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minus-squarefireweed@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up71arrow-down1·11 days agoNot to defend Boomers, but let’s not let the “Greatest Generation” off the hook that easy…
minus-squareMalyca@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up22arrow-down5·11 days agoThey get a pass for the horror they lived through
minus-squareUnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up34arrow-down3·11 days agoBoomers lived through plenty of horrors. Vietnam, deindustrialization, the Volcker Shock, leaded gasoline/paint, AIDS… The 1970s was a fucked decade.
minus-squaredarthelmet@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up28·11 days agoThe 20th century in general is kind of unfathomably different from most of the rest of history. It was a wild time to be alive.
minus-squareHasturInYellow@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up16·11 days agoYou could say, humanity learned how to REALLY fuck around. We are now REALLY finding out. Thanks, grampa
minus-squaredarthelmet@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·11 days agoWe have made absolutely massive technological strides in fucking around.
minus-squareHasturInYellow@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·11 days agoThankfully, we will be dead from the last centuries fucking around and won’t get the chance to use most of it.
minus-squareMalyca@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up16·11 days agoSure they get a pass for that, then they squandered it with their epic entitlement.
Not to defend Boomers, but let’s not let the “Greatest Generation” off the hook that easy…
They get a pass for the horror they lived through
Boomers lived through plenty of horrors. Vietnam, deindustrialization, the Volcker Shock, leaded gasoline/paint, AIDS…
The 1970s was a fucked decade.
The 20th century in general is kind of unfathomably different from most of the rest of history. It was a wild time to be alive.
You could say, humanity learned how to REALLY fuck around.
We are now REALLY finding out.
Thanks, grampa
We have made absolutely massive technological strides in fucking around.
Thankfully, we will be dead from the last centuries fucking around and won’t get the chance to use most of it.
Sure they get a pass for that, then they squandered it with their epic entitlement.