“not even that old yet” ? I think most would consider 70ish old, unless you’re running for president
Darn it
Submitted 3 months ago by ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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Good_morning@lemmynsfw.com 3 months ago
GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
I’m voting for Jimmy Carter in 28’ and we’ll just pull weekend at Bernie’s.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 3 months ago
A corpse would make a better leader than the guy starting up Monday.
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 3 months ago
White House with Jimmy
tatterdemalion@programming.dev 3 months ago
I also consider “about to die on average” to be “old”.
sevon@lemmy.kde.social 3 months ago
fastest cars
What
Laser@feddit.org 3 months ago
It never states that they had these in their birth years. Just that they had them. Might have been in the 2020s with the Koenigsegg Jesko Absolut, which is the fastest car and was built in their lifetime. And coincidentally, currently the fastest in my lifetime as well
psud@aussie.zone 3 months ago
They think '50s hotrods were faster than later cars because later cars were “detuned to meet environmental rules”
andros_rex@lemmy.world 3 months ago
They are still buttmad that Jimmy Carter asked them to not use up gasoline like toilet paper after a day of chipotle and Taco Bell. Its oppositional defiant disorder as politics. Remember how absolutely pissed people were about seat belt laws?
hesusingthespiritbomb@lemmy.world 3 months ago
To be fair that 1950s boomer is putting that pedal to the floor, seatbelts off, zero concern for anyone’s lives including their own.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
1999ers have a decent chance of living in 3 centuries. Much more impressive
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
A guy I once knew had a great great grandmom born in 1898 who accomplished just that! She must have had some killer stories!
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 3 months ago
She must have had some killer stories!
The world wars did kill a lot of people.
Valmond@lemmy.world 3 months ago
When longevity science kicks in, they’ll make theee millenniums too.
Ultraviolet@lemmy.world 3 months ago
The rich ones, at least. Longevity science under capitalism will result in a quasi-immortal upper class and a mortal lower class. Another looming threat of ultra-late capitalism.
sirico@feddit.uk 3 months ago
That’s a lot of 50s nostalgia for a decade you spend mostly shitting yourself and barely able to put together a sentence. Reminds me of my grandparents talking about living through the blitz being born in 1945.
lugal@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
The meme isn’t talking about the 50s but about the youth of people orn in the 50s, so ±70s
sirico@feddit.uk 3 months ago
MBM@lemmings.world 3 months ago
Like people from '99 saying they’re '90s kids
gazter@aussie.zone 3 months ago
Transcription for screen readers:
The meme is making a broad generalisation about a large group of people all heading the same undesirable trait, that trait being making broad generalisations of large groups of people having undesirable traits.
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 3 months ago
Adding to the transcription because watering down the point does no service to anyone who can’t actually read it, it says:
People born in the 50’s have lived in 7 decades, 2 centuries & 2 millenniums. We had the best music, fastest cars, Drive-in theaters, soda fountains & happy days. And we are not even that old yet, we’re just racist
And yes, huge swaths of them are racist. There are also racists in their 20s (Nick Fuentes), but they are far more common in older generations, the south, rural areas, etc. These are facts.
Hikermick@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Replacing hate with another hate. Just goes to show you, haters gonna hate
jdeath@lemm.ee 3 months ago
and lovers gonna love
i just want
none of the above
Classy@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Potaters gonna potate
butter@midwest.social 3 months ago
Drive in theaters, soda fountains, and happy days still exist.
But they’ve mostly been improved upon
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Just say it, you don’t like racism
baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
i heard it’s racist to not like racism
Walk_blesseD@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
Motorsports are boring, i dont care how fast ur cars are.
butter@midwest.social 3 months ago
Here I thought I could pull the wool over your eyes.
itsonlygeorge@reddthat.com 3 months ago
Cars in the 60’s had bench seats that were pretty much couches. Hard to beat that.
gazter@aussie.zone 3 months ago
Bench seats were much closer to benches than couches.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 3 months ago
Examples of this improvement?
butter@midwest.social 3 months ago
Drive in theaters use your car radio now instead of those little speakers. Though overall the niche was replaced with movie theaters.
Fountain drinks are probably about the same. Though some places can do things like chilling the line. Again, the niche was largely replaced with cans and bottles. For their shortcomings, they keep fizz in much better than fountain.
They might have us beat on happy days. I didn’t watch it.
doingthestuff@lemy.lol 3 months ago
Eh, young people are racist too. The rules always change, give it 20 years and there will be tons of stories about how racist millennials are. It won’t be about GenX. Nobody remembers we exist.
Zink@programming.dev 3 months ago
Those of us who remember The Oregon Trail also dwell in dark corners.
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 3 months ago
People definitely talked a LOT about Gen X when the generation was in the adolescent / young adult phase and was changing norms.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 3 months ago
My takeaway from this is that racism works
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
Well, yeah. Systemic racism was invented by British colonizers as an excuse for abusing and exploiting people with darker skin and to this day, it’s very effective in different variants all over the world 😮💨
MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Systemic racism has existed as long as concepts of race exist.
Scientific racism was created in France to justify the enslavement of African Christians as normally it is illegal in canon law to enslave another Christian. The UK and other Northern European nations embraced these concepts and built upon them.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 3 months ago
British are a nation of inventors so it makes sense
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 3 months ago
Indeed, it seems to be the secret to a long life.
ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 3 months ago
Lol
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 3 months ago
People born in the 1950s grew up with a 91% top-tier income tax rate, which ultra-rich people went out of their way to avoid by spending their excess income on “business expenses”, rather than investments.
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Which was better tbf
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 3 months ago
Absolutely.
It used to be that if you had $10,000 excess income, you could use it to buy $900 worth of stock, bonds, and other financial instruments or you could spend the entirety of that $10,000 on something you tell the IRS you plan to use for business purposes.
Now, if you are $10,000 over the line, you can turn $6,300 into stocks, and double your money in 4-5 years. There’s no point in actually spending your money anymore; just keep rolling the excess into the means of making more.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 months ago
And instead of saving their money they spent it, and the people who got their money spent it, and so on until I got pennies in my ass that are going to Jeff Bezos
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Pssshhhhh, bezos money is all digital.
DannyBoy@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Unless this person happened to be born outside of the USA.