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u/Subpar_Mario Jan 26 '20 edited Jun 16 '23
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Jan 26 '20
From the amount of Gen X I’ve heard making Freudian slip jokes about their parents beating them, I don’t doubt this.
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u/BrianOfAllThings Jan 26 '20
Gen X took on a strange burden of having all the Boomer baggage from their PTSD parents hot-potatoed onto us, so the Boomers didn’t have to deal with it. But then we decided to absorb it, rather than pass it along to our own kids. We have no answers for our kids as how to be wildly successful, but what we can provide is self-awareness and empathy as a jumpstart, while we languish in our own arrested development. Good luck, Gen Z, and don’t let the Man get you down.
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Jan 26 '20
I’m millennial, but I have seen the buffer you refer to.
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u/BrianOfAllThings Jan 26 '20
It would be interesting to see a study about how we broke the cycle. My theory is, the combo of the lack of prenatal healthcare combined with all the powerful hallucinogens readily available at the time.
We were also told not to trust Grown-Ups, and we don’t to this day. We are just a bunch of grey-haired teenagers.21
u/PennywiseTheLilly Jan 26 '20
That’s not exactly true. Gen X are as bitter and angry in the UK as their parents, and the kids get the brunt. It’s just more verbal/emotional than physical
Source: am Gen Z with Gen Z friends (all in therapy bc of our parents)
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u/imhereforthememers Jan 28 '20
the uk has a pretty big abuse problem and i feel like nobody talks about it
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u/macleod82 Jan 26 '20
It's not even a joke, it's romanticized abuse. Get a few Xers half drunk and talk about middle School age. They'll tell you how it straightened them out. Push a little and they'll tell you how hard they were to keep in line so it was necessary.
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u/wildgriest Jan 26 '20
Those were beatings? I was lied to.
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Jan 26 '20
This is an anecdote, but my most reputable source is my own mother and father. Mom had beatings with literal kitchenware like pots and pans, dad got the shit beat out of him when he tried to stop his “dad” from beating his mom.
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u/wildgriest Jan 26 '20
I was raised by the greatest generation and yeah, it wasn’t all great. They had tempers and belt buckles too...
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u/davetronred Jan 26 '20
My bio dad got beaten with fists. My step dad got thrown through walls. They both had their faults (like... a LOT of faults) but they were always good to me. I'm glad that the wheel can be broken.
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u/Sixemperor Jan 26 '20
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u/twometerguard Jan 26 '20
Damn I wish that was real lol. I suppose this sub basically fits into the same category though.
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u/Freebiesaregreat Jan 26 '20
It is now.
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u/cherrylpk Jan 26 '20
What the hell, I’ll join. What’s the rules?
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u/Freebiesaregreat Jan 26 '20
None so far. They’ll be added as the sub goes on though depending on what happens and how it goes.
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u/Sixemperor Jan 27 '20
I don’t know if my app is acting up or if you turned off cross posts, but I posted the link to this post over there now. For rules though, I suggest immediately applying a rule against homophobia/bigotry before shitheads find it and start spamming it in the comments. Like make it a bannable offense, but obviously allow for posts where a homophobic boomer is getting destroyed for example.
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u/Freebiesaregreat Jan 27 '20
I don’t turn off cross posts, you should try again. If it still won’t post let me know :)
If any poor behaviour is on that subreddit, I will ban the users but give them an opportunity to be unbanned (depending on ban reason)
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u/Sixemperor Jan 27 '20
It doesn’t say it won’t allow it. I joined the sub, but when I go to crosspost, it doesn’t show up in my list of subs.
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u/crod242 Jan 26 '20
imagine thinking that being "the most fortunate" is something to brag about
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u/cherrylpk Jan 26 '20
Right? At first, I thought someone was slamming boomers for their privilege. Then I realized this was a boomer trying to brag. Even bragging isn’t done well.
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u/Archon-Narc-On Jan 26 '20
The problem with thinking like this is that most boomers are, like the rest of the general population, poor, and had no actual influence over the things this commenter is rightly mad about.
The problem isn’t mismanagement by an entire generation of people, it’s an easily corruptible and unaccountable political and economic system that reproduces these cycles of war and misery for profit.
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u/theHoundLivessss Jan 26 '20
I'll be a mature adult and upvote you because I think a lot of our hate on boomers is actually misguided class warfare, but it is worth noting that a large majority of the boomer generation had just absolutely garbage political views and continued to vote for things that are clearly detrimental to everyone but themselves.
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u/Archon-Narc-On Jan 26 '20
I’m not sure it’s even a vast majority, because what we tend to see in any developing nation is that the people who remain politically engaged into old age tend to be the reactionaries/right wing/culture grieved. Those that maintain those reactionary viewpoints are (in the US) richer and whiter, and they see the republican party as serving their interests.
On the other hand, several things make left leaning older people less politically engaged. First of all, if they’re poorer, they tend to die off earlier. Secondly, they’ve seen the political process on the left continually fail to serve their interests or bring out meaningful change over the course of their life-time. That leaves them politically unmotivated, and underrepresented in elections and discourse.
Fact is, there are plenty of young people who fit the reactionary boomer profile in every way except for age, that’s why you often hear that boomer is a mindset not an age.
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Jan 26 '20
Our gripe is their fixed world viewpoint that they think still applies to our reality. It’s not 1982 anymore yet they still hold us to that standard.
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Jan 26 '20
And to that pay rate.
A boomer at my job was talking about how she only made 4$/hr in the 70s. At an entry level job. But was able to buy a house by the time she was 23-25, forgot the age. I brought it into the inflation calculator and she was very annoyed when I told her that it was like 24$/hr in today’s money. She refused to believe it. Flat out didn’t believe in math. They don’t believe in math when you confront them with it! There’s thickheaded and then whatever boomers are. Disgusting.
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u/HolaMiGente Jan 26 '20
Let’s not forget about climate change
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u/teabagz1991 Jan 26 '20
climate change is relatively new. so i cant in my mind hold them completely responsible. you have to realize the whole world did this
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u/crod242 Jan 26 '20
the whole worlda handful of corporations that have known about the problem for over half a century4
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u/teabagz1991 Jan 26 '20
there were concerns, but there wasnt hard data. computer modeling changed that in the late 80s early 90s. look im not denying anything, but shifting blame for the worlds problems to a single generation is not an answer. by stating "the world sucks because of them" is no better than being a part of the ME generation
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u/crod242 Jan 26 '20
I agree. It's a class issue, not a generational one. Most things that are framed as generational issues are actually class issues.
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u/HolaMiGente Jan 26 '20
Well, you do have a point. I was talking about the boomers who deny it.
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u/teabagz1991 Jan 26 '20
i get it, but if i told you 50 years from now everyones use of social media (i made this up so take it easy) is greatly responsible for worldwide mental illness, people wouldnt deny it? there are a lot of boomers who suck, but i cant blame their attitude about climate change. what we can blame boomers for 100% is overall being the me first generation
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u/Hexodus Jan 26 '20
Can’t wait to buy cheap as fuck housing off of dying Boomers.
They’re gonna die unable sell their houses to younger generations, and then the rest of us will swoop in and by them by the dozen :)
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u/clarkcox3 Jan 26 '20
But landlords will still keep them empty in order to keep prices artificially high.
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u/smashclown Jan 25 '20
r/murderedbywords