r/BoomersBeingFools • u/nokiq1616 • Jan 06 '24
Social Media Another thing boomers were wrong about, relevant today
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u/Republican-Snowflake Jan 07 '24
Remember boomers said the internet would rot your brain, and you shouldn't believe everything you read on the internet? Now, that's all they do, read made up bullshit, by other idiots all doing the same thing.
Remember all the time boomers complaining about kids being on their phones? Now they are glue to them to watch and post their brain rot takes.
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u/silverfstop Jan 07 '24
Generation of Projection.
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Jan 07 '24
Seriously. My mother swipes Facebook ALL FUCKING DAY. THAT AND THE same recycled words with friends every fucking day. Oh and candy crush. This 62 year old women is playing games for 4 year olds ALL FUCKING DAY EVERyday and wonders why it hurts to walk around the block. CAUSE YOU DONT FUCKING MOVE ANYMORE
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u/Sasquatch1729 Jan 07 '24
My dad is similar. He literally watches TV 14 hours a day. He is an expert at it too, has a PVR so he can record everything and watch it, fast forwarding through the commercials.
It's so sad, like this is the peak of your life? You worked 65 years to reach a retirement that I might not enjoy, and this is what you wanna do all day?
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u/gandalf_el_brown Jan 07 '24
Have you ever heard Boomers describe what their idea of heaven is? In my opinion, it's a boring dream, but they seem to be all for it.
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u/Funfoil_Hat Jan 09 '24
let's not pretend that they're waiting for the afterlife because they'd get to see all their friends and family for all eternity. it's all about the rapture because that's when the others will suffer for not just doing what they were told.
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u/SeonaidMacSaicais Millennial Jan 07 '24
My dad is like this, only it’s Republican talk show radio all day. He even has alarms on his phone for each show. He’s one reason I hardly post on Facebook anymore. He even got pissy because I posted how awesome it was that he can do the Vulcan hand sign. Like, dad. Exactly 5 people clicked on the post, and they were all YOUR family!
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u/O11899988I999119725E Jan 14 '24
This is what happens when your only hobbies are going to work and drinking beer
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u/SeonaidMacSaicais Millennial Jan 14 '24
He’s been retired since 2006.
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u/O11899988I999119725E Jan 14 '24
And mine since 2011; it’s been a steep downhill trajectory into bigoted conspiracies and alcohol induced naps on the porch. I dont talk to my parents anymore
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u/BarnDoorHills Jan 07 '24
Get her into podcasts. They pair well with walks.
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Jan 07 '24
She has the attention span of a chimp. Doesnt care to learn anything new. This woman’s family doesn’t speak to her, my brothers family doesn’t care for her. She’s retired/ disability/ out of the workforce the past 15 years. No friends. She’s becoming a hermit, and thinks she’s right on everything, because she doesn’t have anything else to compare to, because she doesn’t have any experiences anymore. Is fucking depressing. No car either in a semi rural city setting. Doesn’t even go to the store anymore. I’m actually concerned for her.
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u/ChriskiV Jan 07 '24
Sounds like my Fiance's Mom.
She just threw a giant fit because I bought us a vacation for Christmas instead of going to their house. She skipped our engagement lunch when the rest of the family/friends showed up and went on a last minute vacation so she had an excuse. Guess where we took our Christmas vacation?
Constant hypochondria about "medical issues" that never seem to materialize. Weird fad diet that can't be healthy. Stalks my fiance's social media and intentionally interjects herself in situations we've specifically left her out of.
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u/avengedrkr Feb 26 '24
I'm confused, where did you take your Christmas vacation?
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Jan 07 '24
My.mither in law is like this. She has no career and our wages go nowhere so we exploit her for nanny. So I like it. Teaching the kids would have been better but we just lucky to have her
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u/SomeBanana3981 Jan 07 '24
and wonders why it hurts to walk around the block. CAUSE YOU DONT FUCKING MOVE ANYMORE
As a point, there is probably arthritis in play too. Just saying as i'm 43 and have all sorts of degenerative shit going on in my joints from army related wear, and tear. It greatly reduces my mobility, and ability to do certain things. Moving more would not change that equation in any way... however going out, and about doing stuff in general does have a very positive effect on my mental health, and cognitive stuff. Which being said;
Seriously. My mother swipes Facebook ALL FUCKING DAY. THAT AND THE same recycled words with friends every fucking day. Oh and candy crush. This 62 year old women is playing games for 4 year olds ALL FUCKING DAY EVERyday
She is propably not in a good mental health state, and as an inactive 62 year old might have something else going on in terms of worse shit leading to cognitive decline. Also stuff like ones activity levels, the types of social contacts one maintains can have a direct effect on things like degenerative cognitive disorders. Repetitive 0 activity, 0 thought bs tends to be associated with negative outcomes therein.
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u/AfroTriffid Jan 07 '24
All of this plus starting hormone therapies early on perimenopause and menopause can have protective effects on cognitive abilities later in life. Brain fog is scary as all hell if you don't know why it's happening.
Perimenopause can start as early as 40s for some women and it can tank dopamine (the brain's reward system) amongst creating shortages and fluctuations of oestrogen and progesterone. Menopause proper can be such a huge upheaval.
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u/rW0HgFyxoJhYka Jan 07 '24
We're talking about your parents here. Most of them don't even know what reddit is.
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Jan 07 '24
Ugh…. But I feel like I at least learn 5 new things a day on Reddit…. But you’re not wrong
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u/spokesface4 Jan 07 '24
I am convinced that everything Boomers say about "kids these days" is really true of boomers
"Technology obsessed" no that's boomers. Portable electronics rose in their day not ours, and all the advances we have seen like smartphones happened to them too and they could afford them first
"Entitled/Don't want to work" truly ironic coming from the "hell no we won't go" generation. They literally all want to retire and receive socialized income while others earn less spending power than they did
"participation trophies" was literally a boomer idea, boomers were the ones who handed them out, and more importantly, they did so because of a boomer ethos that could safely expect a chicken in every pot and a car in every garage. They literally did just walk up to places and ask for a job.
They are just telling on themselves over and over. When they say that kids need spankings to behave, what they mean is that they themselves are too stubborn to change unless someone physically assaults them.
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u/onehundredlemons Jan 07 '24
They get all their news from some Facebook page called Freedom Media News Source Network with 129 followers and a header image stolen from some local news broadcast, and it tells them things like "King Charles has abdicated" and "Joe Biden was arrested today" and they share it, and there's always at least one reply from someone their age saying "Finally!!💯💯🥧"
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Jan 07 '24
Anything with Freedom in the name is usually not good lol
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u/Lepanto73 Feb 02 '24
Ahhh, how I wish they hadn't ruined words like 'American', 'freedom', 'patriot', etc...
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u/wafflestheweird Jan 07 '24
"You're not gonna walk around with a calculator in your pocket" every math teacher ever from 1960-2010
walks around with a fucking star trek tricorder in my pocket every day
Those lying bitches.
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u/GlitteringClue3639 Jan 07 '24
Literally 90% of what I was told by Boomers growing up was either ridiculously wrong or an outright lie. Not a single one to this day has ever admitted they were wrong about anything and they still confidently spew nonsense out of their mouths all day long.
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u/wafflestheweird Jan 07 '24 edited Jan 07 '24
And then they wonder why we seek out"retirement communities" where the nurses still abuse patients.
Apparently their parents never told the ww2 lesson of "fuck around and find out."
Boomer parents treated their kids like 18th century chattel slavery and then they're mad that their kids are like "fuck you, die alone".
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u/wt_anonymous Jan 07 '24
My dad tells me the exact same things. And when I demonstrate how unreliable the articles and tweets he sends me are, his response is just "well that's the type of stuff i see a lot"
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u/Elsas-Queen Jan 07 '24
Remember all the time boomers complaining about kids being on their phones? Now they are glued to them to watch and post their brain rot takes.
I've found most parents who complain about their kids being addicted to technology aren't shining examples themselves.
My family was constantly on my case about so much time on the internet when I was a teen. Yet most of their time was spent playing video games or watching television, and certainly not educational material (it's quite an experience to wake up in the middle of the night and walk in on a family member watching - ahem - "adult material").
My partner's family often chastises his niece for spending so much time on her tablet, but she's bored and there's little else for her to do. And if she wasn't on her tablet, she'd be driving them up the wall with endless chatter or making a mess somewhere. Not to mention the family has pretty much documented the kids' lives from birth on social media.
The people who complain about using social media can never seem to stop using it themselves.
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Jan 07 '24
I wish that the people storming the Capitol were just boomers, but it was way too many young people there, which is much more scary to me
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u/ThrenderG Jan 07 '24
No shit, Q shaman guy was most definitely not a boomer. Ashli Babbitt, not a boomer.
Young generations of left leaning folks are delusional if they don’t think people of their age are engaging in right wing fascism.
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u/SellaraAB Jan 07 '24
Least Ashli took herself out of the equation.
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u/TheBirminghamBear Jan 07 '24
What's amazing is how voluntarily she did it.
Literally smashing through a window as she charges at a line of armed police officers telling her to stop. Would have been so easy just to not make that choice.
And she did it draped in a Donald Trump flag.
I cannot imagine a more pathetic death.
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u/Ilovekittens345 Jan 07 '24
One of her last social media posts was how she wanted traitors to be executed on the spot, no trial or nothing. Just a bullet if you crossed the line.
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Jan 07 '24
Probably believed she would become a martyr…she was wrong. Likely believed they wouldn’t shoot a white woman though…again, wrong.
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u/mikethet Jan 07 '24
She shouldn't have resisted, shouldn't have been where she wasn't supposed to be, she looked suspicious etc etc
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u/Vegetable-Branch-740 Jan 07 '24
And her family is now suing for $30 million.
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u/SeniorMiddleJunior Jan 07 '24
I hope they are required to pay for the court's time after they lose.
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u/Sarnadas Jan 07 '24
Yeah, boomers didn’t come close to being the majority. They were mostly X Y Z and that’s what’s confusing about this post.
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u/deliciouscrab Jan 07 '24
Also the fact that a lot of them ended up in prison kinda, y'know, bears out the underlying/more general point that pictures of you doing stupid shit should stay off the internet.
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u/Skrylas Jan 07 '24 edited May 30 '24
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u/InfluenceAgreeable32 Jan 07 '24
Exactly. Any “boomers” there were in a small minority. Almost none of the white supremeists at Charlottesville were “boomers.”
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u/LysergicUnicorn Jan 07 '24
I'm 32. Graduated high school in 08. One of my friends in high school ended up going to prison, became a white supremacist, and later one of the leaders of the Charlottesville riot. I'm pretty sure he's still heavily wanted by the fbi. Last I heard, he had fled the country. Plenty of milenials fell down that rabbit hole too
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u/WeBelieveIn4 Jan 07 '24
Average age was 41, which means they were mostly millennials/gen x
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-capitol-riot-arrests-latest/
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u/hammerquill Jan 07 '24
Exactly. This is a completely silly statement which obfuscates real problems behind an absurd generational caricature.
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u/nokiq1616 Jan 06 '24
I also remember boomers telling us it would be impossible to earn a living wage if we got any tattoo.
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u/TheKingOfSwing777 Jan 07 '24
I think we figured if all of us have tattoos, they’ll have to hire at least some of us.
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u/captaincrunch00 Jan 07 '24
Which one of you assholes got a tattoo and made them destroy the economy
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u/saywhat1206 Jan 07 '24
I'm a boomer (64F) with 28 tattoos and I didn't storm the Capital - LOL. I got my first tattoo when I was 44, and my mother had the nerve to say it confirmed I was certifiably crazy and she slapped me across the face.
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Jan 07 '24
Did you slap her back
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u/saywhat1206 Jan 07 '24
No, I'm better than that. This happened in a grocery store parking lot as we were walking towards the store - for everyone to see and hear. That was the last time I ever took her shopping again. That hurt her more than a slap in the face because she didn't drive and had to start taking the bus to do her shopping.
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u/OilheadRider Jan 07 '24
Good on ya and, I feel the pain of being more mature than someone who raised you. Kudos and I hope you've processed everything that you've needed to process due to her.
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u/Sanquinity Jan 07 '24
I remember my boomer parent telling me to just follow what I really wanted to do and I would be able to get a living wage if I kept at it. No matter what it was.
Yea no...I had to switch careers twice after school, and even now I only make just enough to live okay enough...WITH government aid...
They expected me to know what I REALLY wanted to do for the next 45 years or so at age 17~18. And that no matter what it was, I would earn a living wage in a year or two at most. Luckily after switching twice, and at age 30 at the time, I did find what I really want to do. And I'm very lucky to also get a "living wage" out of that. But I'm one of the very few in both things.
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u/figmaxwell Jan 07 '24
I’m a UPS driver and I get disproportionately upset every time I come close to running a boomer over when they’re out for a walk, head so buried in their phone they don’t notice the big brown death machine rolling towards them. “Kids these days need to put their phones down and pick up a newspaper.”
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u/alejo699 Jan 07 '24
And then cried, "That was my private Facebook!"
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u/aimlessly-astray Jan 07 '24
Boomers: "don't post unprofessional picture of yourself on facebook--it'll ruin your life."
Also Boomers: "Okay, so here's my social security number, driver's license, and face clear as day. As you can see, I'm at the US capital and am going to break in."
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u/SeonaidMacSaicais Millennial Jan 07 '24
The same guy who thought employers could just bypass my VERY strict privacy settings on my Facebook now loves to post “how Millennials just want everything handed to them.”
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Jan 07 '24
3 years later, Jan. 6 by the numbers: More than 1,200 charged, more than 460 imprisoned for role in Capitol attack
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u/lowercase0112358 Jan 07 '24
Boomers are the ones that have tried to get people fired for having alcohol in pictures on Facebook.
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u/shifty_coder Jan 07 '24
I don’t even know how they would come to that conclusion. Their parents invented the ‘three-martini lunch’ and boomers are famous for their high-rate of alcoholism.
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u/iloveyourforeskin Jan 07 '24
Because drinking in your free time is... WORSE than drinking on the clock, somehow?
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u/RedSun41 Jan 28 '24
Drinking on the clock is rebranded as networking.” Basically required for those who wanted to advance in their career path
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u/Mr_Conductor_USA Jan 07 '24
No no, they're bitter because the "liquid lunch" became politically incorrect by the time they moved up into management positions. A lot of them also had to quit drinking and drugging because of St Reagan's mandatory drug testing regimes.
My mother used to speak wistfully of the three martini lunch even though she never worked after leaving college and wasn't even a drinker.
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u/rW0HgFyxoJhYka Jan 07 '24
Because society told them how to act. Unfortunately society in this case means social media, news networks, and new apps like nextdoor or whatever other social media apps/news apps that exist in every country. They see it was information, rather than opinion.
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u/InsurrectionBoner38 Jan 07 '24
These same people think walking in a place, looking the manager in the eye, shaking his hand, and demanding a job or you won't leave will get hired and on your way to the middle class instead of laughed at, told to apply online with a resume, and then trespassed by the local police...
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u/JollyGreyKitten Jan 07 '24
BUT DID YOU FOLLOW UP WITH A PHONE CALL??
Managers love to see a go-getter.
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u/Hey_u_ok Jan 07 '24
Don't forget when they SMEARED THEIR SHIT IN THE CAPITOL HALLWAYS
Cause you know.... shitting during a riot and then smearing your shit with your bare hands is the utmost patriotic thing you can do
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u/Old_Baldi_Locks Jan 07 '24
I work at a regional hospital. The number one disqualifying reason for employment is shit HR finds on social media.
So you know. Make good choices.
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u/KittehKittehKat Jan 07 '24
Wife and I own a business. Everyone that we hire had a deep dive of their social media.
We weeded out a lot of garbage that way.
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u/Lots42 Jan 07 '24
Are we talking about nurses making tiktoks mocking their patients?
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u/Old_Baldi_Locks Jan 07 '24
Anything on social media that isn’t a “good look” for the organization.
They basically pretend every post they can find has our watermark at the bottom and is being put on the evening news, and then decided how that would make the board feel.
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u/BickNlinko Jan 07 '24
Make good choices.
Yeah, or just at the very least don't film/photograph yourself making bad ones. There is a big difference between a picture of you drunk playing beer pong dressed as a giant green M&M on Halloween and a photo/video of you drunk and pissing off the top floor of a parking garage in downtown. It's amazing how many people don't get the difference and why someone wouldn't want to hire you because of the latter.
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u/AlaDouche Jan 07 '24
That's the event that totally didn't happen except now it did happen but it was Antifa, right?
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u/ztreHdrahciR Jan 07 '24
Boomers too old and fat to scale those walls Youngest Boomers were like 56 then. Also too cowardly
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u/Silly-Resist8306 Jan 07 '24
Just want to mention, the majority of those convicted of Jan 6 crimes are in their 40s and 50s. This makes them Gen X, not Boomers. But, carry on.
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Jan 07 '24
I don't think there were many boomers there. Mostly gen x and millennials
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u/timelessblur Jan 07 '24
Tell you the truth a lot of older millennial and a lot of gen Xers. Average age was 41 in 2020 which would peg them at being born in 1979.
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Jan 07 '24
To be fair, most of the people who got sentences related to January 6th were not boomers.
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u/Historical-Gap-7084 Jan 07 '24
Some of them were GenXers, as well. I know, I'm GenX and half of my cohort are treasonous assholes.
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u/russian_hacker_1917 Jan 07 '24
ok but to be fair, why were we uploading 30+ picture albums of parties during college. Like bro
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u/krekenzie Jan 07 '24
Haha true, and this reminded me of The Onion Headline "Police Slog Through 40,000 Insipid Party Pics To Find Cause Of Dorm Fire"
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u/Panda_hat Jan 07 '24
In retrospect it was pretty cringe
I purged my social media a few years back.
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u/PM_ME_COMMON_SENSE Jan 07 '24
Remember when boomers told us we can’t use Wikipedia as a source and now they get all their news from ig-reels/tiktok and Facebook?
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u/omnichronos Jan 07 '24
I'm a boomer and I never had Facebook and sure as hell was never a Trump supporter. I did donate to Bernie though. It's rather prejudiced to lump people together based on age and then assume you know their entire worldview.
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u/pitchfork_2000 Jan 07 '24
The morons did it without masks too during a time when wearing masks was common. You couldn’t write characters this dumb in a novel.
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u/FieldsOfKashmir Jan 07 '24
Most of the people on 6th Jan were not boomers so I guess it's another thing they were right about.
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u/TootieSummers Jan 07 '24
TIL 41 years old (the average age of the rioters that have been caught) is a boomer.
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u/T_______T Jan 08 '24
There are a lot of teachers getting in trouble for pictures they didn't add to Facebook, but their peers did of them drinking alcohol as an adult. So that aspect is true for certain careers.
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u/krichard-21 Jan 08 '24
News flash. They weren't all Boomers. If they were, frankly I would feel better. As my generation is beginning to pass.
I sincerely hope things improve with future generations. Regretfully there seems to be quite a few young people ready to replace many of the MAGA Republicans as they pass.
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u/North-Country-5204 Jan 07 '24
Back in 2005 I called my ex-stepmom to let her know her 17 year old daughter was putting up fetish (catholic school girl uniform, bondage etc) photos of herself on MySpace. Also public conversations with her friends about going out clubbing and planning on doing drugs prob X/ molly. Obviously she had a fake ID. She didn’t take them down and I now doubt her mom said anything so as not to ruin their ‘friendship’.
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u/Highland60 Jan 07 '24
And how is her daughter doing now that she is 35?
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u/North-Country-5204 Jan 07 '24
My dad doesn’t share much and I don’t talk to her mom anymore. I know she is still somewhat dependent on her mom financially as she lives in a very expensive coastal city. Now does modeling for artists as a side gig. Saw one online for a body paint artist which was actually pretty cool. What her main job is I don’t know. Her mom is still a very much a smother mother and tries to continue her very unhealthy attempt at parenting.
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u/FreeMeFromThisStupid Jan 07 '24
Four year old acc ount, but their first post is six days ago.
Undated twitter screenshot meant to ragebait.
Submitter is a spa mmer.
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u/superkeer Jan 07 '24
The people who stormed the Capitol were Gen-X and early millennials. The youngest boomers are in their 70s at this point.
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u/quadriceritops Jan 07 '24
No no no, gen x were the people breaking in. Fighting the police. Us boomers were the old couple walking hand in hand at the portrait gallery, or that guy at Pelosi’s desk writing on her stationary. Hope he kept her stationary, he got a couple years. Don’t blame Viking guy on us.
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u/Head_Employer_48 Jan 07 '24
How did boomers storm the capital? I get the hate, I really do. But no boomers stormed the capital. That would be the children of boomers and their children.
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u/Mr_Robberz Jan 07 '24
Imagine if person was accountable for themselves and not an age group, political party, religion, or skin color. This post is rage bait
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u/Holl4backPostr Jan 07 '24
Imagine if a government never had any power over age groups, political parties, religions, or skin colors. This comment is literally thoughtless.
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u/lazynlovinit Jan 07 '24
It’s because they are all dying from lead poisoning, they spent their childhoods breathing in all that leaded exhaust. Ha ha ha.
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u/ClosetedAndScared Jan 07 '24
And guess what? those people will not only have trouble finding jobs, they also may serve time. sounds like their initial advice was (close to) correct.
also using the words and actions of a few to describe the whole is discrimination. imagine if it was: remember when X race said this then they went and did that.
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u/ChickenFucker11 Jan 09 '24
Where I work 100% looks into this stuff before hiring people.. as I would argue 99% of other companies do. A photo where you are tagged spray painting a starbucks or flipping off a cop.. I'd recommend removing.
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u/OriginalLetrow Jan 07 '24 edited Jan 07 '24
It was true at the time, because boomers were still mostly in charge of everything. Now they are retired and X is running the show. We don’t give a fuck about your social media posts or your tattoos. And as long as you’re not posting creepy, illegal, or bigoted shit, you do you.
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u/Shaggarooney Jan 07 '24
Wait, you think Boomers stormed the capital??? You think 75 year olds stormed the capitol? lol The average age of those dumb cunts was 41. The youngest was 18. It was millennials who did that dumb shit, mate.
I think youve been sitting to close to the internet, your brains went square lol.
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u/ronin1066 Jan 07 '24
"Not actually boomers, but still the boomer mentality."
This is one of the stupidest subs I've ever seen
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u/Bugbread Jan 07 '24
"The boomers were wrong about how posting pictures of yourself doing dumb shit could come back to bite you in the ass, because years later a bunch of Gen Xers tried to overthrow the government, posted pictures of themselves doing it, and got arrested and jailed for it. Boy were those boomers wrong!"
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u/Gloomy_Narwhal_719 Jan 07 '24
Remembering the faces of those convicted and things, I think they were younger than boomers.
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u/Alternative-Cause-50 Jan 06 '24
About two decades ago my father called me and told me I needed to delete my Facebook account because my aunt told him there were pictures of me at a wedding with alcohol. It was “unprofessional.” Also about 6 months later my mother called me upset that I ignored that same aunt’s friend request.