Eh, young people are racist too. The rules always change, give it 20 years and there will be tons of stories about how racist millennials are. It won’t be about GenX. Nobody remembers we exist.
People definitely talked a LOT about Gen X when the generation was in the adolescent / young adult phase and was changing norms.
Those of us who remember The Oregon Trail also dwell in dark corners.
Transcription for screen readers:
The meme is making a broad generalisation about a large group of people all heading the same undesirable trait, that trait being making broad generalisations of large groups of people having undesirable traits.
Replacing hate with another hate. Just goes to show you, haters gonna hate
Potaters gonna potate
and lovers gonna love
i just want
none of the above
Adding to the transcription because watering down the point does no service to anyone who can’t actually read it, it says:
People born in the 50’s have lived in 7 decades, 2 centuries & 2 millenniums. We had the best music, fastest cars, Drive-in theaters, soda fountains & happy days. And we are not even that old yet, we’re just racist
And yes, huge swaths of them are racist. There are also racists in their 20s (Nick Fuentes), but they are far more common in older generations, the south, rural areas, etc. These are facts.
“not even that old yet” ? I think most would consider 70ish old, unless you’re running for president
I also consider “about to die on average” to be “old”.
I’m voting for Jimmy Carter in 28’ and we’ll just pull weekend at Bernie’s.
A corpse would make a better leader than the guy starting up Monday.
With any luck that will be arranged.
White House with Jimmy
fastest cars
What
They think '50s hotrods were faster than later cars because later cars were “detuned to meet environmental rules”
They are still buttmad that Jimmy Carter asked them to not use up gasoline like toilet paper after a day of chipotle and Taco Bell. Its oppositional defiant disorder as politics. Remember how absolutely pissed people were about seat belt laws?
Sadly or luckily I missed the seatbelt controversy by not being born until after it was all settled
I grew up in the kind of place where conservative fundamentalists still identified as Democrats into the 90s - Dixiecrats were alive and well. Heard rants from relatives about the monstrous government overreach into the ‘10s as they’d refuse to put their seat belts on.
To be fair that 1950s boomer is putting that pedal to the floor, seatbelts off, zero concern for anyone’s lives including their own.
Seat belts weren’t even mandatory until 1984
It never states that they had these in their birth years. Just that they had them. Might have been in the 2020s with the Koenigsegg Jesko Absolut, which is the fastest car and was built in their lifetime. And coincidentally, currently the fastest in my lifetime as well
FASTEST CARS
Not sure a Renault (now Alpine) is a good example of fastest 🤣
I really miss that livery though.
People born in the 1950s grew up with a 91% top-tier income tax rate, which ultra-rich people went out of their way to avoid by spending their excess income on “business expenses”, rather than investments.
And instead of saving their money they spent it, and the people who got their money spent it, and so on until I got pennies in my ass that are going to Jeff Bezos
Pssshhhhh, bezos money is all digital.
I didn’t say I had a bill to pay, I’m saying I have ass pennies and a trebuchet
Nice! It even rhymes! 😘👌
Which was better tbf
Absolutely.
It used to be that if you had $10,000 excess income, you could use it to buy $900 worth of stock, bonds, and other financial instruments or you could spend the entirety of that $10,000 on something you tell the IRS you plan to use for business purposes, and pay some salaries for making it.
Now, if you are $10,000 over the line, you can turn $6,300 into stocks, and double your money in 4-5 years. There’s no point in actually spending your money anymore; just keep rolling the excess into the means of making more.
1999ers have a decent chance of living in 3 centuries. Much more impressive
A guy I once knew had a great grandmom born in 1898 who accomplished just that! She must have had some killer stories!
She must have had some killer stories!
The world wars did kill a lot of people.
When longevity science kicks in, they’ll make theee millenniums too.
The rich ones, at least. Longevity science under capitalism will result in a quasi-immortal upper class and a mortal lower class. Another looming threat of ultra-late capitalism.
That’s debunked. The economy of scale will give us cheap treatments, and any society will be stupid(if not for altruistic reasons, for economical reasons) not curing their population.
If you must have a down spin on people not getting debilitating diseases until they eventually dies, think of how maybe we’ll have to work way longer than today ;-)
You won’t be allowed to die. You will work and you will accrue “retirement,” which is time you get to live after you stop working. They will keep you alive for as long as you owe the company, and then you will be allowed to cash in your six months of retirement.
Well that’s dystopian. I think in the free world it will be a new era, or so I hope!
That’s a lot of 50s nostalgia for a decade you spend mostly shitting yourself and barely able to put together a sentence. Reminds me of my grandparents talking about living through the blitz being born in 1945.
The meme isn’t talking about the 50s but about the youth of people orn in the 50s, so ±70s
70’s not exactly the decade of their heyday, and Happy days is a nostagic look at a period that they wouldn’t remember
What the hell is a soda fountain if not the dispenser that still exists in every fast food restaurant and bar in the world?
That article feels written by AI.
Soda Fountains from that time period are not strictly describing the device that dispenses the soda itself, it refers to the entire establishment. A soda fountain was like a Starbucks if it was entirely dedicated soda. There were Soda Fountain manuals teaching how to combine different essential oils and herbs to form hundreds of unique and interesting flavors, making it an interesting craft in itself. What we have now, where the machines just dispense a few select flavors that have the most market appeal is a pathetic shadow of what soda could be.
Boomer nostalgia aside, soda fountains were genuinely badass and it’s a shame they disappeared except for a handful of specialty shops.
Drive in theaters, soda fountains, and happy days still exist.
But they’ve mostly been improved upon
Cars are also waaaaay faster today than they ever were in boomer days. You could smoke just about all their 1960s and 1970s muscle cars in a fucking current day Prius lol, never mind something that’s actually engineered to go fast.
