Boomers were born on the third base and think they hit a triple
Triples makes it safe. Triples is best
Threesomes are fun
“Then aids ruined everything”
- Frank Reynolds
Gen X ignored again, with which we are okay though.
Here, have a Pepsi.
It’s all I wanted.
You know he’s never going to give it to you.
But you just know that he’s never gonna give you up
Or let you down. Or run around, as a matter of fact.
Not even one.
Pepsi Kona for me please
There ya go.
I was gonna post that but then I was, like, whatever.
Silent as per usual
Exactly the comment I was looking for. Tip of the hat to you.
Only thing that isn’t okay is to mangle your sentence to conform to the obsolete “never end a sentence with a preposition because some old fogey said so hundreds of years ago” rule 😛
I’m ok with ignoring this rule. Most of us do anyway. While we’re at it, can we also put “never split the infinitive” on the chopping block?
Yes, please!
ESL here, what would have been the more natural way?
It’s an invented prescriptionist rule that was imported from studying Latin. You can completely ignore it and you’ll get more natural sounding language.
Same here. There’s probably other ways too, but personally I’d probably have gone with “and we’re okay with that” or “and that’s fine/okay with us”. Just flows more like naturally IMO.
BTW, in spite of the tongue in cheek way in which I said it, I meant no personal ill will towards you. Just the rule and its tyranny 😉
It’s the “with which we are okay” that sounds a little stilted. Most speakers would probably phrase that part of the sentence as “which we’re okay with.” It’s just because “okay with” is so common that it almost feels like a transitive form of the verb “to be okay,” so splitting apart sounds odd.
Note that there’s already a different transitive verb “okay” which means “approve” or “authorize,” as in “the boss okayed your plan to use the forklift,” implying that the person doing this has authority or control over whether the thing happens. “I’m okay with it” by contrast typically means something like “I have no control over it but it also doesn’t trouble me.” “Unfazed by” (spelled in this way, not related to “phase”) would be a similar expression.
What you wrote was fine. Some people don’t like that sentence structure for stupid reasons
It’s the 1% against the working class, not generation against generation.
We should just revive everyone who contributed to this dumpster fire and make them fix it before they can go back to being dead.
Do we REALLY want zombie Reagan and hundreds of others like that running around again? I dunno about you guys, but I’m so tired of living through Interesting Times ™️ and Unprecedented Events ™️. A zombie apocalypse where they don’t eat our brains, but just fuck up the economy even more doesn’t sound fun.
Make Zombie Reagan take Carter’s former place and build homes (by hand) for poor people.
The holy water that leaks out of the sink will probably burn him out of existence anyway.
Lmao, yeah I can’t imagine why someone would think that reviving them would make them suddenly want to correct their mistakes. They just got a chance to further be shit.
Since we’re just playing necromancer, why not have these zombies live in constant agony wishing for true death and the only way they can achieve it is to undo their legacy work which binds their children.
The fantasy was already pretty high, may as well lean into it
Watergate Part Two: Electric Bungaloo
To be fair, us genX did nothing about anything and just felt cool wallowing in our fake cynicism of “why do anything when nothing matters” so we’re probably half as much to blame as the boomers
There’s a certain selection bias to the “Weak Men, Hard Times / Strong Men, Good Times” just so historical analysis. You don’t talk about all the folks that die during good times or bad times. You just point to the old people and your brain slips right past the selection bias that allowed them to live and others to die.
Trying to blame this generation or that is a fool’s errand. What do you tell a population of Gen Xers who were dragged out to the suburbs and raised in these segregated hermitages for twenty years, then plunged into the capitalist meat grinder at the tail end of the post-war boom years? “Hey, you should have all just psychically linked up and formed a socio-economic Voltron to change a century’s old system overnight”? Who can seriously believe that? The deck was stacked against you and yet we still have a litany of Gen Xers who struggled - even died - in their effort to undo the damage of prior generations.
And what do you say to all the children of WW2 refugees who washed up on America’s shores and struggled to carve out a life for themselves in the graveyards of the First Nation’s people? Or the Cold War refugees - the Korean and Vietnamese and Indonesian and Taiwanese and Venezuelan and Cuban and Spanish and Russian and North Africa and… and… and… - who came into the US as children and were promptly indoctrinated to hate their home countries by the white supremacist majordomos of the American imperial class?
Its easy to blame yourself or your neighbors or your generation. Its hard to see the bigger picture and how each of us fit into it. Its hard to know if we’re doing the right thing, or doing enough of the right thing, or who is with us and who is against us given the sheer tsunami of bullshit in our information networks.
We’re playing the game on Hard Mode. And I don’t think anyone who cares enough to question and inquire about their efforts can really be held to blame. It’s the folks who have burned the ability to care out of their souls that hold us back. And that’s not a decision unique to a region or time period.
Boomers and Gen X lived in a paradise, destroyed it and now complain that things are shit.
Boomers really more than Gen X
Nah, 80s and 90s were paradise too.
Let’s just go back to those decades and never leave.
The systems that destroyed our society were created by boomers and Regan. They just took time to work.
GenX was also relatively small compared to the boomers.
I wonder if every generation will blame (maybe correctly) previous generations. So long as things are getting worse, the kids kind of have a valid argument. “Why didn’t you fix this before it got to us?”
As a millennial, I’ve been doing what I can short of going full vigilante. But in 30 years, they still wouldn’t be wrong to say “it’s still broke though isn’t it?”
Millennial here too… I blame myself for everything, including climate change. Everything I (can) buy is wrapped in plastic. Everything I (can) consume produces CO2. Every step I take, every breath I make… I’m killing earth.
I have a lot of self hate and can understand anyone who hates my generation. At least it ends with me. Who ever thinks kids are a good Idea must be completely insane.
How about it’s not your fault that there isn’t a alternative to a more eco friendly product, because it’s the politicians fault, we elect politician’s and they have almost all of them a green Policy. But that’s just on paper, they will really never do anything that hurt the economy and corporate profit. We vote on policy and they won’t implement it, the only thing you are responsible for is holding your politicians to account, but yeah keep blaming yourself for the shit that you have no control over and live in apathy
Whoa whoa. Never said I hated myself. That doesn’t solve anything. If anything it makes things worse by stealing focus. More like realizing that this isn’t working. We need to fix the system instead of letting people distract us with plastic straws or playing the blame game
The system can only be fixed by violence. I am no violent guy but billionaires have to die… all of them or we don’t even have to start.
I keep on trying to fix little things, but I don’t think that I can do enough… even remotely compared to the destruction their greed brings.
I’m out… no kids, no blame, it’s more CO2 than anyone can save. And honestly,… it’s the kids of the other people who will die in the climate wars. I simply don’t care any more until real change happens.
Edit: Humanity will prevail. Sooner or later even with a technological state as today or way more advanced… it just will take a few 100 more years for the remaining few to build this solar punk future. I’m just sad I’m living now and not when all this capitalism BS already died ages ago.
Gen Z already has some belief that Millennials did nothing but complain. No/not enough progress was made for all the protesting millennials cried for. It looks like Z is going the X apathetic route.
I am of the opinion we should implement left-wing authoritarian regime worldwide.
The system in question is capitalism. It’s been around longer than any of the named generations. It was tamed a little before the first world war (it enabled the first world war to be a world war). It needs to be more restricted
The systems that destroyed our society were created by boomers and Regan
Which system do you think destroys our society?
Gen X did nothing to improve the dumpster fire that boomers created. All they do is whine about how “powerless” they were
All they do is whine
So just like you?
Boomers and Gen X did exactly the same thing that you’re doing. Nothing. They just let the super rich elite screw the whole world up and now you’re doing the same thing they did. Nothing.
If you want to act high and mighty you’re not going to change the world by complaining on the internet. You have to stop the super rich.
You have to stop the super rich.
If I could, I would use this simple way to stop them: ban all parties that support them, nationalize all their beings and “sweeten up” their coffee if they complain too much.
There’s only one problem: I CAN’T DO NOTHING BECAUSE I’M NOT IN FUCKING POWER
Same as it ever was.
Complaining is a tool. Talking is a tool. Leads to acting and organizing. Guillotines don’t spontaneously form from the aether.
Except for all the people who’s skin shade is slightly darker than vanilla.
Yeah, yeah, 80s and 90s had concentration camps for black people, heard that shit before. Meanwhile no climate crisis, no Trump, no Tiktok, nothing, just some fucking peace.
trump was there, too. biding his time, waiting.
Strongman leaders create hard times.
Boomers see the world wildly and in wild ways
I Think You Should Leave is such a gold mine of meme templates.
There’s even an ITYSL meme maker & quote database
“hard men make good times, good times make soft men, and soft men make me hard” -Richard Rider
This is bullshit. Boomers, genXers and now millenials have been fighting against wild capitalism for decades, and a lot of them died fighting or are rotting in jail right now.
You don’t need to give air to a fascist myth
thanks, now my brain will forever connect this myth to gay sex
Bickering about what generation is better. My favorite topic. 🙄
Dunno, I hear lots of young people say that.
This is really stupid.
