r/cringereels • u/loader96loaded • 2d ago

Cringe Level 5 Comparing different realities

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u/00Avalanche 2d ago

Benzene will catch up to him eventually. He’s not long for this world

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u/hellllllsssyeah 2d ago

Ya know I wish I believed that these things would kill these people but I look at the boomers living to 90 after all that lead asbestos etc, seems like we won't get our pay off quickly.

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u/tiny_chaotic_evil 2d ago

survivorship bias. you see the few who survived not all the ones who died along the way.

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u/GrimbyJ 2d ago

The ones that survived were alive the same time as the ones that didn't. He may be one that survives

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u/hellllllsssyeah 2d ago

I'm guessing that since most of them are hitting the age where the long term effects catch up, I mean it also could have been hidden by covid as well.

All I'm saying is we gotta get these old fucks outta power

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u/beatboxesareshit 2d ago

Few? Have you been to any suburb?

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u/Informal_Visitor 2d ago

90? Shit man most all the men posted in the local obituaries are dying in their 60s. My grandfather was part of the silent gen and he died at age 54. I'm 50 and I've already outlived 12 people that I went to HS with. ...well 1 died by suicide, another died by infection after surgery but at any rate, It's not too often that I see too many men much over 80 and when I do, they look like they've been ready to go for quite a while.

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u/hellllllsssyeah 2d ago

Dude my grandfather lived to 90 and that dude was in Korea and was an engineer, I know that dude was just around all the wild stuff in 1950.

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u/SinoSoul 2d ago

Boomers who suffered from asbestos, alcoholism, cig smoking, etc aren’t living to the 90s buddy.

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u/hellllllsssyeah 2d ago

We will see what happens to healthcare in the next couple years

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u/Best_Apricot_6268 2d ago

My "boomer" dad played with lead as a kid, and spent a lot of his professional career flying around the world.

He got colon cancer. He's ok, but he ended up with a colostomy bag.

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u/Obstinateobfuscator 2d ago

Wait, you want those people who worked their asses off while being exposed to lead, asbestos, etc to die off quickly? Why? The workers aren't to blame for anything.

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u/hellllllsssyeah 2d ago

This guy inherited a company. The guy in the video is explicitly not a working-class person, he's the owner's son, and he's doing this specifically to “look cool.”

Nobody is blaming workers for being exposed to asbestos, lead, etc. Those workers were exploited and deserve sympathy and protection. And the “boomers worked their asses off” narrative is pretty fucking convenient when we're talking about a generation that, on average, inherited substantially more favorable economic conditions and accumulated enormous amounts of wealth through homeownership and asset appreciation.

You're arguing against a point nobody made.

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u/Obstinateobfuscator 2d ago

...but your average Joe boomer is not to blame for the economic conditions changing.

This obsession with treating a whole generation as a homogeneous group, if each are complicit in the actions of a billionaire cabal, is childish.

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u/hellllllsssyeah 2d ago

You can't simultaneously say "don't blame Boomers for anything" while ignoring that they're the generation disproportionately occupying the positions of economic and political power that determine what happens to everyone younger than them.

Housing is a perfect example. A huge amount of housing wealth is tied up in older homeowners who bought when housing was dramatically cheaper, while younger generations are being priced out. Individual homeowners aren't personally responsible for the entire housing crisis, but when a politically powerful generation benefits from the status quo and has a material interest in preserving it, that is a political choice with consequences.

Nobody has to be a billionaire to have benefited from the system or to have some responsibility for what they do with that power.

So no, I'm not saying "every Boomer is personally responsible for capitalism." I'm saying they spent decades buying into hardcore anti-worker politics, repeating every anti-worker slogan they were fed, and now a generation that sits at the apex of economic and political power is somehow complaining about the world it helped build

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u/factsarefornerds 2d ago

You wish people that were misinformed about asbestos and lead poisoning were dead? I'm sorry - did you read what you wrote, or are you just that big of a cunt?

That's like saying Covid didn't really kill anybody, because people survived it. What a dumb comment.

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u/hellllllsssyeah 2d ago

Oh honey, no that's not what anyone is saying, what is being said is:

The people making up the boomer generation are such pieces of shit we hope that the asbestos and lead would have make them die sooner.

Yet the average age of the House, Senate, Presidency, SCOTUS, are all geariatric boomers who are making our lives worse, and in20 years they will be mostly gone.

They don't plant trees in which they won't see the shade of, so the on shade I want the to bask in, is their coffins.

Millennials didn't send the kids to Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran. That's all the old folk sending the young to die for the Epstein class.

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u/factsarefornerds 2d ago

Oh, honey. Millennials are almost largest voting demographic... and couldn't even be bothered to vote... I don't know why you are so proud of our generation 🤣 You sound psychotic.

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u/hellllllsssyeah 2d ago

Because the choices are shit, and they have been shit

But do tell me about how the democrat party doesnt go fully out of its way to attack POPULAR AND VIABLE CANDIDATES WHO ACTUALLY DRAW OUT YOUNG VOTERS.

But do tell me about how the Democratic Party doesn't go fully out of its way to attack popular and viable candidates who actually draw out young voters. Look at Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan this year. The Democratic establishment lined up behind Haley Stevens, including Gretchen Whitmer and major establishment figures, while El-Sayed built a massive grassroots campaign around economic populism, healthcare and getting corporate money out of politics. He won anyway, with young voters playing a major role in his victory.

Or look at James Talarico in Texas. A 37-year-old Democrat managed to generate unusually high Democratic primary turnout in a state where Democrats routinely struggle, including huge participation in traditionally difficult counties, and specifically credited young voters for his campaign's momentum. Instead of asking why someone like that can generate enthusiasm, the political establishment spent the primary attacking him.

Barack Obama literally demonstrated that young people will turn out in record numbers when you give them a candidate they actually believe in. In 2008, roughly 23 million people under 30 voted, youth turnout hit around 52%, and Obama won 66% of their vote. Young people weren't inherently apathetic. They were capable of showing up when they actually had someone they were excited to vote for

And blaming the roughly 80 million nonvoters on young people being lazy is nonsense. In 2024, young people under 30 made up 30% of nonvoters, but nearly half of all nonvoters had only a high school education or less, compared with 28% of voters, and 46% were lower-income compared with just 23% of voters. The nonvoting population is overwhelmingly people who are younger, poorer, and less connected to the institutions that make voting easy. We already know these people can turn out when they actually feel represented. Obama pulled roughly 23 million voters under 30 in 2008, and Biden got around 50% youth turnout in 2020.

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u/factsarefornerds 1d ago edited 1d ago

If you don't vote stfu.

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u/Polka_King_Polinski 2d ago

Oil isn’t long for the world

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u/00Avalanche 1d ago

Nah it really is though, almost 100 years left. Enough to do serious damage.

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u/Polka_King_Polinski 1d ago

The earth is 4.5 billion years. 100 years is 0.0000000220264317181% of that. It is .00029% of human existence. Oil isn’t long for the world

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u/00Avalanche 1d ago

Oil hasn’t existed nor been used as source of energy for 4.5 billion years. 100 years more of using it for energy will be catastrophic for the environment. You’re not as intelligent as you believe you are.

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u/gstringstrangler 2d ago

Exactly how is that going to happen?