Boomer Hate Thread

[Slappy McGherkin]

Why are people still mad about boomers? Aren't they all retired/dead now?

No, some of them (like me) still have full time jobs and read and post here on the Farms daily. Even in this I hate Boomers thread.



Every generation has their plus and minuses.

 

[big ups liquid richard]

 

[PaleTay]

I hate my boomer relatives, especially my granddad. My grandfather owned 2 boats, 2 vehicles, and lots of technology for most of his life and complained he was broke before he sold his second home. He retired at 49. He's the type of person to buy a snowblower for his suburban driveway, yes it turned a 10 minute task into a 2 hour one.

 

[Captain Syrup]

Their spending habits is shit but that doesn't matter because they have SSI and pensions

Ah, but for how much longer?

Maybe they'll finally be motivated to unionize. Jk, they actually seem pretty eager to get milked out of existence.

The thing that perplexes me the most is when it come to technology, where you show them a task that a child can understand easily but they want to fight tooth and nail over it.

My mom has been using PCs for longer than I have. She can't use a web browser, or a printer, or create a folder. I've taught her a hundred different skills and she forgets them all.

She's a savant when it comes to Facebook.

 

[Tingle]

I fucking hate boomers so God damn much. They are the most entitled, self-centered, baby-attitude faggots I've ever had to work with.

Why are people still mad about boomers? Aren't they all retired/dead now?

Boomers hold the largest share of generational wealth in the US, and continue to compared to every generation that's come after. They're retired and do jack shit but be annoying, but the fact they have and spend the most means society, businesses and services are still bending over backwards for their boomerbux to this day.

 

[Orange Rhymer]

I fucking hate boomers so God damn much. They are the SECOND most entitled, self-centered, baby-attitude faggots I've ever had to work with.


cope... blah... blah... blah

FIFY

 

[I-chi]

Yup, I fucking hate them boomers. Bunch of faggot robotmen with their onboard weapons systems and tendency to explode in our faces.

 

[TheRetardKing]

I cannot click the book.

 

[Ultrapenguin]

Oh it's a thread for hating on boomers. I like to do that sometimes.

The issue with boomers is that they clearly are people who haven't really suffered much in the way of adversity, which doesn't make them terrible people, I understand why they are the way they are, but their opinions and experience are almost completely useless.


I thank god for my grandmother, because I've gleaned more useful insight and information from her about the world than from anyone of my parents' generation. The world she describes and the way people back in the day behaved makes more sense to me than anything in the modern day. She tells me stories about the war, the great depression, labor strikes, a time when they crankstarted cars and had to get ice delivered to them for their ice box, community back in the day, what and how my grandfather worked. And to her it's no big deal, she just casually talks about it.

It actually pisses me off because boomers like to act like their parents are ditzy invalids who aren't worth listening to, and it's like...you spoiled little fucking faggots, this lady has a better head on her shoulders than any of you. But these people have that egocentric liberal elitist spirit, so if someone's laid back about life and their health and isn't constantly trying to prove how in charge they are of everything like a bitch, it must mean they're less enlightened, since you're big guys who know better than everyone.

And now boomers hold all kinds of property and wealth because their moms and dads suffered for them, which would be absolutely fine...if they didn't shut down as soon as things get complicated. Unless someone tells them what to do, they can't figure it out and pretty much freeze. They've never actually had to, society's always told them what they have to do, and they just had to do that hard enough to live a passable life.

So we have a bunch of people sitting on the pot, hoarding wealth, and doing nothing. Thus society stagnates and rots and the middle class crumbles.


I figure it's really important to look after your health and build yourself up, because you're going to have to be able to function well until the boomers die off to turn all this around.

 

[Tard Wrangler]

My mom is a boomer and i love my mom so they cant be all bad

 

[Satchels_of_Gold]

Both my parents are Boom-Booms, I am an Millennial. It's like being raised by your lead poisoned grandparents or something. I hate Boomers except I also hate Millennials. Gen X is where it's at. Can one identify out of one's generation or is that some troon shit?

 

[The Feline Solution]

I cannot click the book.

Water.

 

[Skookum Jim]

I think we as a country need to come up with a better word than Boomer for the type of people we're trying to describe. Baby Boomers are at the age where they're nearly all retired, and are starting to die like fruit flies, so on the surface it doesn't make much sense to complain about them. But like, when we say Boomer, we mean someone who is both generally well off and heavily entitled, but without realizing their entitled. In America, it just so happens that Baby Boomers are vastly more likely to have that attitude, what with growing up in the greatest period of economic growth ever seen and basically having the American Dream handed to them on a silver platter. They're not all like that though, my grandparents grew up in bumfuck nowhere, the kind of place where the only paved road was the road that went by the gas station, because it was part of a state highway, and they had it pretty rough, and definitely did not act like boomers. A lot of Boomers you see would probably be more Gen X, but they just grew up in safe suburbistan and their actual boomer parents raised them in that mentality.

As a sidenote, i think the whole "karen" phenomenon and boomer-ism are probably related. A lot of karens are Baby Boomer - early Millennial housewives, who have genuinely 100% honestly have not done a single day's work in their lives, or faced any actual adversity on account of just getting married to a guy who can take care of her. This isn't to say that being a housewife isn't a real job or isn't real work, i'm saying karens don't do it, karens almost universally do not raise healthy well adjusted children.

 

[llllIllIllIIIIllI]

Boomers are at least more interesting to talk to over nu-male cucks because they live in an alternate reality where the internet never happened, and they are not affected by PC and SJW shit. The very same thing makes them very cancerous for business, they are suicidally against any form of change even the kind that they are desperately on-board with. Every business has at least one boomer who has been at the company for 30 years, and they don't obey a single rule at all or listen to anyone, and quite literally everything has to be the owner threatening to fire them and play that game again for the thousandth time. Every time there is a change at a business, it happens in two waves, the first wave is 95% of the company in two weeks and then the second wave is 8 months with all the boomers, with them screaming out "AWHHHH THEY CHANGED IT, I WANT THE OLD WAY" at the top of their lungs. Boomers see the reason for change and even beg for it in meetings, but 2 weeks later once it is implemented they have a full boomer relapse and just start shouting. I've known companies that have to hire people who do nothing but follow the boomers around to constantly "interview" them, carrying a laptop around and using the software to put in all the shit that the boomers are supposed to be doing themselves. They were always really great 20 years ago and transformed the company but they ride on that and do nothing and drag everyone down and far outweigh the positive things they brought to the business. I could tell you so many fucking boomer business stories, in some cases, I've quite literally had to wait for a single boomer to literally die of old age before we could change something in the software etc. They are explosively resistant to change that even they themselves saw the need for and begged for it.

 

[Skookum Jim]

they are suicidally against any form of change even the kind that they are desperately on-board with

Someone else on the farms proposed that boomers as an age group are so generally dumb and against change because they have mass lead poisoning on account of leaded gasoline being the norm during their formative years, and frankly I can see it. People older than boomers who still have their wits about them do just fine with change, and people younger than them are fine, I think being a boomer might not just be a mindset, it might be a symptom.

 

[Dysnomia]

Boomer relatives just burn me out with their technological impairment. They think I'm a tech wizard because I can magically make their phones ring again or set an alarm when all they did was mess with some setting they didn't understand and turn something off. All I did was fix that. No matter how many times I explain stuff they can't figure it out.

My aunt didn't switch her credit card to the new one and lost her Prime because it couldn't renew. She had no idea how to use a browser to open the site because you can't renew Prime on the app for some reason. She doesn't even know her Gmail password and thinks that Gmail is different from email because they are different letters. I tried to explain to her that she needs to keep track of her passwords. But she was unaware that she even had Amazon and Gmail passwords because "I just tap the app".

 

[PipTheAlchemist]

I love making boomer heads explode when I explain to them that being a godless commie IS my ethnic heritage and family tradition that I'm reconnecting with and honouring and staying true to. In the workingmen's club in my grandfather's mining town they even have a big old banner hung up reading 'For Peace and Socialism'. The region my family and ancestors came from is the birthplace of socialism. We have many explicitly left-wing folk songs.

Not a boomer, but I would unironically kill myself if my heritage was that deeply into socialism and leftist bullshit

 

[anustart76]

Boomer relatives just burn me out with their technological impairment. They think I'm a tech wizard because I can magically make their phones ring again or set an alarm when all they did was mess with some setting they didn't understand and turn something off. All I did was fix that. No matter how many times I explain stuff they can't figure it out.

My aunt didn't switch her credit card to the new one and lost her Prime because it couldn't renew. She had no idea how to use a browser to open the site because you can't renew Prime on the app for some reason. She doesn't even know her Gmail password and thinks that Gmail is different from email because they are different letters. I tried to explain to her that she needs to keep track of her passwords. But she was unaware that she even had Amazon and Gmail passwords because "I just tap the app".

I work in tech so I'm the go-to in my family. Thankfully once I got a little older they all went full iToddler, and I was able to tell them "I don't touch Apple's garbage, don't ask me for help if you buy that" and now I can live in peace for the most part.

 

[Jimjamflimflam]

Don't hate boomers but I've noticed they got a real fucked up "work is more important then family" mentality that I really don't understand.

https://youtu.be/GJMciK6xWrk

 

[pause_break]

I used to think hating on Baby Boomers was the kind of thing only jaded, self-avowed marxists from middle-class backgrounds did because they fucked themselves out of being able to get a decent job after getting slapped with a felony arson charge.

It took the big push for vax mandates last year to really make me get the problem that is the "Boomer Menace". Boomer is more of a mindset rather than a specific generation, although those people that make up the Baby Boomer generation almost entirely embody said mindset.

I think I'd describe it as choosing short term comfort and/or pleasure at the complete expense of one's values and morality, with absolutely no regard for the ramifications that decision might have on themselves, their children, subsequent generations, or their entire culture in the long run.

We've seen the consequences of this mindset play out over the last 50+ years now, but like I said, it took the recent vax mandates for me to really grasp it. I saw so many people completely bend over and capitulate to the mandates last year, many of whom were previously very outspoken about them as soon as their job was put in the crosshairs. Coworkers, family members, plenty of people I know pulled a complete 180 as soon as they were actually put to the test, and so, so many of them failed, all because their immediate comfort was threatened.

It really left a bad taste in my mouth, and sadly made me kind of understand how the elites could really despise the masses.