• Wilco@lemmy.zip
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    11 months ago

    The secret ingredient is lead poisoning. The Baby Boomer generation spent over half their lives sniffing leaded gasoline fumes.

    • Tigeroovy@lemmy.caEnglish
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      11 months ago

      Ding ding ding!

      The reason it feels like people from that era are angrier and dumber than they used to be is because they literally are! It’s literal brain damage!

  • Hikermick@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    They have it backwards. Young people think old people had it easy. This is their justification for not trying. Truth is every generation has it’s challenges. Rather than turn to social media for validation, look for information. There’s no one-size-fits-all solution for everyone but if you’re facing a challenge, someone before you faced the same. Don’t listen to those who tell you not to try. Listen to folks who succeeded, what worked, what didn’t.

    PS The only derogatory I can say about the young generation as a whole is, where the fuck is your rock and roll? You’re listening to your grandparent’s music. Lame.

    • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      You can afford a home on a single income if your income is 3-4x of the value of the home, roughly.

      Where I live lots of people can afford homes, but they are just super angry they can’t afford the homes that they want. They don’t want a 2bed condo for 400-500K. They want single family home with 4bedrooms that’s about 3-4x the size of the condo, even if they don’t have kids, and are outraged such homes aren’t affordable for a single person.

      But also, lots of people, don’t save intentionally and still complain they can’t afford stuff, even thought they could if they did save. These are the types who argue with you that 300/mo on gyms is a necessity… but they never go to the gym.

  • foodandart@lemmy.zip
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    11 months ago

    Just wait - Millennials and Gen-Z - until there’s a war and an active draft in the US again.

    Venezuela anyone? (Dear God, I hope not but the current asshat in the Oval Orfice seems bent on taking a page from the Monroe Doctrine and adding teeth. Gotta justify Kegsbreath’s trillion dollar DOD budget plans after all…)

    Shit’s gonna get VERY real and you may gain a bit of insight as to why 'boomers just gave up and “went condo” as they used to say.

    • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      There will never be another draft. Our military is to big, and we aren’t going to try to occupy anything. Drones knock down our deployment numbers drastically. Unless there was actually a war with someone like China or on our own soil, there is no need. We currently have about 2 million people already volunteered. Our largest force during the Afghanistan/Iraq bologna was around 100k. So we could send 10x that and not get into the reserves. Our military is way to damn big

      • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.clubEnglish
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        11 months ago

        The military also doesn’t want to go back to a draft army. Discipline and morale suck with a draft army and there is severe political blowback to casualties from drafted personnel.

        A lot of reforms post Vietnam were made to make sure that the US military didn’t need to draft.

        • foodandart@lemmy.zip
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          11 months ago

          A lot of reforms post Vietnam were made to make sure that the US military didn’t need to draft.

          Selective Service would like a word with you.

          An all-volunteer military isn’t that ironclad an outcome. I can certainly see service being used to leverage young men and of course “inform” them with nationalistic propaganda.

    • mojofrododojo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      11 months ago

      Venezuela

      that’ll just be the start, these fucks will have US kids patrolling the darien gap and defoliating the fucking continent given half a chance

      • foodandart@lemmy.zip
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        11 months ago

        Oh, don’t you know it.

        If half of what cunts like Hegseth and President Miller want to do become action, this country is in for a rough time of it… starting with everyone under 27. :(

  • Eq0@literature.cafe
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    11 months ago

    This gives me flashbacks to the one time in my life I really wanted to answer “okay boomer”

    My father in law was supporting the claim the climate change might exist, but it’s nothing we have to concern ourselves about because it’s going to take decades to do anything.

    And I was like: you have grandkids, they will be there in decades! And: you just experienced the first drought of your country, how is that not climate change??

    After half an hour going in rounds I gave up and bit my tongue to not torpedo our relationship. Two years later he admitted that maybe there was something about climate change nowadays…

  • Rekorse@sh.itjust.works
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    11 months ago

    “I haven’t learned how to communicate with people that have different ideas than me so I just come up with new slurs to call them!”

    -post gets 10 to 1 upvotes somehow.

    • Jyek@sh.itjust.works
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      11 months ago

      No I don’t have the time for people who don’t have time for me. Every boomer in my life decided I was lazy, weak, dumb, or worthless before trying to actually take the time to see if that was true. Why should I have spent the time trying to convince them otherwise if they already didn’t care? It’s not like me showing them how wrong they were benefits me whatsoever. Wasted energy that could be better spent improving my life and the lives of people who do care.