True Boomer Monolithicism on display.
WE had the best music
WE had drive-ins
WE had Happy Days
Anyone who didn't like them wasn't one of US
But yeah, it was the damn hivemind commies who were the problem
this post was submitted on 12 Mar 2024
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It's not called the me generation for no reason at all.
So we hate monolithicism, understood.
Yes, we all do. Universally. Monolithically, you might say.
WE hated racists and fascists.
WE didn't want to die in medical poverty.
WE believed in eating the rich.
Anyone who didn't like them wasn't one of US.
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fastest cars
You can buy a mid level sedan with a turbo today that will blow the doors off of most cars from that era. I mean we have cars today with 1500+ horsepower with zero modifications.
I don't disagree with your first part but 1,500 stock HP?? Even Tesla, known for making up numbers, says that the S Plaid makes 1,020hp.
Eh, I'm not trying to be pedantic but it seems a bit disingenuous to include boutique hypercars in this kind of conversation. Almost all those above 1,200hp were produced in extremely limited production runs. Sure, we might have cars making 1,500hp or more, but it isn't like that's in any way common or the technology needed to make them is attainable to many people. Shit, I think a more effective comparison to get your point across is the fact that a base level Civic is making more power than a '67 Nova SS.
Yeah from the list the absolutely nuts, one-off, dragracing versions of cars from the 50s/60s made ~400hp. Which could be outdone by an option on the Camero last year. And if you wanted more it's not difficult, just more money.
And raw HP numbers don't take into account how much better modern cars drive or how much safer they are. I daily a car from the 80s and love it. But lack of ABS or traction control or airbags or a collapsible steering column does come to mind every once in awhile. Cars from the 50s/60s will have notably worse handling/cornering/etc.
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I think a more effective comparison to get your point across is the fact that a base level Civic is making more power than a '67 Nova SS.
You're literally just rewording the first sentence of my original comment dawg.
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This is the mentality of older boomers you didn't go through the war or the 50s you were a baby. You literally rode the 60s-90s boom train . Remember one telling me rose tinted stories about rationing dude was 50 it ended like 20 years before he was born
You had me worried for a minute there. Had to check I wasn't in a community for Facebook memes.
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I think most of that is true, (born in 1959 myself), but I'm not remembering them being such happy days. Maybe less well informed days would be a better way to put it; before we had instant news of every bad thing happening, we lived in a kind of blissful ignorance.
Everyone on earth is racist, make no mistake. It's hardwired into our brains to see other certain groups of people as lesser or less deserving. Maybe it's a holdover from primitive times, we're not that far out from having been cave-people, maybe being tribal was a way of protecting ourselves. At any rate, everyone has some racism and/or phobia about others inside themselves.
The thing that's "hardwired" is tribalism.
A modern tribe is a class, or race, or people from a certain country, or even fans of a different sports team.... It's far more complex now. Each of these tribes are seen differently by each person, both within the "tribe" and external to the tribe. Eg, an American sees other Americans differently than a European sees Americans. Different clarifications and qualifiers are put on who is "in" the tribe and who isn't. Where one individual may see "Americans" as anyone with a valid American citizenship, and another may see it as "only God fearing white Christians living in America are really Americans".... Kind of thing.
Personally, I see all peoples of all races and nationalities, who live on earth as part of the tribe of humans. I am a part of that tribe and all other tribal tenancies or definitions are irrelevant for me. So I'm not excluding someone because of what they believe, how much they make, or what their heritage might be.
In the before times, tribal mentalities were very useful, ensuring your tribe and your family survive. If that means taking all you can from another tribe, then that is what needs to happen. The tribe is of paramount importance. Even if you are killed, the tribe will help raise your offspring and the survival of your genetics is ensured.
It was a very greedy and selfish mindset which was required to ensure survival back then.
In the modern era, tribalism only creates division among the population. Whether this takes form as racism or nationalism or a religious crusade, it's no longer required and only sews dissonance between you and your neighbors.
You have a choice to make over who is "in" your tribe and who isn't. I would argue that drawing that line based on race is possibly one of the worst ways to choose your tribe. We no longer need to fight over resources to survive. We do not need to divide ourselves over these petty things.
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We still got drive-ins. Got a footjob at one once.
Ewwww. Dude those feet could have touched the food! Who knows where that food has been?!
I'll stick to my footjobs in a more healthy establishment like that dumpster behind the waffle house.
Truly the pinnacle of human experience.
...and ignorant, and stupid, and moronic, and selfish, and rude, and entitled, and...
🎵 With Brains Full of Lead 🎶
If you were born in the 50's you had rock and roll, acid rock, heavy metal, disco, synthwave, house, grunge, and rap.
Not a bad claim to the best music. They only missed classical, jazz and big band. Weird Al was born in the 50's. If you think Weird Al doesn't have the best music then I say to you, "Good day, sir!"
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Fastest cars, yet can't do 35 in a 40 zone..
Or my personal blood boiler: doing 50 in a 60 zone. Drops to a 40 zone, they continue to do 50
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1999ers have a good chance to see 3 centuries and 2 millenia, dats even cooler :)
Are they aware Happy Days wasn’t a documentary?
I don't even understand this shit. People born in the 50s came of age in the 60s and the 70s. When they say they had happy days, they literally mean they watched it on TV.
WHAT! The Fonz wasn't real? That's crazy talk. You must be one of those Cosby people or Italian.
7 decades
Not that old yet
🤔
Needs more fax machine artefacts for that authentic boomer-meme look.
8 decades, now.
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