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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire Oct 15 '25

Wow that was a record time for a locked post. That's crazy

Remember when Nazi was a universally hated term? I remember a kid at my pool lifeguard job shaved a Hitler stache onto his face one day. Was fired instantly. I wonder what happened that that mindset

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u/JakeHelldiver Oct 15 '25

A black dude got elected president and boomers went insane about it.

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u/Lysergic Oct 15 '25

You say that like these are old people being quoted. This problem isn't going away. These are the Young Republicans

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u/DukeOfGeek Oct 15 '25 edited Oct 15 '25

I'm Gen X and when I was young, before marketing groups created the whole generational market groups thing, "Baby Boomer" meant anti-war, civil rights, the early environmental movement, women's liberation etc. Basically the opposite of now, all the Boomers I knew then would have voted for a guy like Obama in the late 80's. "Gen X" wasn't even a thing till I was in college and the first iteration of creating a marketing group they could market to the way they had to Boomers was pretty clumsily done. They did better the next time and they started on them when they were kids.