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[–] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 64 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Shame the damage they did won't go with them.

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[–] havokdj@lemmy.world 60 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Keanu reeves is so close to and so engrained in gen x culture that I think it's unfair to label him a boomer

[–] SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works 11 points 10 months ago

Honorary Xner

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[–] dipshit@lemmy.world 59 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Gentle reminder that the whole generations thing is made up.

But true that many of these folks and older hold high positions of power, which is probably the cause for the clock.

[–] rwhitisissle@lemy.lol 30 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Crazy that you're the only person I've found in the thread that realizes this. Generational theory largely accepts that the concept of monolithic generations is reductive. Yes, people born in and around the same time can have shared cultural experiences, but the idea that those are what purely shape you ideologically or that you behave as a component of a monolith are ludicrous. And then there's subgenerations, microgenerations, etc. Just look at the sociological research of Karl Mannheim for a very complex discussion on the topic.

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[–] Swasey@lemmy.world 46 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Interesting to look at, numbers wise.. but it makes me think of the time I have left with my parents. I'm calling them tomorrow!

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 10 months ago
[–] sleepmode@lemmy.world 43 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The problem isnt going to end with them. My right wing friends are completely indoctrinated by their boomer parents. And getting louder and louder about it.

[–] in4aPenny@lemmy.world 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They'll be outnumbered after the boomers are gone. They'll either have to adapt, hide back in the shadows, or go full extremist.

[–] sleepmode@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Here’s to hoping. It’s exhausting. I can’t have a single conversation without them slyly trying to slip in some earworm or go off on a tirade unexpectedly because I inadvertently trigger them.

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[–] Smoogs@lemmy.world 38 points 10 months ago (26 children)

Just How stupid does one have to be to think all their woes exist with only one generation? There are far bigger monsters alive today in current younger generations (many in millennial) that are far more destructive to our lives and the earth. They’ve seen more $$$ than any boomer and will laugh at you while you live out of a garbage can.

And you’d still probably be posting stupid memes like this acting completely oblivious to the burning hell around you.

[–] EmergMemeHologram@startrek.website 18 points 10 months ago

The boomers also have high levels of wealth inequality

[–] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 10 months ago (2 children)

You're framing your indignation from a place of generality. No one thinks that boomers are the sole source of the World's woes. However, they are the largest generation and tend to dominate discussions surrounding housing and the economy. They also make up a huge portion of the elected officials in North America, and younger generations have had it much harder than boomers ever did. It's a lie that millennials and gen z have had more money than our parents and grandparents ever did. We don't have nearly the purchasing power people did in the 50s and 60s.

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[–] EmergMemeHologram@startrek.website 38 points 10 months ago

Putting Keanu next to dead Boomers is like when Micheal Scott announced he hit Meredith and the doctors did all they could.

Why would you phrase it like that?!

[–] CoachDom@lemmy.blahaj.zone 36 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

WTF are Keanu Reeves and Madonna doing there 😃

[–] AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 46 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Madonna - Born 1958

Keanu - Born 1964 so boomer of the cutoff year.

It's not my countdown clock, but all the images chosen are of the baby boomer generation, chronologically.

[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 80 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 27 points 10 months ago

I concede the point, the argument, and my very life.

May Keanu have mercy on my soul.

[–] CoachDom@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 10 months ago

I get that I just thought its supposed to be dead by boomers up there

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[–] Yoz@lemmy.world 34 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Who the fuck put keeanu in there?

[–] Kiosade@lemmy.ca 14 points 10 months ago (17 children)

Just checked, wow he’s technically a Boomer! Born in 1964, so just made it.

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[–] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I guess technically he's a boomer, but he's 1000% gen x. He doesn't make moves like a boomer would.

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[–] Ookami38@sh.itjust.works 32 points 10 months ago (19 children)

I love how many people are going on about how one generation isn't the cause of all our problems. I agree. Neither the post nor the website say anything good nor bad about any generation, just that it's -mildly interesting- that boomers just hit 1/3 dead.

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 32 points 10 months ago (5 children)

My mother is pre-Boomer (born soon after the U.S. entered the war) and has been incredibly progressive her entire life. She has never voted for a Republican. She marched for civil rights. She wanted me to know that women and men are equal and that color and religion and ethnicity should not make you dislike someone. She taught me about sex (appropriately) when I asked about it at 3 or 4 years old rather than shielding me from it. My brother and I both have (had in my case, but that's another story) gay best friends who were also best man at both of our weddings. She always welcomed them even though my brother and his friend became friends in the mid-1980s. I remember asking my mother what she would do if I was gay and she said she would love me no matter what I was. I don't specifically know her politics, but my dad, born even earlier (1931) was mostly the same way. He definitely had his prejudices- although he would deny it- and he was a lot more sexist than he thought he was, but he was also an outspoken socialist until the dementia got too bad for him to be outspoken about it. One of the last things I was able to tell him before he was too far gone to understand was that Bernie was running for president.

I have certainly had a lot of issues with Boomers and people older than them, but it is far from universal, but I am really proud of my parents for always being progressive.

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[–] TheWoozy@lemmy.world 28 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Boomers were hated by their elders for being too liberal and hated by their youngers for being to conservative.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago (7 children)

They got more conservative as they got older. All those hippie kids who protested Vietnam and experimented with drugs and sex ended up voting for Reagan.

[–] GiantRobotTRex@lemmy.sdf.org 19 points 10 months ago (2 children)

People seem to have this view that everyone in the '60s was a hippie but that's just not true. Time Magazine put the number around 300,000. In a country of 200 million, that's only 0.15% of the population. They were a counterculture not mainstream culture. The vast majority of kids did not become hippies, and many actively hated the hippies.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

A hell of a lot more than 300,000 people experimented with drugs and protested Vietnam.

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[–] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 12 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Boomers were hated by their elders for being too liberal and hated by their youngers for being to conservative.

~~Boomers~~ People were hated by their elders for being too liberal and hated by their youngers for being to conservative. Since, like, forever.

Fixed this for you.

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[–] Chev@lemmy.world 23 points 10 months ago (6 children)

Is this like a timer for when we can start fighting climate change?

[–] MataVatnik@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago

We got plenty of idiots in our generation too. We're not off the hook

[–] TheWoozy@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago

Boomers started fighting climate change decades ago. (see Al Gore)

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[–] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Not long ago I found out that my dad is too old to be a boomer. Apparently it's called "the silent generation".

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[–] pandacoder@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Why is a Canadian actor and citizen in one of the photos for a US countdown...?

(Yes I'm referring to Keanu.)

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[–] Pratai@lemmy.ca 17 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Must be nice to have Gen X parents eh? I mean…. Being able to afford the luxury of wishing death upon an entitle generation with no consequences…. Sounds so…. Easy.

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[–] ParsnipWitch@feddit.de 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

At this point, I'd rather like to see edgelords go extinct.

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[–] aleq@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago (4 children)

well that's fucking dark (and as others have pointed out, misguided - won't solve a thing)

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[–] stoly@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago (3 children)

The trend I find hilarious is when people come into these threads and start yelling at people about how wrong they are to generalize a generation, etc. Frankly, I can't imagine why people feel the need to defend others over this, it's weird--and I imagine that none of them complained when people complained about Millenials.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (5 children)

Yeah. We did. And we used the same argument. It’s stupid to generalize a generation. However, I can point out the mockery of “millennials” was lazy and juvenile as the prejudice was aimed at anyone younger than the speaker without care for the facts, and the antics by “millennials” that garnered derision were by far the minority. Whereas the boomers are by majority conservative and guilty of failing to understand modern living and the changing times. Because racism, conformity, and getting a good paying job out of high school were facts of life for most of them.

[–] stoly@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Sadly, my own parents had no understanding that the world had changed between 1975 and when I graduated in the 1990s. They really believed that everything was exactly the same and all I needed was to work really hard at a part time job for a while. In reality, it took me 20 years to get even an approximation of the middle class, but I don't really consider myself middle class.

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[–] Clbull@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Wait... Keanu Reeves if a boomer?

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[–] Hiro8811@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

Nooo my man Keanu. Your a soulless casket of meat

[–] Yerbouti@lemmy.ml 10 points 10 months ago (3 children)

One of my student in his 20s, recently told me "ok boomer". I'm 42.

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[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

It's a start.

I kid, I kid, my parents are already dead, not everyone who was/is a boomer is horrid. But this generation has hung around power for too long, it's time to move on.

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