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Dr.D-O posted:I know a boomer who is very far on the left side of the political spectrum, but not super preachy about it. Really nice woman, if a bit out of touch. She divorced her husband because he was an abusive misogynist. Her kid, now in his 20s, is basically a neo-nazi because the internet (and his estranged Dad) told him to resent his mother (+all women, +blacks, +jews, etc.). Did you throw him out?
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Arcella posted:The Greatest Generation went through the Great Depression and died en masse in WWII, and their children (Boomers) enjoyed unprecedented economic prosperity and unconcentrated wealth post-Gilded Age. This somehow makes Boomers experts on going through "tough times." Maybe the Gas Crisis? I dunno. Well, I think their constant existential threat was a nuclear holocaust, as well as Vietnam. Plenty of men dying and getting life long sicknesses (to say nothing of civilians in southeast asia) in the name of American empire. Much like today. But the hard times that I can mostly think of in their generation are: - Racism, which this woman obviously didn't suffer. - The AIDS crisis, and she didn't suffer because of that, either. But we get to suffer her generation's awful economic policies and overconsumption. We even have our own existential threat!
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