r/facepalm • u/javelin3000 • Aug 23 '24

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Oh dear...

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u/VoteForWaluigi Aug 23 '24

It’s crazy to me that Trump is pretty much silent generation and his son is younger than me(by a couple weeks, but still younger), and this is something that just gets glossed over.

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u/Ok_Spell_4165 Aug 23 '24

I understand the reasoning behind the name the silent generation but I still cannot wrap my head around them being the silent generation because there is absolutely nothing silent about them.

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u/drrmimi Aug 23 '24

The Boomers are the loud ones. They're 1946-64. DJT is literally in that cusp of 2 generations. He's definitely more Boomer!!

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u/Razor-eddie Aug 23 '24

Speaking as a Boomer? Piss off, we don't want the prick.

Some of us are still left-wing af.

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u/withbellson Aug 23 '24

It’s probably for the best that my liberal as fuck grandmother, born in 1909, died in 2000 and never had to watch any of the post 9/11 shitshow.

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u/biscuitarse Aug 23 '24

Apparently we all stole their wealth. I keep my share of the big score in my 2013 Yaris.

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u/Razor-eddie Aug 23 '24

Some boomers did. There are pricks in every cadre. For every AOC, there's a Logan Paul to use another generation as an example.

But the silent generation stole more.

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u/drrmimi Aug 24 '24

I agree!!

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u/TallCoin2000 Aug 23 '24

The loser boomers, that wanted socialism when capitalism was ... Booming! And now they have diddly squat. And actually lived when socialism and communism was well and alive, and learnt nothing about it.

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u/Razor-eddie Aug 23 '24

Sometime, look up a list of countries where the quality of life is better, by any measures, than the US. People live longer, have more money on average, aren't in debt, have free medical care.

Socialism (in the Scandinavian sense) works.

It's only in the US, among a cadre of low-information voters that have been consistently lied to for the last 70 years by their priests and politicians, that socialism gets conflated with communism, and used as some sort of scare tactic.

Remember when a single income was enough to send a child to college, buy a house, and pay for family holidays?

It wasn't socialism that wrecked the American dream, mate.

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u/TallCoin2000 Aug 23 '24

Socialism (in the Scandinavian sense) works.

I'm from Europe and Scandinavia is not socialist. Its a Social Democracy, which means they are a capitalist country, with advanced social welfare and high taxes as a means to help the less fortunate and promote health,education and equal opportunities for the greater population. I actually have family that lived under a USSR allied country and the other side of my family lived in a successful western European country, and were able to amass a certain amount of wealth. Boomers didnt have a straight highway to wealth, they went through multiple ups and downs especially in the US but they had millions of opportunities that 80% of the world at that time couldn't even dream of. Thus my anger towards boomers that are socialists because they failed at capitalism.

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u/Razor-eddie Aug 23 '24

Yeah, I don't think anyone has ever done communism successfully - but communism is different from socialism, and you should be clear about that.