Boomer Hate Thread

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Paper Machete said:
It also makes sense why so many millennials and zoomers have dysfunctional approaches towards relationships as well or are total non starters.
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For some reason the image that sprang to mind was the formation of "phantom traffic jams", where the perfect movement of many is disrupted by one small decision.
Except it might be more the boomers speeding up to the silent gens' bumper before slamming on the breaks and filing suit against everyone who crashes in behind them.
 
Lord of the Large Pants said:
It is my greatest hope that when Boomers die out, they take the so-called "Protestant work ethic" with them. Gen X, Millennials, and Zoomers are all correct to coast and lack ambition. Technology means we don't NEED to bust ass for 60 hours a week anymore, or even 40. We SHOULD be lazier and spend less of our lives at bullshit jobs. It is morally correct to do so (to a point). But Boomers "worked hard", so you need to "pay your dues", sonny.
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My issue with the Protestant work ethic is it has morphed into if you're not killing yourself working 60+ hours a week you're worthless.
This mindset made sense when we were building railroads but makes no sense when we're at this level these days.
 
LeChampion1992 said:
My issue with the Protestant work ethic is it has morphed into if you're not killing yourself working 60+ hours a week you're worthless.
This mindset made sense when we were building railroads but makes no sense when we're at this level these days.
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It's a fine mindset when you're building things for yourself. It's a terrible mindset when you're competing in a global race to the bottom.
 
Not sure where to put this.

I finished reading The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom. I didn't want to read initially because I started to have major issues with Christianity and God's love at the time, and didn't believe that someone could be as blameless as Christians held up ten Boom to be. I had believed that an autobiography was just effectively a fictionalized version of someone's life and the subject matter seemed too bleak to read for enjoyment. When I suggested that there was some "real" sin that the author didn't talk about, my mother got frustrated with me and told me to read it before I make far-reaching statements.

So I did.

Then I when I call her and start talking about it, like "If they never actually found the secret room where they were hiding Jews, then why did Corrie and her sister get arrested?", "If the Nazis had a real problem with them sharing the message in the insect-infested barracks, and not just apathetic because they were losing the war, then why didn't they just fumigate the place?", or "Yes, I'm sure she viewed her sister as a saint, but is it possible that her view of her was just 'real in her mind' from someone who was suffering herself?" she gets mad at me because I didn't respect the fact that she was thankful to be in a concentration camp surrounded by lice and fleas...and "too hung up on asking questions about the concentration camps".

I ended up getting pissed off entirely because I had written down a lot of questions and notes, and somehow how it was my problem that I didn't latch onto something that is neither unpretentious or identifiable with my own life.

Despite the fact that I tried to reiterate the fact that ten Boom was not lying, exaggerating, or willingly leaving out details, what I ended up getting is this weird vibe that boomers (Christian or not) are obsessed with the Holocaust. Like, it's not even "this didn't happen" or "this was exaggerated" or "they deserved it" but you read an account of someone's experiences, and you ask questions that are entirely consistent with the accepted history of the concentration camps and they get REALLY mad.

I'm not here to debate the Holocaust or Jews or nothing, but for some reason boomers think any questions about the concentration camps and their operations that they can't immediately answer is tantamount to denying the Holocaust. Has had similar experiences? I don't think I'm alone.
 
Xarpho's Return said:
I'm not here to debate the Holocaust or Jews or nothing, but for some reason boomers think any questions about the concentration camps and their operations that they can't immediately answer is tantamount to denying the Holocaust. Has had similar experiences? I don't think I'm alone.
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It took a really long time, like a decade, for me to beat Jew worship out of my family members. Now they know the holocaust never happened. Unfortunately, they've also started believing in utter lunacy they read on Facebook or from their friends, so it's a mixed bag.

A concerning amount of these old people are getting dragged into—again for emphasis—utter lunacy, which they mix into Christianity as they desire, like the totally real firmament above the world that NASA is lying to everyone about.
 
Cowards, frauds, and traitors, the lot of 'em

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Hopkinsville Goblin said:
The Kennedy/Nixon debate is still well known to this day, as is that quote from Kennedy. Nixon looked like shit because he was all sweaty and recovering from a staph infection and refused to wear makeup. Why did boomers need to be taught about this in school if they watched it on TV?
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I was watching that new garbage Reagan movie with my boomer mother the other week and she asked what gulag was. She never heard of it.
 
Audit said:
I'm always more surprised when my generation has parents that didn't neglect them.
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I wouldn't even say it's neglect, it's this weird helicoptering combined with extreme narcissism where they can't understand their kids might have different desires than them. They don't process that little Billy doesn't want to sit and watch TV for 10 hours a day, or that locking their kids in their room to get them away from technology isn't the solution.
 
Hopkinsville Goblin said:
There are all sorts of problems with schools that need to be addressed but boomers always focus on the wrong ones, or they even make up shit that doesn't exist like the litter box thing or kids getting surprise gender reassignment surgery.
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The reason why the litter box story gained so much traction is that school districts are notorious for covering things up. Unless police get involved for something, most school districts (not just super-left ones like Loudoun) can and will memoryhole everything.

Reason greentexts are so popular is that if you've been to an American public school in the last 30 years is that you know of enough bullshit that it gives them an air of credibility.

Allied-Mastercomputer said:
This guy knows ball. Kennedy absolutely cheated using his mob connections. Nixon was one of the greatest patriots this country has ever seen and it’s a shame boomers always rely on “but Nixon was impeached because of watergate” whenever Nixon is brought up.
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The more I read about Nixon, the more I think he was done the dirtiest by boomers. If you're looking at Nixon from a moralistic perspective, Clinton was just as much, if not more so, a scoundrel, and he actually made the country objectively worse.
 
Xarpho's Return said:
The reason why the litter box story gained so much traction is that school districts are notorious for covering things up. Unless police get involved for something, most school districts (not just super-left ones like Loudoun) can and will memoryhole everything.

Reason greentexts are so popular is that if you've been to an American public school in the last 30 years is that you know of enough bullshit that it gives them an air of credibility.
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I was thinking maybe the litter box story got traction because there's an ounce of truth, schools will often keep cat litter on hand because it's helpful for cleaning up vomit.
 
Xarpho's Return said:
Despite the fact that I tried to reiterate the fact that ten Boom was not lying, exaggerating, or willingly leaving out details, what I ended up getting is this weird vibe that boomers (Christian or not) are obsessed with the Holocaust. Like, it's not even "this didn't happen" or "this was exaggerated" or "they deserved it" but you read an account of someone's experiences, and you ask questions that are entirely consistent with the accepted history of the concentration camps and they get REALLY mad.

I'm not here to debate the Holocaust or Jews or nothing, but for some reason boomers think any questions about the concentration camps and their operations that they can't immediately answer is tantamount to denying the Holocaust. Has had similar experiences? I don't think I'm alone.
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Because WW2 is their equivalent of the creation myth for the religion of post war consensus. The Holocaust thus occupies a similar place in the theology as the original sin would for them as a quick shorthand for evil. Once you look at it that way you will find it a lot easier to understand why they act certain way when discussing certain topics.

Xarpho's Return said:
The more I read about Nixon, the more I think he was done the dirtiest by boomers. If you're looking at Nixon from a moralistic perspective, Clinton was just as much, if not more so, a scoundrel, and he actually made the country objectively worse.
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Nixon was crucified and made into the devil for Watergate and 40 years later Obama literally took Watergate and instead of having a few USSS people spy on a single DNC meeting had the entire FBI officially spy on the GOP candidate and no one batted an eye in the media and in fact most of them cheered on it (Crossfire Hurricane).

Watergate is the biggest bullshit ever. It is a absurdly large nothingburger once you actually look into it which only exists as a mythological factoid for boomers and their gen x kids who wanted to go into journalism. The Pentagon Papers were way more important from both a political and moral point of view yet they are almost forgotten despite happening at the same time, probably because it would require a bit more time to actually explain and it would also result in a moral of being weary of any "experts" which of course the journalists don't want.

Seriously, compare Watergate to shit like Roosvelt having literal NKVD paid agents in the White House, IRAN-Contra, Vince Foster, Bush literally faking WNDs to have a casus belli, Woodrow Wilson being de-facto replaced by his wife and VP, Kennedy mob shittery and more. Watergate was a total nothingburger exploded up by a media that was high on their own supply that they were now Gods. I think it was that one dude Hunter S. Thompson (who hated Nixon even) who said "The media once took down a sitting US President and they have been chasing that high ever since".
 
Core i7-3770K said:
Chemical and biological weapons and the facilities to construct them WERE found, though, and Saddam DID have a history of using them. "WMD" does not mean "Nukes, exclusively".
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Their trump card, the Anthrax, was fake. Saddam's projects were all shut down or hollow to the point of nothing. Funny the same boomerlibs who screeched about that now sigh about how nice Bush was and how much worse Trump is.
 
Core i7-3770K said:
Chemical and biological weapons and the facilities to construct them WERE found, though, and Saddam DID have a history of using them. "WMD" does not mean "Nukes, exclusively".
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It didn't really matter that much. Dick Cheney wanted those oil field contracts, the Saudis wanted to rid Iraq of Baathism and Israel wanted Saddam's head on a pike. Any reason or excuse was going to be found to get the public involved in supporting this war.

General Emílio Médici said:
Their trump card, the Anthrax, was fake. Saddam's projects were all shut down or hollow to the point of nothing. Funny the same boomerlibs who screeched about that now sigh about how nice Bush was and how much worse Trump is.
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It's funny remembering how everyone considered W to be worse than Hitler by 2006 but now he gets treated like an elder statesman for having more decorum than Trump.
 
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General Emílio Médici said:
Watergate is the biggest bullshit ever. It is a absurdly large nothingburger
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We have 10 different Watergate type scandals in the US gov every week at this point, and nobody gives a single shit. They got rid of Nixon for doing 1% of what the US gov does daily. The boomers that were young got rid of him and now they are in gov positions and now they do the same things he did but worse.
 
ILikeIt said:
We have 10 different Watergate type scandals in the US gov every week at this point, and nobody gives a single shit. They got rid of Nixon for doing 1% of what the US gov does daily. The boomers that were young got rid of him and now they are in gov positions and now they do the same things he did but worse.
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Was Nixon the one who described poojeetas as revolting and gross? If so, based.
 
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