Boomer Hate Thread -

[Dom Cruise]

If the boomers had not freaked out in the 1960s would we be living in the Jetsons style future today?

Of course this raises the question of whether it was their freaking out was what caused the change or if events like the JFK assassination and Vietnam caused the freak out, which were not events in their control.

Either way I see a lot of value to the way American culture was in the 1950s and question the boomers decision to basically tear it all down.

 

[Orange Rhymer]

The beauty of the internet world, IMO, is that a person’s true colors can shine when there’s no consequence for their actions.

I’ve met people who seemed perfectly normal, even likeable IRL, but their Facebooks portray an individual that I would in no way want to be associated with (perhaps the opposite is also true, IDGAF). The older generation had to waste time to get to know someone before a person would disclose opinions or personality traits that they might find distasteful.

Why waste the time?

My only counter to that: Sometimes people 'think out loud' and explore ideas by bouncing off people (publicly, unfortunately)
Also,
Sometimes people try to bait or gather head nods on social media, but their real feels are very different. In the Nursing Home, I hear these examinations often.
"He acts like an ass, but is really a good guy underneath".

Just saying. People are sometimes different than their FB page. But your point is valid also.

 

[JustFuckinaDude]

My only counter to that: Sometimes people 'think out loud' and explore ideas by bouncing off people (publicly, unfortunately)
Also,
Sometimes people try to bait or gather head nods on social media, but their real feels are very different. In the Nursing Home, I hear these examinations often.
"He acts like an ass, but is really a good guy underneath".

To your first point: while that’s perfectly reasonable, it’s easy enough to find a forum where you can explore your ideas/interests/curiosity with others (we are on a forum about internet lolcows, after all). Though, while I was typing that, I realized that ease is probably due to the digital age, so...point taken. Boomers get a pass on that from me.

To the second assertion, though; there’s several versions of everyone. For me, there’s (insert real name) that my spouse knows, there’s “dad”, there’s the (nickname) that my classmates know, and even (name) that my parents know. They’re all me, just different perceptions of the same person. My own father (lets use R) is a great example.

Some people see R has a good dude who’s a bit rough around the edges. I see him (“dad”) as a dickhead who I share genes with. “What’s underneath” doesn’t redeem someone of their insufferable actions. Same person, different perceptions. I suppose perception is the only thing that ever changes.

 

[mindlessobserver]

Reminder these things are maintained by the kinds of people who have loud arguments about anime.

Which is why you should be nice to weebs. You never know if that dude in the Naruto suit actually does have the power to destroy the world.

 

[Biden's Chosen]

A lot of people here a salty that Boomers know how to vote and what you should do in life because they have more life experience. You should stop being ungrateful little kids, grow up. If you had a little more respect for them and listened to them, you too would have bought a house and been financially secure. Don't blame them for your bad decisions.

Boomers were the real greatest generation and they will be venerated by people in the future for the choices they made.

 

[Terrorist]

"Millenials are entitled, materialistic, hedonistic, narcissists!" says the people they learned it from

 

[Syaoran Li]

If the boomers had not freaked out in the 1960s would we be living in the Jetsons style future today?

Of course this raises the question of whether it was their freaking out was what caused the change or if events like the JFK assassination and Vietnam caused the freak out, which were not events in their control.

Either way I see a lot of value to the way American culture was in the 1950s and question the boomers decision to basically tear it all down.

Eh, I think the Boomers freaking out in the 1960's by itself wasn't enough to cause the big change

The Boomer counterculture of the 1960's and 1970's made sense in the context of the time, with the Cold War, the assassination of JFK, and the uproar over Vietnam War and the racial tension of the time. The hyper-conformity of the 1950's and early 1960's seemed to be a pointless waste of time for this generation that grew up being told to "Duck and Cover!" when the Soviets would inevitably drop The Big One and end it all.

Nah, what really caused the change was the double-whammy of the Boomers freaking out in the 1960's and then having a second freak out in the opposite direction during the 1980's. The whole "Yippie to Yuppie" movement was also the main origin point of the Religious Right of the 80's and 90's, and the Neoconservatives as well.

Basically, you had the cynical Generation X seeing the Boomers "sell out" during their latchkey kid childhoods, and Gen X became largely cynical and apathetic as a result.

Meanwhile the Millennials became warped by growing up under Gen X and Late Boomer helicopter parents that coddled them and also grew up seeing Bible-thumping traditionalist nutcases telling them that wearing Halloween costumes and playing video games would send them to eternal damnation and that a vast global network of powerful Satanic pedophile gangs ran TSR, Def Jam Records, Proctor & Gamble, Sony, and the local daycare center.

There's a reason why so many Millennials ended up becoming either SJW's or euphoric fedora man atheists, and a lot of it had to do with the Boomers "selling out" and spearheading the rise of both the Religious Right, and more importantly, the neoconservative and neoliberal movements under Reagan, Clinton, and the Bushes. Part of this was due to the Boomers becoming older and many of them realizing that the counterculture and New Left of the 1960's and 1970's had gone too far and needed to be reined in, but they overdid it when they went from Yippie to Yuppie.

The Boomers started a counterculture movement in the 1960's and then it got out of hand in the 1970's, so they massively over-corrected in the 1980's and 1990's, which was why Gen X ended up as cynical apathetic slackers and the Millennials became utterly broken and dysfunctional to the point of being arguably the most failed generation of Americans in living memory.

 

[AnOminous]

"Millenials are entitled, materialistic, hedonistic, narcissists!" says the people they learned it from

Say the people who spent their 20s in a drug haze then bought property with what the Greatest Generation actually earned.

 

[Terrorist]

Say the people who spent their 20s in a drug haze then bought property with what the Greatest Generation actually earned.

"These damn pussified millenials need to learn the value of money and hard work!", I say as I ignore them for 18 years except to buy them heaps of unnecessary crap and pay for their worthless degree, because I'm a wussy conformist to suburban culture and a pampered consumerist myself.

 

[Dom Cruise]

Eh, I think the Boomers freaking out in the 1960's by itself wasn't enough to cause the big change

The Boomer counterculture of the 1960's and 1970's made sense in the context of the time, with the Cold War, the assassination of JFK, and the uproar over Vietnam War and the racial tension of the time. The hyper-conformity of the 1950's and early 1960's seemed to be a pointless waste of time for this generation that grew up being told to "Duck and Cover!" when the Soviets would inevitably drop The Big One and end it all.

Nah, what really caused the change was the double-whammy of the Boomers freaking out in the 1960's and then having a second freak out in the opposite direction during the 1980's. The whole "Yippie to Yuppie" movement was also the main origin point of the Religious Right of the 80's and 90's, and the Neoconservatives as well.

Basically, you had the cynical Generation X seeing the Boomers "sell out" during their latchkey kid childhoods, and Gen X became largely cynical and apathetic as a result.

Meanwhile the Millennials became warped by growing up under Gen X and Late Boomer helicopter parents that coddled them and also grew up seeing Bible-thumping traditionalist nutcases telling them that wearing Halloween costumes and playing video games would send them to eternal damnation and that a vast global network of powerful Satanic pedophile gangs ran TSR, Def Jam Records, Proctor & Gamble, Sony, and the local daycare center.

There's a reason why so many Millennials ended up becoming either SJW's or euphoric fedora man atheists, and a lot of it had to do with the Boomers "selling out" and spearheading the rise of both the Religious Right, and more importantly, the neoconservative and neoliberal movements under Reagan, Clinton, and the Bushes. Part of this was due to the Boomers becoming older and many of them realizing that the counterculture and New Left of the 1960's and 1970's had gone too far and needed to be reined in, but they overdid it when they went from Yippie to Yuppie.

The Boomers started a counterculture movement in the 1960's and then it got out of hand in the 1970's, so they massively over-corrected in the 1980's and 1990's, which was why Gen X ended up as cynical apathetic slackers and the Millennials became utterly broken and dysfunctional to the point of being arguably the most failed generation of Americans in living memory.

In other words, they made American culture into a complete mess.

It's a shame.

 

[Rockafire Ass Explosion]

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here's a leaked file of Boomer king Aaron Fechter of the Rockafire kid grooming network.

 

[Syaoran Li]

In other words, they made American culture into a complete mess.

It's a shame.

Well, they were half of the equation.

The utter dysfunction of the Millennials and the brainwashing of that generation en masse due to our corrupt academia culture that peddled them humanities degrees in a major recession was the other half.

 

[Hux]

Well, they were half of the equation.

The utter dysfunction of the Millennials and the brainwashing of that generation en masse due to our corrupt academia culture that peddled them humanities degrees in a major recession was the other half.

An academia culture staffed exclusively by those same boomers that never made that Hippie To Yuppie transition as their peers did, so they're still a major part of that other half

 

[AnOminous]

This whole thread is pathetic. Solve your own problems and stop looking for a boogyman to blame your shit on. Also the old people hate shows a really immature mindset.

Ok boomer.

 

[Autumnal Equinox]

This whole thread is pathetic. Solve your own problems and stop looking for a boogyman to blame your shit on. Also the old people hate shows a really immature mindset.

I'm guessing you're either a "fuck you! I got mine!" boomer, or a lazy ass NEET millennial on a tugboat.

 

[Replicant Sasquatch]

Ok boomer.

You're the most Boomer user here. You can act like you're Gen X all you want because you're a fucking liar, but we all know you share Hannity articles on Facebook

 

[xX_rAcE_wAr_420_Xx]

Just funny all this hate coming from a generation that has no cultural or impactful accomplishments at all.

He says about the generation that effectively defined and pioneered internet culture. Boomers don't know anything and can barely get a smartphone, designed to be retard-proof, to work. How would they shitpost without memes that were lovingly crafted by millenial hands? They wouldn't be able to post doge memes, or impact font macros calling Trump a traitor and a pedophile, or even share how much they fucking love science. How is that for an impactful cultural accomplishment?

Actually now that you mention it, gas both generations and let Gen X sort it out. The few of them that haven't ODed yet can rule over the zoomers and build a new feudal system.

 

[AnOminous]

You're the most Boomer user here. You can act like you're Gen X all you want because you're a fucking liar, but we all know you share Hannity articles on Facebook

Get off my lawn.

 

[Just Some Other Guy]

I'm guessing you're either a "fuck you! I got mine!" boomer, or a lazy ass NEET millennial on a tugboat.

Is it impossible for anyone to be in their 20's, married, earning a paycheck, and just mind their own business?

 

[Emperor Julian]

It doesnt really translate well for British culture, the dynamics are really differant. From an outsiders perspective Boomers appear really complacent about the world, an "everything will work out as long as you work hard, everything was slowly improving so I see no reason to worry for the future." seems endemic, nothing was fought for, nothing was a struggle.

PragurU is the Platonic boomer channe; as far as I can tell.

The 'greatest' generation while often put on a pedastal to an absurd degree often had an awareness of the way the whole world can turn to shit as well as a solid understanding of obligation and personal sacrifice, gen x seems a lot more instrospective and I really can't blame millenials for being so disenfranchised consider their long term prospects and the constant bombardment of media. The only really positive thing I can say about Boomers is theyre personally quite pleasent to engage with.