Call me weird but I'll only get an #EV if I can charge it as fast as I can gas up my Corsa D and pay for it in cash (or #Monero if I can get Monero for cash w/o #KYC!) and not have all the "#eCall" #tracking bs in it!
Jars of capers in my parents' pantry: 4
Are you taking the over or the under?
#Boomers protested at Wounded Knee and started the American Indian Movement.
Boomers gave us Head Start, SNAP, and Sec. 8.
Boomers started the Feminist movement and almost got us the Equal Rights Amendment on top of Title IX protections for women's sports.
Boomers started the Black Panthers.
Boomers created the internet, personal computers and cell phone networks.
Boomers fought in and led massive protests against the Vietnam War, creating the Peace Movement.
Jeff Bezos is not a boomer.
@Okanogen It's a good point. We cannot paint an entire group.or generation one way because that leads to ideas of collective guilt and that does no one any favors.
Also just to put a few other actions to the list:
The #antiwar Hippies were mostly #boomers .
The people locking themselves to trees and chemical refinery gates in the 70's -90's were mostly #boomers .
The young folk who helped create Earth day were mostly #boomers .
Me? I'm #genx .
#Boomers started the environmental movement (and I spent 30 years of my life cleaning up industrial waste from previous generations).
Boomers protested and were a key part in ending apartheid.
Boomers created Affirmative Action.
Boomers started Gay Pride and demanded equal marriage rights.
Boomers ended the Cold War and nuclear proliferation.
Boomers fought school segregation and Jim Crow.
Boomers gave us punk rock and reggae.
Elon Musk is not a boomer, neither are 90% of the other oligarchs.
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i know this is an opportunity to pile on Apartheid techbro, but am not even exaggerating when i say that, as a historian and “culture critic”, #Boomers embrace of the OG #Nazi car ―the VW Beetle― is one of those research things that keeps me up at night.
hand-waving it away as a feat of marketing doesn’t explain how one of Adolf Hitler’s prized cars, for the tech developed with it, became a symbol of white American youth radicalism, aka #hippies
The second article examined the percent of each generation that identifies as LGBT, and how these figures have changed over time.
https://jasonbeets.blogspot.com/2025/03/lgbt-identity-by-generation-2012-24.html
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and now you have AI specifically manufacturing #russian #propaganda and these #boomers still be like: "i couldn't have possibly googled that myself. look at me i am old. in fact you're #ableist for expecting from me not to share and amplify literal russian propaganda!!!!1111elf!"
yeah. good luck with that #socialmedia thing, y'all and thanks for destroying the internet, the only home we #millenials ever had.
Why did an 80-yr-old widower who lives in a retirement comm. spend $50K to take out a NYT's ad PLEADING FOR Trump TO RESIGN?
“I thought of my 2 granddaughters -was haunted by them someday asking me -when Trump was tearing down the country, what did you do?
I decided not to stand by -do nothing.
He earned a PhD in child EDU & counseling from Bryn Mawr C...
A good chunk of my children’s inheritance -they were supportive.”
13K ppl -agreed, just 4 didn't.
#USPol
#Boomers
https://www.inquirer.com/politics/grant-grissom-ad-new-york-times-trump-20250304.html?id=Cfxi3XuHDaRcW&utm_source=social&utm_campaign=gift_link&utm_medium=referral
I’m one of those #Boomers who has been in tech for over 40 years. My kids always assumed that my generation wasn’t supposed to understand tech, and one of them complained that it wasn’t fair that their dad and I knew more than they did.
I said, “Honey, who do you think BUILT the Internet?”
This graph shows the percent of each generation that identified as LGBT in 2024.
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I have published the next article in my series on Gallup's latest report on LGBT identity in the US.
https://jasonbeets.blogspot.com/2025/03/lgbt-identity-by-generation-2012-24.html
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While the younger generations leverage reflection and introspection, the #boomers neglect anything they feel uncomfortable around like sexual preferences, religion and mental health. They save any reflection on themselves for their personal memoirs or a book tour. The overall tone tends to be projected as "they will figure it out" rather than "I should help them figure it out."
"Baby #Boomers allowed Trump to bring on a 'new level of chaos.' We sold out."
"new level of chaos, knowing that it is the fault of my own generation. Growing up with nightly news coverage of Vietnam, civil rights, war protests and former President Richard Nixon sending the National Guard to Kent State University where four students were killed, was so long ago even we don’t seem to remember it happened. Ronald Reagan came along, and we sold out to Republican politics"
https://www.dispatch.com/story/opinion/letters/2025/03/01/baby-boomer-handed-america-over-to-trump-i-am-sorry-letters/80459588007/
By the same token, a clear majority of the current despots in the world are #Boomers. Putin 1952. Xi 1953. Erdogan 1954. Trump 1946. Orban 1963.
Lukashenko 1954. Al Nahyan 1961. Al-Alimi 1954. Mbasogo 1942. Mikati 1955. Abbas 1935.
The list of despot Boomers seems to be unending.
This is not disparaging Boomers because I'm sure it's all coincidence. But should the elder generations be owning the condition of politics that they essentially established around the world?
