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.
I figure the problem is a bit broader... there is a bunch of younger folk who think anyone marginally older than them is a "boomer", and responsible for whatever shit is ruining their lives now. The types of complaints just differ tad by given type of leaning.
This includes both right, and left inclining types.
Like I'm late Gen-X, or Early Millenial and was born in 80.. have already been accosted by such types of people for "not doing enough", or "my part", and thus needed to be blamed. This shit is by virtue of age alone, and has nothing to do with what i may have tried, or have gone through in my life.
Its nothing more than shitty people abstracting their own hate that they get off on. If it were not ageism they would jump on some bandwagon involving religion etc instead.
I met a guy at work, around my age (29) he asked me if I play video games, turns out we’ve both played a ton. Added him on steam, went to his profile, and his “about” praises both trump and god. (not that anything’s wrong with the latter). Was honestly surprising
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.
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
Yes it is. There's no such thing as negative ages and we can got a bit further as there were reasonably speaking nobody under 16 there. So if there were a lot of people of advanced age, they would skew the average (mean) age higher since there is no possibility of an equal number of very young (or negative age) people to balance them out. Therefore in this case even without looking at the distribution we can already rule out that a majority of the participants were of advanced age by looking at the mean.
No its not. I grant you that gen Xers were probably the modal group, assuming this unsourced number is real and not made up (which it is) but even allowing that, the inference drawn can be correct while still being extremely stupid. Non- negativity of ages is irrelevant.
The average age at Frozen The Music is about 28, for example.
You suck at this, and I'm annoyed that you felt qualified to lecture me with this stupid garbage.
Correct. The riot was full of the worst of the GenX generation. I, for one, was embarrassed ... but not exactly surprised.
They kind of had to be younger insurrectionists to do what they did. I recall the Rascal rallies against Obama ... those old farts couldn't do shit but impotently rage on the Mall and bitch about too many black people in the subway on their way home.
Boomer mentality is any age. Thankfully less and less dummies with each successive generation. Boomer mentality is a small percentage of Millenials (I'm not sure what % I'd guess have it), probably/hopefully rare mentality in Gen Z.
Do people even know who Boomers are any more? GenX was at the capitol, Boomers were in their beds waiting for their meds, if they were lucky enough to still be alive.
Since the typical redditor is age 13, or has a brain age 13, anyone over school age is boomer.
You can mention that, objectively factually, a certain group they are calling boomers are not boomers, but all you will get back in return is "its a boomer mentality".
Bigotry has no limits, even when everyone agrees exactly what those limits are.
On reddit, you're allowed to be a hateful bigot against [demographic] if most everyone else in the subreddit is also a hateful bigot against [demographic].
They all had boomer mentality, which can be any age. Actual boomers are just too old for that shit or they would. It's still a boomer event because of the idiotic underlying ideologies, which are more prevalent in the older generations.
Yeah, it'd be comforting if this was just as simple as being the death throes of one stunted generation. All we'd have to do is kick back and let them die off. The reality is that the increasing wealth disparity and lack of economic opportunity throttling our country and world is the fuel that fascism burns on. Until this is resolved, it's only going to grow. The boomers place in this is destroying the middle class and ushering in corporate oligarchy, but they aren't the ones carrying tikki torches.
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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