Millenials/Zoomers despise Boomers

You earned it by being the first generation to view their children as parasitic and not an investment. I don't think anyone is actually so insane that they assume to despise any individual baby boomer that they don't know, but are just blowing off steam about their fucked up situations and bad parents.

Sorry, it's the SJW, pronoun identifying, cancel culture generation of " Let's search out things we think offend us and post it online" who are responding. Fuck them.

R2 Yeah, I'm fair enough to admit that's a big factor and I don't care for those types either. It is Reddit after all.

Lol I just hope I'm around to see their kids turn against them because that will be a bloodbath.

We hated the Boomers before it became mainstream and popular. But I guess we'll be ignored again. It's not like it matters. Whatever.

R4 that is the few that actually have sex enough to procreate.

The Boomers gave us Trump, there's no coming back from that.

As a Gen X I hate Millenials far more than boomers. Boomers actually are responsible for alot of decent music and film. I think of Millenials and I think of 1001 Marvel films.

It all started with Boomers openly hating their own children and grandchildren. Really the first generation to actually want things to be worse for their succeeding generations. They earned the hatred and are now whining that they're victims.

R4 It'll probably be even worse. Seems to me that Millenials are the worst generation of parents ever - helicopter/total negligence dichotomy, anti-vax mommies, homeschooling on the rise, pretty much waging a war against teachers and any form of authority that might possibly discipline their precious Braelynns. I think it's possible to react to a legitimate grievance in a completely misguided way. Most millenials thought the problem with their parents was a lack of friendship and permissiveness, which is lowest on the list of mistakes boomers made with their kids. I hope the zoomers and alphas sue the fuck out of my peers for enabling them and pimping them out on social media.

r8 Kevin Feige is one of yours, dumbass. The seeds for Marvel taking over were laid almost two decades ago - you really think any Millennials had power in Hollywood back then?

being neither boomer, Millennial, nor boomer, I think they are suck

I think alot of the boomer hate stems from mommy/daddy issues, unsurprising coming from millenials who will never grow out of being whiny children.

R11 I was talking about the audience, hun.

r14 Well you're even more of an idiot than I thought then. So Boomers get credit from you for the good movies and music - and of course there was absolutely no shit back then, right? - just because they existed when it was made? The fact you can only think of Marvel films from recent culture just shows your own intellectual shallowness.

Not hard to figure out. Boomers are old. Millennials/Zoomers hate old people because they know that, like it or not, they, too, will be old one day, and that day will arrive a lot sooner than they realize.

R16 but us Gen Xers never had that drama...and I dont get where people are saying we hated boomers, we worshipped the 60s/70s, for instance.

R17 Gen X is nothing but drama. They're worst and more MAGA than the Boomers. WTF is their excuse?

^ Yes, but we also rejected the "Greed is Good" mindset of the Boomers in the 80s and also hated their convervative politicians like Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, et. al..

Boomers are possibly the most self-centered generation to ever exist (especially in the United States), yet they project this onto Gen X, millennials, and zoomers. They love to bitch and moan about today's social justice warriors, yet they were the generation who gave birth to the drug-addled, self-indulgent hippie movement. They claim younger people are too emotional and fragile, yet they have public psychological meltdowns if their McDonald's order is made incorrectly. Economically speaking, they had the world handed to them on a platter, and yet refuse to acknowledge it. They are walking piles of confusion. I can see why they are infuriating to younger generations.

And no you're not going to act this perfect, rational generation while the majority of you are a bunch of mouth-breathing MAGAts

I love generalizations. They make everything crystal clear,

R17, you're forgetting a lot of the intense generational battles of the 1990s. It was the Yuppies versus the Slackers, Forrest Gump versus Pulp Fiction, The Cosby Show versus The Simpsons, Rock versus Grunge.

And if you asked someone from Gen X if they worshipped the 1960s and 1970s circa 1995, you'd probably get the most sarcastic eye-roll that any wannabe Chandler Bing from that era could muster.

You all are just going to have to learn to get along or coexist because absolutely nobody is going anywhere.

The ridiculousness of this whole "every generation hates every generation" is not cute. It's not sustainable. Just no.

R23 And if you asked someone from Gen X if they worshipped the 1960s and 1970s circa 1995, you'd probably get the most sarcastic eye-roll that any wannabe Chandler Bing from that era could muster.

Of course we would....that wouldnt not make it true

So you associate Boomers with "Greed is good" but not the progressive movements from the 60s/70s? Convenient.

Everyone hates Boomers, get in fucking line.

As a Gen-Xer, I get along fine with my Millennial relatives and coworkers. The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

"They love to bitch and moan about today's social justice warriors"

EVERYONE is bitching abour SJWs lol...look at you trying to act like its an old vs young thing

R26 well X-er here and I feel the opposite...or the same I should say...Millenials are the enemy thus Boomers are cool.

R28 I'm asking this seriously -- what have Millennials ever done to anyone? Whereas Boomers have fucked over everyone in one way or another. Millennials and their harmless craft beer and home organic chicken raising hobbies are pretty innocuous.

We can all vent about or observe generalities but hopefully have enough sense to treat each other on an individual basis with some respect and the benefit of the doubt, I hope.

Not one generation is "better" than the other, all have shitty people and stupidity....but its just a taste thing ..as an X-er I just felt more afinity towards boomers, love their films, their music, respect alot of the more progressive movements they helped create. Millenials just seem like judgemental overgrown children and their contributions in art has been mediocre at it's very best.

Well isn't that ironic, R31. Because right now the people acting like the biggest, spoiled babies throwing tantrums are over 50s.

Oh there are plenty of tears coming from the 30s and under crowd too.

You shouldn't they know better though r33? They are much older and supposedly tougher like they like to brag

R29 you are aware that boomers were the vast majority inmovements like Stonewall, Anti war, 2nd wave feminism, College reform, etc?

[quote]Oh there are plenty of tears coming from the 30s and under crowd too

And so there fucking should be given how Boomers pulled up the ladder behind them

r35 And what movement are they currently the majority of?

Can you imagine being such a toxic negative person that you post on a subreddit called “boomers being fools?”

THAT is embarrassing.

R36 nearly half of millenials are in their late 30s/early 40s...time to stop whinning. Like one of my favorite boomers has said

R38, if you're posting on a subreddit, shouldn't the 'toxic negative person' label be presumed?

Being shocked at finding toxic behavior on Reddit is like being shocked at finding photographs at Instagram.

r39 And? They're meant to invent a time machine and go back and undo the damage Boomers have been doing for decades? Telling that you can't deny the criticisms against Boomers

Lost me at ableism which I'm still not sure the meaning of.

Active measures. Any way to spread discord on social media is a plus to rightwing assholes. Boomer vs Gen X vs millenialls vs zoomers is 100% manufactured bot maneuvers, lol.

Keep fighting with bots and 12 year olds!

You’re an idiot R7 no matter what age you may be.

Newly started anti-boomer rage thread found on that subreddit-

I’m reading A Generation of Sociopaths now and it’s all making sense. 3 for 3 on boomer complaints yesterday-

First stop, Michael’s. Boomer woman at the checkout upset because she had purchased a Christmas item on clearance and it wasn’t allowed to be returned. Spent five minutes holding up the only cashier by saying over and over “well they should make that clearer, because it didn’t say anywhere on the signs or my receipt that it couldn’t be returned. I mean, that’s just not fair.” Finally leaves with a promise to “call and complain.”

Second stop, Dunkin’. Boomer man comes in and orders an iced coffee. Cashier says it will be $3.69. “But on here it says $2!” Boomer man says, holding up his phone. After discussion where he questions why they can’t just give him that price (“I go to these places five times a week, I’m at the (location) one every day”) they find that he had a deal on the Dunkin’ app and then the nice Gen Z cashier spent five minutes helping him get back to the app after he kept going to the website. He gets his $2 iced coffee.

A few minutes later a boomer woman comes in with her elderly father and they go straight to the bathroom. They come back, order, sit a table right by the counter. The boomer woman says, literally to no one, “hey hon, in that woman’s bathroom, the toilet paper isn’t in the dispenser and it’s in the back of the toilet, and I didn’t know so I had to use my Kleenex from my purse.” After no response she pauses and says, “did you hear me?” And one of the woman behind the counter looks up and asks if she was talking to her.

[quote] Seems to me that Millenials are the worst generation of parents ever - hel

That's hilarious considering how much people complain about Gen Z, including Boomers and Xers, and they're your generation's kids, so what does that say about you?

[quote]Whereas Boomers have fucked over everyone in one way or another.

Idiot generalizations such as this aren't exactly the mark of high intelligence.

I'm just here with the popcorn for all these comments! lol

I have to agree with this. 44 here.

Late March 2020- I live in a seacoast New England town with a lot of wealthy boomers. (Their real estate alone probably is a 40% return if they bought here prior to the 90's.

Covid-

It was the beginning and i was like i need to go to the store and stock up on pasta and things like that-

These fucking 60-70 year olds were the nastiest, ugliest, and most aggressive beasts that I have ever seen. Rude, nasty, and acting like it was the end of the world and matter of survival. I never forgot it.

I was horrified. And they were all in that age range. Disgusting pieces of shit.

[quote] Millenials/Zoomers

Oh, dear.

[quote] nearly half of millenials are in their late 30s/early 40s...time to stop whinning. Like one of my favorite boomers has said

Oh, dear.

[quote] you are aware that boomers were the vast majority inmovements like Stonewall, Anti war, 2nd wave feminism, College reform, etc?

2nd wave feminism… you’re not helping. Inmovements?

[quote] I think alot of the boomer hate stems from mommy/daddy issues, unsurprising coming from millenials who will never grow out of being whiny children.

Oh, dear.

[quote] As a Gen X I hate Millenials far more than boomers. Boomers actually are responsible for alot of decent music and film. I think of Millenials and I think of 1001 Marvel films.

Oh, dear.

[quote] Seems to me that Millenials are the worst generation of parents ever

Oh, dear.

OP got her fee-fees hurt. Awww. Little bitch.

Lenies and zeroes hate boomers because boomers are their parents (or grandparents) and kids hate their parents. Since Lenies and zeroes refuse to grow up, they act like surly teenagers, 24/7, and will until they die.

Teens sit in their room just creating narratives that blame all their problems on their parents. As a gen x I put that shit aside when I grew up. But Lenies and zeroes refuse to grow up.

The funniest thing about the Lenies is the way they turned it into a big industry — books, websites, etc, all about how their parents were BAD and their lives are RUINED and it’s NOT FAYUR.

Because they have to support this for another 30 years.

I think it's nice they have a place to express their pointless rage. If scapegoating a generation makes them feel better, good on them. It's a rare day for me as a boomer to give them five minutes of thought, and it's generally because of a Reddit posting. Like, admire my nothing dinner party menu, which includes a turnip gratin, gingerbread martinis and an elaborate charcuterie tray that will overpower my guests' appetites. No, that will absolutely not be camp in 10 years.

Go ahead and keep watching those Friends' reruns and reading Young Adult fiction after you're 40. That's the ticket.

R46 I don't know how to interpret your post. Either you misunderstood everything I said and somehow took away that I was praising the parenting skills of millenials or you think I'm a gen xer? I don't have kids and I don't have anything to do with parenting. Or you agree and you just wanted to insult me for being a millennial? I don't understand what you're saying even a little bit.

[quote] As a gen x I put that shit

Bitch, bye! Have fun voting for Trump like all of your MAGA peers and posting stupid shit at age 50, 60, 70 on Facebook like your generations love to.

R56 just for you!

R1 Baby Boomers and Gen X got used to everything catering to them. They were the majority for so long. And now. AND NOW the numbers won't be in their favor for much longer and they CAN'T STAND IT

Gen Xers are a motley crew, for sure. Sort of schizoid in terms of allegiances--some of us are progressive, but many are more suspicious of the far left.

Culturally, we grew up on a steady diet of Boomer culture from the 60s and 70s. My childhood and teenage years were spent obsessively listening to The Doors, Cream, The Yardbirds, etc., and many of us respected that Boomers were the force behind feminism, gay rights, and civil rights generally. We looked up to Boomers, viewing them as smart and cool. Some Gen Xers hated the Boomer-Yuppies, seeong them as sell-outs and hypocrires, but so many other Xers aspired to be just like them. A weird generation, we are. Anyway, whatever.

[quote] We looked up to Boomers,

Well your politicians certainly do. They are doing everything in their power to emulate Boomers or even surpass them in spite. It all has a very "look at me, dad!" feel to it.

What a pile of idiotic lunacy.

We boomers changed the world.

R66 oh yeah, how exactly?

R66, it's really true. As a Gen Xer, I respect your generation. R67, think about all the progress in civil rights, feminism, consumer protection laws....Stonewall! Boomers did that!

And younger gay men need to remember that it was Boomer gays who made a better world of increased acceptance possible. Don't forget that. All the talented Boomer gay men who are no longer with us because of AIDS, and those who risked careers and livelihoods to come out. It was a dark, dark time in many ways, but Boomers helped things get better for many of us.

The Boomer vs. Millennial: Gen Z is so tired. There are good people and there are assholes.

R7, Not if your kind had voted.

[quote] Stonewall! Boomers did that!

No. They largely did not. Baby Boomers were at maximum 23 years old in 1969. The activists who actually put in the work were older Silents and Greatest Generation.

I guess it's a good thing, then, that 55,000 of us died in Vietnam!

R71, you're no doubt right about that, although Boomers were no doubt a part of it, too, and therefore deserve credit. But I stand corrected--thank you. 🙏

I’ve found that it’s the individual not the generation

R72 because there was a draft. I wonder how many Boomers would’ve voluntarily signed up for the military. You know, like subsequent generations actually did.

^ That's very rational and spoken like a true Boomer.

This could be the stupidest thread ever. So worthy of DL.

And yet here you are, R77.

r57 Timothee Chalamet?

That's because I'm on DL and therefore worthy.

It's not just an American problem. It's the crow-tits ( birds with small legs, representing the younger generation) vs the storks ( the older overlords).

The way the later generations will turn on the elderly Boomers in the next decade will make the Transphobes seem kindly.

The funniest and most ironically telling gaffe in this memorable thread has been identified by R50 in her posts. A few more to continue to note some of the types posting here, as if that were not obvious already:

[quote]R31: ….and their contributions in art has been mediocre at it's very best.

Oh, dear. Oh, dear.

[quote]R32: Because right now the people acting like the biggest, spoiled babies throwing tantrums are over 50s.

Oh, dear. Oh, dear.

[quote]R39: [R36] time to stop whinning.

Oh, dear.

[quote]R43: millenialls

Oh, dear.

Boomers in the US benefited and continue to benefit more than any generation before or after from social welfare programs, employer-paid pensions, environmental protection and regulation, and a progressive tax code that allowed lower/middle class people to rise up while ensuring that the ultra-wealthy paid back to a system that had so richly rewarded them.

Then they installed Reagan, an avatar for their “greed is good”, “me me me” generational reputation. They elevated shitheads like Newt Gingrich. Everything has more or less continued going to shit after they set all of that into motion.

The baby boomer supernova was getting Donald Trump elected, finally giving them permission to say their nastiest, heretofore most shameful thoughts out loud. Social security is for weaklings unless I’m the one collecting it. Fuck the environment if I can make more money. Fuck black people for trying to eke out a middle class lifestyle. Fuck Latinos for taking “our jobs”. Fuck China (until Donald Trump told us how rad they are). Up with dictators, up with theocracy and down with democracy. Fuck our children if they disagree with us about anything. The answer to gun violence is more guns and mental healthcare. Fuck mental healthcare, that’s for weaklings. Fuck the troops if the commander in chief isn’t a Teabagging MAGA grotesque.

They’ve left themselves a hell of a reputation. The Monkees, Easy Rider, and a country that is coming apart at the seams and whose Constitution will be thrown into the trash heap by the next animal they are able to boost into the White House.

I installed Reagan? Right. That feeling when you realize you're conversing with an idiot.

It's a myth that all boomers are Republicans, more are Democrats.

Election year! Active measures on tap:

Put races against each other. Videos of black crime and white cops killing unarmed black people.

Push misogyny, especially among lower income, uneducated whites and among Hispanics. They can be swayed to vote for macho man Trump who hates women and has repeatedly raped and assaulted them in the past without consequences. Serves them right. They think they’re equal to men? Especially big fat men taking testosterone to pump up their soft muscles? Ha. Bitches.

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(Meanwhile boomers were confrobted with 18% interest rates in 1980s, but nobody cried)

Next divisive subject: immigration. “THEYRE REPLACING US!!”

Next up: Hire people to act insane at airports and in stores. Nobody finds out who these people are anymore. Remember back when, within a day, everyone was identified, tracked down, fired from their jobs for doing that shit? Not anymore. There’s a dozen videos a day without ever finding out who these people are.

Job numbers are good. Inflation is down. Insulin is $35.

Show why this means bad news for Joe Biden……

[quote] [R16] but us Gen Xers never had that drama...

I don't ever remember the Silent Generation and Greatest Generation acting the way you all are when they were the elders. They installed Roe v. Wade for you, dismantled the draft, tried to build a Great Society. They weren't actively trying to compete with and undermine the youngsters

R75, Like for WWII, "the Greatest Generation"?

It's easy to volunteer for the military when there's no war. (Iraq was an unexpected war crime draped in the flag flying over the WTC, duping the poor.)

Bill Clinton and George W. Bush are both 1946 Baby Boomers. What inane generalities will the "Blame the Boomers" crowd make about that?

R82 Boomers and Xers can't do math. They don't seem to understand that they are about to be outnumbered by Gens Millennial, Z and Alpha. Their little party is ending.

[quote]Boomers and Xers can't do math. They don't seem to understand that they are about to be outnumbered by Gens Millennial, Z and Alpha. Their little party is ending.

I very much doubt that either Boomers or Xers give the matter that much thought, R91.

R92 have fun wiping each other's assholes in your dotard years. After your stupid attitude, you're all you'll have left.

Baby Boomers and Gen X created Trump in the 1980s. They made him popular and beloved. I'm sure they'll find a way to blame Millennials and Gen Z for it though!

I hate all generations. Most people suck

This thread title paints the boomers as such poor, put-upon victims!

Maybe we should start bumping all of the hundreds of threads where it's Boomers and X shitting all over youngsters over the last decade?

[quote] As a Gen X I hate Millenials far more than boomers.

As a Millennial, I dunno which one is more worthy of hate? Boomers or Gen X? I find it better to lump them together and the sooner their legacy is forgotten, the better.

They are very similar r97

R98 both of them had major lead exposure as children and only now in their elder years is it really showing.

Boomers don’t know the difference between Gen X and Millennials and don’t care. They care even less about Gen Z. It’s easy to not care when you have all the money and they don’t.

Boomers think anybody younger than them is a Millennial and that includes Gen X, Y, Z. They don't give a shit about Gen X and they think Gen Z are just really young Millennials.

Why on earth would young Americans resent their elders?

Just like DEI and similar nonsense, anything to distract from the fact that only a relatively small handful of people are fucking us over. Most boomers, millennials, etc. are just trying to live their lives.

In all of their infinite wisdom, the older generations seemed to forget the golden playground rule that karma can be a bitch and what goes around comes around.

The stupidity of that subreddit is astounding btw. Someone should hook them up with the guy selling suicide kits.

Somebody could just as easily create fifty "Boomers/Xers despise Millenials and Gen Z" threads just on this website alone.

Loser thread.

To be fair, everyone hates boomers. Their racism and selfishness far outweighs any minuscule amount of good they may have done. Even then it was probably by accident.

Blaming entire generations is ridiculous. It’s not different from attacking a entire race or nationality. For example, saying I hate Puerto Ricans and having a website bashing them. Focus on the political and economic problems not the generational stuff. Waiting for people to die to change society is a sign of impotence,

That being said, as a boomer I would never spend time posting shit about Gen X, etc. I’m too self involved,

Oh how kind of you, OP, to provide us with three (3!) comments and zero context. This assures me you are arguing in good faith and aren't just posting this because "BLEGH GEN Z BAD."

Boomers at 65+ years old are still sitting in the highest paid upper management jobs they were promoted to in their 40s. Gen X and beyond will apparently have to wait until those dinosaurs croak before they can start making enough money to retire on. Then the boomers wonder why they are the last generation to do better than their parents. Bitch, your parents died at 45.

Then it’s “Why are young people too lazy to economise? They should stop playing on TikToon and MyFace and quit whining about not being able to afford a house or a wedding or kids”.

Meanwhile they bought their first house for $25,000 and paid $300 a semester to attend a large state university. They control basically all the major levers of the federal government and only look out for “me me me”

r96 It's funny how checking the post history of boomers whining about their generation being generalised will always show them also generalising about other generations

Bravo, R111!

"I don't ever remember the Silent Generation and Greatest Generation acting the way you all are when they were the elders."

R88 You're a meathead!

Millennials are the largest generation now. Be nice or we’ll put you in Shady Pines!

I'm a last year boomer (1964) but dont really identify as one but quite frankly I don't give a shit about any generation. I'm an equal opportunity misanthrope I like individuals but humanity sucks.

Keyword: subreddit

I think that tells it all, that's a weird place, for trolls and degenerates, another Facebook spreading misinformation.

Isn't all the wealth in the US transferring from Boomers to Gen X and Millennials? Soon they will be scapegoats that Gen Z and Gen Alpha despise.

The truth is somewhere in the middle. Both sides, young and old, have been pretty horrible to each other lately.

There is no way that the OP isn't from r/GenX.

If you have a shot every time they blame something on the youngs, you'll get blitzed in a few minutes

Boomer holds up plane boarding to make a passive-aggressive complaint

Happened to me a few weeks ago. Boarding an airplane for what will be a super quick flight (raleigh to NYC is like an hour and a half, lol)

Got lucky and snagged a seat in the exit row of a pretty tiny aircraft, so yay for extra leg room. Its a full flight and we are about half boarded. I walk down the aisle and get up to my row when i see the boomer who will be sitting across the aisle from me stop the flight attendant a few feet in front of me. This dude is probably in his 60s, pretty tall guy but he is also in the exit row so he has lots of apace for his long legs. He is wearing what i like to call the standard uniform of the upper middle class douchebag. You know the outfit: khaki slacks, button up shirt, patagonia vest.

Anywho, i and everyone behind me now have to stop and wait while this guy talks to the flight attendant since she is in the middle of the aisle. And he says “Miss, i seem to have a problem, my seat doesnt have a cushion.” Of course the attendant immediately goes into problem solving mode. “Oh dear! Thats odd, we inspect the plane after every flight. If your seat had a defect like that usually we notice it. Lemme see what i ca-“ boomer guy cuts her off “im only kidding, it only FEELS like there is no cushion” he then gives her this smarmy shit eating grin.

Pause for laughter. The flight attendant awkwardly fake-laughs at this “joke” which is clearly just a bitchy and pointless complaint couched as what im sure he thought was a clever and funny delivery. Meanwhile me and the 15 people behind me have to hold our bags and wait to get to our seats while the comedian takes over a minute to get his zinger in. Never underestimate the need boomers have to make their minor discomforts everyone else’s problem, especially “the help”. Like, what did this guy expect her to do? Say “oh im sorry, let me escort you to our super special secret la-z-boy recliner seat thats just for customers who notice our seats have thin cushioning!”? Meanwhile of course, its a super short flight and this guy is very lucky to have the extra leg room of the exit row, and he still has to whine. Suck it up, buttercup.

These names for generations are stupid and divide everyone. Even though I’m part of the baby boom generation, I rarely heard the term ‘boomer’ until recent years. I never heard my parents’ generation referred to as anything.

People have let the media name them with these arbitrary names, then they play into it.

^I mean you did sometimes hear “World War One Generation” or “World War Two Generation” but no particular traits were ascribed to these people.

You really think we care?

I blame Boomers for making 1969 Chevy Camaros unaffordable.

You're all assholes.

Every last motherfuckin' one of you, from old bastards to young shits.

Generation-alizations are the new Astrology for dumbasses

R62 Gen X have never been in the majority. Gen X was the Baby Bust, fewer babies were born due to a number of factors: birth control, more women joining the workforce and/or staying single longer. Gen X was not catered to - Gen X’ers are predominantly latchkey children. There were a number of crashes and recessions starting in 1989 (when early Gen Xers were graduating from college and joining the workforce.) The mid-90s recession, 9/11, Crash of 2008. Gen Xers experienced multiple economic downturns and RIFs. And two wars.

You're hearing more because the fucking boomers just won't die, like rats and roaches they live on, constantly irritating and being entitled, I live with the old gay version of it. It's seems to be an old white man thing.

You sound mentally unhinged, R129, But I guess that's to be expected from someone who blames an entire generation for his being a sad loser.

R128 and genx also experienced 9/11 and the rapid rise of fascism (ie: corporate conglomeration and wealth funneling to the C-suites) during their prime earning years - late 20s and early 30s.

Who cares, OP? Everyone despises Millennials and Zoomers. And I mean EVERYONE.

They're just jealous because they're not having all the sex, drugs and rock and roll that we did.

R131, that's indisputably true, although as a member of Gen X, I will acknowledge that many Millennials were also dealt a bad hand. Many of us started our careers at inauspicious times like the 1990s recession or even the dot com bust of the early 2000s, but a lot of Millennials entered the workforce in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, which wasn't great for those born toward the end of our generation either.

Ultimately, it's probably best to limit our generational warfare to 'my favorite pop star from when I was a teenager is better than your favorite pop star when you were a teenager.' Otherwise, we're all choosing the wrong villains.

Millennials definitely got the short end of the stick financially and culturally. Between the auto tuned manufactured pop music and watching porn 24-7, they became warped by the corporatization of everything. Watching the Hunter Moore doc on Netflix slams one back to that era, and it was so desperate and gross. Gen Z seems afraid they’ll die at any moment. Poor things.

Has anyone asked me how I feel?

^ La-la-literally, the Twilight Zone of generations

Boomer guys had it so good they had to get drafted and go to Vietnam to die.

The generation names are about as helpful as astrology. Everyone is at different ages and has unique traits.

In the end, life will probably be tougher for future generations because of the choices folks are making now. But I don’t think humans are more moral creatures now. We can just predict things better and make decisions that ideally benefit the broader world.

But let’s not pretend that self interest takes a back seat to altruism, even for younger generations. No ordinary man would starve so that his neighbor may eat. If given the chance to hoard all the wealth on earth while others starve, most people would take it all without thinking. We hate each other a lot and our society demands that we battle each other for riches and glory. None of that’s changed in thousands of years.

Boomers will die in the US, increasingly in the years to come as the oldest are now 78/79 and the youngest 60 or so as definitions vary.

And as they leave, they'll be leaving somebody a total of 78 trillion dollars.

Do you really think pissing them off is the best idea? It's you or maybe spay and neuter's gonna get it all. They have to leave it to someone.

Yeah right, they’re going to donate their money to worthy causes.

Do you know many boomers? They’d sooner die intentionally intestate just to give one last middle finger to their family and any worthy cause (since those causes usually concern poors or non-whites or shithole countries).

Consider a change of medication, R142. Or continue to live in your rancid fantasy world. I don't much care, really.

R142 Consider getting an education, R142. Or continue to live in a world where the anger towards your parents trumps your ability to read and respond cogently.

I never so much as mentioned family. I’m suggesting you fuck the Boomers (or have them fuck you - whatever makes you happy) and inherit.

That you couldn’t figure this out yourself tells me you’ll never be rich. And that you’re probably unfuckable.

Either way, you’re screwed.

For every Boomer who dies with a fortune, there are five who will die flat-busted broke.

They were terrible with money, as compared to their parents. And their lifestyle choices in earlier years will cause deeper and more expensive health crises in their old age.

Seventy eight trillion dollars, R145, will be inherited over the next 25 years from Boomers - by then the youngest of 'em will be 85 years old. Clearly you don't know much about wealth in the US: the poverty rate for all those over 65 at 11.9% is lower than that for 18-64 year olds. It's estimated that as many of one in five elderly gays lives in poverty, so your estimates are almost reversed. The other four out of five will die with something and some of the gays with lots more. Most of 'em have no kids to leave it to - just people they care about when they're writing a will. Or charities if there are no people they want to leave it to. You know, people they like.

The 2021 American Community Survey from the U.S. Census Bureau found that same-sex couple households had a higher median income than opposite-sex couple households, as both partners in same-sex couples were more likely to be employed and male-male couples had the highest median income. According to the survey, $103,000 was the median household income for same-sex couples, $116,800 the median household income for male-male couples, a $92,470 median household income for female-female couples, and $102,800 is the median household income for married opposite-sex couples.

One of the wealthier gay ones could be yours, R145 but if the unfuckable bitterness expressed in your replies represents your outlook, it pretty much guarantees you'll never see any of that lovely money, of which there is lots if you want to go looking.

R146 The only one being a cunt here is you, with your odd fixation on whether a stranger is “unfuckable.”

Is that your go-to insult in an argument? Is it how you evaluate total strangers?

Boomers may be self-serving money grabbers but they're not delusional like Millennials and Zoomers and their Bubbletopias.

Millennials are a mixed bag. Some are wonderful and others are not. My Boomer siblings have millenial children who are highly indulged and whose masters degrees were financed by their parents. All of these kids are in the arts or some other esoteric field and are subsidized by their parents. Two of them are pushing forty. At some point, however, you need to come to grips with the fact that you can't make it on your art alone and it may need to become a hobby. Or if you can't find a job as a college professor you might need to teach high school or take another job if you wish to make a living.

No, just you, R142/R147. It's the indefensible, unsupported opinions and attitudes you've expressed which make you unfuckable. Who'd want to be in a relationship with someone whose thinking is so warped as to blame 71 million people - an entire generation - for anything? Have you heard about WWII? Are you familiar with what the Nazis did that to Jews? - assigning guilt to a group for the actions of an individual or their prejudice towards them. Didn't end well. When I see someone assigning collective guilt to a group as you did, my back goes up. I won't fuck someone who thinks like that. Would you?

I'm giving you facts you don't like in response to to your BS unsupported by evidence. Who told you a generation would rather die intestate? How many boomers, for that matter, do you know? And, "They’d sooner die intentionally intestate just to give one last middle finger to their family and any worthy cause (since those causes usually concern poors or non-whites or shithole countries)." Tell us where that rancid opinion comes from. Because it's not a fact. If that happened to you, you'd get my sympathy but if so, it's your story, not a generation's. If you really believe what you said and think that happens to everyone, bitterness has clouded your thinking. Millions of people inherit money every year. Show us the facts to support what you wrote and prove me wrong.

"For every Boomer who dies with a fortune, there are five who will die flat-busted broke." Source, please? And define "fortune." If someone left you, say, $50,000 (not a fortune) I'm certain you'd refuse it, no?

"They were terrible with money, as compared to their parents." If so, how did they manage to accumulate half of the personal wealth in the United States?

Americans have roughly $156 trillion in assets, according to Visual Capitalist, but half of that wealth — $78.1 trillion — belongs to the baby boomers. The rest is spread out across Generation X, the Silent Generation and Millennials. Generational wealth comes in many forms, including private businesses, real estate, durable goods, equities and mutual funds, pensions and more. From the NASDAQ article below:

"The Visual Capitalist used the Federal Reserve’s data from the final quarter of 2022 to provide a general breakdown of generational wealth." Here are the numbers: Baby boomers: $78.1 trillion (50%); Generation X: $46 trillion (29.5%); Silent Generation: $18.6 trillion (11.9%); Millennials: $13.3 trillion (8.5%); Generation Z: Insufficient data

“What’s intriguing is that newer generations might actually have the potential to surpass this. Take into account that baby boomers were born between 1946 and 1964, so they’re currently in the 59 to 77 age bracket. They’ve been amassing this wealth over decades.”[/bold] “It is possible for other generations to catch up to baby boomers in terms of how much wealth they are passing down,” said Blake Whitten, financial advisor at Whitten Retirement Solutions. [bold]“However, it will be challenging. The other generations will need to start saving and investing early, make wise financial decisions and live below their means. They will also need to be patient and persistent.”[/bold]

You dropped a turd into R142 with "They’d sooner die intentionally intestate just to give one last middle finger to their family," one that doesn't float and you think it can't be questioned? Think again. I'm offering numbers; numbers you'd apparently rather not hear. You're offering unfounded opinions and figures pulled out of your ass unless you have a source for them. Your first statement and your initial response is deliberately toxic. Your stated dislike of a whole generation here - as doubtless you know every single one of them - seems to have blinded you to the possibility (granted, for you a slim one) that you might be one of those worthy causes someday.

One of the most ignorant threads I've ever seen on DL. And that's certainly saying something.

r150 If Boomers love their families so much, why aren't they helping them out right now, instead of waiting - you claim - until they're dead? Why are they hoarding that wealth rather than sharing it right now? Anyway, you already failed Godwin's Law, so your opinion is worthless.

Also another hypocrite who only pisses himself about Boomers being criticised, and yet is entirely silent when other generations are collectively criticised.

r148 Because all those Boomers insisting Biden stole an election aren't living in a delusional bubble at all, right?

R150, you can't argue both that Boomers are so petty and mean that they might withhold inheritances out of spite, and they also might be really nice people so it's not fair to stereotype them.

You want to claim that they're rich and powerful, so shouldn't be fucked with? Fine. But don't plead for sympathy at the same time.

I’m getting a real kick out of the self-important lone crusader elderfag on this thread calling everyone and their brother unfuckable.

Many of us Boomers have a couple decades or more left, bubbies.

But to those younger: Be careful what you wish for. You will undoubtedly catch the car you're chasing, but what will you do with it then?

R155 again.

The bottom line is: We're old.

America hates old.

R154 Well, we all know HE is utterly fuckable. He just chooses not to screw anyone. It's all his choice. Yeah, that's the ticket!

There are some very bitter and angry people on this thread. I am a 64 year old boomer and I’ve never earned more than £30K a year in my life. But I did buy my first property aged 22, so felt financially secure. I downsized to a 3 bed city apartment and retired at 52. I also have a house by the sea in Europe to spend some months. I am single and will leave all of my estate to my nephews and nieces. Thank god none of them are like the angry bitter cunts on this thread.

Good for you, R158. Do you think you could do that nowadays if you were starting out? I ask in seriousness. Everything seems to be in strong hands now, and it takes more money and effort to achieve a comfortable, middle class life. Or do you disagree?

Boomers won't let go of their homes - They have nowhere else to go.

Millennials can't buy those homes - They can't afford modern mortgage rates.

Who's to blame? The construction and real estate industries, plus the banks. And Jada Pinkett-Smith. It's her fault, too.

Contrary to what some posters seem to think, dying intestate doesn't mean that the money etc. dissipates into thin air or goes to the government. Normally it means that the proceeds go to the nearest relative.

For many gays, that's not ideal, especially if the nearest relative hasn't been much help, been friendly, supportive, etc.

That said, it's your own fault if you have inheritable assets and don't have a will.

R156 My only consolation is that young people who hate us will one day be at the receiving end of that same hate.

And they'll be receiving it when they're broke if they're to be believed.

Pity.

Yay for poor people continually suffering across the ages I guess.

I'm just adding my $.02 to the "This is a stupid, pointless thread" chorus.

There's always this one guy on the "I hate boomers" threads who comes to bitch about how boomers have the audacity to keep the jobs they earned in their 40's or keep the house the bought in their 30's. It's not possible that the boomers are just people living their lives, oh no! It's a plot against millennials and gen x'ers or whatever (basically a plot against him, personally). Weird guy.

R166 You know the guy is a total underachiever with a victim mentality and sees no other way to explain his mediocrity but by blaming a whole other generation, which is really kind of hysterical if you think about it.

Boomers stole my house, AND my job, before I was born!!!

r166 Of course you miss out the context of that poster's post (r111) which is these fucks are staying in their jobs even once they're seniors and should be retiring, because they can't let go of the power. Christ, look at Congress, you really think having that amount of old fucks clinging to their roles is a good thing?

And on housing, no, seniors don't need to live in the same large house they did when raising a family.

R169 They can’t afford to retire. They neglected savings, or remodeled their kitchen twice, or bailed out their idiot kids (they’re losers, but look who raised them). They also can’t afford to move. Their home is their sole nest egg, and retirement villages are costly.

Sounds to me like they should've spent within their means and not wasted all their money on prawn cocktails and 8-tracks

R170 Gen X is facing an even bleaker retirement landscape. They're also bailing out their unemployed, vaping kids (but look who raised them).

So oily, the audacity to lecture about saving for retirement. Half of them have PENSIONS! Do you anybody under 60 with a pension who isn’t a teamster or in some sort of plumbers guild?

R7 & Clinton & Obama

All this generational nonsense reminds me of astrology.

R169 "these fucks are staying in their jobs even once they're seniors and should be retiring."

Amazing: you get to decide when they retire with no knowledge of their personal, medical, and financial situations. You are fuckin' psychic.

"And on housing, no, seniors don't need to live in the same large house they did when raising a family."

R169, of course, will be ready and waiting to give them a 3% mortgage on a smaller house. Located where they don't want to live? Not the kind of house they want? Costs too much? Not an issue.

Nah, an idiot poster on DL will tell total strangers, an entire generation of about 77 million total strangers, how to live.

R176 Turnabout is fair play. Boomers have been telling the rest of us how to live since Woodstock.

No generations people are all the same. I'm not the same as the others in my own generation and have my own opinions. Didn't we all just celebrate MLK day for the words he said," I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character", this should also be true of our age otherwise it is just agism.

He also said “We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.” Hate is too great a burden to bear.

Or as Lincoln said, basically, we need to act in accord with the better angels of our nature. It's always best to try for the high ground. It's not realistic or fair to judge everyone as the same

and no, I am not black but wise words come from within and those are wise words.

r176 Can't retire? How?! Given the huge benefits and advantages handed to Boomers over the years, from cheap education to cheap housing, investments that deliver huge returns for no work, and an entire welfare system rigged in your favour, proper pensions, how much of a fuck up would one need to be to be a Boomer who can't retire?

And why the fuck would they need to take out a mortgage to downsize? Use the proceeds from the sale of the larger home. Good god you're a moron.

[quote]Given the huge benefits and advantages handed to Boomers over the years, from cheap education to cheap housing, investments that deliver huge returns for no work, and an entire welfare system rigged in your favour, proper pensions, how much of a fuck up would one need to be to be a Boomer who can't retire?

Wow. You must be one of the biggest losers in the history of DL to have such irrational hatred toward an entire generation. Enjoy wallowing in your misery!

Couldn't deny the argument, could you?

R179 So you're saying people aren't taking your advice...

Tell us why they should fuck themselves over to make you happy.

r182 I didn't give any advice, did I? And how exactly would they be fucking themselves over? Another idiot.

r183 You're being disingenuous. Your implicit advice in r169 is that "these fucks" should quit their jobs and "let go of their power"; and you want them to "fuck themselves over" by quitting their jobs, letting go of their power, and relinquishing the large houses they may prefer.

If you're going to play games, play them better.

Maybe these “stupid” boomers are going to pass that large home onto their kids?

I do think there are issues with SOME boomers, such as their incessant need to lecture others on how to work and live without taking into account how the odds are stacked these days.

But some boomers get it and consider themselves lucky and just want to live their lives. Why should they give up a job they can still do so some faceless millennial has a chance at survival? They don’t owe anyone anything except maybe their own family.

Not true. I'm a millennial and I despise most Zoomers. The only baby boomers I despise are MAGA Trumpers.

r184 That wasn't advice, it was criticism. And how exactly is retirement "fucking themselves over"? Again, unless they were ludicrously wasteful and completely fucked their own finances - in which case they deserve no sympathy - there's zero reason Boomers should not have enough saved for a very comfortable retirement.

I'm sensing posts from some bitter Boomers here who perhaps now are realising just how much they squandered. Or perhaps just those with empty lives so they cling to their jobs because it gives them the only social interaction they can get.

r186 And yet your post history shows you're obsessed with Gen Zers

Maybe they enjoy their work. Maybe they have everything they need for retirement except any desire to retire. Why would they have spent all these years doing something they didn't enjoy? Who are you to demand that they stop their perfectly decent lives? They're not finished with them yet.

Find another company or transfer within the company. You obviously aren't making any progress doing what you're doing, you've been complaining about this in exactly the same terms for years.

"Kill the Boomers and Take Their Shit" is in poor taste and has the distinct fragrance of Madame Guillotine.

This is the troll thread to end all troll threads, like a dumb-as-fuck Millenial walking into a massive AARP meeting screaming "You're all shit and need to die!"

Where, R190, some of the enraged AARP'ers are also NRA members and feel they need to respond to the insane (OK, OK, "dumb-as-fuck") Millennial as NRA members tend to do: shoot first and ask questions later.

The D-a-F Millennial wouldn't be in a position to start another thread on the topic after that, I'm guessing, at least until the broken bones healed. And even if he attempted to make a jackass out of himself AGAIN here, I wonder if he'd reflect on the treatment from fellow DLers and instead decide that attempting inter-generational warfare wasn't working for him. You have to be funny or savvy or right and you're none of those things. The bitterness he keeps screaming about accomplishes nothing other than marking him as a really visible, easy target.

According to R191, Boomers are trigger-happy gun nuts who will shoot first and ask questions later. This is after he said they'll cut you out of the will if you piss them off, but maybe if you fuck them, you'll get to inherit their riches (because don't we all aspire to be Anna Nicole Smith?).

I don't think he realizes that in his unhinged rants in defense of the Baby Boomers, he's portraying them as worse people than even the most bitter Millennials.

r189 Quote the post where I said "kill the boomers and take their shit" or anything close to it. Relying on strawmen like that just proves you can't actually argue the point. Meanwhile your only real defence is that Boomers should be allowed to be as selfish as they want, then crying at the idea of other generations being selfish.

r191 You're fantasising about me being shot and you think I'm the twisted bitter one?

And for accuracy, I'm Gen Z not a Millennial.

R193 of course they can be as selfish as they want, they don’t owe you jack shit. Why the fuck would somebody quit a job so some loser like you can take their place? What a fucking narcissist you are.

[quote]they don’t owe you jack shit

And Boomers wonder why they're hated

I witnessed a cringe boomer moment at the doctor's office yesterday and I'm a tail end boomer myself (born 1962). In an examine/consult room across from the one I was in, I heard a male boomer patient loudly telling the curvy Hispanic tech drawing his blood that when he began to work for the Post Office back in 1968, he was one of the only white employees there. He went on to tell her about a sexy senorita co-worker there at the time he fell for. She feigned interest in hearing what he was saying but cut him off politely as soon as she finished drawing his blood to allow her to exit from the room.

[quote]And Boomers wonder why they're hated.

Sure they do. Boomers have magical powers to see inside your twisted brain.

r197 Yes, I'm the twisted one, not the person advocating I be shot, or the one suggesting Boomers have no responsibilities to society at large and future generations, sure.

They have a responsibility to pay taxes and vote, they have no responsibility to quit a job to make room for your lazy entitled ass R198.

Now go back to your fry machine, you have a line waiting. Or maybe you should quit so someone younger can take your place. It’s your responsibility, after all.

r199 Aw, you actually think that was a clever reply, don't you? All it does is show, once again, that Boomers in this thread are utterly incapable of debating properly and so instead act like the children they accuse other generations of being.

R200 you have no argument, that’s what you don’t get.

At this point I’m pretty sure you’re just trolling.

r201 You do realise that now switching to 'you have no argument'/'you're a troll' after a string of angry, insulting and even violent posts from you and your ilk just makes you all look incredibly stupid, right?

R202 oh sweetie you have no idea how idiotic you sound, do you? You are not entitled to someone else’s job or home. You will not get support here nor do you deserve it.

Now move it along, Troll.

r203 I couldn't give a single fuck about getting support here, it's quite telling that you think that's somehow important. I'm just enjoying exposing the likes of you who are singly incapable of arguing against any point made. Again, by calling me a troll and then responding to me you just look like a fool. And when I say 'look like' I'm being charitable.

You have no point R204. You are pointless. And calling you foolish is an understatement. You’ve made a complete ass of yourself, crying and stomping your feet because someone insulted you.

You are not entitled to someone’s house, job, money, possessions just because you want them. And if you think you are, then I’m entitled to all your cash and possessions. Because fair is fair.

Does anybody else expect the Boomer poster to keep referring to R193 as a Millennial even after he clarified he's Gen Z?

Does anyone actually give a shit if he’s Gen Z or millennial is the real question.

R207 and yet who are the big babies up thread complaining that posters can't distinguish between Boomers and Gen X. Same shit different color I guess

[quote]You have no point

Funny then how long you've spent trying to argue with me.

[quote]You’ve made a complete ass of yourself, crying and stomping your feet because someone insulted you.

Do quote these posts where I apparently acted so hysterically. I'd love to compare them to your childish comments and rage-filled posts.

[quote]You are not entitled to someone’s house, job, money, possessions just because you want them. And if you think you are, then I’m entitled to all your cash and possessions. Because fair is fair.

The problem for you, as you keep clinging to that argument, is I never made it. It's yet another strawman you made up. Never once mentioned money or possessions. Nor is it based on entitlement, but fairness. I mentioned housing because it's an extremely limited commodity (a fact not helped by NIMBYism from Boomers who whine that building more housing will impact their property values). So it's simply a fair expectation that those who no longer need large houses free them up for those who do. But as has been amply illustrated by the posters in this thread, Boomers care little for fairness and instead believe selfishness should reign. That may come back to haunt them once health power of attorney comes into play.

It's also that kind of selfishness and short-sightedness which is why Boomers in important jobs should give them up. Combined with the increasing frailty of their mental faculties, and the ever increasing maintenance costs associated with cleaning up the puddles of piss they leave behind. Does anyone really believe it's a coincidence that politics and business has become ever more selfish and focussed on the extreme short term the longer Boomers have been in power - and the less years they have to live?

Homos! Can’t you take this little slap-fight back to the Bob Evans parking lot where you both belong?

Seriously. You’re both dusty cunts, and we’re sick of the sight of you.

OP is dumber than a box of dirty socks. Go away, troll, learn some manners and some wit from your elders and then maybe you'll earn back the right to be here.

I'm not sure how they get off calling themselves the workhouse of America, r120. Millennials outnumber them in the workforce now.

R193---You're Gen Z? That explains A LOT (enjoying the generalization?). You call many posters who are trying to reason with you "idiots" and the like. No one gives a shit.

Move along, toots. You'll be living in a cardboard box by the time you reach retirement age, full of rage, bile, bitterness, etc.

Who will you blame then? Boomers will be long dust ---but you'll still find some other large group to hate.

The new astrology for imbeciles

R206 the Boomers and Zoomers fighting are something else but the far nastier fight is between Gen X and Millennials.

For example?

This. Never. Happened.

r213 If an idiot tries to "reason" with me, I'm still going to call them an idiot. Take you for an example, no actual argument to offer just the same old tired attempts at insults. That's the Boomer version of "reasoning" is it?

R196 And your point is? Only Boomer men say stupid, sexist things to women?