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1. synapsid (synapsid@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 09-Mar-2023 08:22:45 JST synapsid

   Boomers after pissing away their retirement on cruises and reverse-mortgaging away their children’s inheritance when their overworked, cash-strapped children can’t afford to put them in a nursing home, have no time to take care of them (because they have to work 2 jobs to pay rent), and leave them no grandchildren (because of the destruction of social conventions and institutions dedicated to containing thottery), and they realize on that Tyrone and Da’quan will be the ones “taking care of them” in the underfunded, understaffed, and overcrowded government home until they eventually unceremoniously croak over.

   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 09-Mar-2023 08:22:45 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     @synapsid Our careerist, feminist aunt is in one of these and it’s a “nice one”. I have to keep reminding the boomers in the family that they literally can’t expect any better service than having 30% white staff with mostly six filling out the rest.

     All those years climbing up to be an exec and she’s stuck spending her money paying $10k/mo for someone to wipe her ass and tell her “we’ll take you home after school’s over” whenever she starts talking about ‘going home’

   • Dr. Rupert, Doctor of Shitpoasting Studies (rupertvonripp@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 09-Mar-2023 08:27:29 JST Dr. Rupert, Doctor of Shitpoasting Studies

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     @WashedOutGundamPilot @synapsid She got her wish, so ends the 'empowered woman.'
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   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 09-Mar-2023 08:30:31 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     @RupertvonRipp @synapsid I sit there impassively, because all of us tried to do the right thing and bring her into the family, she always, ALWAYS chose work and everything else over us. She’s the one who’d push away from a hug when we were kids, she’s THAT performative about hating children.

     I even tried to be there for her when she got bad, just so I could say I made an attempt to do the right thing. She still didn’t want anybody to come around. I think it made her feel guilty seeing us, when she remembered who she is. Now I’ll sometimes bring her things, or go with the family when they drop by to help with something, and nod and smile and pretend everything is fine.

     She’s living the “good life” in a retirement home now, and even then the boomers in the family are asking me to put them down if they ever get ‘that bad’

   • EdBoatConnoisseur (edboatconnoisseur@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 09-Mar-2023 08:36:24 JST EdBoatConnoisseur

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     @WashedOutGundamPilot @RupertvonRipp @synapsid Welp, u could rub some salt by telling her “aunt i’m so glad your career payed for such a great care!”

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   • Dr. Rupert, Doctor of Shitpoasting Studies (rupertvonripp@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 09-Mar-2023 08:36:26 JST Dr. Rupert, Doctor of Shitpoasting Studies

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     • EdBoatConnoisseur
     @EdBoatConnoisseur @WashedOutGundamPilot @synapsid Time to build a dimensional window that lets me read r/childfree circa 2040.
     
     I want to see all the Millennial wine aunt types in their suffering.
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   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 09-Mar-2023 08:37:33 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     @EdBoatConnoisseur @RupertvonRipp @synapsid There are times I’d say “Hey, did any of your old friends from General Electric call?” when she was younger, but she usually kept busy with travel

     All that shit ended up in a landfill, she managed to buy only the worst, inauthentic, kitschy cruise ship nonsense every country had.

   • synapsid (synapsid@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 09-Mar-2023 08:40:25 JST synapsid

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     @EdBoatConnoisseur In a certain sense, I can’t really be mad at them. They grew up in a time of very quick technological and economical change. The institutions they took for granted were just about fully captured and subverted, and new, novel forms of media and entertainment meant they hadn’t developed a natural ‘immunity’ to the jewish propaganda in TV and movies.

     It’d be one thing if boomers recognized that the successes they enjoyed throughout their life was largely due to the circumstances of their time, and tried to help soften the blow for their children, but the majority still believe America is just as they left it in 1986, with safe, pristine streets, young people everywhere working high paying union jobs with pensions, and affordable housing in majority white neighborhoods around every corner. But it’s not. And most boomers will kick, scream, and rage if you try and point this out. And even IF you can pull the wool from their eyes, 99% of the time they’ll brag about how good everything was, and say the classic “I’ll be dead by then haha”, anytime you point out some example of cultural or institutional rot.

     But boomers rampant greed and narcissism, along with their obstinate refusal to recognize the privilege of their era for even a fucking nanosecond makes them a very contemptable group. Fuck boomers.

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   • EdBoatConnoisseur (edboatconnoisseur@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 09-Mar-2023 08:40:26 JST EdBoatConnoisseur

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     @synapsid That is the best they deserve.

   • Dr. Rupert, Doctor of Shitpoasting Studies (rupertvonripp@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 09-Mar-2023 08:40:44 JST Dr. Rupert, Doctor of Shitpoasting Studies

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     • EdBoatConnoisseur
     @WashedOutGundamPilot @EdBoatConnoisseur @synapsid She sounds like she'd have been r/childfree's strongest spinster were she a Millennial rather than a Boomer.
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   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 09-Mar-2023 08:41:33 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     @RupertvonRipp @EdBoatConnoisseur @synapsid She was one of the big, successful, “look we have a female executive” poster women in the early days of women’s empowerment. All my life I got to see the end state, the brass ring all those teachers told the girls was so tantalizing - and it sucks ass