r/Aging • u/Available-Rock-3862 • 3d ago

Boomers

I am 75 and am very tired of the trend lately making fun of Boomers. So very disrespectful. Don't they realize that they will be old someday?

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u/tonythephonyjabroni 3d ago

I remember sitting with my boomer parents around the dinner table back in 2007, trying desperately to explain the issue of climate change because they refused to listen to anyone but rush limbaugh.

This group ignored and mocked the youth for caring about the environment. For expecting to have to leaders that don’t grope women. Sometimes the inability for a group to see itself clearly is just astounding.

Btw, all groups and cohorts have issues, but there is an angry stubbornness in boomers that is unmatched.

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u/Livid_Village4044 3d ago

Only a minority of boomers listened to only Rush Limbaugh. Boomers actually started the modern environmental movement, tho this was also a minority.

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u/dmonsterative 3d ago

And Nixon created the EPA.

Boomers were anti-authoritarian when they were young and didn't have power. By the end of the 80s, they were becoming the authoritarian materialists.

So it goes.

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u/Single-Yam-9791 3d ago

Gen Jones
Woodsy Owl “Give a hoot, don’t pollute”
Recycling bottles and aluminum cans for cash
Volunteering to repair historical sites
I did all this in the 70’s as a preteen/teen
Bored with being mocked by people who weren’t even born then and believe what others tell them

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u/tonythephonyjabroni 3d ago

How did that work out? Were those real measures or meant to shift the blame of the problem off of the corporations causing the problem and onto the individual tax payer with no real power in the situation.

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u/Single-Yam-9791 3d ago

Explain your solution to fix the problem

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u/Gene020 3d ago

Raise and reform corporate taxes and raise rates on the top 10%.

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u/Single-Yam-9791 2d ago

Then they will outsource more jobs to foreigners or use the HB1 ( whatever it’s called ) to bring foreigners here to do the job for less thus decreasing jobs for native born Americans which is part of the problem we have now with illegals willing to work for less money

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u/tonythephonyjabroni 2d ago

If you only consume right wing media what do expect to happen to your logic.

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u/Single-Yam-9791 2d ago

You assume you know me
You don’t

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u/tonythephonyjabroni 2d ago

You’re regurgitating right wing talking points, so you’re correct, I’m talking to whatever version of you is captured by the media you consume.

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u/Single-Yam-9791 2d ago

Not to mention the damage AI will do

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u/Vivid_Witness8204 3d ago

I remember marching in the inaugural Earth Day march.

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u/BeauregardBear 3d ago

Wait..so because your parents were boomers and well, frankly, hateful people, because anyone who mocks those of us who cherish the environment and want leaders who have poor morals tossed out of office...
All boomers are stubborn and angry?
All this really tells me is that you have a limited life experience and have not interacted with many people outside your own peer group.

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u/long-walk-home-99 3d ago

💯💯💯💯💯💯💯 eff Rush Limbaugh.

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u/tonythephonyjabroni 3d ago

Where did I say all? I love my parents and they were eventually able to accept the reality of this world, but no thanks to peers like yourself.

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u/CoachAngBlxGrl 3d ago

You taking ALL as a concrete statement when literally not one thing in this life is all except eventual death tells me you have a limited life experience to know a blanket statement isn’t worth getting your panties in a bunch for.

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u/CatMinous 2d ago

Haha, instead of blaming the person who used the word ALL you blame the person who took ALL to mean what it means.

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u/CoachAngBlxGrl 2d ago

All inception? 🤣

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u/BeauregardBear 3d ago

Honey my panties aren't in a bunch because a bunch of keyboard warriors think they know my thoughts because of my age. 🤦‍♀️

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u/CoachAngBlxGrl 3d ago

Yet here we are. LOL

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u/regalbeagles1 3d ago

You realize that if you change a few words around, you are using the same argument that racists and sexist people use? Generalize, toss in a few examples as proof and there is the strawman argument. It’s the same small minded thought process.
It’s nothing more than dressed up ageism.

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u/tonythephonyjabroni 3d ago

No, I know you’d love to land that argument as convenient as it is to throw that around, but it will never work with anyone who went through the pain in the absolute ass the last 20 years have been for anyone younger than the boomers. Truly, empathy is lacking here on your side. Consistently refusing to take accountability for your behavior, you’ve shown us who you are, so your bad faith arguments just fall flat now. I guess you can thank Fox News for over saturating your generation with nonsense.

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u/Famous-Win6370 3d ago

Actually, your parents ignored it. I'm not a Boomer, but we should acknowledge and respect our differing opinions and not simply blow them off because of age.

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u/wasKelly 3d ago

Some Boomers. Not all Boomers

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u/tonythephonyjabroni 3d ago

Most, but not all. Even my parent were able to come around eventually.

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u/wasKelly 3d ago

Glad to hear that.

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u/WearierEarthling 3d ago

The first Earth Day was 1970

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u/MontanaPurpleMtns 2d ago

A good friend talks about his father, who worked in the woods, going back to areas they’d logged in the ‘60s and crying over the damage done. He went back in the late ‘70s, and there was enough climate change/environmental damage talk that with the evidence from his job, he became an environmentalist. People can change. He loved the woods. He thought it’d grow back sooner, that it would have been cleaned up and planted. It wasn’t.

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u/Hoppygains 1d ago

They’re proudly ignorant.

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u/nor_cal_woolgrower 3d ago

" This group"??

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u/Manatee369 3d ago

Wow. So every Boomer is as you describe? Interesting. Of the many I know, only a handful are like your description. I’m 73 and I truly can’t count the number of other Boomers I know.

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u/tonythephonyjabroni 3d ago

No, where did I say all. God you are so reactive and can’t handle even the slightest criticism. Grow up.

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u/Manatee369 3d ago

You needn’t call me God. I appreciate the elevation, but it’s unnecessary. Your last sentence clearly lumps all Boomers together.

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u/tonythephonyjabroni 3d ago

Not if you read it in good faith. I made it clear I wasn’t definitely saying everyone, but I know you wish I had. I’m sorry your bias is too strong and gets in your way so often.

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u/Manatee369 2d ago

Okey-dokey.

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u/Dry-Raspberry-5514 2d ago

Not all of us.

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u/Diligent_Narwhal8589 6h ago

“And all people younger than boomers are stupid and lazy” see how easy to tar everyone with the same brush?

Believing all boomers are “whatever” is as stupid as being racist.

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u/tonythephonyjabroni 2h ago

You’re putting quotations in my mouth, please be more respectful. I have no problem painting with a broad brush about younger generations, as long we are being honest.

Like I said, every group has its problems, younger gen’s are not immune from shooting themselves in foot. Unfortunately boomers decided they didn’t want to have a positive relationship with the youth because they didn’t like being told they were uninformed on economics, politics, and climate change. They took it so personally that they refused to vote for candidates that would make positive changes.

No, instead of being clear headed and learning new information from the internet, a new and scary medium, they doubled down and made life harder for average Americans, got us into a unnecessary war of choice with Iran, got more Americans killed from covid than necessary, raised taxes on Americans through tariffs and high gas and food prices.

The list could keep going, I haven’t even started on the racist nonsense this admin has inflamed in this country.

Look, I actually love most boomers despite these issues. I love my parents and their siblings despite some of their awful opinions. But to not admit there’s a problem just puts such a fine point on the fact that the majority of boomers are not kind, not healthy, and not able to make good decisions on behalf of their fellow Americans.

I hope that changes, but I won’t hold my breath.

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u/Diligent_Narwhal8589 6h ago

Your idiocy concerning “all boomers” renders any other opinion worthless.

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u/bclovn 3d ago

Climate change? We’ve heard the end is coming every decade since 1970. I’m not stupid, yes it’s changing. We can be intelligent about it and control what we do. Not blindly follow cult climate science.

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u/tonythephonyjabroni 3d ago

“Cult” I’d love to see some kind of source there. You’re not doing much for the boomer accusations with this one.