What was the worst generation?

[sasquatch]

I say it was the baby boomers. Those SOB's where a bunch of greedy fucks who've given us religious fundamentalism, Reagan twice and Bush twice. It's always "I got mine so fuck everyone else". Many boomers don't care about what shape the world is when they give to their children or grandchildren, just as long as they got there's.

[hfojvt]

1. I think it was "the greatest generation"

that gave us GW Bush. Demographically Bush won among men over 65. For boomers it was a dead heat. I bet the same is true of Reagan and Nixon. The only reason so many boomers are screwed up is because they never became hippies but instead bought into the conservatism and greed of their stodgy "greatest generation" parents.

[sasquatch]

3. The Greatest generation were a lot better than the Boomers

GWB is a Boomer himself. The hippies were worthless piece of shit Libertarians themselves so it was a lost cause to begin with.

[hfojvt]

15. and, um, that proves my point

a boomer raised by a WWII vet. Greatest generation apparently were not very good parents, AND they voted for Bush, instead of Kerry - the hippie war protester. And hippies were not libertarians, except socially, they were communists (in the commune sense, not the Soviet one). Hippies were the best ever. It's too bad the Arab/Reagan backlash washed them away.

[JVS]

17. You are assuming that parents are responsible for their offsprings actions

The boomers rebelled against their parents and then ended up giving the world W. How can you blame the same parents that they weren't listening to?

[hfojvt]

22. some of the boomers rebelled against their parents

W was certainly never a hippie, although he did incorporate drug use into his long adolescence.

But I repeat, it was not the boomers who gave us W, even though he is a boomer, and so are Gore and Clinton and Kerry and Edwards. It was voters in the so-called Greatest Generation which were the demographic which either gave him the victory or made it close enough to steal. Also with the assistance of a certain Ralph mofoing Nader, who, I believe is part of the "greatest" generation.

Some of the boomers rebelled and became hippies, others conformed and became yuppies. Doubtless some hippies sold out as well, to one degree or another, but not as many as the media claims, and doubtless some "hippies" were hinos (hippies in name only) as they were not sincere about the ideals of the 60s, but were rather just glomming onto the latest trend in order to look cool.

[JVS]

2. This should be good

:popcorn:

[SeattleGirl]

4. Pass the popcorn....

:popcorn:

[SofaKingLiberal]

5. I want some too!

:popcorn:

[sasquatch]

11. I might need some too

:popcorn:

[Left_Winger]

71. Yes, some popcorn would be nice...

:popcorn: ...with lots of butter.

[TheBaldyMan]

6. every generation deserves praise and scorn

There was a poll on DU with a breakdown of age, that would give the lie to any one generation being the baddest one. I suspect that a similar breakdown on freerepublic would reflect the same demographic.

What I'm trying to say is you get assholes and angels everywhere.

[JVS]

7. No way. Everyone is cool except people born in 1983

People born in 1983 are total douchebags

[TheBaldyMan]

13. If you'd said everyone born after '83 I'd agree with you.

[JVS]

14. No. 1983 and only 1983

[TheBaldyMan]

18. I'll put your answer down to the impetuosity of youth n/t

[JVS]

21. Impetuous like Iron Mike Tyson!

And his words of wisdom "My style is impetuous. My defense is impregnable, and I'm just ferocious. I want your heart. I want to eat his children. Praise be to Allah!"
"My main objective is to be professional but to kill him."
"I want to rip out his heart and feed it to him. I want to kill people. I want to rip their stomachs out and eat their children."

[TheBaldyMan]

24. still can't hold a candle to Ali ( or Chuck Norris )

[SiobhanClancy]

10. Exactly..

I can remember the disdain I once felt for my parents' generation...They were "plastic",materialistic,intolerant..they gave us nuclear weapons,Vietnam,and Richard Nixon. Then I find out later they were the "Greatest Generation"! Who knew? I hope I live long enough to see what my daughter's generation does,because she sounds about like I did years ago. I think it must always be so...

[hickman1937]

8. Damn, I was preparing to rant about anti-boomer threads,

but lee atwater and karl rove were both born about 1950. I refuse to believe that they define my generation though.

[sasquatch]

9. I'm afraid they do

Sorry

[hickman1937]

19. More so than Jon Stewart and Al Gore?

More than John Lennon, Bill Clinton, Steven Spielburg, Susan Sarandon, Janice Joplin, Sister Helen Prejean, John Sayles, Martin Scorsese, Tim Robbins, and a host of others?

[sasquatch]

23. Unfortunatly yes

Sorry but with the exception of Bill Clinton none of those people ever held power or swayed it.

[hickman1937]

27. Can we agree to disagree?

I will fight to the death to defend your asshole point of view. Would you mine?

[sasquatch]

28. I'll tolerate it

[hickman1937]

30. Yeah, that was harsh.

Sorry. I'm a little cranky lately. I still disagree but that "asshole" crap was uncalled for. Sorry.

[sasquatch]

74. Dude, Jon Stewart isn't a boomer

He's a 'tweener.

[Onlooker]

12. The WWII generation (people who were adults in the 1930s and 40s)

This is the generation that gave us the Depression, Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Franco, not to mention Ronald Reagan, and largely supported imperialistic and colonialist policies of Europe and the United States. True, they fought hard to make up for their mistakes, but lost 50,000,000 in the process.

[sasquatch]

29. No, they fought the Depression, Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini

Boomers supported Reagan whole heartedly.

[JVS]

33. I don't remember anyone supporting Reagan, but I was in Pittsburgh

and people were losing their jobs like crazy

[sasquatch]

72. Same in Ohio, but every state but Minnesota voted for him the second time

[Oeditpus Rex]

16. So because someone happened to be born

during a certain period, they're responsible for whatever mess you care to name?

Let's see... I was born in 1956, so I must've gotten Ike re-elected, huh?

:eyes:

[Onlooker]

20. No, but . . .

Bush (1946), Osama (1957), Putin (1952) are all part of our generation. I think it's awfully hard to judge the younger generations at this point.

[Oeditpus Rex]

26. I try not to judge *any* generation

Or any other group based on something as arbitrary as when they were born.

Do different eras have different values? Certainly. But these also vary according to many other factors. And in any case, it doesn't mean anyone will live by those values.

This strikes me as being like astrology: The situation of the planets at someone's birth determines what kind of person they'll be. :eyes:

[sasquatch]

25. Not necessarily, Just the rest of you

And one of my favorite was Ike Eisonhower: he was a great moderate leader like Clinton.

[Indy_Dem_Defender]

31. I've noticed each

Passing generation in a family, the younger generation gets worse I know at least in the category of Clueless financial stupidity as time goes along. It use to be that people said these young kids don't know value of a dollar, I've heard that said to me a few times I'll agree when compared to someone around during the great depression. I'm just amazed by amount of people my age (20-30) who must have shit for brains or have been pampered and sheltered by their parents their whole life. I'm not jealousy just like I said amazed at people my age I've seen their parents paid and done everything for them, In my parents neighborhood like right on their street is full of Kids with houses bought by mommy & daddy, a couple paid off with cash. They don't work or work a part-time job for extra spending cash. I've know alot people who've had new cars, school tutition, housing and anything extra provided for them. I get to talking to them, they honestly don't have a clue why I would be struggling with all this stuff there just as amazed as I am of them, by the way their parents are not in most cases filthy rich either just working middle class giving out this kind of money. This ugly mess (in my view at least) is caused by the parents and doesn't in the end help their kids out in the long run, who's worse the overgiving parent or the clueless kid, I don't know?

[XemaSab]

32. What is this, fuckin' GD??

If I wanted GD, I would GO to GD...

:shrug:

[JVS]

34. GD:fucking

Sounds like a good idea for a new forum

[XemaSab]

35. I'm all for it.

I'm also all for GD: Sucking Hard, which seems to be a significant fraction of the threads around here lately.

On edit: :P

[JVS]

37. GD: Blowhardfest 2006!

[XemaSab]

38. GD: Fuckin'A!!!11!!!!!!

n/t

[JVS]

40. GD: This is HUGH!!!!!1!!!11!1!!!!!!

[XemaSab]

41. GD: I AM A FREEPER TROLL TRYING TO MAKE YOU LOOK LIKE WINGNUTS!1!!!!!!!!!1

[RandomKoolzip]

42. That's a really odd name for a forum.

Oh wait...were you being ironic? Sorry! Carry on.

[XemaSab]

44. GD: I Was Being Ironic!

[RandomKoolzip]

47. GD: The Quickening

Or howsabout

GD: Nerds in Paradise

[XemaSab]

49. GD: Asperger's is a sad, sad illness.

[RandomKoolzip]

50. GD: Testicular Cancer is The Only Answer

[XemaSab]

51. GD: There Once Was A Man From Nantucket.

[RandomKoolzip]

52. GD: Stately, Plump Buck Mulligan

[XemaSab]

53. GD: Man who go through turnstile sideways going to Bangcock

[RandomKoolzip]

54. GD: If We Keep Selling Hot Dogs, We're Gonna Run Out

[XemaSab]

57. GD: I Don't Have Shit to Say to That, But I'm Responding Anyways...

:rofl:

[RandomKoolzip]

59. GD: The Cough Syrup Is Kicking In

:hi:< in this context, he's waving "bye."

[XemaSab]

61. GD: I'm putting you on ignore because you dared to disagree with me

(have a good night!)

[JVS]

43. GD: George Bush was told that two Brazillian soldiers had been killed...

in Iraq.

[XemaSab]

45. GD: Even though I've heard that joke before, it's still funny!!!!!!11!!!!!

[JVS]

46. GD: you gotta get out more

[XemaSab]

48. GD: At a certain point, the joke transcends itself and becomes funny

BECAUSE it's corny.

[JVS]

60. GD: Yelling at each other until we get sick of it

[XemaSab]

62. GD: Fuck You!

GD: Fuck You Back!

GD: You Suck!

GD: No YOU Suck!

GD: No YOUR MOM Sucks!

etc

[JVS]

64. GD: good night

[XemaSab]

65. GD: Keep it real!

:hi:

[JVS]

66. GD: who keeps it realer?

:hi:

[sasquatch]

73. Well I remeber when someone bashed Gen. X & Y a couple months ago

As I was watching the Colbert report, it all came surgeing back to me too.

[RandomKoolzip]

36. It's so cool how there's no individuals.

Like, everyone can just be picked and boxed into "generations." Isn't that cool? Like how everyone from each generation acted exactly alike? How nobody was ever an iconoclast? How, like, there was never any disagreement among members of certain generations? Like, I think that oversimple and insulting generalizations are fuckin' SWEET!

[JVS]

39. Individuals suck. It was an offensivly bourgeois concept

[NMMNG]

55. Indeed

I have a close friend who sometimes claims that I can't possibly understand him or what he went through going up because he is a "baby boomer" and I am a "gen x-er". We were born four years apart for Pete's effing sake! :crazy:

[JVS]

56. What is the dividing line?

[NMMNG]

63. Although there are somtimes variations

The general consensus is that Baby Boomers are those born between 1946 and 1954, and Generation X'ers are those born between 1965 and 1978*. Therefore, my friend (born in 1964) is a Baby Boomer, and I (born merely four years later in 1968) am a Gen-X'er. How much importance some attach to labels.


* Some demographers contend this period should be expanded to include 1961-1981 in order to encompass those with similar life experiences
http://www.allbusiness.com/periodicals/article/620473-1.html

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

67. haha

i love you. hahahaha.

[leftofthedial]

58. nice revisionist summary

isn't a sasquatch an animal that exudes a nauseating stench?

[sasquatch]

70. Not anymore, I bathe

:hi:

[Maine Mary]

68. The WWII Gen

They were the BEST generation and the WORST at the same time.

On the up side, had it not been for them, we might have been speaking Japanese or German and be living in a Military State.. These brave young men beat all the odds and were truly liberators.

On the other hand, this also was a Gen. who felt it's their right to turn the wealth of this country towards their needs. It wasn't just the GI Bill, or jobs with garunteed health, retirement, pension plans, ect. No. They didn't stop there. SOCIAL SECURITY! They hounded the system hard. And when that was not good enough, they (by now a formed org. called AARP) Quickly learned how to make their Congressmen do their bidding. They weren't joking. Those folks running around in RV's w/bumper stickers saying I'm spending my son's inheritance" really were! The problem is they didn't realize they were spending their grandchild's too.

[Bridget Burke]

80. Are you joking?

Certainly, your complaints about the GI Bill, jobs with benefits & Social Security must be sarcasm.

[sasquatch]

69. Kick for the morning crew

:kick:

[Loonman]

75. Hippies

.

[hobo_baggins]

76. Generation Next

pepsi blows

[Bridget Burke]

77. No members of a "generation" had the same experiences.

Born in 1948, I'd qualify as a Boomer. Not everyone was a "hippie." Not everyone became a corporate conservative as they "grew up." Some worked hard at non-corporate jobs while young & have continued to do so--as long as the jobs held out.

I know it's fun to be mad at your parents' generation, but I wasn't. My own parents grew up during the Depression & dealt with the Big War. My father fought; my mother just worked in a stateside government job. He died young--a victim of the Cold War. She was left a young widow with very young children. And she worked hard for her retirement, although she didn't live long enough to enjoy much of it.

I don't believe that ALL Generation-Whatevers are whining slackers, either.

[noonwitch]

78. Baby boomers-a bunch of sell outs

And I'm technically one, by two months. I was born in October of 1964. Really, though, people my age are more Xers than boomers.

[anarch]

79. I think it was "Generation C"

As far as I can calculate (if each generation covers about 25 years, and we count backwards from Generation X....), that must be people born somewhere between about 1440 and 1465, so these are the people responsible for the early European settlement of the Americas. What a bunch of stupid jerks!


U.S. out of North America now!!!