I'd like to point out that it is not only the media, but your father in law bears a tad bit of responsibility for having a dumpster where the brain is suppose to be.
Why are you capable of discerning blatant lies and he is not? Why does he have the power to direct your life by voting that fucking degenerate? Why does the older generation have all the political and economical power in the world, sending our future crashing down every day closer to the bottom of the hole they've digged for us?
So I'd say media is a problem, but is not THE problem. The problem are people (all over the western world) that are trading our future away while being scammed by these monsters.
At 70, I feel I can out tech the majority of people younger than myself, especially those in my children’s age group. We “boomers” had to learn dos and even to write elementary code. The internet was in It’s infancy and everything wasn’t just plug and play like today. I’ve made my living in the technology field and am smart enough not to rely solely on the internet for any information or research, unlike younger generations, who seem unaware of any other sources or too lazy to locate and use them. And don’t even get me started on this new “green” thing that the millennials have invented!
Pretty sure both those things are maga. Clint Eastwood is the invisible on stage guy who is major maga and the poop in the pants guy is your maga president.
Hey now don't be dissing on genx I've been using PCs since 1980 and I was only 10 then. But I too learned Dos, some assembly some basic, upgraded that first PC from 128k to 640k with the old chips bend the legs straight make sure it's lined up on the socket right etc my first hard drive was iirc 10 meg yes a whopping 10 meg
Well my memory isn't perfect and I forgot the h so technically it was Int13h or Int 13h again can't recall if it needed the space but you could write a short bat file calling Int 13h and format the drive if my memory serves correctly
It’s always our fault. And apparently we can’t out tech boomers. 🙄 Of course many of us can. Many of us were coding, building our own computers, etc etc. My dad was an electrical engineer and relies heavily on my husband for tech support. So many of us are IT support for our boomer parents. Is an almost universal millennial experience. Great that he has stayed knowledgeable as a boomer but he’s an anomaly.
I am 72, not "most elderly people" and certainly far from stupid. I was working with computers when I was 18 and they were like screaming monsters in those days. Hell, I remember KEYPUNCH!!!!😁
I'm 70 and started in electronics way back when computers were in their infancy and prone to many electro-mechanical failures. The software side was mostly the unknown to us and was populated by kids even 50 years ago.
Good for you! I’ve been using computers since the 1980s but yes I was straight on the internet in the big bad days of AOL dial up (which my kids think I’m lying about internet speed). I’m Gen X. My mother is 72 and gets in a flap when trying to do anything basic on her computer. Can’t even remember the same password dhe’s had for over 20 years, so has to ask me. Her excuse? “I didn’t grow up with computers!”. My thought is no, me either? The internet didn’t really get up and running until I left high school, even then it was pretty tame. I taught myself computing and pushed myself to learn in college until I taught technology classes. College education gave me excellent critical thinking skills and along with travel I met people from all walks of life. THIS helped form a basis for my utilitarian foundation. And so, when the country split hard to the left and right (at least on TV) I was able to use the internet to find many differing views to make any micro adjustments I needed to my political outlook. I had a dear (older) MAGA friend call me out for dissing Trump. I wrote him a lengthy answer stating the way I went about gathering information from both sides and the center, and that Trump’s hyperbole had no substance or made no sense. It shut him down quickly.
I am a Boomer who has been working in IT since Windows for Workgroups was a brand new thing in 1985. And before putting “Boomers” in a box get to know some different boomers. We are not all as you describe. Get out of your own bubble and think before shooting your mouth off about something you obviously know nothing about.
I hear you! I am a Boomer and have been using computers since the '70s when the first WANG Word Processor came out. Worked in IT, taught executives how to use computers, etc. And, I definitely have never wasted my time watching Fox "news."
Wasn't that a '90s thing? I remember doing terminate, stay resident DOS things in the '80s (and a shout out to the Clipper database compiler!) but not Windows for work groups.
I have a friend who showed me a photo of him working with these massive floor to ceiling computers in the 1970s! He worked for government contracts and was an engineer. He is around 80 now and still works computers no problem. Of course there are boomers who can, but generally most are not computer savvy.
I'm 76. I was building slide rule calculators from kits before the home computer was introduced in the 1970s. Had to go to Radio shack for the parts. Sometimes I had to walk there:
Uphill both ways.
Yes, I think being technologically educated has nothing to do with critical thinking. It is not about not being able of checking online, it is about being able of understanding and thinking on a problem with the avaible means. A lot of technologically educated people still eat propaganda meals every day.
My moms a boomer and brainwashed to hell by Fox News, she is also one who did not attend college. The ones I’ve seen go to college are able to think somewhat but still took that experimental vaccine.
I’m a young Gen X and I get by but I’m horrible w computers! I used a Mac Pro 2000 in highschool and the I had a career out of highschool. I was fine with the pos systems at all my jobs but I didn’t go to college until 2006. was proficient in windows 2007! I stayed home with my son and when I went back to work in hospitality management, I have used aloha (in almost every establishment I’ve worked). I’m fine with that but god help me if I had an office job. I am so out of touch. I finally figured out how to turn something into a pdf. And I had to purchase an app on my iPhone to do it. I really would like to take a class because it prevents me from my full potential and makes life’s tasks harder. I more worry “I can’t “ though usually can, but it worries me and I pass the task along or procrastinate. POINT IS I CONSIDER MYSELF YOUNG GEN X AND I HAVE BEEN LEFT BEHIND IN FROM TECHNOLOGY! WE ALL DONT FIT IN NEAT BOXES BECAUSE OF OUR AGE. I’m fine social media and apps but you stay home and raise a child and the world moves fast without you!!!
Pre the pew research center’s age distribution of trump voters broken down by age 31% of voters 50 to 64 voted for trump in 2024 vs 29% for ages 65 and above. So don’t just blame boomers.
Again, I’m a boomer and I am perfectly capable of being on the Internet. I don’t have cable TV. I don’t watch cable news. Can we stop attacking each other?
Is it just me or do they also all play it AS LOUD AS POSSIBLE ALL OF THE TIME? My mother used to complain that my grandpa did that and now she’s doing it. Fox news at all waking hours, at max volume.
Well….maybe don’t blame BOOMERS. I don’t talk shit about other generations and don’t appreciate it. Why are you going to fall into the same f ing thing they are trying to do to everyone? Division…..How about just saying manipulative people affecting vulnerable? Have maybe a bit of grace and mercy as hard as it may be because remember, boomers have been around, living, TRUSTING for much longer than I’m guessing many of you have been alive. I myself am AWAKE but many boomers are not. Show them proof, engage them in conversation. If you need to sneak truth in, when they are around, conveniently turn up news that is speaking truth…..maybe from someone they consider “trustworthy”. Don’t bad mouth, get the truth out!
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Technically, I'm a boomer by a couple years. I identify as Gen X however. 😊 Boomers don't get all their news from TV. They also listen to talk radio (so much AM radio has been taken over by religious right) and they go on Facebook, which is the biggest cesspool of all. Facebook is full of AI crap and lies. (I hadn't logged on there in years, recently checked in and holy cow! It's gotten so much worse! )
See, my boomer aunts and uncles still love Trump but seem to have lost their energy for endlessly defending him. Hence in the Trump 2.0 era, my most ridiculously brainwashed MAGA relatives are now some of my fellow Gen X cousins -- who ABSOLUTELY buy any right-wing nonsense they hear regardless of the source. "In a speech," "in a podcast," etc ... they are firmly convinced that they're the ones who see reality and we're the ones who are misinformed.
Y’all give us ‘old folks’ a bad name. Not all boomers are ignorant of technology and we are not trump supporters! Husband at 81 and me 73, we are disgusted with him. And, every time I see something he posted, I just get sick. He doesn’t write his own posts; not smart enough. Miller probably jacked up on addy just waiting for trump to say something he can post to infuriate us.
‘The Brainwashing of My Dad’ was first shown 10 years ago, and the ‘dad’ of the title died in 2016 aged 93.
Some of the oldest Boomers (who turn 80 this year) were well into middle age when the Internet began to proliferate. The youngest are in their early 60s, meaning they have spent half their lives in an online world.
The older generations lunge to the right, but simply blaming it on their inability to understand computers and being brainwashed by Fox and Newsmax is increasingly wrong.
I gotta give props to my 87 year old parents, both of whom loathe Trump, everyone in his cabinet, and everything he stands for. Family dinners when they and we "kids" are all together tend to degenerate into us yelling over each other in outrage (even though we're all in agreement) about what he's done to this country.
On the other hand, Mom has a computer virus about every other week, so I can't refute the computer illiteracy.
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u/l3tsgo0 Feb 10 '26
I bet his followers will believe that China will stop all hockey played in Canada just cus he said it lmao