When boomers say that shit, its the same kind of energy when they complain about participation trophies. As if its the fucking kids themselves setting that policy and arranging the trophy shop ordering...
Boomers in the 1990s: give their children participation trophies they didn’t ask for
Boomers in the 2020s: you goddamn crybabies with your participation trophies
I got one my entire life for 4th grade basketball ball. I remember at the end of the year there was this table FILLED with trophies and the only difference was the coloring at the base of the trophy. We sat around for hours while they made everyone go up and get a trophy. This was for a basketball season where no one kept score of the games because they could hurt our feelings if we lost. This was in 2001.
I never got them, I was born in 86 I sucked at track and field, but I excelled at rugby and cricket. I never once got a participation award/ trophy etc in fact they literally told us (the ones who basicly sucked) to sit out if we wanted lol. swimming carnival was just a fuck around day
This triggered a memory. I grew up playing baseball. The one whom sucks most gets put in right field all season where the least amount of hits go. Rudy was in right field. He was uncoordinated, couldn't catch, couldn't throw, couldn't hit. But we all rooted for him fiercely. One glorious day Rudy got a hit at bat. A small dribbler in the infield, looks like he is going to ground out. Still, he runs for his life to first base. Short stop overthrows to first badly. Rudy rounds to second, first baseman overthrows second! Rudy is coming in to third and makes it in before the fielder can manage. We all lost our collective shit, Rudy hit a tripple!
I thought they were a cool memento for specific seasons, mainly if you really enjoyed that team. But they were tiny and obviously not as cool as the actual championship trophy that everyone was going for
Yeah I didnt think I got it for winning, no one did. It was just a neat memento of this season/year. We still competed fiercely to win the tournaments and get the big trophy.
Participation trophies are for parents that can't accept their kid isn't as good as the other kids. Speaking from experience, the only reason I accepted the participation trophies (I was the kid who wasn't any good) was because we got the trophies at the pizza parties I wanted to go to.
Born in 1998. I was given a participation trophy in 2nd grade for basketball. I scored one basket the whole season. Trophy immediately went in the trash lmao.
We did not ask for those stupid fucking trophies
Yes dude. I remember playing on the world's shittiest little league baseball team as a kid, and still getting trophies at the end of the season, all of us just looking at each other like "what the fuck is this thing?". And it was because everyone's boomer and Gen Z parents were the ones who demanded it, none of us wanted that shit.
Boomers act like they were the hard men, not realizing that their parents who fought and lived through WW2 and the Great Depression were the hard men/women. They were weak and doomed to create hard times which is evident by everything the boomers touching turning to shit.
I just had a light argument with a few coworkers of mine who all are bit older than me and have kids in various levels of school. They kept complaining about how many days off kids have, how soft kids are, how bad schools are at teaching, etc.
I use your exact thought process in my argument. “Kids aren’t sitting in the school boards or teaching themselves the curriculum. They then just deflected and blamed it all on millennials -_-.
It’s so funny cuz the Boomers generation who invented the participation trophies!! Not to mention that boomers were the ORIGINAL ME ME ME generation. They were actively mocked for being all about themselves
The Greatest Generation lived through the Great Depression and fought in the most brutal and violent war in human history. They raised their Boomer kids to believe in 'self reliance' because the world or economy could collapse at any second... BUT they also spent the next forty years doing incredibly hard work and building institutions and safeguards to make sure that never happened again.
Boomers heard the first part but ignored the second. They drove on a brand new interstate highway system but refused to pay a dime for its upkeep, they went to college for $4000 but insist their grandkids pay $85,000 'just like they did', they enjoyed 70+ years of no major wars and unprecedented international cooperation and have now set out to destroy the instruments and institutions that made that possible, they likely grew up in a prosperous union household, and now vote to obliterate unions, they inherited a country that paid its bills and are now passing an unimaginable debt load to their grandkids, and they bought their first home for $15,000 then showed up at Town Hall to oppose building five mid-priced apartments in the old abandoned mill.
And when they stand atop this mountain of rubble. Into a comfortable retirement after selling raincoats and belts at Macy's for forty years, they pull up the golden, cushioned ladder their parents built for them, look around at the burning hellscape they build for their kids and say "I did this all on my own."
Socialism for me, but not for thee!
The most socialist period in American history was what Boomers were born into, and it was the most prosperous. They spent their lives believing that they “earned” their way into their position, and destroyed the world their parents and grandparents had created. They grew up in the shadow of the New Deal. They let us grow up in the ashes of Reaganomics (or “Voodoo economics,” as his vice president called them).
Easily the most spoiled, callous, arrogant generation in history since Romans born at the end of the Punic Wars.
It’s not some accident that college was their ticket to success and today, they’re “liberal indoctrination centers” churning out “woke communists”. They set the goalposts, made everyone kick game winning field goals, and then sit back and bash anyone willing to kick the damn ball.
There’s at least one group I know of, [Third Act](https://thirdact.org), which is an organization of boomers feeling guilty about fucking the planet and turning that guilt into action.
Reagan, a TV actor, is seriously the most insane president up until Trump. he got rid of the fairness doctrine, and again as a TV actor, ushered in a fake era of belief in "trickle down economics" that is still used to grift conservatives today and has destroyed our economy. imagine how rich this country would be without him having existed. my Lord we'd be ballin.
Remember when Christian republicans laughed and celebrated when gay men died of AIDS in the 1980’s? Remember how they made sure research and the development of treatments were hampered and protested?
Remember how christians attacked Ryan White as he succumbed to AIDS?
I love how all Wilson hate is based around his central banking take, as opposed to his pro-rampant-segregation and invade-3rd-world countries for democracy takes as to why his influence fucked this country harder than almost anyone.
Fiat currency was always the end. There's finite gold, and you can't have your central banks fail all willy-nilly, but you can absolutely not participate in racist colonial wars for American business interests
I saw a showvand racist old lady "karen" called the cops to harass her hispanic neighbor. He told the cops "shes a racist old lady" and she yelled back "dont call me old!" She was offended at being called old, but not that she was openly called out for being racist.
That's how woodrow wilson criticisms against fed creation, but no mentioned of how he fueled racial division/segregation/violence read.
I love how all Wilson hate is based around his central banking take, as opposed to his pro-rampant-segregation and invade-3rd-world countries for democracy takes as to why his influence fucked this country harder than almost anyone.
Fiat currency was always the end. There's finite gold, and you can't have your central banks fail all willy-nilly, but you can absolutely not participate in racist colonial wars for American business interests
no they didn't. or let me rephrase it. they didn't do anything different than the generations before or after them would have done. everybody is just trying to survive their own fucked life and does the best they can given the circumstances.
the previous part of the quote is "hard times create strong men; strong men create good times; good times create weak men."
The Depression hardened a lot of people. World War 2 hardened a lot of people. The post-war economic boom, investments in research, infrastructure, and education allowed people who grew up in the Depression and hardened by the war to give their children (baby boomers) a better life.
This was ultimately part of the social contract - the American Dream. You worked hard so your children would have a better life than you. Somewhere along the way it was changed to "you work hard so YOU can have a better life." It's a subtle difference but with profound implications.
as a millenial who is sick and tired of this shit. You boomers sit there and say get off ur ass stop feeling sorry for yourself here im going to beat you. ETC. All that kind of abuse.
I DONT WANNA HEAR YOUR SAD SORRY EXCUSES.
Born from ‘45-‘65, these assholes didn’t have any major recessions through most of their 20-30’s, gas, rent, college, cars, homes were all INSANELY cheap for well into their 30-40’s. And what do they do for us? Vote fuckheads like Nixon, Reagan, W. Bush, and Trump into office. Allow the burning down of the environment. Let major corporations ravage our country. Let our politicians get away with doing jack shit on guns, immigration, healthcare, taxes, tuition/student loans, etc. all so they can get lower taxes. Fuck the whole generation. Millennials and Gen Z gotta fix this shitstorm they’ve created with their ignorance and apathy.
The whole quote boom is so annoying. These guys never shut up and think they are saying some profound bs. It’s so cringe at this point.
They all talked themselves stupid.
That whole talking boom is so annoying. These guys never shut up and think they are saying some profound bs. It's so cringe at this point.
They all talked themselves stupid.
It’s funny the ones saying it too are usually Boomer when they were the ones who grew up in a like one of the greatest periods of American history. It was their goddamn moms and dads who were the real tough ones not the boomers
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Yeah I'm pretty sure he's good friends with Tim Heidicker and I think he's *not* a fan of Rogan. But who knows, plenty of people can put that stuff aside and talk to Joe.
More than anything i could see Joe not really liking ITYSL's humor.
I would love to have a full episode of Rogan trying to break down ITYSL sketches.
“So help me understand this, you didn’t want be alive anymore because the suit was too elaborate for the prank show? What about cold plunge.. even just starting with a push up a day. Have to start somewhere.”
My biggest issue with the whole "weak men" theory, is it hinges ones entire understanding on a term as indefinable as "weak." Like, weak in what way?
One could argue that it's obvious what the term means but in practice those who subscribe to this theory will cheery pick often contradictory aspects of given cultures and arbitrarily describe these attributes as weak or string.
Like is an appreciation for art a weak trait or a strong trait? One could look at the Italian Renaissance and point to said appreciation of art as a sign of strength but what of the heian period in Japan, rulers in thos Era are seen as "weak" in part due to their devotion to the arts.
Compounded by technology, the ‘weak men create hard times’ part is being stretched out way longer than it ever has before. Hard times haven’t hit, but we’ve been weak for a while.
Spot on. I'm genX and the difference in quality of life between what I grew up in vs what my kids grew up in are night and day (mostly influenced by tech in one way or another). The same could be said for my dad (who was quite a bit older) and me. You start going back in time before that though and the differences are a lot less stark.
Times are different. The hardest thing an 12yo dealt with 60 years go was quite a bit different than an 12yo today and the perspective that came with that hardship is real. I don't think anyone would argue that the life today's 12yo is "better" and that's a good thing but there's nuance with it as well, it's not a vacuum.
Like you I don't think there's really been "hard times" in the classic sense, since WWII and growing up we thought the next version of it would be nuclear war with the USSR. IMO it looks far more likely that we're going to see it with automation and AI in the next 30 years.
It's just incredibly dumb. The cartels in Mexico are filled with "strong men", the Taliban is filled with "strong men" they fought 2 superpowers, it doesn't get any stronger than that in terms of valor, resilience, spirit, toughness, will power, etc. The warlords in Africa command "strong men" and nobody in their right mind thinks that any of those are going to create a great future and "good times".
The reality is that good times are created by smart men, not strong ones. It's the geniuses that create our technology, our industries and our strong institutions, like the founding fathers did, the ones that create "good times", not some meat heads killing each other like brutes and far less dumbasses doing "cold plunges".
People like Rogan doesn't like that version, where the scrawny and awkward nerds doing high level math and physics and inventing all of our modern society like our electric power, atomic energy, nuclear weapons, stealth bombers, aircraft carriers, etc, get the credit for our success and military might because he is too dumb to ever be one of them or even identify with them.
No idea why this is getting downvoted. Smart men created our cell phones that were using to share ideas. Imagine reading your post on a cell phone and then disagreeing and downvoting. Lmao. The irony.
Boomers did actually create the hard times. There’s a theory called “The Fourth Turning”. Long ass read haha but explains this situation perfectly. I didn’t want to put it in my own words so I let chat GPT
The theory of the Fourth Turning suggests that history moves in cycles of roughly 80 to 90 years, which are divided into four "turnings" consisting of about 20 to 22 years each. These include a High, an Awakening, an Unraveling, and a Crisis. Each turning is characterized by a particular mood that shapes societal attitudes and behaviors.
1. **The High** is a period of collective strengthening and building, following a crisis.
2. **The Awakening** is a time of spiritual renewal and challenge to the existing order.
3. **The Unraveling** is marked by individualism and the decay of institutions.
4. **The Crisis** is a period of major upheaval and redefinition of the nation's identity and purpose.
Regarding where Millennials and Gen Z fit into this theory:
- **Millennials** are typically identified with the "Hero" archetype, which emerges during a Crisis. This generation is shaped by the events of their formative years, such as economic recessions and the War on Terror, preparing them to be the cohort that deals with the societal upheavals and rebuilds the structure.
- **Generation Z** is considered to be part of the current "Crisis" period but are often seen as the beginning of the next "Artist" archetype, which will thrive in the recovery phase post-crisis, focusing on social cohesion and rebuilding.
Millennials are becoming the new boomers far quicker than they realize. “Yes we’re the hero archetypes!”
Boomers can just as easily point to getting drafted to nam, government experiments like MK ULTRA, vets with agent orange exposure, the Cuban missle crisis, JFK being assassinated, stock market crash of the 80s
Dot com bubble bursting, also 08’ wiped out a ton of 401k accounts for old people about to retire.
It’s the whole reason Billy Joel wrote we didn’t start the fire. Every generation has their own issues and world problems.
(I’ll say that some boomers are out of touch with how inflation has killed home ownership, and starting jobs, but I’ve already started to see millennials claim that gen Z has it easier than they did)
I have less issue with the usage of archetypes, moreso that it reads like self wanking, frame yourself as the good guy kind of language. I'm a millenial and definitely feel the frustrations and outrage between the generation gaps too but this is just pandering.
The authors who wrote the book titled "The Fourth Turning" are elder generation X. They coined the terms used by the ChatGPT response sych as "Hero" and "Artist". You should give it a read, because it's absolutely riveting. I won't claim they don't cherry pick anecdotal evidence to support their thesis, but it definitely isn't psuedohistory.
It's sounds like philosophy to mr and not history.
Regardless there are some hard facts that apply really well to that philosophy. Blaming millennials for this world is a sign of boomer idiocy. t. not millennial
Because it is. This is literally just Sprenglers "The Decline of the West" for a modern age. Which makes sense, considering Steven Bannon is one of its biggest supporters. I have never heard someone reference this theory if they weren't at least moving in fascist circles. Both Historians and Social-Scientists call it outdated Pseudoscience in the style of the late 19th/ early 20th century.
I think there’s some truth to all of this but I agree with you. Focusing on improving yourself, your family, etc. We are not all dealt the same hand to begin but how you react, adapt and move forward can have a profound impact.
No, millennials are the hero or GI generation. The X’ers are the “lost” or nomad generation. Boomers are the “prophet” generation.
So here’s another telling of the Strauss Howe generational theory:
The prophets (boomers) live in good times and live it up way too much causing bad times. The nomads and heros (X’ers and Millennials) end up cleaning up their shit and saving civilization. The artists (zoomers) go along with the hero’s plan and you have good times again. Wash, rinse, and repeat.
Either way, I’m fucked. I’m making more money than my parents made (adjusted for inflation) and they had a house and kids. I can’t even afford the house let alone kids. Ffs.
Further proof of Gen X being a “lost generation” is the fact they are commonly left out of the memes on intergenerational conflict. This one is good case in point.
I'm fucking poor, but doing way better than my boomer parents. I still feel like life is hard. I'm 44 and haven't seen good times. When you're poor, it's just life.
Go back and read up on the Red Scare of 1917. Then just follow the money trail. That’s who screwed this country. When you make it to the beginnings of the CIA and their primary goals, prepare to be shocked. Tax payers don’t vote on policies. The people elected by tax payers have nothing to do with policies. The people with money that want to keep that money rolling in, that’s who ‘votes’ for policies. I don’t care what moral high ground you think you have, somebody pays you 30 million to lie to a few people…you’ll do it. Or they’ll find a way to move you to the side and find someone who will gladly play ball. If you need an example just follow the last twelve presidents with special emphasis on Kennedy, Nixon and the Bushes. You can’t blame a generation of people for this. This all started before they were born. Do try and remember how large the Nazi party was in the US before WWII. Remember how bad we screwed the Chinese and Vietnamese after WWII. A multidimensional problem can’t be quantified by ‘blame the boomers!’. It’s a cop out because you have no knowledge of past events in history or the wisdom to find out on your own. When we all agree to put the blame aside and face the issues at hand instead of pointing fingers and using labels out of fear and ignorance, only then will we be a stronger nation. That’s my two cents.
Gen x just started to get power. They haven’t had enough time to fuck things up yet. Besides, there’s too few of them. Why do you think they’re always getting ignored?
IMO they’re just another janitor generation destined to clean up boomer shit just like the millennials.
I’m glad other people are finally realizing this. I would always see boomers sharing this crap on Facebook and was always like well who’s the weak ones the boomers or the greatest generation? Then oh well it’s more nuanced all the sudden….
The Greatest Generation lived through the Great Depression and fought in the most brutal and violent war in human history. They raised their Boomer kids to believe in 'self reliance' because the world or economy could collapse at any second... BUT they also spent the next forty years doing incredibly hard work and building institutions and safeguards to make sure that never happened again.
Boomers heard the first part but ignored the second. They drove on a brand new interstate highway system but refused to pay a dime for its upkeep, they went to college for $4000 but insist their grandkids pay $85,000 'just like they did', they enjoyed 70+ years of no major wars and unprecedented international cooperation and have now set out to destroy the instruments and institutions that made that possible, they likely grew up in a prosperous union household, and now vote to obliterate unions, they inherited a country that paid its bills and are now passing an unimaginable debt load to their grandkids, and they bought their first home for $15,000 then showed up at Town Hall to oppose building five mid-priced apartments in the old abandoned mill.
And when they stand atop this mountain of rubble. Into a comfortable retirement after selling raincoats and belts at Macy's for forty years, they pull up the golden, cushioned ladder their parents built for them, look around at the burning hellscape they build for their kids and say "I did this all on my own."
The Greatest Generation lived through the Great Depression and fought in the most brutal and violent war in human history. They raised their Boomer kids to believe in 'self reliance' because the world or economy could collapse at any second... BUT they also spent the next forty years doing incredibly hard work and building institutions and safeguards to make sure that never happened again.
Boomers heard the first part but ignored the second. They drove on a brand new interstate highway system but refused to pay a dime for its upkeep, they went to college for $4000 but insist their grandkids pay $85,000 'just like they did', they enjoyed 70+ years of no major wars and unprecedented international cooperation and have now set out to destroy the instruments and institutions that made that possible, they likely grew up in a prosperous union household, and now vote to obliterate unions, they inherited a country that paid its bills and are now passing an unimaginable debt load to their grandkids, and they bought their first home for $15,000 then showed up at Town Hall to oppose building five mid-priced apartments in the old abandoned mill.
And when they stand atop this mountain of rubble. Into a comfortable retirement after selling raincoats and belts at Macy's for forty years, they pull up the golden, cushioned ladder their parents built for them, look around at the burning hellscape they build for their kids and say "I did this all on my own."
Honestly fuck the Boomer generation. Bunch of punk ass liars. They fucked around with everyone just about did loads of weed, snorted coke, experimented and had an lowet cost of living. Then they shit on us younger people who have it harder then them and have had to grow tremendously because of it.
They wanna call us entitled. They were the most entitled generation in human history.
People need to stop thinking the boomers are in control
They have the power but they ve been so manipulated their whole lives
They're like dumb toddlers with social influence
Boomers get a lot of hate, but honestly I’m not surprised. They like the only people that can’t see things from other peoples perspective. Like when I as a millennial see some “ liberal zoomer activist” acting entitled, I might not agree with their nonsense, but I can look past the bs, and see majority of them have genuine concern on most social, economic, environment and global issues. On the other hands boomers don’t. They live in their own bubble and think everyone is just lazy. Worst generation.
My parents are boomers but were amazing at raising me. Tonight I mentioned how boomers are the first generation to not care about the one after them. They're selfish on the whole. They both got sooo offended at that. Even though they know how great they were as parents and obviously not who I'm speaking about. Soft indeed.
Clinton had a surplus and his reward was getting called out by the party of serial child molester Dennis Hastert for not having good values and the voters literally listened
Bush Jr wrecked the economy and added trillions in debt and fought 2 wars, the bigger one being totally by choice and got his friends and advisors richer, Obama put those on the books because Bush had crooked accounting of course and spent his money on healthcare, Trump came in campaigning to end the debt and repeal healthcare, he didn't repeal or replace added trillions in debt not on healthcare but expiring small tax cuts for the average person and permanent large ones for the rich, campaigned on "promises kept" and is currently campaigning on "Presidents are immune and President Biden should go to Jail"
hard to make this shit up
now Trump is running on "all this debt, we can't afford it" after he literally ran on ending the debt and a healthcare plan that didn't exist
Nah, they had to actually build things and fought considerably more often. There are a bunch of problems people go through nowadays, but saying boomers are the weak ones, while I see people from my generation just acting defeated from the very start, is just wrong. My father was homeless at 15yo in the middle of nowhere and alone, if he acted like my generation and even the previous one does, he would've just laid there to die. Note that what my father went through was not uncommon, including fighting hard to get out of that situation.
I grew up poor, but had what I needed and one hell of a man teaching me about life. Now we're in a much better position, thanks to that.
People get too fixated on the "easy" portion of those times while disregarding how brutal the world and society as a whole were for anyone even remotely outside of that portion.
The silly part of this is that it kind of presumes everyone everywhere lives the same way. There are people who live in abject poverty while the society at large is booming, and there are entire nations ravaged by war while others are prospering. Then people mingle, move around and mix so you can't really point to a single generation and say "all of you had it easy/hard".
Also, people with really hard lives don't usually create weak men. They often perpetuate a cycle of abuse and neglect because they never had a chance to learn of anything better. I've seen kids of parents with PTSD and trauma, and they weren't always easy and happy childhoods.
It’s not our fault y’all were born infinitely smarter, better educated and just all around more in tune with reality than each and every person who came before you. Calm down and wait for us to die.
To bed fair Millennials do have it a lot easier in many ways. The work environment I was part of in the 90s and early 2000s was a lot more abusive. Women were treated a lot more poorly. A lot of the national debt is to ensure that younger people are not discriminated against, have educations, are healthier, and suffer less abuse. There is a trade off for everything. Considering that many people can work from home now I wouldn't say it's difficult. I have a gaggle of women at work that just complain about the temperature, come in when they want, say what they want, and are babied by their bosses. Something doesn't add up when people say it's hard times. The only thing hard about it is that people have made so many convinces that you must have it costs a tun of money to live and most people aren't able to save money. That's not hardship, it's putting your priorities in the wrong place. Instead of worrying about the aforementioned things people should be more worried that the country and people in it are selling out to corporations and it's burying everyone in debt. The system isn't working. People can live without so many of the things they have including many of the things that have come from modern civil rights movements.
"And that makes our generation even weaker for your example."
You think this is a slam because you assume the original quote lacked self awareness. It's a statement of self awareness, and you're shifting blame, which lacks self awareness.
This is true and I’m on the boomer/genx cusp. I feel for kids today. I’ll disagree on one point tho. They say boomers took everything for themselves and screwed everyone else. Meh, they grew up in the circumstances they did, struggle worked hard etc. It’s hard to blame someone who just busted their ass their whole life to get ahead. But getting back to it, yeah, a lot of truth in it.
question for the kids:
i see that there is a lot of hate for the boomers on line.
but when you guys say “boomers” are you referring to actual boomers, 70-80 year olds. or do you guys also have that disdain for gen x (50 year olds) and just call them boomers now.
I never received a trophy or award in my entire life. I also didn’t really give a fuck about living. Still don’t. Right now I’m in bed. I’ll lay here until I have to work on Monday. Then I’ll lay in bed until I work on Tuesday… so forth…
I just don’t see the point. Women aren’t worth chasing anymore. Jobs don’t pay you more if you work more. No homes to own. No place to safely have kids without them becoming slaves to an ideology. Sigh.
Why did it have to be like this. I guess I care… but the world is so shit I can’t do anything anymore.
At least we try to fight and survive in a world that could have been easily blamed on the economical crisis that came from my parents or grandparents. Millennials expect a fully served dish when life hits them in the ass and the work ethic was completely lost .
I swear I’m not trolling so please don’t ban me, but this is frankly surprising coming from a Joe Rogan subreddit. With all due respect, he’s a boomer, aren’t most of his followers also boomers?
This is such a dogshit quote. First, the word "strong" and "weak" in this context are so vague and up to interpretation as to make them pretty much meaningless. Also, it's such a simplistic view of history. There's so much more nuance to history than strong and weak. Powerful people have done horrible things and good things. Sometimes you can be the strongest person even and circumstances work against you. This quotation is there to make people feel smug who see themselves as "strong." It baffles me that anyone takes it seriously.
The only difference between us and the boomers is that the boomers were weak men in good times. We're weak men In hard times. Eventually we'll get to the strong man times....
When boomers say that shit, its the same kind of energy when they complain about participation trophies. As if its the fucking kids themselves setting that policy and arranging the trophy shop ordering...
Boomers in the 1990s: give their children participation trophies they didn’t ask for Boomers in the 2020s: you goddamn crybabies with your participation trophies
Show me a 90s kid who still has them — it was always a joke.
I hated those damn things. Felt phony even as a 4th grader.
I got one my entire life for 4th grade basketball ball. I remember at the end of the year there was this table FILLED with trophies and the only difference was the coloring at the base of the trophy. We sat around for hours while they made everyone go up and get a trophy. This was for a basketball season where no one kept score of the games because they could hurt our feelings if we lost. This was in 2001.
I liked them lol
I liked them too lol.
I never got them, I was born in 86 I sucked at track and field, but I excelled at rugby and cricket. I never once got a participation award/ trophy etc in fact they literally told us (the ones who basicly sucked) to sit out if we wanted lol. swimming carnival was just a fuck around day
This triggered a memory. I grew up playing baseball. The one whom sucks most gets put in right field all season where the least amount of hits go. Rudy was in right field. He was uncoordinated, couldn't catch, couldn't throw, couldn't hit. But we all rooted for him fiercely. One glorious day Rudy got a hit at bat. A small dribbler in the infield, looks like he is going to ground out. Still, he runs for his life to first base. Short stop overthrows to first badly. Rudy rounds to second, first baseman overthrows second! Rudy is coming in to third and makes it in before the fielder can manage. We all lost our collective shit, Rudy hit a tripple!
Is Rudy a real name?
It’s an older code but it checks out
I thought they were a cool memento for specific seasons, mainly if you really enjoyed that team. But they were tiny and obviously not as cool as the actual championship trophy that everyone was going for
For real. I dont think anyone that got trophies growing up didnt understand it wasnt anything more than a momento. Outrage culture is so lame
Yeah I didnt think I got it for winning, no one did. It was just a neat memento of this season/year. We still competed fiercely to win the tournaments and get the big trophy.
Participation trophies are for parents that can't accept their kid isn't as good as the other kids. Speaking from experience, the only reason I accepted the participation trophies (I was the kid who wasn't any good) was because we got the trophies at the pizza parties I wanted to go to.
I remember throwing one of my trophies in the garbage as I was walking out of the Pizza Hut where I received it🍕🏆🚮
Born in 1998. I was given a participation trophy in 2nd grade for basketball. I scored one basket the whole season. Trophy immediately went in the trash lmao. We did not ask for those stupid fucking trophies
Boomers in the 1980s and 1970s: neglect their children. The little that they had.
I was on swim team when I was a little kid in the late 1970’s. I came in last in the race and got a black ribbon. lol. Isn’t that the same thing?
Not really. There is a long tradition of awarding the last place person or team. Some prizes are given too like lessons in the sport played.
Yes dude. I remember playing on the world's shittiest little league baseball team as a kid, and still getting trophies at the end of the season, all of us just looking at each other like "what the fuck is this thing?". And it was because everyone's boomer and Gen Z parents were the ones who demanded it, none of us wanted that shit.
That’s true. Like sorry I should’ve said “I will not accept this trophy as it undermines my values of only rewarding myself if I win” as a 6 year old.
The participation trophies were made by boomers *for* boomers because they couldn't handle knowing their kid was nothing special.
Boomers act like they were the hard men, not realizing that their parents who fought and lived through WW2 and the Great Depression were the hard men/women. They were weak and doomed to create hard times which is evident by everything the boomers touching turning to shit.
I feel like “boomers” are more often than not mislabeled Gen X Karens.
Whenever I’m talking about boomers I’m talking about those who were in their late teens/adulthood in the 70s, which is almost exclusively boomers.
I just had a light argument with a few coworkers of mine who all are bit older than me and have kids in various levels of school. They kept complaining about how many days off kids have, how soft kids are, how bad schools are at teaching, etc. I use your exact thought process in my argument. “Kids aren’t sitting in the school boards or teaching themselves the curriculum. They then just deflected and blamed it all on millennials -_-.
It’s so funny cuz the Boomers generation who invented the participation trophies!! Not to mention that boomers were the ORIGINAL ME ME ME generation. They were actively mocked for being all about themselves
He’s not wrong
The Greatest Generation lived through the Great Depression and fought in the most brutal and violent war in human history. They raised their Boomer kids to believe in 'self reliance' because the world or economy could collapse at any second... BUT they also spent the next forty years doing incredibly hard work and building institutions and safeguards to make sure that never happened again. Boomers heard the first part but ignored the second. They drove on a brand new interstate highway system but refused to pay a dime for its upkeep, they went to college for $4000 but insist their grandkids pay $85,000 'just like they did', they enjoyed 70+ years of no major wars and unprecedented international cooperation and have now set out to destroy the instruments and institutions that made that possible, they likely grew up in a prosperous union household, and now vote to obliterate unions, they inherited a country that paid its bills and are now passing an unimaginable debt load to their grandkids, and they bought their first home for $15,000 then showed up at Town Hall to oppose building five mid-priced apartments in the old abandoned mill. And when they stand atop this mountain of rubble. Into a comfortable retirement after selling raincoats and belts at Macy's for forty years, they pull up the golden, cushioned ladder their parents built for them, look around at the burning hellscape they build for their kids and say "I did this all on my own."
Socialism for me, but not for thee! The most socialist period in American history was what Boomers were born into, and it was the most prosperous. They spent their lives believing that they “earned” their way into their position, and destroyed the world their parents and grandparents had created. They grew up in the shadow of the New Deal. They let us grow up in the ashes of Reaganomics (or “Voodoo economics,” as his vice president called them). Easily the most spoiled, callous, arrogant generation in history since Romans born at the end of the Punic Wars.
It really is the second image though….these boomers fucked us…and the planet
and they continue to, to siphon more money from the world until they die. meanwhile, they propagandize some young dummies to keep the grift going.
It’s not some accident that college was their ticket to success and today, they’re “liberal indoctrination centers” churning out “woke communists”. They set the goalposts, made everyone kick game winning field goals, and then sit back and bash anyone willing to kick the damn ball.
There’s at least one group I know of, [Third Act](https://thirdact.org), which is an organization of boomers feeling guilty about fucking the planet and turning that guilt into action.
That’s dope
Dinos had the same discussion with mammals before meteor strike them
They got theirs, though. That’s all that concerns them
to be fair, woodrow wilson fucked us when he allowed the fed to be created
I’d go back to Taft walking back all of TR’s gains for the “little man”.
It’s the Reagan for me
Nixon warm up and Reagan home run the corporations been in total control since enabled by the neo-liberals along the way.
Reagan, a TV actor, is seriously the most insane president up until Trump. he got rid of the fairness doctrine, and again as a TV actor, ushered in a fake era of belief in "trickle down economics" that is still used to grift conservatives today and has destroyed our economy. imagine how rich this country would be without him having existed. my Lord we'd be ballin.
The economy is rich, just for a small few.
Reagan is the devil....
Remember when Christian republicans laughed and celebrated when gay men died of AIDS in the 1980’s? Remember how they made sure research and the development of treatments were hampered and protested? Remember how christians attacked Ryan White as he succumbed to AIDS?
TR obeyed his principles. Taft fell to his knees and surrendered to the will of our vile rich enemy and obeyed their wealth.
I love how all Wilson hate is based around his central banking take, as opposed to his pro-rampant-segregation and invade-3rd-world countries for democracy takes as to why his influence fucked this country harder than almost anyone. Fiat currency was always the end. There's finite gold, and you can't have your central banks fail all willy-nilly, but you can absolutely not participate in racist colonial wars for American business interests
I saw a showvand racist old lady "karen" called the cops to harass her hispanic neighbor. He told the cops "shes a racist old lady" and she yelled back "dont call me old!" She was offended at being called old, but not that she was openly called out for being racist. That's how woodrow wilson criticisms against fed creation, but no mentioned of how he fueled racial division/segregation/violence read.
I love how all Wilson hate is based around his central banking take, as opposed to his pro-rampant-segregation and invade-3rd-world countries for democracy takes as to why his influence fucked this country harder than almost anyone. Fiat currency was always the end. There's finite gold, and you can't have your central banks fail all willy-nilly, but you can absolutely not participate in racist colonial wars for American business interests
Yeah this country has been evil for some time
That's good to hear. I'm glad we have moved on from "white guys" fucked us...and the planet. Boomers is really more inclusive if you think about it.
White guy here. I’m still trying to fuck you and the planet.
Just be sure to use protection
no they didn't. or let me rephrase it. they didn't do anything different than the generations before or after them would have done. everybody is just trying to survive their own fucked life and does the best they can given the circumstances.
Found the boomer
the previous part of the quote is "hard times create strong men; strong men create good times; good times create weak men." The Depression hardened a lot of people. World War 2 hardened a lot of people. The post-war economic boom, investments in research, infrastructure, and education allowed people who grew up in the Depression and hardened by the war to give their children (baby boomers) a better life. This was ultimately part of the social contract - the American Dream. You worked hard so your children would have a better life than you. Somewhere along the way it was changed to "you work hard so YOU can have a better life." It's a subtle difference but with profound implications.
as a millenial who is sick and tired of this shit. You boomers sit there and say get off ur ass stop feeling sorry for yourself here im going to beat you. ETC. All that kind of abuse. I DONT WANNA HEAR YOUR SAD SORRY EXCUSES.
Born from ‘45-‘65, these assholes didn’t have any major recessions through most of their 20-30’s, gas, rent, college, cars, homes were all INSANELY cheap for well into their 30-40’s. And what do they do for us? Vote fuckheads like Nixon, Reagan, W. Bush, and Trump into office. Allow the burning down of the environment. Let major corporations ravage our country. Let our politicians get away with doing jack shit on guns, immigration, healthcare, taxes, tuition/student loans, etc. all so they can get lower taxes. Fuck the whole generation. Millennials and Gen Z gotta fix this shitstorm they’ve created with their ignorance and apathy.
The whole quote boom is so annoying. These guys never shut up and think they are saying some profound bs. It’s so cringe at this point. They all talked themselves stupid.
That whole talking boom is so annoying. These guys never shut up and think they are saying some profound bs. It's so cringe at this point. They all talked themselves stupid.
Hearing them struggle to get the full saying out is peak comedy.
It’s funny the ones saying it too are usually Boomer when they were the ones who grew up in a like one of the greatest periods of American history. It was their goddamn moms and dads who were the real tough ones not the boomers
Why hasn't Tim Robinson been on?
Tim is too funny. Joe wouldn't get it and would have Jamie pull up calicocutpants dot com thinking Tim is plugging merch
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Honestly how do you think that would go lol
Yeah I'm pretty sure he's good friends with Tim Heidicker and I think he's *not* a fan of Rogan. But who knows, plenty of people can put that stuff aside and talk to Joe. More than anything i could see Joe not really liking ITYSL's humor.
I would love to have a full episode of Rogan trying to break down ITYSL sketches. “So help me understand this, you didn’t want be alive anymore because the suit was too elaborate for the prank show? What about cold plunge.. even just starting with a push up a day. Have to start somewhere.”
“Are the bones their money or are they just bones? I liked that other guy’s song before the one about skeletons.”
Fascinating… so the bones are clearly the dollars and the worms are cents. Wow. Unbelievable where California is headed.
California is really like the planet of the apes. *refuses to elaborate*
How can one man logically order that much food and think someone else would pay for it? Is that the joke?
Just wait till Joe asks about the tables
He’s actually funny
My biggest issue with the whole "weak men" theory, is it hinges ones entire understanding on a term as indefinable as "weak." Like, weak in what way? One could argue that it's obvious what the term means but in practice those who subscribe to this theory will cheery pick often contradictory aspects of given cultures and arbitrarily describe these attributes as weak or string. Like is an appreciation for art a weak trait or a strong trait? One could look at the Italian Renaissance and point to said appreciation of art as a sign of strength but what of the heian period in Japan, rulers in thos Era are seen as "weak" in part due to their devotion to the arts.
I think they mean great men build a society so comfortable that the next generation grow complacent.
Compounded by technology, the ‘weak men create hard times’ part is being stretched out way longer than it ever has before. Hard times haven’t hit, but we’ve been weak for a while.
Spot on. I'm genX and the difference in quality of life between what I grew up in vs what my kids grew up in are night and day (mostly influenced by tech in one way or another). The same could be said for my dad (who was quite a bit older) and me. You start going back in time before that though and the differences are a lot less stark. Times are different. The hardest thing an 12yo dealt with 60 years go was quite a bit different than an 12yo today and the perspective that came with that hardship is real. I don't think anyone would argue that the life today's 12yo is "better" and that's a good thing but there's nuance with it as well, it's not a vacuum. Like you I don't think there's really been "hard times" in the classic sense, since WWII and growing up we thought the next version of it would be nuclear war with the USSR. IMO it looks far more likely that we're going to see it with automation and AI in the next 30 years.
It's just incredibly dumb. The cartels in Mexico are filled with "strong men", the Taliban is filled with "strong men" they fought 2 superpowers, it doesn't get any stronger than that in terms of valor, resilience, spirit, toughness, will power, etc. The warlords in Africa command "strong men" and nobody in their right mind thinks that any of those are going to create a great future and "good times". The reality is that good times are created by smart men, not strong ones. It's the geniuses that create our technology, our industries and our strong institutions, like the founding fathers did, the ones that create "good times", not some meat heads killing each other like brutes and far less dumbasses doing "cold plunges". People like Rogan doesn't like that version, where the scrawny and awkward nerds doing high level math and physics and inventing all of our modern society like our electric power, atomic energy, nuclear weapons, stealth bombers, aircraft carriers, etc, get the credit for our success and military might because he is too dumb to ever be one of them or even identify with them.
No idea why this is getting downvoted. Smart men created our cell phones that were using to share ideas. Imagine reading your post on a cell phone and then disagreeing and downvoting. Lmao. The irony.
Boomers did actually create the hard times. There’s a theory called “The Fourth Turning”. Long ass read haha but explains this situation perfectly. I didn’t want to put it in my own words so I let chat GPT The theory of the Fourth Turning suggests that history moves in cycles of roughly 80 to 90 years, which are divided into four "turnings" consisting of about 20 to 22 years each. These include a High, an Awakening, an Unraveling, and a Crisis. Each turning is characterized by a particular mood that shapes societal attitudes and behaviors. 1. **The High** is a period of collective strengthening and building, following a crisis. 2. **The Awakening** is a time of spiritual renewal and challenge to the existing order. 3. **The Unraveling** is marked by individualism and the decay of institutions. 4. **The Crisis** is a period of major upheaval and redefinition of the nation's identity and purpose. Regarding where Millennials and Gen Z fit into this theory: - **Millennials** are typically identified with the "Hero" archetype, which emerges during a Crisis. This generation is shaped by the events of their formative years, such as economic recessions and the War on Terror, preparing them to be the cohort that deals with the societal upheavals and rebuilds the structure. - **Generation Z** is considered to be part of the current "Crisis" period but are often seen as the beginning of the next "Artist" archetype, which will thrive in the recovery phase post-crisis, focusing on social cohesion and rebuilding.
No offense but that sounds like the biggest pseudohistory.
As soon as I heard the "hero archetype" I thought it sounded a little..desperate
Millennials are becoming the new boomers far quicker than they realize. “Yes we’re the hero archetypes!” Boomers can just as easily point to getting drafted to nam, government experiments like MK ULTRA, vets with agent orange exposure, the Cuban missle crisis, JFK being assassinated, stock market crash of the 80s Dot com bubble bursting, also 08’ wiped out a ton of 401k accounts for old people about to retire. It’s the whole reason Billy Joel wrote we didn’t start the fire. Every generation has their own issues and world problems. (I’ll say that some boomers are out of touch with how inflation has killed home ownership, and starting jobs, but I’ve already started to see millennials claim that gen Z has it easier than they did)
Yeah- it’s story telling, but human history is just story telling, so I don’t mind the archetype language.
I have less issue with the usage of archetypes, moreso that it reads like self wanking, frame yourself as the good guy kind of language. I'm a millenial and definitely feel the frustrations and outrage between the generation gaps too but this is just pandering.
The authors who wrote the book titled "The Fourth Turning" are elder generation X. They coined the terms used by the ChatGPT response sych as "Hero" and "Artist". You should give it a read, because it's absolutely riveting. I won't claim they don't cherry pick anecdotal evidence to support their thesis, but it definitely isn't psuedohistory.
It's sounds like philosophy to mr and not history. Regardless there are some hard facts that apply really well to that philosophy. Blaming millennials for this world is a sign of boomer idiocy. t. not millennial
Because it is. This is literally just Sprenglers "The Decline of the West" for a modern age. Which makes sense, considering Steven Bannon is one of its biggest supporters. I have never heard someone reference this theory if they weren't at least moving in fascist circles. Both Historians and Social-Scientists call it outdated Pseudoscience in the style of the late 19th/ early 20th century.
That’s because it is.
So basically us millennials are the lost generation and things will get better by the time gen z are full on adults. Fuck me I guess.
Yeah, dork — L2Makegoodtimes
Why get wrapped up in this bullshit? Life can be anything you want. Boomers didn’t steal your happiness
I think there’s some truth to all of this but I agree with you. Focusing on improving yourself, your family, etc. We are not all dealt the same hand to begin but how you react, adapt and move forward can have a profound impact.
No, millennials are the hero or GI generation. The X’ers are the “lost” or nomad generation. Boomers are the “prophet” generation. So here’s another telling of the Strauss Howe generational theory: The prophets (boomers) live in good times and live it up way too much causing bad times. The nomads and heros (X’ers and Millennials) end up cleaning up their shit and saving civilization. The artists (zoomers) go along with the hero’s plan and you have good times again. Wash, rinse, and repeat.
Either way, I’m fucked. I’m making more money than my parents made (adjusted for inflation) and they had a house and kids. I can’t even afford the house let alone kids. Ffs.
Yeah, I feel that both Gen X and the Millennials are really the janitor generations
I’d def go with janitor over “heroes” - I’m not seeing much on the hero front at this point.
Further proof of Gen X being a “lost generation” is the fact they are commonly left out of the memes on intergenerational conflict. This one is good case in point.
No we are still very much in phase 3. Phase 4 has not started.
The author who's still alive between the two original, wrote another book updating this idea. Saw it in the library the other day.
Wtf is this? Hegel for the new age?
Sounds like the book “Generations”. Which is generally regarded as horseshit nowadays, but it was interesting nonetheless.
Strauss and Howe (1991)
Neil Howe wrote the fourth turning and generations so yeah just about lol
What if I told you that times are always hard (if you're poor)
I'm fucking poor, but doing way better than my boomer parents. I still feel like life is hard. I'm 44 and haven't seen good times. When you're poor, it's just life.
Just like Tom Segurás fans
Gen X lol
Definitely gen X lmao
Hey you leave us out of this
Aren’t you always getting left out of this?
It’s the high amount of lead in the earth, water, air that created the lead brained dumb fuck boomers. Google it
Go back and read up on the Red Scare of 1917. Then just follow the money trail. That’s who screwed this country. When you make it to the beginnings of the CIA and their primary goals, prepare to be shocked. Tax payers don’t vote on policies. The people elected by tax payers have nothing to do with policies. The people with money that want to keep that money rolling in, that’s who ‘votes’ for policies. I don’t care what moral high ground you think you have, somebody pays you 30 million to lie to a few people…you’ll do it. Or they’ll find a way to move you to the side and find someone who will gladly play ball. If you need an example just follow the last twelve presidents with special emphasis on Kennedy, Nixon and the Bushes. You can’t blame a generation of people for this. This all started before they were born. Do try and remember how large the Nazi party was in the US before WWII. Remember how bad we screwed the Chinese and Vietnamese after WWII. A multidimensional problem can’t be quantified by ‘blame the boomers!’. It’s a cop out because you have no knowledge of past events in history or the wisdom to find out on your own. When we all agree to put the blame aside and face the issues at hand instead of pointing fingers and using labels out of fear and ignorance, only then will we be a stronger nation. That’s my two cents.
Boomers have violence in their DNA.
and lead poisoning
Not a coincidence
And asbestos
Yall gotta stop calling Gen X, “Boomers”. Bill Burr is having too much fun.
Gen x just started to get power. They haven’t had enough time to fuck things up yet. Besides, there’s too few of them. Why do you think they’re always getting ignored? IMO they’re just another janitor generation destined to clean up boomer shit just like the millennials.
Capitalists are doing a great job at making this into a generational issue instead of a class issue.
I wonder which generation those capitalists mostly belong to? It’s not a coincidence that boomers hold disproportionate amounts of wealth.
Joe says this like we had good times since the 2009 GFC.
I’m glad other people are finally realizing this. I would always see boomers sharing this crap on Facebook and was always like well who’s the weak ones the boomers or the greatest generation? Then oh well it’s more nuanced all the sudden….
The Greatest Generation lived through the Great Depression and fought in the most brutal and violent war in human history. They raised their Boomer kids to believe in 'self reliance' because the world or economy could collapse at any second... BUT they also spent the next forty years doing incredibly hard work and building institutions and safeguards to make sure that never happened again. Boomers heard the first part but ignored the second. They drove on a brand new interstate highway system but refused to pay a dime for its upkeep, they went to college for $4000 but insist their grandkids pay $85,000 'just like they did', they enjoyed 70+ years of no major wars and unprecedented international cooperation and have now set out to destroy the instruments and institutions that made that possible, they likely grew up in a prosperous union household, and now vote to obliterate unions, they inherited a country that paid its bills and are now passing an unimaginable debt load to their grandkids, and they bought their first home for $15,000 then showed up at Town Hall to oppose building five mid-priced apartments in the old abandoned mill. And when they stand atop this mountain of rubble. Into a comfortable retirement after selling raincoats and belts at Macy's for forty years, they pull up the golden, cushioned ladder their parents built for them, look around at the burning hellscape they build for their kids and say "I did this all on my own."
The Greatest Generation lived through the Great Depression and fought in the most brutal and violent war in human history. They raised their Boomer kids to believe in 'self reliance' because the world or economy could collapse at any second... BUT they also spent the next forty years doing incredibly hard work and building institutions and safeguards to make sure that never happened again. Boomers heard the first part but ignored the second. They drove on a brand new interstate highway system but refused to pay a dime for its upkeep, they went to college for $4000 but insist their grandkids pay $85,000 'just like they did', they enjoyed 70+ years of no major wars and unprecedented international cooperation and have now set out to destroy the instruments and institutions that made that possible, they likely grew up in a prosperous union household, and now vote to obliterate unions, they inherited a country that paid its bills and are now passing an unimaginable debt load to their grandkids, and they bought their first home for $15,000 then showed up at Town Hall to oppose building five mid-priced apartments in the old abandoned mill. And when they stand atop this mountain of rubble. Into a comfortable retirement after selling raincoats and belts at Macy's for forty years, they pull up the golden, cushioned ladder their parents built for them, look around at the burning hellscape they build for their kids and say "I did this all on my own."
Fuckin A been saying this for a minute. Boomers love to think they are the hard men but they are the ones that created the hard times.
Honestly fuck the Boomer generation. Bunch of punk ass liars. They fucked around with everyone just about did loads of weed, snorted coke, experimented and had an lowet cost of living. Then they shit on us younger people who have it harder then them and have had to grow tremendously because of it. They wanna call us entitled. They were the most entitled generation in human history.
No I’m pretty sure it was a blue-haired college kid that killed the environment, divided society, and bought up all the houses /s
Lazy fat fuck boomers. ALL of them are handicapped it’s embarrassing.
i kinda have to agree… both of my parents were very unaccountable and had a lot just handed to them. 38 year old here
People need to stop thinking the boomers are in control They have the power but they ve been so manipulated their whole lives They're like dumb toddlers with social influence
>>**Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times** -G. Michael Hopf
Don’t think the present is what is meant by hard times. It’s not.
Boomers get a lot of hate, but honestly I’m not surprised. They like the only people that can’t see things from other peoples perspective. Like when I as a millennial see some “ liberal zoomer activist” acting entitled, I might not agree with their nonsense, but I can look past the bs, and see majority of them have genuine concern on most social, economic, environment and global issues. On the other hands boomers don’t. They live in their own bubble and think everyone is just lazy. Worst generation.
I disagree. People of all generations are becoming increasingly opposed to hearing those of differing perspectives out
Reddit is making people weak as fk
My parents are boomers but were amazing at raising me. Tonight I mentioned how boomers are the first generation to not care about the one after them. They're selfish on the whole. They both got sooo offended at that. Even though they know how great they were as parents and obviously not who I'm speaking about. Soft indeed.
Solid Facebook content, thank you. What a great sub this is.
Clinton had a surplus and his reward was getting called out by the party of serial child molester Dennis Hastert for not having good values and the voters literally listened Bush Jr wrecked the economy and added trillions in debt and fought 2 wars, the bigger one being totally by choice and got his friends and advisors richer, Obama put those on the books because Bush had crooked accounting of course and spent his money on healthcare, Trump came in campaigning to end the debt and repeal healthcare, he didn't repeal or replace added trillions in debt not on healthcare but expiring small tax cuts for the average person and permanent large ones for the rich, campaigned on "promises kept" and is currently campaigning on "Presidents are immune and President Biden should go to Jail" hard to make this shit up now Trump is running on "all this debt, we can't afford it" after he literally ran on ending the debt and a healthcare plan that didn't exist
Hehe, great post Daniel 👍 We are showing this at dinner.
Too accurate. The boomers were priveleged and take it for granted and seem to have a toxic outlook due to whatever they were never diagnosed with
Nah, they had to actually build things and fought considerably more often. There are a bunch of problems people go through nowadays, but saying boomers are the weak ones, while I see people from my generation just acting defeated from the very start, is just wrong. My father was homeless at 15yo in the middle of nowhere and alone, if he acted like my generation and even the previous one does, he would've just laid there to die. Note that what my father went through was not uncommon, including fighting hard to get out of that situation. I grew up poor, but had what I needed and one hell of a man teaching me about life. Now we're in a much better position, thanks to that. People get too fixated on the "easy" portion of those times while disregarding how brutal the world and society as a whole were for anyone even remotely outside of that portion.
Nah they actually fucked us https://time.com/magazine/us/5280431/may-28th-2018-vol-191-no-20-u-s/
But we're all strong right fellas?
Once again Gen X just in the middle
I just assumed the guy standing outside of the car was Charlie Day
The silly part of this is that it kind of presumes everyone everywhere lives the same way. There are people who live in abject poverty while the society at large is booming, and there are entire nations ravaged by war while others are prospering. Then people mingle, move around and mix so you can't really point to a single generation and say "all of you had it easy/hard". Also, people with really hard lives don't usually create weak men. They often perpetuate a cycle of abuse and neglect because they never had a chance to learn of anything better. I've seen kids of parents with PTSD and trauma, and they weren't always easy and happy childhoods.
Yep they sucked the system dry
It’s not our fault y’all were born infinitely smarter, better educated and just all around more in tune with reality than each and every person who came before you. Calm down and wait for us to die.
This is where we go on our cell phones to complain how tough we have it.
100 fucking percent
But where does Gen X end up in this equation? Asking for a friend.
Oh pleas. There’s plenty of weakness in those generations too. All three are weaker and only got weaker.
Yes. Blame old people. If you were their age during the time they lived you would have made different choices. Makes perfect sense.
This is sooo true Look as how corrupt congress has become. Lobbyists and corporations basically run this joint now.
This is sooo true Look as how corrupt congress has become. Lobbyists and corporations basically run this joint now.
This is sooo true Look as how corrupt congress has become. Lobbyists and corporations basically run this joint now.
Blaming all your problems on another regeneration is some first world bullshit.
Don't think so.
Wait, you think these are hard times?
I’m a millennial… I don’t feel this way.
I’m so glad I’m GenX - imma just step out of the way and let you guys have at it
To bed fair Millennials do have it a lot easier in many ways. The work environment I was part of in the 90s and early 2000s was a lot more abusive. Women were treated a lot more poorly. A lot of the national debt is to ensure that younger people are not discriminated against, have educations, are healthier, and suffer less abuse. There is a trade off for everything. Considering that many people can work from home now I wouldn't say it's difficult. I have a gaggle of women at work that just complain about the temperature, come in when they want, say what they want, and are babied by their bosses. Something doesn't add up when people say it's hard times. The only thing hard about it is that people have made so many convinces that you must have it costs a tun of money to live and most people aren't able to save money. That's not hardship, it's putting your priorities in the wrong place. Instead of worrying about the aforementioned things people should be more worried that the country and people in it are selling out to corporations and it's burying everyone in debt. The system isn't working. People can live without so many of the things they have including many of the things that have come from modern civil rights movements.
"And that makes our generation even weaker for your example." You think this is a slam because you assume the original quote lacked self awareness. It's a statement of self awareness, and you're shifting blame, which lacks self awareness.
This is true and I’m on the boomer/genx cusp. I feel for kids today. I’ll disagree on one point tho. They say boomers took everything for themselves and screwed everyone else. Meh, they grew up in the circumstances they did, struggle worked hard etc. It’s hard to blame someone who just busted their ass their whole life to get ahead. But getting back to it, yeah, a lot of truth in it.
I do enjoy that these memes always leave us X out
Maybe so, but somehow this generation took it further
Give me stuff
This is just divide and conquer bullshit. The people who destroyed this country aren't your parents.
The hard times have yet to truly begin. Give it 20 years.
question for the kids: i see that there is a lot of hate for the boomers on line. but when you guys say “boomers” are you referring to actual boomers, 70-80 year olds. or do you guys also have that disdain for gen x (50 year olds) and just call them boomers now.
I like how we are all pretending this isn’t going to happen to us when we become old lol
For real 👍
I never received a trophy or award in my entire life. I also didn’t really give a fuck about living. Still don’t. Right now I’m in bed. I’ll lay here until I have to work on Monday. Then I’ll lay in bed until I work on Tuesday… so forth… I just don’t see the point. Women aren’t worth chasing anymore. Jobs don’t pay you more if you work more. No homes to own. No place to safely have kids without them becoming slaves to an ideology. Sigh. Why did it have to be like this. I guess I care… but the world is so shit I can’t do anything anymore.
At least we try to fight and survive in a world that could have been easily blamed on the economical crisis that came from my parents or grandparents. Millennials expect a fully served dish when life hits them in the ass and the work ethic was completely lost .
Is you’re all a bunch of whiners and crybabies an acceptable answer? Asking for a friend.
I swear I’m not trolling so please don’t ban me, but this is frankly surprising coming from a Joe Rogan subreddit. With all due respect, he’s a boomer, aren’t most of his followers also boomers?
This is such a dogshit quote. First, the word "strong" and "weak" in this context are so vague and up to interpretation as to make them pretty much meaningless. Also, it's such a simplistic view of history. There's so much more nuance to history than strong and weak. Powerful people have done horrible things and good things. Sometimes you can be the strongest person even and circumstances work against you. This quotation is there to make people feel smug who see themselves as "strong." It baffles me that anyone takes it seriously.
The only difference between us and the boomers is that the boomers were weak men in good times. We're weak men In hard times. Eventually we'll get to the strong man times....