jpx7 (09-16-2020)
Off topic but...
Has anyone ever thought about the correlation of "boomers" and today's citizen social warriors?
Protests? check
Riots? check
SJW? check
BLM & Black Panthers? check
Going to change the world? check
Old fogies are stupid? check
communist/socialist sympathies? check
fight against corporate greed? check
has all the answers? check
I think it's funny that "boomer" has become an insult by the group most like boomers. And they don't even realize it. Which makes it funnier. Uh oh. I'm getting myself into a funny loop....have to break out....
After video analysis, I have come to the conclusion...he’s pretty good.
It's very boomer of you to lump protesters, riots, BLM, black panthers, communists and intellectuals all under the same umbrella. All the demons boomers are terrified about.
Well done sir, but you forgot to include "loves lawless immigrants", so you only get a B+ grade.
You don’t have to make a checklist that long; communists, riots, sjws... etc. Could have just said “domestic terrorists” or “blm”
What is SJW? As a white person I need to know all these things I should be scared of.
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"Well, you’ll learn soon enough that this was a massive red wave landslide." - thethe on the 2020 election that trump lost bigly
“I can’t fix my life, but I can fix the world.” - sturg
jpx7 (09-17-2020)
I'm a centrist in all this. My whole purpose above was to point out that the so-called "boomer" generation, of which I am not a member, did the same exact things that the current one is doing. And what did it get them? Apparently nothing, since 50 years later we are at it again. Both right and left have their nut jobs without doubt. But you can't two-wrong your way to a right no matter how much you want to justify it.
Detroit began its decline as a City after the riots in the 60's. Argument can be made that it was industry and jobs moving out: chicken or egg. Let's watch what happens to Portland, Seattle, NY etc in coming generations. Last I looked people were moving out of there in droves, taking the tax base with them.
Face it, if the far left didn't in fact act like idiots and criminals on their own then the far right would be right there to help them along in the court of public opinion. And vice versa.
Nothing is being accomplished except further division. Someone needs to step up and bring the Country together again. Say what you want about Reagan but at least he did that./
Boy this thread is off track.
Ivermectin Man
50PoundHead (09-17-2020), Garmel (09-17-2020)
You are being too hard on the Boomers. Vets of WWI came back home and rejected the conventional wisdom. The Greatest Generation came back form WWII and rejected the conventional wisdom. The Boomers went to Vietnam and returned to reject the conventional wisdom. For years, X and Y changed the world without confronting the Boomers or directly attacking societal norms. Now you have disgruntled X and Y members joining Z's in rejecting the conventional wisdom/societal norms.
But your initial point is a good one. In fact, it is humorous to hear Z's make fun of Boomers. Right now the Boomers are all that stands between a second Trump term, which seems to be the absolute worst thing the Z's can imagine.
Since we're discussing politics here, I don't know about anyone else but I'm still mad about that Teapot Dome Scandal.
jpx7 (09-17-2020)