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[-] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 181 points 1 week ago

He didn't really get "assassinated". He just got denied his critical-life benefits.

[-] TheFogan@programming.dev 84 points 1 week ago

Pre-existing condition, lead poisoning in a boomer.

[-] GreatBlueHeron@lemmy.ca 63 points 1 week ago

This isn't a generational thing. For a start, he's technically Gen X, not a boomer. And secondly, I'm older than him and I'm just as happy about that as everyone else.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 10 points 1 week ago

(Gen X voted for Trump at a higher rate than boomers)

[-] GreatBlueHeron@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 week ago

Which is really really sad. When I was younger I used to think we just need these old people to age out of the system and my generation can do things better. We seem to be doing significantly worse.

[-] btaf45@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

(Gen X voted for Trump at a higher rate than boomers)

That's really sad because the younger someone is the more they are going to be fucked by the long term effects of Donald Trainwreck's enshitification of everything. Nuclear proliferation from the new world disorder, global warming, hyperinflation of the national debt due to gigantic tax cuts for the billionaire elites, hollowing out democracy, normalization of corruption, normalization of routine dishonesty, huge economic inefficiencies that comes with wealth inequality, removal of previous rights like abortion, vast increase in government incompetency, etc

[-] raynethackery@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

He was actually GenX.

[-] frostysauce@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

You've seen pictures of him right? Just how fucking young do you think boomers are?

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Boomer, n. "A privileged asshole who keeps fucking things up for everyone else."

If that doesn't apply to you, they're not insulting you.

[-] frostysauce@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

You can't just make up a definition of a word.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 7 points 1 week ago

That's literally how words are made fam

[-] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

The OED would liy to know your location.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 4 points 1 week ago

The OED is quite accepting of multiple definitions that develop over time! They love citing first known usage, it gets them hard as diamonds.

[-] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

The OED, like all dictionaries, goes by usage. One person using a word in a different way, is never going to make it.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 points 1 week ago

All definitions start somewhere, and, just fyi:

"Ok Boomer" wasn't actually directed at boomers before decrepit millennials stole it from the youths. It was directed at people with the toxic mindset associated with conservativism and "old fashioned" opinions on social issues.

The kinds of asshole that climb up a ladder and kick it down behind them.

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Everyone older than me is a boomer.

[-] shiftymccool@programming.dev 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Everyone younger than me is a zoomer ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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