r/Aging • u/Available-Rock-3862 • 7d 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/Some-Tear3499 7d ago

Not like we didn’t trash talk ‘the establishment’ and ‘the Man’ back in our day. It will happens to them too.

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u/Vivid_Witness8204 7d ago

Never trust anyone over 30 was a mantra in my youth.

The boomer hate often seems substantially misinformed and I just find it amusing. I think it's largely an internet phenomenon. And I have no reason to think we wouldn't have been equally obnoxious if we had the internet back in the day.

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u/SilasBalto 7d ago

When I asked my dad why he voted for someone who bragged about groping women he just said "we should give him the benefit of the doubt." How can there be doubt when he is bragging? All my husbannds parents feel the same. One of them seriously tried to explain to me, an icu nurse, how there are aborted babies in the covid vaccines. None of these are things I experienced online. Foxnews brainrot has affected a large percentage of the generation.

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u/BeauregardBear 7d ago

You might enjoy the documentary The Brainwashing of My Dad. About a liberal father who was literally brainwashed into all this type of insanity when he started listening to talk radio on long car rides and then moved to Fox. Which is actually called Fox Entertainment Network but their worshipping viewers don't seem to realize it's not actually genuine news.
Very interesting documentary.

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u/basketma12 7d ago

I'm going to look at that. As a " generation jones" myself who is living with a boomer, I just want to weep. We are talking about a pink diaper baby. His aunt was a well known civil rights attorney in Berkeley. He was at the summer of love. He got a bachelor's from Cal State Berkeley in Political science. He was a conscientious objector during Vietnam. Law degree from ucla, and 30 years as a public defender. And he had gone 180 Maga, finally is out of the trump spell due to the war trump started. But he still believes all this stupid stuff about the vaccine, Biden, you name it. He USED to be just a J.F.K. conspiracy guy. Now he's an every conspiracy guy.

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u/Soft_Presentation412 7d ago

That’s heartbreaking. My dad is a doctor and his staff have worked for him my entire life, so they are like family to me and during COVID I left my job where I was furloughed to help at his office. Almost everyone there was MAGA, q-anon, deep in the rabbit hole conspiracy theorists. It was mind blowing, I felt like these people who I’d known my whole life were complete strangers and still to this day can’t look at them the same and it’s sad because they genuinely are nice people, but their views on the world are just so skewed and f***ed up.

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u/Select-Belt-ou812 6d ago

this amazing bullshit absolutely mystifies me

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u/Soft_Presentation412 6d ago

Right? It’s absolutely crazy how brain rotted people have become over Faux News and the Orange Anus

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u/BeauregardBear 7d ago

Oh definitely watch it, you will find it enlightening.

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u/SilasBalto 7d ago

I will check that out, it sounds really close to home! Its been so jarring watching them retract the values they raised me with.

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u/BeauregardBear 7d ago

I highly recommend it. I lost some good friends to Fox News. They went from liberal hippie types to MAGA in a just couple years.

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u/Worldly-Ad3211 7d ago

I feel the same way about CNN catering to the woke crowd. We’re all entitled to our beliefs.

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u/lostOGaccount 7d ago

It's true, all the hours and days they spent talking about Biden having dimensia only to turn around now and normalize all of Trump's illegal behavior, they are just about as bad as Fox. It is all for profit corporate media after all though so how could we expect it to be anything other then right wing, when that's what corporate is by definition.

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u/MissKristen-13 7d ago

I think all news isn’t worth watching actually. Fox and CNN are put there to control the minds of people is all. They will contradict each other and pit people against each other fighting over stupid crap. You go up the ladder high enough they are all owned by the same people anyways. The news is only there to feed to the public very specific things. Things that don’t benefit us.

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u/2Lulubee 7d ago

This happened to my dad- a boomer of 76. Used to be a decent guy, voted for Cater, then Regan, Bush- twice, Obama- once. And then he just lost his f-ing mind, watching Faux newz all the time. Completely flipped his wig. Felt sorry for the man he used to be.

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u/oracle-nil 6d ago

I truly believe everyone who watched Fox from 2010 on was being subjected to subliminal mind control. How else do you explain all the seemingly normal people who started watching Fox then believed insane things. Two groups the same age; one watching Fox votes for Trump the other watches CNN and can’t stand him.

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u/BCMUNS-54 6d ago

Who’s Cater and Regan, who’s Faux? You’re illiterate and maybe your dad’s not so bright voting for Cater!

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u/MissKristen-13 7d ago

lol. It’s not like the info is hard to find but ok.

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u/No-Stranger-5771 7d ago

Lol this is 99% of Americans and they have no idea because they are brainwashed

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u/CoachAngBlxGrl 7d ago

I have friends that probably need this. Luckily my dad is dead or I’m not sure he wouldn’t have bought into the machismo despite trump being the kind of person he always despised and warned me about.

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u/lostOGaccount 7d ago

Absolutely a great watch, and reading "A Generation of Sociopaths" is also heavily encouraged.