re: All the "Boomer-Hate." Now, define to me what a Boomer actually is?

Yeah, I was born in 1961. I didn't hang out with boomers, I worked for them.

Yeah, they were mean, upity and pigheaded for the most part, but god did I envy them fricks!

I’m a boomer, living the American Dream, and hate the national debt and endless wars.
So instead of describing “boomers” in loose terms, why don’t you say boomer politicians, Cold Warriors, globalists, etc.
Then I could agree with you.

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Gen X here. I know in 15 years when the boomers move on all the Boomer hate will be directed at us.

And eventually when the millennials get to be the oldest generation the hate will turn to them.

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Au contraire, the intergenerational penis envy is more-or-less Gen-Y unique. It is message-derived behavior. The messaging emanates from multigenerational radicals who were always there, but didn't find wide audience prior to Gen-Y.

So it seems anticapitalist thought, accepted anti-intellectualism, critical theory, rote learning, and rejection of American Exceptionalism ironically took hold in the first internet generation, a generation for whom access to information was greater than at any point in in history. Incredibly, given that tremendous access to information, safe-spaces and nonsensical science instead found footing and flourished. It really is an inexplicably missed opportunity. Certainly that is neither a uniform nor universal precept for 30-45y/o Americans. But it prevails more heavily than in any group since the hippies.

Much as with the hippie-yuppie comparison, Gen-Z shows signs of breaking Gen-Y trends, as well as generationally associated penis envy. Time will tell.

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boomers are selfish, self-absorbed pieces of shite who have cratered the American Dream and sattled future generations with unsustainable debt and endless war

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Boomers were born roughly between 1945 and 1965.

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Since there seem to be people surprisingly unfamiliar with the term the baby boom was the huge spike in birth rates as soldiers returned home from WWII and got married. The boomers have often been referred to as the "pig in the python" as their outsized impact on culture was evident through every stage of life. And they broke social security. That one's not their fault, per se, but the math behind it needed every generation to be bigger than the one before.

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boomers are selfish, self-absorbed pieces of shite who have cratered the American Dream

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And your generation seems to be whiny, self-centered lazy pieces of shite that is unwilling to put down the video game controller, get off the couch, quit smoking weed, get a job and support yourself...

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Their relatively liberal ideas towards sex, identity, and individual liberties as youth which have done a complete 180 in old age

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When your young, if you're not a liberal you have no heart. When you're old, if your not a conservative you have no brain.

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modern economic problems.

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Like not being willing to work for things?

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Like not being willing to work for things?

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Do you realize how many younger people have a full time job and do gig work on their time off?

The idea that they're not willing to work is one of the most ignorant myths of all time

Spoken like a petulant child..

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boomers are selfish, self-absorbed pieces of shite who have cratered the American Dream and sattled future generations with unsustainable debt and endless war

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People in the Great Depression era alone would simply shake their heads in amazement at this modern take of “we are the only generation in world history to be faced with challenges we didn’t ask for” mentality.