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[-] bruhduh@lemmy.world 92 points 1 month ago

Boomers were born on the third base and think they hit a triple

[-] TherapyGary 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Triples makes it safe. Triples is best

[-] diskmaster23@lemmy.one 7 points 1 month ago
[-] LouNeko@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

"Then aids ruined everything"

  • Frank Reynolds
[-] guillem@aussie.zone 83 points 1 month ago

Gen X ignored again, with which we are okay though.

[-] dumbass@leminal.space 55 points 1 month ago
[-] Irinir@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago
[-] NakariLexfortaine@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago

You know he's never going to give it to you.

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

But you just know that he's never gonna give you up

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[-] klemptor@startrek.website 9 points 1 month ago
[-] dumbass@leminal.space 3 points 1 month ago

There ya go.

[-] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 33 points 1 month ago

I was gonna post that but then I was, like, whatever.

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[-] toddalon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 month ago

Exactly the comment I was looking for. Tip of the hat to you.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Only thing that isn't okay is to mangle your sentence to conform to the obsolete "never end a sentence with a preposition because some old fogey said so hundreds of years ago" rule ๐Ÿ˜›

[-] TheRedSpade@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

I'm ok with ignoring this rule. Most of us do anyway. While we're at it, can we also put "never split the infinitive" on the chopping block?

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Yes, please!

[-] guillem@aussie.zone 6 points 1 month ago

ESL here, what would have been the more natural way?

[-] GarbageShootAlt2@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago

It's an invented prescriptionist rule that was imported from studying Latin. You can completely ignore it and you'll get more natural sounding language.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Same here. There's probably other ways too, but personally I'd probably have gone with "and we're okay with that" or "and that's fine/okay with us". Just flows more like naturally IMO.

BTW, in spite of the tongue in cheek way in which I said it, I meant no personal ill will towards you. Just the rule and its tyranny ๐Ÿ˜‰

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[-] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 50 points 1 month ago

It's the 1% against the working class, not generation against generation.

[-] hungryphrog 47 points 1 month ago

We should just revive everyone who contributed to this dumpster fire and make them fix it before they can go back to being dead.

[-] Colonel_Panic_@lemm.ee 66 points 1 month ago

Do we REALLY want zombie Reagan and hundreds of others like that running around again? I dunno about you guys, but I'm so tired of living through Interesting Times โ„ข๏ธ and Unprecedented Events โ„ข๏ธ. A zombie apocalypse where they don't eat our brains, but just fuck up the economy even more doesn't sound fun.

[-] Midnitte@beehaw.org 5 points 1 month ago

Make Zombie Reagan take Carter's former place and build homes (by hand) for poor people.

The holy water that leaks out of the sink will probably burn him out of existence anyway.

[-] NormalPerson@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Lmao, yeah I can't imagine why someone would think that reviving them would make them suddenly want to correct their mistakes. They just got a chance to further be shit.

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[-] Moah 31 points 1 month ago

To be fair, us genX did nothing about anything and just felt cool wallowing in our fake cynicism of "why do anything when nothing matters" so we're probably half as much to blame as the boomers

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

There's a certain selection bias to the "Weak Men, Hard Times / Strong Men, Good Times" just so historical analysis. You don't talk about all the folks that die during good times or bad times. You just point to the old people and your brain slips right past the selection bias that allowed them to live and others to die.

Trying to blame this generation or that is a fool's errand. What do you tell a population of Gen Xers who were dragged out to the suburbs and raised in these segregated hermitages for twenty years, then plunged into the capitalist meat grinder at the tail end of the post-war boom years? "Hey, you should have all just psychically linked up and formed a socio-economic Voltron to change a century's old system overnight"? Who can seriously believe that? The deck was stacked against you and yet we still have a litany of Gen Xers who struggled - even died - in their effort to undo the damage of prior generations.

And what do you say to all the children of WW2 refugees who washed up on America's shores and struggled to carve out a life for themselves in the graveyards of the First Nation's people? Or the Cold War refugees - the Korean and Vietnamese and Indonesian and Taiwanese and Venezuelan and Cuban and Spanish and Russian and North Africa and... and... and... - who came into the US as children and were promptly indoctrinated to hate their home countries by the white supremacist majordomos of the American imperial class?

Its easy to blame yourself or your neighbors or your generation. Its hard to see the bigger picture and how each of us fit into it. Its hard to know if we're doing the right thing, or doing enough of the right thing, or who is with us and who is against us given the sheer tsunami of bullshit in our information networks.

We're playing the game on Hard Mode. And I don't think anyone who cares enough to question and inquire about their efforts can really be held to blame. It's the folks who have burned the ability to care out of their souls that hold us back. And that's not a decision unique to a region or time period.

[-] CazzoneArrapante@lemm.ee 27 points 1 month ago

Boomers and Gen X lived in a paradise, destroyed it and now complain that things are shit.

[-] AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 22 points 1 month ago

Boomers really more than Gen X

[-] CazzoneArrapante@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago

Nah, 80s and 90s were paradise too.

Let's just go back to those decades and never leave.

[-] AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 18 points 1 month ago

The systems that destroyed our society were created by boomers and Regan. They just took time to work.

[-] Xoriff@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

GenX was also relatively small compared to the boomers.

I wonder if every generation will blame (maybe correctly) previous generations. So long as things are getting worse, the kids kind of have a valid argument. "Why didn't you fix this before it got to us?"

As a millennial, I've been doing what I can short of going full vigilante. But in 30 years, they still wouldn't be wrong to say "it's still broke though isn't it?"

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[-] zik@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Boomers and Gen X did exactly the same thing that you're doing. Nothing. They just let the super rich elite screw the whole world up and now you're doing the same thing they did. Nothing.

If you want to act high and mighty you're not going to change the world by complaining on the internet. You have to stop the super rich.

[-] CazzoneArrapante@lemm.ee 9 points 1 month ago

You have to stop the super rich.

If I could, I would use this simple way to stop them: ban all parties that support them, nationalize all their beings and "sweeten up" their coffee if they complain too much.

There's only one problem: I CAN'T DO NOTHING BECAUSE I'M NOT IN FUCKING POWER

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[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago

Strongman leaders create hard times.

[-] TherapyGary 19 points 1 month ago

Boomers see the world wildly and in wild ways

[-] adhocfungus@midwest.social 18 points 1 month ago

I Think You Should Leave is such a gold mine of meme templates.

[-] TherapyGary 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

There's even an ITYSL meme maker & quote database

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[-] kittenzrulz123 17 points 1 month ago

"hard men make good times, good times make soft men, and soft men make me hard" -Richard Rider

[-] selokichtli@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 month ago

This is bullshit. Boomers, genXers and now millenials have been fighting against wild capitalism for decades, and a lot of them died fighting or are rotting in jail right now.

[-] GarbageShootAlt2@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 month ago

You don't need to give air to a fascist myth

[-] OmnipotentEntity@beehaw.org 35 points 1 month ago
[-] hungryphrog 14 points 1 month ago

thanks, now my brain will forever connect this myth to gay sex

[-] Mobiledecay@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Bickering about what generation is better. My favorite topic. ๐Ÿ™„

[-] LibreHans@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Dunno, I hear lots of young people say that.

[-] tee9000@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

This is really stupid.

[-] dumbass@leminal.space 3 points 1 month ago

Here, have a Pepsi.

[-] swab148@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

I don't know what any of this is!

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