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I don't normally watch daytime TV, but I watched a movie today and every commercial was for retiring or retired seniors. AARP this, Medicare that, Reverse Mortgage the other thing. Every single concern these AARP ads complain about is something these stupid fucks sponsored and supported in Congress over the last 20 years because it had the words freedom or security in it.  "I want to talk to somebody in the United States when I call a help line", well fuckers, you should have thought about that before you sponsored every "free trade agreement" that sent those kinds of jobs overseas. "Medicare and Social Security won't cover what they used to!" Yeah, I wonder why that is? "I've heard about this new thing called a Reverse Mortgage?" That sounds like a winner! Alex Trebek, Pat Boone, Actor and Former Senator Fred Thompson, and Mother-loving FONZIE are convincing you shitheads to sell your house back to the bank for significantly less than it's worth just so you can live in it a few years more and get more cash to gently caress around with besides?!I hope all the baby boomers fall down their loving stairs and have to get a lovely chairlift installed so they can drive the value of their home down even more before they get their reverse mortgage to cover the extra costs of Medicare Part B and their AARP membership. Baby Boomers, the most blind and selfish generation.
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May 13, 2015 20:13
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Sad part is they largely won't suffer any of the looming consequences of their poo poo. Doesn't matter that they sold out future jobs for a cheaper now, they're retiring. Doesn't matter they wasted all the welfare for old people, gen x's and y's will just foot the bill and bail em out. They basically ruined the country in a generation and will all die off before things get super bad.
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May 13, 2015 20:21
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Gonna be glad when the babyboomers are dead and millennials have no one else to blame.
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May 13, 2015 20:22
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I agree. Arguably the worst part is they were the whole hippy movement about 'peace and love' but then they totally sold out all of their ideals and voted in all these right wing neocon nutjobs.burritolingus posted:Gonna be glad when the babyboomers are dead and millennials have no one else to blame. I get your point but at the same time Reagan is probably the worst (or at least second worst) president we've had since 1900 by far, given what his (and the neocons') policies have spawned. Moridin920 fucked around with this message at 20:31 on May 13, 2015 |
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May 13, 2015 20:27
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this belongs in dnd
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May 13, 2015 20:28
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burritolingus posted:Gonna be glad when the babyboomers are dead and millennials have no one else to blame. It's not like there won't be longstanding repercussions for their poo poo, boomers will be to blame for the next several generations of suffering because it's going to be incredibly difficult to undo all the political damage they did. The system is now setup such that the only people with power to change things have no desire and the only people with desire to change things have no power.
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May 13, 2015 20:31
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Darkman Fanpage posted:this belongs in dnd just don't read it then I don't understand why people have an issue if GBS isn't 100% poo poo posting 24/7
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May 13, 2015 20:31
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ArbitraryC posted:It's not like there won't be longstanding repercussions for their poo poo, boomers will be to blame for the next several generations of suffering because it's going to be incredibly difficult to undo all the political damage they did. The system is now setup such that the only people with power to change things have no desire and the only people with desire to change things have no power. you mean like most political systems?
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May 13, 2015 20:32
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burritolingus posted:Gonna be glad when the babyboomers are dead and millennials have no one else to blame. Well who do you blame when these daytime movies only show lovely AARP commercials anymore? What if I want a  degree from ITT tech or DeVry or some other "Get your degree in Business Management or Accounting"? I can't even find the numbers anymore. Last time I watched daytime TV in the states, they had all these commercials for schools and debt relief and poo poo. They had testimonials from hicks about how their tech school degree really helped them get ahead in life and how now they are married, have a child and "got another baby comin' on the way".
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May 13, 2015 20:33
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Darkman Fanpage posted:this belongs in dnd dnd sucks, and also this is about daytime TV commercials for shitheads who brought their problems on themselves. Like everybody who's watching daytime TV.
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May 13, 2015 20:35
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Darkman Fanpage posted:you mean like most political systems? There were a ton of legislation passed during boomer's reign that allowed significantly more influence from the corporate elite than previously and it's going to be much harder to undo poo poo like that now that they already have a foothold. I'm not saying the gradual consolidation of power is a unique problem to american politics but most of the legislation that makes the situation so bad today was pretty much directly the boomer's fault.
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May 13, 2015 20:35
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Moridin920 posted:just don't read it then Oh it's shitposting. You don't have to be wrong to shitpost. gently caress baby boomers
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May 13, 2015 20:36
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My Q-Face posted:Well who do you blame when these daytime movies only show lovely AARP commercials anymore? What if I want a Advertisers who know who's going to be watching daytime movies and targets that audience.
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May 13, 2015 20:37
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best part is when they use their reverse mortgage income to try to eke out a few more years of existence and throw enormous sums at the medical industry, inflate the cost of everything to stupid levels, and then die, leaving their kids to face a $175,000 bill for a broken ankle because US doctors in 2030 will be used to making a million a year
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May 13, 2015 20:38
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Jonny 290 posted:best part is when they use their reverse mortgage income to try to eke out a few more years of existence and throw enormous sums at the medical industry, inflate the cost of everything to stupid levels, and then die, leaving their kids to face a $175,000 bill for a broken ankle because US doctors in 2030 will be used to making a million a year but they refuse to vote for healthcare reform because their brains are so addled by 70s anti-soviet propaganda 
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May 13, 2015 20:40
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Are people actually doing those reverse mortgages? We're going to have an entire generation of old people who gave their kids in death what they gave in life, debt.
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May 13, 2015 20:41
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ArbitraryC posted:Are people actually doing those reverse mortgages? We're going to have an entire generation of old people who gave their kids in death what they gave in life, debt. Of course they are. You have to live large till the very end.
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May 13, 2015 20:44
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Moridin920 posted:but they refuse to vote for healthcare reform because their brains are so addled by 70s anti-soviet propaganda red panic propaganda predates the 1970s by quite a few decades, baby boomers were getting fed that poo poo in the womb
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May 13, 2015 20:45
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The White Dragon posted:red panic propaganda predates the 1970s by quite a few decades, baby boomers were getting fed that poo poo in the womb True idk why I put 70s there like anti-red scare poo poo wasn't a thing since the early 1900s (or earlier even)
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May 13, 2015 20:47
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ArbitraryC posted:Are people actually doing those reverse mortgages? We're going to have an entire generation of old people who gave their kids in death what they gave in life, debt. thankfully the least you can leave your kids is nothing. that wont stop creditors from trying to recoup their losses with extra fees
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May 13, 2015 20:51
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ArbitraryC posted:Are people actually doing those reverse mortgages? We're going to have an entire generation of old people who gave their kids in death what they gave in life, debt. lol you think they give a gently caress "gently caress YOU GOT MINE" the motto of boomers. I know they're not all like that but that's what their generation represents to my generation.
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May 13, 2015 20:53
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The sad thing is all boomers will be dead for decades before history books teach children how awful they were. The good thing is that boomers will have no means to sugarcoat their lifetime of irresponsibility.
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May 13, 2015 20:56
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I was in rural Indiana the other day and saw a bunch of yard signs urging people to vote against some referendum for increased education taxes. Like yeah, that's what Indiana needs, less education.
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May 13, 2015 21:02
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tbh most post boomer generations are just as gullible, they just like to think they're smarter and instead of falling for straight up poo poo like boomers, they fall for for poo poo that has a wink at the end
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May 13, 2015 21:02
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Xaris posted:tbh most post boomer generations are just as gullible, they just like to think they're smarter and instead of falling for straight up poo poo like boomers, they fall for for poo poo that has a wink at the end unfortunately true but at least we didn't have a massive hippy peace and love movement while voting for evil the current generation knows poo poo is hosed they're just content with the bread and circuses
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May 13, 2015 21:09
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revmoo posted:I was in rural Indiana the other day and saw a bunch of yard signs urging people to vote against some referendum for increased education taxes. Lol if you think this isn't very deliberate. Educated people are really annoying to the rich and powerful
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May 13, 2015 21:10
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HD DAD posted:Lol if you think this isn't very deliberate. Educated people are really annoying to the rich and powerful Back in the day some poli sci prof was talking about how during the cold war the US paid for all these awesome american libraries to be built around the world, with AC and free clean water fountains. The idea was that people would go in there and see how great america/capitalism was and resist the commies. What ended up happening was people went there and saw a lifestyle that even if they somehow got a degree was completely beyond them and they got so pissed they all became commies. What I'm saying is that we should kill all the boomers.
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May 13, 2015 21:21
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Personally it's pretty messed up that there was an entire generation allowed to explode babies.
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May 13, 2015 21:22
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the answer is to shoot everyone with money hth
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May 13, 2015 21:37
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in case you dont understand i mean an actual money cannon. use it and become rich
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May 13, 2015 21:37
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burritolingus posted:Gonna be glad when the babyboomers are dead and millennials have no one else to blame. Just like how people stopped blaming Bush in 2009.
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May 13, 2015 21:40
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GORDON posted:Just like how people stopped blaming Bush in 2009. it's going to be my awful irresponsible self-absorbed parents fault when i grow up to be just like them
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May 13, 2015 21:43
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WanderingMinstrel I posted:Back in the day some poli sci prof was talking about how during the cold war the US paid for all these awesome american libraries to be built around the world, with AC and free clean water fountains. The idea was that people would go in there and see how great america/capitalism was and resist the commies. What ended up happening was people went there and saw a lifestyle that even if they somehow got a degree was completely beyond them and they got so pissed they all became commies. What I'm saying is that we should kill all the boomers. where can i learn more about this
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May 13, 2015 21:45
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those guys are selfish and dumb, unlike me, the compassionate caring beneficiary of an evil empire. you should see all the green advocacy groups i've friended on Facebook
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May 13, 2015 21:46
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when the barefoot unwashed homeless guy on the corner asks me for change I pretend I can't hear him but I am going to tear this system down, man, this system that has guaranteed me incredible comfort without having to know how to actually do anything #bernie2016
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May 13, 2015 21:47
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Moridin920 posted:unfortunately true but at least we didn't have a massive hippy peace and love movement while voting for evil aye, i suppose the hypocrisy and complete crashing 180 of the hippy movement is pretty depressing and funny. i suppose the current gen does know its mostly hosed up, but at the same they like to think they're smarter than previously and totally aren't as gullible, but just slap some irony/meta winks, nods and self-awareness to whatever it is they're trying to sell gen x/y and they lap it up just the same. or in politics they're just too content with the bread and circuses that they let themselves get rolled on apathetically, which isnt much better than boomers being retarded hypocrites
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May 13, 2015 21:50
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burritolingus posted:Gonna be glad when the babyboomers are dead and millennials have no one else to blame.
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May 13, 2015 21:53
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My parents get solicitations for all sorts of bullshit like Sheriff Joe Arpaio's re-election fund. My parents live in Michigan. I'm pretty sure there are dumbass boomers in Michigan who are supporting the Sheriff in Phoenix.
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May 13, 2015 21:55
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Xaris posted:aye, i suppose the hypocrisy and complete crashing 180 of the hippy movement is pretty depressing and funny. there were only a few tens of thousands of 60s activists whose political idealism extended beyond liking drugs and rock music, most boomers were always the same boring apathetic lumps that you are
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May 13, 2015 21:56
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This thread makes me wish I'd gone in to banking so I could gently caress old bastards out of their houses on reverse mortgages.
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