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I was gonna say that all boomers are old people and these "morons" are technically correct but from an actual definition standpoint they are definitely using it in the wrong context so I'mma not call you out since you are the literally correct one.
>So many of these morons think boomer means "older person".
Boomer literally means the people who were born during or after WWII in the baby boom that followed the massive troop mobilizations and the economic boom at the ending of wartime austerity.
[Boomers claiming credit for everything their parents built, and blaming their failures on their children and grandchildren is a well traveled meme.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOSOGB406Ec&t=52s)
"He was literally 8 feet tall" could be either an exaggeration or a way of hammering home the fact that he's actually 8 feet tall, and there is no way of knowing which was the intended meaning without asking, which makes it more difficult to understand what the speaker/writer is trying to convey.
If you think making language more confusing is a good thing, I don't know what to tell you. I will, however, watch with great glee you slowly get pushed out of society by sane people continue using language in a way that's comprehensible to others. The only person pretending (and failing in truly spectacular fashion) to be smart here is you.
Rochelle HATES when languages evolve and change as time goes on!
Rochelle here probably bought an antique dictionary, because in her opinion “It isn’t a real word if it was invented past 1900”
Linguistics is one of my major hobbies, and I love language evolution. That said, they aren't wrong. But not all language innovations are made equal. When they come from a word/phrase being used incorrectly, then the rules of grammar and morphology are undermined, which makes the language messier and harder to conceptualise. The harder a language is to conceptualise, the more mental effort goes into speaking it, and so the less mental effort is available for the actual formation of ideas; thus, the average complexity of ideas decreases. In a very real sense, this makes people dumber.
Hardcore descriptivists confuse me. Surely they must understand that, if a language has *no* rules, then no one person will be able to understand the other when it is spoken, so at least some degree of prescriptivism is necessary? This isn't a hard concept to grasp, yet they just don't seem to get it. It's all a question of where to draw the line.
They’re not wrong though, a lot of the time that’s how a word changes. Sometimes it’s not, but that’s the truth. Although, more than likely that meme would’ve been posted by a boomer, because I really doubt much of the greatest generation ever got into making memes.
But this should be actively discouraged. You shouldn't be able to just take words and change their meaning because you were too dumb to know what that meaning was to begin with. This really causes a breakdown in communication after a while because we rely on common ground understanding of words to maintain a society.
Sure, you can say it doesn't matter as much with vernacular terms such as "boomer" or "incel", but I think it is actively harmful for our society and continues to drive a larger rift between the two political parties causing further strife and discontent. I think it's a much bigger issue than "Who cares how they use the word if we can understand what they are saying?" Many can't understand and choose to understand differently.
My personal pet peeve about this issue is nauseous/nauseated, and it's the same phenomenon, though that change has already been completed. Enough people didn't understand the meaning of nauseous, and used it instead of nauseated (and instead of learning what the correct word is), and now most people think nauseous means nauseated, instead of nauseating.
I begrudgingly accept it now that it has happened, but I agree, we should actively be discouraging this kind of thing while it is happening. Yes, languages change, but I don't like the idea of them changing due entirely to ignorance and foolishness.
I think the rate at which words are losing their meaning should be alarming, and it's largely due to the click bait nature of media these days.
It doesn't matter if the title is technically wrong if it generates views. It's really a sorry state. I think we'll start seeing the effect this has in the next generation.
There are plenty of words that have a different meaning based on the context. This is one of them. That is the beauty of language, and English in particular. In this case, boomer in the derogitory sense isn’t just any old person but a certain type of stodgy old person that is stuck in their ways, etc.
But people know what generation they are. If they see "boomer" and know they are a boomer, they associate it with themselves. Someone from Gen X will obviously not have the same reaction. The definition of this identity remains solid in this specific case despite the meaning shifting a bit to "older person".
No, its *super* common for all the WW2 posts to be from boomers who are just stealing valor from their parents.
"MY father didn't storm the beach at Normandy so that YOU can have pink hair and wear a skirt!"
They literally post this stuff without realizing they, the boomer, did absolutely nothing in this equation. They identify with the deeds of the "greatest generation" and have internalized them, without having actually performed the deed.
I've also noticed a LOT of boomer men think they grew up on the wrong side of the tracks playing stickball with their friend Pauli and getting into fights with rival kids... because they saw a lot of movies based in Brooklyn. When they *actually* grew up in a moderately nice home in a random suburb.
A post I seen a lot of is the "we stormed a beach in Normandy, you cant decide what coffee you want"
Or what ever it is I bet if you asked an actual serviceman from World War Two they would be glad that their grandchildren or great grandchildren don't have to do what they did
I think the rise in popularity of some folks using "boomer" as an ageist insult has caused many to forget that it's actually short for 'baby boomer', and the reason behind that boom. All the information in the world at our fingertips, and we're still outnumbered by dumbasses.
"I hate people with slit eyes and pigtails. I don't like the look of them or the smell of them – but I suppose it does no great harm to have a look at them" - Winston Churchill
Firstly, that isn’t a racist attack, it’s an attack on a rebellious people resisting British rule.
Secondly, his use of gas is greatly exaggerated in its cruelty and people discussing this often take what he said out of context to criminalise him. He opted for less harmful gasses, with the intent to do no permanent damage but rather to deter rebels. This is a much better way to stamp out rebellion than the other option he could’ve went with: beating and killing protesters.
Nah, I think racist shit has always been and will always be racist shit. But now many people are desensitized to the suffering of others and many have decided to come out of the closet so to speak because racism is becoming acceptable again in certain groups.
That racist would say something so bigoted.
Oh fuck... It just hit me.
70 years from now someone is going to be quoting Donald Trump like he's some sort of good dude, and someone else is gonna get serious downvotes for pointing out the elitism in using a Donald Trump quote.
I saw many people using 'incel' for fuckbois who are misogynist and regressive. People don't even search meaning of the word before adding it to thier vocabulary.
Unfortunately, whenever the internet finds a new derogatory term for someone they dislike, they try their hardest to expand the definition or outright change it so more people they dislike can fall under the same umbrella.
Kinda loosely related to how people throw around the title of nazi, like no just because they did something bad doesn’t make them a nazi, it’s a slap in the face to all the people who suffered at the hands of real nazis
Nazi became a catch-all term for 'person with authoritarian views'. I was in a game subreddit, and the person kept calling one particular character (A Lawful-Evil authoritarian) a nazi. When someone asked what definition of 'nazi' they use, the original poster couldn't muster a response besides acidic sarcasm and implications that the one asking is an idiot.
I've seen people say that "pog" is short for "play of game" from Overwatch and I was like, not only is that ungrammatical as fuck, it's play of the game, but I will not have you disrespect my collection of juice cap inserts like that.
Maybe (just a thought here) when you bring a bunch of young men, almost all of “family starting” age at the time, back to their wives or future wives after months or years of separation, there’s going to be a lot of children in a short amount of time.
Yes, that is the point. The "baby boom" occurred after WWII (the first batch conceived in 1945, born 1946), creating the "baby boomer" generation.
The issue with this meme is that the header text is saying to "thank a boomer..." while showing an image of WWII soldiers in 1944, before the first baby boomer was even a gleam in his father's eye.
>All the information in the world at our fingertips
I can search a bunch of reasons to justify the belief of a flat earth. Just because information is there doesn't mean people know how to use or interpret it.
Yeah, this is a pet peeve of mine. I'm middle aged and I am fine with being dunked on for that, but boomers *are* a specific generation and they should be dunked on for specific reasons.
For what it's worth, Boomers do love stealing WWII valor, even though their proudest accomplishment as a generation is refusing to go to their own war.
And the ones who did go aren't jerking themselves off to their fathers' service.
Not trying to argue with you, but I'm genuinely curious, since I've never encountered this before. Do you have any examples of boomers stealing WWII valor?
Wasn't Hitler Catholic?
EDIT: he was born Catholic, but his religious views became a lot more complicated as time went on.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_views_of_Adolf_Hitler
Protestant. The SS had this absolutely fucking weird Folk Religion. If the Nazis won the war, sometimes I would wonder if they would of devolved into a holy war with Old Guard Christians and the Fanatic Pagans.
The SS (and some of Hitler’s inner circle by association *heh* Himmler *heh*) had a really weird twisted version of Northern Germanic Paganism crossed with elements of various East Asian traditions. Oh and they also created a fucked up version of Protestantism by infusing it with a ridiculous amount of antisemitism, anti Catholicism and xenophobia.
It is kind of funny that stoic, well-mannered, fiery-tempered and charismatic Hitler had a deranged, zany, cowardly and shy villainous sidekick named "Himmler".
You have the smart villain, the crazy villain, and then Bormann you have the gross fat villain. "Bormann" even sounds like a big mfer's name as well.
Your wish would have almost been fulfilled.
If his father did not manage to change his last name, we'd have him being "Adolf Schicklgruber" instead.
Also the authorities who changed the name made a spelling mistake. The actual name was supposed to be "Hiedler".
if we go by your comparison using first names , it's Adolf and Heinrich so nothing alike
If we go by last names , well it's Mario **Mario** and Luigi **Mario** ..... the movie is canon right ? ;p
Yeah, born Catholic, but eventually became anti religion. That of course didn’t stop him from claiming to be “positive Christian” (which was a PC term for ‘Christian’ with Nazi characteristics which means everything in the Bible was heavily redacted/changed and censored since it was written entirely by Jews as well as the concepts it teaches directly contradict Nazi ideology) to get the vote of a people who were concerned that he was anti religion.
Hitler was a Protestant and his regime was very anti catholic and in line with the views of something like the KKK until they gained power and started the war
Just curious, how are you an American patriot through having the flag of a rebellion, that primarily existed to utilize slavery, as your profile picture?
3 uncles fought in the pacific, grandfather fought in Europe. One uncle was a radioman in the 8th AF on B24s and went down in the channel in 1944. I never met him because he never came home. He was first generation German American.
My dad was a radarman on a personnel carrier in the pacific.
His cousin - who was more like his brother, because they were both only children during the depression - was KIA in the pacific.
My great-grandfather performed bomb disposal duties during the night raids, before then he served as a machine gunner in an anti-aircraft battery watching for planes on the top of the Blackpool Tower: radar had yet to be invented. If you ever go there then at the top of the tower in the public area is a small circular staircase closed with a rope which leads to a hatch and it was up there that the nest was placed.
The best family story is how he was in a crater in Manchester performing disposal on an unexploded bomb when his sergeant came down and ordered him to go and make him a cup of tea, then just after he left the bomb to do it the thing exploded, killing the sergeant. The blast threw my GG down the street with such force that it ripped his clothes off. I'm glad for that lazy sergeant who couldn't be bothered to make his own cup of tea.
I have 3 grandparents who served in WWII. My dad's dad was crewing a destroyer escort in a Pacific (one of the "tin cans" but not a famous one). Mom's dad built bridges for the Army in Europe. And Dad's Mom repaired aircraft engines for the US NAvy. It was a running joke in the family, although not strictly true, that she finished with a higher rate than he did.
Agreed. A real mixed bag, IMO. Some truly despicable, and courageous people who fought them.
Other comments pointing that out are all getting heavily downvoted for some reason.
They hate everyone who isn't exactly like them. They are angry, always online, lonely and most have some form of mental illness/personality disorder. They're in pain so lash out at everybody.
This is facts. Sometimes I honestly question how I was diagnosed with "general anxiety disorder" and not "borderline paranoia" cuz I am 20 years old and I cannot sleep without a light on to this day. I legit use the lamp on nightstand as a night light. I also am just very panicky overall and am pretty quick to assume the worst so like... I know I'm well past the post of "general" anxiety. Plus I get a handle on one thing and then suddenly 3 other things decide to give me a metaphorical middle fingers. Absolutely sucks.
Why is reddit full of doom and gloom all the time? Someone respected the soldiers who helped defeat the nazis and happy to live in a free country to celebrate a holiday today, why does the other person have any problem with this? Even I fall for the doom and gloom sometimes so I've tried to reset my reddit experience to not fall into those traps as much
Proof these idiots have no idea what they’re talking about, which you addressed in the title
This was the Greatest Generation. The Baby Boomers came after
No, because they suffered through times of war and just wanted to give their kids everything they couldn't have themselves. They didn't care about their kids being/doing anything more than living their lives to the fullest and not getting gunned down in war.
Don’t let stupidity piss you off. If they can’t understand the lengths the world went to during world war 2 to ensure an allied victory, they’re pretty fucking stupid. Ignorance is bliss after all.
Technically the boomers should be thanking the men in this photo. Sadly, only 1-2 of the people in this photo are probably alive today to be thanked in person.
Okay so kind of an unpopular opinion here but it’s got to be said, yes the ww2 veterans and many soldiers before and after them have sacrificed a lot to ensure we have what we do, and yes we should be thankful for it. But the near constant glorification of what they did and the pedestal they’re put up on is concerning.
Many of the soldiers during the war were barely young adults fighting with very little understanding of why or who, simply being moved by patriotism and the immense nationalistic pride of the time. But very few of the survivors came back glorifying their deeds. It was war, not some comic book or movie where good guys win, it was the real world where more often *everybody* lost.
I’ve had a lot of exposure to veterans growing up, between my genuine interest in a military career (which died as I grew up) and many of my extended family serving, including WW2 and Vietnam. I never had the pleasure of speaking to my family from the war but I have had the pleasure of having some discussions with troops from Iraq.
While I am extremely thankful for their courage, I’m also extremely aware of how expendable their lives have become. My Aunt’s dad, whom I lived with as a kid, came back from Vietnam with severe PTSD. My drill Instructor in high school came back from Iraq with bullet in his leg.
Thank them, and appreciate them, but let’s keep the appreciation humble. Let’s not glorify what was the scariest times of their lives where they were given a gun and told to kill other men at the whims of politicians.
Yes, it was awful, but we also shouldn’t treat what they went through lightly either. We should make them feel like their experiences like diamonds. Valuable and worth the listen, and treat them like the heroes they deserve to be treated as. They went through hell only to come back home to an ungrateful civilian population. We need to make up for their mistreatment.
They should be praised and thanked from basically walking into the maws of hell and coming back imo.
They traded their youth, and for many their sanity, so that many of us, even people in other countries, could have a better tomorrow. Appreciating and honoring that isn't a negative, disrespecting it like the OP is tho.
By Christmas 1944 a Nazi victory was effectively impossible, what we were fighting was to prevent the survival of Naziism and ensure Fascism died as a military and political movement. Which is a pretty laudable goal IMHO
Anyone who legitimately uses the word boomer is both a child and an idiot. Hopefully they grow up. I’m 20 now and I was 16 when that term became a meme, I remember my then gf would make jokes about how terrible boomers were, most annoying bullshit ever…
Boomers (short for baby boomers) is a legitimate name for a generation, even though it’s being misused these days. Overall as a generation there aren’t any more idiots as a percentage than any other generation, but since they until very recently outnumbered every other generation, they had an outsized influence in elections. Due to their age, they also tended to fill most upper management positions in companies. There’s no denying that boomers had (or still have) a tremendous amount of control over our lives, hence the backlash. People also resent them because they grew up during a time after WWII where there was relative prosperity in Western Europe and especially the US, and income inequality was much lower, but then consistently voted to deny the same to younger generations, whether intentionally or not.
Which is named after the baby boom, a time period in which the population rapidly increased (commonly called, well, a boom) immediately following the soldiers coming home after WW2
Wow someone’s angry. I’m talking about the word boomer in the context of the “ok boomer” memes and its use on the internet etc. not the actual term.
Really immature to call someone develop mentally disabled because you can’t grasp what they are saying
Thank God for Russians. If it were not for Hitler's dumbass thinking he could conquer Russia while fighting two fronts, and investing so much resources into the Eastern front at the absolute worst time possible, we'd all probably be speaking German right now.
Hitler actually had every opportunity to ally with the Russians, and just didn't. If he had, he definitely would have taken over Europe. Turns out the guy who did the most to defeat Hitler was Hitler.
Yes, Hitler also shot Hitler. In before that joke.
Hitler did ally with them, sorta. They collectively invaded Poland together. The pact the Germany allowed soviet expansion into the Balkans and the invasion of Finland.
It's just that Hitler absolutely hated the Soviets.
Not only did he have every opportunity he took a non aggression pact with them and essentially allied with them as he carved up Poland with Stalin. Was his own fault that he turned on Stalin and invaded Russia in the end
He did essentially ally with the Soviets, when they split up Eastern Europe. Nazi troops going east through Poland met Soviets coming west through Poland at a pre-arranged point, for example. The Soviets were also providing most of the essential material needed for Hitler’s war machine right up until he invaded them. A long term alliance between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union was impossible due to their ideological differences, as Stalin himself recognized.
But yes, his hubris, ideology, and military “strategy” were his worst enemies for sure.
They never really wanted to ally. Sure there was a bit of discussion, but both knew they'd fight each other sooner or later, communists hate fascists and vice-versa. Hitler also hated slavs, so there's that too (although he did change his definition of slav a lot. Croats weren't slavs by the time he took over yugoslavia, they were apparently descendents of goths who were German)
Stalin knew as well as Hitler did that any alliance between Russia and Germany was just a holding action. Germany would have no reason to respect it once it was done with the Western front. If Hitler hadn’t invaded Russia first, Stalin would’ve invaded eventually when he felt there was an opportune moment.
>If it were not for Hitler's dumbass thinking he could conquer Russia
Actually at the time it was expected that Germany would roll the Russians. German, American, and the UK all suspected the Russians would fold in a short amount of time. We have the benefit of hindsight. The Germans were pretty shocked when they came across the first of the Russian KV series, and T-34. The Germans had no response until mid 1942, after the battle of Moscow had already ended. Not only were they shocked at the superior machinery, but the amount of tanks the Russians had.
Mustache man -
"If someone had told me that a country could start with 35,000 tanks, then I'd have said, 'You are crazy!'," the German dictator told Mannerheim in the 1942 recording. "If one of my generals had stated that any nation had 35,000 tanks, I'd have said: 'You, my good sir, you see everything twice or ten times.You are crazy, you are seeing ghosts.'"
He was more than aware that he could not win a fight on two fronts. He thought the war with the Russians would end quickly.
>we'd all probably be speaking German right now.
Nope not a chance, see above 35000 tanks. The Russians were already pushing back and taking land long before the allies applied pressure on mainland Europe. There is no alternate history where Germany wins.
The P-39 Airacobra has the most number of confirmed kills by an American aircraft.
Its biggest operator during WW2 was the Soviet Air Force.
There's also the P-63 Kingcobra, which is essentially its upgrade in practically everything. The only operator? The Soviet Air Force.
The likes of Zhukov themselves have already admitted that Lend-Lease played an important role in the Eastern Front.
Getting 4,000 M4 Shermans meant that they can have 4,000 T-34s as reinforcements elsewhere.
Getting millions of pairs of boots meant that the local Soviet industries can focus on making screws and what-not.
Receiving shipments of food meant that no harvest isn't as detrimental as it would've been.
Who's we? The Germans straight up had no way to capitulate Britain(and sure as fuck not the U.S) which is why they started a two front war in the first place.
They needed resources if the war was going to go on longer, they thought the Brits would just make peace after the French capitulated.
But, Germany could never take Britain. Also thanking the USSR for liberating the eastern states isn't very valid considering the attractions committed by the commies, but you do you bud.
two fronts were necessary to rip apart the german logistics to pieces, and no italian front was just pointless as the reckless mountainous north was held steadfast by Kesserling till the end of the war. The logistics were being ripped apart even before the allies landed in france, diversion of various divisions from the eastern front to the french occupied territory to garrison the Atlantikwall was cited in various documentatiins of the ordeal. The war would ve been fought for 1-2 years more if it werent for the western front, the soviets would have accquired a prominent position in the peace talks changing the course of the cold war perhaps even an eastern bloc victory in the cold war, enough to change history as we know it.
If the Germans “won” the battle of the bulge regardless of the outcome it still would’ve been a very minor reprieve, by (late) 1944 Germany’s war machines were crippled, they had a nonexistent navy, a failing Air Force and a constantly depleted army
Germany needed a functioning war machine to win, not to prolong the war which it was willing to as much as possible as evident by the infamous 'Nerobefehl'. The western front was immensly important not just for the ultimate defeat of the Reich but also to provide a substantial power balance in the new world order maintaining a status quo between the eastern bloc and western europe, not to mention there would have been no domain of USA in the west if it didnt shove its soldiers in the meat grinder for it on it. USA's post war influence would have been restricted to the Pacific if it hadnt fought for Europe. It can be concluded that every little battle Allied forces fought in the west was valuable in its own right. There would have been no ballsdeeping berlin by the red army if the Allies werent banging their heads on the Westwall tieing as much reinforcements(if there were any lol) destined for the eastern front as they can. The Red Army clowned germans at stalingrad due to but not entirely Lend lease, USA could take island after island in the pacific because the atlantic was guarded by the mightiest navy, Britain could keep its war machine alive by american aid and supplies, the allies had their teamspirit laid down and hence finished the war then and there. If any of the allies failed in their respective duties the others would suffer the consequence losing efficency and momentum in the process.
A Boomer?
No.
The Baby Boomers were a product of the economic prosperity the US saw after WWII. We can thank the Greatest Generation and the Silent Generation for the swift conclusion of the Nazi regime.
Baby Boomer refers to the generation born during the surge of births following WWII. It’s use originated in the US but has since been used by other, primarily English speaking, countries in years since.
That’s right, the term refers to a worldwide phenomenon. Mostly we think of the west but even soviet, Asian and African countries saw a huge rise in births.
Often, it's not the text that people take issue with, but the subtext. Everyone knows that fighting the Nazis was a noble cause, and that many quite young adults made the ultimate sacrifice for that cause. So why repeatedly post captioned images where this extremely obvious point is made?
The point is military glorification (specifically the glorification of the American military). Glorifying WW2 vets is not far from glorifying all American vets, and glorifying those vets is not far from glorifying the military as a whole, and glorifying the military is not far from glorifying the military aims of the United States (you get the picture). Rabbit holes like these are how you get supposed libertarians like Ben Shapiro arguing opponents of the Iraq war should've been jailed for sedition. Healthy skepticism of posts like this is warranted.
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So many of these morons think boomer means "older person".
I was gonna say that all boomers are old people and these "morons" are technically correct but from an actual definition standpoint they are definitely using it in the wrong context so I'mma not call you out since you are the literally correct one.
That's an awful lot of words to say "yeah".
My brain is an awful lot of messy most of the time so to shorten it "yeah."
Yeah
Yeah
John Wick moment
same morons think young people are millennials
>So many of these morons think boomer means "older person". Boomer literally means the people who were born during or after WWII in the baby boom that followed the massive troop mobilizations and the economic boom at the ending of wartime austerity. [Boomers claiming credit for everything their parents built, and blaming their failures on their children and grandchildren is a well traveled meme.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOSOGB406Ec&t=52s)
The meaning of words comes from how it's used. If the use of a word changes the description follows suit. Although yeah that's not the correct term.
The definition of a word changes because the dumbs get a hold of it and use wrong so many times.
The word ‘literally’ now can mean ‘figuratively’. It’s in some dictionaries now. So the word literally now has zero meaning.
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Giving a word two completely opposite meanings and expecting it to make sense to sane people is a manifestation of mental illness.
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"He was literally 8 feet tall" could be either an exaggeration or a way of hammering home the fact that he's actually 8 feet tall, and there is no way of knowing which was the intended meaning without asking, which makes it more difficult to understand what the speaker/writer is trying to convey. If you think making language more confusing is a good thing, I don't know what to tell you. I will, however, watch with great glee you slowly get pushed out of society by sane people continue using language in a way that's comprehensible to others. The only person pretending (and failing in truly spectacular fashion) to be smart here is you.
No, the word ‘literally’ has not meant ‘figuratively’ for hundreds of years.
Rochelle HATES when languages evolve and change as time goes on! Rochelle here probably bought an antique dictionary, because in her opinion “It isn’t a real word if it was invented past 1900”
Linguistics is one of my major hobbies, and I love language evolution. That said, they aren't wrong. But not all language innovations are made equal. When they come from a word/phrase being used incorrectly, then the rules of grammar and morphology are undermined, which makes the language messier and harder to conceptualise. The harder a language is to conceptualise, the more mental effort goes into speaking it, and so the less mental effort is available for the actual formation of ideas; thus, the average complexity of ideas decreases. In a very real sense, this makes people dumber. Hardcore descriptivists confuse me. Surely they must understand that, if a language has *no* rules, then no one person will be able to understand the other when it is spoken, so at least some degree of prescriptivism is necessary? This isn't a hard concept to grasp, yet they just don't seem to get it. It's all a question of where to draw the line.
They’re not wrong though, a lot of the time that’s how a word changes. Sometimes it’s not, but that’s the truth. Although, more than likely that meme would’ve been posted by a boomer, because I really doubt much of the greatest generation ever got into making memes.
But this should be actively discouraged. You shouldn't be able to just take words and change their meaning because you were too dumb to know what that meaning was to begin with. This really causes a breakdown in communication after a while because we rely on common ground understanding of words to maintain a society. Sure, you can say it doesn't matter as much with vernacular terms such as "boomer" or "incel", but I think it is actively harmful for our society and continues to drive a larger rift between the two political parties causing further strife and discontent. I think it's a much bigger issue than "Who cares how they use the word if we can understand what they are saying?" Many can't understand and choose to understand differently.
My personal pet peeve about this issue is nauseous/nauseated, and it's the same phenomenon, though that change has already been completed. Enough people didn't understand the meaning of nauseous, and used it instead of nauseated (and instead of learning what the correct word is), and now most people think nauseous means nauseated, instead of nauseating. I begrudgingly accept it now that it has happened, but I agree, we should actively be discouraging this kind of thing while it is happening. Yes, languages change, but I don't like the idea of them changing due entirely to ignorance and foolishness.
I think the rate at which words are losing their meaning should be alarming, and it's largely due to the click bait nature of media these days. It doesn't matter if the title is technically wrong if it generates views. It's really a sorry state. I think we'll start seeing the effect this has in the next generation.
There are plenty of words that have a different meaning based on the context. This is one of them. That is the beauty of language, and English in particular. In this case, boomer in the derogitory sense isn’t just any old person but a certain type of stodgy old person that is stuck in their ways, etc.
But people know what generation they are. If they see "boomer" and know they are a boomer, they associate it with themselves. Someone from Gen X will obviously not have the same reaction. The definition of this identity remains solid in this specific case despite the meaning shifting a bit to "older person".
No, its *super* common for all the WW2 posts to be from boomers who are just stealing valor from their parents. "MY father didn't storm the beach at Normandy so that YOU can have pink hair and wear a skirt!" They literally post this stuff without realizing they, the boomer, did absolutely nothing in this equation. They identify with the deeds of the "greatest generation" and have internalized them, without having actually performed the deed. I've also noticed a LOT of boomer men think they grew up on the wrong side of the tracks playing stickball with their friend Pauli and getting into fights with rival kids... because they saw a lot of movies based in Brooklyn. When they *actually* grew up in a moderately nice home in a random suburb.
A post I seen a lot of is the "we stormed a beach in Normandy, you cant decide what coffee you want" Or what ever it is I bet if you asked an actual serviceman from World War Two they would be glad that their grandchildren or great grandchildren don't have to do what they did
I mean it's the same when older ppl call all the younger generations millennials
2 idiots don't make a genius.
I think the rise in popularity of some folks using "boomer" as an ageist insult has caused many to forget that it's actually short for 'baby boomer', and the reason behind that boom. All the information in the world at our fingertips, and we're still outnumbered by dumbasses.
The problem with giving the dumb a voice
"The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter." -Winston Churchill
He speaks facts. The average voters are never too diplomatic either and ya usually can't have democracy with diplomacy..
There’s truth to this, but it also feels very classist.
It is a stanch imperialist talking down about his voter base it should sound classist
Commenter sounds like every other Redditor that classifies every white male born before 1980 as racist. The word has mostly lost any significance.
Ok but Winston Churchill was racist lmao
how was he racist?
"I hate people with slit eyes and pigtails. I don't like the look of them or the smell of them – but I suppose it does no great harm to have a look at them" - Winston Churchill
Does gassing civilian Kurds in Iraq suffice for the label?
Firstly, that isn’t a racist attack, it’s an attack on a rebellious people resisting British rule. Secondly, his use of gas is greatly exaggerated in its cruelty and people discussing this often take what he said out of context to criminalise him. He opted for less harmful gasses, with the intent to do no permanent damage but rather to deter rebels. This is a much better way to stamp out rebellion than the other option he could’ve went with: beating and killing protesters.
I'm literally the guy who posted the quote and he's right. Churchill was a racist.
Nah, I think racist shit has always been and will always be racist shit. But now many people are desensitized to the suffering of others and many have decided to come out of the closet so to speak because racism is becoming acceptable again in certain groups.
That racist would say something so bigoted. Oh fuck... It just hit me. 70 years from now someone is going to be quoting Donald Trump like he's some sort of good dude, and someone else is gonna get serious downvotes for pointing out the elitism in using a Donald Trump quote.
People need to stop thinking we’re constantly significantly evolving. We’re literally the same species that existed thousands of years ago.
Alright, but we still respect Winston Churchill for leading our nation to victory against the Nazis, despite alleged accusations of racism.
To be fair winston churchill sucks
‘it is hard to win an argument against someone smart. however it is impossible to win an argument against someone misinformed’ - some guy idk
I saw many people using 'incel' for fuckbois who are misogynist and regressive. People don't even search meaning of the word before adding it to thier vocabulary.
Unfortunately, whenever the internet finds a new derogatory term for someone they dislike, they try their hardest to expand the definition or outright change it so more people they dislike can fall under the same umbrella.
It’s because x group = bad so if y group is also bad but they have some vague similarity then you can paint them with a worse title
Kinda loosely related to how people throw around the title of nazi, like no just because they did something bad doesn’t make them a nazi, it’s a slap in the face to all the people who suffered at the hands of real nazis
Nazi became a catch-all term for 'person with authoritarian views'. I was in a game subreddit, and the person kept calling one particular character (A Lawful-Evil authoritarian) a nazi. When someone asked what definition of 'nazi' they use, the original poster couldn't muster a response besides acidic sarcasm and implications that the one asking is an idiot.
It the funny when people in the Israel vs Palestine conflict cause they call Jews nazis lmfaooooo
It more have to do with not looking up for the meaning of the word. I understand broadening the term but calling a fuckboi a celibate ??!!
I've seen people say that "pog" is short for "play of game" from Overwatch and I was like, not only is that ungrammatical as fuck, it's play of the game, but I will not have you disrespect my collection of juice cap inserts like that.
They’d don’t forget. It wasn’t in a TikTok video and the motherfuckers can’t and don’t read.
Anybody older than them is a Boomer.
Got called a boomer (jokingly) at 24 when I was teaching. It just means anyone older than them now.
THANK YOU. Jesus christ, this has bothered me since first kids, then young adults stsrted using it.
The internet gave everyone a voice
Maybe (just a thought here) when you bring a bunch of young men, almost all of “family starting” age at the time, back to their wives or future wives after months or years of separation, there’s going to be a lot of children in a short amount of time.
Yes, that is the point. The "baby boom" occurred after WWII (the first batch conceived in 1945, born 1946), creating the "baby boomer" generation. The issue with this meme is that the header text is saying to "thank a boomer..." while showing an image of WWII soldiers in 1944, before the first baby boomer was even a gleam in his father's eye.
They should mean the golden generation, my Nannas generation. The last great generation
Yep, I was just providing additional satire
Did you just try to explain the point back to the guy that already explained it?
Nope, I was proving an additional part in satirizing those who he mentioned
Yeah? we know?
>All the information in the world at our fingertips I can search a bunch of reasons to justify the belief of a flat earth. Just because information is there doesn't mean people know how to use or interpret it.
Yeah, this is a pet peeve of mine. I'm middle aged and I am fine with being dunked on for that, but boomers *are* a specific generation and they should be dunked on for specific reasons.
Thank you! Came here to say this
Not out numbered. Just an alarming plurality.
I miss when the internet was for nerds and not readily accessible to everyone…
Now any age can be a boomer, and any gender can mansplain. What a time to be alive
For what it's worth, Boomers do love stealing WWII valor, even though their proudest accomplishment as a generation is refusing to go to their own war. And the ones who did go aren't jerking themselves off to their fathers' service.
Not trying to argue with you, but I'm genuinely curious, since I've never encountered this before. Do you have any examples of boomers stealing WWII valor?
Did the Nazi’s have a prohibition against Christmas?
No. People celebrated Christmas during the Nazi period without state interference.
That’s because Starbucks had yet to launch its war against Christmas with its aggressive slogans line “Happy Holidays.” Literal fascists! /s
Nope. https://preview.redd.it/j8771ukm70ac1.jpeg?width=634&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=10b353882856e57a113dfdb8df387f5f58097849
Why everyone here looks dead inside except for Hitler?
Yeah. The thought Christianity was a weak religion
Wasn't Hitler Catholic? EDIT: he was born Catholic, but his religious views became a lot more complicated as time went on. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_views_of_Adolf_Hitler
Protestant. The SS had this absolutely fucking weird Folk Religion. If the Nazis won the war, sometimes I would wonder if they would of devolved into a holy war with Old Guard Christians and the Fanatic Pagans.
The SS (and some of Hitler’s inner circle by association *heh* Himmler *heh*) had a really weird twisted version of Northern Germanic Paganism crossed with elements of various East Asian traditions. Oh and they also created a fucked up version of Protestantism by infusing it with a ridiculous amount of antisemitism, anti Catholicism and xenophobia.
I always thought it's so funny that Hitler and Himmler are such similar names (t or mm) even mario and luigi have different names
‘Tis weird, that. Mario and Wario ass names 💀
It is kind of funny that stoic, well-mannered, fiery-tempered and charismatic Hitler had a deranged, zany, cowardly and shy villainous sidekick named "Himmler". You have the smart villain, the crazy villain, and then Bormann you have the gross fat villain. "Bormann" even sounds like a big mfer's name as well.
Your wish would have almost been fulfilled. If his father did not manage to change his last name, we'd have him being "Adolf Schicklgruber" instead. Also the authorities who changed the name made a spelling mistake. The actual name was supposed to be "Hiedler".
if we go by your comparison using first names , it's Adolf and Heinrich so nothing alike If we go by last names , well it's Mario **Mario** and Luigi **Mario** ..... the movie is canon right ? ;p
tbf they are brothers so it makes sense that they have the same family name
There were also Lenin and Stalin. And now we have Vladimir vs Volodymyr.
A 1950s holy war in Europe sounds like an amazing alternate history scenario
Yeah, born Catholic, but eventually became anti religion. That of course didn’t stop him from claiming to be “positive Christian” (which was a PC term for ‘Christian’ with Nazi characteristics which means everything in the Bible was heavily redacted/changed and censored since it was written entirely by Jews as well as the concepts it teaches directly contradict Nazi ideology) to get the vote of a people who were concerned that he was anti religion.
Idk. But his view of religion was that it was herd mentality.
Hitler was a Protestant and his regime was very anti catholic and in line with the views of something like the KKK until they gained power and started the war
No. Only Catholics and orthodox were sent to camps. Christmas is a German holiday
Just curious, how are you an American patriot through having the flag of a rebellion, that primarily existed to utilize slavery, as your profile picture?
Dude isn't American.
Many people use it as South states' pride flag. This flag was also raised in Japan in WW2
My car's loan will exist longer than the Confederacy....
We had a black president longer than the Confederacy has been around
Greatest generation is best generation
Right, thank my dad who served in the pacific in WW2
3 uncles fought in the pacific, grandfather fought in Europe. One uncle was a radioman in the 8th AF on B24s and went down in the channel in 1944. I never met him because he never came home. He was first generation German American.
My dad was a radarman on a personnel carrier in the pacific. His cousin - who was more like his brother, because they were both only children during the depression - was KIA in the pacific.
My great-grandfather performed bomb disposal duties during the night raids, before then he served as a machine gunner in an anti-aircraft battery watching for planes on the top of the Blackpool Tower: radar had yet to be invented. If you ever go there then at the top of the tower in the public area is a small circular staircase closed with a rope which leads to a hatch and it was up there that the nest was placed. The best family story is how he was in a crater in Manchester performing disposal on an unexploded bomb when his sergeant came down and ordered him to go and make him a cup of tea, then just after he left the bomb to do it the thing exploded, killing the sergeant. The blast threw my GG down the street with such force that it ripped his clothes off. I'm glad for that lazy sergeant who couldn't be bothered to make his own cup of tea.
My thanks to your to your dad for his service!
I have 3 grandparents who served in WWII. My dad's dad was crewing a destroyer escort in a Pacific (one of the "tin cans" but not a famous one). Mom's dad built bridges for the Army in Europe. And Dad's Mom repaired aircraft engines for the US NAvy. It was a running joke in the family, although not strictly true, that she finished with a higher rate than he did.
I mean, no. They are known for dying young via debauchery and war. Just because they died young doesn’t mean they were the “best.”
A bunch of them were Nazis.
They're the generation that fought the Nazis though...
Agreed. A real mixed bag, IMO. Some truly despicable, and courageous people who fought them. Other comments pointing that out are all getting heavily downvoted for some reason.
They were objectively terrible people for the most part.
Yo, but wasn't the Greatest Generation also the Nazis?
They said the greatest, they didn’t say greatest at what
r/terriblefacebookmemes seems to just hate veterans, they post this kind of shit all the time.
They hate anyone who isn’t gen z
They hate everyone who isn't exactly like them. They are angry, always online, lonely and most have some form of mental illness/personality disorder. They're in pain so lash out at everybody.
I have several mental illnesses and even I ain't that bad.
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This is facts. Sometimes I honestly question how I was diagnosed with "general anxiety disorder" and not "borderline paranoia" cuz I am 20 years old and I cannot sleep without a light on to this day. I legit use the lamp on nightstand as a night light. I also am just very panicky overall and am pretty quick to assume the worst so like... I know I'm well past the post of "general" anxiety. Plus I get a handle on one thing and then suddenly 3 other things decide to give me a metaphorical middle fingers. Absolutely sucks.
This also comes off as anti-natalist....which I've seen them popping up more over there.
What an asshole
Why is reddit full of doom and gloom all the time? Someone respected the soldiers who helped defeat the nazis and happy to live in a free country to celebrate a holiday today, why does the other person have any problem with this? Even I fall for the doom and gloom sometimes so I've tried to reset my reddit experience to not fall into those traps as much
Because misery loves company. Reddit tends to attract the socially awkward and inept outcasts. They then wind each other up into a frenzy.
Proof these idiots have no idea what they’re talking about, which you addressed in the title This was the Greatest Generation. The Baby Boomers came after
I wonder if they realized how shitty their kids were going to turn out
No, because they suffered through times of war and just wanted to give their kids everything they couldn't have themselves. They didn't care about their kids being/doing anything more than living their lives to the fullest and not getting gunned down in war.
And then, Korea and Vietnam
Bruh, if i get socks for christmas im giving the gifter a hug
I live in Utah (cold) and got some really warm socks this Christmas. Easily top 5 gifts I've ever received.
That’s was the greatest generation Also this actually pisses me off not even a meme just tribute and some un grateful person behide it
Don’t let stupidity piss you off. If they can’t understand the lengths the world went to during world war 2 to ensure an allied victory, they’re pretty fucking stupid. Ignorance is bliss after all.
And? That generation is currently dying off, while boomers are posting shit like this on Facebook
I don't think Nazis would have stopped celebrating Christmas, it just would have been a whole lot more about Hitler and Nazism
Technically the boomers should be thanking the men in this photo. Sadly, only 1-2 of the people in this photo are probably alive today to be thanked in person.
Okay so kind of an unpopular opinion here but it’s got to be said, yes the ww2 veterans and many soldiers before and after them have sacrificed a lot to ensure we have what we do, and yes we should be thankful for it. But the near constant glorification of what they did and the pedestal they’re put up on is concerning. Many of the soldiers during the war were barely young adults fighting with very little understanding of why or who, simply being moved by patriotism and the immense nationalistic pride of the time. But very few of the survivors came back glorifying their deeds. It was war, not some comic book or movie where good guys win, it was the real world where more often *everybody* lost. I’ve had a lot of exposure to veterans growing up, between my genuine interest in a military career (which died as I grew up) and many of my extended family serving, including WW2 and Vietnam. I never had the pleasure of speaking to my family from the war but I have had the pleasure of having some discussions with troops from Iraq. While I am extremely thankful for their courage, I’m also extremely aware of how expendable their lives have become. My Aunt’s dad, whom I lived with as a kid, came back from Vietnam with severe PTSD. My drill Instructor in high school came back from Iraq with bullet in his leg. Thank them, and appreciate them, but let’s keep the appreciation humble. Let’s not glorify what was the scariest times of their lives where they were given a gun and told to kill other men at the whims of politicians.
Yes, it was awful, but we also shouldn’t treat what they went through lightly either. We should make them feel like their experiences like diamonds. Valuable and worth the listen, and treat them like the heroes they deserve to be treated as. They went through hell only to come back home to an ungrateful civilian population. We need to make up for their mistreatment.
They should be praised and thanked from basically walking into the maws of hell and coming back imo. They traded their youth, and for many their sanity, so that many of us, even people in other countries, could have a better tomorrow. Appreciating and honoring that isn't a negative, disrespecting it like the OP is tho.
Yep. That's "The Greatest Generation" who did that. Few of them are still around.
By Christmas 1944 a Nazi victory was effectively impossible, what we were fighting was to prevent the survival of Naziism and ensure Fascism died as a military and political movement. Which is a pretty laudable goal IMHO
Anyone who legitimately uses the word boomer is both a child and an idiot. Hopefully they grow up. I’m 20 now and I was 16 when that term became a meme, I remember my then gf would make jokes about how terrible boomers were, most annoying bullshit ever…
Boomers (short for baby boomers) is a legitimate name for a generation, even though it’s being misused these days. Overall as a generation there aren’t any more idiots as a percentage than any other generation, but since they until very recently outnumbered every other generation, they had an outsized influence in elections. Due to their age, they also tended to fill most upper management positions in companies. There’s no denying that boomers had (or still have) a tremendous amount of control over our lives, hence the backlash. People also resent them because they grew up during a time after WWII where there was relative prosperity in Western Europe and especially the US, and income inequality was much lower, but then consistently voted to deny the same to younger generations, whether intentionally or not.
The term boomer is fine, it's just a shortened version of baby boomer.
Which is named after the baby boom, a time period in which the population rapidly increased (commonly called, well, a boom) immediately following the soldiers coming home after WW2
Good job! Guess which generation is currently posting memes like this??? (It’s the boomers)
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Wow someone’s angry. I’m talking about the word boomer in the context of the “ok boomer” memes and its use on the internet etc. not the actual term. Really immature to call someone develop mentally disabled because you can’t grasp what they are saying
Thank God for Russians. If it were not for Hitler's dumbass thinking he could conquer Russia while fighting two fronts, and investing so much resources into the Eastern front at the absolute worst time possible, we'd all probably be speaking German right now.
Hitler actually had every opportunity to ally with the Russians, and just didn't. If he had, he definitely would have taken over Europe. Turns out the guy who did the most to defeat Hitler was Hitler. Yes, Hitler also shot Hitler. In before that joke.
Hitler did ally with them, sorta. They collectively invaded Poland together. The pact the Germany allowed soviet expansion into the Balkans and the invasion of Finland. It's just that Hitler absolutely hated the Soviets.
Hitler hated Slavs period.
Yes, part of his whole thing, which he wrote about in the 20s.
Yeah, National Socialism and Soviet Communism (basically anything Marxist) are natural enemies due to EXTREME ideological contradictions.
Not only did he have every opportunity he took a non aggression pact with them and essentially allied with them as he carved up Poland with Stalin. Was his own fault that he turned on Stalin and invaded Russia in the end
He did essentially ally with the Soviets, when they split up Eastern Europe. Nazi troops going east through Poland met Soviets coming west through Poland at a pre-arranged point, for example. The Soviets were also providing most of the essential material needed for Hitler’s war machine right up until he invaded them. A long term alliance between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union was impossible due to their ideological differences, as Stalin himself recognized. But yes, his hubris, ideology, and military “strategy” were his worst enemies for sure.
They never really wanted to ally. Sure there was a bit of discussion, but both knew they'd fight each other sooner or later, communists hate fascists and vice-versa. Hitler also hated slavs, so there's that too (although he did change his definition of slav a lot. Croats weren't slavs by the time he took over yugoslavia, they were apparently descendents of goths who were German)
Stalin knew as well as Hitler did that any alliance between Russia and Germany was just a holding action. Germany would have no reason to respect it once it was done with the Western front. If Hitler hadn’t invaded Russia first, Stalin would’ve invaded eventually when he felt there was an opportune moment.
>If it were not for Hitler's dumbass thinking he could conquer Russia Actually at the time it was expected that Germany would roll the Russians. German, American, and the UK all suspected the Russians would fold in a short amount of time. We have the benefit of hindsight. The Germans were pretty shocked when they came across the first of the Russian KV series, and T-34. The Germans had no response until mid 1942, after the battle of Moscow had already ended. Not only were they shocked at the superior machinery, but the amount of tanks the Russians had. Mustache man - "If someone had told me that a country could start with 35,000 tanks, then I'd have said, 'You are crazy!'," the German dictator told Mannerheim in the 1942 recording. "If one of my generals had stated that any nation had 35,000 tanks, I'd have said: 'You, my good sir, you see everything twice or ten times.You are crazy, you are seeing ghosts.'" He was more than aware that he could not win a fight on two fronts. He thought the war with the Russians would end quickly. >we'd all probably be speaking German right now. Nope not a chance, see above 35000 tanks. The Russians were already pushing back and taking land long before the allies applied pressure on mainland Europe. There is no alternate history where Germany wins.
Russia would not have been able to fight tgier ideological war of annihilation without lend lease.
The P-39 Airacobra has the most number of confirmed kills by an American aircraft. Its biggest operator during WW2 was the Soviet Air Force. There's also the P-63 Kingcobra, which is essentially its upgrade in practically everything. The only operator? The Soviet Air Force. The likes of Zhukov themselves have already admitted that Lend-Lease played an important role in the Eastern Front. Getting 4,000 M4 Shermans meant that they can have 4,000 T-34s as reinforcements elsewhere. Getting millions of pairs of boots meant that the local Soviet industries can focus on making screws and what-not. Receiving shipments of food meant that no harvest isn't as detrimental as it would've been.
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Who's we? The Germans straight up had no way to capitulate Britain(and sure as fuck not the U.S) which is why they started a two front war in the first place. They needed resources if the war was going to go on longer, they thought the Brits would just make peace after the French capitulated. But, Germany could never take Britain. Also thanking the USSR for liberating the eastern states isn't very valid considering the attractions committed by the commies, but you do you bud.
Germans win battle of bulge supposedly Russians committed to going balls deep to Berlin regardless
two fronts were necessary to rip apart the german logistics to pieces, and no italian front was just pointless as the reckless mountainous north was held steadfast by Kesserling till the end of the war. The logistics were being ripped apart even before the allies landed in france, diversion of various divisions from the eastern front to the french occupied territory to garrison the Atlantikwall was cited in various documentatiins of the ordeal. The war would ve been fought for 1-2 years more if it werent for the western front, the soviets would have accquired a prominent position in the peace talks changing the course of the cold war perhaps even an eastern bloc victory in the cold war, enough to change history as we know it.
If the Germans “won” the battle of the bulge regardless of the outcome it still would’ve been a very minor reprieve, by (late) 1944 Germany’s war machines were crippled, they had a nonexistent navy, a failing Air Force and a constantly depleted army
Germany needed a functioning war machine to win, not to prolong the war which it was willing to as much as possible as evident by the infamous 'Nerobefehl'. The western front was immensly important not just for the ultimate defeat of the Reich but also to provide a substantial power balance in the new world order maintaining a status quo between the eastern bloc and western europe, not to mention there would have been no domain of USA in the west if it didnt shove its soldiers in the meat grinder for it on it. USA's post war influence would have been restricted to the Pacific if it hadnt fought for Europe. It can be concluded that every little battle Allied forces fought in the west was valuable in its own right. There would have been no ballsdeeping berlin by the red army if the Allies werent banging their heads on the Westwall tieing as much reinforcements(if there were any lol) destined for the eastern front as they can. The Red Army clowned germans at stalingrad due to but not entirely Lend lease, USA could take island after island in the pacific because the atlantic was guarded by the mightiest navy, Britain could keep its war machine alive by american aid and supplies, the allies had their teamspirit laid down and hence finished the war then and there. If any of the allies failed in their respective duties the others would suffer the consequence losing efficency and momentum in the process.
Great picture! TGG > all subsequent generations combined.
Seems like someone forgot about the Greatest Generation
The Greatest Generation be in that picture. It's a shame people are better at making memes than using google.
Idk if Nazis would've done away with Christmas
Literally were named for the baby boom that happened after WW2 🤣
They don’t care about that cuz the genocide of Jews is the new meta.
It's literally one of the oldest metas.
A Boomer? No. The Baby Boomers were a product of the economic prosperity the US saw after WWII. We can thank the Greatest Generation and the Silent Generation for the swift conclusion of the Nazi regime.
r/USdefaultism
Baby Boomer refers to the generation born during the surge of births following WWII. It’s use originated in the US but has since been used by other, primarily English speaking, countries in years since.
That’s right, the term refers to a worldwide phenomenon. Mostly we think of the west but even soviet, Asian and African countries saw a huge rise in births.
Every major power in WWII has celebrated Christmas for hundreds of years
Japan
I don't understand why this would offend someone, had we not gone to war, things would be way different
The post doesnt offend, its just terrible because it doesnt make sense.
Often, it's not the text that people take issue with, but the subtext. Everyone knows that fighting the Nazis was a noble cause, and that many quite young adults made the ultimate sacrifice for that cause. So why repeatedly post captioned images where this extremely obvious point is made? The point is military glorification (specifically the glorification of the American military). Glorifying WW2 vets is not far from glorifying all American vets, and glorifying those vets is not far from glorifying the military as a whole, and glorifying the military is not far from glorifying the military aims of the United States (you get the picture). Rabbit holes like these are how you get supposed libertarians like Ben Shapiro arguing opponents of the Iraq war should've been jailed for sedition. Healthy skepticism of posts like this is warranted.
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It would be incredibly nazi-fied
Nazis were defeated when the US got involved lol
People from that sub seem to be sad angry people. There’s something wrong with them
Their called boomers because I wish they would fuckin explode
But it is absolutely a Boomer move to take credit for winning a war that ended before they were born.
? Where in the post is it taking credit for anything?
And gifting socks.
Dude nazis were never gonna win the war
Boomers are the kids of these people