re: Why are boomers' algorithms (and brains) so wired towards depressing news?

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These are the people who gave us MAGA... probably a function of knowing their time and money are short and they won't make the impact on the world 

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Half of them vote Democrat pretty consistently. They gave us Obama and Clinton too if you want to break it down by statistics.

To be fair, it's not just conservative boomers who post depressing stuff. A lot of younger liberal people do too. Im also starting to see a lot of younger men post depressing Red Pill stuff constantly and that can be annoying.

I don't get this obsession with complaining about boomers for everything. I'm a millennial FTR. The stuff you described OP is attributable to every generation that engages in use of the internet, in this country at the very least, in this day and age. And it has been ongoing since the advent of mass media. This just comes across as a cheap shot at baby boomers without any basis in fact or intellectual merit.

You lament the negativity of the internet, and then have the temerity to post something like this. You are contributing to the problem by posting nonsense like this.

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I am doing me. You’re an auto down vote and I avoid all of your topics. Doesn’t mean I can’t discuss how depressing your post history is. I have zero obsession with you nor I care anything to know about you personally. Your Post history sucks. That’s it. Bottom line. It’s depressing, click pay, attention, grabbing bullshite articles for attention. By the authors and creators of the cintrnt and the people that share it.

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If I search stout on here I see you mention me often.

That isn't ignoring me. Its weird.

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and I avoid all of your topics

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This was in one of my topics. How did that happen if you avoid my topics?





You really got triggered over discussing the Galveston RE market. Such a depressing thread!!!!!!!!!

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The stuff you described OP is attributable to every generation that engages in use of the internet,

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I repeat and add newspaper and daily news cast back when I was a kid and being raised by the greatest generation.

Even though all of my grandparents were dead by the time I was 10 I remember them being the same way.

Being born and growing up during the Korean and Viet Nam wars can do that to you. I remember watching Viet Nam on the nightly news as a kid, depressing to say the least and worse seeing the troops come home to be spit on and called baby killers.

Facebook has turned my dad into a shell of his former self. All he does all day is scroll and go down the deepest rabbit holes and government conspiracies you can imagine. It’s all he wants to talk about now and he’s constantly sending me stuff to look at. It’s actually really sad. If McDonalds messed his order up he’d somehow blame the shadow government for it.

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Ever hear of television or, maybe newspapers, genius? Maybe magazines even?

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I don’t even know what point you’re attempting to make

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Being born and growing up during the Korean and Viet Nam wars can do that to you.

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Yeah, and who chose to watch that? In our house my dad controlled the tv during news casts. My dad, the WWII vet. The Greatest Generation.

And guess what my Grandpa talked about? FYI a Marine vet. of the Spanish-American War.

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I don’t even know what point you’re attempting to make

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That's because you are s t u p i d.

Even you should be able to understand that.

Now excuse me because I have smarter people to go frick with.