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Posted: 8/14/2023 9:00:13 AM EDT

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Good read, and worth it I don't agree with 100% of the assessments but it's definitely something to think about and if possible iron out of your life. Because what they're describing is *gestures broadly* quite literally the structure of modern society, and if you don't conform, you're considered a weirdo.

I think if you showed that to the small-souled bugmen of the world they would think it doesn't apply to them so strong is the delusion.

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How long have we heard how millennials and younger people are ruining everything?

And all of life's ills are all due to them.

And how the older generation was tough, had thick skin, and didn't need safe spaces or echo chambers?

Basically it was open season on the younger generation.

If they complained, it was "suck it up buttercup" from the older crowd. Or "toughen the f-up"

Always fascinating when the tables are flipped.

Personally, I prefer to address them by the more fitting pejorative of Bugman/Bugmen/Bugpeople

On the Infestation of Small-Souled Bugmen

Not to be confused with the gigantic insect the alienated man of Kafka's Metamorphosis, the small-souled bugman is very much a 'well-adjusted', fully integrated neuron in today's neoliberalist techno-corporate hive mind.

A consequence of a perilously overpopulated, brutally capitalistic, shamelessly hedonistic, morally decaying society, the humble bugman has come to define an age of technological dystopia in which everyone has everything their gadgets, their fast foods, their fashion accessories but somehow everyone also has nothing no community, no natural spirit, no substance of mind. He is a zombified consumer, an emasculated wage slave, a vessel emptied of meaning and refilled with plastic, pixels and silicone.

He is what a sterile corporate wasteland spews out. Millions of him, almost exact replicas who are relentlessly told they are unique by clever marketers, and who believe it. He is a personality defined by brands, a blue-checkmarked Twitter user. Bugmen are what we get when a culture is infantilized, watered down and stripped of the very intellectual, philosophical and honourable fibre that once made it great. Totally dependent on the compromised support of his nanny state and high-tech devices, the bugman has been reduced to the status of a domestic animal. A 200-pound child.

And like a child, the bugman's shallowness keeps him malleable to the fleeting whims and fads of a degenerate, smartphone-addicted, dopamine-hooked society. He bases his identity on passing trends that to him appear profound, priding himself on being a 'step ahead' of his peers an 'early adopter' not realizing it's the marketer who's always a step ahead of him. He is the millennial test subject, the lab rat brand loyalty experts are paid $20,000 an hour to pigeonhole. First in line for the latest Apple iPhone, he actively supports the unchecked rise of AI and notions of planetary relocation.

Things didn't always look so bleak for the bugman. He grew up in fortunate circumstances. Middle-class parents who raised him well, sent him to a good college. Oversocialization afforded him effortless acceptance into a mentally sick civilization, but sorely missing, unbeknownst to him, was the lack of any meaningful struggle; the grueling initiations that turn boys into men. His mental development had been stunted in the real sense at the expense of engineering a successful and painless assimilation into a clown world fueled by idiocy, deception and frivolity.

The bugman now occupies one of two living situations. One, the city bugman lives atop, beneath and besides his fellow bugs in what is an actual human-scale bug colony, hence the name. Two, the suburban bugman living just as unnaturally and miserably, lined up in careful symmetry among neighbours he will never know and trees that will never grow, house by house, street by street, as far as the eye can see.

The deliberate draining of purpose and passion from the bugman's soul made it easy to assign him without complaint to a vapid, good-boy 'job' and a 'career' that does little but prop up the demented corporatist structure. He is a willing cog in the grinding bullshit machine a marketer, an analyst, a 'project manager' or has perhaps handed his life over to preserving the insanity of the state by becoming a lawyer or a bureaucrat. Worse yet, he gobbled up the STEM dream sold by grubby toy merchants, dooming himself to an existence of zeroes and ones. Zero purpose. One sad bugman.

So cowed by his masters, the bugman is fiercely loyal to faceless corporations in what appears to be a society-wide occurrence of Stockholm syndrome. Terrified of being exposed as the fraud that he is, he hands over his mind to be reshaped like putty until it fits the robotic cubicle farm mould. Before long he is sending out 150 emails a day in which he promises to "touch base" and "leverage the data". He'll climb the imaginary ladder, all the while nagged by a vague sense of emptiness and a dormant rage that might see him off to an early grave.

Failing to find fulfilment in his work, the bugman has become fully immersed in Content, Digital Socializing and Entertainment. Facing the monumental task of salvaging his soul, he has instead resorted to seeking escape at every turn. He upgrades his 60" 4K TV to a 75" 4K TV. He buys more video games and a virtual reality set, finds a pot dealer and gets a prescription for anti-depressants.

An avid Netflix binger, cinema goer and Spotify subscriber, he echoes pretentious magazine reviews by referring to mediocre works of popular culture as "urgent" and "life-affirming". Blinded by his inability to consume anything beneath the surface of spoon-fed, easily-digested, created-by-committee mainstream productions, he will never come to know the transcendence of actual genius towering authors, musical virtuosos or glorious artists stuff that might make his soul bigger.

The bugman's diet is in equal parts nutritionally inadequate and inexplicably expensive. He has made eating an unnecessarily complicated act by falling for the mutually-marketed falsehoods that food can be improved with technology see 'health food' snacks sold in recycled cardboard and that preparing food properly is a waste of time and effort. Thus, everything he buys comes in packaging, produced in a lab, deviously salt or sugar-laden. Physical exercise is not part of his life, so the result is an atrophied muscular structure, formations of fatty tissue insulating his vital organs, and pale, flaky skin.

The bugman is intensely focused on making his life more 'efficient'. If he outsources every chore and foregoes starting a family, he will have more time to consume and more time to whittle away on his pointless job and fashionable hobbies. He has his groceries delivered and asks Alexa to update him on the day's news. Gamification via $3.99 apps has taken over virtually every aspect of his life. This, to the bugman, is progress.

When it comes to sports, bugmen can be neatly divided into two distinct groupings. Sports is either not part of his life the nerdbug or it is one of his defining characteristics the jockbug. The latter, once a promising athlete, now watches on beer and betting slip-in-hand as blaring, sanitized SPORTS! is beamed into his retinas, relieving his brain of any signs of life that might have otherwise surfaced. Jockbugs have been known to spend as many as 30 hours a week consuming SPORTS!, and even more reading/talking about it.

Social media is the bugman's public square. This is where he 'debates', makes jokes and flaunts his status and moral virtue to the hive. This is where he seeks respite from the alienation of modern life, but never quite seems to find it. He flicks through his Twitter feed aimlessly, chuckles along to Jimmy Kimmel clips on YouTube, and smugly describes himself as "socially liberal and fiscally conservative" in New York Times comments sections.

The bugman's severe paucity of skepticism has led him down a mainstream media-saturated path of tech adulation, social justice fallacies and "progress"-at-all-costs morality. The dearth of historical, rational and spiritual context in his mind leaves only the possibility of suffering in the panicked bustle of the present day, antenna twitching in response to the prevailing Bad News.

The bugman cares little that the world has been irrevocably corrupted and damaged by Machiavellian technologists and shady bureaucrats. If he is not in fact one of them, he whole-buggedly buys into their UN-endorsed missions to bring about 'world peace', to 'end poverty', and other such feel-good nonsense. He is oblivious to the toxic impact of the corporations and globalist think tanks that exist purely to feed his consumerist impulses and create the economic artifice that sustains such behavior. He's the archetypal useful idiot, keeping everything he thinks he stands against in perfect working order.

He conceals his intellectual cowardice amid ideological rhetoric and Orwellian newspeak. Cogent debate and the search for truth are challenges to his dominance of public discourse, so the bugman must become masterful at distorting arguments in a desperate attempt to portray himself as the well-reasoned and righteous party.

Beware of his powerful toolkit, including but not limited to virtue signalling, cries of "hate speech", straw man arguments, and ad hominem attacks. This all sprouts from his fear of countering the 'correct' views of the day. If he simply parrots mainstream commentary, he can be sure of being on the right side of history.

Despite all the inhumanity and misery of a bugman's life laid before you, be assured it is no mean feat to come across one in person who reveals his trauma. He will present himself invariably as polite, gentle, happy and 'nice'. He is remarkably non-confrontational, avoiding controversy at virtually any cost. PC culture has him shaken, terrified of being ostracized for wrongthink. This is the bugman's tough outer shell, and it will never be penetrated. Underneath this shell lies his small soul, searching fruitlessly for subsistence.

While he may carry himself with an air of intellectual and moral superiority, the bugman has stopped asking the big questions. He can distantly recall the sense of awe he felt as a child, those times looking up at the stars and the moon; those times reflecting on his ancestry, where he came from, the history and traditions of mankind and the wild beauty of Earth. Now his mind is so distracted by pixelated inanity, trash culture and his ridiculous job that he cannot, for the love of god, simply sit and think.

He can no longer be at peace or derive joy from nature and blissful simplicity. He feels frustration over his powerlessness to bring an end to the mysterious forces chipping away at his soul day by day, but does nothing about it. And so he remains, indefinitely and emphatically, a small-souled bugman.

https://i.imgur.com/Pc3eC10.jpg

https://hackernoon.com/on-the-infestation-of-small-souled-bugmen-6561ae922e07

Good read, and worth it I don't agree with 100% of the assessments but it's definitely something to think about and if possible iron out of your life. Because what they're describing is *gestures broadly* quite literally the structure of modern society, and if you don't conform, you're considered a weirdo.

I think if you showed that to the small-souled bugmen of the world they would think it doesn't apply to them so strong is the delusion.

That's a tidy trap though - if you read this and think it's not you, then it's definitely you. Lol nah.

The whole thing is bait for people in existential crisis, or malaise or whatever the word is. Either that or it's another brainwashing piece extolling the virtue of poverty, as if living destitute or hand-to-mouth is somehow desirable and confers virtue through suffering.

He can no longer be at peace or derive joy from nature and blissful simplicity. He feels frustration over his powerlessness to bring an end to the mysterious forces chipping away at his soul day by day, but does nothing about it. And so he remains, indefinitely and emphatically, a small-souled bugman.

Here, this sums up the shittiness of the piece in a single paragraph. Question: In what era did common man find peace and joy in nature and blissful simplicity? When did mankind ever have the power to end the mysterious forces chipping away at his soul, day by day? Answer: none and never, except maybe right now, a little bit.

Pre-industrial revolution and pre-vaccines mankind was in a brutal fight just to survive. Infant mortality impossibly high by modern standards, quality of life much lower. There is not and never was nobility in being poor.

Posted: 8/14/2023 9:04:16 AM EDT

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HATE speech? Gimme a fuckin' break.

Ball busting is more like it.

Greatest Generation set up Boomers with a sweet deal, which they prolonged by fucking over the Millennials, who are fucking everything up now, and our kids are even worse 'cause they never had a chance. And so it goes, the way it always has. Every generation is worse than the last.

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funny how you guys always leave out two generations here.......silent generation and Generation X

Posted: 8/14/2023 9:05:59 AM EDT

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Don't care what generation you are, if you have thin skin and can't take a joke, you can fuck off.
Men whining about hate speech on this site is pathetic.
I'm 58

Posted: 8/14/2023 9:08:52 AM EDT

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All I want is for them to get off the fucking roads.

Edit, I had a wonderful plan, that would benefit everyone, even wrote my senator about it. What do old people love? Moving south, and going to the doctor every 15 minutes or so. I proposed, when Castro died, we purchase Cuba and rename it happy retirement island. The left is always bragging about Cuban Healthcare, and don't they have a shitload of doctors?

Once you turn 65, you don't get social security, you get your ass shipped to Happy Retirement Island. We employ all Cuban citizens to take care of our seniors. Taking 4 days to write a fucking check to pay for your groceries, while you tell your entire life story about every item you are buying that no one gives a shit about is encouraged.
Give them little golf carts to drive around as slow as they want.

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Exactly. What do they think they gain in this blame game? Old people gonna feel bad, and what...? How about a solution? Anybody have one of those, that doesn't involve free money from the Dem (and Repub) money printer?

I guess the value of victimhood was so ingrained in them in school, that they have to start threads every week to try to build a consensus, just chipping away. Has the first "All we want is for the boomers to admit that it was their boomer policies that got us into this mess. Why won't they just accept the blame?" post shown up yet?

All I want is for them to get off the fucking roads.

Edit, I had a wonderful plan, that would benefit everyone, even wrote my senator about it. What do old people love? Moving south, and going to the doctor every 15 minutes or so. I proposed, when Castro died, we purchase Cuba and rename it happy retirement island. The left is always bragging about Cuban Healthcare, and don't they have a shitload of doctors?

Once you turn 65, you don't get social security, you get your ass shipped to Happy Retirement Island. We employ all Cuban citizens to take care of our seniors. Taking 4 days to write a fucking check to pay for your groceries, while you tell your entire life story about every item you are buying that no one gives a shit about is encouraged.
Give them little golf carts to drive around as slow as they want.

is this you?

Guy Punching Car Window Meme Compilation (2023)

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Posted: 8/14/2023 9:16:24 AM EDT

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funny how you guys always leave out two generations here.......silent generation and Generation X

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HATE speech? Gimme a fuckin' break.

Ball busting is more like it.

Greatest Generation set up Boomers with a sweet deal, which they prolonged by fucking over the Millennials, who are fucking everything up now, and our kids are even worse 'cause they never had a chance. And so it goes, the way it always has. Every generation is worse than the last.

funny how you guys always leave out two generations here.......silent generation and Generation X

Boomers don't even know what the proper generations are.

They think everyone is a Millennial. Gen X'er, Gen Y'er, Millennials, Gen Z'er, etc.... they have no clue.

As for the Silent Generation, another batch of scummy people who laid the foundation for the offshoring American Prosperity for an increased quarterly profit.

Shitbags like Noam Chomsky, Anthony Fauci, Pope Francis, and Joe Biden are Silent Generation.

But here's a fun fact. After all the Greatest Generation Presidents, the four Presidents following the end of the Cold War have been Boomers; Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump. Only one President, Joe Biden, has been a member of the Silent Generation. And that is only a three year separation between Biden and Trump in age.

Posted: 8/14/2023 9:18:01 AM EDT

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Boomers are 60-77. They are going to start dying off in mass soon.

Mommy and Daddy got divorced, left me at home by myself, never saved for my inheritance, spend what money they should have left me and want me to take care of them as they get old. Oh and had an easier time doing it.

Jesus H Christ, quit whining, get a job and get on with it. Oh and when you come by the nursing home this weekend can you bring some of that as avocado toast shit you’re always talking about.

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Posted: 8/14/2023 9:20:31 AM EDT

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Boomers don't even know what the proper generations are.

They think everyone is a Millennial. Gen X'er, Gen Y'er, Millennials, Gen Z'er, etc.... they have no clue.

As for the Silent Generation, another batch of scummy people who laid the foundation for the offshoring American Prosperity for an increased quarterly profit.

Shitbags like Noam Chomsky, Anthony Fauci, Pope Francis, and Joe Biden are Silent Generation.

But here's a fun fact. After all the Greatest Generation Presidents, the four Presidents following the end of the Cold War have been Boomers; Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump. Only one President, Joe Biden, has been a member of the Silent Generation. And that is only a three year separation between Biden and Trump in age.

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HATE speech? Gimme a fuckin' break.

Ball busting is more like it.

Greatest Generation set up Boomers with a sweet deal, which they prolonged by fucking over the Millennials, who are fucking everything up now, and our kids are even worse 'cause they never had a chance. And so it goes, the way it always has. Every generation is worse than the last.

funny how you guys always leave out two generations here.......silent generation and Generation X

Boomers don't even know what the proper generations are.

They think everyone is a Millennial. Gen X'er, Gen Y'er, Millennials, Gen Z'er, etc.... they have no clue.

As for the Silent Generation, another batch of scummy people who laid the foundation for the offshoring American Prosperity for an increased quarterly profit.

Shitbags like Noam Chomsky, Anthony Fauci, Pope Francis, and Joe Biden are Silent Generation.

But here's a fun fact. After all the Greatest Generation Presidents, the four Presidents following the end of the Cold War have been Boomers; Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump. Only one President, Joe Biden, has been a member of the Silent Generation. And that is only a three year separation between Biden and Trump in age.

That was 28 years with a boomer running the executive branch. And yet they will screech they didn't have any influence on policy or culture than other generations.

Posted: 8/14/2023 9:25:39 AM EDT

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That was 28 years with a boomer running the executive branch. And yet they will screech they didn't have any influence on policy or culture than other generations.

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HATE speech? Gimme a fuckin' break.

Ball busting is more like it.

Greatest Generation set up Boomers with a sweet deal, which they prolonged by fucking over the Millennials, who are fucking everything up now, and our kids are even worse 'cause they never had a chance. And so it goes, the way it always has. Every generation is worse than the last.

funny how you guys always leave out two generations here.......silent generation and Generation X

Boomers don't even know what the proper generations are.

They think everyone is a Millennial. Gen X'er, Gen Y'er, Millennials, Gen Z'er, etc.... they have no clue.

As for the Silent Generation, another batch of scummy people who laid the foundation for the offshoring American Prosperity for an increased quarterly profit.

Shitbags like Noam Chomsky, Anthony Fauci, Pope Francis, and Joe Biden are Silent Generation.

But here's a fun fact. After all the Greatest Generation Presidents, the four Presidents following the end of the Cold War have been Boomers; Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump. Only one President, Joe Biden, has been a member of the Silent Generation. And that is only a three year separation between Biden and Trump in age.

That was 28 years with a boomer running the executive branch. And yet they will screech they didn't have any influence on policy or culture than other generations.

For the 118th Congress; Gen X'ers represents only 35.3% of Congress. Boomers represent 48.8% of Congress. Nearly half of the lawmakers in the 118th Congress are Boomers.

Posted: 8/14/2023 9:28:02 AM EDT

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https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/FT_21.02.05_CongressGenerations_3b.png

For the 118th Congress; Gen X'ers represents only 35.3% of Congress. Boomers represent 48.8% of Congress. Nearly half of the lawmakers in the 118th Congress are Boomers.

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HATE speech? Gimme a fuckin' break.

Ball busting is more like it.

Greatest Generation set up Boomers with a sweet deal, which they prolonged by fucking over the Millennials, who are fucking everything up now, and our kids are even worse 'cause they never had a chance. And so it goes, the way it always has. Every generation is worse than the last.

funny how you guys always leave out two generations here.......silent generation and Generation X

Boomers don't even know what the proper generations are.

They think everyone is a Millennial. Gen X'er, Gen Y'er, Millennials, Gen Z'er, etc.... they have no clue.

As for the Silent Generation, another batch of scummy people who laid the foundation for the offshoring American Prosperity for an increased quarterly profit.

Shitbags like Noam Chomsky, Anthony Fauci, Pope Francis, and Joe Biden are Silent Generation.

But here's a fun fact. After all the Greatest Generation Presidents, the four Presidents following the end of the Cold War have been Boomers; Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump. Only one President, Joe Biden, has been a member of the Silent Generation. And that is only a three year separation between Biden and Trump in age.

That was 28 years with a boomer running the executive branch. And yet they will screech they didn't have any influence on policy or culture than other generations.

https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/FT_21.02.05_CongressGenerations_3b.png

For the 118th Congress; Gen X'ers represents only 35.3% of Congress. Boomers represent 48.8% of Congress. Nearly half of the lawmakers in the 118th Congress are Boomers.

I've posted that before myself. Look at the senate in isolation.....

Posted: 8/14/2023 9:31:52 AM EDT

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I never hear it in real life, only here in GD anonymos fantasy land.

There are a few phrases that those too ignorant to have a conversation or debate use....the big one used to be "virtual signaling". Every time someone had an opinion that some trailer park 1/2 brain on here couldn't grasp, you were a Virtual Signaler.

Fudd is another. Most of you skate board to the liquor store riding trash have no idea what the word means.

Now, the easiest trigger/shutdown phrase is "Ok Boomer".

I have never been called a Boomer anywhere but here. I like this place because it makes one think....some of you should try it.

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I’m not sure if this is parody or real.

Posted: 8/14/2023 9:35:25 AM EDT

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"Hate speech"

lol

Posted: 8/14/2023 9:36:44 AM EDT

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Ahh, another thread that reeks of Axe Body Spray, simps, college debt, unaffordable housing and fat ass women.

Posted: 8/14/2023 9:39:42 AM EDT

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I'm a boomer. Have had a great life and still very much enjoying life. Hate away if it makes you feel better. I don't give a shit.

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Yep

Posted: 8/14/2023 9:40:58 AM EDT

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Ahh, another thread that reeks of Axe Body Spray, simps, college debt, unaffordable housing and fat ass women.

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Pffffttt...

More like Dolce Gabbana, Happily Married, No College Debt because I didn't listen to Boomers telling me I need a College Degree, I outright own my house, and my wife trains for body building competitions.

Posted: 8/14/2023 9:44:44 AM EDT

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Poll fail... no "Who fucking cares?" Option...

Posted: 8/14/2023 11:13:02 AM EDT

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Boomer here, it doesn't bother me.

NOW GET OFF MY LAWN!!!!!!

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Pics of lawn

Posted: 8/14/2023 11:34:53 AM EDT

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That's a tidy trap though - if you read this and think it's not you, then it's definitely you. Lol nah.

The whole thing is bait for people in existential crisis, or malaise or whatever the word is. Either that or it's another brainwashing piece extolling the virtue of poverty, as if living destitute or hand-to-mouth is somehow desirable and confers virtue through suffering.

Here, this sums up the shittiness of the piece in a single paragraph. Question: In what era did common man find peace and joy in nature and blissful simplicity? When did mankind ever have the power to end the mysterious forces chipping away at his soul, day by day? Answer: none and never, except maybe right now, a little bit.

Pre-industrial revolution and pre-vaccines mankind was in a brutal fight just to survive. Infant mortality impossibly high by modern standards, quality of life much lower. There is not and never was nobility in being poor.

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How long have we heard how millennials and younger people are ruining everything?

And all of life's ills are all due to them.

And how the older generation was tough, had thick skin, and didn't need safe spaces or echo chambers?

Basically it was open season on the younger generation.

If they complained, it was "suck it up buttercup" from the older crowd. Or "toughen the f-up"

Always fascinating when the tables are flipped.

Personally, I prefer to address them by the more fitting pejorative of Bugman/Bugmen/Bugpeople

On the Infestation of Small-Souled Bugmen

Not to be confused with the gigantic insect the alienated man of Kafka's Metamorphosis, the small-souled bugman is very much a 'well-adjusted', fully integrated neuron in today's neoliberalist techno-corporate hive mind.

A consequence of a perilously overpopulated, brutally capitalistic, shamelessly hedonistic, morally decaying society, the humble bugman has come to define an age of technological dystopia in which everyone has everything their gadgets, their fast foods, their fashion accessories but somehow everyone also has nothing no community, no natural spirit, no substance of mind. He is a zombified consumer, an emasculated wage slave, a vessel emptied of meaning and refilled with plastic, pixels and silicone.

He is what a sterile corporate wasteland spews out. Millions of him, almost exact replicas who are relentlessly told they are unique by clever marketers, and who believe it. He is a personality defined by brands, a blue-checkmarked Twitter user. Bugmen are what we get when a culture is infantilized, watered down and stripped of the very intellectual, philosophical and honourable fibre that once made it great. Totally dependent on the compromised support of his nanny state and high-tech devices, the bugman has been reduced to the status of a domestic animal. A 200-pound child.

And like a child, the bugman's shallowness keeps him malleable to the fleeting whims and fads of a degenerate, smartphone-addicted, dopamine-hooked society. He bases his identity on passing trends that to him appear profound, priding himself on being a 'step ahead' of his peers an 'early adopter' not realizing it's the marketer who's always a step ahead of him. He is the millennial test subject, the lab rat brand loyalty experts are paid $20,000 an hour to pigeonhole. First in line for the latest Apple iPhone, he actively supports the unchecked rise of AI and notions of planetary relocation.

Things didn't always look so bleak for the bugman. He grew up in fortunate circumstances. Middle-class parents who raised him well, sent him to a good college. Oversocialization afforded him effortless acceptance into a mentally sick civilization, but sorely missing, unbeknownst to him, was the lack of any meaningful struggle; the grueling initiations that turn boys into men. His mental development had been stunted in the real sense at the expense of engineering a successful and painless assimilation into a clown world fueled by idiocy, deception and frivolity.

The bugman now occupies one of two living situations. One, the city bugman lives atop, beneath and besides his fellow bugs in what is an actual human-scale bug colony, hence the name. Two, the suburban bugman living just as unnaturally and miserably, lined up in careful symmetry among neighbours he will never know and trees that will never grow, house by house, street by street, as far as the eye can see.

The deliberate draining of purpose and passion from the bugman's soul made it easy to assign him without complaint to a vapid, good-boy 'job' and a 'career' that does little but prop up the demented corporatist structure. He is a willing cog in the grinding bullshit machine a marketer, an analyst, a 'project manager' or has perhaps handed his life over to preserving the insanity of the state by becoming a lawyer or a bureaucrat. Worse yet, he gobbled up the STEM dream sold by grubby toy merchants, dooming himself to an existence of zeroes and ones. Zero purpose. One sad bugman.

So cowed by his masters, the bugman is fiercely loyal to faceless corporations in what appears to be a society-wide occurrence of Stockholm syndrome. Terrified of being exposed as the fraud that he is, he hands over his mind to be reshaped like putty until it fits the robotic cubicle farm mould. Before long he is sending out 150 emails a day in which he promises to "touch base" and "leverage the data". He'll climb the imaginary ladder, all the while nagged by a vague sense of emptiness and a dormant rage that might see him off to an early grave.

Failing to find fulfilment in his work, the bugman has become fully immersed in Content, Digital Socializing and Entertainment. Facing the monumental task of salvaging his soul, he has instead resorted to seeking escape at every turn. He upgrades his 60" 4K TV to a 75" 4K TV. He buys more video games and a virtual reality set, finds a pot dealer and gets a prescription for anti-depressants.

An avid Netflix binger, cinema goer and Spotify subscriber, he echoes pretentious magazine reviews by referring to mediocre works of popular culture as "urgent" and "life-affirming". Blinded by his inability to consume anything beneath the surface of spoon-fed, easily-digested, created-by-committee mainstream productions, he will never come to know the transcendence of actual genius towering authors, musical virtuosos or glorious artists stuff that might make his soul bigger.

The bugman's diet is in equal parts nutritionally inadequate and inexplicably expensive. He has made eating an unnecessarily complicated act by falling for the mutually-marketed falsehoods that food can be improved with technology see 'health food' snacks sold in recycled cardboard and that preparing food properly is a waste of time and effort. Thus, everything he buys comes in packaging, produced in a lab, deviously salt or sugar-laden. Physical exercise is not part of his life, so the result is an atrophied muscular structure, formations of fatty tissue insulating his vital organs, and pale, flaky skin.

The bugman is intensely focused on making his life more 'efficient'. If he outsources every chore and foregoes starting a family, he will have more time to consume and more time to whittle away on his pointless job and fashionable hobbies. He has his groceries delivered and asks Alexa to update him on the day's news. Gamification via $3.99 apps has taken over virtually every aspect of his life. This, to the bugman, is progress.

When it comes to sports, bugmen can be neatly divided into two distinct groupings. Sports is either not part of his life the nerdbug or it is one of his defining characteristics the jockbug. The latter, once a promising athlete, now watches on beer and betting slip-in-hand as blaring, sanitized SPORTS! is beamed into his retinas, relieving his brain of any signs of life that might have otherwise surfaced. Jockbugs have been known to spend as many as 30 hours a week consuming SPORTS!, and even more reading/talking about it.

Social media is the bugman's public square. This is where he 'debates', makes jokes and flaunts his status and moral virtue to the hive. This is where he seeks respite from the alienation of modern life, but never quite seems to find it. He flicks through his Twitter feed aimlessly, chuckles along to Jimmy Kimmel clips on YouTube, and smugly describes himself as "socially liberal and fiscally conservative" in New York Times comments sections.

The bugman's severe paucity of skepticism has led him down a mainstream media-saturated path of tech adulation, social justice fallacies and "progress"-at-all-costs morality. The dearth of historical, rational and spiritual context in his mind leaves only the possibility of suffering in the panicked bustle of the present day, antenna twitching in response to the prevailing Bad News.

The bugman cares little that the world has been irrevocably corrupted and damaged by Machiavellian technologists and shady bureaucrats. If he is not in fact one of them, he whole-buggedly buys into their UN-endorsed missions to bring about 'world peace', to 'end poverty', and other such feel-good nonsense. He is oblivious to the toxic impact of the corporations and globalist think tanks that exist purely to feed his consumerist impulses and create the economic artifice that sustains such behavior. He's the archetypal useful idiot, keeping everything he thinks he stands against in perfect working order.

He conceals his intellectual cowardice amid ideological rhetoric and Orwellian newspeak. Cogent debate and the search for truth are challenges to his dominance of public discourse, so the bugman must become masterful at distorting arguments in a desperate attempt to portray himself as the well-reasoned and righteous party.

Beware of his powerful toolkit, including but not limited to virtue signalling, cries of "hate speech", straw man arguments, and ad hominem attacks. This all sprouts from his fear of countering the 'correct' views of the day. If he simply parrots mainstream commentary, he can be sure of being on the right side of history.

Despite all the inhumanity and misery of a bugman's life laid before you, be assured it is no mean feat to come across one in person who reveals his trauma. He will present himself invariably as polite, gentle, happy and 'nice'. He is remarkably non-confrontational, avoiding controversy at virtually any cost. PC culture has him shaken, terrified of being ostracized for wrongthink. This is the bugman's tough outer shell, and it will never be penetrated. Underneath this shell lies his small soul, searching fruitlessly for subsistence.

While he may carry himself with an air of intellectual and moral superiority, the bugman has stopped asking the big questions. He can distantly recall the sense of awe he felt as a child, those times looking up at the stars and the moon; those times reflecting on his ancestry, where he came from, the history and traditions of mankind and the wild beauty of Earth. Now his mind is so distracted by pixelated inanity, trash culture and his ridiculous job that he cannot, for the love of god, simply sit and think.

He can no longer be at peace or derive joy from nature and blissful simplicity. He feels frustration over his powerlessness to bring an end to the mysterious forces chipping away at his soul day by day, but does nothing about it. And so he remains, indefinitely and emphatically, a small-souled bugman.

https://i.imgur.com/Pc3eC10.jpg

https://hackernoon.com/on-the-infestation-of-small-souled-bugmen-6561ae922e07

Good read, and worth it I don't agree with 100% of the assessments but it's definitely something to think about and if possible iron out of your life. Because what they're describing is *gestures broadly* quite literally the structure of modern society, and if you don't conform, you're considered a weirdo.

I think if you showed that to the small-souled bugmen of the world they would think it doesn't apply to them so strong is the delusion.

That's a tidy trap though - if you read this and think it's not you, then it's definitely you. Lol nah.

The whole thing is bait for people in existential crisis, or malaise or whatever the word is. Either that or it's another brainwashing piece extolling the virtue of poverty, as if living destitute or hand-to-mouth is somehow desirable and confers virtue through suffering.

He can no longer be at peace or derive joy from nature and blissful simplicity. He feels frustration over his powerlessness to bring an end to the mysterious forces chipping away at his soul day by day, but does nothing about it. And so he remains, indefinitely and emphatically, a small-souled bugman.

Here, this sums up the shittiness of the piece in a single paragraph. Question: In what era did common man find peace and joy in nature and blissful simplicity? When did mankind ever have the power to end the mysterious forces chipping away at his soul, day by day? Answer: none and never, except maybe right now, a little bit.

Pre-industrial revolution and pre-vaccines mankind was in a brutal fight just to survive. Infant mortality impossibly high by modern standards, quality of life much lower. There is not and never was nobility in being poor.

I viewed it differently. It’s a bit of an observation that you can live better, outside of this rat race. You can be rich and still have a simpler life without the outside stress and pressures of this societal brinksmanship. The post and graphic we’re discussing are the trappings of current conformist life. The graphic in particular is a mostly valid smattering of what it takes today to keep up with the Joneses, not necessarily a “gotcha” moment, but if it feels like one, it could be for a reason. I mean, I’m sure we’re all in that image and post in one way or the other.

This existential review is definitely what fueled Fight Club, and the “reject modernity, embrace tradition” memes.

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Boomers don't even know what the proper generations are.

They think everyone is a Millennial. Gen X'er, Gen Y'er, Millennials, Gen Z'er, etc.... they have no clue.

As for the Silent Generation, another batch of scummy people who laid the foundation for the offshoring American Prosperity for an increased quarterly profit.

Shitbags like Noam Chomsky, Anthony Fauci, Pope Francis, and Joe Biden are Silent Generation.

But here's a fun fact. After all the Greatest Generation Presidents, the four Presidents following the end of the Cold War have been Boomers; Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump. Only one President, Joe Biden, has been a member of the Silent Generation. And that is only a three year separation between Biden and Trump in age.

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HATE speech? Gimme a fuckin' break.

Ball busting is more like it.

Greatest Generation set up Boomers with a sweet deal, which they prolonged by fucking over the Millennials, who are fucking everything up now, and our kids are even worse 'cause they never had a chance. And so it goes, the way it always has. Every generation is worse than the last.

funny how you guys always leave out two generations here.......silent generation and Generation X

Boomers don't even know what the proper generations are.

They think everyone is a Millennial. Gen X'er, Gen Y'er, Millennials, Gen Z'er, etc.... they have no clue.

As for the Silent Generation, another batch of scummy people who laid the foundation for the offshoring American Prosperity for an increased quarterly profit.

Shitbags like Noam Chomsky, Anthony Fauci, Pope Francis, and Joe Biden are Silent Generation.

But here's a fun fact. After all the Greatest Generation Presidents, the four Presidents following the end of the Cold War have been Boomers; Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump. Only one President, Joe Biden, has been a member of the Silent Generation. And that is only a three year separation between Biden and Trump in age.

so everybody but you is scum?...btw zoomers are Gen x's kids.

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Boomers are a very polarized generation - in general, they’re either great or they’re terrible. The great ones are the types that will tell you stories about the time they killed six Viet Cong with the shards of a Jimi Hendrix record in a bunker south of Da Nang. The terrible ones are the types that will tell you that they’re spending your inheritance to buy an RV and go on a once in a lifetime road trip to Patagonia.

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This is a beautiful explanation of the generation divide.

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so everybody but you is scum?...btw zoomers are Gen x's kids.

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HATE speech? Gimme a fuckin' break.

Ball busting is more like it.

Greatest Generation set up Boomers with a sweet deal, which they prolonged by fucking over the Millennials, who are fucking everything up now, and our kids are even worse 'cause they never had a chance. And so it goes, the way it always has. Every generation is worse than the last.

funny how you guys always leave out two generations here.......silent generation and Generation X

Boomers don't even know what the proper generations are.

They think everyone is a Millennial. Gen X'er, Gen Y'er, Millennials, Gen Z'er, etc.... they have no clue.

As for the Silent Generation, another batch of scummy people who laid the foundation for the offshoring American Prosperity for an increased quarterly profit.

Shitbags like Noam Chomsky, Anthony Fauci, Pope Francis, and Joe Biden are Silent Generation.

But here's a fun fact. After all the Greatest Generation Presidents, the four Presidents following the end of the Cold War have been Boomers; Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump. Only one President, Joe Biden, has been a member of the Silent Generation. And that is only a three year separation between Biden and Trump in age.

so everybody but you is scum?...btw zoomers are Gen x's kids.

In every generation’s defense, every generation says it, and every generation is right.

Posted: 8/14/2023 12:17:38 PM EDT

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How long have we heard how millennials and younger people are ruining everything?

And all of life's ills are all due to them.

And how the older generation was tough, had thick skin, and didn't need safe spaces or echo chambers?

Basically it was open season on the younger generation.

If they complained, it was "suck it up buttercup" from the older crowd. Or "toughen the f-up"

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This. Boomers love to fling shit and talk tough but get their panties in a twist when it's thrown back at then.

Harden the fuck up, no safe spaces remember?

Posted: 8/14/2023 12:57:44 PM EDT

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HATE speech? Gimme a fuckin' break.

Ball busting is more like it.

Greatest Generation set up Boomers with a sweet deal, which they prolonged by fucking over the Millennials, who are fucking everything up now, and our kids are even worse 'cause they never had a chance. And so it goes, the way it always has. Every generation is worse than the last.

funny how you guys always leave out two generations here.......silent generation and Generation X

Boomers don't even know what the proper generations are.

They think everyone is a Millennial. Gen X'er, Gen Y'er, Millennials, Gen Z'er, etc.... they have no clue.

As for the Silent Generation, another batch of scummy people who laid the foundation for the offshoring American Prosperity for an increased quarterly profit.

Shitbags like Noam Chomsky, Anthony Fauci, Pope Francis, and Joe Biden are Silent Generation.

But here's a fun fact. After all the Greatest Generation Presidents, the four Presidents following the end of the Cold War have been Boomers; Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump. Only one President, Joe Biden, has been a member of the Silent Generation. And that is only a three year separation between Biden and Trump in age.

so everybody but you is scum?...btw zoomers are Gen x's kids.

In every generation’s defense, every generation says it, and every generation is right.

meh..he's just a small man with a Napoleon complex.

Posted: 8/14/2023 1:04:59 PM EDT

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Arfcom loves to eat its own....

Posted: 8/14/2023 1:25:33 PM EDT

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Don’t know, don’t care

Posted: 8/14/2023 1:31:18 PM EDT

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HATE speech? Gimme a fuckin' break.

Ball busting is more like it.

Greatest Generation set up Boomers with a sweet deal, which they prolonged by fucking over the Millennials, who are fucking everything up now, and our kids are even worse 'cause they never had a chance. And so it goes, the way it always has. Every generation is worse than the last.

funny how you guys always leave out two generations here.......silent generation and Generation X

Boomers don't even know what the proper generations are.

They think everyone is a Millennial. Gen X'er, Gen Y'er, Millennials, Gen Z'er, etc.... they have no clue.

As for the Silent Generation, another batch of scummy people who laid the foundation for the offshoring American Prosperity for an increased quarterly profit.

Shitbags like Noam Chomsky, Anthony Fauci, Pope Francis, and Joe Biden are Silent Generation.

But here's a fun fact. After all the Greatest Generation Presidents, the four Presidents following the end of the Cold War have been Boomers; Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump. Only one President, Joe Biden, has been a member of the Silent Generation. And that is only a three year separation between Biden and Trump in age.

so everybody but you is scum?...btw zoomers are Gen x's kids.

In every generation's defense, every generation says it, and every generation is right.

meh..he's just a small man with a Napoleon complex.

Who proudly served his community, is happily married, has no college loan debt, outright owns his home, and helped bring permitless carry to fruition in FL. What have you done other than bitch about younger generations?

It appears I live rent free in your head since you follow me around Arfcom like a sad puppy.

Posted: 8/14/2023 1:39:48 PM EDT

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I'd be curious to know how many older guys have quit this site because of the attacks.

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You mean the actuarial tables kicking in?

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That's the excuse given.

The excuse given is bullshit.

Young people do dumb shit, and other people make fun of them. Welcome to life. In retaliation to shit talking, you developed a crackpot meme-based religion based on ridiculous sweeping generalizations. The exact same sweeping generalizations that many millenials and zoomers get the vapors over if they were applied to their pet black, scrabble, or muslim groups. I can be happy for the rest of my life. Boomertards will be miserable, continually playing the victim and looking for a boogeyman to blame for their problems.

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It's literally the origin of "OK Boomer"... some old person was bitching about something to a retail millenial worker, complaining about millenials, and they responded "OK Boomer" and it took off from there...

Or something along those lines, it's been quite a few years since that first post, so memory could be off.

Posted: 8/14/2023 2:15:24 PM EDT

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But when the boogaloo kicks off, we are all going to pull together right?

All of us conservative, gun loving, Americans, right?

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LOL, you has so called conservatives supporting gun grabbing NYers.

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It's literally the origin of "OK Boomer"... some old person was bitching about something to a retail millenial worker, complaining about millenials, and they responded "OK Boomer" and it took off from there...

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Yes, I understand the stated root cause. The problem is generation-aspie has taken it to the sperg degree times plaid.

Additionally, for every person that's just funnin around, there's one more (actually about 10 more) that is truly riding high on the tism spectrum that actually believes that someone born in 1964 somehow voted for FDR, and there's another that's a leftist gleefully watching what should be a conservative board fracture.

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The only thing that truly matters is clicking on those vendor links and dropping $5K on the toy of the month.

Posted: 8/14/2023 2:36:02 PM EDT

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Yes, I understand the stated root cause. The problem is generation-aspie has taken it to the sperg degree times plaid.

Additionally, for every person that's just funnin around, there's one more (actually about 10 more) that is truly riding high on the tism spectrum that actually believes that someone born in 1964 somehow voted for FDR, and there's another that's a leftist gleefully watching what should be a conservative board fracture.

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It's literally the origin of "OK Boomer"... some old person was bitching about something to a retail millenial worker, complaining about millenials, and they responded "OK Boomer" and it took off from there...

Or something along those lines, it's been quite a few years since that first post, so memory could be off.

Yes, I understand the stated root cause. The problem is generation-aspie has taken it to the sperg degree times plaid.

Additionally, for every person that's just funnin around, there's one more (actually about 10 more) that is truly riding high on the tism spectrum that actually believes that someone born in 1964 somehow voted for FDR, and there's another that's a leftist gleefully watching what should be a conservative board fracture.

Someone born in '64 didn't bote for FDR. But they sure did vote for Clinton, Obama, and Biden.

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Dig it man!!

Posted: 8/14/2023 2:56:41 PM EDT

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All of them?

So did someone born in 65,66,67,68,69,70, etc. And the later we go, the more they voted for- and still vote for- democrats

And for the audience, this is a perfect example of crossing the line into full blown sperg-plaid

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Most Boomers think "they" were stupid when they were younger. In 20 years "You" will think you are stupid today. Young people "are" stupid. The sooner you realize this the less stupid you will become...

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The fact that they are here voting, but not saying much speaks volumes.

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The fact that they are here voting, but not saying much speaks volumes.

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What's wrong with goth?

Posted: 8/14/2023 4:28:16 PM EDT

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All of them?

So did someone born in 65,66,67,68,69,70, etc. And the later we go, the more they voted for- and still vote for- democrats

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All of them?

So did someone born in 65,66,67,68,69,70, etc. And the later we go, the more they voted for- and still vote for- democrats

And for the audience, this is a perfect example of crossing the line into full blown sperg-plaid

@Joe_Pennsy

Is old age making reading comprehension hard? Someone means a person, not an entire group.

some·one
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pronoun
1. an unknown or unspecified person; some person.
2. used to refer to a single person when you do not know who they are or when it is not important who they are.

So, to use your line of thinking:

"And for the audience, this is a perfect example of crossing the line into full blown sperg-plaid"

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What's wrong with goth?

He forgets to mention the free love hippies with their drug abuse, communism, and rampant homosexuality/bisexuality. But thinks Goths are bad.

Posted: 8/14/2023 4:31:22 PM EDT

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Predominantly boomers vote for Republicans. Once the last boomer goes to be with Jesus, we are pretty fucked politically.

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You really have issues with this driving thing.

Boomer here.

I'd love to meet you at a road course with 2 identical cars and race for a couple dozen or so laps. Pretty sure you'd end up into the wall and I'd win by a country mile. I'd buy the beer afterward, of course

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I never hear it in real life, only here in GD anonymos fantasy land.

There are a few phrases that those too ignorant to have a conversation or debate use....the big one used to be "virtual signaling". Every time someone had an opinion that some trailer park 1/2 brain on here couldn't grasp, you were a Virtual Signaler.

Fudd is another. Most of you skate board to the liquor store riding trash have no idea what the word means.

Now, the easiest trigger/shutdown phrase is "Ok Boomer".

I have never been called a Boomer anywhere but here. I like this place because it makes one think....some of you should try it.

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I am quoting myself to add.....calling it hate speech is a little over the top. It makes the speaker sound like a fucking mindless retard, but it isn't hate speech.

Posted: 8/14/2023 4:35:21 PM EDT

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It’s sad, i was born in late ‘63; I get all of the blame but didn’t get to have any of the fun.

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I'm a boomer. Have had a great life and still very much enjoying life. Hate away if it makes you feel better. I don't give a shit.

Yep

Amen!

Posted: 8/14/2023 4:44:17 PM EDT

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More importantly, goth started in the early 80s anyway, so it did start actually start with late boomers and early gen x. Plus when you talk about emo and grunge and what not, it's pertinent to remember that it wasn't teenage talent scouts scouting teenagers. Record industry boomers were the ones that green lit them. Rap too, for that matter. Millennials didn't bring N.W.A. to a national stage, Jerry Heller did, although he was born in 1940, so Boomers can get away with not claiming him.

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Predominantly boomers vote for Republicans. Once the last boomer goes to be with Jesus, we are pretty fucked politically.

At least they will be off the roads though, that will be nice.

You really have issues with this driving thing.

Boomer here.

I'd love to meet you at a road course with 2 identical cars and race for a couple dozen or so laps. Pretty sure you'd end up into the wall and I'd win by a country mile. I'd buy the beer afterward, of course

Uh oh. Shortcut thru the Farmer’s Market.

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Boomers are 60-77. They are going to start dying off in mass soon.

Mommy and Daddy got divorced, left me at home by myself, never saved for my inheritance, spend what money they should have left me and want me to take care of them as they get old. Oh and had an easier time doing it.

Jesus H Christ, quit whining, get a job and get on with it. Oh and when you come by the nursing home this weekend can you bring some of that as avocado toast shit you’re always talking about.

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A job? Just one? How about two? Do you realize how many more Americans are working 2 jobs now, to pay the bills? Compared to the economy that the boomer generation enjoyed so much during their hay day? Do you care that people are having to work many more hours, to stay afloat, as compared to not that long ago? Are you concerned about the cost of living going up, while wages remain stagnant? Don't you think there's a reason why many just don't work at all, and make more being on welfare? Are you concerned at all what the implications of this will be?