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"Boomers" is just shorthand for the older generation who treated the environment like a toilet, pillaged the welfare state, jailed anyone who wanted to get high

"Boomers" is just shorthand for the older generation who treated the environment like a toilet, pillaged the welfare state, jailed anyone who wanted to get high in their free time and made hating/mocking LGBTQ people a national pastime (to name a few examples). I'd say #notallboomers but it's implied unless you're being willfully obtuse.

drewcon 5y ago
“Boomers” I suppose are responsible for passing the clean air and clean water act which had the effect of essentially ending pollution as we know it in the US. They also essentially created the welfare state… They were and are pretty bad on effective drug policy. LGB discourse went off the rails when progressives added all the other letters. To be fair, it’s not just boomers who are deeply concerned with the political religion of queerness.
- naravara 5y ago
  > They also essentially created the welfare state… Nah the Silent Generation did that. But also most of our political gerontocrats are also either Silents or very early Boomers. They're not really the core of the Baby Boom generation.
- standardUser 5y ago
  You forgot a couple letters, each of which represents actual human beings who have historically been denied fundamental rights and have been subject to violence, including state violence. Also, your understanding of the origin of the welfare state is way off the mark. Sometimes, the best thing a person can do is spend a little time studying basic history.
tsol 5y ago
Wait are we not still treating the environment like a toilet? Do people younger than boomers not create mountains of plastic trash that will be here hundreds of years after their bones turn to dust? Do they not use phones with lithium mined by child slaves, and wear make up with mica mined by child slaves? Do they monitor how much has and electricity they are using? I'm not a boomer but I know enough to know the younger generations are not ready to sacrifice present comfort for future generations

drewcon 5y ago

“Boomers” I suppose are responsible for passing the clean air and clean water act which had the effect of essentially ending pollution as we know it in the US. They also essentially created the welfare state… They were and are pretty bad on effective drug policy. LGB discourse went off the rails when progressives added all the other letters. To be fair, it’s not just boomers who are deeply concerned with the political religion of queerness.

naravara 5y ago
> They also essentially created the welfare state… Nah the Silent Generation did that. But also most of our political gerontocrats are also either Silents or very early Boomers. They're not really the core of the Baby Boom generation.
standardUser 5y ago
You forgot a couple letters, each of which represents actual human beings who have historically been denied fundamental rights and have been subject to violence, including state violence. Also, your understanding of the origin of the welfare state is way off the mark. Sometimes, the best thing a person can do is spend a little time studying basic history.

tsol 5y ago

Wait are we not still treating the environment like a toilet? Do people younger than boomers not create mountains of plastic trash that will be here hundreds of years after their bones turn to dust? Do they not use phones with lithium mined by child slaves, and wear make up with mica mined by child slaves? Do they monitor how much has and electricity they are using? I'm not a boomer but I know enough to know the younger generations are not ready to sacrifice present comfort for future generations