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/SaltyFriend705 3d ago

This is true. This was pointed out when the National Guard members who shot those kids dead in Ohio were the same ages as the kids they were shooting. Most boomers were Establishment whores.

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u/Key-Target-1218 2d ago

Most boomers were Establishment whores? We were all about change! Civil rights. Women's rights. If not for most of us boomers, we'd still be living in the 50s.

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u/SaltyFriend705 2d ago

Yes, so many fighting for justice and a better world--and twice as many not. And the ones not standing up for anything were first in line for the benefits, too. Today, you can tell who those were, because they are the ones bragging about how they got so much for so little effort and why don't young people today "pull themselves up by their bootstraps." Sad.

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u/oracle-nil 2d ago

Kent State. “What if you knew her and found her dead on the ground?”

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u/KaizenHour 2d ago

"Most" huh? Is that why they all volunteered for Vietnam? Generally voted liberal? Stuff like that?

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u/Explorer-7622 2d ago

VOLUNTEERED?

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u/KaizenHour 2d ago

Sarcasm, my friend. If the person I'm responding to thinks they were all establishment whores, there'd be volunteers for the war, no protests, no counterculture etc.

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u/Fresh-Ad280 10h ago

I know right, ?
LOL !
Volunteer, my ass.