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1. Aven (aven@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 15-Oct-2023 06:20:20 JST Aven
   90's: "Break the cycle. End the oppression with mercy and forbearance. Be a better person than the one who hurt you."
   
   2020's: "Can't wait to make things even worse for the next generation, in revenge against the boomers who made things terrible for my generation! Eye for an eye all the way, baby!"
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   • Griffith (griffith@5dollah.click)'s status on Sunday, 15-Oct-2023 06:20:19 JST Griffith

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     @aven clearly those people didn’t mean it or it didn’t matter. Things have been getting worse generation by generation since the Great Depression.
   • Aven (aven@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 15-Oct-2023 06:20:19 JST Aven

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     @Griffith that's a lie. Clearly you don't know anything about the great depression. Or WWII. Or "duck and cover". Or the 70's.
     
     Things were definitely better in the 90's and 2016-2020.
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   • LS (lain@lain.com)'s status on Monday, 16-Oct-2023 00:53:36 JST LS

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     @aven i think the boomer hate is 30% truth and 70% "let's create intergenerational conflict". I mean, who are these booomers? Our parents. Don't know about everyone else, but at least my parents did more for their kids than we could ever repay them.
   • John "Touhou Racism" Smartomato (smartomato@eientei.org)'s status on Monday, 16-Oct-2023 01:06:20 JST John "Touhou Racism" Smartomato

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     @lain @aven boomers may have allowed things to go south but they were mostly unaware and didn't have ill intent. I dont think hating the whole gen is reasonable when is just a small part (that is still in power) who actually created the issues. I wont even justify "redpilling" them boomers on the issues they allowed to happen, as most of them are too old to do something about. Most I do is act differently and explain why.
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   • Aven (aven@shitposter.club)'s status on Monday, 16-Oct-2023 01:08:38 JST Aven

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     @thendrix @lain it is, and "ok boomer" is great for breaking family ties.
   • Aven (aven@shitposter.club)'s status on Monday, 16-Oct-2023 01:08:38 JST Aven

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     @thendrix @lain in fact Mao's Red Guards were the original "ok boomer"s
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   • Terry Hendrix II 🏹 (thendrix@social.hendrixgames.com)'s status on Monday, 16-Oct-2023 01:08:39 JST Terry Hendrix II 🏹

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     • LS

     Isn’t that the entire idea of cultural revolution and replacing the family with the state?

   • Aven (aven@shitposter.club)'s status on Monday, 16-Oct-2023 01:10:00 JST Aven

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     @lain Agreed. The boomers fell for some harmful "boomer myths" like housing prices always going up, like a university diploma being the key to success, like working too hard for retirement and then just pure leisure after retiring.
     
     I honestly think the worst things they did for millennials was the snow-plow parenting and the pitying that started in 2008. It created a learned helplessness in millennials which is hard to un-learn.
     
     The really poisonous thing is the other-ing (like they're a class in class-struggle) and attribution of malice (again, class struggle proxy) to the boomers. This I think is that 70% you're talking about.
     
     It's remarkably similar to the Marxist stuff, like "eat the rich, but Bernie Sanders is cool", where Bernie Sanders is rich, but he's familiar. The same way the other-ing doesn't stick to one's parents. However, if some kind of hypothetical revolution happened against boomers, yeah, our parents would get the guillotine. It's the whole "this group is evil! ...present company excluded" thing.
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   • LS (lain@lain.com)'s status on Monday, 16-Oct-2023 01:10:08 JST LS

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     @aven i think the red guard comparison is apt