Where do I sign up for this “billionaire grandma” program?
Also, besides burning all sort of trash, holes in the ozone layer etc. it’s always fun to dig a 1+ meter hole in the ground and find old trash from the pre-1980s.
I needed this laugh. Thank you.
I do know that there are folx in this thread who point out it’s less generational and more class warfare. True. I think the issue with the olds is the lack of ability to want to learn seems to be more on their side? Not to say the lack isn’t across the board but having a convo about gender identity is harder with an asshole boomer than an asshole gen Z.
Generational infighting among the working class only serves the wealthy and corporations who are who we should actually be angry at.
In a decade you’ll see memes blaming your generation for not doing anything and can you actually point to anything you’ve done besides creating a meme blaming boomers?
I would feel more responsibility if the boomers could release their deathgrip on the government.
Their primary demographic is millionaires, not boomers. You could change them all tomorrow for millennials millionaires and still have a shitty government.
I guess we’ll see when they all die in 15-20 years. Maybe then I’ll take responsibility for this shit.
Lucky you, in my country the boomers are still fighting over the government with the silent generation. The latter of which is barely still alive
Which government?
Any government would be great.
I yell at people online who refuse to even vote regularly, that’s something right?
It’s not much, but yeah. I guess it is something.
Yes I can, easily.
Okay, but so can a lot of boomers. Still expect to see memes about how you didn’t do anything
That’s fine, all I care about is being able to look my kids in the eye and tell them I tried, and what I did.
I will be agreeing with those memes.
Don’t get tennis elbow patting yourself on the back. Your individual actions won’t matter unless you can bring industry with you. The best way to do that is to help people gain class consciousness. The best way to do that is by not considering your individual actions as relevant.
Weirdest leap of logic I’ve seen in a long time…
“If you can’t change other people’s minds for them, then your personal efforts are worthless”
I could give two shits what anyone else thinks about my efforts.
I minimize plastics use, recycle anything that can be, reuse/renew whenever possible, minimize all use of products dangerous to the environment/ecosystems, educate myself on the issues and candidates and then vote in every election, volunteer for political campaigns, I educate my children about the environment (including what we do to minimize our impact and why it’s a problem at all) and politics (including the importance of voting, how to research candidates and issues). Yes, there is more I could do, but I think I do a pretty good amount–far above the average. My kids won’t blame me, even if the memes blame my generation.
I wouldn’t go out of my way to make older generations feel bad because that isn’t solving anything, but I would educate them so that maybe their votes will be better going forward.
This. Also, seeing that the world is going to shit at the same time as boomers begin to die makes me think they weren’t that bad after all.
They’re just getting dementia so they’re making worse decisions while retaining office.
The politicians and billionaires actually have decent Healthcare, so they live longer than the voting boomers as well.
Boomers are by and large objectively less ethical than the generations that followed them. However, no sweeping generalization can really be true and even if they could be, the original post here is not helpful.
OK, I am sorry, but I am pretty sure, your use of objectively is wrong here!
What empirical evidence are you basing this claim on?
Language is imprecise. What I’m saying is that I have known many, many boomers who actively do not give a shit about their fellow citizens. Millennials tend to give a shit. Be pedantic about it if you will, but I’ve no doubt that if such a study existed to measure this, there would be data to back up what I’m saying. I do not wish to enter into an argument about this or the words I used. I think my point is a fair one and many people have noticed the same trend.
Or is it the large companies’ and the capitalist system’s fault for not focusing on general wellbeing, instead looking at profit for everything, even if that means pollution? Coupled with a big media oligarchy?
Yup, bashing on arbitrary “generations” is stupid. The whole “okay, boomer” meme manifested after thousands of ridiculous articles about blaming the youth for buying less diamond rings or whatever. It just turned around the absurdity. That was the funny part. Just seriously blaming our elderly is stupid the same way.
And which generation voted for politicians that let the capitalist system run amok?
All of them. They all did.
All did, but disproportionately
The corporate lobbiests. Unless you’re seriously arguing that swapping the Presidents from their era until now would have actually made a significant difference.
You aren’t seriously arguing that, right?
I don’t think it’s fair so put the blame entirely on just one person.
My grandparents and parents might also feel a little guilt from beyond.
I don’t think it’s fair so put the blame entirely on just one person.
But it would be so easy to put it on them, and then flush them out of the airlock!
What they did was vote for the lesser of two evils presented on the ballot. Does that sound familiar? Go on, admit, it, that’s exactly what you do now, too.
It’s a class war. It always has been. Start blaming the real villains, and stop the infighting, which just plays into their hands.
How do people not see this?
Let’s wait at least six months before reposting this meme again.
Nice corkscrews.
Generation Lead Paint
Lol, in forty years when “generation phone brain” is being mocked for their free surrender of data to the overlord class I hope someone gives this comment a like
They’ll also say something like:
“You mean you already HAD home office, old man? For a few years? And then you just… let them take it away again? And internet has been around for decades at this point anyway? And still, you were totally on board with increasing pollution and global warming by absolutely pointlessly ‘commuting’ from home to something called an ‘office,’ every day? Oh, what’s that, you actually hated doing that? That’s cute. But then you could have gotten a different job, right? Did you at least flip over some cars and set them on fire, in protest? Nothing? Just pure, unabashed complacency? I despise you and will piss on your grave.”(I played this through in my mind many times. There is no good comeback.)
