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My favorite part is all the crocodile tears that it's not the Hong Kong protesters (also rude teens)
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Dec 11, 2019 16:47
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HK protestors still own bones tho
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Dec 11, 2019 17:13
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Lil Peeler posted:HK protestors still own bones tho I'm not saying they don't, I'm just saying that Boomers don't really care about the goings on in HK, and probably don't even know they're rude teens.
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Dec 11, 2019 17:19
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Iron Crowned posted:I'm not saying they don't, I'm just saying that Boomers don't really care about the goings on in HK, and probably don't even know they're rude teens. Yeah for a lot of people it’s more anti-Chinese sentiment than anything else, since those same people probably dislike kids doing school walk outs to protest lack of any kind of response to school shootings.
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Dec 11, 2019 17:28
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'course, one could just as well argue that the chilean protests, the MAS in bolivia, the protests in ecuador, or those in haiti are equally deserving of recognition, but those protests are against american interests another thing boomers like is US-backed coups in south america
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Dec 11, 2019 17:36
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mojo1701a posted:Greta Thunberg was just named Time's Person of the Year for 2019. “Hitler was person of the year too!” 
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Dec 11, 2019 18:38
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TheManWithNoName posted:“Hitler was person of the year too!” Already saw this on Facebook
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Dec 11, 2019 18:47
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Bonzo posted:Does anyone under 50 read physical magazines?
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Dec 11, 2019 18:48
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i like nice words
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Anne Whateley posted:Protip: because nobody gets them anymore but they want to keep the circulation numbers up, you can get a year's subscription for $5. It's good, I get a bunch They actually give tons away for free as well. What do climate change deniers say about the satellite pics literally showing the change from 1992 or whenever until now? Like they just straight up deny reality.
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Dec 11, 2019 18:54
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Lil Peeler posted:Already saw this on Facebook So naturally they thought Trump would be a shoe-in.
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Dec 11, 2019 18:55
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Anne Whateley posted:Protip: because nobody gets them anymore but they want to keep the circulation numbers up, you can get a year's subscription for $5. It's good, I get a bunch This may not work for all magazines, I'd love to have an AWS subscription but jesus they want like ten or eleven bucks a copy in the sub cost.
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Dec 11, 2019 18:55
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Leon Einstein posted:They actually give tons away for free as well. It's currently the time of year when boomers thank Al Gore for all that global warming because it dipped below freezing and they have to scrape their windows.
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Dec 11, 2019 18:57
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Leon Einstein posted:They actually give tons away for free as well. nothing, because the right-wing talking heads don't show them and they are retirees who don't leave their homes in some dying, inland midwestern us town except to get cigarettes and booze some are coming around though, if only because that coastal retirement property they bought is now half under water with the ocean quite literally at their doorstep
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Dec 11, 2019 19:02
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Lol if you think climate deniers are all old boomers There are a shitload of 20-30 year old science deniers and those are the ones that scare the hell out of me
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Dec 11, 2019 19:05
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Fallom posted:Lol if you think climate deniers are all old boomers Yeah, science denial isn't just a boomer's game. Lots of young folks buy into anti-vaxx bullshit as well.
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Dec 11, 2019 19:16
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apparently if it turns out that global warming isn't true, then its totally fine to just pollute the poo poo out of everything and forever ruin natural habitats.
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Dec 11, 2019 19:19
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Leon Einstein posted:They actually give tons away for free as well. They don't say anything. They will just ignore any and all evidence opposite their already established narrative and just 'what-about' you some other completely unrelated talking point. There is literally no way to reach them. The Ok Boomer meme caught on like wildfire for a reason.
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Dec 11, 2019 19:21
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I brought climate change up to my boomer dad and he said "but look at how much China pollutes!" I said I can't control China, but I can try to make a difference in the country I live in and support with my taxes. He then just stayed silent.
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Dec 11, 2019 19:46
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Iron Crowned posted:I'm not saying they don't, I'm just saying that Boomers don't really care about the goings on in HK, and probably don't even know they're rude teens. They absolutely care, they see some HK Protestors waving US flags and say  "See this is why we need the second amendment". They just use the protests to claim how out of touch young Americans are when it comes to socialism.
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Dec 11, 2019 19:51
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Plenty of Boomers will say climate change is real...but that it's natural. Then they repeat something Sean Hannity said about the sun getting hotter.
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Dec 11, 2019 20:09
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Leon Einstein posted:I brought climate change up to my boomer dad and he said "but look at how much China pollutes!" I said I can't control China, but I can try to make a difference in the country I live in and support with my taxes. He then just stayed silent. use the Boomer phrase, "If China jumped off a bridge would you do it too?"
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Dec 11, 2019 20:09
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Krispy Wafer posted:Plenty of Boomers will say climate change is real...but that it's natural. Then they should be 100% in favor of measuring and predicting the impact of climate change but red states are literally making it illegal lol
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Dec 11, 2019 20:15
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Krispy Wafer posted:Plenty of Boomers will say climate change is real...but that it's natural. My father in law said that some guy in the 70s also predicted a doomsday scenario that involved massive overpopulation and turned out to be wrong, so probably nothing to worry about this time either
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Dec 11, 2019 20:15
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Fallom posted:Then they should be 100% in favor of measuring and predicting the impact of climate change but red states are literally making it illegal lol But you see, then the Libtards will use that data to claim it's the cow farts and then how am I going to get my Omaha Steaks? Speaking as someone who used to be a climate skeptic, part of the reason I was so resistant is because it really does look hopeless* if you look at it carefully. So I can empathize with some people's deliberate ignorance. I envy people who don't know what's happening with permafrost. *I don't think it's hopeless because technology will save enough of us. Thesaurus posted:My father in law said that some guy in the 70s also predicted a doomsday scenario that involved massive overpopulation and turned out to be wrong, so probably nothing to worry about this time either My school textbook had a paragraph that said we were going to run out of oil in 30 years (this was the mid-80's). Still doesn't mean we should be wasting the stuff.
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Dec 11, 2019 20:23
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Thesaurus posted:My father in law said that some guy in the 70s also predicted a doomsday scenario that involved massive overpopulation and turned out to be wrong, so probably nothing to worry about this time either My dad told me about how in the 70s Tony Danza said the danger was global cooling and we are all going to be killed by glaciers. Now its global warming? Dumb scientists can't make up their minds.
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Dec 11, 2019 20:31
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Dec 11, 2019 20:43
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The whole idea that if something is on TV then it must be true. The glowing God box cannot lie! Despite the honest opening statement that invalidates everything that follows you know tons of boomers were going  after seeing this:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ts0XG6qDIco When telling anecdotes there's a high chance that suspected ethnicity will be used to describe people in said stories and often times it's not relevant to the story at all. Instead of, "That rear end in a top hat cut me off" it becomes something like, "That Italian rear end in a top hat cut me off". It's a fun window into their psyche and its very racist tendencies. Also Italian is always pronounced with an incredibly hard I (EYE-talian), Arab with a cinder block A (AY-rab), and all Asians become "Oriental". Also the inability to understand how compliments can be racist too. They tend to get really mad when this is explained to them.
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Dec 11, 2019 20:55
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Kung Food posted:My dad told me about how in the 70s Tony Danza said the danger was global cooling and we are all going to be killed by glaciers. Now its global warming? Dumb scientists can't make up their minds. this is also what my dad told me and he even sent me some clippings of articles from the 70s calling it global cooling. please note, when he would mention this stuff i would just go quiet and choose not to engage, not refuting or agreeing - i'd play dumb, change the subject and move on. so we weren't having fights over this, it just irritated him that i wasn't taking his bait. i just ignored the emailed clippings too, but i thought it was really telling how much it bothered him that i wouldn't engage on this subject it is also through this relentless pushing i learned he believes the earth is just getting closer to the sun. i don't speak to him anymore, but it was very VERY hard not to say 'scientists (and subsequently journalists) updating the terminology of global climate change as they discovered how it works, in order to more accurately reflect what it actually is, does not mean it isn't real' that's some real dumbfucker logic. dude is an engineer but can't debate his way out of a paper bag, jfc. StrangersInTheNight fucked around with this message at 21:18 on Dec 11, 2019 |
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Dec 11, 2019 21:12
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My dad used the word "colored" the other month, and he knew at one time that was totally inappropriate. It's either senility or just being a provocative rear end in a top hat.
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Dec 11, 2019 21:16
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Engineering is weird because you have to know all this math and science poo poo to do your job but it seems like none of them apply that to anything else in the world around them,I'm baffled every day of my life with the nonsense I hear.
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Dec 11, 2019 21:19
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EX250 Type R posted:Engineering is weird because you have to know all this math and science poo poo to do your job but it seems like none of them apply that to anything else in the world around them,I'm baffled every day of my life with the nonsense I hear. As someone who works with engineers this is very frustrating, but it's because unlike other science fields you don't need to have your poo poo peer reviewed. Basically you can just build a thing, and if it doesn't work, you can build it again and again until it works. Not to mention if it's a smaller company that poo poo is built on sight and the fabricators tend to be pretty chuddy. There's one guy in my shop who decided wearing a safety yellow shirt with "I work harder than ugly strippers" in bold black lettering was a fantastic idea, he has similar ideas at least once a week.
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Dec 11, 2019 21:26
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EX250 Type R posted:Engineering is weird because you have to know all this math and science poo poo to do your job but it seems like none of them apply that to anything else in the world around them,I'm baffled every day of my life with the nonsense I hear. My mom was an engineer (now retired), according to her, one of the biggest issues is a lot of engineers come out of engineering schools where they don't have to take any courses in the humanities and instead just learn how to beep boop exclusively. So they come out of school as human calculators, get well paying jobs right out of school, and think they have all of life figured out. Anyone who doesn't do what they did is just too lazy or too stupid to care about. She also told me one time about overhearing two of her younger white male coworkers having a conversation on how it wouldn't have made sense for slave owners in the South to mistreat/abuse their slaves because they'd naturally want to keep their property in top condition. This was around 2017, in Indiana. So yeah... beep boop.
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Dec 11, 2019 21:26
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mojo1701a posted:Greta Thunberg was just named Time's Person of the Year for 2019. The comment section for this story from Utah conservative news website, KSL, should offer some interesting boomer-isms https://www.ksl.com/article/46688975/time-person-of-the-year-climate-crisis-activist-greta-thunberg
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Dec 11, 2019 21:28
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LabyaMynora posted:My mom was an engineer (now retired), according to her, one of the biggest issues is a lot of engineers come out of engineering schools where they don't have to take any courses in the humanities and instead just learn how to beep boop exclusively. Yeah, there's a reason the engineering school I went to made you spend a third of your degree in the humanities. You can't fix everyone, but it certainly helped to turn out a bunch of really cool teachers every year.
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Dec 11, 2019 21:29
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Edgar posted:The comment section for this story from Utah conservative news website, KSL, should offer some interesting boomer-isms Apparently there isn't a single study in existence showing that climate change is real. Well, that settles it.
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Dec 11, 2019 21:32
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Leon Einstein posted:My dad used the word "colored" the other month, and he knew at one time that was totally inappropriate. It's either senility or just being a provocative rear end in a top hat. The very first time I realized my dad was starting to drink the flavor-aid was when I went to the mall with him once (it was extremely busy) and he dropped slurs, some pretty loving nasty ones, LOUDLY and in public. I was ASHAMED to be seen with him, because I KNOW he knows better. I couldn't leave him there because I was like 14 and there by myself with him. While he certainly wasn't abusive (emotionally or physically) when someone drops that poo poo in public, you don't know HOW they're going to react if you call them on it, especially when you're a teenage girl. I have to monitor my conversation with my dad (who is on the Boomer-X cusp) carefully to avoid any political topics. It's an interesting dance when you're a queer woman in a transbian relationship. I have never been more grateful he doesn't care for facebook.
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Dec 11, 2019 21:32
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https://observer.com/2019/12/ok-millennials-and-gen-x-too/amp/ Comes across as fairly okay until the "perhaps you should use your inheritance from us to solve global warming"
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Dec 11, 2019 21:36
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Framboise posted:https://observer.com/2019/12/ok-millennials-and-gen-x-too/amp/ We'll at least they understand that things will be helped by them dying
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Dec 11, 2019 21:37
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:If you need sauce for dry rubbed ribs, you're eating poorly cooked pig. Boomers love telling people that their preferred way of eating food is the correct and proper way.
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Framboise posted:https://observer.com/2019/12/ok-millennials-and-gen-x-too/amp/ What inheritance? They're going to reverse mortgage their houses, and send all their drat retirement savings to a Nigerian Prince. Kung Food posted:We'll at least they understand that things will be helped by them dying 
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