was responsible."[5] Guthrie converted to Catholicism in 1977,[6] before embracing interfaith beliefs later in his life.[7] "I firmly believe that different religious traditions can reside in one person, or one nation or even one world," Guthrie said in 2015.[8]

Another 'pure coincidence'.

 

[The Curmudgeon]

I've known some cool boomers, but in my years of public service I've also encountered plenty of ignorant, entitled boomers. For a generation that loves ranting about hard work and responsibility, they sure expect lots of handouts and privileges. While I share their disdain for political correctness, they also ironically demand sensitivity towards their generation. They gloat about their legacies despite the fact most of them are mediocre nobodies that coasted on the crest of a wave.

They have gotten me to reflect on our own generation though. Most boomers long for a past that's never coming back. The contradiction is they want to relive their past, but they're not doing anything to preserve it. Look at all the boomers letting millennials and zoomers destroy our history and culture because they're clamoring for a redemption that was never going to happen anyway. Unlike those boomers, we should try to save what matters while not being eaten alive by our nostalgia and guilt. We need to move forward while honoring, and preserving, what's left of our history and culture before the self-proclaimed revolutionaries destroy it forever.

Sorry to get all preachy here, but I've been dealing with too many awful boomers who caused me to reflect on this.

 

[NJBear]

All those rich snotty boomers working a Walmart and the grocery store. It's their fault.

They are causing the non boomer BLM, CRT and Antifa terror in the US. Beaming radios waves into the brains of younger people.

 

[neurotardvirgin]

Honestly; I don't (fully) grasp much of the whole Boomer hate bandwagon.

Based on my personal experiences; the majority of boomers were relatively level headed, humble folks and more stable/empathetic/courteous than most people within my age cohort (zillennials). Mostly just down to earth, hank hill types with good intentions of things and a sense of ethos. The primary issues/patterns that come with the 'hank hill' mindset is that they are a little naive and impaired to the critical thinking department of things. Hard workers, precise to their attention to detail when it comes to the things they were conditioned in - yet have a poor sense of the abstract, almost to a sperg-like degree. On top of having some comical takes in regards to spiritual and sociopolitical matters, and are a little unsympathetic/not understanding of the economic inconveniences/struggles us younger adults have in comparison to their day and age.

It sounds an awful lot like self projection whenever I hear other millenials/zillenials/zoomers shit on boomers as a whole for 'being selfish, sociopathic/narcissistic, toxic, homophobic careless hedonists' - the people who happened to torment/bully the shit out of me the most/worst were other zillenials - who happened to be massive shitbag, neantherdal-esque, low IQ cretin dudebros who have no personality aside from calling people with a sense of self-restraint 'faggots' and 'pussies', mindlessly partying while getting into fights - and catty cumdumpster stacies making up much of my demographic cohort as well.

People seem to sweep under the rug that Millennials were the ones who were caught into bullshit like reality TV, mirroring degenerate personified minstrel act rappers/popstars, hyperconsumerism, hedonism and shit that (seemed) more callous and indulgent than what I've witnessed from the Boomers that I've personally known.

It wasn't until the rise of the woke when most of these same kids began to veil their dramatic Cluster B tendencies under the guise of "hahaha yeah we are the most empathetic generation evaarrrrr!!1111" and bullshit faux-virtue signaling. Same bullshit, under a different skin/pretense.

 

[Yuri_]

All those rich snotty boomers working a Walmart and the grocery store. It's their fault.

They are causing the non boomer BLM, CRT and Antifa terror in the US. Beaming radios waves into the brains of younger people.

The boomers let the TV/internet/public schooling system raise their children, so yes, they are to blame for much of the insanity we see.

It turns out some pretty bad shit can happen when you collectively ignore your parental duties.

 

[The Curmudgeon]

Honestly; I don't (fully) grasp much of the whole Boomer hate bandwagon.

Based on my personal experiences; the majority of boomers were relatively level headed, humble folks and more stable/empathetic/courteous than most people within my age cohort (zillennials). Mostly just down to earth, hank hill types with good intentions of things and a sense of ethos. The primary issues/patterns that come with the 'hank hill' mindset is that they are a little naive and impaired to the critical thinking department of things. Hard workers, precise to their attention to detail when it comes to the things they were conditioned in - yet have a poor sense of the abstract, almost to a sperg-like degree. On top of having some comical takes in regards to spiritual and sociopolitical matters, and are a little unsympathetic/not understanding of the economic inconveniences/struggles us younger adults have in comparison to their day and age.

It sounds an awful lot like self projection whenever I hear other millenials/zillenials/zoomers shit on boomers as a whole for 'being selfish, sociopathic/narcissistic, toxic, homophobic careless hedonists' - the people who happened to torment/bully the shit out of me the most/worst were other zillenials - who happened to be massive shitbag, neantherdal-esque, low IQ cretin dudebros who have no personality aside from calling people with a sense of self-restraint 'faggots' and 'pussies', mindlessly partying while getting into fights - and catty cumdumpster stacies making up much of my demographic cohort as well.

People seem to sweep under the rug that Millennials were the ones who were caught into bullshit like reality TV, mirroring degenerate personified minstrel act rappers/popstars, hyperconsumerism, hedonism and shit that (seemed) more callous and indulgent than what I've witnessed from the Boomers that I've personally known.

It wasn't until the rise of the woke when most of these same kids began to veil their dramatic Cluster B tendencies under the guise of "hahaha yeah we are the most empathetic generation evaarrrrr!!1111" and bullshit faux-virtue signaling. Same bullshit, under a different skin/pretense.

You know what? I actually agree with you! Millennials are awful too. I say this as a millennial. Our generation brings its own problems to the table. Also, it wouldn't be fair to leave Gen X out of this. But that's another topic for another time.

 

[Sweetpeaa]

Came across this post randomly, had to put it here. This is what I call ''the boomer experience'' where you get a taste of their delusional mental state and world view in the form of a post:



Once again a recurring theme of the Boomers is a fear of socialism, in this case it was a few signs that stirred the fear in this one.
Also again in the post, a woeful underestimation of wages and employment opportunities. This Boomer probably thinks a jobs fall off trees and pay more than enough. Canadian corporate job salaries in reality are heinous. But all people need to do is get out of bed, comb their hair and then they can get high paying job in ''boomer land''.

There is more rambling in this post that makes little to no sense.

 

[Hathungor]

Came across this post randomly, had to put it here. This is what I call ''the boomer experience'' where you get a taste of their delusional mental state and world view in the form of a post:

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Once again a recurring theme of the Boomers is a fear of socialism, in this case it was a few signs that stirred the fear in this one.
Also again in the post, a woeful underestimation of wages and employment opportunities. This Boomer probably thinks a jobs fall off trees and pay more than enough. Canadian corporate job salaries in reality are heinous. But all people need to do is get out of bed, comb their hair and then they can get high paying job in ''boomer land''.

There is more rambling in this post that makes little to no sense.

I'd say that this fear isn't entirely unfounded. Certainly not during the Cold War with one proxy war happening after the other, but even today it's made a recurrence for a reason.

I totally think that a country needs some social programs to establish a base line for a humane standard of living.
But you also have these weirdos now advocating that everyone should be forced to live in communes where nobody is paid for their work, everything is owned by everyone and anyone who disagrees is killed with rocks for being a violent extremist.

 

[Sweetpeaa]

I'd say that this fear isn't entirely unfounded. Certainly not during the Cold War with one proxy war happening after the other, but even today it's made a recurrence for a reason.

I totally think that a country needs some social programs to establish a base line for a humane standard of living.
But you also have these weirdos now advocating that everyone should be forced to live in communes where nobody is paid for their work, everything is owned by everyone and anyone who disagrees is killed with rocks for being a violent extremist.

But this is where the lines start to blur.. Boomers don't like the idea of employer accountability for people younger than them. They think it's okay for employers not to provide pensions, fair wages and workers protection safety measures which is ironically enough things boomers benefited from while in the workforce. They want full austerity for the young and anything other than that is instantly ''socialism'' in their books.

Are they lying or are they delusional? that is the bottom line. They could of course be lying, the theory goes that Boomers are doing their part to cripple the financial gains of the young in order to hold the monopoly of wealth especially in terms of real estate and stocks. While there is of course many young people who got around these road blocks, many have not. Boomers also have disproportional political power and political representation especially in countries like the U.S when they should not have such at their ages. It is abnormal to still be electing boomers and silent Generation'ers (Joe Biden) as political leaders. We could have a generation malicious liars on our hands trying to hold people back.

Then there is the delusional theory. They could just be a heavily out of touch generation with the real working and modern world. Many things today they may not be able to comprehend as in why couldn't just anyone ''get a high paying job'' after a four year degree. After all, in their day they could walk into an interview without so much as a college degree and get hired on the spot in 1975.

 

[Shadfan666xxx000]

Honestly, I don't see why people hate boomers when yhe appropriate response seems to be pity. These are the children of a golden age who had every single thing handed to them in their prime, only to see their gains and the gains of their descendants jeopardized at the very last minutes of their lives. They're a confused, befuddled mass through no real fault of their own, except that of trusting a system which gave them the best of their prime before utterly committing suicide just as their faculties fail, leaving them at the mercy of their subpar pensions and deficient progeny (if they have any). It must be utterly miserable and confusing to be a boomer and they aren't even bad people largely. Just naive and abused.

 

[Ser Prize]

Came across this post randomly, had to put it here. This is what I call ''the boomer experience'' where you get a taste of their delusional mental state and world view in the form of a post:

View attachment 3054348

Once again a recurring theme of the Boomers is a fear of socialism, in this case it was a few signs that stirred the fear in this one.
Also again in the post, a woeful underestimation of wages and employment opportunities. This Boomer probably thinks a jobs fall off trees and pay more than enough. Canadian corporate job salaries in reality are heinous. But all people need to do is get out of bed, comb their hair and then they can get high paying job in ''boomer land''.

There is more rambling in this post that makes little to no sense.

Socialism sucks and boomers were right to fear it.

 

[The Last Stand]

Came across this post randomly, had to put it here. This is what I call ''the boomer experience'' where you get a taste of their delusional mental state and world view in the form of a post:

View attachment 3054348

Once again a recurring theme of the Boomers is a fear of socialism, in this case it was a few signs that stirred the fear in this one.
Also again in the post, a woeful underestimation of wages and employment opportunities. This Boomer probably thinks a jobs fall off trees and pay more than enough. Canadian corporate job salaries in reality are heinous. But all people need to do is get out of bed, comb their hair and then they can get high paying job in ''boomer land''.

There is more rambling in this post that makes little to no sense.

I remember when their generation thought integration was socialism.

 

[Captain Syrup]

I know a ton of boomers who only believe what they see on TV.

All these dinosaurs do is watch TV. Like, they know it’s all politically-biased, and owned by megacorps who lie 99% of the time. But they still mainline TV news like it's heroin.

I think at this point the main thing holding up broadcast television is boomers.

 

[Wesley Willis]

I thought this thread was going to be exclusively a series of David Brooks articles.

 

[Orange Rhymer]

But this is where the lines start to blur.. Boomers don't like the idea of employer accountability for people younger than them. They think it's okay for employers not to provide pensions, fair wages and workers protection safety measures which is ironically enough things boomers benefited from while in the workforce. They want full austerity for the young and anything other than that is instantly ''socialism'' in their books.

Are they lying or are they delusional? that is the bottom line. They could of course be lying, the theory goes that Boomers are doing their part to cripple the financial gains of the young in order to hold the monopoly of wealth especially in terms of real estate and stocks. While there is of course many young people who got around these road blocks, many have not. Boomers also have disproportional political power and political representation especially in countries like the U.S when they should not have such at their ages. It is abnormal to still be electing boomers and silent Generation'ers (Joe Biden) as political leaders. We could have a generation malicious liars on our hands trying to hold people back.

Then there is the delusional theory. They could just be a heavily out of touch generation with the real working and modern world. Many things today they may not be able to comprehend as in why couldn't just anyone ''get a high paying job'' after a four year degree. After all, in their day they could walk into an interview without so much as a college degree and get hired on the spot in 1975.

Stopped at your idolization of 'fair'
Watch a lion eat a gazelle. That is 'fair'
Anything else is a perversion of the natural order.

Now go beg for more money from your political masters.

 

[Sweetpeaa]

Stopped at your idolization of 'fair'
Watch a lion eat a gazelle. That is 'fair'
Anything else is a perversion of the natural order.

Now go beg for more money from your political masters.

A low wage economy encourages illegal immigration though. This is a problem that will never end until employers get off the greed train.

 

[BelUwUga]

Honestly, I don't see why people hate boomers when yhe appropriate response seems to be pity. These are the children of a golden age who had every single thing handed to them in their prime, only to see their gains and the gains of their descendants jeopardized at the very last minutes of their lives. They're a confused, befuddled mass through no real fault of their own, except that of trusting a system which gave them the best of their prime before utterly committing suicide just as their faculties fail, leaving them at the mercy of their subpar pensions and deficient progeny (if they have any). It must be utterly miserable and confusing to be a boomer and they aren't even bad people largely. Just naive and abused.

Quite simple. Their gains are largely from taking everybody else after them's gains. The golden age was wrapping up by the time boomers came to adulthood. Instead of putting a little bit of effort towards safeguarding the future they have only demanded more. Case in point: US social security. More than a decade before I was alive these policies were put into place. It was a known factor then that before I will be 40 it will be insolvent. I.E. I will either need to accept that I am not seeing any of the money I have been forced to pay in, or I condemn my children and their children to a similar fate. They don't care one bit. As a matter of fact many of them complain that what they get already isn't enough. These people have had the best opportunity for the most time to make themselves wealthy. They were too busy spending future generation's money to save any, and now they are angry it's slowing down (not even stopping). You forget that they have maintained, upheld, and expanded that same system more than any generation before. If they've squandered what they've plundered already I don't feel bad for them at all.

 

[Orange Rhymer]

A low wage economy encourages illegal immigration though. This is a problem that will never end until employers get off the greed train.

Greed is relative, though.
If you ate 3 meals today, a Norkie would call YOU ''greedy'.
There are many examples of 'greed' in the modern age.
Each one you list for a private corp, I can match you with a public institution and a civilian convenience.

Also, ask yourself why there are illegals in the first place, and why you would deny them a better life.

Paying people the minimum they will work for is _efficient_. Giving employees too much is wasteful, and actual leads to employee dissatisfaction.
Silicon Valley learned this in the late 2000s

 

[PaleTay]

Quite simple. Their gains are largely from taking everybody else after them's gains. The golden age was wrapping up by the time boomers came to adulthood. Instead of putting a little bit of effort towards safeguarding the future they have only demanded more. Case in point: US social security. More than a decade before I was alive these policies were put into place. It was a known factor then that before I will be 40 it will be insolvent. I.E. I will either need to accept that I am not seeing any of the money I have been forced to pay in, or I condemn my children and their children to a similar fate. They don't care one bit. As a matter of fact many of them complain that what they get already isn't enough. These people have had the best opportunity for the most time to make themselves wealthy. They were too busy spending future generation's money to save any, and now they are angry it's slowing down (not even stopping). You forget that they have maintained, upheld, and expanded that same system more than any generation before. If they've squandered what they've plundered already I don't feel bad for them at all.

The big thing is they seem to do increasingly stupid things with money and resources. For example, my grandparents own a large property in the center of an area in the process of gentrifying, they're considering selling to Blackrock to build an apartment building but don't want to be "greedy". I have other relatives who are still rich but are leaving their kids in a far worse position than they were born into.