It’s not older generations fucking younger generations. It’s the wealthy people fucking the vulnerable
The wealthy don’t care who you hate: the elderly, foreigners, immigrants, muslims, jews, black people, white people, the chinese… They’ll be fine as long as you’re fighting amongst each other.
The
<insertGroupCategoryHere>-war is a proxy for the only war that ever mattered: The Class War.
Guess who’s got all the money! Hint: it’s not young people.
It’s also not the old people. Sure, the rich are old people, but that doesn’t mean old people are rich.
My grandfather died and his wife sold their 200k lake front cabin to a stranger for 40k. She wastes thousands of his pension at the casino every week. It sickens me he worked his whole life and it’s all just being given to strangers.
Row 2 would kick in the teeth of Row 3 if they saw them voting for fascists like they keep doing.
oh yeah fuck women, homosexuals and minorities, those were the good old days full of good honest people
Good and bad can coexist in a worldview. Teach your kids that they should love their neighbors but your neighbors are all white and straight (-presenting), etc. They were terrible in aggregate in a lot of ways, but there was solid agreement that Nazis could go fuck themselves. If boomers wish their kids would listen to them more, maybe they should remember their own parents’ stances on fascism.
Nazis could go fuck themselfs unless they needed them to go to the moon
Boomer here, the first moon landing happened before I started high school. The same “greatest generation” that fought the nazis also brought them into the space program. Please get your fucking history straight.
what? that was exactly the point. I mean what to expect from americans lol
You’re talking about the generation that was literally in charge when American society was desegregated, when women were first allowed to have bank accounts, and when homosexuality was legalized, but go off.
Exactly, it’s the abject willful ignorance that angers me. It’s not like the facts aren’t there, but profiling is easier than thinking.
Right, cuz of course the Young Republicans are a myth.
Probably not actually, the Nazi party was relatively popular in America, they really only entered the war to make some money and essentially takeover the global economy and politics.
[Citation needed]
I was curious, and it was german american groups like the Gemran America Bund which had ~25,000 members. There were also groups that opposed them and pro nazi leaders were arrested when the US entered the war. So not really broad support by any means.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazism_in_the_Americas
Also US companies kept making money in nazi germany, even using forced labor in some cases…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_collaboration_with_Nazi_Germany
The USA was already making money from both sides of the war in Europe. That was mostly the reason they didn’t enter it until Japan bombed them because Japan didn’t like having their fuel supplies cut off by the USA because the USA thought the USA should be the only ones to expand an empire into the Pacific. Following that they wanted support for their retaliation to Japan’s retaliation to their retaliation to Japan’s expansion into the Pacific so they picked a side in Europe (probably the side who owed them the most money) and entered the war against the Nazis.
so they picked a side in Europe (probably the side who owed them the most money)
Maybe I’m misunderstanding what you’re saying, but it seems Japan was allied with Germany and Italy at the time of the Pearl Harbor attack. Given this is the case, I’m not sure what fight against Japan and alongside Germany could have possibly looked like.
They had a loose alliance from 1936 and signed the tripartite in 1940 but that really amounted to keeping out of each other way and sharing information. They only mutually declared war on the US a week after Japan bombed pearl harbour. The US was still profiting from both sides of the European theatre up until then so whos to say what backroom negotiations were happening between Germany and the US in that week. The Nazis werent really renown for treating people from different ethnic groups as equals so who’s to say what their first preference of allies were. We can only rely on our written history which is conveniently written by the winners …
You’d make a good history teacher.
You’ll upset a lot of yanks who ignore how 'Murica sat out most of the war, how Henry Ford and others were huge fans of Hitler, and that they didn’t rescue the rest of the world
You already took everything from me, Mom. I don’t have anything left to take care of you with. Now we’ll both starve. I’m the frog, you’re the scorpion on my back, and these are the consequences of you stinging me.
“I’m not worrying about it. I will be dead by then”
As a 13th generation North American I don’t get this meme.
Mayflower material, eh?
No, those are 15th generation.
We came from Germany to Philadelphia via Dublin a little after them because the French burned our house down.
Oddly, I’m a 13th gen Mayflower. They liked to keep cranking 'em out for a while I guess. Might also explain the offshoot that became Mormon. We don’t associate with them.
I estimated the generations for mine and just added two because we came 40 years after. Depending on the fecundity of my line it might be more than that.
Strangely, I’m a 13th generation Mayflower baby as well (via John Howland), but unfortunately my whole family has long been Mormon (not me since I graduated high school at least). I don’t associate with them either.
let’s calculate: mayflower in 1618 to today, roughly 2018 is about 400 years. first child was mostly had around age 22 for most of that time, so that makes 400 / 22 ≈ 18 generations if you’re descended from a long row of first-borns.
Similar here, though I think I’m only the 12th generation
There’s a traditionalist/conservative band in Québec that made a very popular song about this about 20 years ago called “Dégénération”. The song is pretty good but I always hated it because at some point they whine about some young woman that’s always with a different partner and “saves herself” with abortions, saying she secretly dreams of having 14 kids, like her great grandmother. The rest of the lyrics are pretty bang on, but they’re really insisting on the traditionalist aspects and it sours the song for me.
But essentially, the first bits are going like this:
Your great-great-grandfather, he cleared the land
Your great-grandfather, he worked the land
And then your grandfather made the land profitable
Then your father, he sold it to become a civil servant
Fossil fuels enabled mechanization and chemically-assisted abundance. See: Green Revolution. This allowed fewer people to work at supplying our food, and instead of enabling a lovely leisure society we just invented more ways to torment each other.
Yeah it’s not like boomers showed up for anti-war marches, anti-racism marches, environmental marches… no, nothing like that, we just said “fuck you entitled brats”. This manufactured hate is as ignorant as criticizing young people for not having kids, or thinking they all sit around eating avocado toast.
Not my parents. They’re consuming everything they can and are explicit that they don’t worry about after them.
Born in 1947 and 1952.
Same, 46 and 50. And all of their siblings that are still alive. Zero plans to leave a cent of their gains to their families.
And yet none of the boomers I know think or act like that. Whaddya know - people are individuals and aren’t defined by the public perception of their generation. It’s almost like people deserve for you to treat them as the individuals they are instead of regurgitating memes about them.
Kids have a way of happening.
A hundred years from now, there will be a small dip on the chart for this time, that’s it.
I dunno, for Australia at least it seems pretty dire and continuing to worsen
The total fertility rate required for replacement is considered to be around 2.1 babies per woman to replace herself and her partner in the absence of overseas migration.
Australia’s total fertility rate:
- was 1.481 babies per woman in 2024, lower than 2023 (1.499) and the rate 10 years ago (1.795 in 2014)
- has been below replacement since 1976.
That doesn’t make any sense
They’re saying that “Life has a way” Babies still get born even though you ended your bloodline
