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Boomer loathing?
Posted on 12/23/25 at 12:36 pm
Posted on 12/23/25 at 12:36 pm
Boomers are roughly between the age s of 63 -79, unless you have a TikTok account and then it's anyone over 30.
What is driving the angst towards this generation? Why do some of you feel they have profited at your expense?
The formative years of this generation coincide with the Civil Rights movement. Many were lost in Vietnam. The reference point for the beginning of the "long boom" is 1982. Boomers would be hitting the work force to roughly mid-career at that time...which is to say they deserve some credit for making it. Most are now retired or soon will be. They generally own their homes and have retirement savings. Why shouldn't they enjoy fishing and bouncing grandkids on their knees?
What's the beef here?
What is driving the angst towards this generation? Why do some of you feel they have profited at your expense?
The formative years of this generation coincide with the Civil Rights movement. Many were lost in Vietnam. The reference point for the beginning of the "long boom" is 1982. Boomers would be hitting the work force to roughly mid-career at that time...which is to say they deserve some credit for making it. Most are now retired or soon will be. They generally own their homes and have retirement savings. Why shouldn't they enjoy fishing and bouncing grandkids on their knees?
What's the beef here?
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Posted on 12/23/25 at 12:37 pm to Wildcat1996
They don't like looking in the mirror best I can tell.
Posted on 12/23/25 at 12:40 pm to Wildcat1996
From a historical context, the Boomers have lived too long and have stayed in the workforce too long thereby holding up Generatio X and the Millennial from getting their crack at generational power
Posted on 12/23/25 at 12:40 pm to Wildcat1996
Near as I can tell it's an Intel operation. The Intel agencies have determined it's the "boomer" generation that is responsible for the groundswell movement trying to take our country back and have therefore fomented this angst against that entire generation.
Problem is, it's not just boomers. A lot of gen x in there too.
Problem is, it's not just boomers. A lot of gen x in there too.
Posted on 12/23/25 at 12:46 pm to KiwiHead
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From a historical context, the Boomers have lived too long and have stayed in the workforce too long thereby holding up Generatio X and the Millennial from getting their crack at generational power
Interesting take. Life expectancy isn't going down short of another pandemic. So this is the new normal.
And people better get used to working into their 70s because few can afford to be retired for 1/3 of their lives.
Posted on 12/23/25 at 12:46 pm to Wildcat1996
WWII Generation won the big war, and were considered heroes. Boomers had LBJ's MIC-appeasement conflict, and were spit on when they returned.
That's the single biggest difference. Was it BB's fault that Lyndon Baines Johnson was a crook and member of the corrupt Political Establishment?
That's the single biggest difference. Was it BB's fault that Lyndon Baines Johnson was a crook and member of the corrupt Political Establishment?
Posted on 12/23/25 at 12:47 pm to Wildcat1996
Ex, aging hippies that still think it's 1967 and they can save the world by carrying their fatasses out to a march. They can save the world if the next generation, meaning us, would just sacrifice our wealth and freedom by handing over control to the Tim Walz's of the world but don't ask those marching boomers to give up anything, not a nickel.
Boomers were spoiled by their WW2 winning parents, people that actually built the country. Boomers built nothing, only taking and tearing it down.
Boomers were spoiled by their WW2 winning parents, people that actually built the country. Boomers built nothing, only taking and tearing it down.
Posted on 12/23/25 at 12:51 pm to Wildcat1996
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What is driving the angst towards this generation? Why do some of you feel they have profited at your expense?
It's one of the few Lefty narratives that has found traction with young conservatives. Unfortunately.
Posted on 12/23/25 at 12:52 pm to Wildcat1996
It's something that has been coming on. The Depression kids ( too young for WW Ii) also lived too long. There just was not as many of them.
Posted on 12/23/25 at 12:55 pm to Wildcat1996
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What's the beef here?
Everything is old white peoples fault. Their kids are tired of waiting for them die so they can finally get their money.
Just die already...
I think that's the gist of the position.
Posted on 12/23/25 at 12:55 pm to Wildcat1996
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Many were lost in Vietnam. Th
Yea, the best of the boomers, the future that was never to be.
It's not as bad as the British during WWI by far, but that war and the drastic draft dodging definitely created an impact on the first decade of boomers.
Posted on 12/23/25 at 12:56 pm to BeepBopBoop
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Boomers built nothing, only taking and tearing it down.
I don't think I can agree with this statement.
The US economy buried the Russians by 1989. People born in 46 would be 43 and mid-career at that time. The youngest of boomers were drivers during the .com boom and the explosion of the tech sector. Certainly GenX can take a great deal of credit for what would become the information age, but I don't think the contributions of the 80s to mid-90s can be ignored.
Posted on 12/23/25 at 12:58 pm to Wildcat1996
Selling out the future generations and pulling the ladder up behind them
Posted on 12/23/25 at 1:00 pm to Wildcat1996
I think a lot of people blame the boomers for the issues we see today. The private and public sectors and run by boomers. Congress is mostly boomers. The presidents have all been boomers since 1993, which is before I was born.
Posted on 12/23/25 at 1:02 pm to Wildcat1996
Most boomers worked their first job while still in high school. Many were drafted and found themselves in Viet Nam. Most were married by 23 amny much younger. We raised our families while buying our first homes. Most didn't start out with big homes or new cars. We supported our families by working days on end. I do see some of my friends still working, most because they can't afford living on just social security. There are plenty of jobs out there. Many require physical labor and many of the youth today went to college and got degrees for overcrowded fields. Trade school or going into the workplace and getting hands on experience would have served them better. Wanting to start out with what it took a lifetime for your parents and grandparents to accumulate is unrealistic. Having huge student loans and car notes with insurance is a hard way to start life. I worked many days without a day off so my children didn't start their lives in debt. You try doing that for your children and get back with me later when your grandchildren's generation accuses you of being greedy. Also, our Social Security was stolen by the govt. to pay for the social programs feeding and housing the ones that won't work.
This post was edited on 12/23/25 at 1:22 pm
Posted on 12/23/25 at 1:04 pm to Jebadeb
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I think a lot of people blame the boomers for the issues we see today.
This is my point. The ex hippies liberal 60s boomers have now had children of their own that are now the Antifa, furry, tranny generation. Parents that were spoiled by their parents and now have made little entitled freaks out of and new generation.
Posted on 12/23/25 at 1:04 pm to BeepBopBoop
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Boomers built nothing
Poor idiot. We built generational wealth. Something you won’t have.
Posted on 12/23/25 at 1:05 pm to Wildcat1996
Well the one guess I have is those few that don’t understand shitt are more spoiled and want what they want right now and will bitch it’s someone else’s fault for them missing opportunities
Posted on 12/23/25 at 1:06 pm to Wildcat1996
quote:Jealousy.
What is driving the angst towards this generation?
Posted on 12/23/25 at 1:08 pm to Wildcat1996
I was born in 64, the last year of the boomers. I can't speak to anyone else's situation, but no one gave me anything; I worked hard to build a career, home, and family.
The real issue is that the government sold out the middle class to cheap overseas labor decades ago. Get off the interstate and go drive through any large town/small city, and you will see hundreds of shuttered manufacturing facilities. Those factories fueled the middle class and their local economies.
The real issue is that the government sold out the middle class to cheap overseas labor decades ago. Get off the interstate and go drive through any large town/small city, and you will see hundreds of shuttered manufacturing facilities. Those factories fueled the middle class and their local economies.
This post was edited on 12/23/25 at 1:09 pm
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