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Comic writer thinks the Greatest Generation was nothing speshial

YellowSnow
YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,313 Founders Club
edited January 2018 in Tug Tavern
Not saying I agree with everything here, but it is chinteresting food for thought.


https://thenib.com/the-good-war
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  • Kaepsknee
    Kaepsknee Member Posts: 14,913
    All self loathing Boomers think this is the case. They're generation was the first in the long line of worthless generations in this country who did the most damage.
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  • AZDuck
    AZDuck Member Posts: 15,381
    Agree with that. It's funny how the fetishizing of the "greatest generation" by the fucking worthless Boomers has resulted in the feckless and mindless state of discourse we find our selves in now.
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  • GrundleStiltzkin
    GrundleStiltzkin Member Posts: 61,516 Standard Supporter
    Rule One violations, mods?
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  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,313 Founders Club
    salemcoog said:

    All self loathing Boomers think this is the case. They're generation was the first in the long line of worthless generations in this country who did the most damage.

    I like to bash the boomers as much as the next guy here. But, the Greatest Generation doesn't get off scot free either I think. Vietnam, for example, was probably the most damaging policy course of action for our national unity post WWII and that one's on the Best and the Brightest of the Greatest Generation.
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  • PurpleThrobber
    PurpleThrobber Member Posts: 48,097
    edited January 2018
    Because the millennials have the attention span of a gnat, cartoons are a neato way of advancing the agenda without much meat.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/22/opinion/the-eight-second-attention-span.html

    And fuck the boomers. With a rusty cheese grater.
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  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,313 Founders Club
    GrundleStiltzkin said:

    Rule One violations, mods?

    Huh? Please to be enlightening me.
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  • Sledog
    Sledog Member Posts: 37,802 Standard Supporter
    Being a boomer I happen to think the greatest generation was just that.
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  • Kaepsknee
    Kaepsknee Member Posts: 14,913
    YellowSnow said:

    salemcoog said:

    All self loathing Boomers think this is the case. They're generation was the first in the long line of worthless generations in this country who did the most damage.

    I like to bash the boomers as much as the next guy here. But, the Greatest Generation doesn't get off scot free either I think. Vietnam, for example, was probably the most damaging policy course of action for our national unity post WWII and that one's on the Best and the Brightest of the Greatest Generation.
    So you're saying they weren't perfect??? OF course they weren't. You can blame Truman for not listening to Pol Pot and you can blame Johnson for green lighting escalations. I'm pretty sure Kennedy never thought it would get close to the point that it did. And before it did,He probably would have pulled the plug early while there was some face to save. Who knows though.
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  • AZDuck
    AZDuck Member Posts: 15,381


    Pol Pot?

    You mean Ho Chi Minh, bro?
    salemcoog said:

    YellowSnow said:

    salemcoog said:

    All self loathing Boomers think this is the case. They're generation was the first in the long line of worthless generations in this country who did the most damage.

    I like to bash the boomers as much as the next guy here. But, the Greatest Generation doesn't get off scot free either I think. Vietnam, for example, was probably the most damaging policy course of action for our national unity post WWII and that one's on the Best and the Brightest of the Greatest Generation.
    So you're saying they weren't perfect??? OF course they weren't. You can blame Truman for not listening to Pol Pot and you can blame Johnson for green lighting escalations. I'm pretty sure Kennedy never thought it would get close to the point that it did. And before it did,He probably would have pulled the plug early while there was some face to save. Who knows though.
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  • Kaepsknee
    Kaepsknee Member Posts: 14,913
    PurpleThrobber said:

    Because the millennials have the attention span of a gnat, cartoons are a neato way of advancing the agenda without much meat.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/22/opinion/the-eight-second-attention-span.html

    And fuck the boomers. With a rusty cheese grater.

    Nowadays and truly more than ever, someone actually taking the time to listen to you and understand what you are saying, rather than just waiting for their turn to speak, is the greatest gift to be given. Albeit in dwindling supply.
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  • Kaepsknee
    Kaepsknee Member Posts: 14,913
    AZDuck said:



    Pol Pot?

    You mean Ho Chi Minh, bro?

    salemcoog said:

    YellowSnow said:

    salemcoog said:

    All self loathing Boomers think this is the case. They're generation was the first in the long line of worthless generations in this country who did the most damage.

    I like to bash the boomers as much as the next guy here. But, the Greatest Generation doesn't get off scot free either I think. Vietnam, for example, was probably the most damaging policy course of action for our national unity post WWII and that one's on the Best and the Brightest of the Greatest Generation.
    So you're saying they weren't perfect??? OF course they weren't. You can blame Truman for not listening to Pol Pot and you can blame Johnson for green lighting escalations. I'm pretty sure Kennedy never thought it would get close to the point that it did. And before it did,He probably would have pulled the plug early while there was some face to save. Who knows though.
    Cambodia, Vietnam, Kampuchea??? Tomato, Tumato.

    But yes, Minh.
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  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,313 Founders Club
    salemcoog said:

    AZDuck said:



    Pol Pot?

    You mean Ho Chi Minh, bro?

    salemcoog said:

    YellowSnow said:

    salemcoog said:

    All self loathing Boomers think this is the case. They're generation was the first in the long line of worthless generations in this country who did the most damage.

    I like to bash the boomers as much as the next guy here. But, the Greatest Generation doesn't get off scot free either I think. Vietnam, for example, was probably the most damaging policy course of action for our national unity post WWII and that one's on the Best and the Brightest of the Greatest Generation.
    So you're saying they weren't perfect??? OF course they weren't. You can blame Truman for not listening to Pol Pot and you can blame Johnson for green lighting escalations. I'm pretty sure Kennedy never thought it would get close to the point that it did. And before it did,He probably would have pulled the plug early while there was some face to save. Who knows though.
    Cambodia, Vietnam, Kampuchea??? Tomato, Tumato.

    But yes, Minh.
    Also if we are getting nitpicky, Truman was a doughboy, not Greatest Generation.


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  • Kaepsknee
    Kaepsknee Member Posts: 14,913
    Gwad said:

    So funny that we as an affluent nation marginalize each other to escape confronting the simple fact that we have work to do on a personal level.

    Kreist....


    Grow the fuck up.
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  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 114,019 Founders Club
    If you're reading this

    Thank a boomer

    Faggots
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  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,313 Founders Club
    edited January 2018
    RaceBannon said:

    If you're reading this

    Thank a boomer

    Faggots


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  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 114,019 Founders Club
    To this day the 56 Chevy stands alone as the GOAT
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  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,313 Founders Club
    RaceBannon said:

    To this day the 56 Chevy stands alone as the GOAT

    One of my two boomer daddies drove a '56 Chevy Nomad wagon in high school.
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  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,313 Founders Club
    So the YellowSnow hypothesis on generation greatness and/or shittyness generally mirrors that of the YellowSnow hypothesis on presidential greatness and/or shittiyness, which is to say that they are given too much credit for the good times on their watch, and ascribed too much blame for the bad. Historically speaking, there are always going to be economic, technological, political, etc, forces in play that are beyond anyone's control.
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  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 114,019 Founders Club
    Much of what the Boomers did was by passively existing. The sheer numbers changed our society in so many ways. The sheer numbers of youth in the 60's opened Madison Avenue up to a whole new demographic that they are riding to this day as we die off.

    The youth influence on culture and politics was massive as well.

    Suburbs, housing, autos all reacted to the changing landscape.
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  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,313 Founders Club
    RaceBannon said:

    Much of what the Boomers did was by passively existing. The sheer numbers changed our society in so many ways. The sheer numbers of youth in the 60's opened Madison Avenue up to a whole new demographic that they are riding to this day as we die off.

    The youth influence on culture and politics was massive as well.

    Suburbs, housing, autos all reacted to the changing landscape.

    Exactly. No boomers being born, then the economic boom of the 50's to early 70's doesn't occur. So they (Boomers) should get some credit for being born. Conversely, all of the technological change (i.e., productivity) that helped spur said growth was the work of the generations before the Greatest one. Henry Ford was an old geezer, Nazi sympathizer and too old to storm the beaches of Normandy.
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  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 114,019 Founders Club
    All that being said the generations that followed us suck
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  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 114,019 Founders Club
    Ride our coattails
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  • Pitchfork51
    Pitchfork51 Member Posts: 27,662
    salemcoog said:

    PurpleThrobber said:

    Because the millennials have the attention span of a gnat, cartoons are a neato way of advancing the agenda without much meat.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/22/opinion/the-eight-second-attention-span.html

    And fuck the boomers. With a rusty cheese grater.

    Nowadays and truly more than ever, someone actually taking the time to listen to you and understand what you are saying, rather than just waiting for their turn to speak, is the greatest gift to be given. Albeit in dwindling supply.
    Sure, sure.
    You know, it's got me thinking a lot about myself...
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  • Sledog
    Sledog Member Posts: 37,802 Standard Supporter
    AZDuck said:

    Sledog said:

    Being a boomer I happen to think the greatest generation was just that.

    everything I needed to know about you and already knew, in 13 words
    I don't want to know anything about you.
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  • Sledog
    Sledog Member Posts: 37,802 Standard Supporter
    RaceBannon said:

    To this day the 56 Chevy stands alone as the GOAT

    I'm a '55 fan myself. Had one in high school.
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  • Pitchfork51
    Pitchfork51 Member Posts: 27,662
    edited January 2018
    Sledog said:

    RaceBannon said:

    To this day the 56 Chevy stands alone as the GOAT

    I'm a 5'5 man myself. Never went to high school.
    Sad!!
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