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minus-squarefireweed@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up72arrow-down1·2 months agoNot to defend Boomers, but let’s not let the “Greatest Generation” off the hook that easy…
minus-squareMalyca@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up21arrow-down5·2 months agoThey get a pass for the horror they lived through
minus-squareUnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up34arrow-down3·edit-22 months agoBoomers lived through plenty of horrors. Vietnam, deindustrialization, the Volcker Shock, leaded gasoline/paint, AIDS… The 1970s was a fucked decade.
minus-squaredarthelmet@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up28·2 months agoThe 20th century in general is kind of unfathomably different from most of the rest of history. It was a wild time to be alive.
minus-squareHasturInYellow@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up15arrow-down1·2 months agoYou could say, humanity learned how to REALLY fuck around. We are now REALLY finding out. Thanks, grampa
minus-squaredarthelmet@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·2 months agoWe have made absolutely massive technological strides in fucking around.
minus-squareHasturInYellow@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 months agoThankfully, we will be dead from the last centuries fucking around and won’t get the chance to use most of it.
minus-squareBuddahriffic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 months agoYou’re saying that as if we haven’t been adding even more ways to fuck around since 2000.
minus-squaredarthelmet@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 months agoThe rate certainly increased post Industrial Revolution.
minus-squareMalyca@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up16·2 months agoSure they get a pass for that, then they squandered it with their epic entitlement.
Not to defend Boomers, but let’s not let the “Greatest Generation” off the hook that easy…
They get a pass for the horror they lived through
Boomers lived through plenty of horrors. Vietnam, deindustrialization, the Volcker Shock, leaded gasoline/paint, AIDS…
The 1970s was a fucked decade.
The 20th century in general is kind of unfathomably different from most of the rest of history. It was a wild time to be alive.
You could say, humanity learned how to REALLY fuck around.
We are now REALLY finding out.
Thanks, grampa
We have made absolutely massive technological strides in fucking around.
Thankfully, we will be dead from the last centuries fucking around and won’t get the chance to use most of it.
You’re saying that as if we haven’t been adding even more ways to fuck around since 2000.
The rate certainly increased post Industrial Revolution.
Sure they get a pass for that, then they squandered it with their epic entitlement.