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The way you use the word Boomer here is with such derision. What happened to you man, is this just you or is it a generational thing or what

by 0des 5y ago

brianwawok 5y ago
You can go to Reddit on like the anti-work sub and read all about how all the worlds problems are from boomers. And boomers had it so easy and pulled the ladder up after them. On the other hand, I know a lot of people that have way better lives than their parents, me included.
- lovich 5y ago
  If you are not in tech, its not too common. Fuck even in tech, I make the same nominal amount as my father did when he was 5 years younger than I am now, working in the mid 90s with no degree.
  - brianwawok 5y ago
    Interesting, that is not my experience at all.
- vlunkr 5y ago
  Yes, on Reddit, boomers and landlords have turned into huge Boogeymen.
robbedpeter 5y ago
Boomers are directly and almost solely responsible for the current partisan mechanics undermining American civics. They've also held on to power far too long, and impose way too much influence for people whose judgment and behavior over the last 5 decades have seriously endangered the continuity of anything resembling principled American government. Some of us peons are a little pissed at the people who looted the system and kicked the can to future generations. The pandemic response is a perfect example of the ineptitude and lackadaisical attitude those in power have towards their responsibility to maintain and preserve the things that make America good. Nobody will be held responsible for the negligence, corruption, or outright malicious injury.
- tehjoker 5y ago
  I don't think working class Boomers are to blame. As always, it's the ruling class, which is now a gerontocracy as well.
  - wyre 5y ago
    The ruling class is elected by working class boomers
  - MisterBastahrd 5y ago
    The working class Boomers are the ones who listened to Rush Limbaugh for 30+ years and internalized weaponized stupidity. It was this brash idiocy and disrespect for opposing voices that lead to the "tea party" Republicans largely taking over that party and ousting anyone who was even half conciliatory to the other side. It's gotten so bad that the corporatists in the party are worried about losing any semblance of representation, much less control. At least half the Republican caucus doesn't believe in any of the crap they're saying, but it plays good on TV and fills their pockets with money. Ted Cruz is not a moron, but he plays one on television because it keeps his campaign coffers full. Democrats in turn started to elect less moderate members. If you could take the 1980s Congress who were still largely Greatest Generation types and transport them to today to view the insane nonsense going on, they would be disappointed by both the process and the Democrats but horrified by the Republicans.
    - 0des 5y ago
      I dont understand your paradoxical justification that Democrats may still be boomers, but they're "one of the good ones though". How does political belief have a relation to age? All healthy people get old eventually and young people can also be non democrat. Perhaps you can tell us more about your biases regarding other protected classes who might have political beliefs that disagree with you. Edit: the post you just made about your career of being a subreddit moderator answered my questions.
      - MisterBastahrd 5y ago
tejtm 5y ago
divide and conquer, label with a broad brush it whitewashes the details. The concept there there needs to be an defined age gradient with distinct differentiation steps categorizing swaths of humanity that otherwise would just be "us" ... we the regular people, is just one more distraction.
MisterBastahrd 5y ago
Derision? Maybe read what I said. I think I'm pretty accurately describing their generation, aka the generation of the people who raised me. Note that I am specifically NOT casting blame on them for the eradication of pension programs, because while you can accuse them of being against them to a degree in the public sector, it was their parents' generation who decided that private pensions were great for themselves but not sustainable for their kids. The "greatest generation" gets whitewashed at the expense of their children, when they REALLY had it the easiest. Sure, they had a world war and that sucked. They also got the greatest economic advantage in American history along with a government eager to give free and subsidized stuff away, and decided that it was too expensive to continue.
- 0des 5y ago
  > If you were white, anyway. And therrrrre it is.
- 0des 5y ago
  I'm glad you removed the racialized remark from this post, it was cheap and in poor taste and not at all pertinent. Thank you. Unfortunately I cannot remove the comment where I quoted part of your remark to respond to it.
  - MisterBastahrd 5y ago
    Nope. It was neither cheap or in poor taste. It was 100% accurate. I just removed it because I decided I didn't want to deal with kneejerk responses from the history-bereft. During WWII, there was a moratorium on homebuilding because the resources were needed elsewhere. After the war, the GI bill "guaranteed" that veterans would be able to buy homes at zero percent interest and that they would be able to get college or technical educations. Everyone else got to buy homes at very low interest rates for the most part. If you were white, that is. The reality was that the US government was completely fine with redlining and given that these companies that paired with the government programs weren't building new homes in minority-majority areas, there were 67000 or so families that got to take advantage of the GI bill's homebuying program, and less than 100 of them were people of color. Jim Crow, of course, took care of their ability to access educations, and of course they were still 20 years out from being able to even vote. It was a gigantic giveaway to whites at the expense of the people of color who went to war and paid their taxes and got very little to show for it. That had a huge effect on future generations. The people who wanted to buy homes had to do it for higher costs while simultaneously not being able to enjoy the same level of education. The difference in opportunity costs and actual financial costs was staggering.

The way you use the word Boomer here is with such derision. What happened to you man, is this just you or is it a generational thing or what

by 0des 5y ago

The way you use the word Boomer here is with such derision. What happened to you man, is this just you or is it a generational thing or what

brianwawok 5y ago

You can go to Reddit on like the anti-work sub and read all about how all the worlds problems are from boomers. And boomers had it so easy and pulled the ladder up after them. On the other hand, I know a lot of people that have way better lives than their parents, me included.

lovich 5y ago
If you are not in tech, its not too common. Fuck even in tech, I make the same nominal amount as my father did when he was 5 years younger than I am now, working in the mid 90s with no degree.
- brianwawok 5y ago
  Interesting, that is not my experience at all.
vlunkr 5y ago
Yes, on Reddit, boomers and landlords have turned into huge Boogeymen.

robbedpeter 5y ago

Boomers are directly and almost solely responsible for the current partisan mechanics undermining American civics. They've also held on to power far too long, and impose way too much influence for people whose judgment and behavior over the last 5 decades have seriously endangered the continuity of anything resembling principled American government. Some of us peons are a little pissed at the people who looted the system and kicked the can to future generations. The pandemic response is a perfect example of the ineptitude and lackadaisical attitude those in power have towards their responsibility to maintain and preserve the things that make America good. Nobody will be held responsible for the negligence, corruption, or outright malicious injury.

tehjoker 5y ago
I don't think working class Boomers are to blame. As always, it's the ruling class, which is now a gerontocracy as well.
- wyre 5y ago
  The ruling class is elected by working class boomers
- MisterBastahrd 5y ago
  The working class Boomers are the ones who listened to Rush Limbaugh for 30+ years and internalized weaponized stupidity. It was this brash idiocy and disrespect for opposing voices that lead to the "tea party" Republicans largely taking over that party and ousting anyone who was even half conciliatory to the other side. It's gotten so bad that the corporatists in the party are worried about losing any semblance of representation, much less control. At least half the Republican caucus doesn't believe in any of the crap they're saying, but it plays good on TV and fills their pockets with money. Ted Cruz is not a moron, but he plays one on television because it keeps his campaign coffers full. Democrats in turn started to elect less moderate members. If you could take the 1980s Congress who were still largely Greatest Generation types and transport them to today to view the insane nonsense going on, they would be disappointed by both the process and the Democrats but horrified by the Republicans.
  - 0des 5y ago
    I dont understand your paradoxical justification that Democrats may still be boomers, but they're "one of the good ones though". How does political belief have a relation to age? All healthy people get old eventually and young people can also be non democrat. Perhaps you can tell us more about your biases regarding other protected classes who might have political beliefs that disagree with you. Edit: the post you just made about your career of being a subreddit moderator answered my questions.
    - MisterBastahrd 5y ago

tejtm 5y ago

divide and conquer, label with a broad brush it whitewashes the details. The concept there there needs to be an defined age gradient with distinct differentiation steps categorizing swaths of humanity that otherwise would just be "us" ... we the regular people, is just one more distraction.

MisterBastahrd 5y ago

Derision? Maybe read what I said. I think I'm pretty accurately describing their generation, aka the generation of the people who raised me. Note that I am specifically NOT casting blame on them for the eradication of pension programs, because while you can accuse them of being against them to a degree in the public sector, it was their parents' generation who decided that private pensions were great for themselves but not sustainable for their kids. The "greatest generation" gets whitewashed at the expense of their children, when they REALLY had it the easiest. Sure, they had a world war and that sucked. They also got the greatest economic advantage in American history along with a government eager to give free and subsidized stuff away, and decided that it was too expensive to continue.

0des 5y ago
> If you were white, anyway. And therrrrre it is.
0des 5y ago
I'm glad you removed the racialized remark from this post, it was cheap and in poor taste and not at all pertinent. Thank you. Unfortunately I cannot remove the comment where I quoted part of your remark to respond to it.
- MisterBastahrd 5y ago
  Nope. It was neither cheap or in poor taste. It was 100% accurate. I just removed it because I decided I didn't want to deal with kneejerk responses from the history-bereft. During WWII, there was a moratorium on homebuilding because the resources were needed elsewhere. After the war, the GI bill "guaranteed" that veterans would be able to buy homes at zero percent interest and that they would be able to get college or technical educations. Everyone else got to buy homes at very low interest rates for the most part. If you were white, that is. The reality was that the US government was completely fine with redlining and given that these companies that paired with the government programs weren't building new homes in minority-majority areas, there were 67000 or so families that got to take advantage of the GI bill's homebuying program, and less than 100 of them were people of color. Jim Crow, of course, took care of their ability to access educations, and of course they were still 20 years out from being able to even vote. It was a gigantic giveaway to whites at the expense of the people of color who went to war and paid their taxes and got very little to show for it. That had a huge effect on future generations. The people who wanted to buy homes had to do it for higher costs while simultaneously not being able to enjoy the same level of education. The difference in opportunity costs and actual financial costs was staggering.