Boomers
Boomers
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I think it might be time to stop blaming the boomers. We own this mess now.
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Text flipped, you may thank me at your leisure.
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Flipped the rest of the text. No need to thank me.
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Lol using boomer humor to hang the boomer
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"Those gosh darn
kidsboomers!"
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Boomers are all bigoted, sexist, climate change denying pieces of shit?
... kinda a shitty take there mate. Lots of them are terrible, but so aye lots of people from other generations too, and tarring them all with the same brush is only going to alienate the good ones and make them quite reasonably dislike you.
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The term boomer refers to a mentality, not to the generation anymore.
By the current use of the term, yes, they all are, as this use refers to people who refuse change out of irrational belief that old times were better, glorify a violent and fascist past, and deny the existence of modern science because they refuse to adapt their obsolete lifestyle.
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#notallboomers
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Add in "not signaling to them that you're paying attention".
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Why do people still think this is simply a boomer problem? After the recent election even the US is waking up to the fact that Gen Z (and younger) generations are much more conservative than Millennials.
This is not a generational issue, the problem is not age. The problem is conservatism.
It’s not a boomer problem. It’s an education problem. Weaponized stupidity is a big problem in a pluralistic society.
The problem is that people switched to get their news from social media, and our adversaries are using that towards their advantage.
I've been saying here for ages that the perception of boomers being overwhelmingly right wing and younger generations being overwhelmingly left wing is far, far from accurate. You can look at the demographic data from the prior two elections and see that, yes, there were more conservative boomers than liberal, but it's not a big margin, and for younger generations it was flipped. Now it appears the younger folks are more conservative than liberal.
As a very liberal boomer, it's been frustrating to get so many truly hateful responses, even recently, based on nothing other than the year I was born. I kept feeling like that level of intolerance didn't bode well, and now I'm thinking that concern was validated.
It’s to be expected. My theory is that millennials grew up late enough that they had access to the early Internet, so they got exposed to all kinds of strange cultures and had to learn tolerance and acceptance.
The younger generations grew up with an internet dominated by mega corporations, and algorithmic feeds. Unfortunately hostile states and other bad actors have been very effective at exploiting these mechanisms, causing a strong right wing shift simply due to exposure.
Your brain is strongly colored by what it consumes, of course.
Ok boomer
I don't think the artist is saying only Boomers have this problem. It is possible to express one's opinion on one issue without needing to address all similar issues.
Also it would be rather weird to have a Boomer and a Zoomer together in this situation.
Stop saying "the" like there's only one problem.
Your criticism of the comic is a case of Whataboutism.
It's like if the comic was making fun of a dog liking food and you then chimed in with "hey, humans like food too...why didn't they include humans in their example?"
Look at the comedy in the comic. Have those things been witnessed by others and turned into an exaggerated stereotype? Yes, they have. Stating that other things are also true does not negate the humor of the comic.
The problem is liberalism, something the boomers inflicted on us.
You know that Jesus fella that conservatives seem to love so much? Archetypal liberal. 2000 years ago. Boomers are old but they're not that old.