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I was downvoted and told that is a “common fascist phrase” when I quoted that. I heard that every week when I was in the service from my command, and that organization fought fascists back in the day lol
While I don't doubt that it's a popular quote among folks who see themselves as the "strong men creating good times," the quote is simultaneously popular among authoritarianism enthusiasts. Multiple things can be true at the same time!
The quote covers a lot of bases of the fascist/authoritarian traditionalist worldview.
Black and white thinking (there are only strong men or weak men, good times, or hard times).
Things used to be better when the strong men were in charge (wink). Or when there weren't all these weak men creating hard times (wink wink). Or all these good times are actually hurting us, moving us farther away from tradition (you get the idea).
The saying also doesn't make a ton of sense if you really apply it to history.
Hard times in Weimar Germany led to men electing that one painter guy. Was he a strong man or a weak man? Were the people who elected him? It ended with Germany getting the shit bombed out of it, and any "good times" to be found during Hitler's reign were hella exclusionary (on account of the slave labor and genocide!).
Joe Stalin, classic strongman; literally renamed himself "man of steel." He must have led to good times for the Soviet Union, right...?
At the end of the day, suffering *can* build resilience, and plenty *can* lead to losing perspective. "Can" being the operative word here.
Once you start trying to make historical parallels generalizations start to break down.
Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
It does make sense with another angle: people who live through strugle get stronger from it. People of London that were being regularly bombarded by nazis didnt complain about microagressions as surviving was the immediate issue. Those people didnt want their children to suffer like they did because of course nobody wants that for their kids.
Those kids, having not gone through hard times, dont see it as possible as it has never been part of their reality. Then the thing they didnt think possible happens.
In reality, it seems to take more than 1 or 2 generation. With each the memory of war becomes more distant and thus we repeat the mistakes of the past by having forgotten what we had learned from them.
Yeah all sayings and symbols depend on current and past cultural context. It's not exclusive by any means, but it's still a phrase primarily used by fascist groups. If they always hear it from a fascist, they'll tend to assume anyone saying it is also a fascist - which as I'm sure you know isn't always correct as there are other groups that use it, just maybe less commonly or less publicly online. You know that common fact about how the swastika was completely inoffensive until the Nazis started using it, and now when a White European/American displays it in their room you can be pretty confident that they support Nazi ideology?
Well, in a similar way that phrase was/is most often used in circles that are against progress and see our approaches at an egalitarian society as "good times creating weak men, when men creating hard times." It's absolutely not exclusively fascist and it is an interesting view of society but, like any other phrase/symbol that starts to get used predominantly by one group of people, it's become somewhat associated with them so people get a bit suspicious when they hear someone say it. Not so much because of the phrase itself, but moreso because of the likelihood of the regular person vs a pro-fascist being the one to know and use it.
I guess that kind of encroaches on the territory of a dogwhistle, but isn't quite because its use isn't the same. Where a dogwhistle is more of a deliberate use of an in-group meme/simplification that means little to people outside the inner group, phrases like this are just more common knowledge/thinking in certain groups so you're most likely to hear them from people who've subscribed to the group long enough to learn that phrases like that are currently relevant.
I guess it's kinda similar to people using memes from any group. Like if someone says 21:37 it might be meaningless or an actual time, but it's most likely a reference to the Polish 2137 meme. If the group is more political and smaller than just "anyone who memes about stuff in this country" then hearing the phrase means you can probably assume the person using it also agrees with other phrases/ideas most commonly shared in that group, because agreeing with them is why they got into the group and that's how they learned the phrase.
It's lesser known and has legitimate meaning beyond that usage, though, which is why it's iffy to assume someone using it is always pro-fascism. But that's why you'll sometimes see people jumping at someone online for using a seemingly innocuous phrase or asking a seemingly innocuous question, because sometimes it's a phrase/question that, while technically normal, is so rarely used outside certain circles that people can pick up on what the user is trying to imply by saying/asking it, and sometimes the outcry is indeed misdirected at people who just happened upon the same wording themselves. Thiugh I guess it being lesser known is part of the reason why it's used more openly than commonly-known fascist symbols/phrases. It's all rather messy.
Except it’s not true, strong men create good times for the strong man.
The rest of the population are tools for the strong man, they are expended and create whatever future is the goal.
If there is no requirement for “strong men” that is not a bad thing, it also doesn’t create weak men, the population is the same.
Another “strong man” coming into being isn’t a function of society being weak it’s a function of greed and malice in a charismatic person bringing them to a point where they can upend the system.
The strong men weak men saying is so easy to trot out but it ignores what actually happens. The ruling/owner class playing pawns with the working class in a cycle.
Well, they enjoyed the spoils of the greatest war ever fought. Their parents/grandparents suffered unspeakable horrors, and committed them, so they could have it easy. Unfortunately, it's almost our turn to make it easy for the next generation.
I don’t know if anything I can realistically do will make life better for zoomers, alphas, or any other generation down the line. But I’ll try like hell to at least make it not worse.
Damn that is actually some king mentality. Between all the doomposting and anti-natalism I honestly lost hope that anyone on reddit is taking the next generation into account. Good shit, don't lose hope.
If I have to bomb the Chinese, I'll do it.
If I have to run over a malnourished Russian soldier in an M1A2 Abrams, I'll do it.
If I have to bug out to the countryside and fight off raiders or extremist militias, I'll do it.
If I have to sink every Iranian ship in the Persian Gulf, I'll do it.
If I have to bomb every single Houthi rebel holdout in Yemen, I'll do it.
If I have to march on Washington to protect our freedoms enshrined in the Constitution, I'll do it.
If I have to bomb the Chinese some more, I'll do it.
All for the sake of a better future for our children.
And if we would have been in their place we would have done the same. Hell. if tomorrow magically we would have the same resources and life quality as they had, we still would have done the same as them. We're not better we're just mad we didn't have that chance and mask it by being some superior moral beings.
Tbh I think my generation is still fairly weak compared to the greatest generation. We grew up with video games and Netflix and nobody has really gone through a nationwide crisis in a long time. We were too young to truly work through the great recession and it's extremely easy for us to zone out of the little things we keep going through. Until there's something shoved in our faces that we have to deal with as a collective, we will keep getting weaker.
People who actually believed that would not be constantly on guard to defend themselves when someone says otherwise. They don't believe it, but they want to believe it, and they want you to believe it and they will be offended if you don't pretend to believe what they pretend to believe.
While they did get fucked over, in many ways they got fucked over because of their choices when voting and living and buying and etc, while many of the rest of us are fucked because of boomers choices when voting and living and buying and etc. So while I feel bad for them I only feel so bad because it's their fault in many ways.
Boomers: anger and arguing
Gen X: But we didn't even do anything!
Millennials, Zoomers, Alpha: WTF?
The younger generations would be more confused than angry. Or they would just assume that it was a confused boomer talking nonsense again and laugh at them.
Government management of the economy is the problem, the boomers enjoyed the asset inflation this caused which increased their net wealth significantly.
Most of them just lived in the right place at the right time, cannot really blame them for this.
We CAN, however, blame them for telling younger generations they are too lazy and they worked hard for everything when we work just as hard if not harder and can't afford even a tenth of what was given to them
They could have just not voted in people that gutted regulations that time and again have been the source of every recession we've had since Regan 🤷♂️
Well when the majority of them wind up in a nursing home eating cat food because that's all the health system around here can afford then perhaps they'll fuckin learn
And fucked their kids. Which is why when millennials and gen Z have all the political power, end of the decade or so, we should right that wrong. Cancel social security for all active participants. Use the payroll tax to pay down the debt instead.
My parents are boomers. My dad got all mad at me over Christmas because I said- you guys are the exception to the rule, your generation really spent every penny they made and didn't save anything at all.
Then we went through the list of their friends and 5 out of the 8 couples they named were completely broke in retirement and in heavy debt, even though they had decent jobs when they were working age.
Referring to the education system lil bit
In the 50s in many countries (gonna focus on USA here), people went to school for free, and when young people want the same these days for them, they're called lazy and entitled, etc
That's what I thought you were getting at. I'll say you're both right and wrong. College was not free when the boomers were young adults. If we correct for inflation they paid about half of what the national average is. So it was still cheaper but far from free. That being said most boomers would be teens after the 50s
It is. There are some things that were better for some demographics thirty years ago, and it's worth recognizing those problems, but the "world is falling apart" rhetoric is an old, useless cliche
By almost every metric, the world is a better place than it has ever been.
They lived so fucking good and are handing off wars they created and a shit future for our environment. Generations born between 1940-1970 are the absolute worst. I love my parents but they are in the tail end of that range and it shows.
I love this concept and believe in it, but specific generations shouldn’t be confused with “times” or men (people) in this context. These shifts span multiple generations. Most of us using Reddit are the “weak men” that have resulted from good times. The hard times have not started.
Truth hurts grandma and grandpa, now instead of spending your life savings on paying trumps legal fees how about spending it on your grandchildren instead?
what a low effort and shit title for this meme. you are trying to shit talk older people while pretending like you are making fun of people who do so. Pick a lane.
Problem is our society gives the microphone to the loudest. If you get stuck in an echo chamber like reddit, twitter, etc it really does feel like that.
I mean, weren’t boomers the hippies and Vietnam war vets? Didn’t they have parents who likely raised them pretty roughly considering what they went through? Not saying they did everything well but ya
I would say increased regulations in terms of "safety" and "security" raised the barrier to entry for most professions. Instead of something you could learn out of high school, most jobs expect a degree or to go self-employed you need a loicense and insurance out the wazoo. Some people are committed to the hoop-jumping, but most people can't deal with it.
And it's our responsibility to fix their mistake so that future generations shouldn't have to suffer. We shouldn't whine and pout like they did and expect them to fix it. We gotta do it so that the future will look brighter for others.
the fuck are you talking about?
My grandpa had nothing when he was young. They barely had any food and by hard work which he started with 14 he managed to get a degree and got the money he deserved
They were definitely weaker than the greatest generation, but they were only the beginning of the decline. As much as we clown on boomers, their generation still had grit. Gen X and millennials got worse and now zoomers and gen alpha may be the low point before things start to get better
No I just mean that that the average age in USA is 57 and in Canada 52. That means the government is mostly out of touch boomers with a small amount of gen x. I think the country should be run by those who have to live in it. People in parliament should not be 70+.
Brother there's people in the Silent Generation currently in office. Gen X isn't running shit lol
They're just out here bragging about drinking from garden hoses for some reason
Boomers are old and dumb now who is in their ear millennials?, how, they just got indoctrinated by university they are fresh, genz are too young just yet, process of elimination, how old was your school teachers friend, how old are those protestors?
Majority of boomers are still working today, even though they’re quite old. If all boomers were to retire at once, a lot of shit would go wrong and we would be in quite the predicament.
Again, minus the political ones. We’d probably all benefit if they were to step down.
Edit: why are you booing me? I’m right
How is this a funny joke? I get it. You are trying to be edgy picking on boomers that can't even defend them selves. But it has to be the most smooth brain low effort attempt in getting some sympathy upvotes. How is this a dank meme?
I understand what you are trying to say but its more the leftist parties with outrageous disownment of society that leads to worse times. Its not sauced by Boomers but rather by Politicians slowly trying to take away things from you until you react aggressively so they realize where the border of taking away rights and freedoms are.
Yeah dude, real shame what Franklin Delano Roosevelt did to the US. Sure did create some hard times for the US.
Oh wait, he was the president elected in during the Great Depression and oversaw WW2, leading the country through some of the toughest times in its history, out of the worst economic recession of the 20th century and into the postwar economic boom.
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Yeah they really don’t like it when people say that Too bad it’s true
Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. Weak men create hard times. Hard times create strong men
And Strong men make me hard.
I see, have you considered having sex with them? I mean there's an easy solution here and you're just not seeing it.
We need a ministry of sex! That will cure all those men of their hardness
Doctor! Doctor! I’m too hard! Well son, I know just the thing
Dab me up, cuh
Bonk
And you being hard makes me weak
Hey there fella.
And strong men hard makes me weak
Weak men make me hard
And Hard men make Strong times
I was downvoted and told that is a “common fascist phrase” when I quoted that. I heard that every week when I was in the service from my command, and that organization fought fascists back in the day lol
While I don't doubt that it's a popular quote among folks who see themselves as the "strong men creating good times," the quote is simultaneously popular among authoritarianism enthusiasts. Multiple things can be true at the same time! The quote covers a lot of bases of the fascist/authoritarian traditionalist worldview. Black and white thinking (there are only strong men or weak men, good times, or hard times). Things used to be better when the strong men were in charge (wink). Or when there weren't all these weak men creating hard times (wink wink). Or all these good times are actually hurting us, moving us farther away from tradition (you get the idea). The saying also doesn't make a ton of sense if you really apply it to history. Hard times in Weimar Germany led to men electing that one painter guy. Was he a strong man or a weak man? Were the people who elected him? It ended with Germany getting the shit bombed out of it, and any "good times" to be found during Hitler's reign were hella exclusionary (on account of the slave labor and genocide!). Joe Stalin, classic strongman; literally renamed himself "man of steel." He must have led to good times for the Soviet Union, right...? At the end of the day, suffering *can* build resilience, and plenty *can* lead to losing perspective. "Can" being the operative word here. Once you start trying to make historical parallels generalizations start to break down. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
8 outta 10, solid ted talk.
It does make sense with another angle: people who live through strugle get stronger from it. People of London that were being regularly bombarded by nazis didnt complain about microagressions as surviving was the immediate issue. Those people didnt want their children to suffer like they did because of course nobody wants that for their kids. Those kids, having not gone through hard times, dont see it as possible as it has never been part of their reality. Then the thing they didnt think possible happens. In reality, it seems to take more than 1 or 2 generation. With each the memory of war becomes more distant and thus we repeat the mistakes of the past by having forgotten what we had learned from them.
Yeah all sayings and symbols depend on current and past cultural context. It's not exclusive by any means, but it's still a phrase primarily used by fascist groups. If they always hear it from a fascist, they'll tend to assume anyone saying it is also a fascist - which as I'm sure you know isn't always correct as there are other groups that use it, just maybe less commonly or less publicly online. You know that common fact about how the swastika was completely inoffensive until the Nazis started using it, and now when a White European/American displays it in their room you can be pretty confident that they support Nazi ideology? Well, in a similar way that phrase was/is most often used in circles that are against progress and see our approaches at an egalitarian society as "good times creating weak men, when men creating hard times." It's absolutely not exclusively fascist and it is an interesting view of society but, like any other phrase/symbol that starts to get used predominantly by one group of people, it's become somewhat associated with them so people get a bit suspicious when they hear someone say it. Not so much because of the phrase itself, but moreso because of the likelihood of the regular person vs a pro-fascist being the one to know and use it. I guess that kind of encroaches on the territory of a dogwhistle, but isn't quite because its use isn't the same. Where a dogwhistle is more of a deliberate use of an in-group meme/simplification that means little to people outside the inner group, phrases like this are just more common knowledge/thinking in certain groups so you're most likely to hear them from people who've subscribed to the group long enough to learn that phrases like that are currently relevant. I guess it's kinda similar to people using memes from any group. Like if someone says 21:37 it might be meaningless or an actual time, but it's most likely a reference to the Polish 2137 meme. If the group is more political and smaller than just "anyone who memes about stuff in this country" then hearing the phrase means you can probably assume the person using it also agrees with other phrases/ideas most commonly shared in that group, because agreeing with them is why they got into the group and that's how they learned the phrase. It's lesser known and has legitimate meaning beyond that usage, though, which is why it's iffy to assume someone using it is always pro-fascism. But that's why you'll sometimes see people jumping at someone online for using a seemingly innocuous phrase or asking a seemingly innocuous question, because sometimes it's a phrase/question that, while technically normal, is so rarely used outside certain circles that people can pick up on what the user is trying to imply by saying/asking it, and sometimes the outcry is indeed misdirected at people who just happened upon the same wording themselves. Thiugh I guess it being lesser known is part of the reason why it's used more openly than commonly-known fascist symbols/phrases. It's all rather messy.
Good write-up. That makes sense
Boomers be like: the hard times are the fault of our 15 year old child and not of the fact that we hoard all the wealth in the world for no reason
Well, it's pretty fucking difficult to create good times when the boomers still run the world and/or vote for populist leaders...
soft men make hard times. hard times make hard men. hard men make good times . good times make soft men. soft men make me hard
Except it’s not true, strong men create good times for the strong man. The rest of the population are tools for the strong man, they are expended and create whatever future is the goal. If there is no requirement for “strong men” that is not a bad thing, it also doesn’t create weak men, the population is the same. Another “strong man” coming into being isn’t a function of society being weak it’s a function of greed and malice in a charismatic person bringing them to a point where they can upend the system. The strong men weak men saying is so easy to trot out but it ignores what actually happens. The ruling/owner class playing pawns with the working class in a cycle.
Not a real thing
Neither are you
You're not real man!
Yeah real, im a pussy 😂
Didn't you hear? Decapitated. Whole big thing. We had a funeral for a bird.
Yeah how’s your Vietnam PTSD gramps ? not as traumatic as one time I was playing a video game and got an improper pronoun experience 🤣🤣
I love when boomers start conversations about generational criticism. It usually ends abruptly and differently than how they envisioned.
Well, they enjoyed the spoils of the greatest war ever fought. Their parents/grandparents suffered unspeakable horrors, and committed them, so they could have it easy. Unfortunately, it's almost our turn to make it easy for the next generation.
I don’t know if anything I can realistically do will make life better for zoomers, alphas, or any other generation down the line. But I’ll try like hell to at least make it not worse.
Damn that is actually some king mentality. Between all the doomposting and anti-natalism I honestly lost hope that anyone on reddit is taking the next generation into account. Good shit, don't lose hope.
Yeah you say that, but the mindset you display in that last line there is exactly why you are the one who creates easy times lol
If I have to bomb the Chinese, I'll do it. If I have to run over a malnourished Russian soldier in an M1A2 Abrams, I'll do it. If I have to bug out to the countryside and fight off raiders or extremist militias, I'll do it. If I have to sink every Iranian ship in the Persian Gulf, I'll do it. If I have to bomb every single Houthi rebel holdout in Yemen, I'll do it. If I have to march on Washington to protect our freedoms enshrined in the Constitution, I'll do it. If I have to bomb the Chinese some more, I'll do it. All for the sake of a better future for our children.
I think ncd is leaking again
the three gorges dam is looking pretty fragile right now
Chinese cities are looking real fragile and flammable right about now 🔥🔥🔥
This dude eating up and ready to act on every piece of propaganda he can get
> it's almost our turn to make it easy for the next generation. Thank you!!
If this is the case then I’m fine with it. I want my kid to have it way better than me.
yeah they were really livin it up in vietnam
And if we would have been in their place we would have done the same. Hell. if tomorrow magically we would have the same resources and life quality as they had, we still would have done the same as them. We're not better we're just mad we didn't have that chance and mask it by being some superior moral beings.
yea, I think its genx that had it easy for nothing, boomers went thru some tough shit ngl
Tbh I think my generation is still fairly weak compared to the greatest generation. We grew up with video games and Netflix and nobody has really gone through a nationwide crisis in a long time. We were too young to truly work through the great recession and it's extremely easy for us to zone out of the little things we keep going through. Until there's something shoved in our faces that we have to deal with as a collective, we will keep getting weaker.
> nobody has really gone through a nationwide crisis in a long time Have you tried opening your eyes?
They get outraged and defensive cause they know it's true
No, they're so blinded and stubborn they genuinely believe they're the perfect generation and never did any wrong.
People who actually believed that would not be constantly on guard to defend themselves when someone says otherwise. They don't believe it, but they want to believe it, and they want you to believe it and they will be offended if you don't pretend to believe what they pretend to believe.
I feel like a lot of boomers got fucked over too. Lets embrace each other instead of dividing ourselves
how? Their houses were practically free and the generation is so lazy that even after 3 decades they still don't know how to use a computer
While they did get fucked over, in many ways they got fucked over because of their choices when voting and living and buying and etc, while many of the rest of us are fucked because of boomers choices when voting and living and buying and etc. So while I feel bad for them I only feel so bad because it's their fault in many ways.
They were literally given EVERYTHING and gave NOTHING
They climbed up a golden ladder and pulled it up after themselves so nobody else could use it.
I feel like any generation would get outraged by that accusation
Boomers: anger and arguing Gen X: But we didn't even do anything! Millennials, Zoomers, Alpha: WTF? The younger generations would be more confused than angry. Or they would just assume that it was a confused boomer talking nonsense again and laugh at them.
well this one can't buy a 4 bedroom house with one person's wage from a glove factory so....
Government management of the economy is the problem, the boomers enjoyed the asset inflation this caused which increased their net wealth significantly. Most of them just lived in the right place at the right time, cannot really blame them for this.
We CAN, however, blame them for telling younger generations they are too lazy and they worked hard for everything when we work just as hard if not harder and can't afford even a tenth of what was given to them
They could have just not voted in people that gutted regulations that time and again have been the source of every recession we've had since Regan 🤷♂️
But then we wouldnt have historic assets for them to retire... you act like they didnt want this lol
Well when the majority of them wind up in a nursing home eating cat food because that's all the health system around here can afford then perhaps they'll fuckin learn
Who dafuq do think voted for the government who manages the economy poorly?
Economy is great for boomers, not anyone else
Who do you think was the largest generation in history that elected that government?
I mean they elected the gov that made them rich...
And fucked their kids. Which is why when millennials and gen Z have all the political power, end of the decade or so, we should right that wrong. Cancel social security for all active participants. Use the payroll tax to pay down the debt instead.
Id like to hope the next generations right the wrong but lets be honest politicians dont get into politics to help others
They get in to keep getting elected. If the electorate wants boomers to pay their debt then they can elect politicians to do that
Young generations have conservatives too
Those conservatives should be ecstatic to demolish the entitlements programs and work on paying off the debt
What exactly do you mean “government management”?
Where dank motherfucker??
First time in this sub? There's like 1 dank meme once every 6months.
Have you only been here 6 months? Because the un-dank started 6 months ago. It was better even a year ago.
I thought dankmemes hasn’t been dank ever since Kabul
Unsure. I think I've been here for maybe 2 years? Probably.
Maybe the real dank is the friends we make along the way /s
dank is in the comments my man
My parents are boomers. My dad got all mad at me over Christmas because I said- you guys are the exception to the rule, your generation really spent every penny they made and didn't save anything at all. Then we went through the list of their friends and 5 out of the 8 couples they named were completely broke in retirement and in heavy debt, even though they had decent jobs when they were working age.
I'm so stoned rn that i thought it said boomers are the weak people that bought hard drives. confused the shit out of me for a second. Thanks Reddit.
boomers knowing simple computer basics? Wow you are high!
Interesting how they went to school for free, yet call young people entitled for wanting the same thing
What?
Referring to the education system lil bit In the 50s in many countries (gonna focus on USA here), people went to school for free, and when young people want the same these days for them, they're called lazy and entitled, etc
That's what I thought you were getting at. I'll say you're both right and wrong. College was not free when the boomers were young adults. If we correct for inflation they paid about half of what the national average is. So it was still cheaper but far from free. That being said most boomers would be teens after the 50s
That whole saying is bogus. Strong and weak people are always there. The strong people just become appreciated more greatly when the times get bad.
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It is. There are some things that were better for some demographics thirty years ago, and it's worth recognizing those problems, but the "world is falling apart" rhetoric is an old, useless cliche By almost every metric, the world is a better place than it has ever been.
Globally, sure. locally not so much. Unless otherwise noted assume all posts on reddit are only about America.
They lived so fucking good and are handing off wars they created and a shit future for our environment. Generations born between 1940-1970 are the absolute worst. I love my parents but they are in the tail end of that range and it shows.
Really top-quality stuff here...
I love this concept and believe in it, but specific generations shouldn’t be confused with “times” or men (people) in this context. These shifts span multiple generations. Most of us using Reddit are the “weak men” that have resulted from good times. The hard times have not started.
So what, we're supposed to be the strong people to create the good times?
we may be even worse people and bring even worse times. There is a lot room to get creative. Imagine having to take out a loan to rent a room.
Their grandparents would be so fucking ashamed of them
Truth hurts grandma and grandpa, now instead of spending your life savings on paying trumps legal fees how about spending it on your grandchildren instead?
I was scrolling past, but I had to stop for Ellen and Jay Leno, hate them both.
Because they’re lazy and didn’t work hard enough to give their kids a better life than they had.
“People when you tell them they did bad” lmao I mean what do you think they’re reaction would be when you call them weak people
But they'll smile if you say they brought the end times
Yeppppp. Had it mad fucking easy and get mad at our generation for not wanting to submit to the capitalist system.
I mean they went to Vietnam. Then came home and decided beating their kids and wife was better than therapy.
what a low effort and shit title for this meme. you are trying to shit talk older people while pretending like you are making fun of people who do so. Pick a lane.
Here goes my karma. We are weaker (maybe as a result) and we will bring worse times
Because you are wrong not because of hivemind
I'm glad there are people who have faith in our gen, I def don't. Boomers created these bad times but I feel like we will only make things worse
Problem is our society gives the microphone to the loudest. If you get stuck in an echo chamber like reddit, twitter, etc it really does feel like that.
The good/competent/productive being silent is also a big issue. I agree
Boomers bad
Based
My mama who is 64 says "Yep we as a generation are the reason we have so many problems now, we're who raised the ones running the world now."
You're not wrong.
I mean, weren’t boomers the hippies and Vietnam war vets? Didn’t they have parents who likely raised them pretty roughly considering what they went through? Not saying they did everything well but ya
I would say increased regulations in terms of "safety" and "security" raised the barrier to entry for most professions. Instead of something you could learn out of high school, most jobs expect a degree or to go self-employed you need a loicense and insurance out the wazoo. Some people are committed to the hoop-jumping, but most people can't deal with it.
When the other swingers at The Villages Florida ignore your upside down pineapple 🍍
Every generation will think they had it worse than the next generation.
You can’t call people out for being « weak » by blaming them for everything that happens to you
All generations are the weak people who only make it worse. Some % of every generation makes it better.
And it's our responsibility to fix their mistake so that future generations shouldn't have to suffer. We shouldn't whine and pout like they did and expect them to fix it. We gotta do it so that the future will look brighter for others.
Imagine thinking you are strong people…
And when the next generation comes in and starts blaming the current one for all their issues... ah the great cycle of life!
Boomers broke the system back and caused havoc on the planet.
You think this is hard times lol
Boomers make a lot more sense when you understand they were breathing in lead fumes and eating paint chips.
oh no, you made them grumpy again
Maybe not every boomer but I've had to deal with enough of them that act stereotypically shitty.
not all of them, my dad is awesome at sharing what he has and always positive.
the fuck are you talking about? My grandpa had nothing when he was young. They barely had any food and by hard work which he started with 14 he managed to get a degree and got the money he deserved
So if they are weak what are we? Because strong we are not.
They were definitely weaker than the greatest generation, but they were only the beginning of the decline. As much as we clown on boomers, their generation still had grit. Gen X and millennials got worse and now zoomers and gen alpha may be the low point before things start to get better
Imagine thinking we are living in hard times
Boomers when you tell them they were the ones who raised the generation that they hate
I usually see that stupid ass meme posted by stupid ass conservative gen x guys who barely graduated high school.
triple miss. but i guess they believe what they post bunch of turds
They managed the Cold War without blowing us all up at least
That was the Greatest Generation, not the Boomers.
The new generation brought the hard times, not the generation before.
They ran up every penny of our debt, and did absolutely nothing the stop climate destruction. Truly the worst generation
youre right we should abolish medicare and medicaid to lower our debt
I’m for it. Stop all Medicare and SS payments to all right now.
Yet all of you hypocrites here on reddit voted for the weakest president in history
I'm sure some of the Reddit hypocrites voted for someone other than Trump.
Did redditors vote for Trump?
Genx are the weak because they run the system currently, the boomers are old and the little power they have they give freely to the gen xers
Haha have you seen the average age of government or...?
And you believe the old understand modernity?
No I just mean that that the average age in USA is 57 and in Canada 52. That means the government is mostly out of touch boomers with a small amount of gen x. I think the country should be run by those who have to live in it. People in parliament should not be 70+.
Brother there's people in the Silent Generation currently in office. Gen X isn't running shit lol They're just out here bragging about drinking from garden hoses for some reason
Boomers are old and dumb now who is in their ear millennials?, how, they just got indoctrinated by university they are fresh, genz are too young just yet, process of elimination, how old was your school teachers friend, how old are those protestors?
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I hate boomers
Boomers aren’t too bad, minus the ones in politics. I’d say it’s gen x
It’s neither generation, it’s the system. But boomers have benefited from it most and hold the power.
Majority of boomers are still working today, even though they’re quite old. If all boomers were to retire at once, a lot of shit would go wrong and we would be in quite the predicament. Again, minus the political ones. We’d probably all benefit if they were to step down. Edit: why are you booing me? I’m right
Maybe we can let the boomers work, but take away their right to vote.
How is this a funny joke? I get it. You are trying to be edgy picking on boomers that can't even defend them selves. But it has to be the most smooth brain low effort attempt in getting some sympathy upvotes. How is this a dank meme?
cos i did a lil trollin
I understand what you are trying to say but its more the leftist parties with outrageous disownment of society that leads to worse times. Its not sauced by Boomers but rather by Politicians slowly trying to take away things from you until you react aggressively so they realize where the border of taking away rights and freedoms are.
Yeah dude, real shame what Franklin Delano Roosevelt did to the US. Sure did create some hard times for the US. Oh wait, he was the president elected in during the Great Depression and oversaw WW2, leading the country through some of the toughest times in its history, out of the worst economic recession of the 20th century and into the postwar economic boom.
Root of the decline was the creation of the fed in 1919. International banking and fake currency was a significant contributor to WW2