• DigitalTraveler42
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    1 year ago

    Yeah I’m a very late Gen X’er, grew up with Reagan as the first president that I remember, and tensions with the Ruskies were pretty high, and Red Dawn was a super popular movie at the time, WOLVERINES!!

    Guys like this say this stuff for one of two reasons, the first being that they are ignorant to the fact that political outlook transcends generations, “okay boomer” is a nice sassy meme and way of dealing with people acting foolishly, however there’s a good portion of “boomers” who still retain left leanings. Unlike the trope they always tout “you’ll grow more conservative with age” and that’s not necessarily true, some of us do but most of us probably do not, people are stubborn, they usually don’t give up what they know. That’s why the Right try to nibble away at the fringe groups, because herding people like the antivaxxers or UFO folks, the bro culture and manosphere, cryptobros and nft scammers, and memestock people, means broadening exposure for conservative groups, white Nationalists, and Nazis.

    The second reason these guys say this stuff is to be purposely divisive, they know they have a solid base of old ignorant shitheads, and that’s who saying stuff like this panders to, it elevates them over the rest of us and makes them feel special, I guess, some of these people are sad like that and my dad is one of them.