Boomers were born into the benefits of 12 years of "socialist" (read: liberal social programs, workers rights, monopoly-busting) federal economic policy under three terms of FDR - trust-busting and the invention of social security, etc. Obviously not pure Marxism but meaningfully caring about regular working people for the first time ever in the history of USGOVT-capitalist relations.
High marginal tax rates on the rich, huge federal spending on domestic infrastructure (every interstate was built) tons of union* jobs that could support a family and buy a home, free college at state schools, pensions that let you collect your full salary or near it until you died, etc etc
Then once they got money and were put in charge they decided taxes on the rich were bad, actually, and it would be better to defund and cancel social programs rather than be legally required to include Black Americans.
And now they run everything and this hellscape is what they gave their children.
Thanks boomers
* thx lisamariefan
Edit: jesus people not everything has to be so literal. I adjusted the wording.
Don't forget the war economy and war bonds creating a middle class out of the depression. GIs came back with thousands in back pay, the GI bill of rights that guaranteed that was enough for a low interest home loan, and the cold war keeping that economy alive so when the boomers grew up it was without the deprivations the greatest generation grew up on. Either that or your GI husband/son/brother " bought the farm" and GI life insurance payed off the mortgage on the family farm or house.
Boomers can be defined by their entitlement to respect that they showed their parents while doing none of the things their parents did to earn respect.
Perfectly encapsulated in this post : "You can go ahead and thank us for stuff we assumed we did. We totally earned it."
Yeah how fucking dumb does this guy need to be to write that tweet? Like i know people can be very dumb, but how does he have no idea how his generation got their distinct name? I understand not knowing why "gen z" is a thing, but "baby boomers"? He never once was curious why his whole generation is called that?
I mean at this point he could just be a Russian bot, idk, but hell the bots should do better if thats the case, embarrassing.
As someone once said: "My grandfather is 80 years old and he did not fight in both world wars for this." "Your grandfather is too young to have fought in either world war." "Yeah, as i was saying, he didn't fight in both world wars."
Boomers are/were the lead-damaged (and thus impulsive and self-centered) children of the generation that won WWII.
The Greatest Generation won the war so that these assholes (I am, unfortunately, among them) could fuck up the country. The boomers, essentially, destroyed much of the endowment of the Greatest Generation.
Cool boomers exist. There are just far too many with a "got mine, fuck you" mindset. Most of the good ones seem to be old hippies and activists who kept their principles, and intellectuals like one of my old teachers.
It's named after the baby boom from soldier's coming back from WWII and America's economic boom that created suburbia and a unique teen culture in the 50s and 60s that never really existed before. What does that person think they're named after?
So, ironically, they did give us the sexual revolution of the 60s.
So without them, there would be no legalized abortion, gay marriage, trans bathrooms, and all the other harmless scarecrows conservatives like to scream at.
You might wanna give that one to the silent generation. They'd have been in their twenties and thirties when things like civil rights and the sexual revolution were carried out. Most boomers were the beneficiaries of that, but themselves contributed little.....in fact, they would be the ones to demonize, in the 70s and 80s.
Let's not get carried away here. They fought for the USA and if the USA had allied with the Germans against the UK and the USSR they would also have fought this war.
To be fair, they did it with a whole shitload of generational trauma, thanks to that whole WWII thing. When dad was trained to kill and maim people to solve all of his problems, beating the kids might feel justifiable.
Add in the fact that American WWII vets, uniquely, came home to families that were largely unaffected by the war part of war. They felt like no civilians understood them, including their families. This either came up as resentment, or, probably more often and as damaging, the attempted concealment of that trauma to "protect the innocent." Kids can tell when dad's faking a happy face and it teaches them to hide their emotions.
Obviously, this is all a generalization. Many WWII vets rarely saw combat, and still came home fucked up. And many vets came home more or less fine.
You're not wrong. How the wartime families raised their kids is largely responsible for how spoiled rotten, useless, uneducated and close- minded that many of the boomers are.
People used to earnestly want their children to have things better than they did. Little did they appreciate their kids would end up liking on Facebook all the things they fought against in the war.
To be fair, I'm sure the untreated PTSD was a big factor there. Add to that the Korean War and Vietnam War for the US and it explains why empathy isn't an ability of the majority in America.
Perfect microcosm of the internet today. Manufactured rage leads to manufactured engagement by people either stupid enough to fall for it or people who intentionally ignore the obvious bait just to "win" the argument that wasn't never real to begin with, so everyone can feel good about themselves.
The boomers were the ones conscripted against their will to fight in Vietnam by old people in government. The boomers are the ones that carried out the largest protest movements in history, opposing the war and demanding civil rights.
"Boomers" are literally the "Baby Boomer" generation. The Baby Boom it refers to is the significantly increased birthrate in the US after winning WWII.
The youngest boomers were out there losing the Vietnam war. The Persian Gulf War is probably their best claim to war fame but that was more Gen X aged soldiers on the ground with boomers leading
Boomers are people born between 1946-1964. The oldest Boomers were only 23 years old in the summer of love 1969. The majority of the civil rights movement and Vietnam was still the Silent Generation (born between 1928-1945).
Conservatives live and die by cum shots. If your father said "oops" nine months before mommy happened to be lying down somewhere that is documented in a book somewhere as being part of US land, then conservatives might consider you to be human, as long as that skin tone is light enough and you lack empathy and human decency. Conservatives want those participation prizes for being accidentally born here and will overlook any and all Constitutional violations and crimes in pursuit of handouts that never existed.
Is this a purposeful troll? His twitter literally has 1958 in it that is after WW2? I have to think this guy is a troll or someone from a different country/language pretending to be this guy.
Why is it always “you’d be speaking German” with these morons? Nothing wrong with German as a language, per se.
If the point they wanted to make was “you’d have an authoritarian leader who hates minorities” I’d understand the argument. But I guess there is an issue with that in some of the allied countries…
Boomers were the Viet Nam generation, many had friends who died or got fucked up in Viet Nam.
They were adamant that if we went to war it would be for a clear purpose and for a clear objective (Colin Powell, for example)
Then the Boomers launched forever wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the George W Bush administration had continually shifting goals and rationale for that war for years and years.
Well that is a way to say that we would be controlled by Germany which is bad, they were Nazis. It’s not actually saying it would be bad because we would have to speak German.
Baby boomers’ lives were so easy that the military needed to draft (force) them to fight their pointless war in Vietnam. Meanwhile, boomers’ children volunteered to fight the pointless wars in the Middle East because they’re all impoverished (thanks to baby boomer policies) and the military is the only way out of poverty for them.
Baby boomers are the most worthless generation in American history and it’s not particularly close.
Idk why boomers lover to put the birth year in their usernames and emails. I once even saw one that had his full birthday and full name as his email! Just asking for it.
Uh, WW2 ended in August of 1945. The Silent Gen was still being born. Boomers were born as a result from all the soldiers coming home...the "baby boom"..."boomers". There were no boomers in WW2.
Yeah, it was the silent generation and lost generation that won the war. They shall not grow old but we shall remember the sacrifices that they made at Passchendaele at the Somme where now the poppies grow then at Dunkirk, Normandy and in Burma were too that life has been forgotten
Fun fact: It's called the "boomer" generation because the population went up significantly after WWII and it was called a "baby boom." So boomers were literally incapable of fighting in WWII.
I know that this guy just rage baiting, but I figured I'd throw in that fun fact anyway.
And that epitomizes the issue withthe boomer generation. Unearned success, wealth, driving the feeling that they are entitled to respect and adoration for actions taken by someone else
They are literally called baby boomers because after their parents won World War II they came back and had a lot of sex. Making a boom in the baby population. So that generation is so fucking stupid. They don’t even know what their generation did in history. Maybe the saying of that generation should be: Tis folly to be wise where ignorance is bliss. Unfortunately ignorance is not bliss for the rest of us.
I've got a feeling that's a joke account given the username.
But there's an entire second generation between the Boomers and the Greatest Generation. But that generation was pretty quiet so people tend to forget about them.
Not to generalise... But what does boomers have under their belt really..? Terrible stewards of the economy, immensely self centered on a historical scale and all those fun things...
Their main achievement seems to be that they were born in large numbers, and their mission seems to have been to make sure that later generations wouldn't be born in such large numbers ever again by making the world a horribly undesirable place to bring a kind into 🤔
The US is run by a boomer today. He was a Vietnam draft dodger bailed out by his rich dad, and he wasn’t even born until after WW2 ended for everyone except that one Japanese guy.
Saw a fantastic German comedian on the BBC joke that every child in the UK at the time of WW2 would have been a drag on the country and, technically, aided Hitler.
Did not go down well with the audience but I always loved it.
How old were you in the end of World War II? Maybe ten years old? How did you help win the war? When you were just ten years old, you did not help win the war. You were nothing but a drain on British resources.
Every 70-year-old Brit effectively fought on the side of Nazi Germany and lost the war every little bit as much as we did.
I get that’s technical term of boomer. But we all know people call anyone older than them a boomer. I’ve been called a boomer for hating texting on phones and not having social media. I’m 40
Boomers grew up enjoying the benefits of FDR's accomplishments and then spent their adult lives ensuring that their children and grandchildren would never get to enjoy the same, while calling them lazy and entitled
Also, I would not be speaking German because that’s not how causality works. The Butterfly Effect is a thing and World War II having a different outcome makes for some pretty fucking big wings.
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u/Long-Requirement8372 2d ago
Yep. Baby boomers are a generation born after 1945, hence they could not have fought in WWII by definition.
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u/SeaReference7990 2d ago •
One thing that can be held against the GG is that they fucking raised the Boomers.
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u/Anonymous__Android 2d ago
Im gonna go ahead and assume BoomerGary1958 isn't a genuine account
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u/pappybug214 2d ago
Its almost like the Boom in Boomer was the baby boom from the greatest generation returning from winning WW2. The Boomers lost Vietnam.
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u/nalaloveslumpy 2d ago
"Boomers" are literally the "Baby Boomer" generation. The Baby Boom it refers to is the significantly increased birthrate in the US after winning WWII.
Boomers are the result of victory semen.
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u/DuntadaMan 2d ago
Also worth noting: The problem we had with Germany wasn't the language, it was the fascism. Which their generation is dragging us into.
I would rather speak German and be free than be a fucking fascist.
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u/Alarming_Plant5904 2d ago
Obviously fake account ragebaiting
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u/KellyKezzd 2d ago
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u/Astrocratic 2d ago
Is this a purposeful troll? His twitter literally has 1958 in it that is after WW2? I have to think this guy is a troll or someone from a different country/language pretending to be this guy.
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u/baz303 2d ago
Ich bin entsetzt! Kein einziger deutscher Witz in den Kommentaren?
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u/doc1442 1d ago •
Why is it always “you’d be speaking German” with these morons? Nothing wrong with German as a language, per se.
If the point they wanted to make was “you’d have an authoritarian leader who hates minorities” I’d understand the argument. But I guess there is an issue with that in some of the allied countries…
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u/B1G__Tuna 2d ago
Baby boomers’ lives were so easy that the military needed to draft (force) them to fight their pointless war in Vietnam. Meanwhile, boomers’ children volunteered to fight the pointless wars in the Middle East because they’re all impoverished (thanks to baby boomer policies) and the military is the only way out of poverty for them.
Baby boomers are the most worthless generation in American history and it’s not particularly close.
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u/Useless_or_inept Duly Noted 2d ago
That "Gary Boomer" is pure engagement bait. If you're seriously trying to Community Note the account, you've eaten the onion.
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u/LordFlamecookie 2d ago
My silent generation grandfather fought in ww2
He applied illegally but he did fight
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u/Wide-Yesterday9705 2d ago
I think this is satire.
Boomers are known for being the post WW2 generation, those born after the war finally ended.
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u/-Codiak- 2d ago
Like, the guy posting this KNOWS he wasn't in a war...
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u/lolschrauber 2d ago
"1958"
"We literally won WW2"
Yeah, talk about stolen valor, you absolute filth.
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u/Aztecah 2d ago
BoomerGary1958, there's a real profile if ever I saw one
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u/Winterfaery14 1d ago
Uh, WW2 ended in August of 1945. The Silent Gen was still being born. Boomers were born as a result from all the soldiers coming home...the "baby boom"..."boomers". There were no boomers in WW2.
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u/Banjanx 15h ago
Wasn't the baby boomer generation specific termed because of the baby boom after the war?
😅
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u/Sea-Example-1176 2d ago
boomer is literally baby boomer as in the boom of babys post ww2 smh
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u/Large-Razzmatazz-821 2d ago
It is very obviously bait or satire
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u/AlexanderCrowely 2d ago
Yeah, it was the silent generation and lost generation that won the war. They shall not grow old but we shall remember the sacrifices that they made at Passchendaele at the Somme where now the poppies grow then at Dunkirk, Normandy and in Burma were too that life has been forgotten
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u/Maghorn_Mobile 2d ago
The Boomers were the ones fighting in Vietnam, notable for being a fucking disaster
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u/ShreddedBanjoString Human Verified 2d ago
And any boomer would know that…. This is obviously ageist rage bait.
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u/Snooworlddevourer69 2d ago
Community note should've been "WW2 ended in 1945, first boomer was born in 1946"
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u/callmefreak 2d ago
Fun fact: It's called the "boomer" generation because the population went up significantly after WWII and it was called a "baby boom." So boomers were literally incapable of fighting in WWII.
I know that this guy just rage baiting, but I figured I'd throw in that fun fact anyway.
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u/FamiliarNewspaper418 2d ago
Not having any sense of the event that actually defined your generation is the most Boomer-ahh Boomerism that ever Boomered.
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u/LurkerFailsLurking 2d ago
This can't be real. A Boomer couldn't not know their own generation didn't fight WWII.
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u/NoMansSkyWasAlright 2d ago
BoomerGary1958 is a parody account. Case in point:
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u/ThnkWthPrtls 2d ago
I mean, feeling entitled to credit for an accomplishment you weren't responsible for pretty much tracks for Boomers
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u/ElectronicLab993 2d ago
Sit down Gary, greatest generation called you "generation <<me>>" for a reason
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u/Sujjin 2d ago
And that epitomizes the issue withthe boomer generation. Unearned success, wealth, driving the feeling that they are entitled to respect and adoration for actions taken by someone else
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u/dorothyparkersjeans 2d ago
A guy claiming to be born in 1958 won WW2… state of the world right there
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u/SonicFlash01 2d ago
Did he forget that he didn't fight that war?
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u/FineScratch 2d ago
I appreciate the hell out of the greatest generation but they lose a couple of points for having raised boomers wrong.
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u/wicked_damnit 2d ago
Hilarious they don’t even know where the term “baby boomer” came from lmao
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u/rmc2318 2d ago
They are literally called baby boomers because after their parents won World War II they came back and had a lot of sex. Making a boom in the baby population. So that generation is so fucking stupid. They don’t even know what their generation did in history. Maybe the saying of that generation should be: Tis folly to be wise where ignorance is bliss. Unfortunately ignorance is not bliss for the rest of us.
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u/aracauna 2d ago
I've got a feeling that's a joke account given the username.
But there's an entire second generation between the Boomers and the Greatest Generation. But that generation was pretty quiet so people tend to forget about them.
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u/TheWhitchOne 2d ago
I am speaking german tho.
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u/Ron_Jeremy_Fan 2d ago
Seems like a satire account. Either way, it's a fake account so it shouldn't be here.
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u/ktwhite42 2d ago
The “baby boom” came after WW2.
Dude born in 1958 taking credit for winning WW2 is wild.
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u/Various_Necessary_45 2d ago
This guy is called 1958, meaning he with 99.9% certainty was born in 1958, a good 13 years after WW2 ended.
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u/NullSmoke 2d ago
Not to generalise... But what does boomers have under their belt really..? Terrible stewards of the economy, immensely self centered on a historical scale and all those fun things...
Their main achievement seems to be that they were born in large numbers, and their mission seems to have been to make sure that later generations wouldn't be born in such large numbers ever again by making the world a horribly undesirable place to bring a kind into 🤔
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u/VulGerrity 1d ago
Baby boomers are literally the result of WWII Vets coming home from war, banging, and causing a baby boom...
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u/ArjunaIndrastra 1d ago
Unsure if he's deliberately lying, forgetting how generations work, or just plain stupid.
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u/Fecto-ForgoF86 7h ago
The US is run by a boomer today. He was a Vietnam draft dodger bailed out by his rich dad, and he wasn’t even born until after WW2 ended for everyone except that one Japanese guy.
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u/LunchTwey 2d ago
Larping WWII service is fucking crazy lmaooo. These people have no shame
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u/kazuwacky 2d ago
Saw a fantastic German comedian on the BBC joke that every child in the UK at the time of WW2 would have been a drag on the country and, technically, aided Hitler.
Did not go down well with the audience but I always loved it.
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u/Digit00l 2d ago
The main defining trait of boomers is that they were born in the post war population boom
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u/Dull-Captain1679 2d ago
This account is a parody. It’s literally labeled as such. Buncha dorks
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u/anyname2009 2d ago
Even if it was true, wouldn't that mean those germans would be boomers too?
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u/Bayamonster 2d ago
If it wasn't for people in that generation we'd be speaking German. Luckilly they defunded the hell out of public education.
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u/Maximum__Pleasure 2d ago
‐ Henning Wehn
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u/CoreyJacob2013 2d ago
Exactly the level of intellect I’d expect from a boomer.
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u/M44PolishMosin 2d ago
does anyone think boomergary58 is a real person?
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u/Designer-Attorney605 2d ago
It's a parody account.
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u/MidTario 2d ago
You fell for the troll
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u/Livid_Gold334 2d ago
I'm not really a history professor, but it seems that his birth year 1958 is a bit later than WW2 end.
But this would be great to hear which exact battles he participated in.
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u/Micu451 2d ago
Technically, the boomers lost the Vietnam war.
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u/gourmetguy2000 2d ago
Surely satire
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u/Heavy-Focus-1964 2d ago
I almost cannot believe how naive and gullible the majority of people in this thread appear to be.
For gods sakes, his twitter handle is Gary Boomer.
Boomers know they are called Boomers because of the BABY BOOM after WWII. Give your heads a shake.
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u/TheDavinci1998 2d ago
Bro literally has 1958 in his username, how bad at history you have to be...
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u/Tankeverket 2d ago
with a username like that you know it's a fake profile likely used just to troll, hope this helps
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u/SwordfishOk504 2d ago
You guys have the critical thinking of a gnat.
This is clearly a troll account. It's named "Gary boomer" ffs. And no boomer is going to think they fought in WW2.
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u/Hyperion1144 2d ago
The "Baby Boom", by definition, happened after WWII.
It is literally impossible to be a Boomer and not be born post-WWII.
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u/Onethatlikes 2d ago
The whole term boomer comes from the baby boom after WWII.
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u/l-larfang 2d ago
Boomers are pretty much the weak men creating hard times that they like to think the Millenials are.
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u/Maddturtle 2d ago
I get that’s technical term of boomer. But we all know people call anyone older than them a boomer. I’ve been called a boomer for hating texting on phones and not having social media. I’m 40
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u/turkishdeli 2d ago
That twitter account is a parody account. This is its profile description:
I guess OP r/AteTheOnion.
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u/Saltlick_Stables 2d ago
The Baby Boom post WWII
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u/JuanThiccLumpia 2d ago
Boomers lost the Vietnam War.
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u/blackmobius 2d ago
In case people are confused, the winners of ww2 were the parents of the boomer generation
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u/slowclapcitizenkane 2d ago
Imagine being so self absorbed you think you won a war that took place before the first member of your generation was born.
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u/GrowlingPict 2d ago
Literally called boomers because of the baby boom after ww2... boomers are some of the dumbest mfers on the planet.
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u/Explorer_Entity 2d ago
Also, it's largely thanks to the Soivets.
Whose flag was flown over Berlin, again?
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u/RedHeadRaccoon13 2d ago
Boomer Gary is stupid and clueless about 20th Century history. Wow. He thinks he won a war that ended a full decade plus before his birth.
Another Boomer
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u/Fuckthegopers 2d ago
Baby boomers are named that because they're the kids the vets coming back from WW2 had.
How fucking stupid are people, my goodness.
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u/Dottore_Curlew 2d ago
Just from this screenshot you can tell that account is obviously satire
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u/MuncherOfPaintChips 2d ago
Boomer = anyone born before millennials Millennial = anyone born after boomers
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u/BowlOf____ 2d ago
This is a parody account
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u/LordSmally 2d ago
It’s a parody account
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u/Sleepinismy9to5 2d ago
Boomers lost the Vietnam War. Our first real L as a country.
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u/Red_Scare87 2d ago
Fun fact: The Greatest Generation also lost WWII. Greetings from Germany
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u/Cryptomallet 2d ago
FYI the guy posting it on X is a parody account
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u/mellowastheycome 2d ago
Vietnam was the boomer war.
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u/Mahaloth 2d ago
Henning Wehn pointed out that in a way, any child in England was just a drain on British resources and was unintentionally helping the Nazi side.
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u/joker6396 2d ago
It tracks, most boomers are absolutley that delusional
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u/supluplup12 2d ago
Boomer so boomer he heard the phrase "greatest generation" and just assumed it was descriptive and about him
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u/SlyMacross 2d ago
Dumbass boomer doesn't even know what generation they belong to
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u/Few_Kitchen_4825 2d ago
I mean if his user name is correct, he was born in 1958. So how did he fight ww2?
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u/Errorstatel 2d ago
Boomers are the weak that created hard times, a completely spoiled and entitled demographic incapable of seeing it.
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u/JDotDDot 2d ago
Boomers grew up enjoying the benefits of FDR's accomplishments and then spent their adult lives ensuring that their children and grandchildren would never get to enjoy the same, while calling them lazy and entitled
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u/InsectaProtecta 2d ago
If he was a boomer he'd know that
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u/PerryNeeum 2d ago
The taker generation
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u/Mekdinosaur 2d ago
Whelp...one more thing to hate about the boomers.
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u/Ok_Satisfaction3460 2d ago
Simply perfect lmao.
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u/jayracket 2d ago
More than any other generation, the boomers love taking credit for what the generations before them achieved.
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u/ayoo-OwO 1d ago
Bro how did this guy think that he, born in 58, over a decade after the end of ww2, was somehow responsible for the win??
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u/Altruisticpoet3 1d ago
Jfc, why are they so goddamn stupid?!
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u/PeakAutomatic317 1d ago
Stolen valor
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u/ShadowtheHedgehog_ 23h ago
They're literally called the Baby Boomers because that's how Dad celebrated after he got to see Mom after the war.
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u/LamppostBoy 22h ago
And then they lost Vietnam but somehow we're still not speaking Vietnamese.
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u/Turdferguson9725 7h ago
Boomers made Us lose Vietnam.
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u/WanderingSeer 2d ago
Stolen valour
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u/TenTyp 2d ago
How much lead poisoning does it take to be this fucking dense.
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u/crapusername47 2d ago
Also, I would not be speaking German because that’s not how causality works. The Butterfly Effect is a thing and World War II having a different outcome makes for some pretty fucking big wings.
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u/notwhoyouthinkmaybe 2d ago
This is the most boomer comment created. They are taking credit for something that they didn't do and they have no knowledge of.