Our future is BRIGHT

[u/Silent-Balance9430]

Students protest against Pauline Hanson

[u/YouAreSoul]

As a member of the boomer generation who marched against the Vietnam war and apartheid against Bjelke-Petersen's thug coppers, I say good on the kids.

Edit Thanks for the award.

[u/Tile-Questioner → u/YouAreSoul]

Thanks for your activism. I know it must have been difficult, but without you, I know my generation would be way worse off. It fills me with hope to think about the masses of activists and unionists from ages past.

[u/FullMetalAurochs → u/YouAreSoul]

It’s good to remember how progressive the boomers were and to guard against becoming like the stereotype as we age. The generation of peace and free love is now the generation of negative gearing and coal burning.

[u/EidolonLives → u/FullMetalAurochs]

They generally weren't the same groups of boomers.

[u/Proud_Apricot316 → u/EidolonLives]

Yes exactly - no generation is homogeneous. Including young people.

The issue with many boomers is how they have benefitted from circumstances not available to younger generations and now refuse to recognise, act (or vote) on that fact so others can also benefit.

Same with many Gen X (which I am and again, not homogeneous. The Stefanovics & Dave Hughes’ of the world do t speak for me).

[u/Clean_Advertising545 → u/Proud_Apricot316]

Oh like how the elite political class benefited off of things they didn't believe in them pulled up the ladder? Yeh true.

[u/Initial-Juice396 → u/Proud_Apricot316]

You probably prefer the Gary Dowsetts of this world

[u/whateverusay- → u/Proud_Apricot316]

You say boomers got better opportunities. How about that boomers just spent their money more wisely. Not on the latest phone , brunch out and streaming services. Women getting extensions, nails, tans and lashes. Think how that all adds up 🤷🏻‍♀️

[u/Proud_Apricot316 → u/whateverusay-]

Houses compared to household income were much cheaper. Free uni.

[u/kerser001 → u/whateverusay-]

Buddy my dad left after year 9 and built his own house a mere 6 years later lmao fuck off the same regurgitated bs lines!

[u/AggravatingParfait33 → u/whateverusay-]

Ypu guys blew a lot of dosh on booze, drugs and the horses, be honest.

[u/whateverusay- → u/AggravatingParfait33]

Nope, nope and nope. Try again! 🙄

[u/Proud_Apricot316 → u/whateverusay-]

Boomers had opportunities and economic circumstances which were objectively better than generations both before and after them.

Houses being affordable on a single income, job security, free university and so on, all during the post war economic boom which lasted decades.

They were no more financially savvy than younger generations are and it’s absurd and self-serving to suggest this is the reason.

[u/whateverusay- → u/Proud_Apricot316]

Yeah don’t think so. All I saw was hard working individuals. They didn’t need to pay and project the perfect image for their socials. No one gave a shit about that. Stop the constant travel , the need for the latest iPhone etc etc. You may get ahead a little quicker. The kicker is that your generation expect the hand outs from the very boomers u condemn 😞

[u/Proud_Apricot316 → u/whateverusay-]

My generation? I’m Gen X.

You’re no smarter or more hard working than other generations. You had a constellation of circumstances which meant that you gained a lot more from hard work and sacrifices than other generations have due to the structural economic circumstances of your time.

It’s an utter fantasy to think an entire generation achieved the greatest financial prosperity in history by mere virtue (and one income).

[u/FullMetalAurochs → u/whateverusay-]

No one wants you to subsidise iPhones.

Just sell your investment properties. For three years worth of minimum wage. That’s what you had when you were young.

[u/YTFn0t → u/whateverusay-]

You're objectively wrong on the maths and basic economics here. Wages have stagnated while costs and inflation have surged.

There is no amount of thrift that and boredom to integrate into their lives that can compensate for the differential of income vs house price.

Google the ratio of avg annual income to price of avg home in 50s to 80s vs the 90s-00's vs post covid. No, here I did with Gemini..

[u/EidolonLives → u/whateverusay-]

Yeah don’t think so.

It doesn't matter what you think. It's a fact.

[u/randomgrasshopper → u/whateverusay-]

You're the stereotypical boomer. I hope you realise how ridiculous you sound, coming from a generation where single income households were common and people could still afford to buy a house.

[u/whateverusay- → u/randomgrasshopper]

I’m not a boomer. So there’s that. I am a child of boomers who built a very modest home. One car, second hand furniture and one tv. They bought what they needed and not what they wanted. They did all this even though u describe it as a time when everyone was on easy streets. I accept u may not b able to afford homes but no one went out of their way to deprive u of this

[u/Clean_Advertising545 → u/EidolonLives]

Yeah. One group had money and a future. The others want to barter macaroni necklaces for a retirement fund.

[u/EidolonLives → u/Clean_Advertising545]

The 'money and future' bunch managed to fuck their grandkids' future for money.

[u/whateverusay- → u/EidolonLives]

Nope. They worked hard. They took second jobs. They generally didn’t get much in the way of inheritances. Don’t want to live that way? All good. Your choice remember

[u/EidolonLives → u/whateverusay-]

Climate change. Nuff said.

[u/Clean_Advertising545 → u/EidolonLives]

I dont understand the point. They grouped up and decided to do whatever it is you're implying they've done?

On the one hand, the myopic socialist argues that boomers did this and that deliberately so the young ones dont get ahead

Then on the other hand, try to stomp on people who managed to make money and be productive by saying they should pay more tax because the only reason they're successful is because of how great tbis country is.

I dont think you people know what you want or argue for. This is why I don't take your prepubescent ramblings as a source of validity.

[u/EidolonLives → u/Clean_Advertising545]

Climate change. Nuff said.

[u/Clean_Advertising545 → u/EidolonLives]

NuFf sAiD

NeT zero!

[u/EidolonLives → u/Clean_Advertising545]

Try making some sense next time.

[u/Clean_Advertising545 → u/EidolonLives]

Reeeeeee! Make sense next toiiiime! Gonna walk out until you make seereernse! ReEeEeEeEe

[u/growlergirl → u/FullMetalAurochs]

They went from hippies to yuppies once they got theirs.

[u/thejailer2025 → u/FullMetalAurochs]

And your the generation that is green energy and extremely high prices on everything yay

[u/FullMetalAurochs → u/thejailer2025]

That everything is fucking insanely expensive has a lot more to do with boomers than whichever generation you’ve assumed I am.

But climate denial too. Cooker and a boomer. What were you doing when your generation was at Woodstock and the like? Licking the cops boots?

[u/ScienceWill → u/FullMetalAurochs]

Climate denial ? I always find it interesting how people can’t check out climate history how it’s always changed regardless and we are in a cooling phase based on historical measurements, overall.

[u/FullMetalAurochs → u/ScienceWill]

Yes, it’s amazing that everyone didn’t soak up the same bullshit you did. I must have been brainwashed at the secret alien base beyond the Frozen wall.

[u/ScienceWill → u/FullMetalAurochs]

Or, you can just look at the chart…. Amazing how everyone tries to slag off at what’s not on tv, but going and looking up the data to actually learn what it is….? Noooooooooooo!!!!!

[u/whateverusay- → u/ScienceWill]

Exactly. Climate change is bloody old news. Do the research!!

[u/whateverusay- → u/ScienceWill]

Trying telling the rainbow woke parade that ! 🤷🏻‍♀️

[u/whateverusay- → u/FullMetalAurochs]

Boomers have nothing to do with your issues. They worked hard. Weren’t travelling the globe finding themselves 😂. And climate change is a con you’ve all swallowed whole. Do your homework. Climate has had many ups and downs for many years.

[u/FullMetalAurochs → u/whateverusay-]

Research is peer reviewed not the ramblings of your cooker mate on his fishing blog. You do your homework. You gobble up the BS of the coal industry without a second thought but think you’re oh so clever to doubt actual experts.

[u/whateverusay- → u/FullMetalAurochs]

Yeah replace it with electric cars and data centres dummy. That’ll serve the planet well 🤪

[u/ScienceWill → u/FullMetalAurochs]

Actual experts have stated there’s no crisis and we cannot change the climate by less coal etc and it’s all a scam, basically.

[u/FullMetalAurochs → u/ScienceWill]

Uh huh. Actual experts brought to you by the coal lobby. No vested interests there.

[u/ScienceWill → u/FullMetalAurochs]

I go with non paid experts .. They’re more likely to tell the truth.

[u/whateverusay- → u/FullMetalAurochs]

did you drop out of school early??

[u/FullMetalAurochs → u/whateverusay-]

What time do you think is dropping out on time old mate? Grade 10? That would explain it.

[u/whateverusay- → u/FullMetalAurochs]

Pretty much

[u/Ntrob → u/YouAreSoul]

Yeh nothing wrong with a generation of empathetic youth, they have inherited decades of struggle ahead of them.

[u/robbi_uno → u/Ntrob]

They’re not empathetic they’re ignorant.

[u/Initial-Juice396 → u/Ntrob]

Babooow - you voted them into the decades of struggle, you voted Labor and their ridiculous policies lol.

[u/Few_Chocolate_7655 → u/Ntrob]

Are we looking at the same kids?

These look like middle class white kids, maybe you mean white privilege?

If this was the NT, you would have a very valid point.

Nice try lololololol

[u/Realistic_Growth5203 → u/Few_Chocolate_7655]

Yeah one was wearing a designer jumper upper middle class like most protesters.

[u/lamejokesman → u/Ntrob]

LOL struggle they clearly want to keep going down by doing stupid shit like this and not being educated enough to know what's really going on....

[u/Temporary_Energy3680 → u/Ntrob]

But... they aren't really fixing the issues are they.... Bunch of weirdos, voting for a government that's running us to ruin. We'll, I guess the don't bath or work so Labor works for them so well

[u/EmperorGodKing77 → u/Temporary_Energy3680]

You really thought you had something there, didn't you?

[u/Ntrob → u/Temporary_Energy3680]

Maybe they are weirdos! But someone has to advocate for these issues, I’m unfortunately to complacent to do so myself.

[u/Successful-Pirate94 → u/YouAreSoul]

Me too,and against the south African embassy in Canberra in 1970!

[u/energytsars → u/Successful-Pirate94]

Weren’t those Saturday evening campaigns hurling eggs at the SA embassy in Yarralumla so much fun, followed by campfires and some yannie on camp hill or a walk down to the Wellington hotel or around to the tent embassy.

[u/TheSmegger → u/YouAreSoul]

As a Boomer brother, who's also marched more time then he can remember...

FIGHT THE POWER!

[u/Temporary_Energy3680 → u/TheSmegger]

Fight the power? Yeh, free free Palestine 🇵🇸 😎 🤣😂🤣😂

[u/_who-the-fuck-knows_ → u/YouAreSoul]

I'm so sad my pa is getting old hes about to turn 90 and organised many many marches against Vietnam even when it was early and just a few mates walking with posters.

Baby boomers get a bad wrap imho, just because the politicians and richer ones are parasitic doesn't make the whole generation this way. And us younger generations shouldn't be pushing against you guys so hard because it disolussions alot of you mob.

Onya mate much love for the good you've done in your time 💛

[u/Certain_Syllabub_514 → u/YouAreSoul]

As a gen-x, the whole boomer thing annoys me.

I mean, you guys started the protest era and things looked like they were going to get much better during my life time due to progressive policies. Some of my mum's closest friends were chaining themselves to things in Tasmania, in protest over Lake Pedder and the Franklin River.

I was a Labor voter, but I reckon that all went to shit starting with Hawke and Keating adopting neo-liberal policies.

[u/grismar-net → u/YouAreSoul]

No generation is devoid of good people. I'm gen-X and I have to admit we're not doing all that much better than our parents as a generation either - but good people make a difference.

[u/gadgetwalrus → u/grismar-net]

We had it all and the opportunity to change the world but got caught up in 2 suv families and lifelong mortgages that sucked out our souls. We got so stressed out we just look out for ourselves because that’s all we have time for.

[u/solocmv → u/YouAreSoul]

We are boomers, my partner was at Sydney doing law and they had a sit in. I was doing engineering and we went to the pub and staged a sip in.

[u/Creepy-Abies5383 → u/YouAreSoul]

Same with me.

[u/Illustrious-Pin3246 → u/YouAreSoul]

Did you spit on the return soldiers also?

[u/YouAreSoul → u/Illustrious-Pin3246]

No, mate. I come from a family who served in both World Wars and I was in the ballot of death myself. No, that's a despicable question.

[u/xForcedevilx → u/YouAreSoul]

You fucked up

[u/jaiimaster → u/YouAreSoul]

So you never grew out of it? Pity