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[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 184 points 2 years ago (37 children)

On an unrelated note, suddenly, boomers care about affordable housing for no apparent reason.

[–] StarServal@kbin.social 87 points 2 years ago (1 children)

For them. Everyone else needs to use their bootstraps.

[–] xuxebiko@kbin.social 26 points 2 years ago
[–] InvertedParallax@lemm.ee 46 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Suddenly boomers believe in a massive increase to social security taxes to pay for them.

I look forward to watching them die off.

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[–] teft@startrek.website 107 points 2 years ago (3 children)

They should cut back on avocado toast and get rid of cable.

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 34 points 2 years ago

They should get rid of that land line, you know they still have one

[–] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago

Nah, they should've sold their houses to Aquaman, and move...

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[–] wolf6152@lemm.ee 67 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Have they tried trickle down economics or maybe pulling themselves up by their bootstraps??

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[–] elouboub@kbin.social 67 points 2 years ago (4 children)

"Fuck you, I got mine" turns into "Fuck, they got mine".

Maybe voting just for soi and against vous wasn't that clever after all? Will they stop voting Republican?

[–] KaiReeve@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago

Unfortunately, no. They're going to watch Fox News talk about how this is all Biden's fault and only the GOP can save them from suffering the same fate. They will continue to follow the same pied Piper that led them here.

[–] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Dear Boomers,

First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me. [YOU ARE HERE]

[–] shiveyarbles@beehaw.org 13 points 2 years ago

Yeah it's like Republicans are not going to help you, other than enflaming culture wars and talking about woke. When they funnel all taxes and assets to the wealthy, and deregulate all industries, and make vaccines illegal, etc, all you'll have left is a tattered red hat and a shopping cart full of your belongings.

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[–] Seraph@kbin.social 34 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Oh no! It's the consequences of my own actions!

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[–] jray4559 33 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Anyone here who comments about how they deserved this fate or how they got what was coming to them needs to grow the fuck up.

There are very, very few people in this world who have done something bad enough to have this kind of condition even be remotely justified. They're gonna either be on the streets or in basic Medicaid nursing homes for the rest of their lives. Many will get beaten and robbed. Many will probably just commit suicide to avoid the nightmarish conditions. And people here are celebrating this?!

Newsflash, the baby boomer generation are also people who also deserve to have someone give a shit about them. You people are sick.

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago

In any case, it's going to overwhelmingly not be reaganites who are going homeless. If someone spent decades shilling for austerity and had it bite them in the ass, that's one thing, but this is the economic bottom dropping out, so it's mostly not those people.

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[–] fred@lemmy.ml 29 points 2 years ago (10 children)

Ugh, I just knew what this gross comments section was gonna look like.

Look, whatever perceived collective guilt an entire cohort of humanity has in your view, it's really disgusting to celebrate and gloat over a report about the elderly becoming homeless.

When subsequent generations decide they have the right to dance on our graves for whatever it is they decide we did, I hope your ghosts aren't too whiny about it.

[–] mojo@lemm.ee 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

If we made life significantly worse for our next generations, then they sure as hell should dance on our graves.

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[–] StarlightGlimmer@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The article doesn't say, but I'm assuming the demographics of these newly homeless boomers is not predominantly white male. I still say boomer remover tho so i'm not exactly above generational warfare, it's just the worst boomers get hurt the least from poverty

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[–] TheWoozy@lemmy.world 26 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure there were Zero homeless boomers during the great depression.

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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.one 18 points 2 years ago

"over-50 demographic"

Hey, hey, hey, don't group all of us in with those assholes...

[–] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] PizzasDontWearCapes@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Like there aren't babyboomers who also have no say in policies and those that haven't struggled their entire lives

The more things change, the more they stay the same

[–] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

As a genx I had to struggle my whole life.

Because boomers around me were arrogant morons who didn't understand they didn't understand anything, and they weren't entitled just for being born.

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[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Enjoying the trickle down of piss? This is what you wanted

[–] Grayox@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Bruh they were and still are brainwashed by so much anticommunist propaganda. They had to survive in those material conditions, and if they made it they had to buy into the lie of American Exceptionalism for their prosperity and not the Dollar becoming the worlds reserve currency and propping up European Social Democracy, Dictators, and Kings. They reaped benefits they were actively being kept in the dark about, if they are waking up cause piss is tricking down their face, i will still celebrate them waking up. We need all the people we can to wake up and realize how the elite have stolen from the working class and are only taking more and more as we continue to kill our planet to give them more wealth...

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[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 2 years ago

if they only voted blue 😭

[–] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Don't worry, as the saying goes "pull yourself up by the dick", and maybe they will gain enough wealth to become expats and gain more in foreign wealth and sex on Southeast and East Asia..., /s (Edited for clarification)

[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Instructions unclear, tried unsuccessfully multiple times and now I just feel like God hates me.

You just gotta pull yourself back up harder, my friend, remember the bootstraps and remember you d***, that's the important part...

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