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[-] Yerbouti@lemmy.ml 13 points 8 months ago

Boomers actually did a lot of great things that other generations benefits from.

[-] klemptor@startrek.website 14 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Classic Rock. Civil rights. Moon landing. Birth control and abortion. Counterculture and peaceful protests making it OK to be a dissident. Making pants way more commonplace for women. And mid-century modern design.

I know it's trendy to hate on boomers, and a lot of them are out of touch and have gotten more close-minded as they've aged, but there was a lot of good that could be laid at their feet as well.

[-] xkforce@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Neil armstrong etc. were all the silent generation. The boomers were in their 20s.

[-] klemptor@startrek.website 2 points 8 months ago

Ttue, but some of the scientists and engineers involved were young adults (older boomers) at the time.

[-] xkforce@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Thats like saying congress is run by millennials because some of them are millennials. Most of them arent.

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago

these were actions of a few, and in this thread we're in the spirit of making sweeping generalizations

[-] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago

thaaaaat's more like it

this post was submitted on 21 Mar 2024
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