But what about their tax cuts for the wealthy? Are they safe?
We can do both.
I want to capitalize on this and use these disgruntled, hurting voters to strengthen our social safety net, maybe lower the retirement age, fix the social security benefit to a cost of living index, and protect them and everyone who comes after them from dying in poverty when you no longer serve the corporate overlords and are discarded.
But I want us to do that while making comments about telling them to put down the avocado toast and stop buying so many expensive coffee drinks. Tighten your belt a little! Maybe don’t have that Ensure for breakfast, gramma!
Because the truth is, while on an individual level, they likely don’t deserve to die sick and miserable. But on a generational level, the majority of them are, statistically, the reason we are in the mess we’re in. And we should be allowed to snark and give them back a taste of what they gave us our whole lives, while we clean up this mess. Hopefully by making them vote for what will actually help everyone for once.
Being snarky towards homeless people! You’re really showing them! Stick it to those stupid boomers!
It’s almost like essential services are just entirely too expensive. You know the simple things like housing, food, and health care.
On the bright side… Um, well… I’ll have to get back to you on that one.
Oh no, the consequences of their actions.
Don’t worry there are safety nets in society since our corpo overlords love and care for us. Its not like the voted their entire life to get rid of them.
I’d like to be sympathetic, but this is the world they created. And on top of that, our generation was called lazy, entitled, etc. by the boomers. Guess you can lay down in that nice bed you made.
I mean, that’s a huge generalization in both directions.
There’s no evidence these people, throughout their younger life, did anything but try to survive.
Time to start pulling on them bootstraps.
Gotta love how every single comment here is talking about boomers like they’re a monolith that’s been voting for Republicans since the Nixon era.
Seriously. Everyone here talks about taking down corporations and everyone getting their needs met, but is pretty quick to generalize and discard a now at risk population who has a lowered ability to self serve.
Boomers have fucked my generation so I couldn’t give a chicken fried fuck about this, hell maybe now that its affecting boomers the government might actually be forced to do something about it.
The vitriol towards baby boomers is disturbing. Blaming a single, entire, generation for all of the current problems in the US is insane. It’s like if we blamed millennials for the Trump craziness.
It’s a good reminder to me that many voices on Lemmy are just edgy folks spitballing opinions as if they are gospel.
Hang on, because I don’t think
anyone is(I should say) most people are actually doing that. When we speak of “Boomers” we mean the generation, and the individuals who espouse those prototypical generational thought processes. If I meet someone in that age group, I don’t go “Aw, fuck you for trickle down economics” because I don’t blame all Boomers on a personal level. But recognizing where they fucked up, and why their ideologies have created an existential crisis for future generations, that’s fair game.I don’t blame all Boomers on a personal level. But recognizing where they fucked up, and why their ideologies have created an existential crisis for future generations, that’s fair game.
Stop with your nuance. You have to either personally punch every homeless Vietnam veteran in the face or absolve Reagan voters of 100% of the damage they did (and continue to do). It’s one or the other.
