Boomer Hate

[@Jkmsyytttllmhgccf]

The worst thing about living now is the constant, very sloppy gaslighting, it's rubbing salt into the wound

[@pheonixshaman]

This. So much this. It isn't bad enough they torpedoed the future kin's future, it is they refuse to admit that maybe they made some bad choices regarding the direction they took western society regarding both its economic and social directions. They won't even admit that a rootless cosmopolitan group fooled them into pushing for these things (a viewpoint that would partially absolve them of blame). Boomers don't want to admit any responsibility for the hellscape they made that is laid out for all in sundry to see.

[@garyt3hsna1l82]

Here Here!

[@Sam-rm9hp]

It's nice to see this is common. Its impossible to talk with boomers about this. They all just lie and gaslight

[@nate7LP_my_dog_found_the_knife]

Good news tho is that they're dying off. Thank God, and good riddance, they will never be wanted again nor will they be missed.

[@GuitarMatt]

It is! They're completely shameless about it. That's because self-reflection is KRYPTONITE to them (so-called people)

[@jonathansmith4947]

My boomer dad paid for his mistresses to go to college but I, his son, got kicked out of the house and never got a dime. My dad is a lawyer and made millions and I couldn't get student loans because the government doesn't give you student loans if your parents make that kind of money. He tells people he went bankrupt putting me through college though because he doesn't want to feel shamed.

[@nikkili8944]

Jesus, that's awful! What a POS! This is the kind of dad that you wouldn't even wish upon your worst enemy. And he's still lying about it. I'm sorry that you had to go through all this BS...

[@ischeele7203]

That's messed up. Hope you're doing alright, dude.

[@edp3202]

Boy is he a BB!!!!! I mean damn

[@Lori1976]

Sounds parasitic to me. Hope you are OK.

[@ericchin739]

Sorry to hear that. Fuck boomers. Worst generation ever!!

[@phis.750]

Baby Boomers put their kids in daycare because both parents wanted to work, Millenials put their kids in daycare because both Parents HAVE to work.

[@DVSPress]

well said

[@katherineraquelle1930]

I’m 29 and I don’t have kids… no way I’m passing down my traumas and pain to the new generation now…. My childhood was the female form of the Nightstalker to say the least..

[@Foreverfreeusa]

Day care?? I just had a key and legs.

[@AngryBoomer2024]

I feel your pain. Now, get back to work.

[@Moyodsreds]

Baby boomers - mom raised the kids & Dad made the bacon No daycare

[@ninjaswordtothehead]

I don't hate them because they had great opportunities. I hate them because of their massive hypocrisy as well as their complete inability to recognize that things have changed.

[@ifychiejina1292]

Exactly 💯

[@robertgiles9124]

Based on knowing three BOOMERS. ABSURD RANT. Good luck with the deep thoughts fan boy ninja.

[@MCADHD-rf5kl]

💯% North American boomers are the worst.

[@phylocybe_]

@@robertgiles9124retard boomer spotted

[@bandolierboy1908]

I hate how they squandered all the opportunities to benefit their children. Example, They could buy land so cheap back then and they never once thought of buying a plot of land to give their children when they reach a certain age. Instead they spent it on fancy vacations, expensive display pieces they don't have any cultural connection to, and sports cars that they never take on the streets because it's a depreciating asset

[@zacharyhockett6248]

Being born in the mid 90s has been like coming into a party and then watching it rapidly spiral out of control.

[@Crash103179]

Being born at the very tail of the boom, the party spiraled out of control a long time ago.

[@superadventure6297]

"I'm gonna party like it's 1999" isn't so out of place after all

[@MonstersNotUnderTheBed]

2008 crash right before leaving college. What a welcome to the working adult world, post collapse. Economy never recovered, really, and now Pandemic/Great Reset is here to finish off the Middle Class/Little Business. And corporate media is brainwashing all the nonwhites into a race war to distract from the technological enslavement

[@savagetv6460]

Facts. I was born in 92 and I had a fun childhood. Then the Obama years hit and everything went down the toilet

[@Tyler_W]

@@savagetv6460 i was born only about a year later in '93, but things didn't just start going to pot with Obama. He may have cranked things up a notch, but the "new world order" of political, social and economic globalism really took off with basically all of the presidents following first term Reagan (he never really came back after getting shot), so think Bush and Clinton dynasties with Obama as a CIA stand-in. Only Trump really attempted to push back against it to varying degrees of success. He succeeded in some ways, failed in others. To his credit, the vast majority of his failures were more a problem of Congress and the establishment holdovers in the WH and intel agencies roadblocking him at every opportunity (we're partially to blame for the Congress part). It's really a miracle he accomplished aw much as he did at all. The future is going to belong to either the transhumanist technocratic elites or the nationalist-populists. While it seems like the former has retaken power, there are definitely some major cracks in their system. I think we can work to successfully build a better tomorrow. The catch is that we'll probably have to endure a great deal of suffering, potentially like no one has experienced before to get there. If we can find alternative solutions to the looming financial crisis/curremcy collapse and artificial scarcity/food shortages, I think we can come around the other end stronger than before, whoever still's still left anyway.

[@meregaming1770]

We're starting to figure out exactly how much they fucked around and left us to find out.

[@Singlesix6]

Sure, blame a whole generation. It must be true, I read it on the internet.

[@redpandarampage2191]

"A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in." I think lots of boomer hate comes from the fact that boomers did the complete opposite of this. They were perhaps one of the most privileged and spoiled generations ever, yet pulled the ladder up after themselves and handed younger generations a world that is burning down in more different ways than you can count (e.g. environmental destruction, housing crisis, are just 2 things on the long list). And they have the gall to throw tantrums when younger generations try to either improve things or call out the boomers. They've dominated the political sphere for a long time now, both in govt positions and voting demographics, and have constantly voted to further harm newer generations. I know current young generations in the west have excellent standards of living, and have lots to be thankful for when looking at poorer nations- sure they may be a bit spoiled today, but they will struggle a lot with basic things like affording a house and starting a family because of the boomers. Nowhere near the level of luxury the boomers had, and as I said, today's young have been handed a world on fire.

[@joshuafischer684]

The most concise indictment of the Boomer generation I've ever seen said "they sold tomorrow for today". Many boomers as individuals are fine people, but their political and economic decisions opened the door to my generation (zoomers) to be almost entirely worthless. There is no social control from older generations now, no framework of morality and heritage to build upon. A sane society will honor its elders for their wisdom, but the boomers truly do not deserve it. They destroyed multiple generations of children and now as they age they will bankrupt themselves on life extending medical care, leaving nothing for their children to inherit but debt.

[@sebas8225]

History will never forgive them

[@actionjackson7041]

@@joshuafischer684 That's the thing that really galls me. They'll siphon ALL of their wealth into staying alive for as long as possible leaving nothing but medical bills for their children. I know it's REALLY hard to go against the will to live, but what's 5 more years in a sickbed other than an opportunity to steal wealth from your children? They're slowly becoming literal vampires.

[@joshuafischer684]

@@actionjackson7041 I'm sure you've heard of old people getting blood transfusions from young people. It's very lucrative.

[@ischeele7203]

G.I. Generation: Here is an orchard and a full toolshed. This is our legacy, and is now yours to do with as you will. Boomers: I know about trees and legacies, I read most of The Lorax. It's good for my family if I chop these down. G.I. Generation: I don't think you understand. Boomer: I'm going to cut these down. That's the best option. And I'll set this shed on fire, I just need the axe anyway. G.I. Generation: Well, this is a legacy and thus not our problem. Silent Generation:

[@SamGuthrie1977]

David, this is spot on. Another thing that I think contributed to the Boomer's self-centered behavior is how their parents babied them. The Boomers' parents lived through legitimately difficult and harrowing times with the Great Depression and WW2. I think once they survived those hard times, and saw the prosperity that was beginning, especially in the US, they decided to splurge and spoil their children - whom they saw as a miraculous continuation and a generation that they didn't know for sure would even come about. I'm Gen X, but I saw this clearly in how my grandparents treated my father, who's a poster child for the Boomers. They had him right after WW2 ended. They gave him everything he ever wanted and continually made excuses for his bad behavior. If you take a generation that was largely raised that way by their parents, and you place them in the most economically prosperous time for the middle class in human history - it's no surprise that it's created self-absorbed entitled monsters.

[@edp3202]

Do we have the same parents? Monsters is an apt description.

[@KratostheThird]

Explains why Donald, our previous US President, is so narcissistic and arrogant.

[@MCADHD-rf5kl]

@sinebar Well, boomers in the USA are, in the majority of cases, like this guy described in my experience. I, as an outsider (not US-born and-bred), was wondering why the elderly are so disrespected and hated. After interacting with North American boomers (Canadians are quite similar, not to mention on a lesser scale, West Europeans), I don't blame Millenials and Zoomers for feeling this way.

[@JuaneDosesII-wj6dd]

Are you a boomer?

[@MasterBlaster220]

@sinebar Most of them are extremely selfish and a lot are sociopaths. Most have zero empathy. So yes, that term is fitting.

[@Crash103179]

Boomers, the "Me Generation," became the "Gimme Generation" and is now becoming the "Take Care of Me Generation." Will the younger generation provide? Can they even provide? Trillions upon trillions in national debt won't end well.

[@Cheddar_Wizard]

We can barely provide for ourselves.

[@adriandanielvalidomorales6130]

that is their punishment,living their last days in precarious condition,they dont deserve anything better than that

[@Sam-rm9hp]

We should vote away their social security and Medicare. De-fund them all. Every last one

[@adriandanielvalidomorales6130]

​@@Sam-rm9hp I wish that in a few years another pandemic will come, shorter in time but more deadly,It is the only way to get rid of these parasites

[@nate7LP_my_dog_found_the_knife]

If reincarnation is a thing, I hope they're forced back into the mess they helped create.

[@spnked9516]

Boomers broke the intergenerational contract. They weren't the first generation to do it, nor will they be the last, but no generation before them has tramped on it to such a spectacular degree. There has never been such a proliferation and concentration of wealth in all of history like there was in post-war North America, and in a single generation, it was squandered. Granted, the circumstances of the post-war world and the rapid development of paradigm-shifting technology played their part in this, but at the end of the day, a great deal of the blame can be laid at the feet of the culture boomers chose to create and propagate. I'd be curious to see how scholars 100 or 200 years from now will look back upon the boomers.

[@sebas8225]

They´ll look badly upon them, if we ever have a World War 3 the Boomers poor actions will be taken into consideration.

[@Sam-rm9hp]

Everyone will hate them

[@coleycole5344]

Great comment. Brilliant insight. In the history books, the picture description of a Baby boomer will be someone looking bugged out in front of a television. Or a helicopter parent being immature in the bleachers at their child's little league game. Only the baby boomer musicians will be respected.

[@nate7LP_my_dog_found_the_knife]

Probably with disdain, they were the only ones able to prevent the upcoming disasters. Situation equivalence of: house was on fire and they sprayed gasoline all over it, and then called you a moron and blamed it all on you.

[@CowToes]

I hope boomers are completely forgotten from time and not a memory of them remains. They deserve nothing. Not even being remembered.

[@bizzy5439]

I'm saying this from experience: it doesn't matter how "normal" a divorce process is. Divorce is excruciating for a child in every regard, and they should not have to suffer that if the parents can avoid it. (Yeah obv there are cases of abuse where divorce is to protect the child, I'm experienced in that too)

[@ischeele7203]

Parents just staying together for the kids' sake isn't great, either. Households like that can be a pretty toxic, even volatile environment. There's no way to avoid messing kids up when their parents' marriage fails. Just seems like a matter of choosing the best way to manage damage control over fallout from falling out.

[@ODaughterofZionMinistries]

I had a conversation with two boomers today and I wanted to gouge my eyes out. They we’re gossiping about others and the way they behave is so immature and manipulative. I just stood there saying nothing observing it all. They are so entitled, immature, selfish, they gaslight so blind to their own behavior while going off on everyone else for theirs. These people are almost 70 and i was so embarrassed for them and yet they saw nothing wrong with how they behaved. I can’t stand that generation. I’m know some that are good people but even those ones neglected their kids and treated them harshly thinking they were preparing them for the world.

[@rodharris3606]

Give me a break you are saying that other generation don't do the same thing, what you are talking about have been going on since we learned how to talk.

[@labordayweekend]

Seems like everything you mention (abortions, day care, divorce) comes down to lack of accountability or responsibility. Living for the moment and refusing to deal with consequences.

[@Crash103179]

True enough. Sounds like every generation since then, too. There is a deeper rot growing.

[@boguslav9502]

Mirality and its conceptnshifted at some. Point where it became subjective, the objectivists lackes the will necessary to violently force the subjecticisys. The subjectivists have the will to violently force the objectivists. Currently consumerism is the basic axiom of moralitu. Children affect your ability to consume and buy things therefore children are bad or even immoral. What is interesting is that ever since infantacide, ergo aborrion, has become a thing children are anconsumable, a product.

[@sebas8225]

Pretty hard to take accountability and responsability in a society that actively denies theirs. Just look at money printers.

[@nikkili8944]

@@sebas8225 Money printer go brrrrr 💵 🖨

[@edp3202]

💯

[@LUX711]

Daycare was the worst. Felt like eternity & never accomplished anything everyday while in it.

[@DVSPress]

I never drank apple juice after I could finally escape day care. Everyday they opened a giant can of the stuff and gave us a tiny paper cup to drink. To this day I still can't stand it.

[@josephvlogsdon]

I actually have a lot to say about this, so bear with me. My father was born on January 23rd, 1955. I was born on January 23rd, 1995. My father is exactly forty years older than me, but just recently, I’ve been thinking about how different my life has been. By the time my father was my age, he had already secured a job, married my mother, and had his first child. I, on the other hand, still feel like a kid. Financial security and marriage seem like impossible dreams. I think many people in the millennial generation feel the same way. I don’t hate baby boomers, but many of them fail to realize how lucky they were. They grew up in the 1950s, a time of financial and moral prosperity. My grandparents also married young, but they grew up in the 1930s, a time of financial ruin. Several of their siblings didn’t make it to adulthood. They had it rough, but they wanted to make a better future for their children. Baby boomers grew up in front of the television, watching wholesome shows like the Andy Griffith Show and Leave it to Beaver. They were taught moral lessons, most of which didn’t sink into their minds. In the mid sixties, America had reached the very pinnacle of economic and cultural prosperity, but the older baby boomers, the ones born in the mid to late forties, decided to burn it all down in 1967. After all, why not? There wasn’t time to think about such things during the Great Depression. People were too busy trying to survive, but the ubiquity of prosperity brought avarice, and with avarice comes ingratitude, ultimately leading to degradation. The boomers killed any hope of prosperity for their children, instead choosing to give into their primordial whims. Again, this is a judgment against a generation, not individuals. My parents were lucky, but they are upstanding, decent people who have been married for over forty years. As a whole, however, baby boomers are the most spoiled generation in history.

[@requiemforsolace]

Nailed it with this. They were born into a golden era and then wrecking balled it for us.

[@eugenesesmaiii3278]

I'm 27. I've asked my grandparents their stories about their childhoods and how they got to where they are now. And I've heard more than 1 story, in just my family alone, of generations past that made terrible financial decisions. Leaving no money for their relatives after having squandered it all away on alchocol, women, gambling, bad business, etc. It's almost infuriating. Especially as a minority where having businesses and stuff is so hard to attain. They actually attained it. Attained the opportunity to create generational wealth. And threw it all away meaning we'll have to start that process all over again.

[@jeffersonjjohnson]

I dunno, man. Millennials are pretty spoiled.

[@jeffersonjjohnson]

@@eugenesesmaiii3278 so start the process. Don't leave your kids with nothing.

[@josephvlogsdon]

@@jeffersonjjohnson Only insofar as they are living off of their parents money, but they haven’t actually created any wealth of their own. In their old age, millennials will have nothing.

[@mothmanprophet11]

Something that has never failed to depress me is how I'm considered unique because my boomer parents are still married. I'm in my 30s, fyi. Whenever I talk about my parents to other people my age, they usually say "Oh, your parents are still together?" with that low-key surprise in their voices. Lord have mercy.

[@mupty]

It was awkward going to public school and for me and my sister to be the few people in our vast circle of friends whose parents were still married.

[@dallassegno]

Mine and most my friends parents were still together. However, they didn't raise us. And they took every chance to humiliate us for being alive. The same as any other boomer parent. I remember as an adult I was trying to remember my childhood and wondered why my parents weren't there. My bro and I were talking randomly and boom he says, our parents didn't raise us. We were raised by 3 different women.

[@Geekdom101]

LET EM KNOW DAVID!

[@austenl43]

I agree with this video essay. I believe the key word for Boomers is 'selfish,' or colloquial narcissism bordering on sociopathic selfishness. They quickly folded on the idealism of the 60's and transitioned towards a kind of hyper-individualism; a sort of individualism not in contrast to society, or the state, which has long been part of American culture, but an individualism against other individuals including family members and one's children. I think the effects of this attitude on the micro-scale can be found in the economy on the macro-scale with the destruction of unions, an increase in wealth gap, a shift from a manufacturing economy to a squishy service and financial sector workforce, expansion of the drug war/prison system, expansion of interventionist foreign policy, and in the culture generally. Psychologically and philosophically it's important for people in believe in something greater than themselves whether that be religion or the republic each coupled with a tradition of values and principles and are unifying as opposed to divisive; many of these Boomers and many of their offspring are no longer apart of a community like that unfortunately. They've become wholly selfish.

[@austenl43]

Makes me think of Black Flag's "Gimme, Gimme, Gimme"

[@DVSPress]

Gimme some more Gimme gimme gimme Don't ask what for

[@austenl43]

@@DVSPress Exactly :-)

[@fearlessleader8623]

The boomers are the only ones with any wealth left. When they go, the rug will get pulled from under everyone.

[@austenl43]

@@fearlessleader8623 Not really. It's not like that wealth is just going to disappear. It'll mostly be passed to their offspring. Further, there are younger people with wealth. There's just fewer of them today than in past generations.

[@rwdchannel2901]

My Boomer uncle bought a house in southern California that today is worth $900,000. He only worked at the grocery store as a bag boy and clerk. He had 3 kids, took 2 week summer vacations, bought cars with cash, and retired at age 55 with a pension. The only people Boomers are able to gaslight are younger Millennials and Gen Z. Us Gen X and older Millennials know how easy Boomers had it.

[@jellyfrosh9102]

A few years ago I asked my grandfather what he was doing when he was my age, which would have been 1970. He said he was working in a gas compression plant and making 8 dollars an hour 40 hours a week, at age 21. 8 dollars in 1970 is 55.50 in 2021. Is it really any wonder why so many young people resent the boomers? I love my grandpa but holy shit his generation left mine basically nothing.

[@CuFhoirthe88]

What their generation had was cheated from them at best or illusory to begin with at worst. You were never going to see a single savoury cent of that money.

[@jellyfrosh9102]

@@CuFhoirthe88 Had their generation made any attempt whatsoever to preserve this country we could have.

[@remusventanus5341]

I have the same job my father had at my age. Only he was paid triple for the same work, and yet we're considerably more efficient and profitable than they ever were. Cool, huh?

[@CuFhoirthe88]

@@jellyfrosh9102 If they had as much a clue as you do, it's easy to understand why they may not have seen the need. Huge attempts were made. You'd call the men leading the charge commies or nazis depending on the day.

[@rtyria]

In 1970 my parents were earning so little that they could have qualified for welfare - if that hadn't been considered a duplication of government checks. By the time I entered the scene they were still not earning enough to keep things together. I have vivid memories of my dad sitting at the dinner table and watching us eat supper while he sipped a glass of water because there wasn't enough food to go around. Eventually he went back into the military. Both my grandfathers beat slag off of welds and were able to buy a house and keep food on the table (one through the depression), but dad worked for the cable company and drove a bus on the side and his paycheck never stretched as far. The value of the dollar has been sinking for a long time. Every generation has had to deal with that.

[@christophergrieb7996]

Bruce Cannon Gibney A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America. An entire book based on this subject.

[@TheShoguneagle]

The same people that espoused the principles of hard work, education, and peace also ushered in outsourcing, profitizing higher learning, and perpetual war. I don’t think a more hypocritical generation exists... except maybe my own (gen-Y).

[@TheShoguneagle]

You’re not wrong. We also have folks pushing 40 from our generation who don’t want to go back to work because “they don’t feel safe due to COVID.” They’d rather take a paycheck perpetually from Uncle Sam and sit at home. How are they not ashamed of themselves?

[@savagetv6460]

Try living through the Civil rights movement

[@nate7LP_my_dog_found_the_knife]

@@savagetv6460 compared to the upcoming ww3, climate disaster, this recession, food disaster (caused by boomers), and our cities burning down. Man I'd take that deal, better than being sent off to die defending the boomers property.

[@unkono]

Also moving all manufacturing to China with NAFTA.

[@beanpasteposts]

@@unkonoMoved all manufacturing to China, China got good at copying and manufacturing and built their own sustainable economy, and now getting mad at China becoming a superpower that’s actually willing to work diplomatically with other nations - rather than threatening them with regime change wars.

[@AudioEpics]

Thank you for talking about the divorce issue. Only when I became an adult and especially when I had kids did I truly realize what the divorce of my parents did to me. How we were suddenly torn away from our lovely home where I used to play with the neighbor's kids in the garden and forced to live in an apartment on a noisy street and how my mom was forced to work so hard to provide for us it eventually led to a chronic illness that still affects her to this day, all because my dad missed feeling butterflies and needed some more adventure in his life. I really hate how people downplay the awfulness of this stuff. How it hollows out kids' faith in people, in relationships, in their own abilities as a spouse or parent. How it rips the joy out of large and important parts of life, how it continues to affect you for the rest of your life. It truly is a horrible, horrible thing and people are still blind to just how bad it is. My brother is still in denial about it but I can see very clearly how it messed up him as well.

[@edp3202]

I always thought I wanted my parents to divorce cause they fought so much but I guess being in a toxic family home was better than going to an apartment.

[@AroundElvesWatchUrselves96]

"I hate Boomers. They're coarse and rough and they buy everything."

[@johnjay370]

🤣

[@arsenii_yavorskyi]

and current generations don't?

[@johnjay370]

Star wars reference 👍

[@brndnwilks]

@@arsenii_yavorskyi Whoosh!

[@arsenii_yavorskyi]

@@brndnwilks you have no idea what you are talking about.

[@kenward1310]

I'm Gen X, and I think we and the Millennials are damaged goods, for lack of a better term. Basically, anyone currently in the 18 to 48 cohort seems lost, irrational, or broken in some way. Might continue for another generation as the fallout takes time to bleed through. But, I'm optimistic the kids who come of age 20-30 years from now will prove to be as innovative and sensible as those who lived at the turn of the 19th/20th century. They may wind up undoing a lot or even all of the damage done by so many previous generations.

[@actionjackson7041]

Assuming the last of the Boomers don't decide to just nuke us all to Hell out of spite for not getting to live forever.

[@edp3202]

@@actionjackson7041 good point! They really are that narcissistic.

[@KratostheThird]

The problems start with the Post War era, which now encompasses five - six generations, starting with the WW2 generation. If the WW2 generation hadn’t spoiled the Boomers we would likely be living in a different society right now.

[@unkono]

It might be like this for the next 100 years

[@Kjf2691]

As a millennial, I will say that you told no lies, sir!!

[@OlStinky1]

I felt your rage on this one. Boomers (not all of course) tend to have an infuriating ability to "put the blinders on". You can have deep conversations with them about some of the issues you bring up and they may even start nodding along, but it's like they get the reset button pushed the next time they watch TV and they're back to living in The Simpsons. We are all products of this flawed society, but it does feel like they're uniquely "programmable" in a way even some of the few older people I've known weren't.

[@jamesfitzgerald1684]

I mean I have the same expierence with gen z and millennials.

[@savagetv6460]

Try living through the Civil rights movement and see if you can resist the programing

[@malbowz1257]

I agree. My own parents are like that. We may have similar political and moral views, but I've found with them they won't take it the next level and live out their convictions if it means they will be inconvenienced. My dad is a conservative but he'll still consume NBA, NFL, Disney, mainstream media, Amazon, you name it because he's totally programed. The notion of sacrificing a little convenience and comfort for a good cause is completely alien. And thus these giant entities who are complicit in the destruction of Judeo-Christian values and western culture continue to operate with impunity and spread cultural Marxism like cancer.

[@katka8490]

the tv is always on when I go to my parents' house. It's usually on CNN too. (cringe!) We don't even have a tv in the living room. (by choice, we took it down because I got sick of dusting it)

[@Sam-rm9hp]

It's mostly "gaslighting." They're not just honestly confused. Its why they're completely full of it and pretend to be ignorant when you bring up their privileges and boomer vs millennial issues. The entire generation is full of narcissists.

[@sulev111]

God, you are 38... I'm 30 and have nothing to show for it. Can barely keep myself afloat.

[@DVSPress]

I had nothing to show at 30 either.

[@sulev111]

@@DVSPress really? I went to college after high school. I got a masters in construction/engineering, worked for 2 years and finally got fired. Science, construction, maths, leading a construction crew isn't for me... There I was at age 29. Now I'm a "photographer" earning just enough to survive in a shared apartment :D lovely how life goes.

[@luistoomuch]

Hey, man. Stick with it. I’m 36 now, married, and own a home. At 30, I was married, but did not own a home and was just graduating college. I promise there’s hope ahead. Just make sure to join some kind of community (for me it was church) as that will help you to meet people and provide you with opportunities.

[@KratostheThird]

@@luistoomuch I left college at 21 because I found getting a liberal arts degree to be useless. Now I’m finishing off a different degree while I see a younger generation of 18 - 22 year old kids living off of Top Ramen and are more nihilistic than ever. It’s not just Gen Xers and Millennials. Zoomers are finishing their education in a broken society with no income for anything besides the bare minimum. One kid I know is about to go homeless.

[@richardjones7984]

Form a new political party of people who know how to do things and not just talk.

[@mattwilliam4803]

I'm Gen X. My siblings are Boomers - they're arrogant, to a certain degree - not real bad, but just enough to leave a bad taste in your mouth

[@ravenwargaming5612]

Very interesting points. One I found particularly insightful was the link between anxiety in younger generations and parental neglect from their parents.

[@kollow]

I'm going to accept that as a definite possibility. My boomer parents were cold, unloving, extremely immature and selfish. I tolerate a distant relationship with them now but when they pass I don't know that I'll mourn much. Here I am in my forties and anxiety is now my constant companion. Therapy, medicine, everything I have tried doesn't make it stop so I have just learned to live with it.

[@joshuafischer684]

It also explains the mommy/daddy fetish so many people seem to have.

[@carnivoreveganbicyclist]

@@kollow My anxiety and depression went away when I ghosted my parents.

[@KratostheThird]

@@joshuafischer684 Yep. Many Zoomers I know on social media have serious mommy and daddy issues. Can’t say I’m surprised.

[@debbie7326]

@@kollow You described by parents perfectly I too struggle with anxiety and depression

[@TheDrackOfSpades]

Boomers had it easy, that much is clear, Millennials now face a giant fear, Student debt of colossal size, A mountain of payments, it's no surprise. Boomers held onto their jobs with pride, Now millennials have nowhere to reside, The job market is tough to break, Gray ceiling stands in our way and we ache. Wage stagnation leaves us poor, Even with degrees and knowledge galore, The gig economy has taken over, A contract job pays less, it's a sobering sober. Housing once affordable, is out of reach, Boomers bought at a time that's a breach, Inflationary market and demand too high, For millennials, homeownership is a lullaby. Boomers were rewarded with pensions, grand, But now they've retired and money's in demand, Social security funds strain and break, Leaving millennials to fend for their own sake. So, boomers, we ask, what can we do? To ensure millennials have prospects anew, Can we work together to bridge this gap? And avoid leaving hardships on the millennial map, or perhaps we can serve them a dirt nap, After we stop paying for their welfare and that.

[@norrisford1583]

I totally understand the anger at poor education. My public school education was trash. These fools stopped teaching. . .grammar due to budget cuts. My college education was a waste of time that has me returning to school in my 40s for a more practical degree.

[@norrisford1583]

I also think my parents are better educated than I am. I have degrees, but their fundamentals are better which touches on what you said about public schools being functional during my parents time and a debacle during my time.

[@adog4661]

They don't teach penmanship past 2nd grade, much less cursive.

[@ischeele7203]

My school cut woodshop, home ec, and did intuitive spelling. As my friend said, 'They don't have WOOD in the future, apparently!' Then they added electives that were basically babysitting, having history and english teachers also handle forensics and film theory. Now, call me crazy but I think most people would get more use out of knowing how to fix a button or chair than knowing blood spatter analysis. I just have the impression that not a lot of people have to take a murder mystery into their own hands when the detectives fail to solve the case, or even that many murder mystery parties are intricate enough for blood spatter analysis to come in handy.

[@actionjackson7041]

Returning to school for a more practical degree? I'm reminded of the quote from No Country for Old Men, "If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?" I'll never step inside a university again unless it's with a gas-can to burn the whole thing to the ground.

[@PKSkeith]

If you and everyone else lies to someone everyday of their whole life, infant to young adulthood, how is it at all their fault when they get screwed over? Giving someone faulty instructions and blaming them for failure is not how things work. "You really should have just known everything you were being told for your whole life was wrong."

[@joshuafischer684]

At what point does it stop being someone else's responsibility for your own failures? If an 18 year old doesn't know how to take care of himself, that's not his fault. If he gets to 28 and still can't do laundry, cook, or clean, is it still his fault? How long do you allow him to make excuses before blaming him?

[@PKSkeith]

@@joshuafischer684 you are brushing away the magnitude of human psychology lol. If you dont teach a child things like language at the right age they literally cant learn it later on. Same for social interaction. Not to mention being 18 years behind because of lies isnt easily fixed in another 10 lol. You're literally blaming the handicapped for being handicapped.

[@Legogreens]

The business i work at is family ran. My father whom is a boomer was groomed to take it over and was on a percentage of the income as soon as he was of age and was paid handsomely at the age of... 12 working for his father. In those days it was not so profitable. Fast forward to now and it has exploded, my father is a millionaire and yet despite me working for him as a full time employee he pays me so little I cannot even move out- which is then used as an excuse why I should be so severely under paid while he clears over a quarter million a year

[@Legogreens]

The point from the above text is that I believe the OG generation who are mostly gone now were family orientated and because of true hardship and lack of wealth wanted not material security to feel happy but family security. They simply wamtd to see their kids succeed, and thus gave them golden opportunities, meanwhile the kids of those fortunate boomers did not receive the same grace given to the boomers by their parents. They made too much money to easy and they don't wanna part with it. Its too bad, really

[@nate7LP_my_dog_found_the_knife]

@@Legogreens they maybe old, but they never grew up.

[@KratostheThird]

@@nate7LP_my_dog_found_the_knife Trump being a poster boy example.

[@KratostheThird]

@@Legogreens The OG generation being the one that fought in WW2, right?

[@TheAutistWhisperer]

Boomer gonna boomer.

[@blakew.2327]

World War II Korea and Vietnam depopulated the male portion of America over and over again what they we're left with people with PTSD and a lot of single women that turn into feminists multiple Generations growing up without fathers and working mothers

[@isfahelww]

Wow! You didn't pull at punches! Great video. Speaking of daycare, I once heard a boomer lady tell a new mother that she should put her child in daycare, she said " I put my son in when he was 2 and he cried a lot at first but I kept taking him because I knew it was for the best" I CAN'T BELIEVE A MOTHER WOULD SAY\DO SUCH A THING!

[@ischeele7203]

My boomer aunt flat-out said she didn't feel ANY connection with or real love for her kids until they could talk and 'grow on her'. Said she'd just hand them off to the nanny and be done with them unless they needed feeding like it was a funny anecdote. Yikes.

[@isfahelww]

Jeez! Now that you mention it I've heard a few women say that too. I guess they don't realize it makes them seem horrible.

[@edp3202]

Boomers were so spoiled and were given so much attention they treated their own children shabbily. And we blamed ourselves but now we realize we were raised by spoiled brats.

[@CowToes]

​@@edp3202 my boomers are literal children.

[@TheGemar14]

The thing is, it's not just run-of-the-mill intergenerational conflict. The younger generations aren't saying boomers are lame and uncool and not with it. They're saying the boomers are unadulterated evil, which is a more serious accusation.

[@DVSPress]

It's a more substantive accusation too. The complaints about baby boomers are about the things they did; meanwhile the baby boomers have been hating every other generation since their youth for inbuilt qualities: they're lazy, stupid, entitled, worthless, etc. Attacks against the boomers are behavioral; Boomer attacks are ad hominem.

[@TheGemar14]

@@DVSPress When was the last time you heard a boomer say: the Millennials and Gen Z ruined this nation with their economic policies and dumbass wars. It's always: something something, trans wokesters and stuff. To which I reply, I take your trans wokesters and I raise you Woodstock.

[@TheGemar14]

@@DVSPress Exactly. When was the last time you heard boomers say: the young ruined this country with their economic policies and stupid wars. It's always: something something woke people. Which, when compared to Woodstock and the 60s, doesn't look so bad.

[@DMMRNE]

An entire generation of sociopathic hypocrites, whats not to hate?

[@requiemforsolace]

Exactly how I feel and think. So few talk about the failure of the Boomer generation.

[@AM-os4ty]

The Boomers still control public discourse. "Okay, Boomer" is the first rhetoric since the "Me Generation" to openly criticize them

[@savagetv6460]

@@AM-os4ty lol most sjws and activists are millennials who get to spout all sorts of shit lol

[@edp3202]

And they still give themselves so much credit.

[@DanielEarl]

Not only is being boomer a demographic, it's a mindset.

[@michaelzell5905]

"I got mine, so what's your problem?"

[@coleycole5344]

Exactly. I consider anybody brainwashed by MSM a boomer.

[@nate7LP_my_dog_found_the_knife]

"Wipe my ass, and thank me for it". That's their mentality. Can't wait for them all to kick the bucket, I don't expect to get a dime from them, nor do I want anything from them. To help the next generation, is an honorable privilege not a burden. Too bad the boomers never learned that.

[@freshtoast3879]

​@@michaelzell5905Basically

[@joshcowart2446]

I had the same issue with my parents sort of. It was more counselors than my parents. I was an honor student. From a young age I was always told college was my path. Though my parents would have been okay with whatever I did they still believed that was the best path. This is despite the fact that my dad got an animal science degree and instead of going on to vet school like he planned, he learned carpentry while working through school and started a construction business. Even though he got out of the business it helped me get a summer job with a plumber. I plumbed during the summers in college and could have had my masters license before I was 30. Instead I moved to a different city for school and since plumbers don’t want to hire part timers, despite the fact that I was extremely experienced, I got other jobs. After a decade of school off and on which I hated and many different majors, I finally realized that I had a perfectly good trade. It sucks that I wasted a decade that I could have been working toward starting a business. It even took me several years to get over the feeling that I had failed in life because I didn’t get a degree. I do find it funny how ignorant many young people are about boomers though. I regularly see them call people in their 40s and 50s boomers even though the youngest boomers are probably 65.

[@Trxpamvs]

The fact you’re only 38 threw me completely off man.

[@MaxCadyS]

I’m still confounded as to why the daycare system is such an integral part of life especially in the Nordic countries. I was being constantly harassed here because I didn’t put my child into daycare when he turned 6 months old. Daycare has always felt wrong for me, and in Sweden you’re treated as a pariah for not following their norms.

[@edp3202]

Odd. I think daycares are awful. My older sister helped raise me cause my parents were overwhelmed and unprepared for children.

[@anonymousanonymous9407]

Millenials living worse than their parents and living standards getting lower with years are pure western thing. Here in eastern europe it's an opposite and life quality did constantly grown after fall of soviet union, yet prices and taxes are still low. So now i'm like earning 4800 usd net salary(IT) with 5% income tax(so 4500 after taxes), spend like 500 usd for life(for the same lifestyle in europe it would probably be like 2k?) and have everything else easily invested(for example i'm 23 and i own my personal house - i got one unfinished that was built by my dad(with free land given by government in 90s) and finished it with all the fancy stuff for 20k dollars and it's 6 rooms, 20 acres of land, 200+ m2. Same stuff in Europe will cost me like 300-500k eur but here you can get such house for like 50-100k). My parents in my age were working for 100 usd and cabbages in early 90s in pretty bad jobs with physical labor.

[@DVSPress]

Yes, this is 100% USA perspective.

[@genelearnsenglish4242]

I hope things will keep that way after I get my master's. My dad is working abroad and provides the family with a lot of money. Recently, they provided half of the money for my sister's new car, so she could avoid taking a loan. And they pay for my room while I study at the university. Things are definitely good... almost too good.

[@savagetv6460]

The average millenial has a smartphone and video game system and TV lol

[@Coiler578]

@@savagetv6460 Also no friends, no home, and no future. What a bargain.

[@boguslav9502]

Which country? In poland things are not so peachy and we are existing in a literal very similar situation. Those growing up now will probsbly never hsve theor own home.

[@CharityDiary]

I mean this in the nicest way possible, but boomers have always struck me as... eternal children. Very suggestible, overly trusting of authority figures, difficulty understanding complex things, problems with habits (alcohol, smoking, fast food, etc). Sure, they're probably the worst generation ever, but there's a serious argument to be made about whether they even possessed the capacity to do better in the first place. Personally, I was raised by babysitters -- very cute girl-next-door babysitters, mind you (that's why I'm such a ladies' man). But, you know, I never even spoke to anyone at all until I was well into adulthood. Just didn't have anyone around to talk to. It was a hard adjustment, but I basically learned to speak by watching, you know, Molyneux on KZbin or whatever back then. Single mom cut hair in a small town, eventually married an entry-level factory worker, they have like a $500,000 house now and are doing fantastic despite neither of them having skills or working at all. Of course, all that wealth will evaporate when end-of-life healthcare comes about, and I'm predicting that every generation after the boomers will have a much lower life expectancy.

[@DVSPress]

Because of the way many have lived their end-of-life costs are already tremendous. We're talking decades in nursing care, etc. because either they don't want to live with their children (boomers stuck their own parents in homes) or they have such a bad relationship with their kids they won't have them. I don't know what's going to happen exactly, but I don't think it'll be pretty or sustainable.

[@AM-os4ty]

Boomers have also struck me as eternal children. I got to a point early in adulthood where I felt like I had matured beyond my own parents, a strange feeling. That said, what their eternal judgement looks like depends on if they willed themselves into that childhood. What we cannot control is beyond judgement. It seems strange though that preceding and following generations manage a maturity beyond their own.

[@AM-os4ty]

@@DVSPress - My Mother is already passed. I have a good enough relationship with my Dad to be willing to take care of him. My in laws are an entirely different story. sigh

[@nate7LP_my_dog_found_the_knife]

I'll tell the next generation what graves to piss on and desecrate. The ones that lead them to bitter waters, the ones that stole their future, and poisoned their youth.

[@yeshalloween]

@@DVSPressthat’s what my boomer mom did. Stuck my lovely grandmother in a horrible home where she quickly deteriorated after having great health and despite always saying she never wanted to go to “one of those places”. She passed away on a urine soaked mattress in a small 7’x12’ room. My mom was living alone in a 5 bedroom house and could’ve taken her mom in. Since my boomer mom has zero accountability or ability to say she’s sorry, and no thought towards me or my 5 kids, we’re estranged. so I’m sure as hell not going to be an elder-care option for her after years of her leaving me home alone to raise my siblings growing up. It’s hard not to hate these damn boomers. It really is.

[@nin114]

Things my well educated Boomer dad has said/ done in the past few weeks: -To get rid of used engine oil all you have to do is dig a hole in the ground, fill it gravel, and pour the oil in. It just vanishes! -He found a source for cheap workout pants locally that are so cheap that you can just wear them as work pants when you are outside doing yard work and then just throw them in the trash and get another pair if they get a hole in them, or get dirty. -Caught him cutting a pizza with a metal pizza cutter on my relatively new non-stick pan. Flakes of forever chemical Teflon death just flying all over his food. Was perplexed when I said you shouldn't....do that. -Told me that Gordon Ramsey threw out a bunch of "woke idiots" from his restaurant recently for being "woke". I said "That doesn't sound....real". Googled it, not real. Then he told me he read it in a news article on Facebook...proceeded to show me the most idiotic, child-level MS paint graphic ever made. He took it as complete fact. Absolutely insanity. On a mass, mass, mass level. They won't stop until we are plunged into WW4 (any day now, thanks to the ANCIENT freaks in charge of most powerful countries) and are machine gunning each other to death for the remnants of our completely scorched chemical/ microplastic drenched husk of a planet.

[@Attmay]

Boomers enabled this woke shit.

[@Scales7593]

It's never ending with the older folks. I guarantee, they are going to scream at the Whitehouse, again, for free elder care. More volunteer jobs for us and no savings.

[@fearlessleader8623]

Yes its true, our grandparents were salt of the earth people, humbled by the horrors of WWII. They left the keys to the world to their children. The boomers had the great economy, just enough tech without it taking over their lives. They sex, drug and rock and rolled their way into adulthood and no amount of screwing up could prevent them from landing a great job, buying a great house, etc. Instead of aging gracefully, many became spiteful, greedy and hateful of the younger generations. I was born in '87, my parents are extremely out of touch. I worked my rearend off to get where i am, joined the military, attended college and bought a house never asked for a dime and where am i now? Being threatened with losing everything because a bunch of boomers want to live forever and instill medical tyranny on the masses. When i try and talk about it with my parents they just dont see how close this country is to crumbling. I get the whole "well i lived my life" speech and they are complaining they havent got to take their 1000th vacation this year because of the "pandemic". I dont blame the entire generation, and i suspect their was no way to change it...but all i ask is to see some level of understanding, some level of give a damn.

[@nate7LP_my_dog_found_the_knife]

Your asking to much from the most selfish disgusting generation to ever step foot on this world.

[@CowToes]

It is like trying to squeeze blood from a stone. I feel so taken advantage of being this group.

[@averagecarpentryskills7148]

The babyboomer generation in my town had a community and neighbors and all owned houses and had nice lawns and community events together... I remember it because it was my childhood in the 80s and part of the 90s... But now as an adult I don't have that because they voted in or were compliant too the change in society.. Now my town is completely demographically changed.. Everyone of my neighbors doesn't speak my same language, the main street shops have changed to reflect that too, all the houses are ugly and slumlord type because the boomers realized they could get rich renting them and selling them to migrants.. can't find a well enough paying job in my town at the same places the boomers worked at because mass immigration has driven wages down. So, I'm isolated and have no community like they had or the quality of life that they had.

[@stuart6478]

I love how they sold their houses to move away from their friends so they have to drive 1/2hr+ just to be social. What a bunch of idiots.

[@jamesbecker3420]

I am a late/last boomer(1964), a USA Infantry combat vet, college degree'd LEO who never owned stock or was left any inheritance. I didn't experience generational hate from my children until after their military service(USMC) and when they started attending college. They chose the correct educational path(STEM) and are doing well. However, I think college/social media have encouraged a generational disrespect that was rarely practiced by previous generations. Unfortunately, they will most likely turn on themselves when there is no one else left to blame for they're misfortunes. They still make mirrors, try looking in one to often see where the real fault is based. Chose your life, live your choice(s)...

[@AShuffington]

It's important to highlight boomer mistakes because it's now our responsibility to not repeat those mistakes.

[@edp3202]

Exactly

[@nate7LP_my_dog_found_the_knife]

It's actually very easy. Don't be a selfish narcissistic sociopath. Give a damn about the next generation, it's not that hard to care.

[@simonaguilar3646]

This is the most important video you've ever done.

[@DVSPress]

Thank you

[@simonaguilar3646]

@@DVSPress Except the videos where you trash The Force Awakens. :)

[@PKSkeith]

but he made that video about how the live action Grinch movie was bad.

[@wbcc3388]

I agree with about 90% of it. I'm not against early abortion (do you really wish we had another 50 million citizens?) and I think so-called conservative legislators should get at least as much blame as Trump. I the government giveaways are generally bad but the handout I get is justified then we will never get out of this hole. Unless 51% of the electorate is willing to vote to cut their own welfare-check I see this ending badly.

[@coleycole5344]

​@@wbcc3388 Abortion puts evil spirits on the nation,

[@coleycole5344]

Brilliant commentary. You gave me flashbacks and things to ponder about my childhood as a Millennial. Awesome video. Yes, most baby boomers are evil to the core. People, do not fall for their fake costume of civility and conservatism. Stand your ground when they act innocent, cry, and throw temper tantrums. Forgive them even though they didn't forgive their parents. Be the better person that they didn't want you to be.

[@zach75241]

We need to remember baby boomers were also the first generation to be commercialized in their youth

[@driftless7134]

So what? The generations after were bombarded with even more! Not to mention the non-stop trauma based mind control that's been left in the boomer's wake.

[@zach75241]

Exactly

[@unkono]

​@@driftless7134 mk ultra never ended

[@Zuranthus]

genX got double what they got and we told em to shove it, that's why being a "sell-out" was such a big issue for us

[@Richard-ul8yz]

As a borderline boomer myself, i don't think they were evil necessarily. Just naive. The people who controlled the narratives really knew what they were doing (still do).

[@Cheddar_Wizard]

Incredibly naive forsure. Many still think weed is a narcotic drug *facepalm*

[@savagetv6460]

@@Cheddar_Wizard most boomers were talking drugs back then boy lol

[@savagetv6460]

@@Cheddar_Wizard you're confusing boomers with gi folk

[@GodOfOrphans]

Consequentialism still says that's evil. Intent is irrelevant when the results are this cataclysmic.

[@savagetv6460]

@@GodOfOrphans you overlook the disaster that was Civil rights

[@pheonixshaman]

Also, regarding Afghanistan and Iraq, boomers have put TWO generations to war in both (we still technically are militarily engaged in both nations, even if it is with mercs instead of US soldiers).

[@rscurran]

The boomers are the selfish generation. I don’t share your optimism that the generation following is any better. You talked briefly about your exercise routine. I would be interested to hear a bit about what you do. Would you consider a video on that subject? I too had no idea that lifting is so good for you.

[@thefirmamentalist9922]

It’s like you’re describing my life. -born in ‘89

[@minespatch]

1990 here. Fortunately my parents never divorced and gave me educational books that my schools could even give time to teach me.

[@freshtoast3879]

​@@minespatchThat's fortunate. Do you have a good relationship with your parents?

[@minespatch]

@@freshtoast3879 I do. My mother is dead but my father and I work together on comics and such.

[@freshtoast3879]

@@minespatch At least you still have a good relationship with your dad. Take care

[@ruefulquail5071]

Thank you for making this video. At 39, I concur with all you have said here and appreciate your perspectives on the divorce issue and teaching (I did the same thing before leaving it at 35). This deserves to be shared far and wide. It isn't a purely vitriolic diatribe like so many anti-boomer videos.

[@adithalee8660]

They did bring in most of the immoral stuff into the country. And made it into a mass enjoyment experience.

[@graymedia7811]

One interesting outcome from abortion is the possible link it had to the drop in violent crime in the late 90s. There was a fairly drastic drop off in violent crime rates towards the end of the 90s, and the speculation is that a lot of the people who would have been born in a situation which would increase their chances of becoming a criminal later in life, were simply aborted instead. So 20+ years later, when they would have been entering society as criminals, they were simply absent because they had been aborted, resulting in a decline in crime. Not sure how much weight to give this theory, but it's interesting to think about. I do agree that broadly speaking abortion is morally dubious at best though.

[@riekopo7638]

Boomers Being Fools is a hilarious subreddit

[@remusventanus5341]

The problem is that it's easy to throw shade in retrospect, and people are generally a product of their time. That being said, many baby boomers were in a fortunate position to have the world handed to them, and through greed, they have used, abused, and manipulated every system of power to benefit themselves and to regulate it to others detriment as they move on. Our economy, education, and political system are an absolute embarrassment. This obviously does not apply to every boomer, with vast exceptions, but as a generation, they have not left America or the world a better system. If you know your WWII history, we are a far more civil society, but we're as corrupt as ever.

[@edp3202]

Do you, David, or anyone know Baby Boomers' rejection of leaving behind their generational wealth? What is the issue with them refusing to leave behind their ancestors with anything? Cause it really is true.

[@nate7LP_my_dog_found_the_knife]

They're just bitter about dying as if they should be above the natural cycle. Boomer mentality I tell ya.

[@edp3202]

@@nate7LP_my_dog_found_the_knife the entitlement and narcissism is hysterical.

[@skyehorvath9063]

I actually had a young lady, who was born in 1993 say to me in 2015 that…. “The 60’s were overrated” I am not making this shit up.

[@lisagrimaldi5309]

There is a big differnce between being born in 46 and in 64. The boomers are the only generation categorized by the birth rate. I’m a late boomer born in 62. I started working in the 80 in high school had my children in the late 80s and 90s. My parents prepared me to find a nice man with a good job and be a housewife? By the 90’s that lifestyle was no longer possible. We already needed two incomes to survive. Also my husband born in 63 a year younger than me. His dad fought in WW2 my dad Korea. His dad part of the greatest generation my dad part of the silent generation. Makes a Huge difference.

[@bigduke5902]

I was born in 1981, my mom didn't work, and boy was I in for some culture shock when I got old enough to start visiting friends at their homes. Decades later, I'm the only one who let's his kid walk to the bus stop on her own.

[@johnwatsoniv384]

See, these days you get outta high school and have several people you went with die of opioid overdoses

[@lisa9867]

Well my generation it was cocaine or drunk driving. Or both.

[@JS-iz2fk]

Sounds more like "liberals" more than boomers. Also lack of conservative "conservatives."

[@notoriouswhitemoth]

For all those gen-x and later saying we wish we'd had more applicable school curriculum, baby boomers had what were called "life adjustment" classes. Life adjustment was that curriculum, and included *a lot* of propaganda. That's where most boomer stereotypes came from. Be careful what your wish for!

[@wallybiii]

As someone who is right on the cusp of Gen x and Gen y, I find it interesting that many from the younger generations just a lump those two in with the boomers. Boomer=anyone over 35 in their eyes.

[@kmech3rd]

Yep. Born 1974. Kids have no knowledge of history, and anything that happened before they were born is ancient and irrelevant. One little shat called me a Boomer once. I wanted to reach through the internet and break his nose.

[@KratostheThird]

@@kmech3rd Kids mostly sit at home on their electronic devices. They weren’t raised in an analog age like you were.

[@Blackdiamondprod.]

16:44 Vietnam also lasted 20 years. Contrary to common belief, America started sending troops there in the 50’s and the war didn’t end until the 70’s.

[@pinatacolada7986]

All of my school friends parents were divorced too. I wish my parents got divorced too because the reality was so much worse. My boomer dad is a covert passive aggressive narcissist and made my co-dependent mum depressed and suicidal. He's rich, owns a semi-detached house but gave me no financial support. I had to get a loan to go to university. I've spent my adult live immigrating to different countries to get away from them. What makes it worse is that everyone in the family takes their side because they spend all day on Facebook virtue signaling and playing the victim. I don't expect any inheritance and I simply want them to disappear.

[@AlphaWhale]

They haven't conserved the women's bathroom RIP

[@djb5255]

DVS with the bantz

[@WillowT442]

The boomers in my life whined and whined about how millennials don’t know how to work or can’t work. How millennials always got trophies for just showing up. Who was handing out those trophies? The older generations!!!! Make it make sense.

[@edp3202]

We were raised by each other. Exactly. And by pop culture. I'm an older gen Xer. You're exactly right.

[@richardshaffer540]

XM radio, channel 54, 15 years ago. ‘Music for the slacker generation, by the time your parents were this age they were already working on their 2nd divorce’s’.

[@DVSPress]

If only I could pull myself up by my bootstraps and get a few divorces

[@Iron_Wyvern]

Just found your channel. I'm 36, soon to be 37. While I have boomer parents who are great people, I absolutely agree about boomers as a whole. They have been an absolute disaster for everyone after them. They literally just gave America away for short term good times. Absolutely unforgivable.

[@corporateshill7473]

As a kid, I would vary violently between my fandoms. I couldn't possibly play with my Spiderman toys while also playing with my Batman toys. I had similar feelings about my parents, which made the on-week off-week arrangement particularly painful.

[@nate_d376]

Never forget, some Boomers were Yuppies in the 80s.....

[@KratostheThird]

And their older brethren were Hippies in the 60’s.

[@CrashManUltra]

Thanks for making this video David. I’m glad you don’t pull your punches on these topics. A lot of conservatives mule about things like wresting control of public school and Universities away from the Marxists. They don’t realize the best thing to do is take your kids away from these systems which are flawed by their very nature, not just by the pin heads running them.

[@edp3202]

My exhausted working mom only didn't put us in day care cause we threw a fit. So friends watched us after school until my older sister took over. I think all my friends were latch key kids.

[@coleycole5344]

Exactly. They were too lazy and selfish to do that.

[@libertysprings2244]

I wouldn't agree with people thinking the boomers were spoiled. There were few or no social safety nets in the 60s and there was the draft where many young men were sent to Vietnam to die. To me it is the more recent generations that were spoiled. They grew up with air conditioning in homes and cars! Plus eating fast food which we rarely did in the 70s. A lot of people lived in trailers with no a/c and ate potatoes and beans to survive.

[@echeneis2256]

So you think that its cool that Boomer parents sent their kids to psychiatrists for "ADHD" who are total strangers and essentially outsourced their family problems onto the "social safety net" and got their kids hooked on "legal" amphetamines? What kind of person does that? What kind of person sends their kids off to some institutional school with strangers who get their kids involved in all kinds of bad things, bad music, bad ideologies, etc...if you think that is love then you are simply one of them.

[@gillianshimwell4984]

Psychological cushioning and relative material security. Prior gens were under sterner authority, but trained in skills, and not grown till 21 years.

[@brndnwilks]

Great video, David. I'm the same age and you touched on a lot of points that I've seen myself, with much better articulation than I can muster. I'm far behind you in the writing game but my wife and I(both latchkey and divorced raised kids) are working to make sure our 6 month old daughter(see how far behind I am?) doesn't suffer the same ill effects that we did. That includes natural feeding(as long as was possible), a stay at home parent, and most likely home school. Keep doing these videos, David, they're a quality resource that more people need to hear(just don't stop your writing videos, they're great too!).

[@Seaismydream]

thank you for talking about how crap daycares are. daycares traumatized me and countless other children. counselors beating, abusing, and humiliating children was a regular that happened everyday. children are the future, never forget.

[@calebc5124]

We've evolved large adult brain sizes. Because of this we have to be born 'premature' while our heads are still smol enough to make it through mom's p****. This means adults have a duty to pass on knowledge of complicated social structure so that their offspring can thrive. Western Boomers decided to maximize their pleasure rather than do this for their kids. [Rant] My parent's divorced. My mom punished my sister for needing attention, and tried to enslave me to serving her rather than nourishing her children (At 16 I said "NO ). My father didn't take the time to pass on any of the skills for being an adult. I've made a lot of progress, but I'm still working out of the hole that a lot of my parents negligence put me in. A big factor God will judge us on is; how much advantage did you inherit from your ancestors hard work; relative to that how much advantage did you pass on to your children

[@nate7LP_my_dog_found_the_knife]

Well best to start calling them the generation that went to hell In a handbasket.

[@TheDarkHorseRides]

My boomer parents divorced at 25 and put us 4 kids in an orphanage so they could start all over with new people, and their parents were ok with it because it was the best for "their" kids. Since then, generations of broken homes, drugs, alcoholism, jails, prisons for their off spring since. My parents nor their parents never drink, smoke, drug , any of that, church every Sunday, owners of nice big houses! The just created the environment for those things to bloom in their own bloodline because of the extreme selfishness!

[@IvorMektin1701]

I'm Gen X and my parents were Silents. Biden is a classic Silent, obsessed with gun control and a deviant. My dad would storm in and announce the .44 Magnum should be outlawed and then he would take mom to an adult theater.🙄

[@nate_d376]

Actually gen X is through '79, I believe.

[@sapphiredragon5152]

I found an element of catharsis in this video.

[@Zerobob26]

I wouldn't read too much into it David. Young people think anyone over the age of 25 is a "Boomer". It's just a phrase they throw around to claim generational victimhood, and to immediately discredit other people's opinions.

[@superadventure6297]

Back in the 60s, the boomers (called "flower children" back then haha) had the phrase "Never trust anyone under 30" None of this is specific to a generation. Generational conflict is always the same between young and old, no matter what derogatory names they give each other

[@coleycole5344]

Negative. Your over-simplifying it. People know what a baby boomer is.

[@liveyourbestlife1513]

You’re saying exactly what I feel. The wealthiest generation that leaves behind a bankrupt society.

[@corporateshill7473]

Thanks for giving me lots of stuff to bring up the next time my in-laws say something dumb at dinner.

[@patriciacestare232]

My one daughter banned me from her life, at 30years old. Blames me for every thing that is wrong in her life..we didn't worry so.much about them...my husband and i worked...and was in a rock band...that is a bad no no in todays world

[@BuildingMakingDoing]

I admire your even temperament, but think you are way too generous. My own parents left me with a huge mess to clean up, and honestly thought I should be grateful for the crumbs they left. I was able to succeed, but it wasn’t because of the generation that raised me. It was despite their influence.

[@jpwright87]

Generational blame is just sloppy. It's a bit too similar to the "systemic" language that we overuse, and I doubt most people have the objectivity to rate generations anyway.

[@ShallaBal82]

I've narrowed down the problem with Boomers into three things - lack of introspection, refusal to apologize, and refusal to understand how society now works/acts. You bring up casually that your parents left you in the car to get groceries on a consistent basis when you were a kid, and you get, "NO! I never did that! I would never leave you alone!" But EVERY kid remembers their parents doing that, and when you bring it up to your Boomer parents, they deny rather than say, "Yeah, we did. But it was OK back then and we know you can't do that now and that must be hard to pull a sleeping child from a car for a five minute trip into the grocery store." If you bring up something more serious with them, like, "Hey, you said this to me when I was a kid, and it really messed me up." Denial, then refusal to apologize at all. Even if they don't remember it, just say, "Man, I don't remember it, but I'll think about it and I'm really sorry it made you feel that way - it wasn't my intention." They just refuse to take the L and double down when they know they're wrong.

[@superadventure6297]

I woulda considered you Gen X. I'm late 70s and was always told I was Gen X. It's gotten to where nobody knows where the generations fall anymore. I've even heard people my age be called "millennials" (oh the horror!) and even myself been called a boomer by a younger person. That term has just become this catchphrase for 'older person' and has almost lost its original meaning

[@apsarasangreal84]

Every Single Fing Boomer

[@andreashelton957]

I concur. I think the new generation is doing a great job with what they have been handed and they are so smart. I feel rewarded and fulfilled for giving it my best as a parent and stay home mom.

[@MGP2210]

09:10 It's very difficult for parents to give their kids something they don't have. (Not my quote but food for thought)

[@DVSPress]

Very true.