I feel like the United States’ fixation on limiting taxes and government intervention is something the rest of the world has been trying to warn about.
This seems to me like the second biggest example of “fuck around and find out” to come out of the US in a long time.
Hey this is what they wanted, right? Pull yourselves up by your bootstraps, ya chucklefucks! Stop buying all that diabetic medicine and eating out at Bob Evans every day!
Let’s see how many of those same boomers still blame everyone else, including liberals, for how their life is ending up and continue voting for the same party that stripped them of the social safetynets and policies that may have helped them out in a situation like this.
Implying that Boomers only vote Republican is reductionist and unproductive. They vote proportionately similar to the rest of the country. There’s just THAT many retards across all age groups, including Gen Z, in America that vote against their economic interests.
I’m not disagreeing that retards exist in all age groups but saying Boomers vote proportionally similar to the rest of the country isn’t accurate either.
Ages 18-29 voted 60% for Biden and 36% for Trump. Ages 65 and older voted 45% for Biden and 52% for Trump.
Can we use a different word
What’s wrong with Boomer?
A little taste on their own medicine, eh. Better start tugging on those bootstraps, Karen.
“The dildo of consequence rarely arrives lubed”
However, my Bugles are always lubed by my frothing salivating mouth. I’m a bit hungry and getting weird, sorry you had to read that.
Kek.
Here’s why…
…They all have been voting republican since Reagan.
Full stop.
Is this why grandma has an OnlyFans?
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Nah, she’s just freaky.
That was serious funny right there.
theres no profit incentive, of course these useless bags of flesh deserve to be put on the streets. welcome to america!
Live by the sword. Die by the sword I guess.
How did these boomers vote?
What policies did they support for their entire lives that have impacted this?
Not every boomer supported the GOP or Reagan.
For every hippy progressive, there were at least 5 Leave it to Beavers ready to take up the conservative mantle. Sure, not every Boomer supported the GOP, but a ton definitely did.
An awful lot of them did, though.
Every thread where boomers get mentioned, there’s so much hate, and a lot of questionable information. I don’t think this community would stand for it if people said “I can’t wait until they’re all dead” about any other group, but I see it regularly about boomers.
Here’s a Pew research chart on the 2020 election demographics by age. Yes, it does show that there are more older Trump voters than older Biden voters, but bit look at the magnitude of the differences - it’s very small. Also notice that the difference between the number of younger Trump voters and younger Biden voters isn’t that great either.
People think all the older people are wearing MAGA hats and all the younger people are wearing pride shirts, but the reality is the amount that the age groups skew one way or the other isn’t that huge. There are tons of liberal older people (like me) and lots of conservative younger people.
None of what you said pertains to my comment. Did you respond to me by accident?
I’m not seeing the disconnect. Your said an awful lot of boomers are GOP voters. I said that it’s more than half, but not a lot more, and the percentage of younger GOP voters wasn’t a lot less than half. What did I miss?
Was I wrong?
If you want to adopt the boomer tag and be offended go right ahead, but the point is, the boomer generation had the leg up on voting during their prime years and they chose to elect pieces of shit that slowed world’s progress and harmed millions of innocent people. Sure there were boomers who didn’t but I’m not talking about them.
I think you’re wrong. Look back on the chart I linked, at the first column in each set. That’s the demographics back in 96, since we’re talking about laws enacted that we’re living with. We could go back further, but this one is handy and the data doesn’t change drastically.
You’re saying boomers have been voting conservative and elected in all those shitty Republicans who passed laws favoring the rich. Well here’s the data. Keep in mind that in 1996, boomers were 32 to 50 years old.
- The same percentage of people 18 to 29 voted for Republicans as Democrats.
- For people 30 to 49 (the vast majority are boomers), 43% voted Republican and 41% voted Democrat, just a 2% difference
- For people 50 to 64, 22% voted Republican and 21% voted Democrat, a 1% difference
- For people 65 and older, 18% voted Republican and 20% voted Democrat, a 2% difference
So where’s the wild split saying boomers were overwhelmingly conservative? Oh, and take a look at this chart showing average political leaning by year of birth. It just doesn’t hold water. The silent generation shows as much more conservative, but you know what? It’s because that data was taken when they were old. When they were young, it wasn’t nearly as true. Old boomers now are more conservative than younger boomers on average; is basically true for every generation and there’s zero evidence that it don’t be true for whichever one you fall into.
wow, they’re barely different. thanks for sharing the stats 🙂
Boomer retirement plans and savings aren’t enough? Sheesh what hope do any of us have, then? They are the wealthiest generation this country has ever seen…
Maybe they should stop buying lattes and avocado toast 😉 something…something…boot straps
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Drop the /s. There’s 8 billions of us out there, this discussion will arise sooner or later.
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Have you seen the size of the average American home?
It doesn’t matter how much money you make if you spend it all after you’ve already exceeded your ability to earn income through work when you still have decades left to live .
I don’t subscribe to “all boomers blew their money.” My parents worked hard all their lives, and were as successful as any average couple. They are fortunate enough to have a roof over their head and some assets to liquidate, but there’s no question they were not where they anticipated being financially entering retirement.
It’s just hard out here. Every year the rug gets a little longer, the treadmill runs a bit faster. Even if you get ahead, do everything right, it just takes one market downturn or medical diagnosis to still lose.
So nobody gives a shit that the younger generations can’t afford a house, but it’s “unconscionable” when boomers can’t?
The young people who can’t BUY a house still have housing. This is about unhoused people who are in a decidedly worse position.
I don’t know what’s it’s like where you are, but there are definitely also a lot of young homeless people where I live. I don’t just mean house-less, I mean living in tents or worse.
It really sucks that so many people are suffering, and there isn’t even a good reason for it.
You can work your arse off day in, day out, only to get hit by someone driving drunk. Then, you get stuck on insufficient disability payments, even through you had no fault in what happened to you. Even if you manage get a decent court payout in a good country, you’re still probably looking at a lot of expenses accessibility-wise (ESPECIALLY if you live somewhere like the US.) A lot of that stuff isn’t cheap. Plus, you would have to try to make that payment last for the rest of your life. Food, bills, rent, clothing, and more would all still be costs you would have.
It sucks that so many people push back against any kind of support for these individuals. It really makes you wonder what they would do if they woke up with the shoe on the other foot.
the people complaining they can’t buy a house aren’t the unhoused crowd to begin with.
If it was easier to buy a house, rent would likely also be lower, due the lower demand.
That’s true but it doesn’t change my point which is that the person complaining they cannot afford to buy a home isn’t an unhoused person.
That’s true, but that person wasn’t me.
I wasn’t defending their comment. I was making a factual statement.
You don’t earn the title “Me” generation without being legendarily self important.
That was my first thought, homelessness has risen all across the board, especially among children, but boomers are still made the focus.
Honestly, maybe this is an effective strategy. Rather than continue to try to convince them to care about others, we just have to convince them that they are in danger themselves. Republicans discovered that fear motivates boomers better than avocado motivates millennials, so it’s time to start using the tools we have available to drive the point home.
And then we can finally get our hands on all that sweet avocado and toast…
“Well, well, well…if it isn’t the consequences of my actions”
Maybe I’m dumb for not lumping an entire generation of people into this huge group of bad actors who intentionally and maliciously hurt all subsequent generations.
The issue is money. What part of “people don’t have money” is so hard to digest?
The disparity has become much much wider over the years, and that is the issue.
Here’s a
.Lest you think that a one-off,
.Boomers loved that withered, hateful, hollowed out motherfucker.
(Yeah that’s the electoral college and the popular vote was a lot closer, but that’s a level of support no President has had since in even one election let alone two.)
The ones hording wealth and property are not the ones going homeless.
This sparks joy. Welcome to the party you created.
I agree and understand however the ones going homeless were most likely victimized by the ones who created this situation in their peer group
There were actually no homeless Boomers during the great depression.
That’s why the numbers haven’t been seen before.
