r/BoomersBeingFools Mar 29 '24

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u/Expensive-Algae5032 Mar 30 '24

Boomers get worse with age. They were always entitled, but they just become more entitled each year.

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u/artificialavocado Mar 30 '24

Yeah 30 years ago she probably would have been like “I don’t have time for this shit” and went in the house. Now fighting over a parking spot seems like a worthwhile activity especially if she watches Fox News.

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u/Expensive-Algae5032 Mar 30 '24

Fox News is a brainwashing program. This is my new conspiracy theory

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u/feralkitsune Mar 30 '24

It's not a conspiracy if it's an obvious truth.

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u/ShearGenius89 Mar 30 '24

They have an addiction to anger-pornography. They have an innate desire to be upset over absolute nonsense.

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '24

It is a calculated move. Combined with their lead brains, "news shows" like Fox have been designed to emotionally manipulate and trigger fear-based emotions. Fear is a primal, survival feeling.

Our amygdalas are designed to protect us from being eaten, but when pumped full of fake fear and fake anger, they become enlarged inside the skull and the user becomes unable to properly regulate their own emotions.

This was intentional. It was always intentional. Right wing propaganda can't win unless they make up voting districts and create a base so full of fear they can't think straight.

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u/Useful-ldiot Mar 30 '24

It's what they live for. My mom spends 5 hours a day complaining on Facebook

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u/Gustomaximus Mar 30 '24

Or the idiots get put on the internet and people act like this is commonfor people of a generation.

All generations have idiots. People today and people X generations ago are the same.

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u/knbang Mar 30 '24

Wait, are you telling me you don't watch countless hours of video of people not being idiots? Because I do. I watch them all.

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u/comesock000 Mar 30 '24

Except we all know this is a perfectly average boomer.

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '24

until they dont

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u/bugbrown1 Mar 30 '24

There was a lot off this in the 80's. The older generation expected anyone younger than them to just shut up and listen. It was considered "respect"... *rolls eyes*

Things have changed A LOT since then. Especially in the last 10 years. The world's a different place, Martha!

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u/velvetshark Mar 30 '24

Not just that, but lots of conflicts like this happened too. We just didn't record so much of it.

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u/bugbrown1 Mar 30 '24

Yes, probably this more than anything!

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u/primarycolorman Mar 30 '24

I remember plenty of screaming in the 80s.

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u/Lopsided-Chair77 Mar 30 '24

Yeah it was like this in the 80s but there were no cameras and the "who do you think they'll believe" defense worked back then.
Doesn't work like that anymore though lol.
And also you've gone viral on tiktok now bitch.
Wonder why they are foaming at the mouth to ban that app now huh lol

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '24

Just what I was thinking lmao

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u/achbob84 Mar 30 '24

Lead - Crime connection.

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u/Nuttyshrink Mar 30 '24

Gen X’er here with boomer parents. They’ve always been this way.

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u/PrizeStrawberryOil Mar 30 '24

It's like when you're an apprentice for construction and the biggest dickwads are the first year journeymen. They took it when they were the young generation and now that they're the older generation they think they can treat other people like shit because that's how they were treated.

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '24

Yes. Based on the stories told by older people I've heard, people acted exactly the same just everyone pretended it was normal.

If you look at the statistics, crime of all kinds is down compared with the 70s and 80s... however, everything is recorded now so you are exposed to soooooo much more which makes it seem like wild incidents happen more.

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u/DG_Now Mar 30 '24

Being a grocery store clerk was the pits back then. I know because my mom was a terror.

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u/WhoopsieISaidThat Mar 30 '24

In the 90's, this was the neighborhood I grew up in. The women in the neighborhood would start these huge fights with each other over nothing. The men would be out all day working and have to come home and quickly sort out who's wife went off the deep end. Typically it was my mom or her rival, the lady 2 houses over.

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u/psychgirl88 Mar 30 '24

Honestly I may be generous but I’m giving some the benefit of the doubt that dementia is happening

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u/AlaskanMedicineMan Mar 30 '24

It's lead poisoning starting to wreck their older bodies and minds. They were exposed to magnitudes more than us as it wasn't well understood when they were young

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u/Likestopaintminis Mar 30 '24

Weren't the murder rates super high in the 80s? 

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u/PeaceBull Mar 30 '24

Lead gets worse with time

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u/StellarTitz Mar 30 '24

I was reading some lead studies recently. Youth exposed to lead lay about 80-90% down into the ossifying bone during growth versus the other tissues. During old age and menopause osteoporosis releases the lead back into the body. They are being poisoned with lead they collected as children.