• TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 days ago

    Boomers were the people who were born after 1945, during the baby boom after the second World War. The people in this picture were, if they had kids born after 1945, the parents of boomers.

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        1 day ago

        Yeah, like their previous generation didn’t do anything… Remember the nazis? Remember Stalin? Remember the empire of the rising sun? I mean, boomers fucked up the environment and economy for our generation. The generation before them killed literally millions in death camps all around the world, during 2 world wars with the most horrible war crimes and with 2 nukes. It’s a matter of perspective.

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        2 days ago

        Or forgotten generation.

        But also, yea let’s not forget it really came down to who voted for Reagan. I’m a little tired of the boomer hate because it overlooks some of the okay boomers, and yes, equates “old” with “selfish asshole”.

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          Hot take, old is already equated with asshole. The current ruling class in the United states is predominantly ancient and white. The gerontocracy is the reason we are in this shitstorm. People have already been hating white people for decades, and ageism has been around since at least I was a kid.

          My mom is an ‘okay’ boomer. My point stands.

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            It’s not the age, it’s the class.

            The wealthy, both young and old, are the ones giving over the rest of us.

            Generational division is just a distraction from the real culprits