And I'm not saying that every person who's older is like this at all. But I remember how the boomers killed their gen x kids if they were gay - threw them out, a whole generation laughing as aids swept through gay communities, then wrote article after article about hating millennials. - ThreadSky

nullconvention.bsky.social • 1 day ago

And I'm not saying that every person who's older is like this at all. But I remember how the boomers killed their gen x kids if they were gay - threw them out, a whole generation laughing as aids swept through gay communities, then wrote article after article about hating millennials.

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I've just noticed that older generations often have not really considered what sort of legacy they were leaving because a lot of what I see happened was they just sort of assumed they'd just keep getting whatever they wanted and as some of them get old, they're like - hey, why is everything shit?

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werechicken.bsky.social•18 hours ago

This. I truly believe they think under the right circumstances they can go back to doing that, and that the current queer rights fought for and bled for were just a temporary blip.

They don’t realize we want to fight to keep them. They’re surprised we’re fighting for abortion still!

catastro-v.bsky.social•23 hours ago

the decades-long framing of millennials as the ‘entitled me generation’ remains one of the most terrifying acts of mass projection and gaslighting ive seen. the national media and our own parents deciding to place all their sins on the shoulders of their children long before most of us were adults

catastro-v.bsky.social•23 hours ago

imo large swathes of boomers—and gen x—fundamentally believe everyone else gets what they deserve in this life. so when a boomer boss lays off millennial employees to pad his bonus, he earned that money and the millennials are entitled ingrates for thinking they deserved to keep their jobs

lunarweasel.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Just world fallacy and its consequences

trashkittendeluxe.bsky.social•15 hours ago

This actually fits perfectly into Prosperity Gospel, a distinctly American phenomenon, that posits that the wealthy are obviously favored by God and acting the right way because otherwise why would they be wealthy?

bonstrous.bsky.social•23 hours ago

i think millenials are also the first to really start going 'younger generations have a point, actually' since... well, millenials were forced to be the most educated and most underpaid, and conservative boomers do not grasp that.

bleachedthorns.bsky.social•7 hours ago

its to the point where if i see someone over 50 i just avoid them like the plague because chances are they think my disabled trans ass deserves to have my skin flayed

commander4all.bsky.social•12 hours ago

I think the most laughable thing is they call themselves the counterculture lol. My daughter and I were listening to Land of confusion like Genesis. "My generation will put it right
We're not just making promises
That we know we'll never keep"

Ha!

nerd7132.bsky.social•9 hours ago

most boomers were always squares, only a few of them were in the counterculture in the first place. otherwise we'd call it the culture. I have deep respect for those who tried to change the world, and they tend to be the cool ones

nullconvention.bsky.social•12 hours ago

And you know, in all honesty I think there were people who tried. And those people were killed or squashed by their own when they made an effort. The same with gen x. I know the millennial and gen z leftists aren't what any of them had in mind but we're going to show up anyway.

asynkoi.bsky.social•12 hours ago

I am endlessly amused by the audacity of Boomers, throwing out Gen X kids over lifestyles, pissing on grandkids for other "differences", then absolutely furious no one wants their historic porcelain or collections of chotchkes. Sad my mom died before I used her crockware for target practice. :)

nullconvention.bsky.social•12 hours ago

I got no problem with the dishes but, shit, where the fuck am I supposed to put em even if I wanted em? I live in a few hundred sq feet and my family is constantly trying to foist weird bullshit onto me already, I am out of space and have no money! XD

nullconvention.bsky.social•12 hours ago

I have money for groceries only because there's no rent. And they wanna hit us with the full student loan blast, too, like I simply have NOWHERE to put ANYTHING. I can't even buy new books! That crockery probably isn't even worth much, they got hosed for it in 1970.

nullconvention.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Like the boomers killed their leftwing cohort in a lot of cases, then they oversaw the purge of their gay kids, then sort of locked in GW Bush and they passed their values onto the Gen X group that may actually be more right wing in the aggregate and I think it's survivorship bias, literally.

nullconvention.bsky.social•23 hours ago

I don't know, I assume this is an American thing, this is a distinctly American culture thing. It's a very strange kind of almost solipsism. A complete inability to parse data, to understand what's happening to them. It feel very uncanny.

nikkiiiiiiiii.bsky.social•23 hours ago

i’ve made people red in the face spit-yellingly angry for saying that for the most part westerners have solipsist souls

nullconvention.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Which is wild because most Americans not only do not know what's happening around them but they don't want to know and on top of that, can't remember what already did

asexualcyborg.bsky.social•22 hours ago

Oh my god every day I see this happening with my parents and I feel like I'm going crazy, new information literally cannot enter their brains, they are totally oblivious to everything happening and even if it *seems like* I convince them of something, the next day it's like the convo never happened

nikkiiiiiiiii.bsky.social•23 hours ago

none of that matters. the most important thing is how much dopamine im squeezing out of my senses and how i personally feel right now. It’s more important than anyone or anything else even my own future.

joshcolletta.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Yeah, that all sounds pretty much exactly correct.

nullconvention.bsky.social•23 hours ago

And this is like a wild struggle for the gen x'rs and remaining boomers with their heads on straight because the others are literally not possible to talk to. Information is not coming into those enclosures. They are borderline incomprehensible.

joshcolletta.bsky.social•23 hours ago

I've run into this with my own mother, who's a boomer. She will not talk politics with me at all anymore because she does not want to hear facts that upset her worldview. She's so devoted to her ideology that she cannot live in reality.

alexisvoidling.bsky.social•22 hours ago

if it is American, it has English speaking diasporic hegemony, because i see the same things coming from Canada, the UK, Australia, and New Zealand. there are degrees to it, NZ especially seems to have an overall lesser degree of the issue, but it's still there.

iblamemisha.bsky.social•12 hours ago

As a Millennial now raising my own kid, I have two big opinions on American Boomers: That their generation is spoiled, and that a lot of them had children not because they wanted to but because they were "supposed to." Both contribute to why we are where we are as a society today.

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