Boomer Hate Thread

[The Hungry African]

They are via farming.

Plenty of countries cut all farms subsidies and transition to very efficient and technologically advanced farms that do not rely on trucks of cheap laborers doing rotations. Highly efficient farms that produce far more yields for far less resources.

Between the advancements in machinery and fertilizers you can run a massive farm with just a handful of full time employees. People really don't understand how far farming has come in the last 100 years. You even have combine harvesters that drive themselves using GPS. Boomers will instead hire illegals and then complain about their farm going under because he can't compete.

 

[Sasmate]

Funny but sad anecdote from my personal life.

My boomer parents aren’t terrible people at all as far as the average boomer. My Dad was also smart with money even back in the day for a boomer and is loaded. I digress though.
They’ve reached a point in their lives where they believe they are entitled to fuck off for months at a time on cruise ships to other countries. Here recently they have been gone from everyone for about 2 months to Italy. Me, my zoomer sister, and my 3 millennial half siblings have a group chat with them.
Make of it what you will, but it’s hilarious and honestly saddening to wake up and see a text from them saying “Here we are at *insert lavish area none of us could ever hope to afford*” as if they expect us to be impressed or feel joy for them. Almost no one responds in this group chat save for my eldest millennial sister who ironically has the most from the prosperity era from boomers due to her age.
Me, my other two sisters, and my older brother truly do not give enough of a shit to respond. It may be petty and bitter but as far as my second oldest brother and my third oldest sister, they’re working hard and even then they’re not getting by well enough to where they don’t feel it.

Every single time my parents somehow are home for extended family or friend gatherings. It’s always about what they did, where they went, how they were serviced. It’s incredibly funny to see the current audience’s reaction, which is usually passive bemusement or at best an attempt at half-hearted enthusiasm. Most people cannot relate to these experiences so they don’t really have investment in their snobby stories.
They expect us to be in this group chat praising them or texting them about it, they’ve even expressed this. In reality we literally cannot be asked to give a fuck.

 

[DSHK]

This gets trotted out all the time but the simple case of the matter is there’s less good music made today than ever, despite more people than ever making producing and releasing music. Even genres that predate the modern media landscape, like orchestral or jazz, have been dragged down in quality. I get dragged into this conversation all the time, and every time the example that good music exists today is either some uwu soft boy ukulele rock or fucking King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. All hip-hop-derived genres are bad music, cope and seethe.

Music coming out today is incredible, just nothing mainstream. You have to look in the underground/alternative spaces for it. Thats a big part of why I became goth, pop music took a huge nosedive around 2013 and they sidelined rock in favor of rap music so 13 year old me got into metal instead. Now I mostly listen to industrial, metal and gothic music. Funny enough I actually like 80s boomer metal the most.

I’m going to give the boomers credit on this one since their music not only had the highest concentration of evergreen acts, but also will probably be the last time pop music reaches “classical” status. As soon as Gen X took over music quality nosedived.

Nah, Gen X were the main ones who created industrial in the 90s.

 

[DSHK]

I’m curious, what percentage of boomer marriages do you think are beard marriages where the guy would rather be slurping down dicks or the woman would rather be munching a rug?

A LOT. Boomers are leaving christianity faster than any other generation still walking the earth. Now that being a fedora tipper, faggot or pussy licker is socially acceptable theyre trying to do all of those things before they die. They are the wicked and adulterous generation the bible speaks of. No wonder the Millennials turned out how they did.

 

[DSHK]

This is already happening in areas that are losing population, mainly the Northeast and parts of the Rust Belt. Those areas used to be the most densely populated areas of the U.S., but in the last 20-30 years have had severe brain drain, as well as talent drain. Not even exaggerating, there are tons of towns/small cities where literally 2/3 or even 3/4 of the population is over 50. Most of the younger gens move elsewhere as soon as they reach adulthood, most millennials with kids move elsewhere for better jobs/schools. Hence, many smaller colleges are merging with one another, or simply closing outright.

This problem is almost entirely a Northeast/Rust Belt phenomenon, the South and both Coasts are still experiencing full college admissions, with some schools even expanding.

If there is a larger shift away from college in the future, that might change, but my anecdotal observation is that most college closures are still happening in places with aging/declining populations. I suspect this might also be a reason why some colleges are desperate for foreign students to the point of overlooking cheating among foreigners or other bad behavior.

This is why peak college enrollment happened in 2010. Americas birth rate collapsed to Japan levels after 2008 and has gotten worse because the economy never actually recovered and those kids are now becoming college aged teenagers. Zoomers have more degrees than Millennials but there are fewer of us, Gen Alpha will be even smaller and browner btw. 2008 was our Japan moment but the powers that be will never admit that.

 

[Slap47]

Boomer thought of the day:

The reason why newer generations dislike Boomers has very little to do with politics or even their share of wealth. The hatred is interpersonal. The generation is just unpleasant and mean.

There is no section of any generation that reveres the Boomer generation of any political stripe. Leftists do not see Boomers as the champions of diversity and the welfare state. Rightists don't look to the Boomers as the defenders of tradition and champions of populism. Neoliberal/prosperity urbanism younger people don't respect Boomers. Libertarians don't respect Boomers. Anarchists don't like boomers. Third-Worldists don't respect Boomers.

Every single one of these groups hates boomers and blames them for their particular problem. The Boomer hate comes first and the political justification second. Boomers are so unpleasant that every group just intrinsically believes that they must have caused the problem.

 

[Jimjamflimflam]

Funny but sad anecdote from my personal life.

My boomer parents aren’t terrible people at all as far as the average boomer. My Dad was also smart with money even back in the day for a boomer and is loaded. I digress though.
They’ve reached a point in their lives where they believe they are entitled to fuck off for months at a time on cruise ships to other countries. Here recently they have been gone from everyone for about 2 months to Italy. Me, my zoomer sister, and my 3 millennial half siblings have a group chat with them.
Make of it what you will, but it’s hilarious and honestly saddening to wake up and see a text from them saying “Here we are at *insert lavish area none of us could ever hope to afford*” as if they expect us to be impressed or feel joy for them. Almost no one responds in this group chat save for my eldest millennial sister who ironically has the most from the prosperity era from boomers due to her age.
Me, my other two sisters, and my older brother truly do not give enough of a shit to respond. It may be petty and bitter but as far as my second oldest brother and my third oldest sister, they’re working hard and even then they’re not getting by well enough to where they don’t feel it.

Every single time my parents somehow are home for extended family or friend gatherings. It’s always about what they did, where they went, how they were serviced. It’s incredibly funny to see the current audience’s reaction, which is usually passive bemusement or at best an attempt at half-hearted enthusiasm. Most people cannot relate to these experiences so they don’t really have investment in their snobby stories.
They expect us to be in this group chat praising them or texting them about it, they’ve even expressed this. In reality we literally cannot be asked to give a fuck.

Are they sharing it maliciously? I'm gonna have to take the boomer side in this case, sounds like they just want to share with their kids after hitting their retirement and doing the things they put off to raise you and the siblings.

I got my parents chat and they are on the travel phase (part of my dad's job, won't retire. I swear he's going to be one of those dead at this work desk stories). There's nothing special in their travel when they post pictures but I still try to at least do a "wow, nice picture. Looks great" even though i don't really care as europe looks shittier and less special with each passing day.

Maybe I'm a big softie but it's your parents, doesn't hurt to humor them.

 

[geckogoy]

They expect us to be in this group chat praising them or texting them about it, they’ve even expressed this. In reality we literally cannot be asked to give a fuck.

Tbh where they came from if you manage to take a good vacation thats something to share with the bros

In their minds they are on a huge run of good luck and may be oblivious to how much of is coming at the expense of their own children and grandchildren, particularly pertaining to social security which gives some truly absurdly lavish payouts (for the time being).

Its a judgement call for you how much of that is on them vs them just being oblivious and retarded, perhaps you can look at how much effort (if any) they put into trying to understand. Its likely kindof pointless to try to force them to understand thoughbeit.

Sometimes you just have to be old and out of touch and really piss people off without understanding why, its not per se your fault they are like that