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[–] PunnyName 65 points 2 years ago (3 children)
[–] Lemmylefty 35 points 2 years ago

Remember kids: the higher the productivity graph climbs, the more proof there is that no one wants to work!

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And blame us for not having kids.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

They need that new generation to exploit.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Quadrupled (probably) healthcare costs

To be fair this does hit them first as they age

But also they just strike even by metabolizing their life savings / real estate to pay for this

Leaving us… with no inheritance and holding the bag

[–] bouh 12 points 2 years ago

Just two years ago I thought they wouldn't see the effect of global warming and would die comfidently ignorant. I was wrong, but somehow it doesn't make things better.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

Mine just accused me of being gay via hearty use of homophobic slurs, because only women and gays cry, and i wasnt no woman.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago

That's lame. Real men aren't afraid to cry, whether straight or otherwise.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Everyone said I was disadvantaged by having a single parent, but I didn't have to live through any of that shit except for 1 year my mother married (and then left the guy because he was an ass)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

One good parents better than 30 shitty ones, mate, and sounds lik you had a good one.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Ehhhhhhhh.... I wouldn't go that far. I had a not-terrible one, who only showed bad sides when I was in my 20s. lol

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

That hurt to read, I'm so sorry

[–] rbhfd 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I had subtly internalized that idea from growing up in a small, narrow-minded town. I don't remember it explicitly being said to me but probably it has. Don't think it came from my parents though. Definitely not from my mom, maybe from my dad.

My point is that despite the subtlety of it all (as far as I can remember), I had a hard time getting over this internalised toxic masculinity. I can only imagine if it was much more explicit.

But you are you! You define your own masculinity. And as paradoxal as it may seem, being comfortable in your own masculinity, however you define it, is the most manly thing you can do.

[–] cyberpunk007 1 points 2 years ago

Sorry to hear about your parents, they suffer from emotional immaturity. Don't let them hold you back from what makes you happy.

No offense, but fuck 'em, go enjoy your life! 😂

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Haha ok this meme was good.

I'm one of the parents. Sorry for my generation. :)

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

We know it's not all of you. Your generation also fought for civil rights, explored space, invented jogging I think.

We have shitheels in our generation too. And I fear they'll become more and more prominent as we get older. I hope we're able to dampen their greed and intolerance.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

I'm pretty sure boomers didn't invent running.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It's not them. It's the super rich 0.1% who have screwed this generation.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago (2 children)

They didn't , same class did it same class is doing it. Fuck this stupid fake generation shit

[–] Balderdash 14 points 2 years ago

Both are true. Boomers as a bloc have consistently voted for cutting social programs that they benefited from in favor of lower taxes, moreso than preceding and succeeding generations. The wealthy indeed shape the bills and reap the benefits, but it wouldn't happen without boomer support.

[–] clanginator 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Thank you. Millennials and Gen Z are the same mindless consumers that boomers were, by and large. It wasn't their generation, it was the bourgeoisie.

[–] metallic_substance 5 points 2 years ago

Yeah, but if we blame the boomers we never have to take any responsibility and we can just continue mindlessly fucking the world up

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And that's why you always leave a note!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Oh my god, that guy's arm just came off!

[–] MdRuckus 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So....they did give us something to cry about.

[–] devious 11 points 2 years ago

They played the long game.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It can be four things.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Too real for me irl

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

That's a plot twist

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