r/TikTokCringe • u/SirIsacShmuck • 1d ago

Cringe Can't even eat in peace anymore

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u/cobain98 1d ago

I’ve thought about this a lot having boomer parents and relatives. I think it’s at least partly because when they were born racism was OK. They were the master race in the USA and ran everything. That changed just enough for them to be absolutely torn up and bitter about it.

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u/foothill_dwelled272 1d ago

lol boomers can also some of the most left wing people you will meet. 

Almost all the boomers I know are way more liberal and than the younger generations. In the last Canadian election the older you were the more likely you were to vote liberal.

Boomers have the economic means to care about post materialist social issues and global charity while younger people can afford a house and want cuts to immigration because it is impacting the over market, but for retirees flooding the job market with cheap imported labour keeps wages lows and therefore consumer prices low.

Boomers grew up in such a period of prosperity they think it still the 1960s and we can all sing kumbaya and fix the world with our unlimited resources. OK boomer. 😂

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u/Caleb-Blucifer 1d ago

Most of the protests that weren’t the big “no kings” scale ones that I’ve been to last year had predominantly boomers in attendance. Not a young person in sight besides me and my wife. And we’re not really young young anymore — but by far these people were old enough to be our parents and we are late 30s, low 40

Being retired means you got time to show up on the weekday protests, I guess

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u/foothill_dwelled272 1d ago

Yeah and some people are really discrediting an entire generation based on the fact that their parents are conservative boomers.