If they’re to blame for boomers, boomers are to blame for millennials.
You know who biggest critics of millennials are?
Boomers
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So…
“Do as I say, not as I do” has been around as long as there has been an ear to hear.
Entropy must be fought against. It seems to me that all post-Greatest Generation generations have been responsible for the expanse of unhindered entropy. There is plenty of blame to go around. There are no innocent generations since the Greatest Generation… so far.
Busy day at The White House tomorrow. I wonder if Trump will try to sniff Georgia Meloni’s hair.
@twojarslave I’m still busy but I thought I’d at least address your question regarding family policy and the birthrate briefly, which can be handled legally and culturally. First, as king, before addressing my ideas, I’d give a speech to the people and remind them, “With all your freedoms, you people thoroughly fucked up marriage, the family unit, children, society, and even your own lives! Congratulations! The party’s over! The human species is more important than your stupid shenanigans!”
First, crush the divorce regime. End federal funding for divorce. Restore marriage as the establishment of fatherhood, what is the actual purpose of it—not child raising, not reproduction, both of which are ideally done in marriage but don’t have to be, as proven everyday by single parents and screwing outside of marriage.
Besides cases of abuse and neglect, the government, society (certainly not this anti-father/male one), or ethnic community can declare who children’s fathers are in marriage (not sperm donors as they aren’t fathers by default) and stay out of all else, unlike how it acts in family affairs now.
Those who want to no-fault divorce, in 90% of cases done by women with children, they’ll do so, but can receive nothing, no payments and no child custody. That means 100% father custody in most cases. Fatherless homes are hotbeds of social deviance and crime and resultant incarceration, and by drastically reducing these, there will be a reduction in professional problem keepers.
We can also restore the marriage contracts as legally enforceable and personalized ones.
Republicans and some others don’t go near family policy or problems afflicting men. All they have done is pleaded for people not to be mean to us, and say, “men are important” (cool, thanks) as far as I can tell.
Men actually are in big fucking trouble!
On the cultural front, we can abolish the mostly unproductive and goofy constructs of “boyfriend and girlfriend,” relationshits, and the 100-year-old humiliation ritual called “dating”, and replace them with three designations: 1. actually single (something the majority of women, unmarried included, never are), 2. in courtship, and 3. married.
“Dating” and the bf-gf dynamic has wrecked countless women’s fertile years, spoiled them for decent men after dating a series of non-committal men (usually men keeping them on standby for sex, appearances, and ego stroking), and wrecked their ability to bond with men (eg, “I’m done with men; they all cheat.)
Softly/quasi-arranged marriage can be done, in which there is sexual attraction and a degree of personal choice limited by possible veto of fathers. Under normal conditions fathers would be able to use physical force to keep scumbags, drug dealers, gang members, criminals and other scum away from daughters, upsetting some in the process.
Dowries can be provided as they curb hypergamy. If women want high-status men, families will have to fork over a high enough contribution or they’ll have to work to provide them on their own. After the most attractive men are off the market early, other suitable matches can form.
Maybe we can Chuck a few concubines at elite men (and I mean the best men, the most honorable, heroic, and genetically blessed) so long as there is a high birthrate.
We can also once again have social institutions that make it easy for people to meet and marry early. We’d have to adjust the economy so that most men can at least support women and children in the first few years of child raising.
The are other ideas to discuss that I might return with. None of the above will be implement soon. Things might have to get even worse for them to be considered. Pro-social family minded people won’t mind and will be on board as the above suits their aims. Women who want to have “bf’s” from age thirteen into eternity and men who want to screw many women won’t like them.
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Society should not care what the degenerates want. This is what forms most of the base for degradation of society and moral apathy / relativity.
Weak men and men that don’t care about being good / doing the right thing never foster good times.
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correct. However, sexual revolution has done serious damage on society as a whole.
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My dad was one of these, but waited till later in life to make babies. Like, my oldest sibling was born in ‘66, then, ‘67, ‘68, ‘69, & me in ‘72. Honestly though, his behavior kind of defies generational categorization. Drunken violent psychopaths are timeless. 
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I think it has a lot more to do with massive socioeconomic changes that took place as our society transitioned from raw materials and manufacturing to technology and service orientation.
All of the boomers here were at the tail end of the industrial crash. The nice career jobs that you get out of high school and retire from of the old days were largely gone, and the ones that exist are closely held. Like, you need legacy recommendations from family for those. If you can find one. If you can’t, then you’re on your own.
It’s been like that my whole life.
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They are extremely rare. You need niche skills, education, polished public speaking / interview skills, luck, and experience.
At least for the executive levels, if you don’t know someone.
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Even for a lot of the trades. I tried with the Steamfitters, Mining, Shipbuilders, Aircraft Machinists & what ever- they all told me to go kick rocks. Except mining. They just said “fuck off". No kicking rocks for them!
Didn’t even bother with Steelworkers, Boilermakers, or Ironworkers.
The best and most enduring positions have been ones of my own making. Hard as fuck, but not nearly as fickle about who is hired. 
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That’s why this stuff from kids about generations and boomers & stuff just doesn’t ring as valid to my ears.
Life’s hard. People will fuck you over. Nobody has enough pie for a stranger. If you want a piece, you’re probably going to have to make your own.
. That’s not boomers. That’s universal.
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You can blame circumstances and other people or you can ignore that noise and excel.
I know what I chose.
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I want to put my earplugs in, hood down, and make shiny welds.
It just took 50 years to get there. 
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So like when the boomers decided to vote for boomers that would move all those jobs overseas and implement policies like NAFTA, padding the stocks the boomers had already invested in?
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I really don’t understand this desire to point fingers from one generation to the next while Wall Street sits comfortably in the corner and profits from both.
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Zelenskiy “can end the war with Russia almost immediately, if he wants to, or he can continue to fight,” Trump said on Truth Social.
I was more optimistic about the peace before this post. Why Trump keeps bringing this up?
Surely Ukraine can end the war, so can Russia. Either one can just surrender.
Knowing that won’t happen, I don’t see point in posting this kind of statements.
Unless he’s creating a narrative where Russia and US proposes ”sensible” solution and it’s Zelenskyi’s fault if Ukraine does not accept it.
I also think the growing economical inequality in US is not purely a generation -thing. Even though it’s clearly part of the problem.
Trump repeats it because it’s true. At this point Ukraine has lost and the war continues for only two reasons:
- It’s the only way for Zele to stay in power and keep receiving free weapons and money.
- It fits EU’s agenda because they’d rather keep throwing Ukrainians into the meatgrinder than admit that their decade+ stance towards Russia was a mistake.
As you can imagine neither party cares what happens to Ukranian men press ganged into trench meat with less than two weeks of training. Dunno why Trump didn’t immediately pull the plug on Project Ukraine after taking office. Now he has to wait for Russia to accomplish their goals on the ground instead.
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How?
This is simply untrue.
If you look how economy of several EU countries have suffered during the war (energy/food prices, drop in foreign trade to Russia), it’s clear that Europe is not benefitting from this war.
I would actually argue that EU has been way too slow with reacting to increasing aggression and authoritarianism in Russia. There were huge gas projects going on still after 2014, even though many people warned about them.
Not to mention that most European countries started to rearm themselves way top late.
This might take time. The war has not been a winning streak for Russia either. Couple months operation has lasted for years now and cost massive amounts of lives for both sides.
If we look what Russian leaders speak in Russia, not the bullshit they lie to the west, it’s clear that the goal is to have Ukraine annexed, or as a puppet state. Not seeing that happening any time soon.
I suspect Ukrainians care about Ukrainian lives. I’m sure Russians mourn their losses too, but Putin is the one who does not care.
Ps. If you want to look who is gaining or who tried to gain from this war it’s clear.
Russia tried, but failed.
China is gaining a ton.
Military industry is getting rich.
Ukrainians are running low on weapons as Western manufacturers struggle to keep up with demands of a real peer conflict and demands other theaters (most notably Israel/Iran) require of their limited manufacturing capacity. Even if the West could somehow deliver new wunderwaffles the Ukranians are running low on men to put into trenches. Ukrainians still have limited “firefighting” ability, but whatever counterattacks they make are rolled back in short order when those soldiers are sent to stabilize another area of the front. Pokrovsk will fall in the coming weeks (and be predictably and laughably labeled as “not strategically important” when it does) and after that Russia will move on to the Slavyansk/Kramatorsk axis.
You’re conflating European citizenry with their rulers. Their citizens are getting shafted with higher energy prices, but it’s their who leaders couldn’t care less.
Maybe or maybe not. Collapses start gradually and then coming rushing in all at once. For how many more months can AFU continue to function when faced with an opponent who has air superiority, artillery shell advantage, and now even a UCAV advantage? Surely not the five plus years that Europe hypothesizes it needs to rearm.
As for Russia’s goals: they haven’t changed since they announced them in 2022 and then reiterated them countless number of times since. If making Ukraine into a rump state is what’s needed to achieve them then it looks like they’re ready to play ball.
I don’t know what specific failures you’re referring to here. I personally see the following failures from Russia:
- Getting suckered into trusting the West with Minsk 1 and 2 agreements.
- Thinking that a thunder run with 200k men would be enough to take over a country as big as Ukraine in the first place.
- Their efforts to try and appear rational by allowing NATO to push past their red lines which only makes Russia look weak to audacious Western bureaucrats.
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I don’t get this. You were living good in a majority-white society in the same way some or many Japanese men live good in a nearly-all ethnically- Japanese Japan today. The same goes for any racially homogeneous or near-homogeneous place. I’m sincerely asking what your point is here?
True. Ukraine will lose this war eventually, but they haven’t lost yet. Might be that they will never yield and it’ll be another Afghanistan for Russia.
I think this does not really hold water, but discussing it further would derail the thread even more.
Both, collapse of Ukraine or the collapse of Russia has been predicted several times during this war, but nothing has happened yet.
This was the first mistake. Apparently Russian intelligence failed and they thought Ukraine would fall fast and be ripe to harvest.
After that the progress has been slow, not what you would expect from a strong country. Also the casualties are very high. This might be Russia’s 4th bloodiest war yet (after WWs’ and civil war).
This is probably where our points differ the most. Russia wants to be a superpower, get it’s smaller neighbours under it’s influence and dictate how they should act.
As a citizen in one of these countries, I’ll say that I don’t want to Russia to command what we should or should not do. Russia’s demands are rational only from the perspective that the sovereignity of Easter European countries don’t matter, and it’s okay for greater powers to say what smaller countries do. My country joined the NATO, but not because some shady bureaucrats pulled the strings, but because most of us wanted to be part of the west.
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You think Chuck and Linda Boomer had the information, foresight, power, and will to create these conditions for themselves and you?
You’re very big on assigning shared villainy to very large, very diverse groups of people, with yourself and whatever cohort you identify for yourself as victims.
Let me clarify for you that all women do not want your submission via government interference. Some do, of course. Similarly, most Boomers probably care very deeply that we have all been forced, to one degree or another, to submit to the removal, one by one, of most of the moral imperatives fought for and won by prior generations, such as corporate loyalty to workers and other expensive values that have been chipped away one by one by our corrupt, corporate-owned government. Obviously some boomers have wanted this very much. But I would say that most feel that they have or have had limited control over the actions of people like Clinton and Trump. Boomers constitute only 21% of the population currently. Was it you who approved that we collectively spend a billion dollars to retrofit an airplane to send home with the president when he leaves, if ever he does? It wouldn’t have been the Boomers - most of them are on fixed incomes by now.
Be careful assigning bad intentions to vast groups of people. It creates a painful world to live in. Most people are just trying to have a good day, whatever that means to them.
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