Is that the “Jesus Christ is my ni*ga!” couple? Serious question lol
My people need me
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lowspeedchase@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
TheShamMirrors@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Holy shit. No, that’s him!
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
That’s delightfully horrific 😂
nanometer1625@thelemmy.club 1 day ago
This video is offensive. They used Papyrus font.
asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Can someone clarify if this was done to be satire?
jade52@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
I recognized them immediately.
reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
Boomers vote to build walls when they can barely lift a brick
lemmyng@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yep, they have the opportunity to build bridges, but they choose to build walls and gatekeep.
brem@lemmy.world 1 day ago
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 hours ago
I wonder what % of Republican boomers that support the war in Iran also refused, in one way or another, to fight in Vietnam.
Would be an interesting stat to see.
FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
That was a pretty common evolution they went through. My mom was a free love hippie that is now basically a Nazi. She can’t understand why I cut her out of my life.
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
The hippie to fascist pipeline is real. Their tendency to distrust the establishment means they also fall for typical fascists tactics where they blame the establishment and people in power for all their problems. Like in my country during Covid lockdowns these so called “spiritual” people voted for the blatantly fascist party.
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 9 hours ago
I really don’t understand how that shift is actually possible.
Raiderkev@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Well, there’s the president for one
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Its the 1% vs the working class, not generation vs generation.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
And unfortunately part of that working class are class traitors who vote against the rest of our interests as they pull the ladder up behind them.
roserose56@lemmy.zip 10 hours ago
BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
blowing up the world’s energy infrastructure is an American problem.
CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Sure in the way it’s an everyone problem.
purrtastic@lemmy.nz 23 hours ago
No war but the class war
DarkFuture@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Until class traitors (boomers) spend decades voting against your future interests.
The class war is the priority, but it’s ok to be mad at assholes pulling up the ladder behind them.
FlyingCircus@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Considering the complete lack of correlation between issues that voters care about and the policies that politicians actually enact, I don’t think that merely voting makes boomers blameworthy.
Studies have repeatedly shown that politicians in both parties do not act in accordance with what their voters want, so clearly voting does not affect policy.
t3rmit3@beehaw.org 9 hours ago
Sure, but the bourgeoisie have convinced a large portion of the would-be proletariat to side with them. So insomuch as the average ‘soldier’ in this war is more likely to encounter a coal-rolling boomer than Elon Musk, there is more to this than pure class politics.
nonuser@lemmus.org 22 hours ago
You misspelled Republicans
late_pessimistic@slrpnk.net 20 hours ago
The Venn diagram is a circle
ArgentRaven@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The elected officials sending everyone off to die for war are often older than boomers. It’s a rich and powerful group more than a generational group.
ghostpony@infosec.pub 8 hours ago
Politicians hide themselves away
They only started the war
Why should they go out to fight?
They leave that role to the poorLyrics from War Pigs, Black Sabbath (1970)
TheShamMirrors@lemmy.today 1 day ago
You’re right. I’ve got boomers in my life I want you take it out on though and posting memes is how I give that desire an outlet
PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@anarchist.nexus 1 day ago
I mean it probably would be more productive to add “MAGA Boomers” (or more accurately “Capitalist Boomers") in an effort to make it clearer whom your ire is with.
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
The gerontology group!
SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Seems to me you can handle it one of two ways.
One, you can punish the boomers. When Z gets in power, abolish pensions, Social Security, and Medicare. Let the old die from poverty and disease. And then you yourself won’t have any safety net when you’re that age.
Two, you can focus on the class struggle. Focus on weakening the billionaires who control us and who made up this bullshit in the first place. Target income inequality, access to services, and draconian employment practices. Begin the century-long transformation of capitalism. This is the harder road.
So which one will do more good?
TheShamMirrors@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Obviously the latter. But I need to make fun of older Americans who lost the plot for my mental health
chloroken@lemmy.ml 9 hours ago
Ageism and liberals, name a more iconic duo.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
One, you can punish the boomers. When Z gets in power, abolish pensions, Social Security, and Medicare. Let the old die from poverty and disease.
I mean we can place warranted blame on them without murdering them.
I can simultaneously fight the class war while calling out asshole class traitors who are pulling the ladder up behind them. It’s not like they’re going to join forces with us. They’ve made it abundantly clear they’re planning on fucking us over all the way to the grave.
OnyxRex@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
As a millennial I find it a little funny whenever someone says that type of stuff about Gen Z, because they used to say that about us. I hate to tell you but the people that get into power are almost always the shit heads. It’s not a generational thing. It’s a wealth and privilege thing. The future Gen Z leaders will be the same Ivy league shitheads that they always are.
boonhet@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Boomers own 52% of the country, they ARE the class struggle. Over 55s together over 70%. I don’t think anyone in gen Z is operating under the assumption they could ever retire anyway? They’re not pumping out enough babies to fund their retirement. Neither are us millennials.
wpb@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
This is a logical error.
Over 55s own about 73%
What this number establishes is that a significant portion of the owning class is over 55. What it doesn’t show is that the boomers are the ownership class. If one guy over 55 owns 75% of the country, you still end up with
Over 55s own about 73%
being true. You’re focussing on the wrong group of people.
forkDestroyer@infosec.pub 1 day ago
One, you can punish the boomers. When Z gets in power, abolish pensions, Social Security, and Medicare. Let the old die from poverty and disease. And then you yourself won’t have any safety net when you’re that age.
Gen Z doesn’t need to be in power for this. The actual boomers are doing this on their way out.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 hours ago
The one that will do the most good is holding guilty parties accountable, instead of presenting a non sequitir strawman.
People rightly hate boomers as a group because they are largely entitled spoiled brats who call everyone else entitled spoiled brats.
They are largely the living embodiment of moral hazard who deem themselves inherently correct and reasonable while being obviously short sighted hypocrites, who have indeed caused their children massive sanity/psychic damage to the point that its now a widespread practice for kids to cut off all contact with their boomer parents. They are the ‘fuck you, I got mine’ generation. They are the weak men who create hard times, while thinking themselves to be the strong men who create good times.
WASP Boomers are also the group that is actually most responsible for driving up housing prices and destroying the economy and society in that way. They consistently voted for NIMBY construction and tax policies. Most second+ homes are owned by Boomer ‘Mom and Pop’ landlords, not actually private equity firms. Yes the Boomers did create the political environment that gave rise to PE RE firms by voting to effrctively disenfranchise non WASP non Boomers, but they also are the most likely group to personally own a few other homes or have house flipped a number of times.
Yes, we should have actual policy responses that specifically target these and other specific anti social economic practices and tax them into non viability, but we can’t, at least not at a national level, because of the dysfunctional government voted for, for decades, by Boomers.
The current crop of billionaires are the inevitable result of the Boomer mindset codified into formal societal rules. Yes we should specifically tax billionaires out of existence, but we also need to dismantle the systems that allow for billionaires to arise in the first place.
Presenting a dichotomy of ‘kill all boomers and abolish social safety nets’ vs ‘tax billionaires and do class struggle’ is a laughable misdirect.
What would actually do more good is a combination of in depth and honest economic and tax policy reform, wealth taxes and such, accompanied by acknowledging the fact that many Boomers have been abusive hypocritical sociopathic narcissists in every dimension of their lives and have caused considerable direct harm to people personally.
The zeitgeist of Boomer hate is never going to end until Boomers collectively take accountability for the harm they’ve caused, economic and psychological.
The Boomers do not get to spend their whole lives playing at being rugged individualists while actually consistently rigging the system for their own preferential treatment, and then when that largely fails them because they got out sharked by better sharks, then get to play the “we’re all in this together guys” card.
No. We’d be idiots to trust Boomers not to continue to act selfishly while disguising their self serving greed behind a different rhetorical justification.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
EffortlessGrace@piefed.social 1 day ago
- Send Trump and cronies to the Hague for war crimes.
- Expell Israeli ambassador and diplomatic personnel.
- Disband AIPAC; try citizens on their board for treason.
- Keep all the social safety nets, and fund it by eviscerating billionaires with wealth taxes.
- Break up and nationalize big-tech like Theodore Roosevelt, a (gasp) Republican.
- Introduce age ceilings and term limits for every elected office in the United States.
- Mandate rank-choiced voting, undo all gerry-mandering.
- Release Epstein files.
Watch boomers mald and rejoice in schädenfreude.
InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
And honestly, at this point if you go to a local Democratic party meeting, see a bunch of protesters on the side of the road, or meet with the local liberal or progressive organization’s members – the majority of the most active members will be boomers in a huge portion of the country. Outside of the cities and/or the odd left-leaning rural area, young people don’t seem to get involved.
So, to blame the problems on just that generation but also all of that generation is just wrong.
kestrel7_7@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
I think this isn’t because boomers are the only ones who care about politics, but more because boomers are more likely to be retired now and have free time to do this stuff. I agree that generational warfare is stupid
NewSocialWhoDis@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Yea, there was that Power to the People concert in my county this weekend. All the acts and seemingly most of the concert-goes were 40+. Same as the No Kings protest crowds.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 1 day ago
40+ are Millennials. Millennials are defined as 30 to 45. Gen x are 46 to 60 and Boomers are 61+.
Millennials grew up with Bush II and saw their country change after 9/11. Younger groups don’t understand what not living in a surveillance sate is even like. It’s their normal.
Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Sidenote about local democrats— they’re disgusting. A loop up only propping up their favorite candidates, using their influence to push around elections despite being a limited amount of people many with bad takes, and intentionally they have their candidates run with hidden views so that they win on popularity alone.
Like, still do it though because there’s really only upsides to influencing them, but just ugh.
Lyricism6055@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’m too busy working my 12 hour shift to afford the small house I got luckily 9 years ago…
DerisionConsulting@lemmy.ca 23 hours ago
The picture is a still from their rap video.
Why yes, they do use the n-word.BreadOven@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
But was made as a joke, not just out of touch boomers.
PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@anarchist.nexus 1 day ago
To the Boomers who are chill and hate capitalism as much as we do: I’m sorry you’re getting blamed for the politicians’ actions.
To the Zoomers and other young people: I don’t see any reason why we’re not gonna end up in the same boat as the Boomers when we grow old. You are not unlearning the capitalist distortions passed onto you by your elders; you take defense contractor, finance, police, and military work with just as much ignorance as prior generations; you still do not oppose imperialism; and you know about climate change and Epstein and you still refuse to take up arms against capitalists and the State. (Like the Boomers, if you do not fit this description, my ire is not with you!)
Frankly, it’s gonna be just like the Boomers: the good ones are being crushed by capitalism in silence and forgotten. If you’re wondering where most of the good Boomers are, check the cemeteries. Same with Zoomers. I see it happen every day. And when we do grow old, the vast majority of us are gonna mostly be conservative weirdos with rich backgrounds who abused their way to the top in a system designed to reward only abuse, because the rest of us will have been killed off.
And for everyone: your generation is not special. Every generation has their own unique challenges, some are harder than others, but you are not somehow magically exempted from developing the same oppressive behaviors of previous generations unless and until you spend the time unlearning capitalist distortions and obliterating the systems that instill capitalist distortions.
Give Zoomers a few more years and I guaran-fucking-tee you our politicians are gonna be milquetoast neoliberals just like the rest because we haven’t actually learned a goddamn thing from our suffering, because suffering doesn’t teach you shit, and because Zoomer capitalists are still capitalists and therefore exert bourgeois class solidarity over any solidarity they might have with their generation or any other subset of the proletariat.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
I mean I get what you’re saying. Economic desperation could drive us to being greedy ladder puller uppers just like the boomers.
I don’t know. Maybe. I know that I’m in my 40s and only becoming more liberal and more likely to vote to help others. And that kind of voting mentality could lead to stripping power from the ultra wealthy and clawing back some power for the middle class.
I’m not getting the impression that millennials and younger are going to be greedy on the epic scale boomers have been.
ObtuseDoorFrame@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Yeah, nah. None of us have houses and most are in the same position I’m in: I will have to work until I die. There’s no retirement in my future. If anything I’ll just be moving further left as I get older.
A big part of the reason that boomers are so awful is that they own all the houses and made sure their pet politicians made the value keep going up over time by limiting the amount of housing being built.
Our circumstances are so drastically different from the boomers that there’s just no way we’re going to be just like them. I do agree that we have to be mindful of the warnings you’re mentioning, but I don’t think it’s even possible to follow in their footsteps. They did a thorough job pulling the ladder up.
PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@anarchist.nexus 1 day ago
Yeah, nah. None of us have houses and most are in the same position I’m in: I will have to work until I die. There’s no retirement in my future.
Me too lol, I’m a Zillenial.
As I have said to others: just because we suffer doesn’t mean we learn anything from our suffering. Give us a few years to turn 35 and you will see capitalists our age pulling up the ladder just like our parents did, although we’ll probably do it using pseudo-inclusive language and pseudo-therapy speak.
If anything I’ll just be moving further left as I get older.
Yeah me too, and I absolutely believe you, but we’re leftists in a leftist space. The rest of our cohort are not like us yet. In particular, we need to teach our cohort a class conscious analysis of the world, and make this proletarian class conscious position unignorable by the capitalist class.
Rothe@piefed.social 20 hours ago
Yeah, nah. None of us have houses
That is not true though and it is exactly the point: The rich ones born of rich parents definitely do have houses. You are completely overlooking the class aspect in favour of nonsensical ageism.
Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 1 day ago
That is exactly the same gripe i have with most of my GenX brethren - for a generation that was defined by punk and revolt, a surprisingly large amount of them ditched the things their generation stood for to make sure they have a good place in the rat race. I know that many did not have a lot of choices because the boomers clinge to the levers of power to this day, but to take part in their system that so many of us despised is akin to being a traitor.
And especially in the US the younger generations are more than willing to carry on the torch, radicalized by their civic religion and evangelism. Other countries are not immune, but they generally have a better understanding that what the US are doing is problematic.
nightwatch_admin@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Some of the boomers were the hippies that made a big stink about ‘Nam. And the environment. Much as I think the boomer generation were spoiled kids that spent their lives grabbing money from generations before and after them, a significant part was not and will never be, and imho that goes for any generation. It’s amazing how many young people voted for Trump or Afd, for example.
Malica@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Look at the boomers too, sexual revolution, anti war hippies, now a disturbing number spend their time terrorizing people on hoa boards. I’m determined to not end up a monster like this.
story@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
this is so optimistic we will be dead
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 1 day ago
wpb@lemmy.world 1 day ago
This is your reminder that division along age or generation lines is as much of a distraction as division along race lines is. The real division is between who works for a living and who owns for a living. Simple as that. Sadly, the owning also includes owning the media and politicians (why yes, also most democrats), so there’s not much you can do either way. Get used to not owning a home.
Erna_muse@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
I honestly don’t care about anything anymore. I just wear the same 6 or 7 pairs of sweatpants everyday and at the end of the week I wash them and start over. This is how I mark the passage of time.
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
The final fuck you is when they reverse mortgage the house and blow through their entire net worth, maybe leaving enough to cover the retirement home, before kicking the bucket and leaving their kids with fuck all.
Pratai@piefed.ca 1 day ago
If people are dumb enough to enlist…. They’re dumb enough to serve. And if they’re dumb enough to serve, they’re dumb enough to die pointlessly.
No one should ever serve these administrations that don’t and will not represent us.
nullspace@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I know about a half dozen younger people who voted for Trump, believing him to actually be the Senator Armstrong-type person the meme war made him out to be.
Formfiller@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
For the third time
EatMyPixelDust@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Mmmm. Lead poisoning.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Most well-to-do and simultaneously selfish generation of people in human history?
Quite likely.
modestmeme@lemmy.world 1 day ago
You all collectively are dumping on boomers to satisfy a need to blame others for not having what you want or think you deserve. The right wing does the same thing only they have a greater diversity in who they hate. Lemme know how griping on social media is helping out with the situation…
nanometer1625@thelemmy.club 1 day ago
BoomersRepublicansdzsimbo@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
You guys know you’re getting hoodwinked? Yeah, it’ll do you wonders if you start hating on your elders. All of our mysery is definitely their fault. No, they’re not victims of class warfare, like us, sure. Hate your elders, that’ll solve everything.
HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Those two definitely represent boomer mentality. Atleast their characters do.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 21 hours ago
silent generation+boomers in congress a 2 for one punch.
nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 19 hours ago
No the final fuck your is when they leave whatever money they have left to their goddamn church.
mofongo@discuss.tchncs.de 10 hours ago
Two words: reverse mortgage.