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In reply to the discussion: I'm gonna tell you younger people something [View all]tenderfoot
(8,426 posts)107. A lot of silly responses...
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If you WERE a boomer, how would you understand it? I ask because I meet folks who aren't joking.
ancianita
Nov 2019
#26
I get the joke here. I also respect the spirit of frustration voiced in the OP, even if I'd differ
ancianita
Nov 2019
#34
Exactly. Other cultures have figured this out, which is why elders are held with all due respect.
ancianita
Nov 2019
#141
unless you have a birthday in the next 41 days, you are technically a Xennial (born 1977 to 1980)
Celerity
Nov 2019
#86
I'm saying that dismissing an entire generation because they are older is bigotted.....
getagrip_already
Nov 2019
#38
Boomers never gave themselves that name. Demographers did. MSM picked it up and, like
ancianita
Nov 2019
#42
Like I call my husband-- who is one and a half years younger-- my "trophy husband."
deurbano
Nov 2019
#56
I think John Dean's book from several years ago on the RW Authoriarian nature sort of says it all
hlthe2b
Nov 2019
#2
I think younger people complaining about older people and vice versa is much ado about nothing.
cwydro
Nov 2019
#104
Plus they see how low our country's integrity bar is, and are gleefully pushing it lower
JudyM
Nov 2019
#116
I'd tell younger people that SOME were, but not enough to back a scofflaw Executive Branch.
ancianita
Nov 2019
#23
Amen. That's who they are today. Only with corporatist, global dark money behind them.
ancianita
Nov 2019
#37
These same nasty bastards have been around all of my life (born 1950). There are not going anywhere
walkingman
Nov 2019
#126
I'm 60. My 33 yo son is a fucking Trumpflake, and an entitled asshole.
Progressive Jones
Nov 2019
#128