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[Abby Libby @abbythelibb_]

This man was willing to put in all the work and money it takes to keep a dog with no kidneys alive indefinitely, but he murdered his baby for having Downs Syndrome.

[Shining Science @ShiningScience]

Elon Musk sparked a major online conversation by sharing a unique viewpoint on parental responsibility and choice.

He pointed out that because children cannot choose to be born, the decision to bring them into the world is made entirely by their parents.

Therefore, the people who choose to have children must take full accountability for that choice.

Under this perspective, children do not owe their parents anything in return for being raised and cared for.

Instead, mothers and fathers have an absolute duty to provide unconditional love, guidance, and support throughout a child's upbringing.

This idea completely flips traditional expectations, where parents often look for appreciation or future support from their offspring.

Musk’s comments have pushed people to rethink the deep meaning of family dynamics and what it truly means to raise a human being.

The viewpoint challenges old social habits and encourages a more selfless approach to parenting.

By removing the idea of debt from the parent-child relationship, this philosophy emphasizes that caring for the next generation is a profound duty rather than an investment meant to bring personal rewards later in life.

Image is for representation purpose only.

[Anna Khachiyan @annakhachiyan]

In theory, yeah. In practice, the majority of people who “physically discipline” their kids are not doing it in a detached, consistent, principled way to teach them an important lesson but are emotionally incontinent retards who were personally inconvenienced in the moment and lashed out so the lesson they end up teaching is the wrong one.

[doomer @uncledoomer]

young couples trying to raise a family in our clown economy are admirable bordering on heroic, so if you have kids, its actually a patriotic duty to invade spaces where boomers, "childfree" redditors, disney adults, other sorts of foul beasts, cavort and stuff their putrid jowls

[Z’s Turning 🍊 @Z4BTC_]

Boomers aren’t willing to accept that their generation played a significant role in the degradation of society. Their weaponized incompetence is a way to avoid accountability.

They are the most prosperous generation to ever exist in human history, yet failed to leave society in a better place for their children and grandchildren.

This isn’t about blaming boomers for everything, but highlighting the fact that extreme decadence sets the precedent for the times we are living in.

Boomers can’t understand Gen Z’s struggles because struggle is something they were largely insulated from. Their generation’s economic mobility can best be described as taking an elevator, while Gen Z is climbing Mount Everest just to afford a 1BR apartment.

The difference in mindset comes down to one generation living through a peak in human history, while the other is living through a trough. Boomers are too old to care about society’s collapse, while Gen Z is pessimistic because they know they’re going to live through it.

People like Trump, Dave Ramsey, and Kevin O’Leary are prime examples of the boomer mindset. While these men achieved extraordinary success, the truth is they’d probably struggle in today’s environment. They played the game on easy mode, while we are playing it on hard mode.

So when boomers like them make out of touch statements, it comes not just from ignorance, but from distaste at the idea that much of their success can largely be credited to riding a wave of global prosperity. They want to believe that they had it harder than anyone else and did more than anyone else.

Boomers hate our criticism of the system because they not only benefited from it, but still continue to benefit from it. They don’t want the system to collapse and can’t stomach the idea that everyone else wants to burn the house down.

[SkinwalkerActual @nw_wolfrunner]

If you've ever helped empty out a boomers garage you know "we were just smart with our money and didn't buy tons of bullshit" is a bald faced lie.

[Amber Em @AmericanFemnst]

When I was a teenager in the 90s, everyone had a car and we “cruised” for fun and never worried about gas. We ate fast food and went on dates at restaurants multiple times a week. We went to concerts and raves and bought name brand clothing at the mall. We worked part time and always had extra money. Our parents owned nice houses, worked ordinary jobs, and took us on vacation at least once a year. I feel sorry for Gen Z and Gen Alpha.

[Ac Hampton @HamptonAc_]

traits of people with high agency:

> book flights impulsively
> say "call me" instead of texting essays
> can become obsessed overnight
> walk around during phone calls
> buy before they feel ready
> don’t ask group chats for opinions
> can survive on very little comfort
> good at talking to strangers
> slightly delusional
> treat embarrassment like a temporary side effect
> can disappear socially without feeling guilty
> low tolerance for slow people
> thinks most problems are figureoutable
> dangerously optimistic
> oddly calm when things go wrong

[daz @MetamateDaz]

UNPOPULAR OPINION:

Participation trophies weren’t popularized to make Millennials feel better about themselves. They were made by Boomers to make themselves feel better about their shitty parenting.

[Coach Noah Revoy | Arms Dealer For The Soul 🏴‍☠️ @NoahRevoy]

Losing your identity to anything, whether it is motherhood, fatherhood, a cult, a political ideology, veganism, or anything else, is a sign of immaturity.

It is a sign that you do not have a well-developed inner observer, and that your emotional regulation, impulse regulation, ability to update and deal with reality, and ability to exercise your volition are all impaired because they are underdeveloped.

Those things are trainable. In the past, we used to train young people in them as part of coming-of-age rituals and adult responsibilities.

Today, however, we have many people who physically reach adulthood but are emotionally stuck somewhere between seven and twelve years old. They are grown enough to pretend to be adults, but not grown enough to handle adult responsibilities.

Marriage and children are only for adults.

[Matt Forney @mattforney]

This penny-wise-pound-foolish boomerslop re-emerges every three or so months and I'm tired of it. It's a rehash of how boomers used to mock millennials for spending too much money on "avocado toast," repurposed to attack zoomers who expect more out of life then ramen and poverty.

1) Boomers never followed their own advice. Every boomer is a lifelong spendthrift. It was very common for boomers to rack up huge amounts of credit card debt in the 80s only for their spouse to force them to pay it off to keep the marriage from falling apart. I used to work for a startup whose primary customer base were boomers and the endless litany of complaints I got about our prices could fill a book. Hey boomer, stop buying a pack of Busch Light every day and you can save up the $1,000 to buy our product. Unfortunately, telling this to broke old farts was considered "rude."

Boomers love to get themselves into debt for no reason, but they justify it by convincing themselves that these retarded purchases are "necessary." Boomers would excoriate their kids for spending small amounts of money on a CD or a movie ticket while getting into an adjustable-rate mortgage so they could afford a new car. I remember my mom going nuclear on me when I bought a $20 copy of METAL GEAR SOLID 3: SUBSISTENCE from the Kmart I worked at as a teenager. "You're WASTING money!" Meanwhile she was on her third car in eight years, having bought it with a car loan immediately after paying off the loan on her previous car. A car that was perfectly fine. She was also fond of buying the 64-ounce coffee from Dunkin Donuts and heating it up in the microwave the next morning as opposed to brewing her own coffee, which would be cheaper.

Inevitably some boomer will chime in with, "You don't know shit! I had to live in a trailer in 1982 because Volcker blew up the economy and I was only making $13,000 a year!" First off, that's about $46,000 a year in today's money. Second, you were still spending money on frivolities because their cost hadn't ballooned. You could still afford to go out to the bar every Friday because a beer was a buck and your other hobby, watching TV, was free. A beer now costs between $8-12 and streaming services, the modern equivalent of TV, costs $20 a month.

Boomers will even say things like "stop buying new smartphones" not knowing about planned obsolescence. I was using an old Galaxy S6 most of last year after my S8 broke. I bought the S6 in 2017 and the S8 in 2021, both refurbished. I'm a model of boomer thrift! Except the S6 was useless. Couldn't install banking apps on it. Couldn't install X or email apps. Couldn't even install Brave. I could use it for texting and calls and that was it. Couldn't even use it for 2FA, which is mandatory on everything thanks to all the scamming Indians the boomers invited in.

2) We live in a society that has systematically deprived young Americans of any reasonable path to prosperity. First we were told to go to college, then the Great Recession blew up the economy and Obama sealed in the ruin. Then we were told to major in STEM only for boomer politicians to invite a horde of Indians to take those jobs. Then we were told to go to trade school. Trucking has already been taken over by Indians (though the recent Supreme Court ruling has booted them out). You don't think cheap-dick boomers are eager to import Indians or Mexicans to take all the plumber and electrician jobs?

There's already a crisis in contracting. Half the contractors out there are dogshit and will cause more damage to your house then they'll fix. This is because they can only hire felons and drug addicts because the average contractor is run by a penny-pinching boomer who pays his workers shit and treats them like shit. He then whines he can't get any reliable employees. The call is coming from inside the house (on the rotary phone you bought in 1987).

Boomers climbed the ladder of success, pulled it up, and are now belittling everyone at the bottom for not being able to scale a ten-foot wall. They benefited from union wages, a social safety net, and not having to compete with THE ENTIRE WORLD for entry-level jobs. And they have the audacity to blame millennials and zoomers and rattle off BS like "you're poor because you enjoy things." Yeah, I'm sure cutting out the $3 7Eleven coffee will help me save up for a $500,000 house by the time I'm 70.

3) Is this the best America can offer? Living like a turd worlder? I thought this was the Greatest Country in the World. In what universe can a boomer tell young people to live lives of abject squalor and think it's GOOD advice? The Greatest and Silent Generations, whatever their flaws, labored to build a better society so that future generations wouldn't have to live through hellish experiences like the Great Depression and World War II. Boomers, the beneficiaries of that better society, trashed it and then mock you for having any expectations for a good life.

No wonder boomers love Indians. They go together like sodomy and GRIDS. The Indian is what boomers think millennials and zoomers should be: eating vegetable slop, sleeping on a mat in a basement with a dozen other people, and thinking this is not only an acceptable way to live, it's DESIRABLE. This fuels boomers' love of Zillow crack shack slop posting. They actually think it's good advice to move to some shithole in the rural Midwest and work at Dollar General for the rest of your life.

Why is socialism appealing to young people? Because of boomers. Because boomers think it's funny that they rugpulled you, made off with society's riches, and now get to lecture you about thrift while they sit on a wealth of home equity on a shitbox they bought in 1979. They're saying "let them eat cake" while the angry mobs form outside the castle. If we end up with a Zohran Mamdani-like figure as president, it'll be because of boomers' stunning lack of empathy. A generation of psychopaths.

[Lauren Witzke @LaurenWitzkeDE]

“Erickson was said to have told Ronnebaum that he 'f***ed a boy' and fantasized about having a child with another man, which they could 'all just f***' and groom 'from baby to adulthood,' according to the filing.”

This is NOT an isolated incident. These are just the ones getting caught.

THIS is why we must end the horrific practice of homosexual surrogacy. The risks are just too high and we are giving these FREAKS access to innocent defenseless babies.

[Denzel Rust @AdemLuz]

Everyone is always rooting for you. Your parents want you to be a great son. Wife wants you to be a great husband. Your boss wants you to be a slam dunk hire. Every first date you’ve ever been on they’ve been rooting for you to get laid. Every time you started to tell a joke people hoped it would have a hilarious punch line. Your proximity to anyone is a reflection of themself, meaning the deck is never stacked against you, and your failures are completely your own

[Adam Yoder @amyoder]

English is probably the only language where you can measure someone’s IQ by how well they know how to speak it.

English has ~600,000 words.
Do other languages have more words? Yes.

But English is far better at describing things because it focuses much more on adjectives and adverbs rather than just nouns.

Arabic has 100+ words for “Camel”.
English has one.

But English has 10,000 words that can be used to describe the camel’s appearance, temperament, character, physicality, etc.

You get a much clearer picture of what this specific camel looks, sounds, and smells like.

It’s much easier to appreciate a story like Romeo and Juliet when you view it as an evangelization arm of the English language (and culture), rather than just a homework assignment.

This is likely the reason why the British were so dominant.

They were significantly better at organizing and motivating their people *because of* their excellence of communication.

English >

[Dr. Ricardo Duchesne @dr_duchesne]

Only whites could possibly build a machine like this for cows to be happier. This is inconceivable in the rest of the nonwhite world.

[MrCasey @MrCasey62]

“Let us understand that God is a physician, and that suffering is a medicine for salvation, not a punishment for damnation.”

~ St. Augustine

[MiloEmber @wolfmiloember]

@HustleBitch_ This is what happens when you let the boomers control the economy. The boomers can't fathom the idea that their idiocy and lack of innovation is stifling the younger generations.

[Skely @123skely]

It’s hard to explain but in order to be a really good racist you have to low key love every race.

[Jordanreviewsittt @jordanreviewsit]

>be born in the 50s and 60s
>get a paper route to save for college
>nice, tuition is only $200 a semester
>graduate and get real job by giving firm handshake
>buy a house which is only 2x your salary
>work at same company for 40 years
>retire with a pension
>become a shareholder and get rid of pensions (stock price goes brrr)
>home “value” goes up 1,700%
>make no upgrades, refuse to sell under asking to new family; sell to Blackrock instead
>lecture every subsequent generation about work ethic

[Laura Hudson 🇨🇦 @latterdaylaura]

My super strong parenting opinion is that while the kids are awake, you come last.

No spending all of Saturday golfing. That’s family time. 6 am tee time only, maybe.

Wanna go to the gym? Go after the kids go to bed, or wake up at 5.

In a few short years, they’ll be out of the house and you’ll have all the time in the world for your own stuff. It’s okay to come last for a while.