• @michaelmrose@lemmy.world
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    234 months ago

    Baby boomers are exclusively those born between 1946 to 1964. 55% of the living boomers are presumably females safe from the draft and 45% are male. 95% of the draft was over by 1971 whereas only 38% of boomers were of draft age by then. Of the draft pool about 8% were drafted.

    On net 1.3% of boomers were drafted for Viatnam. 0% went through the great depression 0% went through WW2.

    These times were also marked by extreme bigotry. Anyone who wasn’t a straight white neurotypical cisgendered man faced comical levels of oppression.

    In case you hadn’t noticed 99.99% of the whining is from straight white neurotypical cisgendered men. Comical levels of oppression or not they on average came out of it with houses that ballooned in value 8x over and now enjoy the same degree of freedom from oppression as you and I along with their money and house and are steady trying to reinstate that comical level of oppression at the hands of the dictator they intend to give our democracy to.

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        44 months ago

        I’m 43. Statistically the people that are whining are themselves extremely privileged who on average came of age after Vietnam. They don’t get to use other people’s suffering as a fuckin excuse.

          • @michaelmrose@lemmy.world
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            54 months ago

            So you look at people today demanding more and say “this has got to stop” and launch into some malarkey about how the worst generation actually honest had a real hard time and you believe other people are petulant. Alrighty then.

            • You have extremely limited empathy for boomers because they were the authority figures growing up. You still treat them like a teenager would treat their parents, as opposed to how an adult would approach the situation.

              This tweet is alluding to some golden era of America that never really existed in the way that the Internet implies

              • @michaelmrose@lemmy.world
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                14 months ago

                Why would I have empathy for boomers? This is essentially a generational conflict. You don’t win by having empathy.