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[–] stoly@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago (9 children)

The trend I find hilarious is when people come into these threads and start yelling at people about how wrong they are to generalize a generation, etc. Frankly, I can't imagine why people feel the need to defend others over this, it's weird--and I imagine that none of them complained when people complained about Millenials.

[–] GilgameshCatBeard@lemmy.ca 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I don’t recall ever seeing anyone posting memes about how long before the millennials are all dead- and having everyone in the comments cheer it on.

But don’t let this get in the way of your strawman.

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[–] Clbull@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Wait... Keanu Reeves if a boomer?

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Most 80s/90s actors alive today would be

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[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago

It's a start.

I kid, I kid, my parents are already dead, not everyone who was/is a boomer is horrid. But this generation has hung around power for too long, it's time to move on.

[–] Hiro8811@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago

Nooo my man Keanu. Your a soulless casket of meat

[–] Yerbouti@lemmy.ml 9 points 8 months ago (3 children)

One of my student in his 20s, recently told me "ok boomer". I'm 42.

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[–] GigglyBobble@kbin.social 7 points 8 months ago

Thanks for the decimal places on the percentage. Wanna be precise with that one.

[–] mariusafa@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 8 months ago (23 children)

What kind of psycopath counts generation death as a good thing. All interesting humans dead and you take it as an achievement.

Stop crying on the past. Stop blaming past on generations. Start learning from past generation mistakes, and thank them for having you.

Because as a new generation we're going to make a lot of mistakes, who knows if more or less than the past generations. And we shouldn't be blamed in the future.

Blaming the past generations and not learning from them is a childish response. Start doing something productive and useful to society, blaming is not helping.

Stop having tantrums and grow up. And thank you have past generations otherwise you would have to create all we have now from scratch.

It's like saying "Newton dumb" because his work is old and it doesn't work correctly for all physical frames, not like Einstein his work is much better. Both are as good because they lived at different times with different technology, knowledge, society, etc.

This feels like explaining basic life knowledge to a 3 year old tbh.

[–] Draedron@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 8 months ago (9 children)

Yeah, not like boomers blame millenials or gen Z for everything. Oh wait.

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[–] smeg@feddit.uk 8 points 8 months ago (14 children)

Kiddies who can't think beyond the "us vs them" mentality but also think that all old people are bad, like that's not as insane a generalisation as saying "all people of X race/sexuality/whatever are bad". Human brains love trying to put everything in categories and labels, especially other humans.

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[–] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

What kind of psycopath counts generation death as a good thing. All interesting humans dead and you take it as an achievement.

It needs 3 generations after a traumatic incident to get the negative consequences out of the population.

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[–] visnae@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

Who was it?! Who took us over the edge?! I WANT NAMES DAMNIT!

[–] moon@lemmy.cafe 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The only way we can start to have actual positive change is unfortunately to wait for them to die out. They have proven they refuse to make the world a better place and will go out as selfishly and as damaging as possible. What a harmful and entitled generation.

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