Years ago, I saw a post on 4chan explaining just that: Boomers, particularly in America, grew up with fathers who weren't just war heroes, but in the most propagandised war in human history: WW2. Their fathers weren't just war heroes, they were Angels who destroyed the Devil.
Furthermore, they grew up in a world of immense prosperity as a direct result of their father's actions. There was so much economic opportunity on offer due to the fact that a lot of people died and the work needed to be done. This was also when globalisation was starting to evolve, bringing even more money.
This fuelled a burning resentment in the young Boomers where they felt unable to live up to the generation before them whilst having far more opportunity to live a good life. So what did Boomers do in response to this double edged sword? Did they pick themselves up by their bootstraps? Fuck no.
In their youth, they rebelled by dismantling the legacies of their fathers; mainly focusing on politics. They vilified their own upbringing as being more oppressive and totalitarian than they were. They also had a lot of money and time to do whatever they wanted, including betraying their country to liberalism.
As adults, they chose to LARP as their Fathers whilst tearing down the next three generations to keep their LARP alive. After all, you can't pretend to be better than someone who has more in life than you do. They also had even more money and power to get away with it, which they did betraying their country. Again.
In short, their lives have been consumed by lies, deceit, betrayal, and opulence. I'd feel bad, but you can't feel bad for someone who lives a life of rebellion.
I met ONE Boomer on this site who had managed to dig his way out of this emotional debt, and what he had to say was fascinating: Huge swaths of their generation felt severe resentment against their fathers because they all came back as war heroes in the biggest baddest most epic war in history, and young Timmy Boomer felt he could never ever live up to that, which turned out to be true as they never got their own great war making them all heroes. So instead, they declared war on everything they could, at home. "Injustice", drugs, the environment even. They're a generation who grew up in the shadows of Achilles and Odysseus and Hector and Ajax, and given no outlet for that whatsoever, and it drove them insane.
Alfie Milburn was defending himself, his girlfriend, and their infant child from a home invasion by four men. And yes, this is also two tier punishment, because he should've never been imprisoned in the first place.
Not that I'd expect a dalit to understand.
@FrenlyOfficer My wife & I recently made the difficult choice to terminate our 39yo neighbor because he was Haitian. We actually did make the choice lightly (we were drunk), but it's important that we preserve the right for couples to make these difficult, intensely personal decisions.
Florida processes more than 10 million votes in a matter of hours.
California takes days — or sometimes even weeks — to count the votes.
It’s pathetic — and it’s corrosive to our civic culture.
Goats in the Middle East have learned how to walk up walls. Experts say the goats have developed this ability as a defense to avoid being married to muslim men.
Redlining was banks trying to accurately price risk. Most people in redlined areas were White. Basically every piece of civil rights history you learned in school is similarly fake.
This is staggering –
Of the 369,000 jobs the U.S. Labor Dept. says were created since last year, nearly all - 348,000 of them - went to women, and only 21,000 went to men.
Basically, that means 94% of the net employment growth in the U.S. went to women.
Ninety four percent!
I can not describe how incredibly grateful I am for this opportunity to fight on the McGregor vs Holloway card Jesus is king from staying on someones floor to being a house owner now this let's gooo #AllGloryToGod for the victory to come ufc 329
It’s funny watching the party that tried to ruin Brett Kavanaugh’s life using the completely unsupported narrative of Christine Blasey Ford suddenly start questioning the veracity a story with great depth of detail as far as time, place, and contemporaneous verification of events sourced from multiple women
Colby Covington is not a Hall of Famer, he's something more than that. He's a top 3 heel of the sport alongside Tank Abbott and Michael Bisping. He will be remembered more than any standard issue Hall of Famer.
This is true. When Lauren de Graaf raped me in an alley, I found out where she lived and kept going there to try to regain control, but she just kept raping me. Happened over 100 times before I realized it wasn’t working. So I’ve just accepted that I have to live with trauma.
In case you wonder what we — and President Trump — are up against.
100% NEGATIVE coverage from so-call “mainstream” press in the first 100 days. PERFECT SCORE.
(Come on @RobertKennedyJr & @elonmusk , you guys can do better!)